Weird BUT true
The stork brought babies and flew away with thousands of private records.
Arizona’s Department of Health Services said its newborn-screening program gathered addresses, birth dates, health-insurance records, names, phone numbers and Social Security numbers from 2,500 babies. The information was boxed up — but the box somehow got lost in the mail.
This marijuana-growing operation in Los Angeles was a blazing failure.
Firefighters doused a burning home in Van Nuys on Saturday, officials said, in a blaze touched off by an electrical overload.
It turns out all the power had been maintaining an elaborate pot-growing business, authorities said. Police seized 48 marijuana plants.
There’s a royal rumble between Burger King and Belgium’s King Philippe.
The chain launched an online ad asking Belgians whom they prefer more — their own king or the burger chain’s mascot.
The ad uses a cartoon of Philip, not his actual photo. But a royal spokesman said, “We disapprove of this approach. The use of the king’s image is subject to authorization . . . Since it is for commercial purposes, we would not have given our authorization.”
Thankfully for these crooks, they didn’t steal watermelons.
South African cops are in hot water after videos emerged of them pelting apple-thief suspects with their stolen fruits.
Western Cape authorities are investigating the potential misconduct.
It was raining euros on the Autobahn.
A businessman on a motorcycle lost a plastic bag stuffed with his day’s earnings while driving across the Bavarian Autobahn on Sunday, German cops said.
The incident sent 9,000 euros, or about $10,000, scattering across the roadway. About 1,500 euros blew away before the notes could be recovered.