Bizarre News - February 18, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

We all know what it feels like to be shut down by our partner or spouse when we are "in the mood" and our partner is not. Doesn't feel good.

Normal people bury their frustration and silently resent their partner until they get to either alcohol or Internet porn (or both). Not this South Carolina woman. 30-year-old Michelle Smart's frustration immediately came to the surface in the form of a vocal and animated argument.

Granted her boyfriend, 33-year-old Ryan Rucker, pushed her off of him and, according to Smart, punched and kicked her multiple times, which is not quite as judicious of a rejection as might have been called for, but the argument escalated dangerously when Smart told Rucker that she would shoot him because she has a gun.

Cops noted that Smart "continually was changing her story throughout the investigation," adding that, "For these reasons, Ms. Smart's account became less believable."

Smart, was judged the "primary aggressor" by cops, and was arrested for domestic violence since Rucker "feared for his safety when Ms. Smart pulled the gun out and threatened to use it."

Police seized a Ruger handgun and six bullets.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Calif. 'bra bandit' wore stolen bras on his face, chest --*
COACHELLA, Calif. (UPI) - Police in California are searching for the "bra bandit" -- a man recorded stealing clothes from a pickup truck while wearing a skirt and two bras. Security camera footage from outside a Coachella home recorded a man, dubbed the "bra bandit," wearing a skirt, a bra on his head and another bra on his chest while walking past the home. Police said the clothing items were taken from an unlocked pickup truck. The man, who is seen on the video trying to scare a cat on the front porch of the home, also took cleaning supplies, change and other clothing items from the truck. The
security camera footage shows the man narrowly avoid capture when a Riverside County Sheriff's Office patrol car passes by the pickup truck while he's inside. "We have had incidents where stuff has been stolen, but never like this, where some guy is completely naked, and at a point in the video you actually see him sniffing the bra," Vidal Coronel, daughter of the truck's owner, told KESQ-TV. Coronel said the clothing items belong to her sister, who has been using the pickup truck to move. "We all have kids here, and for this guy to be walking around in a bra and a skirt stealing, and he could go into someone's house and do something worse," Coronel said.


*-- Ex-husband proposes again 43 years after divorce --*
FORT SMITH, Ark. (UPI) - An Arkansas Walmart employee accepted an on-camera proposal from an unexpected suitor -- the ex-husband she divorced 43 years ago. Louis Demetriades and Renate Stumpf, both 75, said they divorced 43 years ago, but they rekindled their friendship in December when Demetriades called Stumpf for help contacting one of their three children. Stumpf was shocked when Demetriades, who lives in Tennessee, visited the Walmart store where she works in Fort Smith, Ark., Saturday with a sign reading, "Happy Valentine's Day! Will you marry me?" Stumpf said her initial "no" was meant just to tease her suitor, and she quickly amended the answer to "Yes, but not today." "Forty-three years is a long time, so I wasn't sure at first," she told ABC News, "but I will marry him though because he's changed for the better, I've come to realize." Demetriades said he chose Walmart for his Valentine's Day surprise so he would have an audience of his ex-wife's friends.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
The woman who got her hair caught in the Roomba (?) was lying on the floor watching it clean when she fell asleep. She was woken by the pain of having her hair caught. The hair was on her head. I'm sure she was grateful to be freed with little loss of hair but, naw, if I were the one rescuing her, it would be time to chop the locks and get a wig. -Patty
[If you are bored enough to watch your Roomba for entertainment you're probably grateful for the distraction of getting attacked by it.]

I just want to weigh in here--mist predators, such as leopards, will attack for one of only two reasons: self-defense or food. They do not necessarily attack simply because somebody runs away. I studied animal behavior in college so I know what I'm talking about. -Chris

Lewis, if a leopard were charging me I wouldn't need to be the fastest. Just faster than the slowest. -ray
[Remind me not to go to the zoo with you.]

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