Boston Herald

So, visiting mother, are you?

- Mike PINGREE

A man in London lied and told his girlfriend that he would be gone to see his mother for a few days because he wanted her out of the way when his other girlfriend flew in to stay with him. But his local girlfriend, an Uber driver, picked up the out-of-town girlfriend at the airport, and drove her to his apartment. An ugly confrontat­ion ensued.

AWWWK! POLLY WANTS SOME BENGALI MEOW MEOW!

... Parrots that live near the poppy fields of India have become addicted to opium and have learned to plunder the plants to feed their habit. They swoop down silently from the trees, gorge on the morphine-rich pods and return to the high branches where they pass out for hours in a druginduce­d haze.

I’M EXPENSIVE, BUT I GET RESULTS, HONEST

... A man who advertised himself as an astrologer and psychic told a Toronto man who had a sick relative that the illness was the doing of an evil spirit. He said he could remove the spirit for a mere $101,000 fee. The victim went to the police instead, and they brought charges of witchcraft, extortion and fraud.

SO THE MYSTERY CONTINUES

... A woman who hit a deer on a highway in Moscow, Idaho, said the animal had been chased out onto the road by Bigfoot — a 7- to 8-foot tall Sasquatch. Investigat­ing officers found no evidence of the elusive creature.

BUT HE MEANT NOTHING TO ME

... A man caught his girlfriend cheating on him with her boss while on a “business trip” when she sent him a nude selfie from her Atlanta hotel room and he noticed a suitcase in the background that didn't belong to her. So he called her hotel and found out that she wasn't even registered there but her boss was. He told her that her belongings would be outside in trash bags when she returned.

HOW DID THE COPS FIND OUT ABOUT IT?

... A group of gang members posted a 40-minute video on YouTube showing 20 of them with guns and a large amount of marijuana in a home in Harvey, Ill., and conducting a drug deal for the camera. They discovered that police keep track of such things when they came and raided the place.

A TEMPTING OFFER, MISS, BUT NO

... A security guard at an apartment complex in Orlando, Fla., ordered a woman who was trespassin­g to leave the area. In response, she lifted the hem of her dress and said, “Is this what you want?” Police arrested her for indecent exposure.

LITTLE HELP HERE! ... A would-be burglar was scared off by a worker at a school in Tucson, Ariz., but as he tried to hop the spiked fence outside, his baggy pants got caught, and he wound up hanging upside down with his pants around his ankles caught in the top of the fence.

I FEEL PRETTY, OH SO PRETTY

... A man was arrested for stealing a bag full of panties from a department store in Bristol, England.

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