Archived brainless wonders for Mar 2008
Mankind has created spectacular works of art, engineered incredibly tall buildings, designed impressive supercomputers, lived in outerspace, discovered cures for nasty diseases. As a whole, nothing can compare to human intelligence, but sometimes humans, well, you know...
Washington state detectives say man asked friend to shoot him in the arm so he could skip work
Mar 1 2008 - AP
What happened to faking a cough?
Sheriff's detectives in Franklin County, Washington, say a man had his friend shoot him in the shoulder so he wouldn't have to go to work.
When he first spoke with deputies, Daniel Kuch...
Police dog sniffs out man in dog house
Mar 4 2008 - AP
A 19-year-old Pasco man is in jail after a police dog sniffed him out of a dog house. When a man called police early Tuesday to report that his car had been stolen, officers around the city began searching for it. They spotted it once and tried...
N.H. cops use newspaper photo to nab man
Mar 4 2008 - AP
Vern Potter's whereabouts had been unknown since Concord police issued an arrest warrant for him in January. Then a police lieutenant happened to spot a page-one photo of Potter in Tuesday's New Hampshire Union Leader, shoveling snow off the roof...
High on Mount Sinai?
Mar 4 2008 - Reuters
The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.
Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny...
Burglars done in by doughnuts
Mar 5 2008 - AP
When two guys in cowboy garb offered the sheriff's deputies doughnuts, and then the deputies investigated a burglary involving doughnuts and the prints of cowboy boots, it didn't take Sherlock Holmes to crack the case.
"The officers...
French mayor tells locals not to die
Mar 6 2008 - Reuters
BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.
In an ordinance posted in the...
Wilson Yazzie Benally is one of the Salt Lake Police Department's most frequently arrested persons. In March 2008, he had compiled a record that included more than 450 arrests.
Mar 7 2008 - KUTV2.com
A transient was arrested for the 452nd time this week after allegedly trying to steal a bottle of mouthwash from a drug store.
Wilson Yazzie Benally has a long history with Salt Lake City Police and remains one of the department's most-arrested...
Man Killed In Soapbox Street Race In Tarzana
Mar 9 2008 - AP
A man has died after the homemade soapbox he was riding down a San Fernando Valley street during a race spun out of control and crashed into a parked car.
Police Sgt. Jim Mascola says the incident took place around 7:40 a.m. Sunday in Tarzana.