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You saw the Burger King one, right?

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0209092burgerking1.html

Man Calls 911 In Burger Beef
Florida patron dials cops over lemonade-less combo meal
FEBRUARY 9--"You cannot dial 911 'cause you're unhappy with your burger." That's what a police operator told a Florida man early Saturday morning when he called 911 to complain about his order at a Burger King in Boynton Beach. As can be heard on the below police recording, Jean Fortune, 66, called 911 when a Burger King employee told him that they did not have lemonade. Fortune told cops that he had placed an order for a #7 combo meal (chicken fries, French fries, and a soda for $4.49) while in the drive-thru line. But when he got to the window, Fortune was told the fast food outlet did not have lemonade. He was offered Coke, but Fortune decided instead to call police. "Sir, come on. I know you don't seriously think that the police need to make Burger King give you food faster. I cannot believe that," said an exasperated 911 operator. She also noted, "Customer service is not a reason to call 911. 911 is if you're dying. Do you understand that?" Fortune was charged with abuse of 911 communications, according the below Boynton Beach Police Department report. Pictured above is the Burger King at which Fortune did not find lemonade.

Wrestling Legend Accused of Body-Slamming Nursing Home Roommate to Death

MINNEAPOLIS — During his glory days as a pro wrestler, Verne Gagne shared the spotlight with other burly men in trunks, guys with names like Killer Kowalski, Mad Dog Vachon, The Crusher and Baron Von Raschke.

But all of that seemed well in the past until just weeks ago, when authorities say Gagne, 82 and suffering from Alzheimer's disease, apparently body-slammed a 97-year-old fellow patient at the suburban nursing home where they both lived, causing the man's death.

Bloomington police are investigating, but not even the victim's widow wants to see the dementia-stricken Gagne prosecuted.

Wow

Police: Ill. pastor deflected gunshot with Bible

It's awesome how his Bible protected him! Unfortunately the Bible didn't hold up to all the rounds. :sad:

MARYVILLE, Ill. – Illinois State Police say the pastor gunned down at a church in a St. Louis suburb used a Bible to deflect the first of four rounds fired during his Sunday sermon.

State Police Director Larry Trent says the Bible exploded, producing what appeared to be confetti.

Trent says about 150 people in attendance initially believed the episode was a skit being performed as part of the service at First Baptist Church in Maryville.

Trent says only one of the four rounds fired from the .45 caliber handgun struck and killed 45-year-old pastor Fred Winters.

Two congregants and the gunman suffered stab wounds while the gunman was wrestled to the floor after his gun jammed.

Trent says no one at the church recognized the gunman.

porn sting goes to the dogs
attempt to ensnare boyfriend comes back to bite indiana woman

march 18--meet michelle owen. Concerned that an ex-boyfriend had used her laptop to search for child pornography, the indiana woman asked police to search the computer for illegal images, but had her plan backfire when cops discovered two videos of her engaged in illicit acts with a dog. Owen, 24, was charged last week with two felony bestiality counts in connection with the video files, which a detective found in the laptop's "recycle bin." at the time owen asked cops to search the computer, she was locked up in the johnson county jail on a public intoxication charge (which violated the terms of her release in a prior drunk driving case). According to a police affidavit, a copy of which you'll find here, a cop told owen that he had found videos of her on the laptop and asked if she "knew what those files might be." owen, pictured in the below mug shot, replied, "the one with the dog." cops believe that the dog in question, toby, is a beagle. After asking if she was "going to be charged with this," owen said that the videos "were just something she did when she was drunk and barely remembers it," adding that she tried to "delete them the next day when she was sober."
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0318091dog1.html

Bobcat walks into bar in Cottonwood, AZ and attacks patrons

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29896957

COTTONWOOD, Ariz. - A bobcat attacked three people in a community in central Arizona, including two men who were bitten when the animal wandered inside a bar.

Officers called to the Chapparal Bar in Cottonwood arrived to find the bobcat in the parking lot, where they shot and killed it, KVRD-FM radio reported.

Tests were ordered to determine if the animal was rabid. It wasn't clear how seriously the victims had been injured.

Cottonwood police say the animal attacked Monday when it scratched a woman who thought she had hit it with her car. Then police got a report of a bobcat acting aggressively toward a woman outside a Pizza Hut.

Later came the call from the bar that a bobcat was inside as patrons climbed atop bar stools to get away.

Driver Chooses To Believe GPS Over The Reality Of A Cliff

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/7962212.stm

Man follows sat nav to cliff edge

Mr Jones said he relied on his sat nav system in his job as a driver

A car was left teetering on a cliff edge after the driver followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath.

Robert Jones continued to follow the instructions when they told him the narrow, steep path he was driving on in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, was a road.

Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, only stopped when his BMW hit a fence above Gauxholme railway bridge on Sunday morning.

Police have charged Mr Jones with driving without due care and attention.

The 43-year-old, who works as a driver, said he relied on his sat nav for his job.

He described Sunday's incident, during a visit to friends in Todmorden, as "a nightmare".

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "Officers received a call at 11.18am on Sunday March 22 reporting that a BMW was hanging off the edge of a cliff off Bacup Road.

"The driver was a 43-year-old man from Doncaster. He has been summonsed to court for driving without due care and attention."

K7AZV wrote:Driver Chooses To Believe GPS Over The Reality Of A Cliff

Ha, that reminds me of an episode from The Office!:P

Woman trapped inside car

Caller to 911: Help! I'm locked inside my car

Apr. 1, 2009 02:44 PM
Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. - A 911 dispatcher had to tell a caller how to unlock her car on Sunday.

A woman called Kissimmee, Fla., police to say she was locked inside her car at a suburban drug store.

"My car will not start. I'm locked inside my car," the unidentified woman said.

"Nothing electrical works. And it's getting very hot in here, and I'm not feeling well."

The dispatcher asked the woman if she was able to manually pull the lock up on the door.

The woman said she would try, and then, she said, "Yes, I got the door open."

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/04/01/20090401trappeddriver.html

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CINCINNATI - "Bailout" was the magic word as Domino's had to give away thousands of free pizzas because someone stumbled on an online promotion the company scrapped.

Domino's Pizza Inc. spokesman Tim McIntyre said Wednesday that the company prepared an Internet coupon for an ad campaign that was considered in December but not approved.

He says someone apparently typed "bailout" into a Domino's promo code window and found it was good for a free medium pizza.

Word about the code spread quickly Monday night on the Web and 11,000 free pizzas were delivered before it was deactivated Tuesday morning.

Cincinnati-area franchise owner John Glass says his 14 stores gave away more than 600 pies, but that Domino's promised to reimburse him.

Dog overboard found four months later

SYDNEY (AFP) – A pet dog that fell overboard in rough seas off Australia has been reunited with its owners after surviving alone on an island for four months, reports said.

Sophie Tucker, apparently named after a late US entertainer, fell overboard as Jan Griffith and her family sailed through choppy waters off the northeast Queensland coast in November.

The dog was believed to have drowned and Griffith said the family was devastated.

But out of sight of the family, Sophie Tucker was swimming doggedly and finally made it to St Bees Island, five nautical miles away, and began the sort of life popularised by the TV reality show "Survivor."

She was returned to her family last week when Griffith contacted rangers who had captured a dog that had been living off feral goats on the largely uninhabited island, in the faint hope it might be their long-lost pet.

When the Griffiths met the rangers' boat bringing the dog to the mainland they found that it was indeed Sophie Tucker on board.

"We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us," Griffith told the national AAP news agency.

"She wriggled around like a mad thing."

Griffith said that when the dog was first spotted on the island she had been in poor condition.

"And then all of a sudden she started to look good and it was when the rangers had found baby goat carcasses so she'd started eating baby goats," she said.

Sophie Tucker, a member of the Australian cattle dog breed, had been quick to readjust to the comforts of home, complete with airconditioning, Griffiths said.

"She surprised us all. She was a house dog and look what she's done, she's swum over five nautical miles, she's managed to live off the land all on her own," Griffiths said.

"We wish she could talk, we truly do."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090406/od_afp/australiaanimaldogoffbeat;_ylt=ArxMuob7_SmfhmK_cVUpo0cDW7oF

Peoria police: Suspected burglar's own phone dialed 911

by Maria Polletta - Apr. 6, 2009 08:43 AM
The Arizona Republic

A 16-year-old Peoria teen may face charges after his cell phone dialed 911 while he was in the process of burglarizing a vehicle, police said.

A 911 operator received the call around 5 a.m. Tuesday and heard the boy talking about having broken into cars, according to a press release from Peoria police.

Patrol officers arrived on the scene to find the suspect with a car stereo in his hands. All items taken from the vehicle were recovered.

The boy was released to his family after questioning. Charges are pending.

A Tempe woman was arrested Tuesday after police said she was pushing her grandchild across the street in a stroller while intoxicated.

Police said Fannie Jumbo, 61, was crossing Apache Boulevard at Oak Street, with her infant grandchild in a stroller. Jumbo appeared to be under the influence of intoxicating liquor, the police report said.

Witnesses said Jumbo had fallen on different occasions while pushing the stroller due to her intoxicated state. She was arrested by Tempe police west of the Oak street crosswalk on Apache near McClintock Drive.

Jumbo was transported to the Tempe city jail and could face charges of endangerment.

Come on. Fannie Jumbo? :lol:

This would suck.

Woman jumps to her death at mall, lands on teen
Apr. 9, 2009 06:38 AM
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Authorities say a woman who jumped to her death inside a busy New York City mall landed on a teenager, causing injuries that sent him to a hospital.

The lower level of the Queens Center Mall was packed with high school students on spring break when the woman jumped Wednesday.

Seventeen-year-old Derrick MuInoz had been sitting in a massage chair with a sign reading, "sit back and relax," when the woman landed on him.

The teen's stepbrother says Munoz was briefly knocked unconscious and has a large gash on his head.

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown says the woman was in her early to mid-50s. She was with two teenagers before she plunged from the third floor.

Man Dies Days After Swordfight That Killed Woman

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/19167424/detail.html

A man died Monday, days after he was involved in a swordfight with the grandson of a woman who was killed when she tried to intervene in the fight, police said.

Adolf Stegbauer, 69, died from complications of a stab wound. Charges pending against Chris Rondeau, 39, were expected to be upgraded. Police said he stabbed Stegbauer.

Franziska Stegbauer, 77, also died as a result of stab wounds after the fight early Thursday morning, but police were not initially sure which of the men had stabbed her.

Rondeau and Adolf Stegbauer got into an argument at a home in the 5200 block of Raceway Road that escalated when one of the men grabbed a sword, prompting the other man to also brandish a sword.

Rondeau was already held on an attempted murder charge stemming from the stabbing of Adolf Stegbauer.

If you want lots of weird/crazy news have a look at "how they stunned us." There are lots of kooks out there!

http://news.aol.com/article/woman-kills-son-at-shooting-range/418055?icid=main|main|dl1|link7|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fwoman-kills-son-at-shooting-range%2F418055

Yeah, I had seen that video. Luckily the one I watched stopped after she raised the gun. I still regret having watched that car plow into the oncoming family on that heli vid last year.

Skatchkins wrote:Yeah, I had seen that video. Luckily the one I watched stopped after she raised the gun. I still regret having watched that car plow into the oncoming family on that heli vid last year.

This vid didn't stop...