Saturday, May 4, 2013

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Who says chivalry is dead? Authorities say a South Florida man nearly drowned after jumping into a storm drain seeking a woman's dropped keys - fortified first by chugging a bottle of rum to keep warm.

Miami Beach police say 49-year-old Richard Brandenberg told the woman that he had experience working in sewer systems and was willing to go in and look for her keys. Witnesses say Brandenberg then drank a half-pint of rum and smoked a cigarette, telling them it was to keep warm in the cold water.

Police say Brandenberg went down twice, emerging each time to have another smoke. He didn't come back up on the third try, and witnesses called 911.

Authorities found Brandenberg by popping a nearby manhole cover, then performed CPR to revive him. Brandenberg is recovering at a local hospital.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Pen pals remain friends for 66 years --*
PETOSKEY, Mich. - A German man and an American woman connected through an international youth program in 1947 said they are still pen pals today. Helen Fortney of East Jordan, Mich., sent her first letter to Kurt Maybaum of Germany at the age of 17, The Petoskey News-Review reported, as part of a program meant to improve world peace through correspondence. Fortney was living in southern Michigan at the time, and the two quickly became friends. "It was a delightful experience because I had never been to Germany," said Fortney. "He would send a lot of pictures and he was very proud of his heritage." Maybaum, who was 20 when he received the first letter, was a soldier during World War II and had spent time as a prisoner of war. Their letters were sometimes a few months apart, or sometimes just a few weeks, the News-Review said. In 1970, after 23 years of writing, Fortney traveled to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and the two met for the first time. Fortney's husband, Matt, served in WWII in the U.S. Army, and he and Maybaum talked about their stories. "They started talking about their experience in the war. It was very moving," Fortney said.


*-- Florida police bust couple having sex on public beach --*
MANALAPAN, Fla. - Police in Florida said a man caught having sex on a public beach said he had been skinny-dipping with a woman and "one thing led to another." The Manalapan Police Department said they responded to a report of a couple having sex on a public beach and they arrived to find Ward Powell, 53, of Boynton Beach, and Tanya Wheeler, 34, of Greenville, S.C., still nude, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Thursday. Powell told officers he and Wheeler had been skinny dipping in the ocean and "one thing led to another." The man told police he was unable to help himself. Powell and Wheeler were arrested and charged with with lewd behavior and indecent exposure, New Times Broward-Palm Beach reported.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Isn't it obvious? Aliens (the ones from another planet) tried to beam the car up.. but it was too heavy and dropped in the tree. There were no occupants cuz the aliens sucked them right up! -Patty
[We haven't had any good space alien theories in a while, but it is more likely illegal aliens.]

I would bet the guy would get laughed out of the court room! Come on, spending 2600 on a carnival game to win a $300 gaming console? At $20 he should have considered the win-loss ratio before deciding to keep spending! It's not a win if winning costs more than buying retail!
[He should get laughed out of court, but with our legal system, who knows?]

So the guy dropped $3k to try and win a toy worth $154 - and he considers himself a first time loser! I'd say he's been a loser a lot longer than he thinks. -Steve

Lewis---for the rest of story about the truck in the tree in Sherwood. Our son lives in Portland and related the following: the truck was in the tree sideways, passenger side down. Somehow the woman who was the driver, managed to crawl out and walked home. She came back to the scene later where the police cited her for leaving the scene of the accident. She wasn't injured. Seems like some type of "impairment" was involved. -Cindy

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