“I Think I’m Innocent”

DNA analysis is the most reliable crimescene tool, having exonerated dozens of people. But it can lead to tragic mistakes.

arrested after he was found to have warrants for both names.

✦ A woman whose finger got stuck in a drain was reported to be conscious and breathing.

✦ Suspicious people were reportedly doing something with flashlights. A deputy checked and found the people were not suspicious, but merely Canadian. —policeone.com, huffingtonpost.com, mercurynews.com It’s come to this: A Florida gas station owner has had to place a sign in her store asking customers not to warm their urine in the microwave. Parul Patel’s Jacksonville gas station/convenience store is just a few blocks from two drug-testing services. Why the urine has to be delivered warm we can only guess, but when Patel confronted one woman, she indignantly demanded to see a sign that bans nuking urine in her store. Hence the sign. —nbcmiami.com I work at a museum, and a woman asked me if mummies were older than dinosaurs. —pleasefireme.tumblr.com

“We actually get this question on a pretty regular basis,” says an official with Iowa’s Department of Transportation. The source of confusion: The deer-crossing signs that are posted along the road.

And the question: “Why don’t you put these signs where it’s safer for the deer to cross?” —kcrg.com