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Weird News 19 19 Weird News What Is It With Our Southern Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges that divers use Police probably never thought they'd see Politicians? them as underwater navigation points. (New someone try to hide pot like this before. They York Magazine) found a casket that had nearly 100 pounds of So what is it with our Southern politicians these marijuana after a traffic stop in Dallas. William days? First we have South Carolina governor Catch Me With Your Camera If You Dale Crock of Cave City, Ark., was in jail Mark Sanford going AWOL for a week only to Can! Friday on a marijuana possession charge, plus be caught having an affair with some traffic and seat beat violations. Dallas police say Argentinean chick -- now we've got the former I don't think you'd leave a tip, after being a Crock was arrested Wednesday when bundles of mayor of Clayton, Georgia, Mark Musselwhite, tourist in this van service. Some guys were marijuana were discovered under the casket's arrested for public nudity! Mayor Musselwhite running an unauthorized New York airport van cover and pillow. A drug-sniffing dog alerted was found by police sitting nude at his Rabun service that took five French tourists on a high officers to the casket in the van.(AOL News) County campsite. He told police officers he had speed chase in an attempt to run from police. been swimming in a nearby creek. The Police approached the van as some tourists got Banned For Being Nice, Bear-ly Republican was elected to the Gainesville City in. The police wanted to investigate the owners Council in 2000, where he served for six years, of the service for "hustling" travelers outside the One woman in Oregon, Karen Noyes often fed including a stint as mayor. He lost a bid for a Air France terminal at John F. Kennedy the black bears that came to her home near the state Senate seat in 2006. Now apparently he International Airport. As the police approached, Oregon coast. Then things got out of hand. One spends his time camping and stripping! (The the driver drove off, ignoring pleas by the hungry bear stormed a neighbor's barn and Atlanta Journal-Constitution) tourists to be let out. The van swerved through killed 60 turkeys. Another got stuck in a doggie traffic, sped though stop signs and red lights, door. The 61-year-old Noyes was convicted of World's Most Expensive Casket and traveled at speeds of 60 miles per hour on harassing wildlife and sentenced Thursday to crowded residential streets. The men were also three years probation.(MSNBC) When police in Dallas pulled over William Dale charged with assault, reckless endangerment, Crock for not wearing his seatbelt, they found a and resisting arrest. If convicted, they face up to Today We Marry And We Divorce much bigger problem. There was a casket in the seven years in prison.(Reuters) back of his van, but a search of the casket A Polish couple living in Germany fell out after revealed no dead bodies, but nearly 100 pounds Hello, 911? I Have Cheetos Up My tying the knot and decided to end their marriage of pot instead! A drug-sniffing dog alerted Nose on the same day. "He said he never wanted to officers to the casket in the van. And just think - see her again and wanted an immediate - all this could have been avoided if he had just You've heard of food fights, but you've probably annulment, and she said the same thing," a remembered to buckle up! (myway.com) never heard of one like this. Police said there spokesman for police in the northern city of was a couple in Shelby, Tennessee who got into Hanover says. Right after the civil ceremony House Catches Fire Two Nights in a an argument. They exchanged some words with Wednesday, the 50-year-old man began fighting Row! one another and decided to start a food fight with his bride and tried to cut her hair with a too! The police told reporters that they did get kitchen knife. (Reuters) The house may be built in Lake Success, New into a food fight, with Cheetos. Somehow, the York, but there's nothing successful about it. orange puffy snacks were used in the assault. How Many Wallabies To Make A Authorities say the same house caught on fire Police they were charged with domestic assault. Crop Circle? two nights in a row. Both fires were deemed No one was hurt, but the man was cheesed! You accidental and they appeared to be related to would think he was some sort of a cheese Wallabies snacking in Tasmania's legally grown construction work. Fortunately no injuries were whiz!(NewsBlaze) opium poppy fields are getting "high as a kite" reported and while nobody was occupying the and hopping around in circles, trampling the house at the time, the million dollar home had How Hot Is It? crops. Their kangaroo-like marsupials' antics just been sold. One of the two fires caused are hurting the state's large poppy industry. extensive damage. (Newsday) It's so hot in Clayton, Georgia, that even the Tasmania is the world's largest producer of former mayor is getting naked! A former legally grown opium for the pharmaceutical The Free Beer Ticket! Georgia mayor was busted in the buff at a market. A manager for one of two Tasmanian Rabun County campsite. The state's Department companies licensed to take medicinal products Kim Schroeder was running for vice president of Natural Resources officers found him sitting from poppy straw told the newspaper that of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Teachers nude around the campsite. The police actually wildlife and livestock -- including deer and Education Association, and promised a five- had a complaint about a naked man earlier in the sheep -- that eat the poppies are known to "act point program in her bid for the office. The first day. The former mayor said, he wasn't the same weird." (CBS News) four points were all vows to make the union man though. The mayor told the officer that he more aggressive toward the school board. But had been swimming in a nearby Gentlemen, Count Your Swans! his fifth point, and perhaps his most important creek.(myway.com) point, was "to make sure that there is beer and Buckingham Palace has announced that the wine available for the monthly Leaders' That's One Spicy Grenade! annual Swan Upping, a tradition dating back to Meetings." Alas, it didn't go over as well as you the 12th century which involves a count of the might of expected and Schroeder lost. Scientists at India's Defense Research and swan population on the River Thames, will be (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Development Organization (DRDO) are quoted conducted by the queen's official Swan Marker as saying that spicy chili can be used to control from July 20-24. The process involves the Swan Under The Sea! rioters and in counter-insurgency operations. Marker, David Barber, rowing up the Thames Defense researchers say the idea is to replace for five days with the Swan Warden in Using GPS and state-of-the-art sonar, Columbia explosives in small hand grenades with a certain traditional garb while wearing special scarlet University researchers recently made the first variety of red chili to immobilize people uniforms and counting, weighing and comprehensive map of the wonders that are without killing them. The chili, known as Bhut measuring swans and cygnets. It may seem submerged in New York City's harbors. Jolokia, is said to be 1,000 times hotter than eccentric, but it is very important to the queen. Inventory highlights include a 350-foot commonly used kitchen chili. And the powder In medieval times, the Swan Marker would not steamship (downed in 1920), a freight train will also be spread on the fences around army only travel up the river counting the swans, but (derailed in 1865), 1,600 bars of silver barracks in the hope the strong smell will keep would catch as many as possible as they were (unrecovered since 1903), a fleet of Good out animals.(Ananova) sought-after for banquets and feasts. (Reuters) Humor ice cream trucks (which form a reef for aquatic life), and so many junked cars near the A Casket of Pot Listen to the Weird News on The ‘X’ Zone!