21 year old Antonio Vasquez was recently released from Fresno County Jail after prosecutors said they didn’t have enough evidence to file criminal charges.

He was briefly held in jail as a suspect after two California Farm workers had their home broken into and were attacked by a man. The suspect was said to have rubbed spices into the face of one man and had smacked the other with an 8 inch sausage!

Definitely a strange assault!

Sheriff’s Lt. Ian Burrimond says Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack. Vasquez is also accused of stealing $900 from the home.

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?