WEIRD BUT TRUE
While he was playing cops and robbers, 6-year-old Kevon Gorham “arrested” his stuffed reindeer and handcuffed it to one of his wrists.
When he and his mom couldn’t get the cuffs off, they called the North Charleston, S.C., police for help. A cop tried handcuff keys and bolt cutters – to no avail. Firefighters tried soapy water and bigger bolt cutters. No go.
A Fire Department engineer finally freed Kevon using a hairpin to pick the toy lock.
A woman trying to fake a job-related drug test was arrested when she tried to heat a urine-filled fake penis in a convenience-store microwave.
She had intended to pass off the urine – provided by a friend – as her own after nuking it in the microwave so it would be body temperature for the test, according to police in McKeesport, Pa.
A store clerk called the cops believing it was a real severed penis.
Tess Karwoski, head of the Michigan Coalition on Alternatives to Pesticides, couldn’t believe it when lawn-care workers started spraying the lawn of her Ann Arbor home – with pesticides.
Her disbelief turned to dismay when she saw the sprayers had posted a sign warning kids and pets to keep off her lawn – right next to her own sign that read “Pesticide Free Zone.”
Turns out it was a mix-up. Karwoski had a lawn-care contract to have her lawn aerated and her sprinklers turned off.
A Serbian man had to undergo emergency surgery in Belgrade after he had sex with a porcupine – on the advice of a witch doctor.
The bizarre coupling – recommended as a cure for premature ejaculaton – left the man’s privates severely lacerated, said a hospital spokesman.
The scales of justice have been replaced with a computer software program in China.
Judges in the Sichuan District People’s Court are using a specially designed program to decide prison sentences in 100 different crime categories. Details of a case are entered into a database and the program sets sentence.

