animals
Rudolph the deer, on the loose
12/23/10 12:53 Filed in: Weird News
A deer named Rudolph escaped from a church nativity scene where he was portraying a reindeer and was chased by police before finally being caught "under the church's elf house in its Bethlehem Village area".
I didn't realize there were reindeer in Bethlehem. Nor elves, for that matter. You learn something every day!
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I didn't realize there were reindeer in Bethlehem. Nor elves, for that matter. You learn something every day!
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Nice Try: Blame the Cat
08/14/09 20:33 Filed in: Crime Stories
Problem: you’ve been charged with possession of child pornography after more than 1000 such images are found on your computer.
Solution: Blame the cat!
According to this Sun Sentinel story, a defendant told detectives he found “strange material downloaded” after his cat jumped on his keyboard while he was out of the room. For 1000 images, that cat must have done a LOT of jumping. No word on wether police have interviewed the cat.
Solution: Blame the cat!
According to this Sun Sentinel story, a defendant told detectives he found “strange material downloaded” after his cat jumped on his keyboard while he was out of the room. For 1000 images, that cat must have done a LOT of jumping. No word on wether police have interviewed the cat.
Mug Shot of the Week
01/17/09 13:28 Filed in: Mug Shots
Charge: Warrant for Failure To Appear, for Failure to Attach Animal License
Pasco County
Usually I pick a mug shot because I find the picture funny (or scary), but I picked this one not for the picture but the charge. Who gets arrested over dog tags, seriously? How do you let that situation escalate to the point that a bench warrant is issued for your arrest?
Plop-Plop the Emu Tasered
01/04/09 10:18 Filed in: Weird News
An older story, but too good to pass up:
An Emu named Plop-Plop escaped from a farm in Panama City and then “went crazy”. Deputies tasered the bird to get it under control. Plop-Plop made a full recovery.
This was the only Emu tasered in Florida this year, as far as I know, but not the only one in the country. Less than two weeks later, another Emu (name not given) was tasered by Pennsylvania State Police officers after a two hour attempt to catch the bird, who was running along eastbound lanes of the turnpike near Pittsburg causing all sorts of traffic problems. That Emu didn’t survive the jolt.
An Emu named Plop-Plop escaped from a farm in Panama City and then “went crazy”. Deputies tasered the bird to get it under control. Plop-Plop made a full recovery.
This was the only Emu tasered in Florida this year, as far as I know, but not the only one in the country. Less than two weeks later, another Emu (name not given) was tasered by Pennsylvania State Police officers after a two hour attempt to catch the bird, who was running along eastbound lanes of the turnpike near Pittsburg causing all sorts of traffic problems. That Emu didn’t survive the jolt.
