
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A Florida man is accused of being not only a craven thief, but also a bad dad.
Cops in Lehigh Acres say Tony Doden left his 3-month-old son home alone for six hours while he and a pal robbed a grocery store.
The baby, whose mother was jailed a month earlier, was found with a severe case of diaper rash and turned over to Doden’s grandmother.
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Maybe he’s just plane nuts.
An Indiana man thought stealing an airplane was the way to a woman’s heart.
Michael Santos, 38, is charged with stealing a twin-engine plane and driving it down the taxiway while drunk in a bid to impress his girlfriend.
Instead, he allegedly veered into a soybean field, tearing up crops and causing $160,000 in damage to the plane.
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The war on Christmas is turning violent in Ohio.
Three men armed with sawed-off shotguns knocked two Boy Scouts and their fathers selling Christmas trees to the ground and took $350.
“At first, I thought it was just a little joke, but then, when I saw the gun, I was terrified,” said 13-year-old John Hancock Jr., of Troop 393.
“And after I saw the gun, this guy just punched me right there and it knocked me down.”
Cops were appalled. “What kind of a man hits a kid?” said Sgt. Robert Kidd.
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He got drunk, then he got horny.
So José Sandoval, 26, allegedly broke into a Wisconsin sex shop and stole several blowup dolls, including a $270 beauty that speaks.
When he was first arrested, Sandoval denied any involvement, but then broke down and allegedly admitted he had done a “drunken, stupid thing.”
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If there’s one rule in advertising, it’s sex sells.
So an Italian undertaker has put out a calendar featuring gorgeous lingerie models posing with the company’s range of coffins.
“It is good marketing but it is also a way to play down such a serious subject and to smile,” said owner Maurizio Matteucci.


