Boston Herald

How did they get here so fast?

- Mike PINGREE

Two thugs stormed into a T-Mobile store in Norman, Okla., forced two young employees into a back room, and ordered them to fill a garbage bag with the store’s priciest merchandis­e. They put about $30,000 worth of phones into the trash bag, but made sure to activate the GPS tracker in one of them. The cops caught up with the thieves in short order.

I’M STARTING TO FEEL UNATTRACTI­VE! ... An intoxicate­d woman was charged with domestic battery after she attacked her live-in boyfriend at their Tampa, Fla., home on Thanksgivi­ng night after he refused to have sex with her. Police said she was also arrested in September 2017 for punching a man who refused to have sex with her. Authoritie­s were unsure if it was a different man or the same man.

THESE GUYS KNOW HOW TO PARTY ... Three people were getting high on meth in a stolen car in the parking lot of the Walmart in Vancouver, Wash., when one of them became paranoid and claimed he was missing drugs and money, so he took the other two hostage at gunpoint. Then he sent one of his hostages into the store to steal jumper cables because the car’s battery was dead. The hostage instead informed workers of the situation, and they called the cops. OOOH, DESSERT! ... A bear roaming a suburban neighborho­od with her three cubs opened the door of an unlocked car parked in a driveway in Asheville, N.C., and they ate 49 candy bars on the front seat while ripping up the interior of the vehicle.

HELLO, MA’AM, CAN I HELP YOU? ... A man broke into a home in Limestone County, Ala., washed his clothes, took a bath, clipped his toenails and made a ham and egg sandwich which he was about to eat when the woman who lived there returned home. An awkward confrontat­ion ensued. Deputies believe the guy was under the influence of narcotics.

MOMMY ISN’T FEELING WELL ... A heavily intoxicate­d woman crashed into two parked cars just before arriving at her home in Johnstown, Pa. When police arrived, they found her and her three children — who had been with her in the car — in the upstairs bathroom. She was throwing up in the sink while one of her kids held her hair out of the way.

JUST TAKE THE CHICKEN AND GO, MISS ... A woman demanded free fried chicken at a takeout restaurant in Manchester, England, became verbally abusive when she was refused, and then offered sexual favors to a worker in exchange for the food. Finally, they gave her four free chicken wings in hopes that she would just leave. But she didn’t. She continued to be aggressive, so they called the cops. LESSON LEARNED ... A teacher at Guanying Middle School in Xinxiang city, China, caught a student using her cellphone during class, so he forced her to smash it with a hammer in front of her classmates.

THAT WOULD EXPLAIN IT ... A man got out of his car, stripped naked and tried to jump through the window of a diner in Lancaster, Pa. Police said he was under the influence of an unknown substance.

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