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Stop Staring at Me: 5 Craziest Crimes of Week

Including a bizarre break-in and a ridiculous lawsuit

(Newser) - A detained dad with someplace to be and a would-be burglar who made himself at home play a role in the weirdest crime stories of the week:
  • Famous Impostor Charged With Being an Impostor : Police say a Detroit-area impostor who inspired a 1989 award-winning film was posing like someone else—
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Curious Guy Shoots Own Foot
 Curious Guy Shoots Own Foot  
Jun 12, 2015 3:21 AM CDT

Curious Guy Shoots Own Foot

Colorado man wanted to know what it felt like

(Newser) - Being incredibly stupid is not a crime in Colorado—but reckless endangerment is, and a man named Adam Hirtle was charged with it after telling cops he shot himself in the foot to find out what it felt like. A police spokesman tells the Denver Post that when officers went...

Woman Makes Ill-Advised 911 Call, Gets Arrested

Telling the cops about your drug deal gone wrong: not a good idea

(Newser) - Authorities say a South Florida woman who called 911 to report that she was getting stiffed in a drug deal ended up reporting on herself: She now faces charges including drug possession. The Broward Sheriff's Office reports that 19-year-old Daneshia Heller told a 911 operator Tuesday that she went...

Cops: Mom Leaves Kids in Hot Car While in Court for Same Thing

2 children are fine, but their mother is in even more trouble

(Newser) - A Virginia mother left her two young kids in a hot car with the windows rolled up while she made an appearance at the Henrico County Courthouse this week, say police. The harder-to-fathom part is that she was appearing in court over allegations that she had done almost the same...

Man Sues Actress for Staring at Him Through TV

Frivolous lawsuit takes advantage of lax new law in China

(Newser) - Zhao Wei, one of China's most famous actors, has an intense stare in her role as domineering matriarch in the TV show Tiger Mom. In fact, she's so intense that a viewer is now suing her, claiming he has suffered "spiritual damage" from the evil eye she'...

Charges Dropped for Family Who Cheered at Graduation

Senatobia superintendent backtracks, relatives still upset

(Newser) - A Mississippi superintendent has had a change of heart after filing charges against family members who cheered at a high school graduation in Senatobia in May. Jay Foster, who had told attendees to hold their applause until the end of the ceremony, dropped the charges of disturbing the peace yesterday,...

Arrested Man Goes to Extremes to Try to Make Son's Party

Prosecutors say Lashon Stuckey chewed through his seat belt

(Newser) - An odd story out of Chicago: Prosecutors say a 33-year-old didn't just chew his way through a police car's seat belt—they allege Lashon Stuckey did so in an attempt to make it to his son’s birthday party. Stuckey was picked up last Monday after police say...

Cops: Would-Be Burglar Baked Potato, Raked Leaves

Criminal mastermind was hungry, unexpectedly helpful

(Newser) - A New Mexico man is facing charges after police say he walked into an unlocked home, stole car keys, and stunned a resident who found him baking a potato and raking leaves. Patrick Lynn Waits, 45, was arrested early Tuesday following a bizarre chain of events that confused residents of...

Man Loses $714K to Fortune Teller
Man Loses $714K
to Fortune Teller
Jun 6, 2015 9:59 AM CDT

Man Loses $714K to Fortune Teller

Over a broken heart

(Newser) - Last year, cops in Manhattan say a fortune teller scammed a woman out of $217,000 on the pretext of getting a curse removed. Seemed like a lot of money, until this guy: Over the course of 20 months, the broken-hearted 32-year-old shelled out a total of $713,975 to...

Cookie Baking Gone Wrong: 5 Craziest Crimes of Week

Including an alleged criminal done in by his red boxers

(Newser) - Drunken baking and graduation cheers factor into the weirdest crime stories of the week:
  • Mom's Drunk Baking Ends in Her Arrest : Getting a little tipsy and making cookies could, in theory, be fun. But not so much if you get so drunk you fall asleep ... and your four kids
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DNA Analysis Proves It: Chili's Waiter Spit in Drink

Kept his job for months afterward

(Newser) - Vindictive servers beware: A Chili's restaurant and an ex-employee were hit with a lawsuit on Tuesday after DNA analysis proved the employee in question hawked a loogie in a man's cup. The incident occurred in July 2014, when Ken Yerdon and his wife had dinner at the restaurant'...

Mom's Drunk Baking Ends in Her Arrest

When you're so drunk you pass out and firefighters get called...

(Newser) - Getting a little tipsy and making cookies could, in theory, be fun. But not so much if you get so drunk you fall asleep ... and your four kids are in the apartment at the time ... and the smoke from the burning cookies sets off a fire alarm and causes a...

Relatives Face Arrest for Graduation Cheers

They violated 'peace and dignity' at Miss. ceremony

(Newser) - Senatobia Municipal School District Superintendent Jay Foster is apparently not a man who will tolerate being disobeyed—by anybody. Relatives attending a high school graduation ceremony in Senatobia, Miss., last month were ordered not to cheer until the end, and when four people cheered early, Foster didn't just kick...

19-Year-Old Drunk Set Up Own DUI Checkpoint: Cops

Told driver he 'should have read about it in the newspaper'

(Newser) - Apparently for Logan Shaulis, it's not a party until you're demanding to see license and registration from passing drivers. Police say the 19-year-old Pennsylvanian set up his own DUI checkpoint early Saturday, complete with flares, a BB gun, handcuffs, and a portable scanner, reports the Tribune-Democrat . The slight...

Burglary Suspect's Downfall: His Red Boxers

Officer spots teen wearing them, a match for those seen at crime

(Newser) - The strangest burglary arrest in a while: Newsday reports that a Long Island teenager got busted because of his red underwear. Police say that after Taykim Ross, 18, broke into an apartment, he made the mistake of stopping outside to try on a pair of stolen sneakers. As he did...

Woman Named 'Wale' Jailed for Loud Sex

Judge finds UK woman 'guilty of screaming and shouting' at 5am

(Newser) - A woman whose loud sex noises made her neighbors' lives misery has been jailed for waking them up one too many times. Gemma Wale of Birmingham, England, was sentenced to two weeks behind bars after a judge concluded she was "guilty of screaming and shouting whilst having sex at...

Gal Who Bailed on Cab Fare Ordered to Take Long Walk

Victoria Bascom pleads guilty, accepts unusual punishment

(Newser) - Make the punishment fit the crime, right? An Ohio woman accepted that very notion when she agreed to walk 30 miles after stiffing a cabbie who took her on a 30-mile taxi ride, the New York Daily News reports. "What would you do if you didn't have a...

Cops Called on Armed Mob Find Asparagus Pickers

"10 to 15 people armed with knives" turns out to be less ominous

(Newser) - Police in rural northeastern Germany rushed out to track down a reported mob of up to 15 people armed with knives and sticks. Instead, they found a group of asparagus harvesters. Police in the town of Ludwigslust said a man called their emergency number yesterday to report having seen "...

Pranks Gone Wrong: 5 Craziest Crimes of Week

Including an unwanted houseguest and a man named Bacon

(Newser) - The theft of an item we didn't know was in demand and two head-smacking senior pranks are among the weirdest crime stories of the week:
  • Senior Prank Involving 72K Ladybugs Ends Poorly : It's high school graduation time, meaning we're going to see a bunch of stories like
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Bizarre Theft: Cow Gallstones

They're used in alternative medicine

(Newser) - Do a quick scan for "cow gallstones" on the Alibaba website and you'll see that they're quite in demand, whether you want to buy them by the gram, kilogram, or ton. So a 38-year-old Australian man accused of stealing a whole bunch of them must have thought...

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