A 9/11 memorial in California incorporating steel from the World Trade Center is advertising an upcoming fund-raiser with a flier stating, “Celebrating Napa’s 30-ton erection.”
The phallic joke was criticized by some as a diminution of the Napa 9/11 Memorial Project.
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An Idaho company claims to have created ammunition that would be a “defensive deterrent to those who violently act in the name of Islam” — bullets coated in pork-infused paint.
Islam forbids the consumption of pork.
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A Springfield, Mo., woman suspected of murdering her husband and son in separate incidents was finally arrested after she also allegedly tried to poison her daughter.
The scheme came to light when the cold-as-ice mom made clear she was going on a Florida vacation despite her daughter’s mysterious illness, leading cops to build a case against her.
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A Florida grocery-store manager was being interviewed on TV when he stopped and grabbed an alleged thief.
“Just give me one second,” Lenin Ubiera-Cruz told a WFTV reporter asking him about four shoplifting incidents in two days.
Cameras rolling, Ubiera-Cruz tackled a man walking past the store who had allegedly recently stolen food.
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For sale: antique coffin, complete with skeleton.
An Iowa fraternal group trying to raise money to pay off its taxes caught the attention of cops when it attempted to sell off its top asset via Craigslist.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows has just three members left and $12,000 in taxes to pay on its Council Bluffs headquarters.
So to raise dough, they tried to sell the antique.
Cops confiscated the bones because it’s illegal to sell unidentified human remains.