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Bizarre News - March 4, 2015
Greetings fellow Bizarros:What's more important; a 60-inch flat screen TV or your 5-year-old son? Before you answer! Did I tell you the TV is free? Well, it's free as long as you're willing to drive away and leave your 5-year-old bouncing down the street behind you.
Since you're reading this story in Bizarre News I think you can guess how things turn out.
Police say Lisa Degerolamo and Daniel McLaughlin, both 29, went to a Wal-Mart in Falmouth, Massachusetts and stole a 60-inch flat screen TV, but as they were loading it into their SUV, a man and his wife noticed them.
They also saw a young boy in a car seat in the back.
Now, the story gets a little fuzzy about how the couple managed to stroll out of a Wal-Mart carrying a stolen 60-inch TV between them, but the witness did detail how the flat screen would not fit in the back seat and Mr. McLaughlin's attempt to wedge the door shut by wrapping a towel around it.
An attempt that failed, because the witness said that as soon as they took off and sped around a corner, the door popped open and the boy "flew out of the car and hit his head off the concrete."
That didn't even slow down the driver, Lisa Degerolamo, who sped away.
The witness and his wife rushed to comfort the 5-year-old, and while they were sitting in the street Degerolamo swung back around to pick up the boy, who she probably assumed had stopped bouncing by that time.
It didn't take long for police to find the couple and arrest them at their home. The child is now in the custody of the Department of Children and Families and Degerolamo and McLaughlin were each ordered held on $2,500 bail, which is not much more than a 60-inch flat screen would have cost if they were to have bought one.
My only real question is...how in the hell did they walk out of the door with a stolen 60-inch TV?
Bizarrely,
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Email Lewis*-- Long Island man busted for using wooden dummy in carpool lane --*DIX HILL, N.Y. (UPI) - A New York state police officer said he pulled a car over for speeding in a carpool lane and discovered the passenger was a wooden dummy in a hooded sweatshirt. Suffolk County Highway Patrol Officer Jonathan Abrams said he spotted a car speeding in the high-occupancy vehicle lane on the Long Island Expressway in Dix Hill about 6:30 a.m. Friday. Abrams pulled over James Campbell, 56, and quickly "realized that the front seat passenger wasn't human," the officer told WABC-TV. "I was trying not to laugh at the guy because I thought it was quite silly," Abrams told WNBC-TV. Abrams said Campbell told him he was using the dummy so he could take the HOV lane and be on time for his new job. Campbell said he has been using the dummy to travel in HOV lanes "for months." He said being cited for speeding and an occupancy violation has not changed his habits -- Campbell said he used the dummy to drive in the HOV lane on his way home Friday.
*-- Alcoholic Russian bears may get rehab help in Romania --*SOCHI, Russia (UPI) - A pair of Russian bears purported to have become alcoholics from living outside a Sochi restaurant for 20 years are being offered rehab in Romania. The Big Hearts Foundation said the two male bears, which a February court ruling ordered to be seized from the owner of the Georgian restaurant in Sochi on March 3, have been offered a new home at a bear sanctuary outside Brasov, Romania, where officials said the animals would be treated for alcohol addiction. "The people there have worked with dancing bears who had similar problems," Anna Kogan, head of the Big Hearts Foundation, told the BBC. "It can be done." The Big Hearts Foundation, based in Britain, is working with charities, including France's Brigitte Bardot Foundation, to secure transport for the animals. Kogan said the charities are seeking help with the logistics of the bears' move. "It's a very expensive process to move them abroad," Kogan said. Sergei Zenkov of the Russian Nature Ministry said the agency would support moving the Sochi bears to the Romanian sanctuary, but the animal rights charities would be responsible for taking care of the necessary paperwork. The Big Hearts Foundation said the bears "drowned in beer" at the restaurant for 20 years, as patrons would frequently pass drinks to the animals. The owner of the restaurant said "beer is good for the bears because of the Sochi climate." "There are drunken people who come to the restaurant, park their cars in front of the bears and throw things to the animals so that they get drunk and behave funnily. They are held in cages -- and have been blinded by the car lights," Kogan told The Independent.
*-- READER COMMENTS --*Lewis, As much as I love the bizarre I love it that you picked this story because there have been other times in history that books and other important things, not necessarily artifacts, but still important materials have been destoryed in the name of religion. It is nice to see you do a serious story. Book burnings and the destruction of history is no laughing matter. Thank you for supporting intelligence and knowledge. -S. Dunn
Did you quit your job? Maybe piss someone off and your on admistrative leave? It's not the same with pretend Lewis. -Patricia
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Are you kidding? No one else is stupid enough to do this job.]
If the town only has 4 streets, why do they need a bus stop?
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There has to be someplace where you can catch a ride the hell out of there.]
Dear Lewis; Isis is one of the examples of how far human existence has actually progressed. All through known history there have been evil people who want to return to the beginning of time to start over again. Isis is a prime example of these pieces of human feces. -Mike
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Starting over from the beginning wouldn't be a bad thing, if things ever got any better, but it seems like they never do.]
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