Weird But True

Weird but true

He’s the Lone Ranger of the food court.

An Atlanta mall cop has become an international sensation after a video surfaced of him handling a violent, abusive woman by tasering her after she punched him.

People have started a reward fund for Darien Long, and it had $20,000 in it as of yesterday.

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A woman was arrested and charged with felony assault after she broke into a Minnesota home and began blasting a man and a woman — with a water gun.

But the gun wasn’t all that innocent.

The suspect had filled it with water infused with red-hot jalapeno peppers and squirted it into the faces of her victims.

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Sometimes being a cop is like being an extra in “Game of Thrones.”

An officer in Northbridge, Mass., narrowly escaped catastrophe after a suspect went medieval on him by grabbing a spear and stabbing him in the gut.

Fortunately, the cop’s Kevlar vest worked as well as a knight’s breastplate does and stopped the spear from doing more than superficial damage.

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She’s got the right stuff.

An adult-film actress is training to take one small step for porn by being the first person to shoot a dirty movie scene in space.

Coco Brown, 34, who also goes by the name Honey Love, is training to fly into space with the help of SpaceX, a company that hopes to take paying customers into orbit.

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If you want to buy your way out of trouble, it helps to be rich.

A drunken bicyclist in Boynton Beach, Fla., found that out the hard way when he was busted for pedaling while intoxicated and he tried to bribe the arresting officers.

First, he said he was a “professional MMA cage fighter,” and then told the cops, “Fifty cents to let me go,” presumably to laughs.