The end is near!! Oh, it isn’t? OK, never mind
A couple in Southmayd, Texas, believing that Judgment Day was coming, sold all their furniture and started handing out hundred-dollar bills in a local park. Then they left their house, which was on fire, and walked naked down the road. They were taken into custody.
YOU’D BETTER GET A PAPER ROUTE … A teenager came to court to admit that he threw fireworks into Eagle Creek Canyon in Oregon that sparked a huge fire that swept through the Columbia River Gorge last year. The judge ordered the kid to pay restitution. The damage: $36,618,330.
ARRIVIN’ IN STYLE … A 50-year-old man and his 32-year-old girlfriend stole a motorized shopping cart from a Walmart in Largo, Fla., and drove it to a local dive bar a halfmile away. Cops spotted the cart outside Jimmy's Sports Lounge, and found the couple drinking inside.
HERE, FIDO, GOOD DOGGY … ARRRRGH! … A woman from Kunming, China, bought what she believed was a Tibetan Mastiff puppy, and was soon impressed by the animal's massive appetite as it chowed down on a box of fruit and two buckets of noodles every day. When the pet reached 250 pounds and started walking on its hind legs, she realized that it was an Asiatic black bear.
DOES THIS BELONG TO YOU, FELLAS? … Three men, who stole a 26-footlong shed from a foreclosed property in Lebanon, Maine, were arrested when state troopers caught them dragging it down a road with a truck.
PRETTY GOOD REPLACEMENTS … A masked man, armed with a knife, tried to rob a CVS Pharmacy in Stockton, Calif., where he once worked as a loss prevention officer. He was tackled by current loss prevention officers.
I LOVE THAT NEW CAR SMELL … Two teenagers were arrested after they broke into cars at an auto dealership in Oklahoma City to smoke marijuana.
NYAH, NYAH, YOU DIDN’T CATCH ME! … OOPS … Police pulled over a car in Moses Lake, Wash., and arrested the driver, but let his 19-yearold female passenger go because they had no legal reason to detain her. Turns out, the lady is a convicted felon, and she went on a police Facebook page to brag about skirting arrest. But the cops searched the vehicle and found her ID along with a pistol, heroin and the paperwork from the last time she was released from jail. They came and got her.
MAYBE AN OLD GIRLFRIEND ‘RECOGNIZED’ HIM … A burglar was caught on surveillance footage breaking into 15 houses in the Neyyattinkara district of India while naked and wearing his underpants on his head to hide his identity.
WELL, IT’S ONE WAY TO GET FAMOUS … A woman who was unhappy with a phone she bought at the Boost Mobile Store in East Ridge, Tenn., got into an argument with workers and went outside to ram her car into the building. An employee tried to stop her, saying, “Ma'am, don't do this.” She said, “No, I'm going to. This is BS. And I wanna be on the news.” And so she was.