Wacky Wednesday

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland police say a man impersonating a police officer tried to pull over a real undercover officer and was arrested.

Police say 21-year-old Antonio Fernandez Martinez of Oakland was arrested Wednesday in the Fruitvale district after trying to pull over an unmarked police vehicle. Martinez was driving a Ford Crown Victoria outfitted with flashing lights, a microphone and speakers.
Martinez, a convicted car thief, will have his felony probation revoked and could face a prison term. The officer, Jim Beere, says Martinez probably thought he would be an easy mark to rob.

Credit to MSNBC

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I am pregnant...did you doubt I would find a wacky story about food....Enjoy!!

MINNEAPOLIS - A 151-pound cupcake near Minneapolis has been certified as the world's largest. The 1-foot tall, 2-foot wide cupcake on display Saturday at the Minneapolis Mall of America had 15 pounds of fudge filling and 60 pounds of yellow icing. Guinness World Records adjudicator Danny Girton Jr. called it a "fun and creative achievement." The cupcake was made by cakes.com, which is run by cake-decoration supplier and marketer DecoPac.

Company spokeswoman Jamie Miller said the giant cupcake will go to a pig farm. The company decided against giving away pieces to mall patrons because most would not have had frosting.
Instead, cakes.com gave away 4,000 smaller cupcakes.

Credit to: MSNBC

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This weeks Wacky Wednesday, isn't so much funny as it is completely disturbing. This story bothers me, not because this man went to prison for breaking the law; I understand that. He needed to serve jail time for stealing money from innocent people. However, what bothers me considerably is the fact he received 150 years in prison for sealing MONEY, when others have stolen the innocence of a child by molestation, rape, or abuse and only receive 25 years or less. This just shows where our society's morals are. We value money more than human life and that is sad.

My Pastor used this quote in his sermon this past Sunday, and it is so true!!

"Men, are great not by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtues."

Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years in Prison

NEW YORK — Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for a fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a message to potential imitators and to victims who demanded harsh punishment.

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They left out one seemingly important detail, important to me anyway. Was there anyone in the portable toilets??? YUCK!!! Can you imagine being inside one of those things when something like this happened. I think that may be why I have a fear of portable toilets.

PUYALLUP, Wash. - A small airplane dropping from the sky after its engine failed wound up on a cushioning bunch of portable toilets — and the pilot was able to walk away apparently unhurt.

Gary Mayor of the Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna 182 crashed Friday afternoon in Washington state after taking off from Thun Field, an airfield owned by Pierce County southeast of Tacoma. Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says the plane was about 150 feet in the air when the engine quit. Troyer told The News Tribune that the pilot tried to turn around to land but didn't quite make it. The plane hit a fence, flipped over and landed upside down on top of the portable toilets standing in a storage yard. Authorities didn't immediately give the pilot's identity.

Credit to: MSNBC

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I knew there had to be some good in these horribly uncomfortable contraptions...LOL





DETROIT - The metal underwire in a Detroit woman's bra is being credited with deflecting a bullet fired at her during a break-in at a neighbor's home.
Detroit police Officer Leon Rahmaan says the 57-year-old woman apparently looked out her window Tuesday when one of three men fired the shot.
He says the slug smashed through her window pane before hitting the bra's underwire. It did not penetrate her skin.


Police say she may have gone to the window after a burglar alarm at the house next door sounded. Her neighbor was not at home at the time. The suspects drove away after the shooting.



Credit to MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30354902/

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This is the strangest sweetest story. I just love happy endings to weird stories. I can't imaging how happy this family was to get this dog back and how happy the poor little dog was to be back. Amazing!

Overboard dog comes home after 4 months on island

SYDNEY (AP) - A pet dog swept off a sailboat in choppy seas off Australia was found alive four months later on a remote island - and returned to her family, who'd thought she was dead. The 4-year-old blue heeler, named Sophie Tucker, was captured by rangers last week on St. Bees Island in northern Queensland state, nearly 6 miles from where she was washed off the sailboat in November, owner Jan Griffith said. Rangers initially thought they'd captured a wild dog, but friends who heard about the canine contacted Griffith and suggested it might be Sophie.
Last Tuesday, Griffith and her husband met the rangers' boat as it arrived back on the mainland and were shocked to find their long-lost pet on board.

"We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us," Griffith told Monday's Daily Mercury newspaper. "She wriggled around like a mad thing."

The dog had been spotted by several people on both St. Bees and nearby Keswick Island, leading Griffith to believe she swam back and forth between the two, which are separated by a narrow channel. Queensland wildlife official Steve Fisher said three rangers trapped Sophie in a cage, using dog food as bait.

Wacky Wednesday (2 for 1)

You get two, for the low low price of one today!!

I couldn't decide..... Post about the dumbest crook EVER or the drunk guy on a motorized BAR STOOL!! So your getting both...enjoy!!



'Dumbest Criminal' Nabbed in Cop Convention Holdup

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A retired police chief said he was robbed by "probably the dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania," at a police officers' convention on Friday morning.

John Comparetto said as he came out of a stall in the men's room, a man pointed a gun in his face and demanded money. There were 300 narcotics officers from Pennsylvania and Ohio at the gathering. Comparetto gave up his money and cell phone. But when the man fled, Comparetto and some colleagues chased him. They arrested a 19-year-old man as he was trying to leave in a taxi. The suspect is also awaiting trial on four previous robbery charges.

The suspect was arraigned and taken to Dauphin County Prison. When a reporter asked the suspect for comment as he was led out of court, he said, "I'm smooth."

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Ohio Man Charged with Drunken Driving on Bar Stool

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) - Authorities in Ohio say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool.

Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.

Twenty-eight-year old Kile Wygle was hospitalized for minor injuries. Police say he was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he told an officer at the hospital that he had consumed 15 beers. Wygle told police his motorized bar stool can go up to 38 mph.

Wygle has pleaded not guilty and has requested a jury trial.


Credit to http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090328/D976MTU80.html

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Please continue to pray for Stellan, he is still in SVT. You can go to MckMama's blog for updates on Stellan, or to leave a comment that you are praying.

I think we could all use a little chuckle today and really, this one takes the cake, or should I say Pie (Pizza Pie that is)!!

BIDDEFORD, Maine -- Police arrested a woman suspected of robbing a small variety store in Maine.

Just after noon on Monday, 48-year-old Mary Gorsuch of Biddeford is believed to have entered Paul's Variety on Alfred Street and demanded money from the clerk, claiming she would "blow [the clerk's] head off" if she didn't comply. The clerk gave Gorsuch several hundred dollars, and then watched her walk across the street to a pizza parlor. The clerk called 911, gave police a description of the suspect and told them she had just entered the pizza shop.

Officers found Gorsuch waiting for a pepperoni pizza she had ordered. She was taken into custody and charged with robbery. Despite the suspect's threat, no weapon was located and there were no injuries. It is unclear whether a weapon was shown at anytime during the incident. Gorsuch was already on federal probation for armed robbery of a banking institution in the Bangor area. Police expect that probation will be revoked.


Credit to: Clumsy Crooks

....And that’s why they call it "DOPE" people!

I just love dumb crook news, or just abnormally strange news stories! I also love to e-mail them to my friends with my own commentary. I have decided, since I do love this so much, I would dedicate a day to it on my blog.

I now present to you the first ever "Wacky Wednesday!"

(I am still working on a permanent picture, but for now, the frog will have to do)

The Drug Cover(ed) Letter

A nightclub owner who wrote a letter to police denying that drug use was rife in her club, has lost her license, after cops found that the LETTER ITSELF was covered in cocaine.

Pauline Terry wrote the letter in January, denying that Club Compass in Ramsgate, Kent was a haven for drug taking. A police raid on the venue had found 'huge' traces of various Class A drugs in the bar and toilets, including cocaine, heroin and ecstasy.

A police source said: “It does us a lot of favors when the licensee, in defending her nightclub on drug allegations, sends in a letter covered in cocaine.”

Police licensing officer Nigel Cruttenden said: “When we did a swab in the toilets we found traces of cocaine, heroin and ecstasy at the highest level ever recorded in Thanet. A level of 4 is sufficient for magistrates to order a ‘crack house closure’ and we found 8.3.”

And about Terry's letter, he added: “When I did a swab I found a reading of 1.1 for cocaine INSIDE the envelope.” Terry - who was fined £1,000 for a number of license breaches last month - failed to turn up for the licensing hearing last week, at which Thanet council revoked her license. Police are recommending that the club be closed permanently.

Credit to http://www.clumsycrooks.com/news/drug_denial_letter_covered_in_drugs.htm