Cleveland, OH: No courtroom sketch artist for this trial! We learn that a TV station in Cleveland has started a courtroom puppet show. WOIO is using Muppet-like puppets to illustrate a local official’s corruption trial because the federal court does not allow cameras inside. The re-enactments included puppet versions of the judge, the defendant, jurors and witnesses reciting lines directly from the day’s court transcripts.
THIS IS ABOUT THE SILLIEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD OF…
CANADA: What a sad story. A trip to his bathroom did not turn out well for Port Colborne, Ontario resident Alistair MacPherson, who died of natural causes as he was turning on the sink’s water faucet. The water flowed for three weeks before his body was found. MacPherson’s family has beseeched water officials to waive the $600 water bill, but they have refused.
GLUG GLUG GLUG….
St. Louis, MO: A Missouri gubernatorial candidate who had been touting his economics degree was unmasked as a liar when a local newspaper discovered he had left out the word “home” in his “home economics” degree. David Spence claimed to be an economics major in his campaign fliers and on his Web site. He maintains that the controversy was “overblown.”
LIAR, LIAR PANTS ON FIRE…
Azusa, CA: We learn that police in Azusa have arrested Fernando Porras, 43, for allegedly poisoning his wife’s Rice Krispies cereal. The suspected would be “cereal killer” was charged with attempted murder and ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail.
OH SNAP, CRACKLE AND POP!!!!
PENNSYLVANIA: A couple in this state has been accused of trying to blow up a rival couple’s car by stuffing flaming tampons down the gas tank. Patricia and Quentin Deshong didn’t succeed in blowing up the 2006 Ford Fusion, but they did cause serious damage, according to police.
FLAMING TAMPONS…… WHY????
