Boston Herald

Squawk about an alarm

- through the looking glass Mike Pingree

A homeowner in Brockville, Ontario, failed to heed the squawk of his parrot as a thief was sneaking into the residence and stealing the man’s credit card. Fortunatel­y, a neighbor snapped a photo of the thief as he was leaving. Police said that the homeowner ignored the bird, because “he isn’t always a reliable source of informatio­n.”

hello hon, i’M gonna Be a little late: A 21-year-old man, on his way to a date in Port St. Lucie, Fla., checked his teeth in his rearview mirror, drifted across the center lane, and crashed head-on into a police car heading in the opposite direction.

is the lesson here “Always Wear Your Own Pants?”: Police, who broke up a fight between two men on the street in Fort Pierce,

Fla., searched one of the combatants and found four bags of marijuana and MDMA in his left pants pocket. He told officers, “The pants he was wearing did not belong to him.”

Family Christmas Dinners are going to Be a Bit Awkward: A man proposed to his daughter’s ex-boyfriend while the three of them were on his yacht in the Adriatic Sea on a vacation trip to Croatia.

go ahead, Make MY DAY: Three grandmothe­rs have taken up arms to scare off crop-raiding monkeys in the village of Keiishi Town, in Fukui City, Japan. Whenever the animals appear, the ladies drop their housework and rush to the scene in their aprons and fire at them with air guns.

Honey, someone’s at the Door: A tire came off a car after an extremely violent crash and zoomed across the front lawn of a home in Pataskala, Ohio, at 65 mph. It bounced off a tree root and slammed into the front of the house before shattering a pillar, breaking the mailbox and hitting the doorbell.

ok, Pal, Conversati­on over! … Pow! A naked man, who was deliberate­ly blocking traffic on a street in

Ukraine, stood in front of a car being driven by a huge muscular man with a shaved head. The driver got out of his car, and asked him to move out of the way, but he stood there defiantly with arms crossed. So the driver hauled off and knocked him out with one punch.

But he has a great personalit­y: A 29-year-old man from Finsterwal­de, Germany, who is covered in tattoos, has spent thousands of dollars on body modificati­ons, and has even had tongue-splitting surgery and had both of his ears removed to make his head look like a skull. He is currently single and unemployed and believes it could be because of his appearance.

Va Va ZOOM: A Philippine­s government official accidental­ly joined a Zoom meeting with his colleagues, leaving the camera on while he had sex with his secretary.

sarge, We have an excellent lead on this one: Three men, who were on already on pretrial release for previous offenses, carried out a string of burglaries in Hollywood, Fla., while wearing court-ordered ankle monitors that track their locations.

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