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Man mugged waiting in line for iPhone 4
Mashable contributor Samuel Axon is one of many lined up around the country today looking to get their hands on the new iPhone 4. Small problem: He got mugged while waiting for one in Chicago. Oops.
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Drunk driver trapped in his overturned car opened another beer
Drunk driving is not something fun for people…you can injure or kill others and yourself. But, if you’re going to overturn your car and end up trapped, there are totally worse ways to spend your time than cracking open another beer.
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Quote of the Day
One of my favorite subjects for our Quote of the Day is police stating something that should be fairly obvious. Today’s example: A woman who stole two cars and got chased by police while naked. Police say she may have mental issues.
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Police: Sex with a homeless woman led to a stabbing
Not going to lie, this is already my favorite story I've ever written based just on that headline. South Carolina police say that a 58-year-old man was stabbed by his roommate after complaining about him having loud sex with a homeless woman in their apartment. Fun!
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Man gets stolen car back after almost 40 years
If you’ve ever had something of value stolen, you probably know how woefully inefficient the cops are at finding what you had taken. But one man had a stroke of luck and police found his old pickup truck…38 years after he lost it in Los Angeles.
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Quote of the Day
A couple of teens in the UK were arrested for crimes of entrepreneurship…primarily that they were selling booze, food, and porn out of the back of the van. Police tend not to like that.
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74-year-old woman arrested for damaging library books with mayo
The best crimes are completely senseless ones, like the one Boise police are accusing 74-year-old Joy Cassidy. Cassidy is charged with misdemeanor injury to property for her work damaging library books with liquids like mayonnaise, ketchup, and corn syrup. It's a crime of passion, really.
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Incorrect drive-thru order leads to a food fight
Ordering from a drive-thru can be a frustrating experience, what with the fact that the people taking your order sound like the parents from "Peanuts" with the mental competence of, well, someone you'd expect to be working at a drive-thru. There are better ways to handle that frustration than these
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Bali teen caught having sex with a “flirtatious” cow
There are so many odd things with this story, beginning with how the article refers to it as "making love" to a cow. But hey, let me not distract from the fact that an 18-year-old Bali teen named Ngurah Alit is accused of making sweet sweet love to a "flirtatious" cow.
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Clowns protest robbery and murder committed by other clowns
Clowns scare the crap out of a lot of society, myself included. So when a group of 100 professional clounds protest a murder committed by two “impostor” clowns, well, I’m not exactly excited at the prospect of it. But still…kind of weird.
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VIDEO: Woman calls 911 looking for a husband
Marriage is a really big social pressure on women. Abstractly, I get that. So maybe if you go into this clip with that mindset, you won’t think 57-year-old Audrey Scott is a complete maniac for calling 911 to try to find a husband.