Archive for September, 2009
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You’ve all heard the phrase ‘willing to sell your own granny’ – but do you know anyone who’s actually tried to do it? Well, meet 10-year-old Zoe Pemberton, who put her gran up for sale on auction website eBay. She described her grandmother as ‘annoying’ but ‘cuddly’, so she’d probably have fetched a fair price. [...]
Wife Cooks Hubby’s Pet Fish
A Pasadena woman won’t be charged after police say she cooked up her common law husband’s goldfish. The domestic dispute happened Saturday at a home on Queens Road near Allen-Genoa in the Houston suburb. The man says she was holding them hostage in an argument over jewelry.
A police officer tried to talk the woman into [...]
Bank Robber Has Bad Handwriting, Teller Can’t Read It!!!
A 30-year-old woman tried to rob a bank Wednesday by handing a teller a threatening note, but the teller couldn’t read her handwriting, police said. Police said Stephanie Martin walked into a Wells Fargo bank in Hillsboro and handed the teller a note that read, “Need $300 or I’ll kill you. I’m serious.” The teller [...]
Men Found Sleeping On Bundles Of Marijuana
Two illegal immigrants were found outside a Mexico/Texas border town asleep on top of bundles of marijuana. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was following footprints left by six people near Brownsville Saturday morning when he came upon the group sleeping atop more than 350 pounds of pot, the Houston Chronicle reports. Four of [...]
Drunk Driver Parks At Police Station
An extremely intoxicated man was arrested early Tuesday morning after he stopped his car at perhaps the worst possible place, police said. Lebanon police Lt. Brent Wheat said Zachary Phillips, 23, of Lebanon, hit the curb on the way into the parking lot at the police station, flattening a tire. Officer Ryan Batts and Sgt. [...]
Pennsylvania Woman Tackles Burglar
A Pennsylvania woman dove on a burglar who broke into her home and hung onto him until police arrived. Tina Graham, 40, said she heard an intruder in her York home around 2:30 a.m. Sunday. She said she called police then told the intruder he was going to jail. As he tried to run, the [...]
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