http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/01/8/23/14257484.cfm Police follow naked man to pot crop. When an officer approached the man and asked why he was naked, the man reportedly said that he felt like it so he just did it. an officer writing the man a ticket for indecent exposure then asked the man what he did for a living, and he allegedly said he grew marijuana. According to the police report, the man then asked for the officer's help in harvesting the crop. The officer said he was too lazy to help, but offered 5to go look at the man's operation, and the naked man agreed. "The man's wife told police she had never been inside heer husband's shed, but that was where her husband did his artwork and practiced with his yo-yo.

Hmmmm ... I think this is stuff for which I created News that Doen't Fit... Curious stuff!

I guess we can put the *really strange* news here then and the ohther news there?

Yup.... sounds good to me.

Mistaken Rapture Little Rock (AP) A Little Rock woman was killed yesterday after leaping through her moving car's sunroof during an incident best described as "a mistaken rapture" by dozens of eyewitnesses. Thirteen other people were injured after a twenty-car pile up resulted from people trying to avoid hitting the woman who was apparently convinced that the rapture was occurring when she saw twelve people floating up into the air, and then passed a man on the side of the road who she claimed was Jesus. "She started screaming "He's back, He's back" and climbed right out of the sunroof and jumped off the roof of the car," said Everet Williams, husband of 28-year-old Georgann Williams who was pronounced dead at the scene. "I was slowing down but she wouldn't wait till I stopped," Williams said. She thought the rapture was happening and was convinced that Jesus was gonna lift her up into the sky," he went on to say. "This is the strangest thing I've seen since I've been on the force," said Paul Madison, first officer on the scene. Madison questioned the man who looked like Jesus and discovered that he was dressed up as Jesus and was on his way to a toga costume party when the tarp covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose and released twelve blow up sex dolls filled with helium which floated up into the air. Ernie Jenkins, 32, of Fort Smith, who's been told by several of his friends that he looks like Jesus, pulled over and lifted his arms into the air in frustration, and said "Come back here!" just as the Williams' car passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure that it was Jesus lifting people up into the sky as they passed byhim, according to her husband, who says his wife loved Jesus more than anything else. When asked for comments about the twelve sex dolls, Jenkins replied "This is all just too weird for me. I never expected anything like this to happen."

LONDON (Reuters) - Police in the northern city of Manchester appealed for information on Tuesday after a gang of clowns mounted an armed raid on a wine bar. Three men in fancy dress handcuffed a manager and threatened him with a sawn-off shotgun and a knife before escaping with what was described as "a small amount of money." Police were not amused. "This was a highly organized team, who had obviously spent some time planning this robbery," Detective Inspector Darren Shenton said in a statement. The gang made off in a van with police in pursuit, and managed to escape despite being involved in three accidents on the way. Police said witnesses could not have failed to notice the robbers. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&e=3&u=/nm/20020716/od_nm/clowns_dc_1 Warning, this next one is very disturbing. LONDON (Reuters) - A British teenager described as being obsessed with vampires is accused of butchering a 90-year-old woman, cutting out her heart and drinking her blood, newspapers reported on Wednesday. Prosecutors told a court in Mold, north Wales, the 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, stabbed Mabel Leyshon at her home before ripping out her heart and wrapping it in newspaper. Mold Crown Court heard that the deaf pensioner was attacked as she sat watching television and ferociously stabbed 22 times. Her dead body, found last November, was then perched on an armchair where the killer made deep gashes in her legs and drank her blood after draining it into a saucepan, prosecutors said. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=7&u=/nm/20020717/od_nm/vampire_dc_1 wrapping it in newspaper!!!! What about the chips? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=573&e=3&cid=573&u=/nm/20020718/od_nm/execution_dc_1 Killer, Rapist to Be Thrown Off Cliff in Sack A lighter moment, perhaps, there have been a number of blow dart attacks in Washington: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=573&e=4&cid=573&u=/nm/20020718/od_nm/darts_dc_1 Silent Blow Dart Attacks Mystify and, the most disturbing of all. "His first victims tended to be terminally ill, but then he moved on to murder patients that simply irritated him."

3 Injuries, 2 Murders: A Van Accident Takes Ugly Turn in Chicago Five Held in Beating Of Driver, Companion By Robert E. Pierre Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 1, 2002; Page A03 CHICAGO, July 31 -- The van ran a stop sign, jumped a curb, and plowed into a crowd of people sitting on a stoop, injuring three young women. But then the accident turned deadly. As more than 100 people watched, the 62-year-old driver and his 49-year-old passenger were pulled from the van and beaten to death, police said. No one tried to intervene though several people dialed 911 to report the beating and the accident. "A gang of murderers, thugs . . . decided the best course of action was to drag these men from the vehicle and beat them with bricks, their feet and their hands," Police Superintendent Terry G. Hillard said today at a news conference. "This is not street justice. Vigilante does not apply. This is a simple, senseless, cowardly homicide." more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26022-2002Jul31.html

A "designer kidnapping" service in NYC charges thousands of dollars toviolently abuct their client, bind and gag them and hold them hostage for hours or even days. WTF? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2163666.stm A bizarre new service offering 'designer kidnapping' for thrill-seeking New Yorkers is dividing opinion across the city. Brock Enright, a 25-year-old artist, has created a business where people pay him thousands of dollars a time to be violently abducted. Around 30 people have used the service so far, and dozens of other personalised 'kidnap plans' are in preparation. One of my favourite ones is the guy who loves small places. When I abduct him he's always under his bed Brock Enright Each kidnap is different, to cater for the particular tastes of the individual. Clients are mostly bound and gagged and taken away for a period of incarceration that lasts for hours, or even days. "It's about stepping outside of yourself. I wanted to see what I could do," said Jason, a carpenter, in his mid-20s, who has gone through the kidnap experience three times already. "I just wanted to see if it was possible for me to be in a situation like that." Thrill of the unknown Many clients are abducted in the street, day or night. Some wake up at home to find Mr Enright's operatives - or "birds" as he calls them - looming over them. "One of my favourite ones is the guy who loves small places. When I abduct him he's always under his bed, says Mr Enright. Kidnapping organiser Brock Enright "He wants to be taken out of his home always." Psychotherapist Sheena Hankin believes there could be therapeutic value in kidnapping for fun - and would even try it herself. "We're built for it. It gives us a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. "Having had enough courage to go through something, when you get off the rollercoaster you feel really good about yourself. "When you come out of this kidnapping - you've survived it," she said. Kidnap "victims" agree a time-frame for their abduction, but the thrill comes in not quite knowing when the "birds" will strike. Booming business Brock Enright says that the profile of his average client is changing. More men are coming to him keen on trying to evade their kidnappers. It can cause psychological damage, because it gives the impression to the person who participates that they can do anything Gerald Landsberg The danger may lie in not knowing when the hunted will cross the line and start fighting back. There's nothing illegal about the business, but the New York Police Department is not happy about it. "It's not something we condone," said a police spokesman. "Something like this tends to desensitise people - especially if you find yourself in a real-life negative situation down the road." The director of New York's Institute Against Violence, Professor Gerald Landsberg, agrees: Jason has experienced the ordeal three times "It can cause psychological damage, because it gives the impression to the person who participates that they can do anything. "They're 'super-people' which can lead to other kinds of activities that are probably not in their best interests, or people that they know." 'Destructive activity' Other care organisations are also angry. The New York social workers' association says it's a destructive activity to be "enjoying" at a time when children continue to be regularly abducted from the street with tragic consequences. Surprisingly however, there have not been any cases so far of outraged New Yorkers intervening in a kidnap scenario on Manhattan, despite the fact that many are carried out on city streets during the day. As the whole business began initially as a piece of video installation art, before he realised its commercial potential, Brock Enright is well aware of the reason. "People don't seem to bother us because they see a video camera - maybe two or three cameras going. Then they say - oh, it's a movie." However Mr Enright admits to concerns that the service is beginning get out of hand and is becoming too violent. "Right now I am worrying. I'm thinking about it a lot."

This is a wild story. A burglar broke into a house, found a bunch of pedophile photos including one of his own sister! and turned himself and the photos in to police. http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/1028rape.html

Man, Woman Attacked By Pit Bull in Southeast Victims Were Walking in Neighborhood By Justin Blum Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 9, 2003; Page C04 A pit bull broke out of a fenced yard in Southwest Washington yesterday, attacked a woman walking nearby and wounded a man before the man put the dog in a headlock and strangled it, police said. more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17274-2003Nov8.html

i really hate those ******* dogs

The cops carry around pepper spray for a reason. People have gotten out of control with their dogs.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/03/09/million.dollar.bill.ap/index.html COVINGTON, Georgia (AP) -- A Georgia woman who tried to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at Wal-Mart was arrested, and police later found two more of the bills in her purse.

when you think about it, this woman embodies the genuine spirit of the greenspan/bush monetary policy revolution (they'll build statues for her someday)...