2008 Woodie Awards
Through the Looking Glass
A collection of unusual and freakish news from around the world
Mike Pingree
Issue date: 9/26/07 Section: Life
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WHAT ARE YOU LOOKIN' AT!!?
A man, waiting for a bus in St. Paul, Minn., got into an argument with two others there, shouted, "Why don't you show me some respect," and attacked them. He was on his way to anger management class at the time. In fact, he hit one of the victims with his anger management folder.
HEY GUYS! BASKETBALL GAME, MY HOUSE, HURRY!
A woman in Riverside, Calif., became angry at the 14-year-old boy next door who was making too much noise playing basketball. When he refused to stop, she went out onto her sundeck and took off all of her clothes, apparently to shock him. She threatened to do the same every time the boy played basketball.
THOUGH I DO RECALL A WHITE DRESS AND A GUY IN A TUX...
A woman won the Miss Ventura County beauty pageant, but was later disqualified because it was revealed that she was married at the time. In her defense, she claimed that she was heavily intoxicated at her wedding and did not remember it.
YOU'RE RELEASED; LET THIS BE A LESSON TO YOU
After doing his time for conning women out of thousands of dollars, a 70-year-old inmate was released from prison in Tarrytown, N.Y. The next day he was arrested for stealing a car.
THIS IS A STIC... WHAP! WHAM! SLAM! BASH!
An armed man tried to rob a karate school in Bucaramanga, Colombia, but was attacked by dozens of students and beaten so badly that he had to be hospitalized.
IS THERE A PROBLEM, OFFICER?
A young man and woman in downtown Warsaw, Poland, ripped off their clothes and proceeded to make love on a busy sidewalk in broad daylight, because, they said, "They just couldn't help themselves." Police arrested them, but had to let them go because nobody had actually complained.
HOLD ON, TRAIN COMING, OK, ALL CLEAR, AIEEEEE!
A man, looking down at his cell phone and text messaging as he crossed some railroad tracks in Cincinnati, stopped as a southbound train went roaring by. He then continued walking and was hit by a train going in the opposite direction. He survived.
OHHH THE PAIN! THE PAAAIN!
After a car containing three women collided with a police cruiser in Boca Raton, Fla., at four in the morning, a woman in another car jumped out of her vehicle and got into the crashed car with the victims. When paramedics arrived, she screamed in pain and claimed her back was hurt. At the hospital, doctors determined that she had not been injured.
She fled when she learned that police had been called in.
THIS SHOULD PROVE THAT HE KNOWS HOW TO RIDE
A motorcyclist was arrested after leading Georgia State Police on a chase through two counties at speeds of up to 154 mph. After he was pulled over, he explained that he was late for an appointment to get his motorcycle license.
A man, waiting for a bus in St. Paul, Minn., got into an argument with two others there, shouted, "Why don't you show me some respect," and attacked them. He was on his way to anger management class at the time. In fact, he hit one of the victims with his anger management folder.
HEY GUYS! BASKETBALL GAME, MY HOUSE, HURRY!
A woman in Riverside, Calif., became angry at the 14-year-old boy next door who was making too much noise playing basketball. When he refused to stop, she went out onto her sundeck and took off all of her clothes, apparently to shock him. She threatened to do the same every time the boy played basketball.
THOUGH I DO RECALL A WHITE DRESS AND A GUY IN A TUX...
A woman won the Miss Ventura County beauty pageant, but was later disqualified because it was revealed that she was married at the time. In her defense, she claimed that she was heavily intoxicated at her wedding and did not remember it.
YOU'RE RELEASED; LET THIS BE A LESSON TO YOU
After doing his time for conning women out of thousands of dollars, a 70-year-old inmate was released from prison in Tarrytown, N.Y. The next day he was arrested for stealing a car.
THIS IS A STIC... WHAP! WHAM! SLAM! BASH!
An armed man tried to rob a karate school in Bucaramanga, Colombia, but was attacked by dozens of students and beaten so badly that he had to be hospitalized.
IS THERE A PROBLEM, OFFICER?
A young man and woman in downtown Warsaw, Poland, ripped off their clothes and proceeded to make love on a busy sidewalk in broad daylight, because, they said, "They just couldn't help themselves." Police arrested them, but had to let them go because nobody had actually complained.
HOLD ON, TRAIN COMING, OK, ALL CLEAR, AIEEEEE!
A man, looking down at his cell phone and text messaging as he crossed some railroad tracks in Cincinnati, stopped as a southbound train went roaring by. He then continued walking and was hit by a train going in the opposite direction. He survived.
OHHH THE PAIN! THE PAAAIN!
After a car containing three women collided with a police cruiser in Boca Raton, Fla., at four in the morning, a woman in another car jumped out of her vehicle and got into the crashed car with the victims. When paramedics arrived, she screamed in pain and claimed her back was hurt. At the hospital, doctors determined that she had not been injured.
She fled when she learned that police had been called in.
THIS SHOULD PROVE THAT HE KNOWS HOW TO RIDE
A motorcyclist was arrested after leading Georgia State Police on a chase through two counties at speeds of up to 154 mph. After he was pulled over, he explained that he was late for an appointment to get his motorcycle license.
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