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Updated: 11-22-2009
 

Posts Tagged ‘Michigan’

Police nab wrong-way driver twice in 3 days

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Rules, what rules, I want to go this way, this is the shortest way and I am taking it.   We’ll have to follow up on this one to see whats wrong with this person but I am sure am glad he isn’t driving in Coos Bay today.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Authorities in western Michigan arrested a person twice in three days for driving the wrong way down the highway Kalamazoo County deputies said they were alerted about 1:30 a.m. Friday after several people called 911 when they passed the unidentified driver traveling south on northbound U.S. 131.

WWMT-TV said the driver was arrested in the same area that they were arrested Wednesday morning.

No injuries were reported. No further details were released.

Information from: WWMT-TV, http://www.wwmt.com

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Police: Wife pulls knife on husband over vodka

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

That must be some really good vodka to risk going to jail over.  I have had some good vodka in my time but never had a bottle worth stickin’ someone with a knife.

CLAWSON, Mich. (AP) — Police said a woman threatened her husband with a 7-inch knife after he threw away her bottle of vodka as she slept in their suburban Detroit home. Clawson police Lt. Scott Sarvello told The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak the man returned home from work Sunday night to find his wife sleeping with a bottle of vodka. He threw away the bottle.

Sarvello said the 34-year-old woman woke up, argued with her husband, went back to sleep, then got up again and grabbed a knife from the kitchen to force him to get her vodka or give her the car keys.

Police said the man held her at bay with a chair while he called 911.

She was arrested and found to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.23 percent. She was arraigned Tuesday on a felony charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.

Information from: The Daily Tribune, http://www.dailytribune.com

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Shotgun-wielding man Tasered after manure dispute

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

What a load of crap, literally!   A dispute over crap leads to tazering and arrest.  Way to go neighbor.  Punishment should be 6 months of Mr. Rogers re-runs.  I wouldn’t like to be his neighbor.

HURON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Police said a dispute over manure led to a man firing his shotgun near his neighbors and police later using a Taser to subdue him. The Saginaw News reported the man approached his neighbors in Huron County’s Huron Township, about 110 miles north of Detroit, Saturday as they spread lime and manure on their farm.

Police said the 45-year-old fired his shotgun and then aimed the gun at the couple as they approached the fence in their tractor. Authorities said the disagreement over the placement of the manure had been ongoing.

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Golf course groundskeeper finds mammoth tooth

Monday, August 24th, 2009

I always thought that Fred Flintstone would be a golfer and now we have proof.  This isn’t a tooth, it’s a prehistoric golf tee!   I’ll bet Fred would have loved to play Bandon Dunes!

fred flintstone golfSARANAC, Mich. (AP) — A golf course groundskeeper recently stumbled onto something unexpected on the greens: A tooth from a 10,000-year-old mammoth. Groundskeeper Patrick Walker found the 10-pound tooth Tuesday when he was on the greens about 30 miles east of Grand Rapids at Morrison Lake Country Club.

The recent high school graduate told The Grand Rapids Press he knew the tooth exposed by recent rains was from an extinct elephant because he paid attention in his science classes.

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