Weird News... June 08

[Bungleau]

From Yahoo Weird News...

Thief breaks into donation box, steals fake money Thu Jun 19, 3:00 PM ET LEXINGTON, Ky. - A thief bashed the plastic glass to get to the $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills inside the Drop-A-Note donation box in the Kentucky Theatre's lobby. But all they probably got were fistfuls of worthless paper, fake bills layered inside to hide the real cash. "It's sad when idiots can't tell fake money from the real thing," said Steve Brown, president of Kentucky's Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ Project, whose group is using the proceeds from the box to restore a Wurlitzer organ and return it to Kentucky. The fake bills were black and white and didn't even have serial numbers, Brown said. The thief, who struck early June 2, made off with little or no money because the box had been emptied that weekend, Brown said. Since the box was installed at the Kentucky Theatre seven years ago, thieves have periodically loosened the screws, lifted the cover and taken money out, Brown said, probably stealing about $400 in that time. New, vandal-proof screws that had been installed did their job by being difficult to unscrew. But the thief got into the box this time by smashing in the glass in with a heavy hammer or mallet, Brown said. The Drop-A-Note box, which will cost $100 to $200 to repair, will be back in the Kentucky Theatre's lobby in a week or two. ___ Information from: Lexington Herald-Leader, http://www.kentucky.com

Felix, Dron, Ivelliis... please tell me this is from some *other* part of Kentucky...

[Bungleau]

From The Dallas Morning News...

Man accidentally kills himself while trying to rob a Grand Prairie home 03:17 PM CDT on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 By DAN X. McGRAW / The Dallas Morning News A 19-year-old man accidentally shot and killed himself Tuesday morning while he was attempting to rob a Grand Prairie home, authorities said. Cameron Sands, 19, of Fort Worth kicked in the door of the house and then shot himself in the stomach as he pulled a gun out of his pants to shoot the homeowner, Grand Prairie police said. The homeowner was not injured. After Mr. Sands shot himself, he dropped the gun and ran out of the home. Police found his body around 5:30 a.m. in the driveway of the home in the 2800 block Garden Grove Road, said Lt. John Brimmer, a Grand Prairie police spokesman. “This is the first that I’ve heard of a robbery suspect killing himself as he is drawing a gun out of his waist band,” Lt. Brimmer said. “The criminal evidence points to that. It certainly isn’t common.” The Tarrant County Medical Examiner has ruled the death an accident.

Hmmm... I think the ME had to call it an accident because he can't really say "death from stupidity", can he? I mean, and keep his job for next year...

Oh, almost forgot.... definite Darwin nominee. At least, assuming he hasn't left his genes in the gene pool yet...

[Bungleau]

Toilet paper wedding dresses... who woulda thunk it?

Note the clip ends halfway through...

[Bungleau]

From Yahoo Weird News...

New York man accused of hiding in woman's couch Fri Jun 20, 7:00 PM ET NEWBURGH, N.Y. - Police say a New York man cut a hole in a woman's couch and hid in the carved-out space until she came home. Newburgh police said the woman sat on the couch Wednesday evening and felt a bump in the cushions move. She jumped up and David Joe Limones emerged from his hiding place, knocking a cell phone out of her hand. The woman was on the phone with a friend when she entered her apartment because she had filed an earlier complaint against Limones and was worried he might be there. Police said she had asked the friend to stay on the line and call police if something went wrong. When officers arrived, they found Limones and the 22-year-old woman arguing on the apartment's balcony. Limones, 27, faces burglary and other charges. He is being held on $20,000 bail. County officials, including those at the public defenders office and the sheriff's department, were unable to provide the name of Limones' lawyer.

Okay... I know love (and the end of love) makes you do stupid things, but cutting a hole in the couch you could hide in? Unless you're Vern Troyer, that's not remotely plausible.

[Harkoliar]

Originally Posted by Bungleau From The Dallas Morning News... Hmmm... I think the ME had to call it an accident because he can't really say "death from stupidity", can he? I mean, and keep his job for next year... Oh, almost forgot.... definite Darwin nominee. At least, assuming he hasn't left his genes in the gene pool yet...

now that is wierd .. and stupid /shakes head

[VulcanRider]

Female Hiker Stranded in Alps, Removes Bra, Rescued in Minutes

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- An American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as a signal, police in southern Germany said Monday. Berchtesgaden police officer Lorenz Rasp said that he helped lift 24-year-old Jessica Bruinsma of Colorado to safety by helicopter on Thursday after she attracted the attention of lumberjacks by attaching her sports bra to a cable used to move timber down the mountain. "She's a very smart girl, and she acted very resourcefully," said Rasp. "She kept her shirt and jacket for warmth, but thought the sports bra could work as a signal." An Alpine rescue team, including five helicopters and 80 emergency workers, had been searching for Bruinsma since she went missing June 16 after losing her way in bad weather while hiking with a friend near the Austrian border. She fell 16.4 feet to a rocky overhang, where she spent the next 70 hours on the narrow ledge, sustained by water that she found by breaking into a supply box on the ledge. She badly bruised a leg and dislocated a shoulder in the fall, and the cliff was too isolated for her to climb free, Rasp said. Rasp said the cable was only within reach because the timber transport system was out of service. When a repairman restored the line on Thursday, the cable car started moving up the mountain and Bruinsma's bra reached the worker at the base. He knew of the missing hiker and immediately called police. Rasp said his team followed the cable line up the cliff side in a helicopter and found Bruinsma standing on the ledge, waving with her good arm. After circling once, they lowered a winch to Bruinsma and lifted her aboard. "She did so well because she is in very good shape," Rasp said. "She has been training for a marathon -- her goal is to finish in 3 hours and 10 minutes." Bruinsma told Rasp that she has scrapped plans to stay in Berchtesgaden to learn German and plans to return home to Colorado Springs with her parents. He said she still plans to run the marathon, if she recovers in time to keep training.

[Bungleau]

From Yahoo Weird News...

Kid golfers, strippers share golf course BROOMFIELD, Colo. - A close encounter between flirtatious strippers and children playing in a golf tournament was the result of "mistiming," golf course officials said Tuesday as they apologized to parents. The scantily clad women spilled out of a limousine as the youngsters were finishing their game as part of the Gold Crown Junior Golf Association tournament Monday. Tournament officials said they were not warned the strippers would be arriving before the end of the game for children, who ranged in age from 7 to 12. The women were part of Shotgun Willie's Charity Golf Tournament to benefit breast cancer. The strippers were to serve as caddies to patron's of the strip club. A club manager said there were 144 golfers and 70 caddies. A woman told KUSA-TV the event drew curious questions from her children, who asked her why the men joining the strippers had water guns and why the women wore only their underwear. KUSA said the woman declined to be identified. Eagle Trace Golf Course manager Evelyn Koch says the women were forbidden from going topless and that they were just flirting with the men. "I cannot tell you the girls didn't flash out there but it wasn't a free-for-all," Koch said. She said the Shotgun Willie's crowd and the young golfers had to share the same clubhouse while the children had lunch because their tournament started later than expected. Still, she said the Broomfield golf course was sorry children were present when the strippers arrived. Golf course instructor Dustin Moser said some of the strippers "got a little out of control" but that it happened after the children had left.

I guess with Tiger Woods out for the season, the PGA was trying to find *something* to interest kids in golf... pity, really... since I went to an all-boys high school, this kind of thing happening just *once* would have been enough to keep the golf team fully stocked for years...

[Bungleau]

From Yahoo Weird News...

Computer error prices gas at $1.40 at Ohio station CINCINNATI - A computer error caused a Cincinnati area service station to sell gas for $1.40 instead of $4.10, leading to a major traffic jam. Vehicles clogged the area around a Marathon station in suburban Sycamore Township while the bargain was available for roughly three hours on Tuesday, until Hamilton County sheriff's deputies persuaded the station to shut down. Tiffany Smith waited in line for two hours to take advantage of the deal. She says these days, her family has to decide between buying food or buying gas, and the fuel price glitch would allow her to do both. The store clerk told WKRC-TV he didn't know how to fix the problem and was having trouble reaching his store manager.

'Round here, if this were to happen the gas station owner would be complaining about the dishonesty of his customers, rather than the problems with his computers. Still... I wish I hadn't missed it.

[Bungleau]

From Yahoo Weird News...

Crocodile welcomed into Australian pub by drinkers Thu Jun 26, 7:33 AM ET DARWIN, Australia - Drinkers at an Outback watering hole may have wondered if perhaps they'd had one too many when they were greeted by a crocodile at the pub's door. But being good hosts, they did the only polite thing and invited him inside. The saltwater croc was just 2 feet long and more a curiosity than a threat to drinkers at the Noonamah Tavern on Sunday. The aggressive hunters can grow to more than 16 feet and have been known to attack people. Barmaid Sarah Sparre said Thursday that three patrons spotted the creature outside the pub, grabbed it and brought it inside. "You could say we were a bit surprised," Sparre said. "He was pretty complacent, easygoing. But we weren't going to test him out." The three men taped up its mouth, held it up for a round of photos, then put it in a box near the bar. Sparre said the croc may have escaped from a farm for the animals that was several miles away. Wildlife officials took the crocodile to the farm. Noonamah boasts little more than a gas station and a bar on the main north-south highway through Australia, about 25 miles from the Northern Territory capital of Darwin. Saltwater crocodiles, once hunted to near extinction by skinners, have flourished in Australia's tropical north since they became a protected species in the 1970s.

Further proof that no one really parties harder than an Aussie... they don't care if you'd rather eat them or rip them limb from limb, just so long as the next shout is on you...

[Bungleau]

From Yahoo Weird News...

Michigan man accused of fork, chicken attacks JACKSON, Mich. - A man was accused of stabbing his mother with a fork and assaulting a second woman with 10 pounds of frozen chicken. Frederick Duane McKaney, 40, of Ypsilanti, was arraigned Wednesday in 12th District Court in Jackson. He faces two felony assault charges as well as one count of assault and battery and one count of resisting an officer. Prosecutors said McKaney stabbed his mother in the back of the neck with a fork Monday night. About an hour later, he hit a woman in the head with a plastic bag of frozen chicken. They had exchanged rude words while he rode his bicycle. She needed five surgical staples to close her wound. McKaney has no attorney on record with the court. A pre-exam conference is scheduled for July 2.

Hmmm... seems like there ought to be a "You might be a redneck" punchline coming up, but sadly, that part of Michigan is not one I'd associate with redneck-type behavior.

Aside from that, just the thought of stabbing your mother with a fork and beating someone else up with a chicken just hits a morbidly humorous side for me...