You’d think police would help a disabled man find his missing service dog, not threaten to jail him.
When Marysville, Wash., resident Shawn Slater and his pals posted lost-dog fliers all over town, he got a call from cops.
He was hoping they had good news, but they were simply warning him that according to regulations, he was facing a day in jail for every poster he posted.
Cops later said they were making a “courtesy call.”
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Officials in Santa Clara County, Calif., announced a “toilet-to-tap” plan for their $68 million water-treatment plant opening this fall.
But after a flood of objection from wary residents, the officials changed course and said the purified water would initially be used only for fire hydrants and landscaping.
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It’s tough dealing with a bank when it repossesses your home — especially when the bank wasn’t holding the mortgage.
First National Bank in Wellston, Ohio, entered the rundown home, whose owner had been away for weeks, and sold off or trashed her possessions.
The actual house on which the bank had foreclosed was across the street.
The owner says the bank is lowballing her on a compensation offer, and they’re now locked in a legal battle.
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Maybe it was simply all her G-string tips.
A stripper in Nebraska got back $1 million seized from her car in a traffic stop when prosecutors couldn’t prove any illegal activity on her part.
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An accused burglar fleeing cops in Camberwell, England, jumped into a tall garbage bin in a park, where officers found him upside down.
Cleese Buck, 22, told arresting officers he had been playing goal in a soccer match, which would account for the gloves he was wearing, but he had no explanation for his trash-bin hiding place.