Did you hear the true story about how a woman lured her husband from a self made box that was perched on top of a 72 foot pole? No? Well he’d been up there protesting a looming jail term when his wife lured him down with a topless picture of herself that she’d included in the lunch that she’d sent up to him.

The hope and promise of a romp does it every time it seems.

Fred Gregor, 45 of Germany, was trying to have his 15 month conviction for fraud over turned by staying in his small cubicle which was perched high up on a converted television mast.

When interviewed over the telephone, he told Reuters that he wanted a new trial. His wife Susanne, 25, had originally backed up his protest until she eventually decided she’d had enough. Susanne is a former stripper. No wonder that topless photo worked! Together she and Fred are the parents of five children.

Perhaps now he’ll appeal his conviction just like most other people do when they feel that they’ve been wrongly convicted.

This past October, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was in Pittsburgh campaigning for U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum. Apparently Jeb Bush antagonized anti-Santorum demonstrators by blowing them a kiss. In the chaos that ensued Bush was forced to take refuge in a train station supply closet.

In other news Kansas state Rep. Vaughn Flora was charged with a misdemeanor after an October political event when he allegedly roughed up an anti-abortion protester dressed as a cockroach. Why would a protester dress as a cockroach? I think that’s a story in itself.

Last August, in Tampa, Tony Katz - a public-access TV host - threw a chair at his guest, county commission candidate Joe Redner, hitting him in the head after he had called Redner a liar and Redner had called him fat.

I thought politicians and TV Hosts were supposed to be refined folk? I guess not if this kind of behaviour proves anything.

Villagers in a remote eastern India village protested after police arrived to arrest a three-month-old boy for robbery.

The boys name was subsequently dropped from a list of those accused of robbing bus passengers last week. Well yeah, the kid can’t even walk, how’s he going to rob bus passengers? An investigation is being conducted to figure out how this happened.

A police officer, Kumar, said the boy may have been named by the complainant “with a malicious intent”. Who on earth would have malicious intent against a 3 month old - more likely I believe, it was a prank.

Sorry I don’t have a picture of the idiot, but this is what he looks like in my imagination:

Now, here’s the story

What an idiot!

Anti-abortion protester David Robert McMenemy, 45, allegedly scoured the Midwest looking for an abortion clinic. He found a women’s clinic in Davenport, Iowa. Once there, the Michigan resident allegedly drove his car through the front of the clinic, doused it with gasoline and set it on fire. “McMenemy hoped his actions would stop or disrupt the clinic’s activities and save some babies’ lives,” federal indictment papers note.

There was just one problem with his plan: the clinic does not perform abortions, but rather offers pre-natal care to poor women. “We think he intended for it to be a suicide but he found out burning would be too painful,” said the county prosecutor. The clinic suffered about $170,000 in damage and was closed for weeks.

…So pretty much all he accomplished was to stop or disrupt the clinic’s activities and risk many babies’ lives. What an idiot. Isn’t he supposed to be prolife if he’s an anti-abortionist? He could have killed someone in the clinic and seeing as how events turned out he’s put the lives of several unborn children and their mothers at risk.