Some convicts sue over lousy jail food — one Los Angeles County inmate claims in a lawsuit that he was shot with a ray gun.
Andrew Lars Fuchs says deputies blasted him with a military-style heat ray.
“The device fires an invisible electro-magnetic radiation heat beam, causing unbearable pain to inmates,” he claims.
Fuchs has been diagnosed with schizophrenia — although the county had, in fact, announced plans to use the devices.
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For the first time in 150 years, an endangered gray wolf was spotted in Kentucky — so, of course, some hillbilly shot it.
“I was like — wow — that thing was big!” the 31-year-old hunter reportedly said.
“It looked like a wolf, but who is going to believe I shot a wolf?”
Officials let the hunter off because they believe he mistook the wolf for a coyote.
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Snail mail’s got to escargot.
A company called Outbox provides a service in which it collects mail from its customers’ mailboxes after it’s delivered by the US Postal Service — and then scans it into a computer so the clients can read it.
It’s meant for people who don’t have time to sort their mail or who may go on extended trips.
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Men in Colorado are getting good advice about drunken driving — while they are peeing.
Bars in the state have installed a device called an “Interactive Urinal Communicator,” which plays an anti-DWI public service announcement on a speaker as a patron approaches the urinal.
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That’s not the sting of sweat in their eyes.
A group of joggers in a 10k race in England were forced to run for their lives when they were attacked by a swarm of hornets.
Numerous contestants were stung, and four had to be hospitalized after one runner stepped off the road and kicked the nest.