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A man who brought a small zebra and parrot with him into a bar called the Dog House was later arrested for drunk driving. Police found the two animals in the truck of his vehicle. Reiter says the zebra and macaw parrot are pets and like rid
A pair of fraud Romanian fortune tellers have been busted for the oldest tricks in the rankable page index: Googling information on their clients. The two made a living allegedly selling “the future” to customers by pearing into a crystal b
A rogue shopper assaulted several with a replica light saber on Wednesday at an Oregon Toys R Us. After being chased into the parking lot and fending off responding officers with his trusty weapon, police decided to employ a taser. However,
A squirrel has been busted for sneakily setting off a fire alarm after footage was reviewed by school officials. The squirrel had been living in the cafeteria, but after this little stunt it was captured and kicked out. “The squirrel was ev
What’s that? The muffled whisper in the cool British night? If you are a metal thief, ripping apart a track so you can sell the scrap for drug money, it’s the sound of justice. Police are employing “ghost trains” rail cars with the lights d
Phoenix Jones prowls the streets at night, keeping things safe for the citizens of Seattle. But today he finds himself on the other end of the law, accused of needlessly pepper spraying a pack of late-night revelers who may press charges ag
We’ve talked about them on the Weird Things podcast and they ended every episode of Weird Things TV, but if you’re curious about the history of number stations (the creepy repetitive voices, transmitted on low power radio that repeat the sa
A man dressed up like the crime fighter was busted by police while hanging from the wall of a downtown business. No word yet what he was actually trying to accomplish. In a release, the Petoskey Department of Public Safety said officers pul
A power struggle between Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has led the latter to arrest many of the former’s top allies on charges of “sorcery.” Several people said to be close to the president a
Officials in Mishima City, Japan have reported that a terrorist monkey, known as “Lucky”, has escaped during a cage cleaning and has left the government-run nature park where it was being held. Lucky is most widely known for biting nearly 1
The question of how the law should hand real life super heroes is a very interesting one. On one hand, they are mostly well-intentioned citizens who deter crime in a neighborhood. After all, if you were going to mug someone would you want t
One movie. Five people, living or dead, at the screening. Who and why? Today’s screening: “eXistenZ” An indispensible entry in the mid-‘90s oeuvre of sci-fi mind-ef cinema, David Cronenberg’s “eXistenZ,” a pseudo update of his 1986 opus “Vi
We were saddened today to find out from Cryptomundo that Chris Davis, the originator of the South Carolina Lizard Man legend was shot to death at his home in a drug related incident. According to Davis’ reports: on June 29, 1988 he was chan