Saturday, February 6, 2016
Greetings fellow Bizarros:
Police in Illinois were able to identify the suspect in a photo booth theft after the machine was activated during the robbery.
The booth at Funway Amusements captured photos of the suspect who pried open the machine's cash drawer and stole $75 in cash and caused $75 worth of damage, according to Batavia police department.
When the man attempted to open the photo booth's cash drawer the machine automatically began to take photos.
"The machine is designed to take photographs when it senses tampering to the cash drawer," Batavia police said. "The report was delayed until the owner could get a repairman to pull the offenders images from the machine."
Bizarrely,
Lewis
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Out of Control Car Lands on Roof of California Home
PALOS VERDES, Calif. - A California driver's car landed on a roof after spinning out of control near a residential area in Palos Verdes. Los Angeles County Fire reported to the scene shortly after the incident occurred at 4 p.m. and shared photos of the vehicle on the roof. Firefighters say the driver suffered from a medical condition that caused him to lose control of the car, hitting two parked vehicles before landing on the roof of the two-story home. Only the driver was believed to be injured in the crash. A woman was home when the accident occurred, but did not sustain any injuries and was not aware of the car's presence until she was shown by a neighbor. "You can't believe how dumb it is," she said. "Awful!" The woman's home sits below the busy Palos Verders Drive and a neighbor said cars have crashed into homes in the area before.
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The Ol' Hiding Drugs in Your Hollow Leg Ploy
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. - Authorities say a 40-year-old man has been caught trying to smuggle prescription drugs into an upstate New York jail in his prosthetic leg after being arrested for assaulting his girlfriend. Terrance Seymour was charged last week after his girlfriend said he beat her with the stock of a rifle and held her against her will for nearly 12 hours inside the home they share in the town of Horicon. Officials say corrections officers at the county jail discovered doses of the prescription drug Suboxone hidden inside a hollow in his prosthesis during a search. Seymour, who lost a leg in a childhood accident, was charged with assault and promoting prison contraband.
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You hear stories all of the time how attendants on a flight do something or other to entertain the passengers. Usually on a Southwest flight. They just seem to play around ALL of the time over there. So, that was all these attendants were doing. Probably would have been better entertainment if they had done it in pudding. Though the logistics of doing that on an aeroplane is probably a nightmare.
I guess it would depend on where I got shot. I wouldn't take one in the back or the liver or a kidney or something for a hundred thousand, but getting shot in the ass, say, might be worth a hundred k.
[The motorcyclist in the story got shot in the hand. I think he lost a finger. Would a hundred thousand be worth a finger?]
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