July 03, 2019

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Cops have to deal with a lot. Violence, abuse, drunks, psychotics, the mentally ill, malcontents, scofflaws, drugs, car chases and lawyers. But there has to be a limit to what we ask them to do. And when officers in Alabama were asked to apprehend a suspect who was supposedly being protected by an attack squirrel, that probably should have been the limit. Of course, the situation might not have been so risky if the perp had not been feeding the squirrel meth.

Police in Alabama had been looking for Mickey Paulk for nearly two weeks. Paulk, who had been hiding in a hotel, was arrested after he attempted to flee from drug investigators on a stolen motorcycle, according to police. He crashed into an investigator's vehicle after a brief pursuit, police said.

The case against the 35-year-old Alabama man escalated when narcotics investigators executed a search warrant "that yielded meth, drug paraphernalia, body armor and a squirrel."

"Prior to the search warrant, investigators were informed that Mickey Paulk kept an 'attack squirrel' inside his apartment, and that Paulk fed the squirrel meth to keep it aggressive," the Limestone County Sheriff's Office in Athens, Alabama, said in a statement.

After the warrant execution, officers called the Alabama Game and Fish Division, which said owning a pet squirrel was illegal. The squirrel was successfully released to the wild, according to police.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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Man Balances Running Lawnmower on His Chin

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You know, I'm not so surprised that some jerk off spent years building a 4-foot tall pyramid out of solid pennies, but I am surprised that anybody's got ten thousand bucks to throw away. If I had $10,000 lying around I could find a much better use for it, believe me.


That poor woman getting fired for filming a porn in her classroom is just another symptom of teachers being chronically underpaid! Do you think, if she were given a living wage, she'd have to take risks like that? And it's not like she was using student. Was it? Don't tell me she was using kids...
[I don't think so.]

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