Odd / Tags / Police

ODD / NEWS Mon Jan 14, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

Yahoo News -- A man who wrote a vulgar message on the memo line of a check he used to pay a $5 parking ticket has apologized in writing, leading police to drop a disorderly conduct charge against him. Clerks were offended by the message, and the disorderly conduct c.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 11:21pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveller dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police. The 24-year-old man fell into a drunken slumber on his way home from a Halloween party in Hamburg, police in the no.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 10:03am neoform

Yahoo News -- Change for a million? That's what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket. But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage, police sa.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 12:25pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A feckless stick-up man chose the wrong target when he was beaten and hospitalized in an attempted robbery of a karate school in Bucaramanga in northwestern Colombia, police said. "The man entered the academy with a firearm, but could not intimidate th.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 2:38am neoform

Yahoo News -- An 800-year-old, gold-plated crucifix that went missing after being seized by the Nazis has been found in a rubbish skip in Austria, police said. The crucifix, made of copper and enamel, was crafted in Limoges, France, and was part of a Polish art coll.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 11:19am neoform

Yahoo News -- While Wal-Mart is known for dropping its prices, one West Monroe man took the ad campaign seriously when he dropped the price of a plasma television from $984 to $4.88. Police arrested Chandon L. Simms, 23, on Tuesday at the retail store on a charge of fe.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jun 18, 2007 @ 2:48pm neoform

United Press International -- An 18-year-old Kansas man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly shooting his friend on a dare. Police said the incident began when the 17-year-old friend taunted the 18-year-old with a gun, saying the 18-year-old would not shoot him, The Wichita.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:50pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A police officer interrupted a couple's weekend sex romp on top of a 100-foot construction crane, but let them go with a warning, authorities said. Police went to the construction site to investigate Saturday night after bystanders spotted the couple c.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 12:51am neoform

Reuters -- A Canadian man was sentenced for drunk driving after being pulled over on his way home from the pub in his mother's motorized wheelchair, police said on Thursday. Patrick Shanahan, 35, was fined and placed on probation by a Toronto-area court on Wednes.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 5:51am neoform

FOX News -- A bride-to-be who wanted to get out of a date with a man she met on a phone chat line sent officers on a wild chase when she faked her abduction, police said. Sara White, 20, was charged Wednesday with a misdemeanor charge of abusing emergency dispatch.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 9:57am neoform

CNN -- Police found more than 8,000 pieces of women's clothing and lingerie in the home of a Japanese man who stole the items so he could sleep buried in them. Maeyasu Kawamura, 60, was indicted for theft on Friday, police in Osaka prefecture, western Japan,.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

Yahoo News -- The woman suspected foul play was afoot; she just had no idea what it was. Police barricaded streets near a branch of St. Joseph Hospital after that woman called to report a man with an assault rifle walking into a medical office building. The assault rif.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 11:25am neoform

Reuters -- A naked American tourist raised eyebrows when he went for a walk through a German city and told police he thought this was acceptable behavior in Germany. "We have been having unusually hot weather here lately but, all the same, we can't have this," a.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 11:12pm neoform

Yahoo News -- It was just a little stun gun fun, but a police officer who demonstrated his Taser by zapping a willing subject in the genitals has drawn a warning from his bosses. Officer Randy Reynolds ran into trouble when video of the incident last spring was post.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 10:57am neoform

CNN -- A silverback gorilla escaped from an enclosure and injured two people Friday at a Rotterdam zoo, a police spokeswoman said. Yvette de Rave said it was not yet known how the gorilla got out or how serious the injuries were. "From what I can draw from fi.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed May 16, 2007 @ 1:13pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A woman in Hot Springs has been arrested after she allegedly exchanged blasts of pepper spray with two police officers. Police said Lawanda Diane Clay, 38, produced a can of pepper spray when two officers were investigating a disturbance complaint Sunday... Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 12:25pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A bumbling intruder broke into an empty New Zealand police station and accidentally locked himself in a cell, but managed to smash his way out again just before authorities arrived. Sgt. Graham McGurk on Monday said the person broke into the deserted p.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri May 11, 2007 @ 2:13pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A thief covered his face with a pair of blue women's underwear and used a pistol-shaped cigarette lighter in a botched robbery of a convenience store, police said. "I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried," State Police Sgt. T.C. Kearns told The Journal.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri May 11, 2007 @ 2:13pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Authorities were led on a high speed vehicle chase by an armless, one-legged man, and they said this wasn't the first time the 40-year-old eluded police. Michael Francis Wiley taught himself to drive after.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu May 10, 2007 @ 1:44pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Police responding to a report of a body hanging from a utility pole found a mannequin left from a power company's training exercise. Allegheny Energy Inc. was using the mannequin for exercises on pole climbing, said Martinsburg police Sgt. B.L. Yost... Read More