News of the Weird

Stupid Criminal

Police in New Britain, Conn., arrested Joel Rubin, 42, in January and charged him with using a stolen credit card, but unanswered was why Rubin also tried to use his own store discount card to get a lower price on the merchandise. It was Rubin's name on the discount card that tipped off police, and it was not immediately clear why Rubin wanted to save a few bucks off a bill that would be sent to someone else. [Hartford Courant, 1-13-09]

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html

His last name is Rubin. It's in his DNA to go for a bargain, even on somebody else's dime.

Oh I kid!

That is some crazy shit. It seems likes there's a plague of forgottothinkitus going on these days.
 
Least Competent Deer

A seven-point buck was found dead in Viroqua, Wis., in November, apparently after losing a head-butting contest with a cement-statue buck. Ramming contests are common during mating season, and the cement buck was about the same size as the dead one (but weighs about three times as much). [La Crosse Tribune, 11-10-09]

That's the best!
 
Florida:

While still chairman of the Florida Republican Party, Jim Greer was revealed to have ordered the continuous shuttling of emergency "notes" to him during a Republican National Committee meeting, and according to an April Orlando Sentinel profile, the "notes" were all blank. A Florida RNC official concluded that Greer was simply trying to make himself appear important to his colleagues. (In June, Greer was indicted on six felony counts related to raiding the state party's treasury.) [Orlando Sentinel, 4-17-10]

At a forum in May for county school board aspirants in Orlando, candidate John Mark Coney took the floor to read passages from the Bible and then to emphasize his suitability for office by announcing that he, at age 53, is a virgin. [Orlando Sentinel, 5-19-10]
 
Florida:

At a forum in May for county school board aspirants in Orlando, candidate John Mark Coney took the floor to read passages from the Bible and then to emphasize his suitability for office by announcing that he, at age 53, is a virgin. [Orlando Sentinel, 5-19-10]

I don't think oral and anal counts. So, he might be a virgin.
 
Turtle falls off building, hits girl on head in Chongqing

A 12-YEAR-OLD girl was rushed to hospital in Chongqing Municipality with a concussion and temporary memory loss after a turtle fell from a building and hit her on the head.

The pet turtle fell from a 17-story building around 9:10 am when the girl was walking home with her aunt after breakfast, but it remained unknown which floor it fell from, Chongqing Morning Post reported today.

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more here... ----> here :rolleyes:
 
Career Downgrade?

In May, Jim Janson, a 20-year veteran "carny" (who ran the games of chance at Canada's traveling Bill Lynch Shows), graduated from the law school at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and has set out on his new calling. [Chronicle Herald (Halifax), 5-28-10]
 
Least Competent Criminals

Mark Smith, 59, was arrested at a bank in Watsonville, Calif., in September after he had allegedly threatened a teller with a bomb (spelled "bom") and demanded $2,000. The teller, apparently skeptical of Smith's toughness, tried to convince him, instead, to borrow the money, and she had him wait while she retrieved an application (during which time she called 911). By the time police arrived, Smith was filling out the loan form. [Santa Cruz Sentinel, 9-9-10]
 

maildude

Postal Paranoiac
Least Competent Criminals

Mark Smith, 59, was arrested at a bank in Watsonville, Calif., in September after he had allegedly threatened a teller with a bomb (spelled "bom") and demanded $2,000. The teller, apparently skeptical of Smith's toughness, tried to convince him, instead, to borrow the money, and she had him wait while she retrieved an application (during which time she called 911). By the time police arrived, Smith was filling out the loan form. [Santa Cruz Sentinel, 9-9-10]

 
Judgment-Challenged:

Tommy Riser of Blaine, Wash., had a rough Sept. 13. After a bout of drinking, he crashed a truck into a utility pole, and a few minutes later, crashed his wife's car into a guardrail trying to drive away. Later, he retrieved his personal tow truck and drove it back to the scene, intending to tow the two crashed vehicles home. However, a sheriff's deputy was on hand and, noting that Riser was still tipsy, charged him with three separate DUIs. [Bellingham Herald, 9-14-10]
 

Supafly

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Fathers of the Year:

Real Father: In September, a judge in Kent County, Mich., finally ordered Howard Veal, 44, to prison to serve at least two years for failure to pay child support. He is more than $500,000 behind in payments to 14 mothers for the 23 children he has fathered. Authorities suspect there are even more. [Grand Rapids Press, 9-24-10]

Fake Father: French officials arrested a 54-year-old immigrant in September on suspicion of welfare fraud. They had recently begun to notice the man applying for government benefits for 55 children by 55 different mothers. (He may have fathered none at all.) [Reuters, 9-10-10]
 
The Weirdo-American Community

In November, at a burglary scene near Seneca, S.C., deputies found Noah Smith, 31, naked and apparently drugged, perhaps on hallucinogenic mushrooms, and with a string-like object protruding from his buttocks. Smith was X-rayed, revealing (according to the deputies' report, which made its way to the Internet) that the object in his rectum was a "mouse." However, several days later, the sheriff's office clarified that the object was a "computer mouse." Smith told emergency room personnel that he had no memory of the incident. [WCSC-TV (Charleston, S.C.), 11-8-10]
 
:facepalm: or :1orglaugh or :crying::dunno:
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Bristol Palin on 'Dancing with the Stars' angers Wisconsin man Steven Cowan, takes gun to television

Steven N. Cowan takes dancing very seriously.

The 66-year-old Wisconsin man was arrested after he allegedly became so angry watching Bristol Palin on "Dancing with the Stars"that he fired off his shotgun at his television, leading to a 15-hour standoff with state police.

According to the criminal complaint, posted by The Smoking Gun, Cowan and his wife, Janice, were watching the show Monday evening when Cowan jumped and swore as the former vice-presidential candidate's daughter shimmied across the stage.

He said something to the effect of "the ----ing politics."

The complaint added, "Steven was upset that a political figure's daughter was dancing on this particular show when Steven did not think she was a good dancer

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Supafly

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Armed and Clumsy (all-new!)

People who accidentally shot themselves recently: Daniel McDaniels, 31, Sarasota, Fla., "trying to ward off a skunk" (October).

Sanford Rothman, 63, Boulder, Colo., while sleepwalking (October). Reserve police officer Kenneth Shannon, 68, Gary, Ind., in the hand while loading his gun (and the bullet went on to hit his partner) (October).

Sheriff's Deputy Miguel Rojas, Crestview, Fla., in the leg while firearms training (July).

Darrell Elam, 52, Peshastin, Wash., in the buttocks as he holstered his gun (August).

A 48-year-old woman, Clover, S.C., in the jaw while trying to kill a rat (September).

A 25-year-old man, Juneau, Alaska, in the head after jokingly telling friends that there is "one way" to find out whether a gun is loaded or not (October 2009).
 
Plan B
Jonathan Schwartz called 911 in New York City in July to report that he had stabbed his mother to death. A few minutes later but before police arrived, Schwartz called back 911 to report a correction: "No, she committed suicide." (The mother's body was found with multiple stab wounds, and police, notwithstanding Schwartz's "correction," charged him with murder.) [New York Daily News, 7-4-2011]


Also: This was in News of the Weird although nobody I know thinks there is anything wrong with it.

Roy Miracle, 80, of Newark, Ohio, passed away in July, and his family honored him and his years of service as a prankster and superfan of the Ohio State Buckeyes with a commemorative photo of three of Miracle's fellow obsessives making contorted-body representations of "O," "H" and "O" for their traditional visual cheer. In the photo, Miracle assumed his usual position as the "I" -- or, rather, his corpse did. (Despite some criticism, most family and friends thought Miracle was properly honored.) [Columbus Dispatch, 7-14-2011]

pic: http://bustedcoverage.com/2011/07/1...l-includes-final-o-h-i-o-before-burial-photo/
 
Medical Marvels
The first published instance of a woman's nipple appearing on the sole of her foot was noted in a 2006 report in the journal Dermatology and reprised in a series of U.S. and British press reports in July 2011. The reporting physicians, led by Dr. Delio Marques Conde, acknowledged that out-of-place breast tissue, while extremely rare, has shown up before on the back, shoulder, face and thigh. The foot nipple was "well-formed," with areola and sebaceous glands. [New York Daily News, 7-19-2011, citing Dermatology, vol. 12, no. 4]
 
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