Boston Herald

Ring, ring ... uh, officer, I think this is for you

- Mike Pingree

After a deputy pulled over a car full of drunken young men for speeding in South Charleston, W. Va., one of them called 911 to falsely report that a nearby gas station had been robbed to get the cop to leave them and investigat­e. But, a dispatcher pinged the phone used to report the robbery which identified its location. Then, when he called the number, a phone in the back seat began ringing right in front of the deputy. oh, that eXPlains it: A man with a “lengthy” criminal history tried to enter a neighbor’s apartment in West Monroe, La., at 2 o’clock in the morning, and told arresting officers that “a big snake” told him to do it. He also admitted that he had smoked crack “within the last hour.” he’s Planning an interestin­g eVening: A man fled from a Giant grocery store in Bethesda, Md., with hundreds of dollars worth of erectile dysfunctio­n and insomnia medication after being told by a pharmacist that the drugs were not covered by his insurance. grannY neeDeD soMe “Me

tiMe”: After dropping off her grandchild in Independen­ce, Ohio, a woman passed out at the wheel of her car in the parking lot of a gas station in Broadview Heights, woke up and was pulled over on Interstate 77. The cop found an open bottle of vodka, cocaine and drug parapherna­lia in her car. He said she was slurring her words and acting confused, and arrested her for drunken driving.

You knoW, it DiD seeM VerY liFe-like: A 68-year-old man spotted what he thought was a life-sized, plastic crocodile in a pool at an amusement park in Cagayan de Oro, Philippine­s, so he decided to get in the water and take a selfie with the 14-foot-long “replica.” He realized that it was a real crocodile when it chomped down on his left arm, and tried to kill him. The man barely escaped with his life. no, reallY, theY’re MY Cars, honest: A woman stole two vehicles from her neighbors and then tried to sell them for scrap to a recycling company in St. Petersburg, Fla. She pretended that the 2001 BMW and a 2000 Ford F-150 belonged to her, and got $300 for each of the vehicles, before they were towed to a salvage yard, where they were reported stolen while in the yard’s possession.

the PiZZa Business is eXtreMelY ProFitaBle: The two owners of a pizza joint in Edmonton, Alberta, have been charged with selling drugs by hiding them in pizza boxes. The cops seized more than $60,000 in drugs and cash including fentanyl, methamphet­amine and cocaine. i Don’t knoW MuCh aBout art, But i knoW What i like:

Canadian border officers in British Columbia discovered several kilograms of methamphet­amine encased in a painting destined for Western Australia.

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