December 11th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Get this … German police have a nationwide search out for a convicted drug dealer who escaped from jail by hiding in a cardboard box to be taken away for recycling plan to issue an international arrest warrant for him.
A Viersen police spokesman said the 37-year-old Turkish national, whose seven-year prison sentence for drug dealing runs to 2011, had escaped from the Willich prison by hiding in a cardboard box about to be picked up by a recycling truck.
“Shortly after the truck that he riding in got beyond prison walls, he slit open the box and then cut open the truck’s tarpaulin to escape,” said Wolfgang Wiese, Viersen police spokesman. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Police have been searching in vain for the fugitive. An international search warrant is being prepared in the event he is not found soon.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Police in Knoxville had to rescue a man, Richard Anthony Smith, 25, after he got himself stuck in the Knoxville Museum of Art.
Smith told police that he was a secret agent and that he’d been on a mission when he became stuck in an air conditioning duct that lead from the museums roof. The man actually had to call 911 to get help!
When Police and firefighters reached the museums roof they found a rope and cable which lead to a vent shaft. Forty five feet below, deep inside the vent, was Richard Anthony Smith.
He told them his Mission had failed.
After being rescued he was read his rights and he apparently told police he was a “special agent from the United States Illuminati, badge number 0931″ and had rappelled onto the museum from a helicopter.
Hmmm I think this guy has either read or seen the movie The Da vinci Code one time too many!
He went on to tell the police that he was following orders to “defuse and confiscate” a Soviet-made nuclear warhead, specifically a “MERV6SS-22AN” warhead, according to the report. The bomb supposedly was hidden in a blue, plastic cow sculpture in the museum basement.
However, Smith told officers his “agency” called while he was in air-vent limbo to say it made a mistake and the bomb might be in a Memphis museum instead.
The police have charged Smith with aggravated robbery and he’s being held on $2,000 bond at the Knox County Jail. Authorities said he did not have a lawyer.
“Fortunately he was able to reach his cell phone,” DeBusk said, “or he may not have been found for quite some time.”
September 9th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I think I’m pretty good at finding weird news stories, but today I decided to take a little break and show you what other bloggers have been finding as far as weird news goes.
It didn’t take me very long to find some amazing stories. I’m pretty sure that if you like the kind of weird news stories I write about here on Odd Planet that you’ll like what these other bloggers have found as well.
Here goes:
Police seek shoplifting swimming suspect
Pierre police are looking for a shoplifting suspect who got away by swimming across a narrow part of the Missouri River. An assistant police chief said officers responded to the call Monday afternoon at a clothing store and found the …
Cops arrest photo radar van driver for alleged DUI
Police in Scottsdale say they’ve arrested a man driving a photo-enforcement van on suspicion of drunken driving. Sgt. Mark Clark said the van owned by Scottsdale-based Redflex Traffic Systems was spotted driving erratically by a citizen …
and finally …
Weird News : 09-09-08
THIS IS ONE WEIRD CASE Police in California have arrested 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez for allegedly breaking into the home of a couple of farm workers, and stealing money before rubbing one of the men with spices and hitting the other …
How did you like those stories?
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