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Updated: 11-22-2009
 

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Man pleads guilty to DWI in motorized La-Z-Boy

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

This guy is an innovator, how cool to have made a motorized La-Z-Boy with stereo and cupholder.  It’s too bad he chose beer to use in the cupholder and of course there is the running into a parked car bit.   Can’t we give him some sort of prize before he does time?

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left a bar in the northern Minnesota town of Proctor on his chair after drinking eight or nine beers.

Prosecutors say Anderson’s blood alcohol content was 0.29, more than three times the legal limit, when he crashed into a parked vehicle in August 2008. He was not seriously injured.

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Man, 81, finishes race after borrowing a catheter

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Okay in news there is weird and then there is WEIRD!  This is the latter for sure.   Pardon me but I have a mile to go and my catheter is broken, could you possibly spare one?  HUH?

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Organizers of the Twin Cities Marathon said they won’t disqualify an 81-year-old runner who won his age group after using a borrowed catheter. Jerry Johncock of Shelbyville, Mich., was sidelined at an aid station about 21 miles into Sunday’s race because a blood clot prevented him from urinating. The aid station had no catheter, but a spectator stepped forward to offer Johncock a catheter he had in his car.

Aides helped insert the catheter and Johncock went on to finish in a little over 5 hours 22 minutes.

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Coffee break pays off for Minnesota deputies

Friday, September 4th, 2009

That’s justice for you, do a crime, take a break, get busted and do the time.   Mental Note: Don’t burglarize places and then go somewhere that police are.

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Two Blue Earth County sheriff’s deputies didn’t have to work too hard to track down four burglary suspects. The suspects, in fact, pulled right into the Happy Chef restaurant where the deputies were on a coffee break Wednesday night. The deputies had been investigating three residential burglaries that night that had similar methods of operation. When they were on their break at Happy Chef, a report of another burglary came in from Le Sueur County with a description of the suspects’ pickup truck.

A truck matching the description then pulled into parking lot and the deputies didn’t have to go far to make an arrest. And, the stolen goods, including laptop computers, other electronics and jewelry, were in the back.

Captain Rich Murry said even a coffee break can be productive.

Information from: The Free Press, http://www.mankatofreepress.com

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World’s largest cupcake made, 150 pounds!

Monday, July 20th, 2009

If you think you have a sweet tooth then this story is for you!   I think maybe we need a food eating contest for foods whose size get them into the record books.   I wonder if hot-dog boy can scarf down a 150 pound cupcake?

Cakes.com sets a world record with a 150 pound cupcake.

Cakes.com sets a world record with a 150 pound cupcake.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 151-pound cupcake in Minneapolis has been certified as the world’s largest. The 1-foot tall, 2-foot wide cupcake on display Saturday at the Minneapolis Mall of America had 15 pounds of fudge filling and 60 pounds of yellow icing.

Guinness World Records adjudicator Danny Girton Jr. called it a “fun and creative achievement.”

The cupcake was made by cakes.com, which is run by cake-decoration supplier and marketer DecoPac.

Company spokeswoman Jamie Miller said the giant cupcake will go to a pig farm. The company decided against giving away pieces to mall patrons because most would not have had frosting.

Instead, cakes.com gave away 4,000 smaller cupcakes.

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