Lawmen in Belmont, Maine, attempting to nab a probation violator instead found themselves in a weird standoff with the head of the local militia.
Mack Page, 63, was sleeping when state troopers trained floodlights on his house and ordered him to come out with his hands up.
“I challenged them. ‘Who the hell are you? Am I going to get Tazed? Am I going to get shot by somebody?’ ” Page recounted.
Turns out they had the wrong address.
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In Alaska, they take their fishing-season rules seriously.
A too-clever-for-his-own-good fishing guide got himself in hot water for his fanciful logbook entries.
Matthew Terry, 21, was arrested for “failure to complete a logbook as required by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game” after he bizarrely declared that he had hooked blue whales and the mythical chupacabra.
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“If found, please return to . . .”
The Coast Guard in Hawaii is asking surfers to label their boards with a name, address and phone number after one was found abandoned on the water.
It led to a massive but futile search for a “missing” surfer — who saw the story and her board on TV news reports and phoned in to say she had been forced to abandon the board in extremely rough surf.
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Make your bids on this hard-to-come-by beer!
Trappist monks in Belgium who make Westvleteren XII don’t advertise or promote their product, which they brew only in small batches.
They’ve now pumped up production to help pay for abbey renovations. Still, six-packs are going for as much as $500 on eBay.
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The remains of a long lost English king have been found — beneath a parking lot in Leicester.
Historians and archeologists finally pinpointed the location of a church where King Richard III was buried in 1485 and ID’d the remains.