
Weird but true
A Florida woman is still facing the consequences of a night of drinking — 34 years later.
Jessica Pierce, 57, was nabbed on a DWI charge in 1977, but didn’t realize the case was still open until an Orange County sheriff’s deputy pulled her over last month, claiming there was an outstanding warrant for her arrest.
Pierce, who uses a cane and has survived several heart attacks and a stroke, thought she cleared up the charge decades ago.
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A backed-up sewer line in Arizona was found to be clogged by a pair of huge, rotting marijuana bales.
The 39 pounds of putrid pot were tied to ropes, and police speculate that dealers had tried to use the sewer network as a smuggling route.
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A Florida man who failed a drug test was busted a second time after he tried to bribe workers at the testing clinic — with drugs, naturally.
The Volusia County man’s test had turned up positive for cocaine and he wanted the results changed.
So he allegedly asked a medical assistant if she smoked dope and flashed a few bags of weed.
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Cops and firefighters in England are being accused of letting a man die in a three-foot pond because they were afraid to go in the water.
More than a dozen rescue workers in Gosport, Hampshire, saw the man floating face down, but out of “health and safety” concerns waited 26 minutes for a special water-rescue team to arrive.
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A British burglar was nabbed — by a laundry basket.
Michael Trias, 20, was allegedly robbing a home and fled through a window.
He landed in a clothes basket and got so tangled, he couldn’t free himself.
The homeowner held the suspect for cops.


