We now go to our reporter in Oakland, Calif. . . . who’s being robbed!
Thugs attacked a newsman and a cameraman for a local CBS affiliate while the journalists were doing a live TV report outside a high school.
The thieves took a $10,000 high-definition camera, roughed up the cameraman and fled in a Mercedes-Benz.
The cameraman was only slightly injured and has returned to work.
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These guys may be the ultimate gangsta rappers.
Two aspiring hip-hoppers went to a Washington, DC-area recording studio called Copy Catz, laid down a track for a new rap song — then pulled guns and robbed the place.
The brazen duo got away, leaving behind their recording — a rap ode to a Chicago hoodlum.
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If you grope another man’s privates in Vietnam, justice is swift — and bacon flavored.
An alleged pervert in the rural Co region was busted for grabbing a male villager’s “junk” and ordered by a constable to pay a “fine” consisting of a bottle of liquor and a pig.
The suspect said he just grabbed the man for fun, refused to pay the porcine penalty and appealed to a higher authority.
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Talk about contrition!
A TV repairman in India was so remorseful after his wife left him for constantly insulting her that he cut his out tongue to prove to her that he’ll never do it again.
The woman hasn’t decided if she’ll take him back.
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Staff at a Swedish nursing home called firefighters after looking through a window and seeing flames in a room.
Firefighters rushed to the scene, broke into the room — and felt kind of dumb.
It turned out that the flames were being displayed on a high-def television, with the images coming from a DVD of a fireplace.