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Arrest Resister of the Week

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Mar 10,2010 - When two city police officers found Jack A. Seabright Jr., 23, passed out in his vehicle in Washington, Pa., they tried various ways to rouse him.

News Quirks

Rocket Man

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Mar 3,2010 - A 62-year-old man hosting a sledding party in Oakland County, Mich., stuffed a used automobile muffler with gasoline, gunpowder and match heads ...

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Holy Scanner

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 24,2010 - Grzegorz Sowa, a Catholic priest in the Polish town of Gryfow Slaski, installed an electronic reader to check fingerprints of schoolchildren so he could monitor their attendance at mass.

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Just Can’t Get Enough

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 17,2010 - South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma confirmed that he fathered the daughter of a woman who isn’t one of his three wives. Zuma has 19 other children.

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Respite for Print

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 10,2010 - The Long Island daily newspaper Newsday became one of the first nonbusiness newspapers to charge customers for access to its Website...

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Next Time, a Bazooka

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 3,2010 - When Donald Koranek, 80, tried to enter the Hillsborough County (Fla.) Courthouse with a pocketknife, a security guard told him to take the knife to his car. He returned with a gun.

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When the Heimlich Maneuver Fails

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jan 27,2010 - While handcuffing assault suspect Andrew Grande, 23, sheriff’s deputies in Bay County, Fla., said they observed him swallowing what turned out to be a “large bag of marijuana.”

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As God Is My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fry

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jan 20,2010 - Allegedly intending to demonstrate the dangers of frying a turkey, morning disc jockeys on radio station WFLZ in Tampa, Fla., planned to use a crane...

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Central Unintelligence Agency

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jan 13,2010 - Dennis Montgomery, head of a small software company in Reno, Nev., duped the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security...

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Social Networking

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jan 6,2010 - A Detroit man who took a bus to Madison, Wis., to spend a week dating a woman he met on Facebook told police that when his visit ended, she pretended to drive him...
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