WEIRD BUT TRUE
Debbie Phillips called police after she came home and found someone had cleaned it.
Cops laughed when she told them nothing was missing from her Charleston, W.Va., digs – but things had been rearranged, her bed was made differently and everyone she asked denied responsibility.
The mystery was solved a few weeks later, when a cleaning woman arrived at Phillips’ door when someone was home.
Turns out she had been hired by a neighbor who has a look-alike house, a similar address and a key hidden in a similar spot.
Retiree William Fogarty of Palm Harbor, Fla., was pretty embarrassed when he discovered a $1 money order in a box of World War II-era memorabilia.
It was for payment of a parking ticket he’d gotten in Norfork, Va., in 1946 – but he had never mailed it.
Fogarty, no deadbeat, immediately sent it in – 60 years late.
A group of 10 to 15 masked men descended on a Taco Bell in Marion, Ind. – but not to rip off the eatery. They dropped off six 40-gallon trash bags and fled.
Inside the bags were 25,000 individual packets of taco sauce.
A note left behind explained that the packets had been piling up in a car trunk over three years and, after considering using them to pull off a practical joke, they decided to return them.
A British man’s wallet was pinched by a lobster.
Paul Westlake’s wallet slipped out of his pocket into Plymouth Sound.
A short time later, a diver spotted it on the seabed – in a lobster’s claws – and pried it loose. Inside, he found a business card that helped him track down Westlake.
The diver ate the lobster and returned the wallet.
Hello!!!
A lonely Japanese man has been arrested for making 37,760 directory-assistance calls – and never saying a word – because he wanted to listen to the “kind” voices of the female telephone operators.
Police in Hiroshima said he used his cellphone to make to 905 calls a day between March and July.

