Weird BUT true
She was dangerously cheesy.
An Oklahoma break-in suspect was busted — thanks partly to the orange Cheetos residue on her teeth.
Tulsa suspect Sharon Carr was nabbed by cops after allegedly breaking into a home through one of its windows Friday. Responding officers found Carr on the property — and an empty Cheetos bag near the broken window.
A woman in the home ID’d Carr as the person who tried to break in — and police said they also linked her to the crime because of the Cheetos’ remnants on her teeth.
This fortune cookie lived up to its name.
Ernesto Sorzano’s Chinesetakeout dinner paid off bigtime when he played the set of lucky numbers in his fortune cookie on a North Carolina Powerball ticket.
Sorzano said he used the numbers for a $3 power-play ticket — matching four winning numbers, for $500,000.
A couple of Arizona gardeners discovered a heap of lead in their soil — prompting a visit from cops.
The Phoenix homeowners were digging a hole in their yard for a tree when they unearthed a trove of rusty rifles and handguns in a duffle bag.
Neighbors said the family had lived at the property four years, following a string of renters.
It’s sickening.
A British family claimed to have gotten deathly ill from food poisoning during a vacation to the Canary Islands — but online photos they posted of themselves frolicking on the getaway suggested they were nothing more than nauseating liars.
The family tried suing the holiday company they booked with, but they landed in jail when their alleged scheme was exposed.
US Customs officials said baloney to bologna-smugglers at the Mexican border.
The authorities last week seized hundreds of pounds of the meat hidden beneath a vehicle’s floor mats and seats at a border crossing in New Mexico. Tamar Lapin,
Kate Sheehy, Wires
Expect “a slew of essays and think pieces from the corporate press” citing last weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference as proof that “the Republican Party is in crisis, lost in the wilderness, imploding,” predicts The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson. They will argue that the party has become “insane and radical” under former President Donald Trump’s “stranglehold.” Such handwringing won’t achieve the desired effect, however, since “most Republican voters liked the direction of the party under Trump.” Pretending otherwise obscures “the reality that the party has managed to bring in new voters” and is “poised to take back the House and Senate in 2022.” The left’s worst nightmare is “a conservative populist movement that brings in new voters by actually listening to what they want and fighting for their interests in Washington.”