Saturday, August 3, 2013
Greetings fellow Bizarros:In the absolutely most adorable incidence of moral corruption and social decay you will hear all month, authorities say a 12-year-old boy in Johnstown, PA used a BB gun to rob a 10-year-old who was running a lemonade stand.
Johnstown Sgt. Patrick Goggin says the 12-year-old approached the stand with what appeared to be a handgun in his pocket and threatened the younger boy. Goggin says the boys "got into a wrestling match over the money box" before the older boy took $30 and ran away.
30 bucks? That one hell of a lemonade business.
Three other children chased the boy home and helped police track him down. That is when police determined the boy had a BB gun.
Police aren't identifying the suspect because he'll be charged in juvenile court where most cases remain confidential.
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Email Lewis* Raccoon steals woman's wallet on Florida beach *FORT MYERS, Fla. - A Florida woman said a raccoon tried to run off with her wallet while she was visiting the beach with her two daughters. Danielle Araica said she and her daughters were visiting Bunche Beach in Fort Myers to see a Kemp's Ridley sea turtle named Tampa Red make her expected return home Monday and they were all in the water when Araica spotted a raccoon rifling through her bag, WZVN-TV, Fort Myers, reported Thursday. "I saw the raccoon in my bag, so I start running like a crazy woman," Araica said. Arairca said the raccoon ran off with her pink wallet in its mouth, but dropped it in some nearby woods. A young boy was able to recover the wallet and return it to Araica, she said. "I have some scratches and holes on my wallet now, but it's back and its safe," Araica said. Araica said she thinks the wallet theft was suspicious, as there was no food in her bag. "She knew what she wanted. She went right in there and got it," Araica said. "It was a trained raccoon to go steal money or wallets out of women's bags that was the theory we came up with at the beach."
*-- Shark carcass dumped outside Massachusetts pub --*NANTUCKET, Mass. - Officials on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island said they do not know the identity or motive of a "prankster" who left a shark carcass on a pub's doorstep. John Smith, Nantucket's public works operations manager, said his office got a call at 7 a.m. Thursday to remove a dead shark from in front of the Sea Dog Brew Pub and he had to call in a front-end loader to cart away the 6-foot-long, 100-pound shark, the Boston Herald reported Friday. "In the summertime, there's always somebody who's a prankster," Smith said. He said a prankster filled a street with small "black back" tuna a few summers ago. "Fortunately this doesn't happen that often," he said. Sea Dog Brew Pub manager Jimmy Agnew said he was also perplexed by the shark. "It just made for an interesting day," he said. Agnew said a couple of people had to be removed from the bar before it closed at 3 a.m., but he didn't think any of the incidents were severe enough to result in a dead shark delivery. Smith said the carcass is being sent to be processed at a landfill and will eventually become topsoil.
*-- READER COMMENTS --*I'm going to address a snippet of your answer: You mean all strippers aren't single moms with a heart of gold and college girls trying to work their way through school? Even if they were, safety first would dictate they stay away from customers outside of work. Just because they accept money to dance scantily (or even sky) clad doesn't mean they want to sleep with the clientele or have anything to do with drunken lechers for as much as one minute more than they have to. An unfair portion of those women are at risk for being beaten and/or raped. No one needs to put up with that. -Jenn
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Spoken like someone who has no idea what goes on in strip clubs. And don't take that as a criticism. But I would conservatively estimate that a good quarter to half of strippers are whores.]
I feel bad for the guy whose dog ate his testicles. Poor LEFTY.
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Don't feel too bad. He wasn't really using them anyway.]
Maybe the guy had testicular cancer and the dog sniffed it out and was trying to save his life.
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Way to look at the positive side.]
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