OFFBEAT NEWS:
Unfinished Paint Job Leaves Town With “Sex” Sign
The water tower in Sussex, Wisconsin is undergoing renovations. Unfortunately for them, they ran into a hiccup and had to stop painting midway through the project. Now, the water tower reads “SEX.”
Jessica Bruss was driving her eight-year-old son to his first baseball game Wednesday afternoon when she heard him say “mom, why does that say sex?'” “I immediately thought, ‘not today, we’re not having this conversation today,'” Bruss jokes. “I almost drove off the road when I saw it.”
“It’s not like it’s anything pornographic, but it certainly caught the attention of my eight-year-old,” Bruss adds. “While I think it’s funny for adults, people should remember that kids are seeing it.”
What’s more, this is only one of the sides of the tower and the contractor can’t guarantee that the same thing won’t happen again.
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The World’s Most Expensive Bag Just Sold For $377K
If you had more than $377-thousand to spend, what would you buy? One unidentified person picked a handbag.
The matte white Himalaya Niloticus crocodile diamond Birkin 30 handbag is now the most expensive handbag ever sold at auction. Whoever the person was that had plenty of expendable income won the bag after 15-minutes of “intense” bidding.
This isn’t the first time a Birkin 30 had a major price tag attached. Last year, Christie’s auctioned a similar bag for $300,000. Why did this one beat the previous record? This time around the purse is encrusted with higher grade diamonds and features more gold.
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Soon Doughnuts May Be Delivered By Drones
It’s National Donut Day – so how great to find out that the future might be a bit more delicious than we previously thought. Denver’s LaMar’s Donuts hired Drone Dispatch to deliver four boxes of baked goods to the city’s mayor, along with the fire and police departments.
“This is exciting stuff,” Mayor Michael Hancock says. “I think as we get ready for not only drones in the air, and get ready for autonomous vehicles, this is our future this is how we’re going to become a more efficient 21st century nation, society quite frankly.”
The FAA is investigating to make sure the deliveries are kosher, but Austin-based Drone Dispatch says their work is “completely legal.”
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STUPID CRIMINALS:
Man puts tape on his face, robs a bank:
Authorities in Brownsburg, Indiana are looking for a thrifty bank robber. A man was caught on security camera robbing a bank with tape wrapped around the middle of his face, effectively hiding only his nose from view. He didn’t say he had a weapon, but told them he was willing to hurt them if he had to. He made off with an undetermined amount of cash. No word on if he used some of that money to buy a better disguise.
Homicide suspect is all smiles after chase:
You’d think if you were wanted for homicide, you wouldn’t be happy about it. Christopher Lamont Carter, however, was all smiles. The 23-year-old led Oklahoma City police on a high-speed chase before crashing into a power pole. When authorities arrested him, Carter really cheesed it up in his mugshot. Maybe he didn’t realize he was now facing charges for both murder and evading police?
Carjacker outsmarted by car keys:
He would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for that pesky key fob. Ezekiel Stevenson, a prison inmate, yanked a driver from his car during a trip to the hospital. Unfortunately for the 18-year-old, the driver still had his keys, which included a button that turns the engine on and off. What’s more, each time Stevenson tried to lock the doors to avoid police, the driver would use his fob to unlock them. Stevenson was able to flee into the nearby woods, but was eventually caught and thrown back in jail. Now he’s facing carjacking and resisting arrest charges on top of his original hit-and-run charge.
