
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A brazen gunman robbed an Indiana convenience store then skipped off to a topless joint where he boozed it up and bragged about his stick-up to the dancers.
The stunned jigglers quickly called Lafayette cops, who busted Arthur Melandeo Ramirez, 35.
He had already blown $100 of the $156 he’d stolen, paying for drinks and tips.
Refusing to be outdone by Coney Island’s hotdog-eating contest, Maine is launching an official state lobster-eating contest.
Contestants must devour the tail, claws, knuckles and at least two legs of each crustacean.
And just how many lobsters can a human being wolf down? Last year, the winner of one unofficial Maine competition reportedly ate 16 lobsters in eight minutes.
A blind man – following directions shouted by his boozed-up buddy – drove a golf cart two miles through the streets of Peachtree City, Ga.
Sightless motorist Samuel McClain, 35, and his drunken pal Michael Johnston, 47, finally smashed into a parked car and were charged with reckless conduct for “blatant disregard for public safety,” police said.
An 81-year-old German man – who claims he’s innocent of multiple rape counts because he’s impotent – won a victory yesterday when a court ruled he could not be forced to have his potency tested.
The court said the man’s human rights had been violated by a lower court’s ruling that he undergo hospital ultrasound and nocturnal checks on his penis.
The lower court asked doctors to tie him to a bed, attach a ring to his penis overnight, and use an “erectometer” to check his potency.
A South African man hacked his interior designer to death after she criticized his décor.
José da Silva, 37, who admitted killing Beatrice Harrowyn, 47, in his Johannesburg home, said:
“We went through the house and I told her what I wanted. She did not make any nice comments about my place so I went to my garage and fetched an ax.”


