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 …
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November 21st, 2007 at 4:57 pm
A telephone stalker obsessed with underwear made a big mistake when a gym opened across the street from the apartment that he shared with his mother.
Paul Kavanagh was caught on film by detectives as he leaned over his London apartment balcony while making calls to the gym’s female receptionists.
This month Kavanagh was sentenced to two and a half years jail. He admitted to making 15,000 or so harassing calls to women asking them questions about their underwear. He’d call posing as a clothing researcher and claim to be gathering marketing data for a retailer.
Kavanagh had been making these calls for 12 years before he was caught. He’d usually start off his conversations with questions about the womens socks and sweaters, but then he would move on to their underwear and make lewd suggestions to his victims.
Judge Peter Testar concluded that Kavanagh had been “making these calls for the purposes of sexual gratification and, I must say to my mind, for the purposes of cruelty.”
The calls were all placed using unregistered pay as you go phones. When Kavanagh was finally caught he was, as stated above, targeting the female staff at the gym by commenting on their clothes and the way they wore their hair.
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November 15th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
How would you like to have been one of the custom officials opening up a package that had come from Hong Kong that had been marked “personal clothing” only to find about 300 live scorpions and spiders!
The scorpions and spiders had been packed in nets, bottles and transparent plastic boxes and were concealed under clothing and newspapers within the package. Tarantulas were also included in the spider tally.
“The scorpions almost bit the examiner,” Nelson Ebio, a port collector at the Central Mail Exchange Center, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. It was the first time the post office had encountered such poisonous mail, he said.
The package had arrived from Hong Kong on a Monday, but it wasn’t clear who had sent the package or why although it’s been speculated that the package was intended for someone who collects these types of invertebrates and insects. My guess, having been involved in reptile keeping, is more along the lines that these creatures were being smuggled into the country illegally for the pet trade.
The spiders and scorpions have been handed over to Manila parks and wildlife officials.
The spiders and scorpions were later handed over to the parks and wildlife office.
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