Weird but true
An Oklahoma state lawmaker bagged a deer, then called the media to boast about his hunting prowess.
One problem: Rep. Terry Harrison didn’t have a permit.
He said his heart “just sunk” after learning the embarrassing news. He was fined $296.
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The California DMV suspended a clerk after she allegedly used a state database to find a transgender woman and send her a letter condemning her sex change.
The distasteful letter came four days after the clerk processed the license application of Amber — formerly “David” — Yust.
The clerk allegedly wrote, “The homosexual act is an abomination that leads to hell.”
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Canadian cops surrounded the home of a barricaded man, flooded his house and lobbed flash grenades.
The Mounties did get their man — one day later and 14 miles away.
Leo Crockwell, wanted on weapons and assault charges, somehow walked away from the siege in Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, and red-faced Mounties can’t figure out how he strolled past them.
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The parents of a New Hampshire teen want school officials to dump a book that calls Jesus Christ a “wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.”
The 2001 book, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” documents author Barbara Ehrenreich’s bid to live on a minimum wage.

