Criminals don’t always make the best decisions. Here’s an excellent example, as reported by the South Asian Post: Angry villagers in eastern India [Jharkhand] burned eight robbers and beat four others to death, police said. About 20 robbers raided a remote village in Jharkhand state, but were surrounded by hundreds…
Tired of the same old billboards? You wouldn’t be, if you were in Sweden. Some Swedish legislators were upset by mobile billboard ads for strip joints. Per The Local: “It’s degrading to continually be confronted with cars whose main purpose is to drive around Stockholm’s streets in the evenings –…
It’s been a slow few days in Lake Oswego, Oregon, a town where, apparently, folks will call the police for just about anything. Here are a few highlights from the police department’s records, as reported by the Lake Oswego Review: 3/16/09 3:21 p.m. A rusted out van has been parked…
No offense (really) to the kid who started all of this “no cussing” stuff (notice I didn’t say “shit” – doh!), but really, are words in and of themselves “bad?” Has the word “shit,” by itself, ever hurt anyone? What about “You’re fat” or “You’re ugly” or “You’re stupid?” Off…
Check out these fellas, as reported by The Arkansas Times: Worst dillweeds Several people were arrested in April and charged in a series of burglaries in the Hillcrest section of west Little Rock after they pawned a digital camera that contained pictures of them displaying and bragging about all the…
For service of court papers. For real. As reported by the BBC: Mark McCormack, a lawyer in Canberra, persuaded a court to allow him to use the unusual method after other attempts to reach them failed. The couple’s home is being repossessed after they reportedly missed payments on a loan…
Minnesota man Scott Wagar had enough. His house had been getting hit for 7 years. Per wcco.com: Wagar never used to have a problem with homecoming traditions, until he became one. Years ago he caught a group of Willmar High School students trying to cover his house in toilet paper…
Maybe this won’t help Johns everywhere, but 9 Johns in Pennsylvania had a real good day. The “Johns” I am referring to are the customers of prostitutes. What’s the cause for celebration? As reported by lehighvalleylive.com, Riegelsville’s Craig Cardone and 8 others, accused of soliciting prostitutes, are getting their cars…
Ojai, California’s loss is Ashland, Oregon’s gain? Ms. Jennifer Moss, as reported by The Oregonian … …often pedaled a bicycle around Ojai in a hemp G-string and flower-shaped pasties to promote Earth-friendliness. Live and let live, right? Her most recent misdemeanor arrest was for removing everything but her G-string and…
Australian Christian Marchesani has unambiguous contempt for speed cameras. Well, aside from the above photo, per the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: … in January Marchesani sat on the fuel tank of his motorbike and rode past a speed camera twice with his thumbs up, reaching speeds of up to 130 kilometres…