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  • May 23, 2012

    was the easiest arrest these cops ever made. A man in Peters Township, Pa., left his bag of pot and hallucinogenic mushrooms at a grocery. A customer found it and turned it over to a clerk, who...

  • May 22, 2012

    ird but True is happy to announce the winner of our first annual “Worst Law Enforcement Pun of the Year’’ contest. Seattle cops are looking for the vandal who smashed a window on a car, took...

  • May 21, 2012

    ere must be easier ways to get elected. Ann Doyle, a candidate for the Michigan Legislature, was campaigning door to door in Frankenmuth Township when she was bitten by a dog. The guy who owns the...

  • May 20, 2012

    e could really use a pair of specs — and a lawnmower.A 78-year-old Dacula, Ga., woman told cops that the van left to her by her late husband was stolen from in front of her house.She found the 1973...

  • May 19, 2012

    Tennessee man who sired 21 kids by 11 women is asking for the government’s help in paying the child support after all his baby mommas hauled him into court at once. Desmond Hatchett, 33, told...

  • May 18, 2012

    ere’s Buffalo Bill when you need him? An old-fashioned Western-style stampede broke out in Iowa, after 200 buffalo got out of their pen and ran amok. The animals roamed for hours over an area that...

  • May 17, 2012

    least he died with a smile on his face. A 67-year-old man dropped dead moments after getting several dances from strippers at an El Paso, Texas, gentleman’s club. The gals at the Red Parrot Lounge...

  • May 16, 2012

    stead of throwing the book at a prisoner charged with trying to sell a grenade launcher, a California judge threw a book report at the suspect. Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers allowed the...

  • May 15, 2012

    you’ve ever doubted that man and apes are close relatives, this should convince you. Workers at Miami’s Jungle Island distributed iPads to their orangutan families. Just like people, the...

  • May 14, 2012

    f-duty firefighter Mike Apatow was pulled over in Milford, Conn., by cops using a radiation-detecting anti-terror device. Turns out he was undergoing medical tests that required injections of small...

  • May 12, 2012

    allegedly intoxicated Florida woman was so angry when her boyfriend tried to break things off, she bit his leg until he bled. The 41-year-old Fort Walton Beach woman then pointed a paintball gun...

  • May 12, 2012

    hat’s not a knife — THAT’S a knife!” A Philadelphia deli clerk went all Crocodile Dundee on a robber who pulled a tiny switchblade. The clerk grabbed a huge sandwich-cutting blade and menaced the...

  • May 11, 2012

    ficials at a conservative Catholic school in Arizona are refusing to let their baseball team play in a state championship game because their opponent, Mesa Prep, has a girl playing second base. The...

  • May 10, 2012

    rds need not apply. A Seattle mom named Kathy placed an ad on Craigslist looking to hire four “hot male teens” to take her daughter and three girlfriends to their prom. If they pass the hunk test...

  • May 09, 2012

    takes balls to drive around South Carolina with these bumper ornaments. A second driver in the state has been ticketed for dangling a replica of testicles from the back of his car. He was...

  • May 08, 2012

    ere’s some monkey business going on in Florida. A curious, tan-colored, 4-foot-long monkey was spotted — and photographed — in the trees of a Winter Springs home yesterday. At least two other...

  • May 07, 2012

    . Richard Kimble would have been more careful than this. US Marshals and Oregon cops collared Craig Thomas Balog, 30, who was on the lam from a federal probation violation in Michigan. Balog was...

  • May 06, 2012

    is is a healthy retirement?Karl and Carol Hoepfner of Texas are spending their golden years on a mission, visiting all 735 Whataburger locations in 10 states.The couple, married 55 years, ate their...

  • May 05, 2012

    is is some way to sail off into the sunset. Cops are hunting for the former director of tourism in Okaloosa County, Fla., after he allegedly used tax money to buy a $710,000 yacht, then went...

  • May 04, 2012

    ere’s drunk, there’s very drunk and then there’s “I don’t remember being hit by the train” drunk. Thomas Boersma suffered severe buttocks and arm injuries after a train hit him in Pewaukee, Wis.,...

  • May 03, 2012

    is fowl hunter became the hunted.A Maine rifleman hoping to nail a wild turkey let out a bird call so realistic that a coyote attacked him.Bill Robinson had to fight off the woodland canine looking...

  • May 02, 2012

    ul Hodge had been losing his shirt for years running a declining Cocoa Beach, Fla., motel. So now, he wants his guests, too, to lose their shirts. And their pants. And their underwear. He’s turning...

  • May 01, 2012

    re’s another reason not to smoke. A Traverse City, Mich., detective went to a local gas station to show clerks a surveillance video of a man ripping off a woman’s credit card there a week...

  • April 30, 2012

    loudmouth passenger, realizing she’d lost her wallet, demanded to be let off a United Express plane in Des Moines, Iowa. She made such a fuss that crew members removed her and she was questioned by...

  • April 29, 2012

    and by your man and sit by his pool, even if he doesn’t want you. A Florida woman was busted for trespassing after she was caught sunbathing by her ex’s backyard pool, beer in hand. The Crestview,...

  • April 28, 2012

    is weird tradition is wild music to their ears. Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology toppled a piano off the roof of their dorm, sending it plummeting six stories and smacking...

  • April 27, 2012

    e woods have become too small for Smokey. After devoting his life to preventing forest fires, he’s taking a journey where no bear has gone before. The official mascot of the National Forest Service...

  • April 26, 2012

    Oklahoma woman is asking herself if jail time is worth $14. The woman is facing serious time in the clink after she called the local electric company and threatened to blow up its offices after...

  • April 25, 2012

    erybody wants to be a TV star. A weatherman was doing his broadcast from a landscaped area outside his Scranton, Pa., station, when a black bear and her three cubs wandered into the shot — and...

  • April 24, 2012

    thought this crime would leave him flush. A man in upstate Utica attempted to rob three banks — armed only with a toilet plunger The 49-year-old bandit wannabe brandished his “weapon’’ at bemused...

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