OFFBEAT NEWS:
The town of Sedalia, Missouri has some serious Christmas spirit. Members of the ladies’ sewing group at First Christian Church started on a mega Christmas stocking in October 2016. More than a year later, they’ve got a record breaker on their hands.
When the women met to sew, somewhere between 10 and 20 volunteers would lend a hand on only a couple of sewing machines. In the end the stocking measured more than 177-feet-long and 72-feet wide. The previous record holder was Tuscany, Italy, who back in 2011, unveiled a measly 168-foot-long stocking.
The record breaker is doing some good, too. The stocking is being used to help promote Community Santa, which provided gifts to about 12-hundred local kids this year for Christmas.
Munich has recycled their illegal marijuana. The customs department seized 550 kilograms of weed in December last year and they just got around to getting rid of the contraband. They incinerated the pot, which was the equivalent of around 3.8 million joints, at the heat and power station in the German city of Olching.
According to a customs official, they looked at the narcotics as “rubbish that needs to be destroyed.” To the citizens of the region, however, that weed turned into heat and electricity.
A woman in Switzerland knew something was up when she noticed her husband had set up a second email account on their shared home computer. The spouses had always told each other their passwords, even writing them down, so the unnamed wife signed in to her hubby’s new email account.
That’s when the woman discovered her husband had been carrying on multiple affairs for some time. She confronted him and he moved out…then hit her with a criminal complaint for reading his emails.
The judge sided with the husband and fined the woman $14-thousand-400 for her “unauthorized intrusion into her husband’s data.” It didn’t help that her search history prior to logging in showed that she had googled whether doing so would make her liable for prosecution.
Either way, the woman’s team appealed the verdict because since the couple shared passwords, the defendant technically didn’t hack in to the account. The court upheld the ruling, but did lower the penalty.
STUPID CRIMINALS:
Lee McVicker is not someone you want on your flight. The 23-year-old was going from Ireland to England when he got into a dispute with cabin crew after being accused on smoking on the plane. It turns out he had had a few drinks before boarding and once they landed, police greeted him at the Manchester airport. That’s when police noted McVicker was extremely intoxicated, slurring his words, and unsteady on his feet. Despite police telling him not to, McVicker kept swearing at them. Authorities weren’t impressed and arrested him for being drunk and disorderly. Vicker pleaded guilty but only had to pay fines.
Teller County, Colorado Sheriff Jason Mikesell put an ad for his SUV on Craigslist. Shawn Langley responded, but clearly didn’t know who he was talking to. Langley offered to trade illegal marijuana for the car. At first, the sheriff thought he was kidding but then he set up a deal. Langley showed up with Jane Cravens in the passenger seat and two bags of weed in the car. Undercover officers arrested both of them and hit them with multiple drug charges.
