European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday septembers 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Home Ess philadelphian charges for free parking Philadelphia a a Home less Man has been collecting up to $300 a Day by charging motorists for free parking spots near the Philadelphia museum of Art. Much to the annoyance of police motorists and museum officials Eugene Harris charges $3 to $5 and even hands motorists a ticket stub. He sees himself As an entrepreneur.  he said last week Noth ing s free in Philadelphia right this in t like theft or anything. 1 can make $300 on a Good Day. Police say the 27-year-old Harris is a rip off artist. They be arrested him three times during the past month on charge including resisting arrest. But they be had problems prosecuting. We can t seem to get anybody to press charges and the few times we have we have trouble getting higher  to  said police Cape. Larry Norton. He said the latter is partly due to the prevalence of More serious crime and a Cap on jail admissions be cause of crowding. Harris who sleeps at a Railroad Sta Tion near the museum carries ticket stubs he picks up from other parking lots and gives them to his customers. Almost nobody turns me  he said. People expect to pay for parking anyway. The ticket stubs they help the image. Look a couple of years ago the City used to charge for this lot so 1 just sort of look  Harris figures he has made several thousand dollars with the parking lot during the past year or so. He even has charged new museum Security guards $5 to Park in the lot before they found out it was free. We be been getting five to 10 complaints a Day for months about him it s an embarrassment an outrage a disgrace that people from Here and from All Over the country Are getting ripped off this  said Michael j. Dougherty the museum s assistant Security manager. Police and the. Museum say Harris walks around the lot directing motorists into parking spaces then charges them. He raises his fee to $5 for major Art exhibitions and often uses a Helper on Busy weekend Days according to Dougherty. Jan Rcch scr. Of Narberth. Pa., said she was charged $3 before she realized that Harris was too Grubby to be a parking lot attendant. I said there s never been a Park ing fee Here before and he said. Lady nothing s free in Philadelphia " she said he then tried to rip off a japanese tourist who was then told by another person not to pay. Harris said he knows he s not at the top of the list of police targets. I know the system i guess i might serve a Jill a time some Day. Hut they keep letting me  he told the Philadelphia inquirer. Halt in Bakker s trial puts sideshow on hold Charlotte. . A for now the show is Over. The suspension of Jim Bakker s fraud and conspiracy trial last week also halted a sideshow by impersonators and vendors hoping to make a few Bucks off the misfortunes of the fallen pal Leader and his wife. Tammy  throng of curiosity seekers dispersed after Bakker suffered a breakdown and was sent away thursday for psychiatric tests at the Federal prison Hospital in but . Sally Johnson who also evaluated presidential assailant John Hinckley jr., is leading a team conduct ing tests to determine Bakker s competency to stand trial said Bryan Bledsoc. Executive assistant to the Warden. An hour before Bakker s . District court trial started last week a chauffeur driven Cadillac marked Jim and Tammy pal limousine pulled up to the courthouse. The chauffeur hopped out and opened the car s door to let out two people who appeared from a distance to be Jim and Tammy Bakker. Jeff and Lucille Thompson of Charlotte were Wear ing rubber Jim and Taarny masks and expensive looking clothes and jewelry. A minute later the impersonators climbed Back into their limousine and left. Then there was Lida Lee Pink and her Cousin Paul who said they drove from Topsy tenn., to peddle homemade Bible belts tiny Black booklets that contained a few Bible verses and were attached by velcro to belts made of Black seat Belt webbing. The belts were offered for $22.39, including tax. Postage and handling. However no one was buying  stancs and Jerry Lowrancy of Oostoma. ., hawked recordings of their pal song from underneath a Beach umbrella. Lowrance said he produced the country Tacky parody in 1986. For nearly two Days until they were persuaded to Stop they played the song from a portable tape recorder Over and Over to avoid that trip to hell join the  Robert Potter had ordered marshals to keep two people in Jim and Tammy Bakker masks stand outside the courthouse with a giant outstretched pocketbook. The Spectator sideshow off the courthouse s spacious grounds so the commotion was limited to sidewalks and did not filter into the courtroom. And fined More than $5  was committed to Bulner after psychiatrist or. Basil Jackson testified Bakker was hallucinating and Bakker 49, is accused of using nearly $4 million in hiding his head under a Couch in his attorney s  a lavish lifestyle. If con Potter suspended the trial at least until wednesday. Ministry funds to finance Vic cd. He could be sentenced to 120 years in prison telling the jury nothing about Bakker s condition. Gunman disables Money machine to Aid heist Duxbury mass. A a gun Man disabled an automatic Bank machine waited for repair workers to arrive held them up and made off with $130,000 from the machine police said sunday. Police Are still searching for the Rob Ber who forced two Bay Bank workers to open the Back of a Money machine then looted it of Cash. He tied them up and cleaned out the machine said police la. Donald Sjostedt. Investigators Are studying photo tapes taken during transactions before sat urday s robbery he said. Sjostedt said the Money machine was broken intentionally by the thief in order to bring repair workers. A fault machine activates a signal in the Bank s Cen trial system. The employees were returning to their car around Midnight when the gunman wearing a blocking mask and gloves pointed a revolver at them and herded hem Back to the machine in a shopping Plaza. The thief escaped in a car belonging Toone of the Bank workers but in was Laier found abandoned. After freeing Inci selves the Bank workers set off an alarm in the Bank machine which brought police to the scene about 10 minutes after the robbery. A spokesman for the Boston office of the Fri said the method used in the theft was unusual. There have been robberies at Teller machines he said but i Don t think anything like this has every happened. In was pc try  passenger hit by gunshot As Airliner lands in Fla. Fort Lauderdale Fla. A a passenger on a commuter flight suffered a minor gunshot wound to the head sunday when his plane was fired upon while Landing at fort Lauderdale Hollywood International air on authorities said. The shooting occurred As the twin engine Turboprop plane arriving from the Bahamas came in on its final approach. Us air flight 4343 was carrying 16 passengers and a Crew of three Airport officials said Edward Clark Wright 42, of Dove Canyon calif., said he heard a popping noise before feeling a bump on his head said Jim Leljedal spokesman for the Bro Yard sheriffs office. He first thought something had fallen and struck him but he saw  the spokesman said. When Wright touched his head with his hand he found that he was  Wright was taken to Broward general medical Cen Ter where he was created for a superficial Scalp wound and released Leljedal said. After Wright was discharged from the Hospital he joined his wife and two daughters on their return trip to California the spokesman said. Further examination of the aircraft revealed that the Bullet entered through a door on the plane s right Side ricocheted off the lop of the Cabin and hit the victim Leljedal said. Sheriffs deputies on foot and in the air searched just West of the Airport but no suspects or witnesses to the shooting were found Leljedal said