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Thief Returns Stolen 100lb Pumpkin to Boy

Along with note of apology

(Newser) - A 9-year-old Pennsylvania boy got his huge pumpkin returned to him yesterday by an apologetic, if anonymous, thief. Jaiden Newcomer won the pumpkin at a festival when he guessed how much it weighed (100 pounds, according to the York Daily Record ), and the behemoth required four adults and a...

Woman Asked Us to Help Kill Her Husband: Cops

Then offered an undercover officer $30K and a shotgun to do the deed

(Newser) - Pro tip: When looking for a hit man, don't ask cops to hook you up. A woman in Boynton Beach, Fla., has been arrested after police say she hired an undercover agent posing as a hit man to kill her husband and a friend, the Palm Beach Post reports....

Purse Snatcher Foiled by Boy, 8
 Purse Snatcher Foiled by Boy, 8 
Oct 19, 2013 2:24 PM CDT

Purse Snatcher Foiled by Boy, 8

Jose Alonso manages to get mom's wallet back

(Newser) - A would-be purse snatcher in Houston didn't know who he was dealing with. When 8-year-old Jose Alonso's mom left him and his sister in their SUV while she went inside a gas station Thursday, another SUV pulled up and a man opened the Alonsos' door and grabbed Jose'...

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week
 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week 
Oct 18, 2013 8:18 AM CDT

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

An Arkansas man was killed in Chicago ... after stopping to ask for directions

(Newser) - This week: An out-of-town traveler gets a deadly reception in Chicago, and an alleged shoplifter is found to have something incredibly grisly in her bag.
  1. Guy Asks for Directions, Is Shot Dead : An Arkansas man who police say got lost driving around Chicago was shot and killed yesterday, apparently by
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Michael Bay Fights Off Guy Wielding... Air Conditioner

Bizarre attack took place in China

(Newser) - Michael Bay's own rep calls it "bizarre": While filming the latest Transformers flick in China today, the director had what the rep describes as "a bizarre encounter with a man (allegedly under the influence of a narcotic substance) who was wielding an air conditioning unit as a...

Cops Bust Woman for Swiping $2.87 From Fountain

Deidre Romine is jobless, says money doesn't belong to anyone

(Newser) - A western Ohio woman charged with petty theft for allegedly stealing $2.87 from a courthouse fountain says she is jobless and took the change to buy food. WBNS-TV in Columbus reports that the woman pleaded not guilty yesterday. A police report alleges she stole the change Oct. 7 from...

Cal Ripken Jr.'s Mom Cannot Catch a Break

Vi Ripken fends off carjacker a year after being abducted

(Newser) - Cal Ripken Jr.'s mom is apparently a magnet for bizarre crimes. Last year she was abducted at gunpoint and later found safe, and yesterday, someone tried to steal her car. Vi Ripken was outside a bank when the gun-toting would-be carjacker approached her and stated his intentions, the...

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week
 5 Craziest Crimes
of the Week 
Oct 11, 2013 12:18 PM CDT

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

A drug mule old enough to know better and 2 rabbis make the cut

(Newser) - Three unlikely characters—an elderly drug mule and two Orthodox rabbis—made the headlines in a bad way this week:
  • 89-Year-Old Drug Mule Pleads Guilty : Leo Sharp was your typical 80-something retiree, splitting time between his place in Indiana and a property in Florida where he grew his beloved lilies.
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Clerk With Machete Chases Off Armed Robber

NY worker wouldn't back down despite warning shot

(Newser) - In a move police strongly recommend others don't try to emulate, a machete-wielding clerk chased a would-be armed robber out of a Long Island deli—even after the suspect fired a warning shot from his handgun. Surveillance video captured the clerk pulling out the machete after the masked man...

Guy Crushed to Death by His Own Marijuana


 Guy Crushed to Death 
 by His Own Marijuana 
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Oct 6, 2013 10:44 AM CDT

Guy Crushed to Death by His Own Marijuana

Drug smuggler had half a ton in his backseat, crashed car

(Newser) - Very important lesson for drug traffickers: Do not store your half-ton of weed in the backseat of your car. A Brazilian drug smuggler did just that, police say, and the man was killed when he crashed into a tree while being chased by police ... because the 1,100 pounds of...

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Don't mess with a fencing coach

(Newser) - A crime-fighting fencer and a bizarre cold case involving decades-old murders make the cut:
  • Fencing Coach Foils Crime as Only a Fencing Coach Can : Two Nashville robbers had the misfortune to try to steal a purse in a shopping center parking lot just as Franco Scaramuzza pulled in. That's
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Inmate Plotted Murder ... via Paper Airplane: Cops

Sent note to fellow inmate, who turned him over to police

(Newser) - A Long Island man accused of rape will now also be charged with conspiracy to murder after what police say was a plot hatched using, well, paper airplanes. Patrick O'Sullivan, 21, had hoped to kill his alleged victim and a witness, police say, and offered a fellow inmate $23,...

Fencing Coach Foils Crime as Only a Fencing Coach Can

Tennessee man chases off robbers with sword

(Newser) - Two Nashville robbers had the misfortune to try to steal a purse in a shopping center parking lot just as Franco Scaramuzza pulled in. That's because Scaramuzza is a fencing coach who had just left practice and still had his equipment with him, reports WSMV . What results is explained...

Cops: Drug Dealer Accidentally Texts Police

An arrest soon follows in New Jersey

(Newser) - A detective in New Jersey's Andover Township got a strange text on his new cell phone: Hey, it asked, want to buy a quarter-pound of pot? Well, sure, replied the detective, who then set up a rendezvous. The would-be seller smelled a rat upon arrival and fled, but police...

Shop Owner Kills Would-Be Thief—Over 2 Cases of Beer

Cops charge Rodney Duve with murder, say he shot gang member

(Newser) - A Texas store owner who police say shot an alleged beer thief Saturday night has been charged with murder, KRIS TV reports. Police say Rodney Duve, 51, shot the 39-year-old man—a known gang member, KZTV reports—in the doorway of his Corpus Christi store as the man attempted to...

Teenage 'LSD Party' Ends Really, Really Badly

How badly? Well, a blood-covered boy attacked paramedics, for one

(Newser) - There are destructive teen parties where kids punch holes in the walls ... and then there are ones like the one that was broken up in Mill Valley, California, on Sunday morning. It sounds, quite frankly, nuts: Paramedics showed up at the house around 7:30am in response to reports of...

Man Hijacks Ambulance —With Patient Inside

No one hurt in bizarre incident

(Newser) - Let's say traffic is backed up on the highway, and you're a gun-toting would-be carjacker in a hurry. What car do you grab? If you're a quick thinker like Brian Timothy Kada Jr., you carjack an ambulance and make everyone get out of your way. That's...

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week
 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week 
Sep 27, 2013 8:12 AM CDT

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

OJ Simpson won't be denied his midnight snack

(Newser) - OJ Simpson's sweet tooth and an ill-advised move at a DUI checkpoint make the cut this week:
  • OJ's New Crime: Cookie Theft? OJ Simpson has reportedly managed to get himself in trouble again—from behind bars. After lunch, guards spotted the former football star, in a Nevada jail
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What Not to Do at DUI Checkpoint: Bark at Police Dog

It won't help your chances, and it's a felony

(Newser) - Another life lesson from the police blotter: A 26-year-old man who got stopped at a sobriety checkpoint in Pennsylvania thought it would be a good idea to start barking and growling at a police dog named Chaos, reports TribLive . Chaos started barking back, though his handler managed to keep him...

Wife Pleads Guilty in 'Telepathic' Rape Case

She got husband to shoot their neighbor

(Newser) - A sad, strange case out of Utah, where a husband and wife have each used a mental illness defense in the shooting of their neighbor. Meloney and Michael Selleneit, both 55, became convinced that the neighbor was raping Meloney "telepathically" and controlling her mind, reports the Salt Lake Tribune...

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