Weird but true
A Florida girl was nearly busted for having a felonious fashion sense.
The teen was detained at the Norfolk, Va., airport and threatened with arrest because federal security agents told her a picture of a cowboy pistol stamped on her handbag was a violation of federal law.
The girl missed her flight to Jacksonville and, to add insult to stupidity, was then mistakenly put on a plane to Orlando.
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Here’s a new way to fight layoffs — black magic!
A North Miami Beach cop and a department employee are in hot water after they allegedly tried to get rid of the town’s cost-cutting city manager by sprinkling bird seed around his office as part of a Santeria rite.
The pair hoped the hocus-pocus would make the manager quit before he could institute budget cuts.
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December’s barely begun, and the war on Christmas is already heating up.
Schools in Fort Worth, Texas, have fired an early salvo by banning students from handing out Christmas cards and gifts — for fear they might include prohibited religious messages.
A memo to staff notes that students can say, “Merry Christmas,” but that Santa is banned from class.
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Here a sign of how hard things are these days.
An 18-year-old Charleston W. Va, man was so desperate to get a job that he knocked on the driver’s window of a parked armored car to ask if the company was hiring.
The driver was so startled that he called cops and the teen was briefly held on suspicion of armed robbery.
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Brides usually get all the bad press, but here’s a tale of a “groomzilla.”
A hubby-to-be from England threw such a fit after getting into an argument with the managers of the wedding hall that he set the place on fire.
The blaze wound up causing $10 million in damages.

