BERLIN (AP) - An early-morning German bank customer had a bit of a shock when he found a horse already in line at the automatic teller machine in front of him. It seems the horse’s owner, identified only as Wolfgang H., had a bit too much to drink the night before and decided to sleep it off inside the bank’s heated foyer, police said Tuesday.
Read more…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. - It might not have been the smartest phone call he ever made. Jeremy Conrad Cornick, 30, called police Tuesday to say he had been chased up a tree by narcotics officers from a county in the southern part of the state.
Read more…
MOBILE, Ala. - There’s no use crying over spilled milk, but spilled soda has been a nightmare for one man.
Eric Burns Overstreet was put in jail in September after entering the Mystik Stop & Shop, paying for a fountain drink and spilling three cups of it onto the floor.
Read more…
Thousands of people have been ‘fleeced’ into buying neatly coiffured lambs they thought were poodles.
Entire flocks of lambs were shipped over from the UK and Australia to Japan by an internet company and marketed as the latest ‘must have’ accessory.
Read more…
GUWEI’IYYA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - The legs are long, the eyes are big, the bodies curvaceous.
Contestants in this Saudi-style beauty pageant have all the features you might expect anywhere else in the world, but with one crucial difference — the competitors are camels.
Read more…
A 20-year-old Mesa woman who had urinated on herself grabbed a pair of khaki pants at a department store, put them on and attempted to leave, police records show.
The woman was stopped by security officers at the Mervyn’s in the 1200 block of East Main Street on Sunday afternoon with several articles of underclothing valued at $47 stuffed in her purse, police said.
Read more…
Red hair and the big earrings are out for women Beijing cab drivers in the run-up to next summer’s Olympic Games, a state-run newspaper reported Wednesday.
The bans were part of a 12-item self-improvement list given to cab drivers by the city’s transport management bureau, the Beijing News said.
Read more…
A man with a prosthetic leg that fell off while he tried to flee from police was arrested Tuesday a short time after he allegedly burglarized a market in Pomona, Calif. with an accomplice, who escaped, police said.
Read more…
Police looking for a purse snatcher were able to flush the suspect out from the portable toilet where he was hiding.
“A Port-A-Potty is not a good place to hide,” police Chief James Kudlak said Wednesday. “There’s only one way out.”
Read more…