Weird But True

Weird but true

Next time, he should just send an angry letter to the bar association.

Moments after Lamarcus Williamson was sentenced to 15 years’ prison in South Carolina for assault, he showed his displeasure by punching out his lawyer in court.

Attorney Dan Hall got a split lip — and Williamson got six more months.

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Chicago is an urban jungle — and that jungle is full of marijuana plants.

Cops in the Windy City were shocked to find that a brazen drug farmer had planted two football fields worth of pot on the South Side. Some of the 1,500 plants were the size of Christmas trees.

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You’d think a sex offender’s house would already be scary enough.

A group of convicted pervs is suing Simi Valley, Calif., for violating their First Amendment rights by forbidding them from putting up Halloween decorations.

The law is meant to keep kids away from their homes, but the offenders claim they already are barred from handing out candy, and they have a constitutional right to carve pumpkins and hang skeletons.

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At least he got to drive a Ferrari.

A Swiss man thought he had gotten a sweet deal when he got a coupon to drive a rare Ferrari 360 Spider F1 Challenge Stradale for just $40.

But his dream turned into a nightmare when he crashed after just 15 minutes. He now has to pay $400,000 to replace the car because his insurance won’t cover it.

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Here’s a Weird but True follow-up.

Just a month after Canada was rocked by the theft of $1 million worth of maple syrup, cops have located some of the sweet stuff.

About 600 barrels of missing syrup were located in New Brunswick and are now being shipped back to Quebec under police protection.