Weird

Some window blinds helped catch a man police say was breaking in at CNM.

Thomas Molina, 38, is charged with burglary and breaking and entering.

APD says they got a call about someone trying to break in at CNM on Sunday.

When they arrived they say Molina tried to get away but got stuck in the window blinds — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Customs officials in Sharjah airport were stunned to see a five-month-old baby in a handbag go through an Xray machine on Saturday, according to reports.

The couple had actually arrived on Friday but was not allowed entry on account of not having a visa for the baby. Airport authorities allowed them to stay until the visa office opened on Sunday reported Emirates 24/7.

However on Saturday morning, the couple tried to sneak the baby out by placing him in hand luggage, thinking they could evade attention as a new security shift had started — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Police in Florida said a man accused of attacking two women with a sword and a peanut butter sandwich bit the inside of a patrol car.

Polk County sheriff’s deputies said Mark Miller, 50, of Winter Haven told them he became angry Friday when two women were banging on his trailer, WFTV, Orlando, reported Tuesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Police in Washington, Pennsylvania, arrested Benjamin Sickles, 21, early Thursday after a break-in at a Subway restaurant in which several bags of snacks were stolen.

And all they had to do to find him was to follow the trail of potato chips he left — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Opa-locka has the dubious distinction of employing the cop who can’t be fired. Though the city keeps on trying.

Sgt German Bosque of the Opa-locka Police Department has been disciplined, suspended, fined and sent home with pay more than any officer in the state.

He has been accused of cracking the head of a handcuffed suspect, beating juveniles, hiding drugs in his police car, stealing from suspects, defying direct orders and lying and falsifying police reports. He once called in sick to take a vacation to Cancún and has engaged in a rash of unauthorized police chases, including one in which four people were killed.

Arrested and jailed three times, Bosque, 48, has been fired at least six times. Now under suspension pending yet another investigation into misconduct, Bosque stays home and collects his $60,000-a-year pay cheque for doing nothing — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The media mogul Rupert Murdoch has targeted Tom Cruise in a series of tweets that described the Church of Scientology as a very weird cult.

Scientology back in news. Very weird cult, but big, big money involved with Tom Cruise either number two or three in hiearchy (sic), Murdoch posted on his official Twitter feed, Reuters reports.

The News Corp chairman and chief executive posted the comment on Sunday, after news of Cruise’s split with Katie Holmes broke on Friday. Holmes has reportedly cited Cruise’s ties to Scientology as a reason for their separation — via redwolf.newsvine.com

As the word guilty filled the silence of a Phoenix courtroom, defendant Michael Marin closed his eyes, put his head in his hands and appeared to put something in his mouth. He then took a swig from a sports bottle.

Minutes later, the 53-year-old Marin was dead.

Now investigators are trying to confirm their suspicion that Marin popped a poison pill after the jury found him guilty of arson, a bizarre ending to a case that began in 2009 when he emerged from his burning mansion in scuba gear — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Forget the house, the children or even Flopsy the pet rabbit; it’s time to turn your divorce lawyer’s attention to this thorny question: when a marriage fails, who gets custody of the shoes?

No, seriously. It’s all about the heels. Daniel Shak, a US hedge fund manager, is currently suing his ex-wife, Beth, for 35 per cent of her $US1 million collection of footwear (comprising an admittedly gobsmacking 1200 pairs – including 700 Christian Louboutins, with their distinctive red soles), which he claims she kept secret from him during their bitter divorce three years ago.

Mrs Shak, a professional poker player, has responded by asking how he failed to notice that the closet in the master bedroom was crammed from floor to ceiling with shoes. (And also, presumably, how he missed her performances on the channel ShoesTV and in documentaries such as God Save My Shoes, and even failed to notice her new blog, shoesrforever.com) — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A woman was found naked and eating ice cream inside a drug store after leaving three children alone in a car after a wreck, investigators said.

Stephanie Dillard, 34, has been charged with endangering a child.

Houston police said Dillard’s children, ages 5, 12 and 16, were in the car with her when her vehicle collided with a METRO bus near South Post Oak and Orem on Friday.

All of the children were shaken up and suffered minor injuries. The 5-year-old had a large gash over one eye, officials said — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The hitchhiking photographer who captured the hearts of a nation after being shot while researching The Kindness of America, has admitted administering the lead supplement himself and making the rest of the tale up.

Authorities in Montana are considering whether to charge Ray Dolin over the whole sorry saga.

Dolin was found bleeding by the side of a highway on Saturday, 9 June. He told authorities that he had been hitchiking across the state as part of his research for a planned memoir on the Kindness of America when a car had pulled up briefly in order for its driver to pop a cap in his ass (actually, his arm).

Sheriffs subsequently arrested 52 year old Lloyd Danielson, who was slapped with charges of felony assault.

Dolin, for his part, surfed a wave of public sympathy from his hospital bed, practically assured of a guaranteed audience for the putative book.

However, charges were dropped against Danielson late last Thursday, and on Friday authorities said that Dolin had confessed to shooting himself — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A Tennessee woman says she was just praising the Lord, although at high volume, when she received a citation accusing her of violating the city’s noise ordinance. She later was arrested by police on a disorderly conduct charge.

Fifty-four-year-old Betty Jones tells WCYB-TV that her routine every Sunday includes five hours of praising and dancing, while she listens to music by Johnny Cash, Randy Travis, Alan Jackson and The Judds.

But neighbours in Bristol complained about loud music, so police showed up on 27 May, a Sunday. A police report says officers helped her lower her stereo’s bass and warned her. But officers say they came back less than two hours later being called again.

This, time they cited her under the city’s noise ordinance, and Jones tells the station she gave the officers a message too — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A hitchhiker researching a book on The Kindness of America is currently recovering in hospital after a gun-toting truck driver game him a small donation of some searing hot lead.

Ray Dolin, was hitching on Highway 2 in Montana on Saturday as part of a project to produce a memoir on the great things about the open road in the big country.

Dolin was sitting on his backpack, just west of of the town of Glasgow early Saturday evening when a pickup truck slowed down.

However, rather than extending the offer of a ride, the driver extended a gun out of the window and shot Dolin in the arm.

The pickup truck then headed west, leaving Dolin to use his other arm to flag down a passing driver, who then notified the authorities — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Special ammunition optimised for fighting zombies is selling like hot cakes in the USA, according to reports, following sensational media coverage of incidents involving flesh-eating and similar undead-esque behaviour.

In particular, fears of an imminent zombie plague were stoked by the recent case of Rudy Eugene. The 31-year-old was shot dead by police officers in Miami last month while chewing on another man’s face — presumably in an attempt to get at his brain. Other vaguely similar incidents have been dredged up and conflated with this by various media outlets to produce a tenuous undead-apocalypse theme.

All this has apparently been extremely fortunate for US ammo maker Hornady, which last October brought out its Zombie Max line of cartridges (make dead permanent). We hear courtesy of WWJ Detroit that Zombie Max rounds are flying off the gun-shop shelves — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Police have identified a real life cleaning fairy — who may be flapping her wings into a jail cell.

The woman broke into a Westlake home, did some light cleaning, then left a bill.

The family thought a cleaning service sent someone to the wrong house, but the cleaning fairy told them it was no mistake, and they better pay up.

Sherry Bush has re-told the story more times than she can remember, and every neighbour wants to know about the cleaning woman who took the sign on her front door a bit too literally — via redwolf.newsvine.com