Category: Bizarre

Bizarre, Criminal law, Society

Baltimore Police Arrest Couple Asking For Directions to the Interstate

Joshua Kelly and Llara Brook, of Chantilly, Virginia are new converts to Mapquest. The couple was returning from watching the Baltimore Orioles beat Kansas City when they became lost trying to find the interstate – a very common occurrence for people not familiar with Baltimore. Their mistake was assuming that Officer Natalie Preston was there to help them. When they pulled over to ask her for directions, she gave them a ticket for running a stop sign and then refused to give him even a hint of how to get back on the interstate. When they then tried to ask another officer, Preston allegedly pulled over and not only prevented that officer from giving directions, but proceeded to arrest the couple for trespass. I just saw this story from 2006 and I am trying to determine its current status.

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Bizarre, Society, Torts

Shaker Down: Chicago Woman Sues Salon After Falling Through Its Front Window After Trying To Kick Her Husband

Melanie Shaker had gone out to dinner and had been drinking with her husband when she became angry with him on the walk home. She tried to kick her husband, lost her footing, and fell through the front window of Fases Salon. She is now suing the salon for failing to anticipate falling drunken and clumsy people by installing safety glass. She is also suing the hospital that treated her and the trust that owns the property.
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Bizarre, Constitutional Law, Criminal law, International, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Police Arrest Man in England For Calling Homosexuality a Sin

We have another case of a religious person being jailed for denouncing homosexuality. In England, Dale McAlpine was charged with causing “harassment, alarm or distress” after a homosexual police community support officer (PCSO) overheard him stating that he viewed homosexuality to be a sin.
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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society

Florida Police Defend Decision to Jail Grandmother Who Slapped Granddaughter For Telling Her To F*** Off

Theresa Collier, 73, is a grandmother in Largo, Florida who was arrested after she slapped her granddaughter for swearing at her. Felicia Collier, 18, repeatedly told her grandmother to f*** off and then called the police when the grandmother slapped.
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Animals, Bizarre, Environment, Society

Winterized Mammoths: Scientists Find a Type of “Anti-Freeze” Blood Helped Mammoths Survive the Cold

This is really cool. Scientists believe that they have found a protein — hemoglobin — in mammoths that had adapted to release oxygen into their bodies like a type of “anti-freeze blood” to allow the animals to survive harsh winter conditions.
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Animals, Bizarre, Environment, International, Politics

Rush to Judgment: Limbaugh Suggests Gulf Spill May Have Been Caused By “Envionmental Wackos”

As the government deals with what may prove the worst oil disaster in the history of the country in the Gulf of Mexico, oceanographer and chemical engineer Rush Limbaugh has gone public with his theory that “enviornmental wackos” may be responsible and that pouring oil into the ocean is something that the ocean can handle naturally with intervention by the government. He also insisted that oil spills are natural and should not cause undo concern.

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Bizarre, International, Politics, Religion, Society

Vatican Takeover: Controversial Mexican Order To Be Taken Over By Papal Envoy

Pope Benedict XVI has moved to take over a Mexican Catholic order that is responsible for widespread abuses of children. The order’s founder, Rev. Marcial Maciel, abused children and fathered three children with two women. He died in 2008.

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Bizarre, Criminal law, International, Politics, Religion, Society

Burka Bans: France Moves to Fine People Forcing Women to Wear Burkas While Belgium Approves First Public Ban on the Burka

France is about to propose a law that would fine anyone who forces a woman to wear a burka (burqa). Such individual would face a fine of €15,000 (£13,000). In the meantime, in Belgium legislators passed Europe’s first ban on the burka in public.

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society

Tenton Man Fells Neighbor With Arrow Over Parking Dispute

Robert Wood, 41, allegedly takes parking very very seriously. While his neighbor, Anthony Giovannini, 35, thought he was struck in the back by a rock thrown into his house this week, he soon noticed an arrow sticking out of his back. Police eventually arrested Wood who has had disputes with Giovannini over parking spaces.
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Bizarre, Criminal law, International, Society

Small is Beautiful: Papua Police Ban “Enhanced” Officers

In our coverage of police related stories, this one is a bit odd. Police officers in Indonesia’s Papua now must be politically and anatomically correct. Faced with problems associated with local measures of male personal enhancement, the department is following the global business model of downsizing.

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Bizarre, Criminal law

How Not To Make An Impression on Your Girlfriend’s Mother: Indiana Man Arrested For Allegedly Running Over Woman After Dispute Over the Car Radio

Brent Heitz, 30, likes his music loud and apparently doesn’t like his girlfriend’s mother at all. After Connie Farr told Heitz to turn down the music in his car, Heitz reportedly ran her over and left her on the road.
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Bizarre, Criminal law, International, Religion, Society

Report: Christian Barber Beaten and Sodomized for Trimming Beard of Sunni Teenager

There is a disturbing report out of Pakistan that a Christian barber was beaten and then sodomized by eight Muslim men after he agreed to trim a Muslim teenager’s beard in violation of Sunni traditions. Marwat Masih, 29, was hospitalized and his shop destroyed by local Muslims for the trimming.

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