UNITED KINGDOM: The headline read, “don’t cross her.”
Anji Rhys, 49, of Dunstable in England shot a masked intruder with a crossbow
after a band of thugs wielding hammers and machetes busted into her home. Rhys,
a former boxer, said she “grabbed my crossbow and had a little tussle” with a
machete-wielding man. She said she shot him in the stomach and the gang fled.

AUSTRALIA: Mom of the Year – Not! A mom who filmed
herself saying “Go for it son” didn’t fare well. Why not? She was sentenced to
nine months in jail for encouraging her 11-year-old to take his first bong hit
of marijuana. In a video that went viral, the mom states, “Here we are
recording my boy having his very first bong.” The boy is then seen lighting up
and smoking.

AUSTRALIA: Gone in 600 seconds? We learn that an
Australian with a need for speed lost his new Porsche to the police impound lot
ten minutes after buying it. The Melbourne driver, 37, was clocked going 60 mph
in a 40-mph zone on Aughtie Drive, part of the city’s Grand prix circuit. Police
took his 2013 Porsche SUV for 30 days.

CALIFORNIA:  Attempted
gumball theft.
A clumsy burglar smashed a window at a Front Street Animal
Shelter in Sacramento and climbed into the building. He then tried to pull a
large gumball machine back out through the window, however it was too large,
and the treats spilled onto the floor, a surveillance video shows. The burglar
eventually fled without the machine.

CALIFORNIA: The headline read, “His luck ran out.” A
former security guard who won $19 million in the California lottery pleaded
guilty to robbing four banks in a string of much-less-lucrative robberies.
James Hayes, who hit the jackpot two decades ago, handed notes to several
tellers demanding cash, and sometimes claimed to having a gun, during the LA area
hold-ups. It appears he made off with a total of $40,000, less than 1 percent
of his lottery winnings. We wonder where the lottery money went?

CANADA: The headline read, “Bad apple arrested,
thanks to a single cherry.”
It appears that America’s most wanted deadbeat
dad was arrested in Canada after he tried to scam a restaurateur by claiming a
cherry pit broke his expensive dental work. 
Joseph Stroup, 64, who owes $560,000 in unpaid child support, demanded
Scott Winograd, the owner of the Bears Den in Calgary pay for his dental work
damage. Instead Winograd googled Stoup’s name, learned there was a warrant out
for his arrest and called police.

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