Offbeat News: A Lucky Lotto Ticket, A New Year’s Nuisance

Posted on January 4, 2018January 10, 2018 by Rick Watts

KMZN’s OFFBEAT NEWS:

“Winging It”

Being stuck on the tarmac after your flight lands is annoying. A passenger sick of dealing with the delays took matters into his own hands and disembarked… by way of the emergency exit.

The 57-year-old man had flown from London to Malaga, Spain. The trip started with an hour-long delay and when they landed in Malaga, passengers were stuck on the tarmac for another half hour. That’s when the unnamed antsy passenger reportedly told a fellow flyer “I’m going via the wing.”

Security caught up with the man while he was hanging out on the wing and eventually convinced him to re-board the plane where he was held until authorities arrested him.

“An Itch to Scratch”

Not only is James Perry lucky, he also got a satisfying apology from his wife after she tried to convince him to stop buying scratch-off tickets. It’s understandable why Linda Perry thought he should give it up, considering James won $262-thousand from a Show Me Cash scratch-off ticket in July 2016.

She’d have to eat crow and apologize though, because James has won yet another jackpot. This time, the Chillicothe, Missouri man landed a $25-thousand a year for life prize off a different scratch-off.

James is now planning on retiring.

STUPID CRIMINALS:

“Price Tag Panic”

Most likely, the person who stole the bottle of Russo-Baltique vodka from the Cafe 33 bar in Copenhagen, Denmark knew what they were doing. According to the bar, the bottle is the most expensive in the world, valued at $1.3-million. While the price tag means a potential windfall, it also means plenty of people want the bottle back, including the Russian businessman who loaned the booze to Cafe 33. It’s unclear if the police have any leads.

“Salty After Stella”

Anthony Anderson has clearly never heard of moderation. The 43-year-old from the UK claims he got into a fight after sticking up for a friend. At one point a security guard got involved… and Anderson bit him on the leg. Probably not surprisingly… Anderson admitted to having a few beers. More specifically, he knocked back 20 pints of Stella. In the end, Anderson was sentenced to an eight-week prison sentence, community service, and fines.

“New Year’s Napper”

On New Year’s Eve, a man in Copenhagen, Denmark got in a taxi and asked to be driven to Oslo, Norway… about a six-hour drive. By the time the passenger arrived, it was New Year’s Day and he had a $22-hundred fare to pay. Instead, the unidentified man disappeared into his apartment. The driver understandably called police, who responded to the residence and found the passenger asleep. They woke him up and forced him to pay up. The driver’s 2018 started off with yet another annoyance: he required assistance after his battery died while waiting outside the customer’s home.

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Offbeat News: A Weary Traveler, An Explosive New Year & Stupid Criminals

Posted on January 3, 2018January 10, 2018 by Rick Watts

KMZN’s OFFBEAT NEWS:

“Wayfaring Stranger”

What would you do if you woke up and found a stranger asleep on your couch? If you’re New Zealand homeowner Gordon Pryor, you let ’em sleep. Then, you wake him up with an offer of breakfast and coffee.

In case you missed it, Pryor shared a photo of the sleeping man on social media which prompted plenty of questions. After waking him up, Pryor got the answers. The college student had gone to a music festival, but took the wrong shuttle while trying to get home. When he found Pryor’s house, the guy decided to get some sleep and entered through an unlocked door.

The young man and 60-year-old Pryor chatted for about an hour before the student went on his way. “He was really humble, a helluva nice kid,” Pryor says. “[But] I just slowly wound him up and teased him a bit and made it quite clearly known that what he’d done was not exactly acceptable, but at the end of the day it was seen as a harmless things to do.”

“Bring In 2018 With A Bang”

During the New Year’s revelry of last weekend, a group of people were setting off fireworks in the parking lot of a Houston, Texas strip mall when one landed on the trunk of Hurara Hassan’s trunk. The rogue firework managed to set off the unlit explosives Hassan had stashed in his trunk… all 600 of them.

Fortunately, no one was injured in the unintentionally massive firework display. Footage of the aftermath has gone viral, but it doesn’t seem like Hassan is planning on changing his ways.

“I’m not worried about it,” he says. “I stay positive. I’ll go do the fireworks again. But I’ll make sure the trunk is closed next time.”

STUPID CRIMINALS:

“Fanning the Flames”

Police in Toronto, Canada are looking for the man who lit a Porsche SUV on fire while it was sitting in a residential driveway. Unfortunately for him, he was in full view of a security camera. Authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying the man.

“Pennsylvania Prison Blues”

Edwin Wylie-Biggs is currently serving time in a Pennsylvania prison. A corrections officer saw an inmate pass Wylie-Biggs something so he performed a strip search. That’s when the officer spotted the tail end of a balloon sticking out of the inmate’s tail end. The substance inside the balloon tested positive for K2, a synthetic form of marijuana. Wylie-Biggs appealed his possession of contraband by an inmate charge on the grounds that Pennsylvania didn’t have an ironclad case. He also allegedly claimed the drugs weren’t his. The judge didn’t believe him and the charge is staying put.

‘Offbeat News’ for December 26th

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Rick Watts

OFFBEAT NEWS:

Did Disney mess up its animatronic Trump?

Walt Disney World has been preparing to add Donald Trump to its Hall of Presidents since before he took office. Just over a year later, the park is finally unveiling the fruits of its long-awaited labor — and early reviews on Twitter are mixed.

More than one has even stated that the animatronic likeness looks more like Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight than Trump.

But while Disney may have captured the president’s animated hand movements faithfully, the robot’s physical appearance isn’t winning praise on Twitter. Commenters have not only compared Disney’s Trump-bot to Jon Voight, but also Angela Lansbury, the character of Biff Tannen from “Back to the Future: Part 2” and even Hillary Clinton.
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Instead of whining about their son’s teachers, Ohio parents Mary and Paul Sommers decided to wine them for Christmas instead.

Mary and Paul Sommers, who live in Beavercreek, say their son, 14-year-old Jake, is “that kid” ― the one in class “who always has something to say.”

So, when the parents wanted to say thanks to Jake’s teachers for putting up with him, Mary Sommers said they had to kick things up a notch.

With help from a friend’s printing company, the Sommers turned some bottles of Chardonnay into a thoughtful holiday gift for their son’s teachers.

The label features a picture of a smiling Jake and reads, “Our Child Might Be The Reason You Drink, So Enjoy This Bottle On Us.”

Jake insisted he’s not insulted by the gift. In fact, he helped deliver the vino personally.
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Authorities say a gift-wrapped box of horse manure addressed to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (mih-NOO’-shin) was found near his home in Los Angeles.

The package was found Saturday night after it was dropped off at a neighbor’s house.
The Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad was called to the home and officers opened the box, finding a pile of horse manure inside. Police said the package had been gift-wrapped and was marked as being from “the American people.”

Police said the Secret Service was taking over the investigation. A Secret Service spokesman said the agency was aware of the incident but declined to comment further.
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A Massachusetts teacher is one tough cookie — he cut his finger on the Food Network’s “Christmas Cookie Challenge” show and still won the competition.

Doug Alley lives in Rhode Island but teaches culinary arts at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School in Bourne, Massachusetts, and took the $10,000 top prize.

Alley tells the Cape Cod Times he and his fellow contestants have been texting each other since the episodes began being aired in the run-up to Christmas.

The challenge was taped in New Orleans in August. Alley won for his sugar cookies and a lemon rosemary cookie.

Alley says he, his wife and their 17-year-old daughter are using part of his winnings for a vacation at Disney World. He says he’s also planning to release a new cookbook soon.
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After a four-year courtship, a British Army sergeant and a former diving instructor have married underwater in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

The couple used an underwater tablet Thursday to exchange wedding vows beside Molasses Reef off Key Largo.

In 2013, Thomas Mould, of Leicester, England, traveled on an Army adventure training dive trip to the Amoray Dive Resort in the Keys, where Sandra Hyde worked as an instructor.

The couple connected. Hyde traveled to Leicester a few times, and he visited her in the states.

They decided to marry and planned a summer wedding in an old English church but then decided an underwater wedding in the Keys would not only be more appropriate, but more cost-effective.

The couple is honeymooning in the Keys, before returning to live in England.

‘Offbeat News’ for 12-1-17

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Rick Watts

OFFBEAT NEWS:

It’s not clear what Sahar Tabar loves more: Angelina Jolie or plastic surgery. The 19-year-old woman from Iran says she’s Angie’s biggest fan and she would “do anything” to emulate her. Apparently, that means undergoing 50 plastic surgeries.

Tabar’s Instagram has more than 460-thousand followers, but her unique look has also brought on plenty of haters. One follower even called her a “zombie.” At this point, there’s no way to know how much of Tabar’s look is due to surgery and how much can be chalked up to makeup.

Photos and more info here:

http://www.odditycentral.com/news/young-girl-allegedly-goes-under-the-knife-to-look-like-angelina-jolie-ends-up-looking-like-the-corpse-bride.html

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Sometimes it takes a little while for a guilty conscience to kick in. For one person in St. Paul, Minnesota, it took three decades. Enter South St. Paul police chief Bill Messerich, who opened a letter sent to him and found $1-thousand.

Included was a note apologizing for a hit and run committed in either 1985 or 1986. The anonymous sender asked for forgiveness and wondered whether police could track down the victim and give him or her the cash.

The sender asked that if the driver can’t be tracked down that the money be given to a police charity. Fortunately for the South St. Paul PD, their records don’t go back that far so the money was deposited into the police department’s general donation account and will be used to buy new equipment or technology.

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Goodwill stores wouldn’t be able to continue without donations. That doesn’t mean you can donate whatever you want, however. For example, it’s best not to drop off a hand grenade.

While going through a box that was dropped off, an employee at the Placentia, California store spotted the military weapon. Understandably, authorities were called and to air on the side of caution, a bomb squad was called in to remove the grenade safely.

Police are investigating, but all we know is that a woman dropped off the explosive donation.

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STUPID CRIMINALS:

Police in Revere, Massachusetts had a particularly smelly crook on their hands. Steven Spolidoro is accused of walking into a bank, demanding money, and fleeing with $1-thousand. An off-duty cop who was nearby provided a description of 41-year-old Spolidoro’s car, which was spotted in Boston. After a chase, officers saw the man abandon his car and run off on foot. He was eventually discovered and arrested inside a port-a-potty near the TD Garden arena.

‘Offbeat News’ for 11-30-17

Posted on November 30, 2017November 30, 2017 by Rick Watts

OFFBEAT NEWS:

Leah Alderman has to thank the spirit of her grandma for her recent lotto win. The Cumberland, Maryland woman spotted a Ruby Riches scratch off card and decided to pick one up, thinking of her grandma Ruby, who died when Leah was a teenager.

As she was preparing for Thanksgiving dinner, Leah scratched the card and discovered she was $30-thousand richer. “I was shaking when I signed the ticket,” Leah adds. “This is awesome!”

Leah and her fiancé are planning on using their cash to continue the restoration of their dream house. They’re also considering using some of the cash to get married.

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A man in India says he’s learned his lesson: make sure you ask for your doctor’s credentials. If not, you might be like this 60-year-old farmer who allowed what he calls a “quack” doctor to insert a metal cup in his back door, all in the name of curing a stomach ache.

After the eight-inch cup failed to do the trick, the man’s family took the farmer to an actual doctor who with the help of an x-ray saw the cup. It took an hour-in-a-half in surgery, but the cup was successfully removed.

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STUPID CRIMINALS:

If you want to get away with stealing a hot car, you’ve gotta ACT like someone who’d drive a hot car.

A 38-year-old guy named Israel Rangel wandered into a Ferrari and Maserati dealership in Costa Mesa, California last month, and he saw a Ferrari 458 Spider in their garage for service . . . with the keys on the seat.

So . . . he stole it.

Then, about two weeks later, Israel pulled into a Shell station . . . and started asking people there if he could get a little money for gas. And that was VERY suspicious, considering the Ferrari 458 Spiders start at about $230,000 . . . and this particular one was worth closer to $300,000.

So someone called the cops, and they found Israel hiding in some bushes behind a Holiday Inn nearby and arrested him. He was charged with felony vehicle theft and several other charges as well.

The Ferrari belonged to a woman named Susan Friedman, and Israel had trashed it so badly that her insurance company declared it a total loss. But don’t cry for her . . . she used the settlement to buy herself a new 2018 Lamborghini Huracan.

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Anthony Breslin was sent to pick up cattle by his dad. It’s unclear if the 18-year-old Irish teen actually did find any cows, but we do know Breslin drove his family tractor into the town of Derry. When police pulled him over, Breslin admitted he had gone to Derry to look for women. He was hit with a $67 fine and it’s probably safe to assume he didn’t meet his soulmate.

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