Alen Spahic Tells Officer He's Wolverine, Police Say
A Louisville man is facing public intoxication charges after police said they found him walking down South Third Street with an 18-inch sex toy in his pants... Wlky
Brighton screen star's goats eat magic mushrooms
Seventies screen siren Alexandra Bastedo is keeping a close eye on her pygmy goats - after they tripped out on magic mushrooms. She said Homer, Marge and Lisa - named after characters in cartoon The Simpsons - took two days to come down from their drugs binge. Ms Bastedo, who shot to fame as secret agent Sharron Macready in cult series The Champions, was shocked when the trio started stumbling around as if they were drunk. She called a vet who quickly realised they had been scoffing magic psilocybin mushrooms growing in their paddock. The mushrooms contain substances considered Class A drugs. The mushrooms grow naturally in the wild, it is illegal to pick or possess them... The Argus
Answering alarm, Oakland police kill family dog
Mary Kate Hallock arrived at her Oakland hills home after running errands Tuesday and found a blue note fluttering on her front door. "Oakland police responded to your residence to investigate a burglar alarm," the handwritten note read. "While circling the rear perimeter, lab advanced on officers in a threatening manner before being shot and killed". "Lab" was Gloria, an 11-year-old, arthritic yellow Labrador Hallock's family had owned since she was a puppy. Oakland police shot Gloria three times with a 40-caliber Glock handgun in the family's backyard while responding to a false burglar alarm at the property. The dog, police said, growled and barked at them... San Francisco Chronicle
$8 fake skeleton turns out to be $3,000 real thing
A Hillsborough County man thought he was buying a Halloween decoration when he spent $8 for a box of bones at a yard sale in Brandon. But when he and his wife got the box home, they realized it was an actual human skeleton... Fox
Mourner attends wrong Ron’s funeral
A grieving grandmother went to a funeral to pay her last respects to an old friend – then discovered he was alive and kicking. Margaret Griffiths, 74, read a funeral notice saying upholsterer Ron Jones had passed away. So she pulled on her dark coat for the funeral where she mingled with the Jones family mourners at Merthyr’s Tabernacle Church. Margaret returned home to tell a neighbour about Ron’s funeral but was told: “Ron’s still alive. I saw him yesterday”. Shocked, Margaret immediately phoned his home number to check and Ron picked up the phone. Margaret said: “I told him ‘I’ve just been to your funeral’.I said I’d read that he’s died in the paper and that I wanted to pay my last respects to him. He was a bit surprised”. Then she realised there were two men called Ron Jones of about the same age living in Merthyr Tydfil – and both had worked as upholsterers... South Wales Echo
