Offbeat News

A robber rolled into a Dallas convenience store came armed with a bat and a knife. He left with a lot of condoms and an energy drink. Dallas police Cpl. Kevin Janse said Friday that a man in a wheelchair entered a Dallas 7-Eleven Wednesday afternoon, rolled straight toward the cash register and beat it with a baseball bat until it opened. But he didn’t grab any cash. Instead, police say he stole 10 boxes of condoms and an energy drink before making his getaway Wednesday afternoon. Janse says the suspect may have been homeless and was likely intoxicated at the time of the robbery…Source

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The afternoon temperature Wednesday was a blistering 90 degrees, and the three young children were stuck in the back of the van for nearly an hour. Their babysitter, Jeanie Nickel, 38, of Baltimore in Fairfield County, apparently was too busy doing a cartwheel down the aisle of the Duke & Duchess gas station off I-70 in Pataskala to pay the kids any attention, witnesses told authorities. Inside the store, witnesses say, Nickel came out of the restroom and stumbled into the racks. The State Highway Patrol had already been looking for her. They had received a call of an erratic driver in a minivan on the interstate, and when a trooper and Licking County deputies located the vehicle, they cornered Nickel in the parking lot…Source

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A Bozeman motorcyclist and business owner died Wednesday when he lost control of his bike and crashed at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Cliff Gullett, 47, was riding in a speed trial when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed at about 4 p.m., Tooele County, Utah Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Duke North told Deseret News. Gullett owns Team Bozeman Motorsports with his wife, Leanne. Gullett was competing in the 500cc Streamliner class. He was wearing protective gear, but died from injuries sustained in the 239 mph crash. Investigators were unsure what caused Gullett to lose control of his motorcycle…Source

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Toni Milton, 38, mistakenly dialled Neil O’Brien’s number on her mobile phone while she was making love to her ex-boyfriend, a court heard. O’Brien, 41, said the sound of his girlfriend sleeping with another man caused him to flip out. He drove to her house and stamped on her face so hard he left a shoeprint, Leicester crown court heard. He was jailed for 15 months after a judge said even the “unusual circumstances” of the incident would not save him from prison…Source

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When two gunmen smashed through the glass front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn’t think twice. The 34-year-old mother of two grabbed a shotgun that had been pointed at her face early Wednesday, starting a struggle that ended with one intruder killed with his own weapon and another in the hospital. “I wasn’t going to let them get to my babies,” she said, recalling the moment when she pushed up the muzzle of the shotgun, pointing it away from her children’s rooms…Source

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The Policia Estatal Preventiva-state police in Mexicali arrested eight men Monday afternoon in a corner home located on 134 Callejon Madero, just two blocks south of the international border fence.  Police say the men were digging a tunnel that was headed towards Calexico, California.  Currently, all are being detained at a local police department to determine what charges they will face. State Police say at about 2 p.m. a concerned citizen called police and said there was suspicious activity at the corner home.  Minutes later, police moved in to find several people digging a tunnel, which was headed north to the United States...Source

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He’s driven a big truck, flown in a Russian fighter jet and fished shirtless on national television. Now comes Vladimir Putin’s latest image-boosting escapade, a visit to a Russian wildlife preserve that gave him the chance to wear camouflage, stalk through the woods and shoot a tiger — all for a good cause. Russia’s state-run television showed footage Monday of the tough-talking prime minister’s visit to the Far East, home of the rare Ussuri tiger. Russian media reports said Putin aided a program to track the tigers by shooting a 5-year-old female cat with a tranquilizer gun after it had freed itself from a restraint…Source

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SHOCKED tourists fled a gun brawl at their hotel…only to stumble into a porn film being shot in the foyer. The terrifying experience was the last straw for the holidaymakers after a week of hell in Bulgaria. Bernard and Margaret Strachan, of Kilmarnock, last night claimed their trip was ruined when: They found naked actors romping in front of children in the hotel lobby. One of the staff shot a teenage guest in the face with a stun gun after accusing her of stealing towels. Eating in the hotel restaurant gave them food poisoning…Source

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A condom lubricant designed for sex workers and gay men has become a popular acne cure among female Cambodians, women in the capital and local media said Thursday. Number One Plus, a water-based lubricant produced by health organisation Population Services International (PSI), is an excellent cure for acne, 29-year-old vendor Tep Kemyoeurn told AFP…Source

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A 33-year-old man who tried cutting off his arm inside a busy Denny’s restaurant because he believed it would save his life was arrested Friday night, according to Modesto police.

According to Sgt. Brian Findlen, Michael Lasiter, 33, of Modesto had been injecting cocaine in a nearby motel when he thought he had injected air into his veins, which can lead to death…Source

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