Another danger of being drunk in public.

This 26 yr old man from Denver was arrested in St. Paul after he pulled the head off of one of the hotels tame ducks because he was hungry. (see story) Security guards and other hotel visitors were watching as this occurred. The fact that this young man now faces charges is no surprise. However, the Humane Society brought up that the hotel should reconsider having ducks in the lobby; for their safety. The words in the article were pretty harsh. And yet there was little to no mention of the ducks living conditions. (more…)

I am sure you remember the original story - it started in March, 2005 when a diner at Wendy’s claimed to find a finger in her chili (see story). The story progressed as the unfortunate diner filed a lawsuit against Wendy’s and then dropped the lawsuit less than three weeks later. As the investigation continued it came out that the diner, Anna Ayala, and her husband concocted the entire story using a finger of a friend that was cut off in an accident. Anna and her husband were given nine year sentences for the scam.

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This is another one of those wonderful stories that will float around in email forwards. A young man used his cell phone to text message a friend. The number had been re-assigned to a state trooper. Normally, this would be no big deal - simply a case of a wrong number. The scenario changes however when you are asking your friend to buy reefer. (See story) (more…)

Okay!  If this one does not end up in one of those email forward for stupidest things - I don’t know what will.  An Arkansas man walked past a uniformed officer three times before handing the bank teller a hold-up note.  (see entire story here)  Hello!  Was he blind? (more…)

According to the AP Press (see article here), a 47 year old man has kidnapped and/or threatened to kidnap his mother’s cat. Over the course of a year he has extorted around $20,000 from his mother with this ploy. Makes a person wonder what has happened to parental respect. (more…)