WEIRD BUT TRUE
A baby sitter in St. Petersburg, Fla., told jurors she complied when a demanding 4-year-old boy in her care ordered her to strip while they were watching a James Bond flick.
“Everything was a struggle with him,” Sarah Slicker, 23, told jurors. “I didn’t say anything. I just did it.”
Slicker was found guilty of lewd and lascivious exhibition in front of a child.
Linda Stubbs, the tax superintendent of Middletown, Ohio, was suspended for a week for trying to lighten things up in the city’s income-tax filing instructions.
Her boss didn’t think there was anything funny about some of the one-liners she included on the form – like, “If we can tax it, we will.”
He also didn’t appreciate, “Free advice: if you don’t have a profit in a five-year period, you might want to consider another line of work.”
When sheriff’s deputies in Monroe, La., attempted to pull Jerry Wayne Till over for speeding, he floored it – traveling at more than 100 mph, according to officials.
With the deputies in hot pursuit, he eventually abandoned his car and ran into dense woods to lose them.
Problem was, he got lost. The deputies got their man after he used his cellphone and called the sheriff’s office to ask for help.
Richard Griffiths of Swansea, Wales says he was “freaked out” when he discovered he’d been sending text messages in his sleep.
One message to a friend said, “Help, I’m in trouble, someone’s chasing me.”
When the concerned friend phoned him, it turned out Griffiths was having a nightmare about being chased.
We certainly hope there are no hang-ups at this wedding.
The Indian bride and groom – both avid mountain climbers – plan to exchange vows at 2,000 feet while suspended from ropes from two adjacent mountains at Lonavala, near Bombay.
A Hindu priest, suspended from another rope, will conduct the ceremony.


