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June 26, 2005

ZZZZZZZ! WHA!? OUCH! A North Dakota woman, whose husband's snoring was keeping her awake, threw water on him, but it failed to wake him up. So she stabbed him twice in the arm with a pen. This woke him up, but he soon went back to sleep and started snoring again. So she hit him on the head with a 3-pound dumbbell. He woke up again, but called the cops who arrested his wife for simple assault

FIRE HAS ALWAYS FASCINATED ME: A man who wrote a book about a 1958 fire in a Chicago parochial school was arrested for starting a fire at another parochial school

THEY DO ADD A FESTIVE QUALITY: Officials in Aurora, Ill., are perturbed with residents of one neighborhood where, though summer has begun, more than 100 homes still have their Christmas decorations up.     The city can't force the people to take them down because there is no law against it, but the mayor says he is considering passing an ordinance.
At least one resident, 20-year-old Rolando Velasquez, fails to see the problem.
Sitting on a porch adorned with icicle lights, he told a reporter, "You're going to have to put them up again. Just leave them up.''

METER VIOLATION!? WHAT METER!? Some people parked their cars on West Illinois Street in Chicago after the city had temporarily removed the parking meters to accommodate street construction.
But, before the drivers returned, workers finished the job and reinstalled the meters. Police then ticketed the cars even though the meters weren't there when the people parked their cars. Outrage followed, and the tickets were rescinded.

I DEMAND RESTITUTION! A man has been going into restaurants in Des Moines, Iowa, and bilking the managers out of money by claiming that one of the waiters spilled food or drink on him on a previous occasion, and presenting a fake dry cleaning bill.
One manager became suspicious when the guy didn't know his own ZIP code, and watched him out the window as he walked into another restaurant across the street, where he tried the same thing. He was arrested.

 

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