RUSSIA: Graveyard ghoul, why? A man who dug up the bodies of 29 young girls, dressed them like dolls and displayed them in his bedroom has refused to apologize to their parents as he seeks to be released from a psychiatric facility. According to a report Anatoly Moskvin, 53, a historian obsessed with cemeteries since he was 12, shocked, investigators in the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod in 2011 when he carried out his grave-digging spree. We learn that he applied makeup to the mummified “dolls,” which he dressed in clothes, stockings, and knee-length boots — and celebrated their birthdays in the apartment he shared with his parents. Mr. Moskvin has petitioned to be released from the psychiatric facility, but a judge has extended his stay for another six months.
SOUTH CAROLINA: What an idiot! A man was arrested recently after strolling into a courtroom in the exact same shirt he wore while allegedly stealing packages. Surveillance images had shown a man in a green and red North Face shirt snatching packages from people’s porches in Goose Creek. Police said they were able to nab the alleged porch pirate after he came into a courtroom in the same clothes. “Sometime people actually do make our job easy, said a police officer
NORTH CAROLINA: OOOOPPPSS! Too hot to handle? An arsonist dumping gasoline inside an office accidentally lit himself on fire, according to video footage. After lighting a match, the clumsy dope was shown frantically running out of the building at the Lake Norman RV Resort in Sherrills Ford with his legs engulfed in flames and a bag of cash in his hand.
TEXAS: Halloween display too risqué? For Halloween 2020, Angela Nava, of the town of Richmond had posted several plastic skeletons in her front yard to look like they were pole dancing. However, a neighborhood homeowners’ group “called the ghoulish girls “offensensively positioned” and gave her 30 days to remove them – no bones about it.
UNITED KINGDOM: The headline read; “Brainless British burglar takes the cake.” The alleged crook was found snoozing next to a half-eaten cheesecake when the owner of 808 Bar and Kitchen in Sunderland opened his place of business on a Saturday in November, police said. Surveillance-camera footage revealed that an accomplice ran off leaving his sleepy pal behind.
