WEIRD BUT TRUE
An Arizona granny has landed in prison for three years after being convicted of running drugs to support her bingo habit.
Leticia Villareal, 62, was busted with 214 pounds of pot stuffed into the trunk of her car in 2005 on her way to a bingo game.
“She’s got a bingo problem, which explains why an otherwise nice person might get sucked into something like this,” a prosecutor told jurors.
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A bunch of cats are getting sprung from prison in Vermont, where inmates have been taking care of felines for two decades.
Ziggy, Marmalade, Smokey, Shane and others are now considered inappropriate for the mission of the Southeast State Correctional Facility, a farm-turned-prison which has begun giving them away.
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Two bold would-be thieves crashed a car through the main entrance of a Copenhagen department store, then smashed the vehicle into a gate protecting expensive jewelry and watches.
“They failed to get in[to the gem enclosure] and nothing appears to be taken,” said police investigator Henrik Svindt.
The crooks drove away through an exit on the other side of the building.
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Students older than 16 are being allowed to smoke at a Belgian school – but only if they stand in a cage and wear a badge displaying an X-ray image of tobacco-damaged lungs.
“By wearing the badge, students express it is by their own free will they are damaging their health,” said Claudine Lesaffre, assistant director of the Vesalius Institute in Ostende. “If this won’t help, I don’t know what to do anymore.”
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Responding to angry neighbors, a spa owner in Thailand has agreed to re-model a penis-shaped fence.
The owner of Sappaya Spa, on the island of Phuket, had erected 18 concrete Hindu “Shiva lingas” around the property in a bid to win good luck for the business.
“People can’t stand them, so they called us for help,” said Thawichart Intararit, chief of Phuket’s culture office.
He said the owner has “promised to have workers use cement to reshape them into lotus flowers.”


