Reporting Daily Weirdness
June 27th, 2008 — MoronOfTheDay
SPOKANE — A man who was drinking with friends and playing with a handgun accidentally shot himself in the face in Spokane.
When someone expressed concern about the gun, the man attempted to prove it was unloaded by pointing it at his face and pulling the trigger.
The 42-year-old Spokane man is in critical condition.
June 26th, 2008 — MoronOfTheDay
TALLAHASSEE - It’s not uncommon for someone to make a dramatic exit in the middle of an argument, but the gesture should probably be avoided while travelling on the Interstate.
Marquita Cherrell Armstrong was a passenger in a car driven by Jeffery Dawayne Watson Tuesday when the two got into an argument on I-10 near Tallahassee. State troopers say Armstrong told Watson that she wanted to get out, but Watson refused to pull over in a construction zone. That’s when Armstrong opened the car door and jumped out.
Armstrong was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
June 25th, 2008 — MoronOfTheDay, crime
By Kurt Knapek Myrtle Beach police are searching for a man who borrowed a vehicle to buy crack cocaine then stole the car, according to a police report.
A woman told police she met the suspect in the parking lot of the Admiral Inn last week. After a 20-minute conversation, the victim allowed the suspect to take her 2008 Kia Spectra to buy crack cocaine, the report states.
The suspect told the victim he would give her some cocaine in exchange for letting him borrow the vehicle, the report states. The suspect told the victims he would return the car the following night but didn’t.
The victim told police that the suspect was from North Carolina and was accompanied by two prostitutes when he took the vehicle.
June 24th, 2008 — MoronOfTheDay, weird
Ripped from http://www.jalopnik.com/
Let’s say you’re out in the Italian countryside with your bestest, wealthy car collector buddy and he lets you behind the wheel of a $600,000 Mercedes McLaren SLR. Of course, being a douche, you’ll find it necessary to take a shot of yourself in front of said SLR posing in your most douche-like stance after you’ve just wrecked it into a pile of bricks. Yes, you are that guy. Seeing as this bright young chap’s “after” picture is readily photoshoppable, we believe it’s time to create a legend out of this d-bag — this — “SLR Guy.” Below you’ll find how you can help — as well as our own crack at showing off our newly-found P-shop skills.
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June 12th, 2008 — MoronOfTheDay, crime, sex
WHEN Corio man Benjamin Baker sent an obscene video of himself on his mobile phone, he didn’t count on his victim being at the police station when she received it.
The video not only provided police with a first-hand glimpse of what the stalker had been up to, but all the evidence they needed to charge him.
Baker, 27, of Princes Hwy, Corio, pleaded guilty in Geelong Magistrates’ Court yesterday to charges of stalking and using a telecommunications device to harrass.
Police Prosecutor, Senior Constable Seaton Lillas said that between January 1 and January 7 this year Baker repeatedly tried to phone the victim, but she kept missing the calls. Continue reading →
June 5th, 2008 — MoronOfTheDay, weird
A Hilton Head Island woman learned the hard way that a car with a cinder block for a seat should not be trusted.
Just after 9 a.m. Monday, the 51-year-old woman got in the stripped-down Nissan sedan and backed out of the driveway of her Oleander Street home, according to a Beaufort County sheriff’s report.
When she applied the brakes, she realized there were none — the car didn’t even have a brake pedal. So the woman jumped out, ran around back and tried to stop the car by pushing against it, the report stated.
The car continued to roll, pinning her against a palmetto tree.
A sheriff’s deputy happened to drive by within a couple of minutes and noticed the woman waving him down as she lay near the car on a bike path.
She was taken to the emergency room. Her son pushed the car back up the driveway.
The deputy described the vehicle as completely empty inside, except for the cinder block seat.
Source: http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/515384.html
June 5th, 2008 — MoronOfTheDay, crime
Police: Woman Altered $1 Million Lottery Ticket
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Police have charged an Asheville woman with trying to claim $1 million with an altered lottery ticket.
Michelle Ryans, 39, was arrested Tuesday night. She is charged with obtaining property by false pretense.According to the arrest warrant, Ryans used an altered Cash Spectacular lottery ticket to try to claim more than $1 million from the North Carolina Lottery on April 4.
Officials said Ryans cut and pasted numbers from non-winning tickets to match the winning number.Lottery officials said that the process for validating tickets is automatic and is based on barcodes, so the fraud was discovered immediately.Ryans is being held on a $5,000 bond at the Buncombe County jail.
May 26th, 2008 — MoronOfTheDay, weird
BERLIN — Authorities in southern Germany have taken custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, or about $1.60.
Police spokesman Peter Hieber says the baby was placed in the care of youth services in the southwestern Allgaeu region.
Hieber
said on Saturday that the mother told police the Internet ad was only a
joke. Authorities have begun an investigation into possible child
trafficking against the parents.
No offers were
made for the child in the two hours and 30 minutes the ad was posted.
The Internet auction site deleted the posting later.
Several people who saw the ad alerted police.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,357945,00.html
May 16th, 2008 — MoronOfTheDay
A SWISS man died when he fell from a hotel balcony during a spitting match with a friend, a Swiss newspaper has reported.
The daily Blick said the 29-year-old man took a run-up from inside the room so he could spit further, but lost his balance and plummeted 6.4m to the street below.
He died in hospital.
The man had suggested the contest when he and two friends returned from a disco to their hotel in Cadempino in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino canton in the early hours.
One of the men went to sleep, but the two others decided to see who could spit furthest from the balcony of their room.
souce http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23696546-5001028,00.html
May 5th, 2008 — MoronOfTheDay, crime
EUREKA, Calif. — Humboldt County authorities are holding a Eureka man with outstanding felony warrants in Virginia after he reported being robbed of marijuana and a shotgun.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested Daniel G. Jarrette, 21, early Wednesday after Jarrette and a women reported that three armed men had invaded their house, tied them up and locked them in a bathroom.
The victims said the suspects took 65 marijuana plants, two pounds of processed marijuana and four pounds of recently harvested marijuana along with the gun and some electronic equipment.
Humboldt officials said Jarrette has three outstanding felony warrants from Virginia for conspiracy to sell marijuana, larceny and money laundering.
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