True stories

[Screaming Eagle]

I gotta confess, I'm not sure if these are 'funny' or not. If we can't laugh at frailty and irony, what can we laugh at?

 

Police in Tucson, Ariz., say that beauty queen Kumari Fulbright, 25, now a law student at the University of Arizona, aided three men in the abduction, robbery and torture of her former boyfriend. She allegedly lured the unnamed 24-year-old man into a house, and the three men burst into the room and tied him up with plastic wire ties and duct tape. Fulbright then "bit him several times while he was bound, stuck a butcher knife in his ear and said she was going to kill him, [and] pointed a pistol at him," court documents say. After about 10 hours, the man was able to grab Fulbright's gun and escape. Fulbright, who ran for Miss Arizona, was named Miss Pima County in 2005 and Miss Desert Sun in 2006. (Arizona Daily Star)

 

 

Police in Sarasota, Fla., were after a bank robber (demand note: "$30,000 are else. Have a nice day.") when they stopped by a salon to ask if they had seen the suspect. Sure enough, he was sitting in the chair getting a manicure, hoping the stylist could get the red stain out of his hands from the exploding dye pack that was included with the money. Kevin Shelton, 37, was arrested without incident just 22 minutes after the robbery went down. The money, including the $50 tip Shelton gave the stylist, was recovered. "We have his cuticles here, if they need his DNA," noted salon owner Nicole Bociek. (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

 

 

A police sergeant and two constables were out patrolling outside Brisbane, Qld., Australia, when their vehicle was struck by lightning. "Everything went on -- the siren, lights, horn," said Sgt. Craig Shepherd. "It was one of the most freakiest things I've ever seen." The officers limped the damaged 4WD vehicle back to the station -- the siren blaring the whole way -- so they could get the tools to disconnect the siren. (Australian AP) ...The most freaky thing about this: three cops, and none of them had a pocketknife to cut the siren's speaker wire.

 

 

Attendees at a United Nations climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, were disturbed when they noticed that a temporary air conditioning system set up to keep the 10,000 delegates cool not only used ozone-destroying CFCs, but the system, which used plastic pipes, was noticeably leaking. They counted 700 cylinders containing enough of the refrigerant gas to cause as much damage to the atmosphere as 48,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide -- "nearly the equivalent of the emissions of all [the] aircraft used to fly delegates to Indonesia." (Sydney Morning Herald)

 

 

[cookiejar]

The first story was a bit creepy for me.

 

But the others got a grin out of me.

I usually love *world's dumbest criminals* and *The Darwin Awards* kinda stuff.