When they have to dance, there’s no stopping them

Old women have been gathering in China’s public parks and squares, and dancing in unison to loud music. They have been blamed for disturbing the peace, but many are too scared to stop them. One group confronted basketball players in an attempt to take over their court. And another came onto a football field and stopped the game to dance in the space, prompting a police response and arrests.

an eXCellent girlFrienD, though: A woman who was riding with her boyfriend when the cops pulled him over for a traffic violation in Troy, Mich., called 911 and reported a fake shooting in the hopes that they would respond to the more serious crime and not arrest the boyfriend. It didn’t work. She was charged with falsely summoning a police officer.

gee, it WorkeD out so Well YesterDaY: A 33-yearold man robbed a bank in Fountain Valley, Calif., making off with a “large amount of cash,” and returned the next day in an attempt to rob it again. This time he was caught.

i’M out oF orDer!? You’re out oF orDer! A man was hauled into court for refusing to pay an outstanding parking fine, and then assaulting the enforcement officer who had responded by attaching a clamp to his vehicle in Bryn, Port Talbot, Wales. At his court appearance, he claimed that he did not recognize the judge’s authority, and then tried to climb over his bench in an attempt to carry out a citizen’s arrest.

that’s not all she Wasn’t Wearing: A woman was caught on video hanging out of the passenger’s window of a car and exposing her breasts to other drivers as the vehicle sped down I-75 in Lee County, Fla. Police confirmed that she broke the law because she wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

BeCause it reallY Makes Me Feel Better: A man, who was stopped for riding a bicycle without lights at 2:45 in the morning in Madeira Beach, Fla., told officers that the methamphetamine they found in his possession was intended for “medicinal usage.”

i’M sure theY Don’t Mean Me … ker-sPlash! While workers were repairing a broken 30-inch water main in Upper Marlboro, Md., at 4 in the morning that created an enormous sinkhole, a man driving a Cadillac SUV drove right past cones and barriers and into the waterfilled hole. The vehicle was completely submerged in the sinkhole that spanned nearly two lanes of traffic.

i haVe no Further CoMMent: An attorney in England, who posted a photo from inside his electric car, told a reporter who called him that he was parked at a gas station when he took the picture and so could not be prosecuted for using a mobile phone while driving. When the reported asked why the speedometer, which appeared in the photo, showed his vehicle was traveling at 59 mph, he hung up.

But i Wasn’t trYing to sell the Drugs: A Missouri man, who posted a photo of a catalytic converter he was trying to sell, was arrested on drug charges because a “large bag of meth and a syringe” could be seen in the background.