ARIZONA: A 20 year old Tempe man was caught at a pet shop stuffing two tarantulas down his pants before walking out. Authorities do not believe the crime was spontaneous because he had been seen in the store checking out the tanks previously by employees.
BOXERS OR BRIEFS???
TEXAS: We learn that a Houston man finally paid off his parking ticket from February 2, 1953. Abe Crawford, 79, dropped off his 1946 Nash automobile at a metered spot before shipping out to fight in Korea. His father was late in picking up the vehicle, leading to the ticket. Crawford had recently found the old, unpaid ticket in a box of keepsakes and arranged to pay the $1 fine.
A REAL LIFE “HONEST ABE.”
NEW MEXICO: Police in Albuquerque caught a prison parolee trying to flee to Mexico after he decided he did not want to take a drug test. With him was his fiancée. Police did not want to disappoint the love birds, so they arranged for a justice of the peace to come to the gas station where the pair had been stopped for a wedding ceremony where the groom wore handcuffs. Shortly after the ceremony the man was taken to jail.
WHAT, NO TIME FOR A HONEYMOON?
KANSAS: A co-ed from Olathe found nearly $400 worth of cocaine in a used book that she bought online. Sophia Stockton, fearing the white powder was anthrax, took it to police. An officer “came back and said, ‘You didn’t happen to order some cocaine with your textbook?’” she recalled. She suspects the drug was left in the book by a previous owner.
OR MAYBE THE TOOTH FAIRY PUT IT THERE FOR HER….
