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ALABAMA: Coronavirus Hi-Jinks? It has been reported that attorneys for a county sheriff sought to delay his trial for theft by an untruthful claim that he was being tested for the coronavirus on a Monday in March 2020. The judge in the case criticized the false and panic-inducing claim made by attorneys for Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely, 69. The attorneys said they were mistaken about the sheriff’s respiratory woes and not “trying to pull…
MISSOURI: She screams for ice cream! A St. Louis woman went into a rage when hamburger restaurant employees told her they had run out of chocolate ice cream and only had vanilla. She spat on the employees and smashed windows with a baseball bat, police said. It has been reported that police are still looking for the woman who fled the Rally’s Hamburgers. UNITED KINGDOM: How to get potholes filled!  Residents of the English town …
TENNESSEE: Butt-dialer trouble? A woman is suing her boyfriend for $1 million because he accidentally phoned, her while graphically narrating his sexual encounter with a man. The lady says she suffered emotional distress when he unwittingly subjected her to the call – which she reportedly listened to for 88 minutes. UNITED KINGDOM: The headline read, “These doctors should not have made the cut.” An English hospital patient, in for a routine procedure, awoke to learn…
JAPAN: “The thief did not use his noodle,” read the headline. A burglar who broke into a ramen shop left the cash and instead made off with 130 soft-boiled eggs. The shop had to close for a day while it replaced the lost eggs. Five other restaurants on the Tokyo block were burglarized that same night – however, this time the thief took a total of $90 in cash. MARYLAND: Birdbrain? A man is wanted…
INDIANA: Porn Stash Suit. It has been reported that a man is suing his parents for throwing out his massive porn collection. The 40-year-old whose name has been withheld by news outlets, filed the suit seeking damages of $86,822.16 after his parents trashed 12 moving boxes worth of smut, including titles such as Frisky Business and Big Bad Grannies. AUSTRALIA: Sea Flee?  A drug suspect’s getaway attempted was foiled when he tried to flee Australia…
MINNESOTA: A real “road hog” at the wheel? We learn that a distracted driver had a great excuse for “hogging” the road – a 250-pound pig was sitting in his lap. The unidentified man was pulled over in Chicago County after he swerved into another lane. An officer spotted the pig leaning against the steering wheel. Another pig was in the back seat. The driver said he didn’t want his pets to get cold in…
NEW YORK CITY: 10 years for kiddie porn dentist. A dentist who admitted to pedaling child pornography and exchanging root canals for meth was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court in late-March 2019. John W. Wolf, 62, who was arrested with a flash drive containing porn videos of children between ages 5 and 13, took a plea deal. He faced up to 60 years in prison if convicted at trial. At his sentencing he admitted to…
MARYLAND: It was just honey, honey. A man locked up for almost three months over a mistaken case of meth-laced honey now plans to sue, his lawyer contends. Leon Hampton, 46, a citizen from Jamaica was travelling back from the island when customs agents in Baltimore drug-tested three bottles of bee sugar in his luggage, which yielded a false positive. A lab test later revealed it was just honey. ARIZONA: What a crazy way to…
LOUSISANA: BALLS?  We learn that a Florida woman bit the testicles of a camel to free herself after the beast sat on top of her. The showdown between the unidentified woman and Casper the camel, a roadside attraction, happened in September 2019 at a truck stop in Louisiana, after she crawled into its pen to retrieve her dog. Police said the woman had proved the camel. FLORIDA: Tomato Brawl? A teenager allegedly assaulted and threatened…
NEW YORK: “Suspended Judge dead” – read the headline. Here’s the rest of the story. The obituary stated that an obese Westchester judge who was suspended for using her courtroom trash can as toilet has died, court files show. White Plains City Court Judge Elizabeth Shollenberger passed away in September 2019, at the age of 63. Judge Shollenberg, who suffered from an array of ailments, including hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and gastrointestinal issues, sued…