News of the Weird...

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Found this when I logged on to AIM this morning and the little ad popped up - a link to strange news stories. Here's one:

Least Competent Criminals


Chattanooga, Tenn., police told the city's WTVC-TV in October that they had arrested Rudy Raines for possession of about a pound of marijuana, after Raines allegedly walked nonchalantly into a Fast Food and Fuel convenience store, past officer David Ashley, and uninhibitedly placed a stash of marijuana into the store's microwave oven because, he said, he needed to dry it out. Raines was arrested, along with another man sleeping in Raines' car in the parking lot. [Commercial Appeal-AP, 10-27-02]

There were a few more, which I'll post later. If anybody has any other ones, feel free to post your own

Nate

 

[squirrel dog]

There are some stupid criminals out there.

 

See what happens when you use your own product.

 

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Recurring Themes

More Flaming Pop Tarts: Deanna Robinson and her insurance company filed a lawsuit in Atlanta in August against Kellogg's, alleging that the poor design of Pop Tarts is the reason one burst into flames in her toaster two years ago, igniting a house fire that did more than $10,000 in damage. Kellogg's has had to defend Pop Tarts' flammability before, in New Jersey and Ohio lawsuits (which it settled) and against newspaper columnist Dave Barry, who wrote of his experience of inducing 30-inch-high flames from Pop Tarts in his own toaster. [Fulton County Daily Record, 11-4-02]

The Food Chain Thwarted Again: A 55-year-old man was killed in October as he and a colleague were preparing to butcher a hog on a farm near Frazee, Minn. According to authorities, after one of them fired his .22-caliber rifle, hitting the hog, it at first fell back, then lurched forward against the rifle, causing it to discharge again, fatally hitting the other man. [Star Tribune-AP, 10-29-02]

 

[yakko]

Post them? There is a whole website of them.