OFFBEAT NEWS:

Man Ticketed For Leaving A Car Running In His Own Driveway

It turns out leaving your car running in your driveway is a crime in Roseville, Michigan. Nick Taylor claims he left his car on while he ran in the house, he came out five minutes later and had a $125 fine.

Taylor posted a photo of the ticket and his story on Facebook and it went viral, being shared more than 6-thousand times and received more than 5-thousand comments.

Roseville Police Chief James Berlin stands by the ticket because he calls leaving a car running a public safety issue. “A thief can just open the door, and off they go” if a car is running and doesn’t have a remote start system,” Berlin adds. “They typically flee the area at a high rate of speed, we have to chase, and that puts motorists and pedestrians at risk.”

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They Need A Part-Time Hermit In Austria

A bit lazy but in need of a new job? Municipal and Roman Catholic church officials in the Austrian town of Saalfelden are in need of a part-time hermit.

The position is only open from April and November because the 350-year-old building is unheated and without running water, but it’s not as easy gig. There are specific qualities the ideal candidate must have. First of all, the person must be “a person at peace with himself.”

Second, they must have a “Christian outlook” and “be ready to greet visiting pilgrims.”

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STUPID CRIMINALS:

More than 50 pounds of meth found inside a snail statue:

Drug smugglers sure do have interesting taste in sculpture. Customs agents in Cincinnati, Ohio discovered 53-pounds of meth hidden inside a statue of a snail. The vessel was mailed from Mexico and was labeled “Mexican stone crafts.” After going through an X-ray machine, officers noticed the decorative snail statue had “interior anomalies” and drilled a hole inside, discovering the drugs. The package’s final destination was Georgia but at this point, no one is in custody. Source: Associated Press

Restaurant workers fight off burglar with soup ladles:

Do not mess with the people of Chen’s Garden in Brooklyn, New York. One man attempted to rob the place and came face to face employees…and the ladles and kitchen utensils they were waving at the man. The unidentified perp, whose wanted in connection with a string of actual robberies, eventually fled empty handed. Check out security footage of the incident to the right. Source: Gothamist

Man bun leads to vandal’s arrest:

If you’re going to go into a life of crime, make sure you’re not too trendy. Isaac Gettleman has was fingered as the one responsible for kicking cars and jumping on side-view mirrors leaving a trail of damage behind on a Pittsburgh street. How was Gettleman identified? His man-bun hairstyle. The 22-year-old is now facing 36 counts of criminal mischief.