Claudell Curry, 82, and his wife, Odell Marie, 83, heard a loud crashing noise as they watched TV in their San Bernardino, Calif., home one evening. Imagine their surprise when a block of ice tore through their roof and landed on their bed. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the ice might have dropped off a passenger airliner, having formed after a leak in the galley. Neither of the Currys was hurt, but \u201cWe shiver every time we think we could have been in bed,\u201d Claudell told The San Bernardino Sun.<\/p>\n
Wrong Place, Wrong Time<\/strong><\/p>\n Melissa Allen, 32, was arrested after trying to shoplift more than $1,000 in merchandise from a Framingham, Mass., Target store. On hand to help in the arrest were more than 50 police officers who were at the store to participate in the annual \u201cShop With a Cop\u201d holiday charity event.<\/p>\n He Got A New Drug<\/strong><\/p>\n In Lawrence County, Tenn., law enforcement officials are confronting the fallout from a new drug known as \u201cWasp\u201d (crystallized wasp repellant mixed with methamphetamine). As the Johnson family baked Christmas cookies in their Lawrenceburg kitchen, Danny Hollis, 35, walked into their home and asked for help. Hollis poured himself a glass of water from the sink before grabbing a knife and cutting across his throat. Teenage son Canaan Johnson said Hollis then ran up to the second floor, heaved an oak dresser down the stairs, and jumped out a window onto a gazebo below, seriously injuring his neck. The Johnsons, meanwhile, had retreated to their car, where they called 911. Hollis chased the car down the street, but got hung up on a barbed wire fence. He then stripped naked to free himself and climbed a nearby tree, where officers eventually found him, according to police reports. Hollis was booked into the county jail on numerous charges.<\/p>\n There\u2019s Nothing That Can\u2019t Be A Selfie<\/strong><\/p>\n The Tea Terrace in London is offering a new way for customers to enjoy themselves. The shop now sells the \u201cSelfieccino\u201d \u2014 an image of the customer\u2019s face in the frothy topping of either a cappuccino or a hot chocolate. Patrons send a photo to the shop via an online messaging app, and the \u201cCino\u201d machine takes it from there, reproducing the picture with flavorless food coloring in four minutes. \u201cDue to social media,\u201d shop owner Ehab Salem Shouly told Reuters, \u201cthe dining experience has completely shifted. It\u2019s not enough anymore to just deliver great food and great service.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Never 21 Binkies\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n When his owners had a new baby, Dovey the Shar Pei, of Edmond, Okla., got in the habit of stealing its pacifiers. Scott Rogers and his wife noticed that binkies were disappearing. But it wasn\u2019t until Dovey started vomiting and losing weight that they tracked down the lost items. Dr. Chris Rispoli of Gentle Care Animal Hospital took an X-ray of Dovey\u2019s stomach and saw what he thought were seven to nine pacifiers. But when Rispoli opened up Dovey to remove them, he found 21 binkies. Turns out, Dovey was taking the pacifiers off the kitchen counter. \u201cWe\u2019ve had corn cobs and socks and panties and things like that, but never 21 binkies,\u201d said Rispoli.<\/p>\n Engaged Citizen In PJs<\/strong><\/p>\n Pam Bisanti, a 31-year resident of Mount Dora, Fla., approached the city council more than once about the speeding traffic on Clayton Street, where she lives. Recently, Bisanti made good on her threat to take matters into her own hands if the council didn\u2019t by wielding a handmade sign reading \u201cSLOW DOWN\u201d as she stood next to the roadway during rush hour wearing her pajamas and robe. \u201cThe mothers up the street who send their kids down to the bus stop should have every expectation that those kids will be able to cross Clayton without being killed,\u201d Bisanti told the Daily Commercial, saying she plans to continue her protest until the city takes action. \u201cI am frustrated, angry and fed up. There needs to be a solution sooner than later. Remember that vision of me in my pajamas.\u201d<\/p>\n When The Dealer Moves In<\/strong><\/p>\n Stephen Allen of Tukwila, Wash., moved in with his grandmother years ago to help care for her. When she died last year, he invited his brother, a convicted drug dealer, to move in. Along with him came drug activity, squatters, stolen property and debris. Allen eventually asked police to raid the home. When they did, they evicted Allen as well, leaving him homeless. \u201cIt\u2019s all legal, but it\u2019s wrong,\u201d Allen told KIRO-7 News. \u201cI can\u2019t do anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n The Sunshine State<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014 Workers at Captain Hiram\u2019s Sandbar in Sebastian, Fla., resorted to calling police when customer William Antonio Olivieri, 63, refused to leave the bar after a night of drinking. Olivieri told Sebastian police he had arrived by boat. But when no boat was found, he said he might have driven himself to the bar in a black Hyundai. Throughout the interview with police, Olivieri maintained that he was in downtown Melbourne, Fla., where he lives. He was arrested on a charge of disorderly intoxication and taken to the Indian River County Jail.<\/p>\n \u2014 Sumter County, Fla., sheriff\u2019s deputies were dispatched to The Villages, where resident Lori Jo Matthews, 60, reportedly barked at her neighbor\u2019s dogs, then entered the yard, yelling at the neighbor and finally slapping the neighbor after being told to leave. Deputies caught up with Matthews as she attempted to enter her own home, where she was handcuffed and arrested on charges of battery and resisting arrest. Alcohol, reported Villages-News.com, may have been involved.<\/p>\n Bright Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014 Polk County, Fla., sheriff\u2019s officers responded to an unusual 911 call on New Year\u2019s Eve. Michael Lester, 39, of Winter Haven, started off by telling the dispatcher, \u201cUmm, I\u2019m drunk. I don\u2019t know where I\u2019m at. I\u2019m just drunk driving.\u201d The dispatcher urged Lester to pull over and park, but he explained he was driving on the wrong side of the road near a Publix and wondered where the police were. WTVT reported that officers finally caught up with Lester, who helpfully explained he\u2019d had several beers, hadn\u2019t slept much and had taken methamphetamine earlier in the day. He was jailed on a DUI charge. Officers later posted on their Facebook page that \u201cin this particular incident, nobody was hurt, so we couldn\u2019t help but LOTO (that means we Laughed Our Tasers Off).\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Disgruntled driver Matthew Middleton, 49, of Peterlee, England, spotted a speed camera near Hartlepool Rugby Club and decided to take a stand. He got out of his car and stood in front of the camera, blocking it, until police arrested him. Middleton antagonized an officer by calling him a \u201cpig\u201d and giving his name as Elvis Presley. \u201cThey acted like what I did was the crime of the century,\u201d Middleton told Metro News. \u201cI know I shouldn\u2019t have done it. People have just been laughing about it … well, apart from my wife.\u201d Middleton was fined $54 plus court costs.<\/p>\n Hunting Not Just For The Young<\/strong><\/p>\n Bertha Vickers of Morgantown, Miss., turned 100 on Jan. 9. To celebrate, she bagged a deer. \u201cI was sort of shaking until I got ready to shoot,\u201d Vickers told the Clarion Ledger. \u201cI didn\u2019t think it was all going to go right.\u201d Vickers still lives in her home and mows her own lawn, tends a garden and hunts for squirrels. \u201cI don\u2019t know why everybody is making such a big deal about it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was just a doe. I would love to kill a buck.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Go Away, Pig!\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n North Fort Myers, Fla., homeowner Joanie Mathews was terrorized for hours by a large pig that wandered into her yard and spent the day destroying the lawn. She bit Mathews three times before Matthews trapped her in the cab of her truck. \u201cShe would circle the truck … and I would jump in the back seat, and I was like, \u2018Go away, pig!\u2019\u201d Mathews told NBC-2 TV. Mathews finally called law enforcement. It took three Lee County sheriff\u2019s officers to wrangle down the testy porker. \u201cIt was just hilarious because the pig fought them every which way,\u201d Mathews said. No one, at press time, had stepped forward to claim the pig.<\/p>\n Least Competent Criminals<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014 When Dustin Johnson, 22, of Minot, N.D., tried to steal $4,000 worth of merchandise from a local Hobby Lobby, he filled a cart then fled the store. The cart became stuck in snow in the parking lot and flipped over. Johnson fell down, then got up to run, leaving behind his wallet with a photo ID that matched the shoplifter\u2019s description. Minot police caught up with Johnson at his home.<\/p>\n \u2014 Israel Perez Rangel, 38, of Santa Ana, Calif., raised suspicions when he begged for money at a service station to put gas in the 2015 Ferrari 458 Spider he was driving. The $300,000 car was in rough shape, with cracked fins and emblems torn from the body. When Santa Ana police arrived, Rangel ran away, but he was caught nearby hiding in bushes. Car owner Susan Friedman of Laguna Beach had left the Ferrari at a Costa Mesa service center, where it was stolen. Surveillance video confirmed it was Rangel who nicked the hot rod. Fortunately for Friedman, her insurance company cut her a check and she replaced the Ferrari with a 2018 Lamborghini Huracan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Claudell Curry, 82, and his wife, Odell Marie, 83, heard a loud crashing noise as they watched TV in their San Bernardino, Calif., home one evening. Imagine their surprise when a block of ice tore through their roof and landed on their bed. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the ice might have dropped [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"yoast_head":"\n