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Friday, November 10, 2000

Lebanon-- Doctors have operated on a guy to remove 39 metal and plastic knives, forks, spoons and even lighters which he swallowed over one year. What finally put him over the edge and to the hospital? He swallowed a piece of water pipe last week.

Amarillo, Texas-- Police found $14,000-grand on a man they suspected of smoking marijuana, including more than $8-grand hidden in his butt. I love the clarification from the cop: he said, "That's 80 $100 bills," I guess that hiding place wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

Marlington, West Virginia-- A rather unusual recipe in the annual wild game cookoff contest: Squirrel Scrotum Stew. Described as kind of a chewy, nutty taste.....

New Ashford, Massachusetts-- The town Clerk opened the polls for a recent state primary election-- and sat there, alone, for the entire 14-hour stretch. After no voters came in to cast a ballot, he decided not to bother himself. His quote: "Why the hell should I vote? Nobody else did."

Chicago-- A couple who bought a sport utility vehicle got extras they didn't even know about. The windows wouldn't go all the way down so they took it in to be looked at. Mechanics found nearly 50 pounds of marijuana stashed in the seats and side panels. Apparently that was the new "Ford Inhaler" model.

Dallas-- A guy was filming a public service movie on "The Dangers of Low-Level Bridges" when the truck he was standing on passed under a low-level bridge...killing him.

Idaho-- A University of Idaho freshman suffered fractured vertebrae, abrasions and severely bruised butt when the dorm window that he was mooning a group of friends through shattered. Here's the kicker: The young man and his parents sued the school for $470-thousand dollars per cheek.
Friday, November 1, 2000

Southfield, Michigan-- A guy tried to hold up a bank with a rather unusual weapon. He was holding a bar of soap with wires sticking out of it, trying to pass it off as a bomb. He had it in a bag with a note that he put into the tray at the drive-thru window and waited. The teller walked away from the window without noticing the bag. Police said the cashier was unaware there was a robbery attempt going on...so the guy simply drove off, frustrated.

Waterloo, Iowa-- A man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a sheep at a farm run by college students. Students discovered the guy naked in a hayloft. A ewe- a female sheep- was tied up in the corner, with, get this, a blue nightgown next to it. Sounds like it was a special night.

Maryland-- A man has been tricking women into taking their shoes off so he can suck on their toes. The first incident was reported to police by a woman who says a man approached her in the hallway of a hotel. He claimed his wife had sent him out for pantyhose, and he needed information about the different toe styles. He asked the woman what kind she wore. "Sandal toe," she said, kicking off her shoe to illustrate. The cop on the case said, "the next thing you know he's sucking of her toes...he just had the pigs in his mouth."

China -- A man has escaped a lengthy jail term- because he was left alone in the courtroom after he was convicted. No one took him anywhere, so he walked out and rode his bike home.

Prague-- A Czech couple run over by a tractor during an amorous moment in a field. They picked the place because it was dark and peaceful, but not for long. The driver of the tractor took a short cut through the field on his way to a party, riding over the woman's chest and the man's buttocks. I guess he was a mission-ary.
Friday, October 27 , 2000

Irvine, California-- Two guys fighting....one's got the other in a headlock. He pulls out a gun and shoots him in the face. But the bullet passed through the target's cheek and into the shooter's own chest, killing HIM instead.

Framingham, Massachusetts-- Patience was definitely not a virtue for this burglar. He first broke into the store, but returned to his truck to retrieve something and let the door close behind him so he had to force his way back in. Next, he pushed and pulled on the cash machine but couldn't break in, so he got back in his truck and rammed the store and the ATM. When he still couldn't get in, he threw his arms up and walked out empty-handed.

Syracuse, New York-- Car chase with a twist...the guy was pretty easy to catch...the cops say that's because during the entire half-hour chase the guy never failed to use his turn signal before making a move. Said the officer, "We knew exactly where he was going."

Swaziland -- A school had to be closed after two goats invaded a classroom and mated in front of pupils. As the classroom erupted into catcalls and applause, an angry teacher tried to cane the pupils into silence resulting in a boycott. Let's see 'em try that out at Tosa West!

Los Angeles, California-- It's for real...The Church of the Holy Body- where the entire congregation comes to mass in the nude. Peace be with you...whooooo.

Missouri --A confused deer jumped into the bed of a woman in a nursing home. The residents of the Indian Hills Retirement Village had just eaten their breakfast when the deer appeared. It ran into the room, jumped in the bed and cut the woman. The deer then got out of bed and walked around the halls complaining about bingo starting late.

Friday, October 20 , 2000

Britain -- And you thought taxes were bad here? A top advisor to the British government is calling for a 15-cent tax on fatty hamburgers to curb obesity in Britain.

Wheeling, West Virginia -- A guy wanted to be the life of the party. After another party animal had unsuccessfully tried to make a blasting cap explode, this guy decided to show how it was done.

With the cap firmly in his mouth, the drunk bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth, and tongue.

Berlin -- A drunken man died at the wheel of his family car after criticizing his wife's driving so much that she decided to get out. The 30-year-old man sped off alone after the fight but rolled his car soon afterwards when he took a corner too fast. He died at the scene of the crash.

Madrid -- A Spanish stuntman fell to his death in front of film cameras while attempting to enact a suicide leap from a bridge. My favorite line of the story? "The actor leapt from the viaduct wearing a safety harness, which apparently failed." APPARENTLY failed?!

La Salle, Colorado -- A farmer, tired of the low prices he gets for the corn he grows, so instead of harvesting any more, he decides to cut a 10-acre maze in his field for Halloween visitors. He found that so many tourists want to walk through it he's making more money from this deal than from selling corn.

South Africa -- A 3-year-old woman took a bite out of crime ... literally. She bit off the tongue of her attacker, as he tried to force it into her mouth. She then ran to the nearest police station with the guy's tongue chunk in her mouth. The suspect arrived a few moments later with blood pouring from his mouth, hoping to receive medical attention and was arrested immediately.

He got his medical attention, but it was not possible to have his tongue sewn back on ... so police said the tongue would be kept and used as evidence.
Friday, October 13, 2000

Tampa, FL -- From an alley, a burglar climbed to the roof of a convenience store and cut a hole in the roof to break in through. He botched the job, however, and fell through the ceiling on top of a coffee pot.
Mr. Brilliant didn't realize the store was open 24 hours, and to top it off, a cop was standing at the pot fixing a cup of coffee when the guy fell through the roof.

St. Louis, MO -- After robbing a grocery store, a fleeing robber tried to change his shirt so he wouldn't match any descriptions. Trouble is, he forgot to put the gun down and shot himself in the leg. He was found passed out from the pain in the back seat of a car

Germany -- Deciding Oil of Olay was no longer doing the trick for her, a woman decided she would become a modern-day Cleopatra and bathe in camel's milk.
She went to her local zoo, stole a camel and took it back to her house. One problem: the camel was male.

New York -- An inmate who claimed he was locked in his cell for taking an extra piece of cake in the mess hall sued. Here's the kicker - he won and was awarded $200 in damages!

Tucson, Arizona -- Police arrested a 41-year-old man who appeared to be trying to coax horses from the University of Arizona Agricultural Center toward him with food. Sounds harmless enough, but in reality the food was strategically placed near the guy's exposed naughty bits.

Turkey -- Doctors preparing to remove the tonsils of a seven-year-old girl who had suffered throat pain most of her life, discovered a large nail in her neck. Pre-operative X-rays showed the girl had a one-and-a-half inch nail lodged in her esophagus.
Friday, October 6, 2000

Sanford, Florida -- A man went to the county jail to visit his friend. While waiting in the lobby, he lit a joint.

Jail officials arrested him as soon as he exited the lobby area. They also had a little problem with the half pound of marijuana he had on him.

Long Beach, California -- During their lunch hour, several employees of a large aerospace company decide to rob a bank. They figured the police would never look for them at the plant.

One problem:
They forgot to remove their work ID badges during the robbery.

Toms River, New Jersey -- A 64-year-old man was arrested after a spree in which he vandalized 12 doctors' offices. Why?
Well, he asked them all, but the refused, to check him for prostate problems without a medical reason for doing so.

Ohio -- A guy was dealing with the death of an uncle in a rather unusual way.
Before dropping off the body at the funeral home, he decapitated it with a hacksaw and carried the head away, presumably to fulfill a religious belief that he could bring the uncle back to life by ... eating the brain.

Cincinnati, Ohio -- Emergency crews had to rescue a parachutist after he jumped off the 49th floor of the Carew Tower, the tallest building in Cincinnati.

A witness said, "He did two flips and then he snagged on the corner of a nearby hotel and then he swung around and smacked into the building."

Two words:
Ouch.
Friday, September 29, 2000

Stories of the Strange is on hiatus this week.
Friday, September 22, 2000
Las Vegas -- A guy is convicted of smuggling a dozen lizards into the United States in his underwear. Nine dead lizards and three live ones in there.
Say it with me now . . .
Is that a lizard in your pants or are you just happy to be in the U. S.?
Russia -- A man blew himself up with a home-made bomb in a bungled attempt to kill his wife and her lover. The bomb exploded when the man was trying to attach it to the door of the apartment where he believed the lovers were staying.
Kent County, MI -- A guy drove around barricades and heavy equipment to drive over a bridge still under construction. He got halfway across by driving on the unpaved I-beams making up the bridge's structure before his pickup truck dropped between two of the open beams, falling 35 feet to the ground below.
A sheriff's spokesman noted 'alcohol was a factor' in the crash. You think?
Utah -- A Highway Patrolman talks about the night when, at an intersection where there are no traffic lights -anywhere-, this guys pulls up behind the parked squad, with the headlights and engine still on.
When the driver didn't immediately exit the car, the patrolman went back to see what's up. The guy said, I'm just waiting for the light to change, officer."

Can you say 'driving under the influence' ticket?
West Virginia -- A guy arrested for petty larceny - accused of stealing a VCR from a house.
**Remember that this charge is a misdemeanor offense because the property in question was valued under $200.00.
When the guy was transported to court for arraignment he was, of course, asked how he was going to plead and why he wished to plead that particular way. This is exactly what he told the Judge: "I plead NOT GUILTY Judge, honestly, I didn't steal the VCR. He gave it to me because he owed me for crack cocaine."
Friday, September 8, 2000
Ocean City, MD -- A 23-year-old guy had the hiccups and just couldn't get rid of them. Finally, he asked his friend to punch him in the chest.
He did. He killed the guy with the hiccups. At least he didn't have the hiccups anymore.
Dallas, TX -- A wedding there had an unusual twist. As guests exited the reception area, they read a big sign that said:
The party is over
No need to pout
Just leave your gift
And get the HELL out!
Ontario, Canada -- A prisoner waiting for his case to come up in court decided to escape. He ran out of the court house with the cops behind him. He ran through the downtown area and out onto the town dock and jumped into the lake.
When officers got to the end of the dock, there was the escaped prisoner screaming to be saved. He forgot he couldn't swim.
Charleston, SC -- A guy pulled his car next to a cop car and asked to speak. During the conversation he pointed to a car and said that he clocked the driver of the car doing 55 in a 30 mile speed zone. He demanded the cop issue a ticket.
The cop did . . . he wrote a ticket to the man talking.

Two reasons: First, the man admitted clocking the speeding car, which is only possible if he himself were engaged in speeding, and two, because the car in question was an unmarked police car responding to a call.
Oops.
Kansas -- A man walked into a liquor store, pulled a gun, and said, "Give me everything in the register."
The clerk told him there was no money in the register.
The would-be robber replied, "That's okay, there are no bullets in the gun. I was just kidding." And he ran out the door.
Friday, September 1, 2000
Aspen, CO -- Hunter Thompson was trying to shoo a bear off his property. Pulling a 'Bob' Knight, he tried firing a shotgun at it. He missed.
He did, however, manage to hit his assistant, Debra Fuller, though she was only slightly injured.
Anyone else find it funny that his name is 'hunter'.
Fairhaven, MA -- Story goes a 65-year-old lady was zapped by lightning that threw her off the ground about 12 feet and into the bed of a pickup truck.
The most amazing part is that she was not seriously injured.
Speaking of shockers,
Tampa, FL -- A guy filed a lawsuit against the Tampa Electric Co. because he absorbed 13,000 volts after he climbed up one of the company's transformers in what he called a "drunken stupor."
The voltage knocked his off and burned 60 percent of his body. He told a reporter that he is "unable to control his urge to drink alcoholic beverages."
Now there's a REAL shocker..
Alaska -- Home of the Alaskan poop moose. It's a candy dispenser. You pull the moose's head up and m&m's come shooting out its butt.
Now that sounds appetizing, doesn't it?
Encino, CA -- Roger Freeman is a dentist and lecturer on infectious diseases there. His new company is pushing a line of neckties with magnified pictures of diseases from microscope slides on the ties.
Says Roger, "The gonorrhea tie is the best looking tie in the whole lot,"
Gastonia, NC -- A small group of bank robbers hit an armored truck and made off with over a half million dollars.
The friends decided that with their new found wealth, they no longer belonged in a trailer park....so they went and purchased a half-million dollar home--with cash.
The brilliants were quickly apprehended.
Friday, August 25, 2000
Reno, NV -- A retired cop was arrested on suspicion of DUI after he pulled into a gas station and tried to withdraw money from a gas pump.
Dateline, unknown -- An elderly lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four guys in the act of leaving with her car.
She dropped her shopping bags and drew a handgun out of her purse, and screamed at them:
"I have a gun and I know how to use it! Get out of the car you scumbags!"
They got out and ran. The lady, somewhat shaken, proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and get into the driver's seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried and then it dawned on her why.
A few minutes later she found her own car parked four of five spaces farther down.
Detroit -- A man decided to break into a garage and steal one of the place's pickup trucks. Not able to pick the lock, the guy blasted it away with a shotgun.
Once inside, the man decided that he did not want the truck anymore, because it was somewhat full of bullet holes.
Gainesville, GA -- Charged with speeding, this man made his appearance in court. Though he was reportedly going ninety in a twenty-five zone, the man plead innocent.
He told the judge that he had taken a laxative and was thus in a rush to get home.
Clarksville, TN -- The city had to petition a federal court to overturn a recently-passed city ordinance.
The city council intended to prohibit operators from engaging in sex on the premises of the store by apparently left out the words "on the premises," thus prohibiting the owner and his employees from having sex anywhere.
Friday, August 18, 2000
East York, PA -- Shoppers at the Wal-Mart were a bit startled to see the store's "Back To School" sale included shotgun shells. A full variety was offered, from small game loads to skeet rounds.
A store spokesman said the same "Back To School" price placards were used for all sale items throughout the store.
Oops. Although I'm sure Mark Reardon would have his kids there in an instant.
Jacksonville, FL -- A bank robber saved Jacksonville police some time by writing the 'demand for money' note on the back of a police report from his previous arrest.
East Hartford, CT -- A couple of guys are sitting outside an apartment building smoking a joint. There were so intent on their conversation that when a UNIFORMED cop walked up beside them and held out his hand . . . they passed the joint TO HIM!
Belmont, NH -- A teenager robbed the local convenience store. Getting away with a pocket full of change, the boy walked home. However, he didn't realize that he had holes in both of his pockets. A trail of quarters and dimes led police directly to his house.
Adams, MA -- A woman calls the cops because there's a bear asleep in her backyard. They tried sirens and noisemakers but they could not wake the bear. It wasn't until they poked the four-foot-long bear with a long prod that they discovered it was just a stuffed teddy bear someone left there.
Friday, August 11, 2000
Chesterton, IN -- Cops responded to a call of a suspicious man in a gas station bathroom. When they got there, they couldn't help but notice the odor of glue.
They asked if he had been sniffing glue. Nope, not him, he said. But then he tried to throw his cigarette away . . . it stuck to his fingers.
Stockholm, Sweden -- Now home to the world's first museum dedicated to fermented herring. It opens next year, so make your vacation plans now!
Cambodia -- A guy wanted his girlfriend's family to approve of their wedding. When they didn't, he proceeded to show up at their house with an AK-47 and a bucket of gas, threatening to burn the place down.
They worked out an agreement.
England -- A woman was unhappy that she could not get her new washing machine fixed. The first repair guy couldn't. Neither could the second. When the third guy couldn't, she blocked his van in her driveway and said she wouldn't move it until she got a new machine.
The police finally had to respond to negotiate the repairman's release.
Somewhere off the Mexican coast -- A giant swordfish hooked by a guy jumps into the fisherman's boat and stabs him right through the stomach. The marlin's spear pierced the fisherman's abdomen and came out the other side. The guy ends up drifting for two days in his boat, unable to get up, until another vessel rescued him. A whole new definition of 'sail' boat.
Omaha -- A guy was asleep in a dumpster, when a trash truck pulled up and dumped him and his trash mattress into the hopper. Several stops later, the driver heard someone calling for help from the back of his truck. By that time, he had turned on the truck's compactor "two or three times."
The guy was hospitalized with multiple fractures. "He is pretty lucky," they said.
Yep: homeless, sleeping in a dumpster, and being crushed half to death sounds awfully lucky.
Friday, August 4, 2000

No Stories of the Strange today, due to the first Packer pre-season game.
Friday, July 28, 2000
Montgomery, Alabama -- After being fired, a former grocery store employee returned to the same store a few days later and robbed the place.
The manager of the store recognized the man and immediately called the police.
The criminal was arrested that same day.
Greenwood, Indiana -- Count Spatula!
A guy breaks into a McDonald's early one morning, and when police officers pulled up to the drive-through window and asked the man what he was doing, he promptly replied he was a burglar.
When officers went inside to arrest the man, they found him trying to open a safe with a hamburger spatula.
Arkansas -- While grocery shopping at the local Kroger, a man's car was stolen. Dumbfounded, the man stood on the curb trying to figure out what to do.
His answer came just a few minutes later when the car thief approached the man in the newly stolen vehicle and asked for directions.
Bend, Oregon -- And the quote is:
"I'm planning on being the first private human being to go to space in a home-built rocket," says Brian Walker.
The 44-year-old says he has wanted to build his own rocket since he was eight, and wants to blast off next year.
Sure ya are.
Texas -- A woman calmly walked into a grocery store and headed straight for the meat counter.
When she saw that no one was looking, she shoved a chicken up her jumper and walked out of the store.
A police officer stopped her and the woman turned around with a shocked looked on her face.
She swore the chicken had fallen from the sky and landed in her arms. The woman stuck with her story until police showed her the surveillance video of her theft.
Say it with me now....
'Is that a chicken up your jumper or are you just happy to be shopping?'
Friday, July 14, 2000
Annapolis, Maryland – The cops are looking for a few ugly women. Actually, the thieves are "very unattractive and obviously male," a police detective says. The men wear tight skirts and high heels, and the distraction they cause allows accomplices to steal money, credit cards, and checks from stores.
"They might look kind of silly when they dress up, but they're really good at what they do," the detective added.
France – Two criminals thought it would be genius to break into a bank from a neighboring building, so they decided to drill through the wall so they could reach the bank's vault.
After hours of exhausting labor, they finally broke through ... but when they got into the room they noticed they goofed. This isn't the vault, it's the bathroom!
London – Bride Sonia Chamberlain got to the church on time, but with an unusual ride . . . in a garbage truck. Why? Because her new hubby-to-be first swept her off her feet while driving a garbage truck.

She says, "It might not sound romantic, but when I saw him reversing the truck near my house it was love at first sight." MIGHT not sound romantic? How does that song go? Love stinks.
Delta, Iowa -- A man angry over problems with his sewer line emptied a five-gallon bucket of human waste at a city council meeting. And yes, council members were splattered with some of the bucket filled with feces and urine.
Now the guy won't have to worry about the sewer line at his house, because he'll be using the one in the jail.
Friday, June 30, 2000
Township, NJ – Talk about your school of hard knocks! An eleven-year-old boy in sixth grade thought his teacher was only kidding when he told him, "If you miss an assignment, the whole class gets to deck you."

But a month later, when the kid blew it, the teacher lined up the students and had them take turns hitting the boy!
A doctor found multiple bruises, the kid's parents are suing, and the teacher has been suspended.
Britain – A study of injuries sustained by passengers of Britain's rail network found that 10% of the reported injuries involved the same person.

The unnamed traveler reported a shoulder injury 49 times in a one-year period. Apparently he was not trying to perpetuate fraud: he never asked for compensation. He says if someone would just get around to saying "sorry" he'd go away happy.
Waterford Township, MI – Flight controllers speaking with an incoming corporate jet over the radio clearly hear in the background, "hijack." The pilot hadn't reported trouble, but perhaps a gunman was controlling what he could say. The tower called the police, which called in a squad of officers, the SWAT team, and the FBI.

But when the plane arrived, they discovered that someone had stepped into the cockpit to say hi to the co-pilot. Jack.
Britain -- Four men enjoying a game of night-time nude cricket were caught by the British police after a member of the public reported them.

The cops said, "Nobody was arrested or anything, it was just a matter of giving them some advice regarding their conduct.
Friday, June 23, 2000
Pinellas, FL – A man robbed an adult sex shop, menacingly waving a vibrating tongue at the clerk as his weapon.
Knoxville, TN – Did you know? They set up 20 corpses at a time, under various circumstances so that homicide investigators can study the stages of the decomposition process. They say the farm is best worked during the winter, not summer when maggots clean a body to the bone in two weeks and the stench is overpowering.
Ya think?
Somewhere near Las Vegas – Ignatius Piazza has completed three million dollars worth of infrastructure towards his planned gated community 50 miles from Las Vegas. What makes it a special place? Every person who lives there will be trained in firearms use, and supplied a gun to boot. Let's hope alcohol is banned.
Orlando, FL -- Oh, those silly lawsuits...
A woman has filed against Universal Studios for last year's Halloween Horror Nights exhibit. She said she expected it to be frightening but that it was too frightening.
Brunswick, OH -- A guy sues his son's high school baseball coach, arguing that because the team was so bad it lost out on an all-expense-paid trip to a tournament in Florida.
West Valley City, UT -- Johnny Lee Miller arrested for bank robbery. He left behind the large envelope he concealed a gun in. Thing is, there was something else in that envelope, too. A personalized certificate from a prison-sponsored course in anger management, complete with his name on it.
Friday, June 16, 2000
Norwalk, CT – Charges were filed against a couple of moms who actually gave their five and seven-year-olds a hammer and screwdriver to use as weapons against the bullies at school.
Key West, FL – Six guys were busted for jumping up on a patrol car naked and urinating on the vehicle for pictures for a website. Hey, it's KEY WEST, isn't that just another ordinary day there?
Attica, NY – A woman is busted for drunk driving, after she made a wrong turn into a prison-guard firing range as they were getting ready for a little target practice.
Salem, AR -- A woman pulled a gun on her pastor and threatened him in church because he didn't do the reading she had asked him to do.
Fort Worth, TX -- A wedding guest was trampled and in serious condition in what police called a 'wild scrap' for the bridal bouquet.

Stockhold, Sweden -- Customs officers arrested a woman who had tried to smuggle 75 live snakes in her bra. The officers became suspicious when they noticed how the woman kept scratching her chest.

Scarborough, England -- A totally wrecked Ford was found at the bottom of a 100-foot cliff. Police found no sign of the driver, but discovered a pile of human feces on the driver's seat.

Troy, MI -- Someone broke into Thunderbird Lanes and stole 24 bowling balls, leaving several hundred bucks in the cash register - untouched.

Miami, FL -- A former exotic dancer won $30,000 in a jury verdict after she sued her plastic surgeon for using breast implants to enhance her butt.

During the trial, she said, "I couldn't dance. I would have looked like a freak show with a boob butt." Interesting visual.
Friday, June 9, 2000
Fort Morgan, CO – A joint committee of the Colorado Legislature approved an emergency grant of $75,000 to Morgan Community College, after it dawned on administrators that, because of an "oversight in the plan for the project," the just-finished student center building had no restrooms.
Largo, FL – A guy was convicted of killing a teen-age girl, despite his claim that she had accidentally fallen and hit her head. He told police he was so embarrassed at the accident happening in the first place that he made it look like murder to throw police off.
Santa Ana, CA – Another creative excuse in a murder case: A guy convicted of murdering his wife, despite his claim that she actually killed herself. He told the cops he just stabbed her dead body 25 times to simulate murder to spare their son the shame of his mother's suicide.
Melbourne, Australia -- A dentist accused of professional misconduct for engaging in the unauthorized (but not unheard of) facial-pain remedy of administering ozone through the patient's rectum, including 15 treatments to one patient in a three-week period.

Advocates of the treatment say it can also be administered in the ear. I think I'd stick with the toothache.
Brighton, England -- Peter Johnson loves the "All In One" restaurant. A lot. He not only eats there five days a week, he had the restaurant's name and phone number tattooed on his forehead.

Canada -- A kid borrowed his friend's snowmobile and drove to the local credit union to rob it.

Sporting a full-face helmet with a shield, the boy walked in with a gun and demanded $20,000 dollars. Problem: the face shield on the helmet he still had on started to fog up due to the heat inside the bank.

Raising the shield so that he could see, the boy took the money and ran. The teller called the police because she had recognized the boy once the shield was lifted. Police arrested him shortly afterward.

Friday, June 2, 2000
Wisconsin – A dumb law on the books: (Did you know it's Wisconsin law?) You must manually flush all urinals in a building.

Not that it's such a dumb law, but it's got to be a tough one to enforce.
Shalimar, Florida – Ronald Bell, Jr. was convicted of murder. Part of the evidence against him was a surveillance video from a Target store showing Bell and two accomplices returning the murder weapon, a $9.99 meat cleaver, for a refund.
Kenner, Louisiana – A guy was arrested with robbing a sandwich shop. According to police, he had stood in front of the shop inadvertently faced the surveillance camera as he repeatedly practiced pulling his shirt over his head as a disguise.
Akron, Ohio -- A police officer responded to a report that several alarms were going off inside a warehouse. When the officer got inside, he discovered someone had placed boxes on the top of the motion detectors. When police found the crook and arrested him, he said: "How did you guys know I was here? I put boxes in front of all the security cameras so that you couldn't see me."
Birmingham, Alabama -- At closing time, a young man rushed into a Sears store and stole a radio. He then turned to sprint back out of the doors, but they had already been locked.
After running full speed into the doors, the man was knocked unconscious, making for an easy arrest by police.
St. Louis -- After robbing a grocery store, a fleeing robber tried to change his shirt so that he would not match any descriptions. However, he forgot to put the gun down while changing and promptly shot himself in the leg.
Italy -- An exciting new product has been announced called the "Vast-ity Belt", which contains a microchip that flashes and beeps when the wearer has eaten too much at a meal. Imagine the blinding light from that deal if the Big Unit was wearing it!
Friday, May 26, 2000
Derry, New Hampshire – Accident investigators say the car was airborne for 150 feet before crashing through the roof of the Donovan's house at three in the morning.

Driven by a 20-year-old woman who was later arrested for drunk driving, the car came through the ceiling and dropped right over the Donovan's bed. "The thing was right in front of my face, ... I could feel the heat from the exhaust system coming through the sheets," said Mr. Donovan.

Still, that wasn't enough to wake his wife. He had to shake her awake after the crash.
Dublin, Ohio – After a jewelry store clerk said a guy had stolen a diamond tennis bracelet, police searched him and his car but found nothing. Then they X-rayed the guy and sure enough, it showed he had swallowed the $17,000 bracelet, and it was still in his throat.
He drank several glasses of water and smoked cigarettes to build up enough phlegm to cough it up.
Boxfod, MA – A plastic surgeon rented a backhoe to do some serious work in his yard. It wasn't long before he called the gas company to report a "strong smell" of natural gas - he apparently ruptured a gas main with the heavy equipment.
Three minutes later, he called the gas company again on his cell phone. The house exploded as he was making the second call. "He said, 'Forget it. The house is gone.'"
Doylestown, PA -- James Walton acquitted of disorderly conduct. His crime, according to a cop on the beat: For revenge against diners who were staring at him as he walked by the front window, Walton dug out a big booger and wiped it on the window. The officer failed to preserve the evidence, so the judge had no choice but to acquit.
Friday, May 12, 2000
Stories of the Strange is still on hiatus due to a vacationing Phil Cianciola.
Friday, May 5, 2000
Stories of the Strange is on hiatus due to a vacationing Phil Cianciola.
Friday, April 28, 2000
New Jersey – Dentist with an attitude.
Kevin Ward is under investigation, after a 5-year-old boy emerged from a routine office visit with a broken leg. The boy told his mother that Dr. Ward reacted after the boy kicked him because of pain.

Also, in January, Dr. Ward was sued by the parents of an 8-year-old girl who suffered a broken wrist while having a tooth pulled.
Canton, Ohio – A college announced that it would offer an eight-week exercise and fitness class entirely online.
The instructor says he's confident that he will be able to detect whether or not students are really doing the exercises or not.

Huh?
Albuquerque – A man at a juice shop asked for change for a $10 to get the shop clerk to open the register, then announced a robbery. But the clerk freaked the guy out when he locked the register instead. The would-be robber fled, not only without any holdup money, but he also left his $10 behind.
New York -- During their lunch hour, several employees of a large aerospace company decide to rob a bank.
The group figured the police would look for them at the plant. Of course, being dumb criminals, they forgot to remove their ID badges before the robbery.
Italy -- Police caught a man who had been stealing handbags when he sped past his mother and snatched her handbag. She called police and reported her son. But there's more!

When he arrived in court, a cop was shocked to see that the crook was wearing the jacket that had been stolen from the cop's house.
New Orleans -- A man broke into a home and stole, among other things, jewelry and New Orleans Saints' season tickets.
The police arrested him the following Sunday at the Superdome. He was not only sitting in the homeowner's seat, he was wearing the stolen jewelry.
Friday, April 21, 2000
Chicago – A guy was arrested for robbing an elderly couple's sewing machine repair shop. He had managed about $70 and a getaway, but not before the husband tossed a pan of chicken noodle soup on him. Police nailed him a few minutes later, having spotted a man with noodles hanging out of his hair.
Kentucky – A man admits to police he burned his church down. Now, why would he do that?

He said there was a division of church members, and they needed a project to unite them. You know. It almost makes sense.
Virginia – A man is found screaming in pain inside a car. His hand got caught in the dashboard as he was trying to steal the stereo.
Georgia -- A drug dealing couple is arrested for trying to collect $40 from a guy who was late with a payment. The husband dangled the guy out of a window while the wife bit his naughty bits.
Arkansas -- A man is frantically yelling into the phone, "My wife's pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart!"
Doc asks, "Is this her first child?"
The guy screams back, "NO you idiot! This is her husband!"
Miami -- A 30-year-old repo man and a 19-year-old man behind in his car payments killed each other in a gun battle.
The car that cost two lives was a 1987 Chevrolet Caprice.

Rockford, IL -- A robber decided to break into Ann's Pizza through an air duct on the roof. He chose the wrong air duct, however, because the one he selected ran directly into the oven.
When the oven didn't work the next day, the manager called a repairman. The repairman discovered the criminal in the duct; he dead...
Friday, March 31, 2000
Nashville – Police are looking for a guy who successfully held up a bank using a hot dog as his weapon.
No doubt the charge will be assault with a deadly wiener?
Alabama – Undercover police working to bust up prostitution were propositioned by a 70-year-old man three separate times. The first time, he offered three squirrels he had just shot as payment.
The second time he offered the used refrigerator in the back of his truck. She said no.
The third time, he finally offered money - six bucks.
She laughed and told him to never come back.
He didn't.
Modesto, CA – The wife gets a restraining order against the husband. The following week, the guy shows up in court trying to get it lifted by impersonating her, including standing up in court in a dress and five o'clock shadow using a high voice.
Surprise, surprise . . . it didn't work.
Breckenridge, MN -- Two guys in a bar get into an argument about whose pickup truck is more powerful.
They decide to settle the argument by chaining their trucks together and having a tug of war.

The guy who won did it by default, since the other guy's truck slipped into a ditch and he was killed when he was ejected and the truck fell on top of him.
Darwin?
Laverne, OK -- What a way to go.
A guy crashes his truck into a 25-foot deep hog manure lagoon. Divers couldn't find the body in the muck for 18 days.
Berlin -- A teenager had to go to court on a charge that he left the scene of an accident. But they took his vehicle from him, so he decided to steal a bus and get to court that way.
He was arrested on the way for running a red light.
Friday, March 24, 2000
Edwardsville, IL – A 48-year-old woman was accidentally shot to death by her husband as the couple posed in an Old West-style wedding photo with him holding a rifle, which turned out to be very real and very loaded.
Willingboro, NJ – Two partners in a record store were rehearsing what they would do if they ever got robbed. The partner acting as the clerk accidentally shot to death the partner acting as the robber. At least they had a good plan that worked . . . sort of.
Concord, NH – Shopper Bryan Cote parked his $2,000 bicycle in the wrong spot at the Salvation Army store. They thought it was a donation left there and they sold it for $15.
Springfield, VA -- A security guard approaches a guy in the parking lot of a shopping mall, suspecting he's a shoplifter.
The guy says no way, and drops his pants to prove it. Undaunted by that, the security guy proceeds to find a pair of stolen tennis shoes under the moron's jacket.
South Carolina -- An internet romance goes bad.
A guy from England finally came over to meet his 30-something chick, only to find out she was a fake. Actually, she was a 65-year-old woman jailed earlier the same month after authorities found her former boyfriend in a freezer at her place.
Paris -- Police caught a man trying to sneak through customs at a Paris airport with a snake hidden in his underpants.
Frenchie was trying to smuggle the 16-inch boa into the airport from Colombia, and was caught after a sniffer dog latched on to the snake's scent through the guy's bulging trousers.
"Sir, is that a snake in your pants or are you just happy to be in Paris?"
Friday, March 3, 2000
Cincinnati – A man's early morning attempt to break into a bar went up in smoke when he got stuck in the chimney and had to be rescued by firefighters.
It took firefighters nearly two hours to tear the chimney apart and free the guy . . . whose last name by the way is?
Sprecker. Hmmm.
Rochester, New York – Clubbed by the "Club".
A woman told police she had just parked her car and was starting to attach the "Club" to the steering wheel when a man came up from behind and tried to force his way in.
So, she started to club him with the club until the cops got there to bust the guy.
Columbus, Georgia – A guy was holding up a bank with pantyhose on his head as a disguise.
He never pulled off the job, however, because he suffocated from the pantyhose being on his head.
Pennsylvania -- A man who was accused of vending machine vandalism was taken to court and charged. After being found guilty, he was fined $500 and he paid the fine in all quarters.
Iowa -- A man was suspected of robbing a school. While in court, he asked why only some schools had alarms. The judge said,"Why do you want to know?" The suspect replied," Cause the one I robbed did!"
He got five years in prison for breaking in and entering.
And finally -- From our actual dumb laws file . . . a couple laws on the books right here in Wisconsin:
Did you know - It is illegal to kiss on a train?
And listed to how this one reads:
Whenever two trains meet at an intersection of said tracks, neither shall proceed until the other has. (Think about it, but not too hard.)
Friday, February 25, 2000
London – A British woman says she has cured her chronic fatigue by resorting to do-it-yourself brain surgery and drilling a hole in her own head.
Heather Perry did it by cutting away a section of the scalp and drilling into her own skull.
As Abe Lincoln would say, I'd need that surgery like I need a hole in the head.
Brazil – A stonemason who claimed to be possessed by the devil severed his own penis after stabbing himself in the chest and stomach with a borrowed knife.
So, let's follow this -
He runs to a neighbors for a knife. He stabs himself in the stomach, stabs himself in the chest.
And then, as the police arrive he slices off his own naughty bits. Lorena Bobbit's got nothing on this guy.
Missouri – Robert Leach is a guy wanted for the murder of two people in Tennessee.
A week later he was busted at the Friendly Tavern in Greenville, Missouri. Local police had seen the stolen pickup Leach was driving, and when the walked in to the bar, there he was on the stage. You see, Leach is an aspiring country singer who billed himself as "the next Garth Brooks" and he was easily spotted as he sang "Amazing Grace" up there on stage.
Lake Geneva (I think) -- This one was sent to me by a listener.
A guy is ice fishing and pulls up a nice northern through the ice hole. But the fish falls off the line, flops around and back into the hold. The guy's trusty black lab jumps into the hole to retrieve the fish.
The guy is devastated, thinking he'll never see his dog again, when lo and behold, the guy next to him comes busting through the wall of his ice shanty, totally excited because the dog came up through an ice hole in the shanty next door.
Friday, February 11, 2000
Ottawa, Canada – Canada's newest political party should have thought out its new name a little more. "The Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance" . . . the acronym: CRAP.
Fayetteville, Arkansas – Police say it wasn't hard to track down the burglar who stole painkillers from a drugstore there.
Outside, snow tracks, along with a bottle of pills, led police 300 yards east. That's where police caught up with a man who ran from behind a fence and tried to catch a cab.
You might say this guy has SNOW CLUE!
Wauwatosa – A guy arrested at a Walgreens was trying to heist no less than 19 containers of deodorant.
No, he didn't have a big B.O. problem . . . here's what he told the cops. The next day was his birthday and he didn't have any money. So he planned on selling the deodorant at a gas station and then using the money to buy beer for his birthday.
Here's a thought - Why not just try to steal the beer directly?
London -- Letter-Writers Have Been Dogged by Bad Luck in a British Park. People mailing their letters in Yorkshire Parek have mistakenly put them in a red bin for dog waste, thinking it was a mailbox. 'stinkin' mail service.'
Trento, Italy -- An Italian man who called an erotic chat line that promised to put him through to a hot housewife got the shock of his life when his wife answered.
Los Angeles -- Police arriving at the scene of a two-car collision found a totally nude woman behind the wheel of one of the cars.
She told police when she began her drive, she thought she was a camel in Morocco, and when she saw the palm trees lining the downtown streets, she was sure of it . . .
Friday, February 4, 2000
London – An ambulance speeding a woman to the hospital was held up for fifteen minutes at a tunnel because the staff was made to pay the toll.
(What, they thought they were in Illinois?) By the way, a nurse on board finally came up with the toll money and the patient was okay.
London – Doctors this week removed the wrong kidney from a man. He had one good, and one bad one. And he's only got the bad one now.
The quote from the hospital spokesman is a beauty, "He had an uncomfortable night." You think?
West Memphis – It wasn't hard for police to find the suspect in a cafe robbery: he left in a wheelchair and wrote a threatening note on the back of his personal check. It said, "Don't push. No pulling. You won't get hurt."
He made a gesture as though he were hiding a gun under his jacket. A clerk gave him $120 and he quickly wheeled out of the restaurant. He was arrested just about as quick when all they had to do was go off the address on the other side of his personal check.
South Milwaukee -- A man was brought into the cop shop on several outstanding warrants. While trying to raise bail over the phone, his anger got the best of him.
He slammed down the receiver and busted the cop's phone. He was promptly issued a ticket for criminal damage to property.
Missouri -- Lawmakers want to restore a ban on sex between human and animals, in part, to shake an unflattering portrayal of the state.
The move follows international publicity that portrayed Missouri as "The Bestiality State." Well, at least it goes with the saying on their license plates . . . The show me state . . . just don't show me THAT!
Friday, January 28, 2000
London – Irate villagers demanded the closure of what was billed as Britain's first topless hairdressing salon. The owner (a man, big surprise) says he did it in a bit of fun.
The name of the place? "Mipples" salon. It's billed as a place to get a haircut plus the chance to see the stylist without her top on.
Mississippi – If you are a man who has difficulty controlling your sexual responses in public, beware. The eyes of Mississippi are upon you.
The state is considering a public-sex-and-nudity law with a provision that would make it illegal for sexually aroused men to appear in public.
Now, I know you're thinking this is hard to believe. But it's true. Indiana already has a similar law.
Biloxi, MS – Ronald Cherry called up the Treasure Bay Casino and demanded that employees deliver $100,000 to his home within two hours or he would start shooting people at the casino.
He even gave them his home address, which was very helpful for the arresting officers, who said, by the way, "We didn't spend too many man hours on this one."
Kenya -- Talk about your bizarre crazes.
Seems prostitutes there are doing everything they can to get their hands on coveted crocodile genitals. They believe they're some kind of strong love potion. Wardens have actually had to stop gangs of prostitutes from attacking crocs. I wonder if the croc is charged for that?
Delaware -- No kissing cousins here.
Police call it assault with a deadly bird, among other things. Two guys, cousins, got into an argument and when police arrived, one guy was beating the other with a frozen turkey and a five-pound block of ground beef.
Hey, at least no one would have gone hungry!
Friday, January 14, 2000
Wheeling, WV – A man accused of a bank robbery in Ohio kind of made it easy for authorities to catch him.
He was arrested after he called 911 to see if there were any warrants out for his arrest. Must have seemed like a good idea at the time.
Wichita, Kansas – Another brilliant crook went into a liquor store with a bottle of whiskey in his hands. He approached the counter, pulled out his wallet and a knife, and demanded the cash.
He left his wallet on the counter. An hour later, he called police to report his wallet missing.
Fort Worth, Texas – A gas station bandit wearing a mask, entered a station after dark, aimed his index finger at the attendant and demanded money.
The attendant sees the 'finger gun' pointed at him and says, "You've got to be kidding." The masked man moved in closer, and that's when the attendant grabbed the masked marvel's finger and gave it a good twist.
The robber screamed and ran out the door.
Columbus, Georgia -- A guy holding up a bank, he had pantyhose on his head as a disguise. The guy suffocated.
Southern California -- Male caller to a police dispatcher, reporting that a prostitute had ripped him off. He ordered her through some sort of an escort agency and when she came to the door, he realized she wasn't worth paying for and told her to forget it.
Apparently, her pimp wasn't very happy about that so he broke down the door and took the guy's money.
The man's comment as he was reporting the crime was, "I was not going to pay for that! She was just ugly."
Friday, January 7, 2000
Columbia, TN – A bank robber who left the motor running in his getaway car outside the bank had to flee on foot when he found he accidentally locked the car door with the keys in the ignition.
Here's another nice little touch to the story . . . he pointed a small silver object at a teller and handed over a note demanding money, saying the "bomb" would explode otherwise.
Police cautiously retrieved the "bomb" he dropped while escaping. It was a hot dog wrapped in aluminum foil.
South Carolina – A guy's store is being robbed so he hits the silent alarm. With the robber in front of him, the guy sees a car pull up out front. He asks the robber if he could go out and tell the person the place is closed. The robber agrees.
I guess he didn't notice the customer drove up in a squad car out there.
Trenton, N.J. – Assault with a deadly cup of coffee. A robber hit a convenience store using hot coffee as his weapon . . . throwing it at the clerk. It worked. He got away with the cash.
New York City -- Two guys in an apartment doing heroin when one dies. The other guy panicked and didn't know what to do. Here's the plan he came up with . . . he waited a week, then threw the body out the fourth-floor window thinking no one would notice.
Fairfax, VA -- Police started shooting at the wrong new shooting range. The ended up peppering an entire neighborhood with bullets.
Morehead City, NC -- Fishing contest where the fish won?
It's true. A marlin that a guy had hooked pulled him over the side of the boat, and he was never seen again.
Friday, November 17, 2000

Minnesota-- When a bank president flushed the toilet in the executive washroom, he was blasted with a geyser of a 2-3 hundred gallons of raw sewage. He sued the city and a construction company that neglected to inform anyone they shut off another sewer line causing the added pressure.

Italy-- A disgruntled man gave the finger to a hospital...literally. He was tired of waiting for someone to reattach it after an accident at work. After waiting for more than an hour to be treated, he shouted, "Take care of the finger when you have some time, I'm going home."

Erie, Pennsylvania-- A woman who is the acting principal of a high school there got so mad at reporters' questions about a rumored gun incident that she whipped the cameras the bird and said, "Shoot this!"

New York-- A car thief was all smiles while he took pictures of himself stealing a car but he forgot to take the camera with him when he finally ditched the car. When the victim got her car back and took the film in, she didn't recognize a couple of pictures...how convenient...photos of the guy who ripped off her car.

Australia-- A statue of Hercules might be banned because his naughty bits are too big. A woman on the city council there is opposed to it, saying, "Who am I to say what's small or big, but I think it's fair to say the proportions in this case are unusual." But the mayor of the town countered: "If it makes us feel a bit better about ourselves, that can't hurt."

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