Weird

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at one home in a Dayton, Ohio suburb — thanks to a man who police say broke in and started hanging up yuletide decorations.

They also say the burglar who was already in the holiday spirit was high on bath salts, reports CBS affiliate WOIO.

Terry Trent, 44, was arrested and charged with burglary last week in Vandalia, according to the station when an 11-year-old boy found the man sitting on the couch after he had done some Christmas decorating around the house — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The British consulate offers welcome assistance to travellers who are in trouble abroad, but the Foreign Office is warning there are some things it just cannot help with.

In the last six months staff have been asked for a telephone number for Phil Collins and Prince Charles’s shoe size.

Another request was from a man stranded at the airport by his dominatrix.

The Foreign Office says it is important people understand their priority is to help those in real difficulty — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Police say that a bank robber was captured Saturday afternoon after a witness followed the suspect’s footprints to an Ogden apartment complex.

Officers arrived and were able to track the suspect though footprints that were left in the freshly fallen snow — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Two Sydney banks about 15 kilometres apart have been held up in the space of 90 minutes, with the gunman making his getaway on a bicycle both times.

Police said they are investigating the links between the latest robbery at a bank on Great North Road, Five Dock, about 2.30pm and an earlier attempted robbery at Westpac in Westfield Bondi Junction — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A Hobart man jailed for bashing a toddler two years ago was back in court yesterday after attacking an acquaintance with an axe.

The Supreme Court heard it was toilet paper, or rather the lack thereof, that prompted the fight in October last year.

Nathan Thomas Charles Howlett, 22, and the victim were at a Kingston house when the victim used the toilet.

Discovering there was no toilet paper, the man utilised a rag.

Howlett appeared soon after with a roll of toilet paper but it was too late.

On realising he had used the rag, Howlett became enraged and a scuffle ensued in the hallway. A woman approached the fighting men carrying an axe.

It’s generally not a good idea to introduce an axe when there’s a fight going on, Justice Alan Blow said — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The skeletal remains of three people have been found in a house in northern Japan, police said, amid reports a family suicide could have gone unnoticed for up to a year — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Toronto residents were hastily evacuated from homes and businesses in the city yesterday as police feared that tinfoil-wrapped packages of human excrement found beneath a car might explode, flattening an entire neighbourhood in a devastating poo-based blast horror incident of some type.

Understandably reluctant to tackle the potentially devastating turd-torpedoes themselves, the local police bomb squad instead sent in a robot — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Vallejo authorities had to cut the world’s biggest — and oldest — baby out of a child’s swing at a local park this weekend.

An unidentified 21-year-old man allegedly made a $100 bet with his friends that he could fit in a child’s swing at Blue Rock Springs Park, police said.

After lubing himself with liquid laundry detergent, he shimmied into the swing and its two leg holes at about 9.00pm Friday, said Mark Libby, spokesman for the Vallejo Fire Department

He promptly became stuck, and further swelling and circulation issues made it impossible for him to get out on his own, said Vallejo police Sgt Jeff Bassett.

And then his friends left him.

It wasn’t until a groundskeeper heard him screaming for help at about 6.00am the next morning — nine hours later — that authorities came to free him — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Police in the US say a man who walked into a medical clinic with his right arm severed has indicated he cut his own limb off with a homemade guillotine.

Officers who checked a wooded area near a urology clinic on Thursday found the severed arm and the guillotine in a transient camp.

The victim and the arm were taken first to St Joseph Hospital in Bellingham — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Note to all heroin producers out there: don’t anger your neighbours. Otherwise, you might find yourself the target of a mass-produced and widely distributed Heroin for Sale flier with your name and home address on it.

At least that’s the lesson that several Portland drug dealers learned after their recent bust.

Apparently, neighbours were so tired of the house’s drug activity that one cobbled together the makeshift flier. The flier was even handed off to the police.

The flier was simple, all it did was advertise heroin. It also contained the address of the drug house in question. This, combined with the neighbor’s complaint, eventually led police officers to search the home — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Feet that washed ashore in Richmond in 2008 are those of a New Westminster woman who committed suicide by jumping into the Fraser River in April 2004.

The BC Coroners Service said Wednesday it made the identification after a post-mortem investigation, which included a DNA analysis. The woman’s next-of-kin have been notified but at the request of the family, her name is not being made public — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A sort of silent shame has cropped up in South American cities, as officials plead with both drivers and pedestrians to obey traffic laws by using the antics of hired mimes.

And why not? Nearly everyone looks at a mime, especially when dressed in a brightly coloured getup while eagerly making fun of people on the side of a busy street. The latest effort has about 120 mimes on the downtown streets of Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, making a (silent) scene any time a driver or pedestrian disobeys a traffic rule — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A 33-year-old man has been charged over an attempted robbery at a shop in Queensland’s north-west after he returned for his weapon twice — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A man wearing a Spiderman mask was arrested in Onslow County for trying to rob a store around midnight.

According to the sheriff’s office, the robber was surprised when the store clerk resisted the holdup with a broom. The sheriff’s office told the media outlet, the woman clerk hit the Spiderman robber with a broom when he pulled out a real sword.

Another clerk joined in the fight and the robber escaped the store. As he ran away, he pulled off the Spiderman mask and part of his ponytail hair ripped out, according to the sheriff’s office — via redwolf.newsvine.com

An Everett woman was arrested for investigation of first-degree domestic violence assault after allegedly taking a sawzall power tool to her sleeping husband’s neck.

Police could hear a man accusing his wife of attacking him when they arrived at the home in the 1600 block of Hoyt Avenue late Friday night.

It was you, it was you, he shouted. You tried to cut my head off. You’re going to jail, according to a police affidavit.

A judge kept bail at $250,000 Monday afternoon in Everett District Court.

The woman, 43, told police that she had the reciprocating saw because there was an intruder who escaped out her daughter’s window.

Police didn’t believe her account — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Two brothers have been charged with stealing a western Pennsylvania bridge and selling the 15 1/2 tons of scrap metal for more than $5,000.

Police say 24-year-old Benjamin Arthur Jones and 25-year-old Alexander Williams Jones of New Castle used a blowtorch to break up the bridge in late September or early October. They face felony charges of criminal mischief, theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy.

Authorities say Alexander Jones told a recycling company employee that he had permission to carve the bridge for scrap and showed the employee cellphone photos of the bridge. The recycling company called police — via redwolf.newsvine.com