--MAYBE
YOU’D BETTER START LOOKING FOR SOMEONE ELSE
…It’s Wednesday,
peaceful and beautiful out on the lake where there isn’t a solitary boat
anywhere to be seen.
…Today I am
going to court and writing poetry. How’s
that for a mixed bag?
…Speaking of
mixed bags, there’s a lot of strange stuff that goes on around the world.
See for
yourself:
-PITTSBURGH MAN
CHARGED WITH ROBBING BANK USING SEX TOY
It's a story
that's getting a lot of buzz.
A bomb squad
blew up a briefcase and other suspicious items in a Pittsburgh man's car Monday
after he robbed a bank, police said.
With a sex toy.
Specifically, a vibrator.
Aaron Stein, 35,
faces a preliminary hearing June 25 in Allegheny County Magisterial District
Court on nine felony counts including aggravated assault, robbery, threatening
to use a weapon of mass destruction and the unusual charge of possessing a
facsimile weapon of mass destruction, according to court documents.
That last one
would be the vibrator.
Stein was
arrested after a PNC Bank in the Pittsburgh suburb of Crafton was robbed of an
undisclosed amount of money Monday. Crafton Police Chief Mark Sumpter told NBC station WPXI
of Pittsburgh that Stein "stated he had a bomb, showed the
teller wires hanging out from his shirt and demanded cash."
The robber drove
off in a white Toyota, which was pulled over on a ramp to northbound Interstate
79 by Robinson Township police, Sumpter said.
Officers found
money in a garbage bag, and beneath the front passenger seat, they found the
device Stein is accused of having used in the bank robbery — "a makeshift
box he made out of a box, black tape, vibrator and cellphone," Sumpter
said.
A bomb squad dog
checked the device and a briefcase that officers found in the car. Both were
detonated as a precaution, police said.
-‘I’M NOT NUTS”:
SQUIRREL “DETAINED” FOR STALKING WOMAN
A squirrel has
become an online sensation after it was reportedly "detained" when a
woman called police to complain it was stalking her.
The panicked
woman was unable to shake the rodent in the western German city of Bottrop, so
turned to the authorities in desperation on Wednesday, police told Reuters.
North-Rhine
Westphalia police took in the squirrel and found it was suffering exhaustion.
Officers were
helping the animal recover by feeding it pieces of apple and honey tea. A video uploaded
to the police force's Facebook page showing the animal being fed had
been watched 400,000 times by Friday morning.
The animal will
be transferred to a local animal shelter once it has recovered, according to
Reuters.
-SWISS
CHOCOLATE, SWISS CHEESE, AND NOW SWISS FLOUR WORMS
MAINZ, Germany -
Flour worms, crickets and migratory grasshoppers could soon be on menus in
Switzerland.
The Alpine
country's government is in the final stages of passing a new law which would
introduce the "delicacies" as officially permitted food. Until now,
insects have not been recognized in Europe as edible food products.
"Following
a request in parliament by the environmental Greens party, we are evaluating
whether these three insects can be incorporated in our revised law,"
Michael Beer, deputy director at Switzerland's federal food safety and veterinary
office (BLV), told NBC News.
The political
party is advocating reduced meat consumption for Swiss society.
"Insects
are climate friendly and are a good protein source," said Urs Scheuss, a
spokesman for the Greens in Bern.
Scheuss' party
even held an insect-tasting session in parliament to support its case.
-CALIFORNIA
NUDIST CAMP CHARGED WITH STEALING WATER
The
owners of a Bay Area nudist resort have been charged with stealing water during
the state's historic drought.
Seventy-seven-year
old Glyn Stout and his wife 53-year-old Lori Kay Stout, co-owners of Lupin
Lodge, were charged Friday with felony conspiracy to commit trespassing for the
purpose of injuring a property right. Officials say they repeatedly diverted
water from a section of a local creek that they did not own, according to a
statement from the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office.
Employees
are also facing charges. If convicted, all four could face up to three years in
county jail.
The
resort's owners have said they are entitled to use the waterfall, which they
need to keep their water tank full in case of a fire and to top off their pool
for both skinny-dipping and as a backup water source for a fire. They were not
immediately available for comment Friday.
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