Weird National Briefs - February 12th, 2014
Going bananas
BEAUMONT, Texas - Police have cited an 18-year-old Beaumont man who riled and worried passing motorists by standing at an intersection dressed as a banana with an assault rifle slung across his back.
Weird National Briefs - October 9th, 2013
Tipping point
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - An Oregon bartender got the tip of a lifetime this week.
The Register-Guard newspaper reports that a customer at Conway's Restaurant and Lounge in Springfield often tips bartender Aurora Kephart with unplayed tickets for the state lottery's Keno game.
Weird National Briefs - October 2, 2013
Birthday suit Halloween
SINKING SPRING, Pa - Naked and scared has turned into semi-clothed and kind of spooked.
A Halloween attraction's heavily publicized plan to allow guests to go through one of its haunted houses in the buff was revised Thursday amid opposition from local officials in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Weird National Briefs - Sept 18, 2013
This week in criminal masterminds
LIVINGSTON, Mont. - Police trying to figure out who egged and toilet-papered a house in a south-central Montana town cracked the case after finding a grocery bag and a receipt in the backyard.
Livingston Police Chief Darren Raney said Tuesday that a resident reported his house had been targeted by vandals on Aug. 29.
September 4, 2013
Zero tolerance
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. - A 73-year-old man who was given the first civil marijuana ticket in a Vermont town says he had planted some seeds he found in a box and 'got spanked' by police after it grew into a pot plant.
William Reynolds was issued a $200 civil ticket by St. Johnsbury police after authorities seized a potted 2 1/2-foot-tall marijuana plant from his Main Street apartment.
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