Odd News... April 09

[Bungleau]

Neb. man sentenced for firing crossbow at neighbor

LINCOLN, Neb. – A 49-year-old man was sentenced to two -to four years in prison for firing a crossbow after a dispute about the breed of a neighbor's dog last June. The neighbor said it was a pit bull; Carlos Lupercio said a labrador. Lupercio went home, returned with a crossbow pistol and fired at his neighbor, just missing.

Police said alcohol fueled the incident.

Lupercio had pleaded no contest to terroristic threats and animal neglect. The judge credited him for 282 days of jail time.
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Information from: Lincoln Journal Star, http://www.journalstar.com
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Ermmm... nothing to add, except sorry... it's not an April Fool's joke

Good thing they didn't get into that whole "Tastes Great... Less Filling" thing

[Bungleau]

Iowa man claims he was robbed twice in 30 minutes

IOWA CITY, Iowa – A 22-year-old man claims he was robbed twice in a 30-minute span in Iowa City on Thursday morning. Police said the man said he was approached by a group of about six men asking for cigarettes early Thursday morning. The victim said he was attacked by the group and had his cigarettes stolen.

Police said the man then walked past a group of four or five men in a "back alley" when he was attacked from behind. The victim said he was knocked down and his watch was taken.

Police said the victim was not visibly injured, but he had a dirty appearance consistent with having been on damp ground.
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Dude.... I'd lock the door twice before goin' to the bathroom if I were you... just sayin'....

[Bungleau]

Woman divorces husband for cleaning too much

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German woman has divorced her husband because she was fed up with him cleaning all the time.

German media reported the wife got through 15 years of marriage putting up with the man's penchant for doing household chores, tidying up and rearranging the furniture.

But she ran out of patience when he knocked down and rebuilt a wall at their home when it got dirty, Christian Kropp, court judge in the central town of Sondershausen, said on Thursday.

"I'd never had anyone seek a divorce for this," he said.

(Reporting by Franziska Scheven; editing by Myra MacDonald)
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I know Germans are reputed to keep things organized and spotless, but this is a little ridiculous, ja?

[Lord of Alcohol]

Landshut, Germany - A man who climbed a spruce tree, tied himself to the trunk and shot himself dead has been discovered 29 years after the suicide, German police said Thursday. "It looks as if he meant to never be found again," said a police spokesman in Landshut, north-east of Munich, where a man exploring steep forest discovered human bones on the ground.

Police then found the rest of the skeleton tied in a thicket of branches 11 metres above ground level with a gun next to it. The victim was 69 when he vanished in the summer of 1980.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/s...r-suicide.html

[Bungleau]

Thief nabbed with 68 tubes of toothpaste

BERLIN (Reuters) – Police in northern Germany are searching for a man who tried to walk out of a supermarket with 68 tubes of toothpaste stuffed into his clothing.

"We don't know if he had bad teeth," a police spokeswoman in Rostock said Friday.

Noticing his bulging jacket, a store worker grabbed the man when he refused to stop and the tubes of toothpaste spilled all over the floor, police said.

The thief struck the woman in the face and ran out.
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Just lookin' fer that fresh-breath feeling, officer...

[Bungleau]

Colorado Springs man coughs up inch-long nail

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Prax Sanchez says he doesn't recall any serious hammer-and-nail mishaps in his past.

Yet doctors administering an MRI on the 72-year-old Colorado man last month abruptly stopped the exam to tell him there seemed to be something metallic in his face.

Right after the MRI, Sanchez coughed up an inch-long nail.

His doctor, Jamieson Kennedy, told television station KKTV in Colorado Springs that the nail might have been embedded there as long as 30 years. The MRI's magnetic force apparently dislodged the nail, causing Sanchez to cough it up.

Sanchez says he can't remember ever using a nail like it.

"I'll probably frame it," he said Friday.
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Guess he doesn't need any more iron in his diet... impressive, though.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

Originally Posted by Bungleau Thief nabbed with 68 tubes of toothpaste BERLIN (Reuters) – Police in northern Germany are searching for a man who tried to walk out of a supermarket with 68 tubes of toothpaste stuffed into his clothing. "We don't know if he had bad teeth," a police spokeswoman in Rostock said Friday. Noticing his bulging jacket, a store worker grabbed the man when he refused to stop and the tubes of toothpaste spilled all over the floor, police said. The thief struck the woman in the face and ran out. ==================== Just lookin' fer that fresh-breath feeling, officer...

Sure to be followed by the headline: "Fluoride suicide"

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

Originally Posted by Bungleau Colorado Springs man coughs up inch-long nail COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Prax Sanchez says he doesn't recall any serious hammer-and-nail mishaps in his past. Yet doctors administering an MRI on the 72-year-old Colorado man last month abruptly stopped the exam to tell him there seemed to be something metallic in his face. Right after the MRI, Sanchez coughed up an inch-long nail. His doctor, Jamieson Kennedy, told television station KKTV in Colorado Springs that the nail might have been embedded there as long as 30 years. The MRI's magnetic force apparently dislodged the nail, causing Sanchez to cough it up. Sanchez says he can't remember ever using a nail like it. "I'll probably frame it," he said Friday. ========================= Guess he doesn't need any more iron in his diet... impressive, though.

Homer friggin' Simpson or what?

..definitely gets the weird nod though.

[Arvon]

Government in Action
Artist Beth Grossman created her wall exhibit, "Seats of Power," to encourage citizens to greater activism in local affairs around Brisbane, Calif. (just south of San Francisco Bay). The "Seats" are upholstered cushions individually tailored with the buttprints of each of the 10 city council members, who allowed Grossman to photograph them from behind, clothed, through a sheet of Plexiglas pressed against their posteriors to simulate being seated. All 10 co-operated, including Mayor Sepi Richardson, who said she had been considering her "legacy" lately, "but I never thought it would be my butt." [Los Angeles Times, 3-20-09]

Small-Town Politics: Resident Tony Randall of Ashland, N.H. (pop., 2,000), a surveyor by trade who was elected chief of the town's 12-member police force in March, promised he would know more about his job by September, when he will finish police academy training. [Boston Herald-AP, 3-11-09]

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that a March meeting of the Medina, Ohio, City Council required a recess when all members engaged in serial giggling over one person's flatulence. [WEWS-TV (Cleveland), 3-11-09]

Mayor Jerry Oberholtzer of Snellville, Ga., involved in a recent feud with an aggressive city council member, called on police chief Roy Whitehead to escort him to the men's room at City Hall for his safety. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2-11-09]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with the impossible task of "regulating" 18,000 makers of drug devices (and thousands of other companies and enforcing 123 new federal laws since 1988), has had virtually no increase in staff in 15 years. It's little wonder, then, that the AM2PAT company of Angier, N.C., was not caught before bacteria in its pre-filled syringes were linked to five deaths and hundreds of illnesses in December 2007. Subsequently inspected, AM2PAT's saline and heparin syringes were found to contain "debris" and "sediment" and to be "muddy" and "dingy brown" in color. Furthermore, according to a February report in the Raleigh News & Observer, the required "clean (air) room" was found to be just a room with a fan, and the company's "chief microbiologist" was revealed to be a teenager who had dropped out of high school. The company's owner has fled to his native India to avoid prosecution. [News & Observer, 2-25-09]

[Bungleau]

Woman with beer can in hand starts brawl at wake

MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Sheriff's deputies said a Texas woman started a brawl at a wake in Arkansas when she arrived with a beer can in her hand. The woman, 52, faces a third-degree domestic battery charges, as does another woman, 46, over the March 29 fight. Deputies said the first woman arrived at the Christies Chapel Church with a beer can in hand and that she refused to leave.

The first woman then allegedly grabbed a man by the face, leaving scratch marks on his lower right cheek and causing him to bleed. The man's mother, then allegedly slapped the woman and kicked another woman in the chest.

A sheriff's report claimed the woman with the beer became "passively aggressive" with deputies and said that "no backwood country cop" was going to take her to jail.
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Information from: The Banner-News, http://epaper.ardemgaz.com/daily/ski...welcome.asp?qs
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I knew drinking didn't go well with a lot of things, but I confess I never thought about how it went with attending a funeral...