WEIRD BUT TRUE
James Ross keeps getting in trouble – but always as different people.
Cops say Ross, 23, of Godfrey, Ill., is a “a serial impersonator” who has posed as a police officer, a paramedic, a firefighter and a mortician.
He has served time for some of the deceptions, but apparently hasn’t learned his lesson. He was busted again on Sunday, for allegedly posing as an appliance repairman.
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Moments after the mayor of Shreveport, La., announced that a new citywide reading project would concentrate on the best-selling book “The Secret Life of Bees,” the real things made a surprise appearance.
A soda can burst at the press conference, drawing a huge swarm of bees that attacked the crowd.
Good thing they weren’t reading “Jaws.”
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Carol Vasquez went to the cemetery to decorate the family plot for Memorial Day and got a macabre surprise – the spot she had reserved as her eternal resting place next to her husband’s had been freshly occupied and planted with grass seed.
The stunned Dimondale, Mich., resident called officials at Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery and told them, “Get this person out of my grave!” She said she expects the wrong body to soon be evicted.
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German police, alerted to a possible kidnapping, freed a man from a car trunk only to discover the “victim” was actually a willing sex slave.
They stopped the car after a caller reported seeing a woman locking someone in the trunk. Inside, they found a 39-year- old man in only a leather thong and a collar.
“They were a couple from the S&M scene. The ‘mistress’ was driving with the slave in the [trunk],” said a police spokesman in Bayreuth.
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The world’s first Lawnmower Museum has opened in England.
Curator Brian Radam says he’s had lots of visitors to his exhibit in Southport, which features grass-cutting implements of every shape and size.
“There are lots of keen collectors, but they don’t tell anybody about it,” he said. “If you went to the pub and you said, ‘Do you want to see the dozen lawnmowers that I’ve got at home?’ they’d think you were nuts.”


