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Bizarre News - January 7, 2015
Greetings fellow Bizarros: Police in Arizona say they subdued a samurai-sword wielding man with a stun gun after he challenged officers to shoot him, authorities said.
Police were investigating a complaint of loud music when they encountered Robert Burns, 48, on Sunday evening.
Sgt. Tod Moore, a spokesman for the Cottonwood Police Department, said officers announced their presence and knocked on the door of Burns' home several times before he answered while brandishing a samurai sword.
Burns was ordered to put down the sword, but he responded by asking the officers if they were legitimate police, Moore said. Officers continued to identify themselves and Burns challenged them to shoot him, taking an aggressive posture and raising his sword.
After multiple commands to stand down Burns drove the sword into the ground, Moore said. The officers say Burns remained aggressive with them, despite their attempts to reason with him.
At one point, Burns reached for the sword again, prompting officers to use a stun gun to help bring him into custody. Burns was being held on suspicion of aggravated assault on an officer, disorderly conduct with a weapon, making unreasonable noise and being a prohibited possessor.
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Email Lewis*- Prison for Millionaire who collected welfare -*DEEPHAVEN, Minn. (UPI) - A Minnesota man who collected more than $167,000 in welfare benefits while he had more than $3 million in the bank was sentenced to 21 months in prison. The court heard Colin Chisholm, 63, and his wife, Andrea, 54, collected more than $167,000 in medical and food assistance claims in the seven years leading up to March 2012 and investigators later discovered the couple had more than $3 million in the bank and lived in a $1.6 million mansion in Deephaven. The couple, who once claimed to be Scottish nobility and went by the titles "Lord and Lady Chisholm," were also found to own a luxury yacht worth millions on Lake Minnetonka. Judge Lois Conroy handed down a 21-month prison sentence despite state sentencing guidelines calling for probation. Conroy agreed with prosecutors that prison time was called for due to the severity of the welfare fraud. Chisholm was also ordered to pay $167,420 in restitution following the completion of his prison sentence. "This is a fitting end to a crime that never should have occurred," Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said after the sentencing. "We are pleased with the sentence and believe it is one of the longest ever given in the state of Minnesota for welfare fraud." Andrea Chisholm pleaded guilty in August to aiding and abetting wrongfully obtaining public assistance. She was sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Freeman said she was less culpable for the fraud because Colin Chisholm was the one fraudulently signing documents.
*-- $500,000 scratch-off 'winner' told ticket was 'misprint' --*ROSWELL, N.M. (UPI) - A New Mexico man said his elation at winning more than $500,000 from a lottery scratch-off ticket turned to disappointment when he learned it was a misprint. John Wines, a recent retiree from Roswell, said he bought the scratch-off in December from a local Shell station and he scratched the ticket to reveal five winning numbers, two of which were each worth $250,000. Wines said he took the ticket -- which has a stated maximum prize of $250,000 -- back to the gas station to show how he had somehow managed to win more than $500,000. "I took it back in and she told me that is not a winner," Wines told KOB-TV. "They told me that it was a misprint and they don't pay off for misprints." Wines contacted officials with the New Mexico Lottery and received a
reply via email. "We did find a flaw in that particular pack of tickets and it's been reported to our printer. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I did complete a reconstruction of your ticket and it was not a winner," the email read. Wines said he was crushed by the news. "If it was $50 or $75, I would not think a thing about it," he said. "But this is $500,000. That's a half million." "It's like I told them, I didn't misprint it. I bought the ticket in good faith thinking if I won I was going to get my money. And they told me no, they absolutely, positively told me no." The New Mexico Lottery offered Wines $100 worth of tickets as compensation. Wines said his wife, Maria, who once won $100,000 from the Indiana Lottery, told him to put the incident behind him. "She told me to forget it," he told Fox News. "She said they're never going to pay me."
*-- READER COMMENTS --*Hey Lewis; This has happened many times. At least he didn't break into the engineers cab and use it like a toilet. It could have been even worse. Sometimes these unfortunate souls just drop there pants or lift there skirt and discharge their load right in the peak of rumour. Hey, you gotta go when you gotta go. It has happens to me many times.
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Sounds like a prostrate issue. Try some saw pimento.]
"Fortunately this man was the victim of his own stupidity". Just like the Wal-Mart shopper who was shot by her two-year-old. My guess is that a Wal-Mart would be a lot more crowded than the hunting ground. Imagine the possible tragedy that could have ensued there! And you reckon America doesn't need some form of gun control?
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Don't believe in natural selection, huh?]
LEWIS; I always say that best way to protest anything is with harmless water pistols. Throwing stones at parading hate groups such as Nazis or KKK is stooping to their disgusting level. Throwing raw meat at police or any government persons or building is just disgusting. However merely squirting water will get your message across in a harmless albeit effective way. --R.S.
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Depends on who you're squirting. Didn't you read the story a couple weeks ago about the pre-teen who was shot by the police because he pointed a toy gun at them? Now if he had been waving a Samurai sword around he would only have been tased.]
Lewis; You are assuming that there are no stalker types reading Bizzare News. Am I correct, Rusty? You are world famous, at least in my world, which isn't all that large. Also, are you just not getting any decent reader comments? -Wes
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