Weird But True

Weird but true

A 17-year-old Oklahoma City youth convicted of manslaughter in the death of a 16-year-old friend in a drunken-driving incident isn’t going to jail because a judge has ordered him to go to church every Sunday for the next 10 years instead.

Tyler Allred also has to finish high school and undergo a year of drug and alcohol testing.

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Two Welshmen received hefty fines after an intoxicated, costumed encounter at a Halloween get-together turned ugly.

Christopher Pantony, 21, of Ham, and Jamie Reynolds, 20, of Pennycross, dressed as Peter Pan and Superman, respectively, made lewd comments to another man in a nun’s costume and tried to touch the nun’shis genitals.

The two were arrested and eventually fined the equivalent of $397 after allegedly attacking a bystander who tried to intervene— that’s nothing to joke about.

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A Washington, DC, bar is getting more heat than a deep-fried Thanksgiving turkey over a holiday promotional poster pushing people to come out and “drink like a [sic] Indian.”

McFadden’s has taken down the ad after critics slammed the bar for being insensitive to Native Americans, who are three times more likely than other US citizens to die of alcohol-related problemsthan the national average.

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Instead, it’s mMen who are more likely to want to blow their cash on lavish nuptials, while modern-day women would ratherprefer to squirrel away their dough for a down payment on a house, thea Barclays survey of more than 2,100-plus British adults found.

Just 9 percent of the women questioned wanted a huge wedding, while 16 percent of potential grooms claimed to wantdesired the same thing.

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Talk about horsin’ around.

Two men were arrested in Offenbach, Germany,, Germany, after police spotted their white van at a gas station and thought there was something suspicious — only tothen discovered 10 Shetland ponies crammed into the rear of the vehicle.

The tiny steeds had no food or water. The drivers, who were heading towards Romania, men told the officers that they didn’t even know that the pint-sized ponies were aboard. The Shetlands were taken to an animal rescue farm.