Strange News

[Homer]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman left her friend as a deposit at a gas station because she did not have enough cash to pay for her petrol, police said Wednesday.

"She didn't have enough money to pay the bill, so her friend stayed behind as a human deposit while she went to withdraw cash," said a spokesman for police in the southern town of Muenchberg. "Unfortunately, the woman did not return."

Two hours after the 20-year-old driver left, the gas station called the police, who interrogated the stranded "deposit" before releasing her. Police are investigating the driver on suspicion of fraud.  ;:"

[Gecko]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman left her friend as a deposit at a gas station because she did not have enough cash to pay for her petrol, police said Wednesday.

"She didn't have enough money to pay the bill, so her friend stayed behind as a human deposit while she went to withdraw cash," said a spokesman for police in the southern town of Muenchberg. "Unfortunately, the woman did not return."

Two hours after the 20-year-old driver left, the gas station called the police, who interrogated the stranded "deposit" before releasing her. Police are investigating the driver on suspicion of fraud.  ;:"

homer shame on you did you go back and  pick up the lovely Tara    :)) :))    reminds me of a song thats what friends are for    :)) :))

[SaintHiρρo]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman left her friend as a deposit at a gas station because she did not have enough cash to pay for her petrol, police said Wednesday.

"She didn't have enough money to pay the bill, so her friend stayed behind as a human deposit while she went to withdraw cash," said a spokesman for police in the southern town of Muenchberg. "Unfortunately, the woman did not return."

Two hours after the 20-year-old driver left, the gas station called the police, who interrogated the stranded "deposit" before releasing her. Police are investigating the driver on suspicion of fraud.  ;:"

ROFL, I didn't read all of it when I started to imagine what exactly the payment was going to be. It was very funny but not PG-13 so I can't say it. However, I'm sure y'all know exactly what I was thinking. Now that I've read it all, it's a friendly reminder that friends aren't forever!

[hades]

lmao.thats where she is  :))

[SouthPadreIsland]

My mom ran out of gas one time when we were young and she left my little brother as a deposit for the gas can.  The attendant gave him candy - unfortunately for me, she came back for my brother.  LMAO...never heard of anyone else leaving a human as a deposit.  Too funny. :)) :)) :))

[Homer]

CANTON, N.Y. - A man was charged with burglary and criminal mischief Thursday after he allegedly broke into a funeral home and fell asleep in a coffin.

Joel Fish, 20, of Queensbury, was arrested after he was discovered at the O'Leary Funeral Home in Canton, 127 miles north of Syracuse.

Debra White, wife of the home's funeral director Joe White, said she noticed a broken window and open door to the casket display room when she awoke at 6:30 a.m. Inside, she saw a boot and pair of pants on the floor and a pair of knees sticking out of a stainless steel coffin.

Fish, who police said was intoxicated, was treated at Canton-Potsdam hospital for cuts. He was arraigned and released to return to court at a later date.

The funeral home estimates the damage from the burglary, mostly to the coffin, at $4,000.

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Information from WWNYT, http://wwnytv.net/

[hades]

lmao...that was funny.but i wonder how he made that much in damages just for that

[Homer]

lmao...that was funny.but i wonder how he made that much in damages just for that

Maybe he soiled it?  :o

[bubblegum]

I have some strange news of my own.

Government in Action

The board of zoning appeals in Anderson Township, Ohio, turned down a couple's request to build a cedar fence around their yard even though the proposal was supported by neighbors and another municipal agency. Angry, according to an April Cincinnati Enquirer report, the couple instead set up over 30 brigh neon colored donated toilets as flower pots in the fenceless yard. Even though the zoning board can deny their request to build a fence, local laws phorbit the township from ordering the couple to remove the toliets.

The newly installed municipal sewer system in the Florida Keys town of Islamorada is scheduled to go on line later this month, but the real test will come shortly after that if the town cannot hook up enough of the residents in time to allow the system full, efficient functioning. The fallback plan, according to the town government, will require it to buy enough out-of-town sewage to boost the weak flow that would be running through the system.

To free up soldiers, the Army hires contractors to man the gates at 57 domestic installations, including Fort Bragg and West Point. In April, the Government Accountability Office announced that some of the contractors have hired an alarming number of convicted felons as security guards at said gates.

Least Competent People

In Red Deer, Alberta, in April, Jesse Maggrah, 20, listening through earphones to heavy-metal music while walking on Canadian Pacific Railway tracks, was hit from behind by a train moving at about 30 mph, but survived. In his hospital bed (broken ribs, punctured lung, other injuries), Maggrah said he remembers the immediate aftermath: "I thought, 'Holy crap, dude, you just got hit by a train. Maybe the metal gods above were smiling on me, and they didn't want one of their true warriors to die on them."

Benjamin Thornton, 20, was charged with impersonating a police officer and attempted kidnapping in Pearland, Texas, in April. And what did he do to find himself in this pickle? He tried to convince a 9-year-old girl that the school books in her backback and her homework could not legally be held by anyone waiting for a school bus. The girl was too smart for him.

[Homer]

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Family visits in Sao Paulo prisons only take place once a week but jailed Brazilian gangsters chat on their contraband cell phones every day.

Smuggled cell phones are used to keep in contact with families but also to direct criminal operations outside the penitentiary walls -- such as the gangster offensive unleashed in Sao Paulo in the past week.

Godofredo Bittencourt, chief of the anti-organized crime police unit, said the mobile phone has become "deadlier than the gun" in Brazilian prisons.

The wives of two members of the First Command of the Capital (PCC) criminal gang said they had easy telephone contact with their imprisoned husbands until a few days ago.

"Normally they call, a number appears and we know it's from the inside," said one of the women, a 32-year-old, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity.

Her husband has spent 12 years behind bars for robbery and murder. She and the other woman, 18, who has the photo of her jailed husband on her mobile phone screen, visit their spouses weekly.

"How often do I speak to him? Every day," she said.

The prison is a maximum-security penitentiary and cell phones are banned.

But PCC leaders in prison used mobile phones to give the orders for a wave of attacks in Sao Paulo city and state in which about 150 people have been killed since last Friday.

Police said the gang ordered the attacks in retaliation for the transfer of jailed gang leaders and members to a remote high-security prison. Related uprisings broke out in dozens of prisons across the state to demand better conditions.

PRISONERS DON'T CHARGE

Among the rules imposed by the PCC in Sao Paulo state prisons is one that regulates communications. A prisoner who has a cell phone can never charge another for the phone use.

Sao Paulo state Penitentiary Administration Secretary Nagashi Furukawa acknowledged this week that the state has problems controlling the flow of cellular phones into prisons.

Phones are delivered to prisoners by visiting relatives, corrupt prison officials or inside service trucks.

Wednesday, the authorities ordered mobile phone operating companies to cut the signal in six state prisons.

According to the Pastoral Carceraria human rights group, the PCC controls practically all the 140 penitentiaries in Brazil's biggest state.

The PCC watches over low-income families of its members, the two women said.

"They give medicines to those who need medicines. Many things that people need and the government doesn't do, they do. They even pay for funerals," said the younger woman, whose husband is serving a 13-year sentence for robbery and murder.

It also helped out with food baskets and provided buses to take relatives to prison visits, she said.

They said the PCC wanted to improve general prison conditions when it ordered the attacks.

"It doesn't want things to get worse, doesn't want turmoil or the end of the world," the younger woman said.

[Gecko]

lmao...that was funny.but i wonder how he made that much in damages just for that

Maybe he soiled it?  :o

or was dead tired   :))  :))  :))

[Homer]

BOSTON (Reuters) - The word "boom" found scrawled in the bathroom of a US Airways airplane during a flight from Washington DC to Boston caused a brief bomb scare on Thursday.

Massachusetts state police with bomb-sniffing dogs swept flight 2024 after it landed in Boston's Logan International Airport but found no explosives, said Ann Davis, a spokeswoman at the federal Transportation Security Administration, or     TSA.

"The pilot and command called ahead and notified TSA and the Massachusetts state police who met the aircraft and ultimately swept the aircraft using explosive detection canines," she said.

Davis said the writing was found by flight crew while the plane was in the air.

[Homer]

THAT'S ODD: Stolen credit card finds its way home


05/18/2006

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A Wal-Mart clerk noticed something familiar when a customer went through the checkout line -- a credit card from her own wallet, which had been stolen two days earlier, police said.

Ashley Dawn Dover repeatedly tried to pass a credit card through an electronic scanner at the store Tuesday to pay for $120 worth of merchandise, Police Chief James Allen said Wednesday.

Allen said the clerk then offered to try the card and noticed it was her own.

"The clerk looks up at her and says 'This is my stuff and I want it back,"' Allen said. "The suspect reaches in her purse, hands everything over and then runs out the door."

[bubblegum]

THAT'S ODD: Stolen credit card finds its way home


05/18/2006

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A Wal-Mart clerk noticed something familiar when a customer went through the checkout line -- a credit card from her own wallet, which had been stolen two days earlier, police said.

Ashley Dawn Dover repeatedly tried to pass a credit card through an electronic scanner at the store Tuesday to pay for $120 worth of merchandise, Police Chief James Allen said Wednesday.

Allen said the clerk then offered to try the card and noticed it was her own.

"The clerk looks up at her and says 'This is my stuff and I want it back,"' Allen said. "The suspect reaches in her purse, hands everything over and then runs out the door."

okely dokley then....

[Tara]

THAT'S ODD: Stolen credit card finds its way home


05/18/2006

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A Wal-Mart clerk noticed something familiar when a customer went through the checkout line -- a credit card from her own wallet, which had been stolen two days earlier, police said.

Ashley Dawn Dover repeatedly tried to pass a credit card through an electronic scanner at the store Tuesday to pay for $120 worth of merchandise, Police Chief James Allen said Wednesday.

Allen said the clerk then offered to try the card and noticed it was her own.

"The clerk looks up at her and says 'This is my stuff and I want it back,"' Allen said. "The suspect reaches in her purse, hands everything over and then runs out the door."

LOL I'm laughing because she said the word stuff...Country azz

That is weird though.

[Homer]

THAT'S ODD: Stolen credit card finds its way home


05/18/2006

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A Wal-Mart clerk noticed something familiar when a customer went through the checkout line -- a credit card from her own wallet, which had been stolen two days earlier, police said.

Ashley Dawn Dover repeatedly tried to pass a credit card through an electronic scanner at the store Tuesday to pay for $120 worth of merchandise, Police Chief James Allen said Wednesday.

Allen said the clerk then offered to try the card and noticed it was her own.

"The clerk looks up at her and says 'This is my stuff and I want it back,"' Allen said. "The suspect reaches in her purse, hands everything over and then runs out the door."

LOL I'm laughing because she said the word stuff...Country azz

That is weird though.

Does that mean you get to charge $29.99 to her credit card? :P

[Tara]

THAT'S ODD: Stolen credit card finds its way home


05/18/2006

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A Wal-Mart clerk noticed something familiar when a customer went through the checkout line -- a credit card from her own wallet, which had been stolen two days earlier, police said.

Ashley Dawn Dover repeatedly tried to pass a credit card through an electronic scanner at the store Tuesday to pay for $120 worth of merchandise, Police Chief James Allen said Wednesday.

Allen said the clerk then offered to try the card and noticed it was her own.

"The clerk looks up at her and says 'This is my stuff and I want it back,"' Allen said. "The suspect reaches in her purse, hands everything over and then runs out the door."

LOL I'm laughing because she said the word stuff...Country azz

That is weird though.

Does that mean you get to charge $29.99 to her credit card? :P

I might as well, everyone else has been charging to it... :)) :))

[bubblegum]

another one from least compent people file

(17 April 2006, England) There's always someone who thinks that good advice doesn't apply to them. For example, if advised by a doctor that you are to be covered wtih a flammable material, and the one thing you must not do is go near a naked flame, most people would be able to take this advice onboard, and not strike a match until the flammable material smeared on your body had been taken off.

However, Phillip, 60, decided he knew better. He was in hospital for the treatment of a skin disease, which consisted of being covered with a paraffin-based cream. He was warned that the cream was flammable and that he definitely shouldn't smoke. But Phillip couldn't live without his cigarettes.

Smoking was not permitted in the ward, but Phillip took this setback in stride, and sneaked out onto a fire escape. Once he was in his little hiding place, he lit up... ahh. Everything went well as he got his nicotine fix; things went downhill only after he finished his cigarette, and ground out the butt with his heel.

Unfortunately, the paraffin skin cream had been absorbed by his clothing. As he stamped out the butt, it lit the fumes coming off his clothing. The resulting inferno treated his skin ailment, and left him with second and third-degree burns over 70% of his body. Despite excellent emergency treatment, he died in the intensive care unit.

[Tara]

another one from least compent people file

(17 April 2006, England) There's always someone who thinks that good advice doesn't apply to them. For example, if advised by a doctor that you are to be covered wtih a flammable material, and the one thing you must not do is go near a naked flame, most people would be able to take this advice onboard, and not strike a match until the flammable material smeared on your body had been taken off.

However, Phillip, 60, decided he knew better. He was in hospital for the treatment of a skin disease, which consisted of being covered with a paraffin-based cream. He was warned that the cream was flammable and that he definitely shouldn't smoke. But Phillip couldn't live without his cigarettes.

Smoking was not permitted in the ward, but Phillip took this setback in stride, and sneaked out onto a fire escape. Once he was in his little hiding place, he lit up... ahh. Everything went well as he got his nicotine fix; things went downhill only after he finished his cigarette, and ground out the butt with his heel.

Unfortunately, the paraffin skin cream had been absorbed by his clothing. As he stamped out the butt, it lit the fumes coming off his clothing. The resulting inferno treated his skin ailment, and left him with second and third-degree burns over 70% of his body. Despite excellent emergency treatment, he died in the intensive care unit.

Dang, Thats sad

[krispy]

out of curiosity, why is the word "stuff" so maligned?