
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Cops in Portsmouth, NH, had no trouble identifying this assault suspect — they’d arrested Paul Baldwin 152 times before.
The 49-year-old career criminal has a record dating back to 1984. His most recent bust came days after he completed a one-year prison sentence for one of his previous crimes.
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In a decision Solomon would have approved of, Pennsylvania cops charged both a husband and wife with drunken driving for the same crash.
Robert Kotoff had tried to take the blame, but witnesses in the town of New Brighton told authorities his wife, Tina, had been behind the wheel.
They’ll both lose their licenses for 60 days.
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He was just thinking outside the box.
A South Carolina funeral director was stripped of his license after he came up with the creepiest possible solution to an usual problem — a corpse too big to fit in the coffin.
Undertaker Michael Cave had one of his employees cut the legs off the 6-foot-7 man.
The deceased’s wife said she had picked the standard-size coffin, and Cave — who was also fined $400 — had never suggested a bigger one.
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Dudu is in deep trouble.
Israeli cops say Dudu Topaz, who used to be the country’s most popular TV star, hired thugs to beat up two network executives and an agent who shot down his pitch for a comeback.
A lawyer for the 62-year-old fallen star denied the charges.
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A car traveling on a Swiss highway lost all four wheels simultaneously, and came to a screeching halt in the middle of the road.
It seems the owner and some friends minutes earlier had completed a do-it-yourself wheel-replacement job using the wrong nuts.
Speaking of nuts, none of them was injured.


