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(Huffington Post) - On Sunday, an unnamed man attacked a police officer with a hammer in the parking lot of a K-Mart, ambushing the officer while he was filling out paper work in his car.
The motives are still unclear, but investigators found evidence that suggests that the man might have wanted to be killed by a police officer, according to The Denver Post.
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(Daniel O’leary, New York Daily News)- An alleged robber in Chicago picked the wrong man to mess with.
Anthony Miranda, 24, attempted a robbery and carjacking, police said, but his would-be prey was a 33-year-old mixed martial artist who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championships. The tables were turned rather quickly, reports the Chicago Tribune.
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(The Smoking Gun) - After stealing a rowboat, jumping into a lake, and fleeing naked through thick underbrush, an agitated Florida man made a strange request to a sheriff’s deputy.
“Taser me, Taser me Bro,” Darrel Lee Horne demanded as he sat in the back a police cruiser, where he had been scuffling with a friend with whom he was arrested Friday afternoon.
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(Daily Mail By PAUL THOMPSON) - A suspected peeping tom has been arrested after mistakenly taking his own picture on a camera he had hidden in a leisure center bathroom.
Christopher Scott Furber was held after police in Texas issued his photograph and asked the public for help in identifying him.
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(Huffington Post) - Sometimes, the breathalyzer test is really more of a formality.
Police in North Carolina say that they were breaking down a DWI checkpoint early Sunday morning when a 21-year-old drunk driver allegedly crashed his vehicle into the mobile test station, the Hickory Daily Record reports.
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(Huffington Post) - Another day, two more examples of completely inappropriate incidents at fast food establishments.
Moving down the East Coast, Shawn Porter, 32, of Deltona, Fl. got himself arrested after asking for “a blunt and some herbs” at a Burger King drive-through.
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WIDK – Jerry Sandusky continues to fumble his interviews, attempting to defend allegations of sexual misconduct by saying “I’m attracted to young people – boys, girls.”
‘I enjoy spending time with young people, I enjoy spending time with people,’ Sandusky then said. [Click to read more…]
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(Daily Mail By JESSICA SATHERLY) - A thief who tried to rob an Arizona gas station with a ‘bomb’ was actually only armed with a toy penguin.
Andri Jeffers allegedly tried to hold up the Chevron Station in Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona, with the ‘bomb’ hidden under her shirt.
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(Reuters) - A Wisconsin man who allegedly attacked a fellow guest at a Thanksgiving Day dinner after she ignored his claim to a specific chair at the dining table has been charged with attempted homicide.
Kendrick Carr, 23, allegedly pulled a foot-long butcher knife on the woman after she refused to stand up from the chair he said he wanted to sit in, according to the criminal complaint filed in Racine County Circuit Court on Monday.
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(Daily Mail By MARK DUELL) - A mother managed to implicate herself in a hit-and-run death when she asked police to kick her boyfriend out of her apartment, authorities said.
The call by Heather Lynn Mayo, 33, of Pinellas Park, Florida, backfired when her boyfriend told cops she was the driver in a February hit-and-run.
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