Saturday, July 9, 2016

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

An inmate who escaped from prison, voluntarily surrendered himself to police after grabbing a few drinks at a bar, according to police in Arkansas.

Logan County police said that 45-year-old Shaun Higham, went to Mitch's Tavern in Paris, before telling the owner that he wants to go back to jail.

According to the police investigation, Higham picked the lock of his cell and left the Logan County jail. The following week, he showed up at the bar dressed in his prison uniform, and he was covered with insect bites.

He was also dirty and smelly. After drinking at the bar, Higham told the owner that he escaped from prison and wanted to turn himself in.

The bar owner immediately called the police and Higham was arrested. Higham was in prison on an aggravated robbery charge.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*--- 6-foot Man Stuffs Himself into Suitcase ---*
A nearly 6-foot tall man was caught on a surveillance camera emerging from a suitcase at a train station in Switzerland. Video shot by a Swiss border guard shows the man's hand sticking out from the suitcase before officers arrive to fully unzip the bag. The man was from Eritrea and had packed himself into the suitcase to cross the border from Italy into Switzerland. The man, who was one of about 3,400 migrants attempting to enter Switzerland's Ticino region, was ultimately sent back to Italy after being discovered inside the suitcase by border guards.

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*--- Shopper Left Bag of Cocaine at Checkout ---*
A Colorado police department is trying to find a shopper who left a bag behind at a self-checkout scanner -- a bag of cocaine. The Aspen Police Department said in a Facebook post a shopper at "a local grocery store" noticed the person in front of them had left the small baggie of cocaine on the scanner in the self-checkout lane. "With the cost of white powdery substances these days, probably somebody got home and spent the next 15 minutes going through their pockets, over and over," the post said. "Now we really try to take care of lost and found property like it is our own, putting a lot of effort into returning iPhones, wallets, passports, etc. But, if this is your property, we're going to leave it up to you to come and collect it."




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I have discovered that it helps to be a little bit looped if you're going to go for those high notes in the Star Spangled Banner, just sayin'. And if the other people around you are also participating and going for said high note, they don't usually complain as much when you sharp it, because they're doing it too. I have run into people who think the last lines of the song are either 'start your engines' or 'play ball!'. -Jean


Attached is a pdf file of the request for bids showing the ammo Homeland Security was asking for bids on in 2012.
[And there really was a file attached to this email, too. I guess if you look hard enough you're going to find what you're looking for.]

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