A man was arrested in Lincoln, Neb., for arriving at a funeral home and allegedly posing as an undertaker in a bid to take two engagement rings off the fingers of his deceased fiancée.
Terry Kurtzhals, 58, allegedly wore a name tag identifying himself as a funeral director and said he was representing the deceased’s family.
The funeral home’s skeptical owner called cops when the suspect became agitated amid questioning.
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A family Christmas dinner would be pretty awkward this year for these two guys.
A chance meeting between an estranged father and son at a liquor store in Belle Glade, Fla., wasn’t exactly a Hallmark moment.
Instead of hugs, they began arguing, and the 16-year-old son pulled a gun and began firing on dear old dad, who managed to dodge the bullets.
Cops arrested the son.
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It wasn’t a happy ending for this lusty customer.
An alleged john in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, was busted after he called 911 to complain that his quickie “date” was a little too quick, and shorted him by 10 minutes, police said.
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A St. Louis-area man pleaded guilty to hatching a twisted murder plot that would have framed a feline for the crime.
Brett Nash plotted to kill his wife’s paramour by having a hit man break into the lothario’s home, electrocute him with a radio in the bathtub and throw the guy’s cat into the water to make cops think it was a tragic accident.
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This sailor’s ship came in.
After being at sea for six weeks, a Coast Guard petty officer’s boat arrived back in port, and only then was he able to discover that the Mega Millions ticket he had bought in October was a $250,000 winner.
“I’m still in shock,” said Petty Officer First Class Jason Egnotovich in Portsmouth, Va.