December 12, 2018

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Everyone gets frustrated by the 'silly season' or the holidays, as it is still euphemistically called. Who hasn't been driven to distraction by incessant Christmas music, the forced cheerfulness of retail workers, saccharine advertisements, and gaudy, often over-the-top decorations? Sometimes it's enough to make a person want to lock themselves in the house. Or, in the case of one South Carolina man, to take a more proactive approach to dealing with the frivolity and excess of the season. A more proactive approach AND a lighter.

A Summerville man is charged with arson after police said he burned down the Christmas decorations in a suburban Charleston neighborhood. Authorities arrested Cameron Lewis Baun, 29, after receiving a call afternoon about a person setting fire to the property of multiple neighbors.

Police said Baun lit up a snowman decoration that was in the front yard of one home. Baun was detained for burning Christmas decor at another home when officers arrived, police said.

Summerville Fire Rescue was also attempting to put out a house fire that Baun allegedly set, according Summerville police. Baun is said to have busted a garage window trying to light fire to the inside of another structure.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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Heart of Gold

Almost everybody puts a little change in those Salvation Army bell ringers' pots you see every Christmas, but the coin one anonymous donor left in a pot in Orlando, FL will buy a lot more than a cup of coffee. It was a 1904 $20 coin with one ounce of pure gold. It's worth a whole lot more than $20 now. "We were elated," said Captain Ken Chapman. "We took it to a gold shop, actually three of them, to see how they would compare and they all said about $1,200." Volunteers knew there was something special when they saw the coin, but it was when they felt it that they really knew. That's because the person who first saw it was a coin collector. "They said 'I'll buy it for more than it's worth.' Hallelujah! Here you go!"

There's No Place Like Home

A dog that had been missing since its California owner was forced to evacuate from the path of the Camp Fire was found weeks later sitting guard at the home. Andrea Gaylord said her two dogs, Miguel and Madison, spend most of their time outside, and she was unable to locate them before being forced to evacuate her Paradise home. Miguel was later found by animal rescue volunteer Shayla Sullivan, but no trace could be found of Madison. Sullivan regularly left food and water outside Gaylord's home in case Madison came home, but there were no sightings of the canine until the evacuation order was lifted. Gaylord arrived at her house and immediately was greeted by Madison. "Imagine the loyalty of hanging in in the worst of circumstances and being here waiting," Gaylord told local news. "It was so emotional."
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READER COMMENTS

Hey Lewis I thought I was gonna laugh at that story about the guy whose roommate hammered his privates, but it turned out the I had sympathy pains. I hurt so bad that I wanted medical attention too. -Buzzy
[I felt a couple of winces myself while reading it.]


I'm not surprised that woman sent her son to school with a blow-up sheep. Not everybody is a twisted pervert. A normal person looks at a blow-up sheep and thinks, 'Oh, a toy.' Not, 'I wonder if I could f__k that.' Would you check to see if an over-sized teddy bear has a f__k hole?
[Good point.]

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