I thought the saying was “The cat that ate the Canary”? If it is there’s something drastically wrong with this picture!

In an ironic twist the Chief of Police of Oslo, Norway, Anstein Gjengedal, had his wallet pickpocketed a few days before he was set to announce a crackdown on pickpocketers.

The chief was on the Oslo Airport train when a group of people bumped into him. Checking his pockets a few minutes later the police chief realized that his wallet was gone.

Looks like that crackdown is timely!

Isn’t it odd and perhaps ironic how convicted murderer Paul John Fitzpatrick said about Death row last March when he was before a judge in Largo, Florida. He said Death row “is the calmest place I’ve ever been in”.

He was hoping to avoid a mere life sentence, which would place him in the general prison population. “I probably found the most peace I’ve ever had in my whole life (in his previous experience) on death row,” he said. “It’s just a lot easier doing time with murderers than it is with fools.”

The ironic part? The judge gave him life.

Have you ever read or listened to news that sounded like it just must be a joke?

Students from rival campus organizations at the Dawood Engineering College in Karachi, Pakistan, had fistfights and threw furniture at each other in a January confrontation over which group should get credit for putting up posters urging students not to fight on campus. Duh …

Nauseating smell?

A condominium on New York City’s Upper East Side filed a $500,000 lawsuit in February against a Subway sandwich shop on the building’s first floor, complaining about “nauseating” food odors, but according to a New York Sun reporter, the dominant “smell” involved is a scent highly valued by many clear-nosed, non-New Yorkers: fresh-baked bread.