A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead. Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed.
Local newspapers reported on Thursday that an 11 year old boy, Gabriel Almeida, was playing in his uncle's backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte when a pit bull named Tita lunged at him and bit him in the left arm. Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back — biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth.
The Belgium news agency Belga reported in November that
a man suspected of robbing a jewelry store in Liege said
he couldn't have done it because he was busy breaking into
a school at the same time. Police then arrested him for
breaking into the school.
The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a
Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 8:50am flashed a gun and demanded cash.
The clerk tuned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register
without a food order.
When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available
for breakfast.
The man, frustrated, walked away.
A man walked into a 7-11, put a $20 bill on the counter and asked for change.
When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for
all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided.
The man took the cash from the clerk and fled--leaving the $20 bill
on the counter.
The total amount of cash he got from the drawer? Fifteen dollars.
45 year-old Amy Brasher was arrested in San Antonio, Texas,
after a mechanic reported to police that 18 packages of
marijuana were packed in the engine compartment of the car
which she had brought to the mechanic for an oil change.
According to police, Brasher later said that she didn't
realize that the mechanic would have to raise the hood to
change the oil.
