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25 Weird News 25 Weird News Checking: Doggie Style city of North Lauderdale on Thursday when of Syracuse. The clerk wasn't hurt. Police found passenger James Kiernan received a text the pair about a mile away. Their car was on the A woman accused of stealing money from her message about Jackson's death on his cell side of the road. (Newsday) ex-husband's bank account blames her dog. phone, and he read it aloud on the bus. The =bus Police in Arlington, Washington learned the driver chimed in that "Michael Jackson should Lawn Parties? No, Lawn Potties! money disappearing from the 42-year-old have been in jail long ago," prompting Kiernan, The planters in her front yard brought Tina Arlington man's account was being used to pay 60, to say that "the world just lost a great Asmus national publicity last monthin for utility bills and other items at his ex-wife's musical talent." It said the last remark enraged Lakemoor, Ill. This week, they brought her a home. The woman told The Herald that the another passenger, Henry Wideman, who $25 fine. Asmus says she will go to court to woman's first response was, "Her dog got into started a swearing match with Kiernan, then fight to keep her lawn ornaments, which are her purse and ate all her personal checks." The pulled out a knife and chased Kiernan down the made from two old toilets and a bathroom sink. 50-year-old woman reportedly told police she aisle with it. The driver called his dispatcher and The Police Chief said Asmus was issued the $25 had no choice but to take money from her pulled over near a convenience store to wait for noncompliance ticket Monday after a 30-day former husband's account. The women is under sheriff's deputies, who arrested Wideman, 54. warning ticket expired. The ordinance investigation for identity theft and forgery. (YourNewz) violations cited by police range from grass that (FoxNews) is too long to junk in front yards. (Daily Herald) Look Out, Incredibly Slow Train A Pig Ends Up Poolside Comin! A Crime Watch An 800-pound hog that survived on its own for Birmingham police said a 22-year-old woman Authorities said a man walking through a a week after a truck flipped while on its way to has suffered a broken leg after being hit by a security checkpoint at a Pinellas, Florida a slaughterhouse has been found in a swimming train. Officer Lawrence Billups said the woman courthouse tried to steal an expensive watch, pool at a home near the crash site. A neighbor told police she was lying on the tracks "to clear just feet from deputies. The sheriff's office said Monday she noticed her pool was suddenly her mind" when the train approached around 7 reported that a man who had emptied his overflowing and then saw the immersed pig, a.m. Sunday. Billups said the CSX train was pockets to walk through a metal detector which was having a drink in the pool. The moving about 10 mph when it hit her. The train's complained that his $1,000 Wittnauer watch woman said she found a farmer to take in the operator told police he tried to stop. How quick was gone. Deputies played back a surveillance pig. A spokesman for Odom's Tennessee Pride do you have to be to get out of the way of a slow video and identified a 53-year-old man as the said it can't use the hog in its sausage products moving train? (The Birmingham News) person who took the watch. They found him in because no one knows what the hog had been a courtroom, attending a pretrial hearing for a eating in its week on the lam, or should we say Never Steal from The Hands That charge of selling cocaine. Deputies searched pool lounger? (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) Heal You him and reported finding the watch. The suspect was arrested and charged with grand theft. (St. Mary Jane's Value Meal A boy was arrested over the weekend on Petersburg Times) charges of stealing from an ambulance while Connecticut police have arrested a teen, paramedics were treating his mother. The Listen Monday - Friday from 10 pm - 2 am accusing him of selling marijuana and packing Johnson City Press reported the boy, who was Eastern / 7 pm - 11 pm Pacific to The ‘X’ Zone it in a Chicken McNugget box. Police said the not named because he is a juvenile, was charged Radio &TV Show with Rob McConnell and teen and three customers were nabbed after a with stealing $5,000 in medical supplies. That hear more News of The Weird from The ‘X’ Zone police officer spotted some suspicious activity includes an oxygen tank and an oxygen sensor Newsroom. Visit www.xzonenews.com for all the over the weekend. Police said the teen grew machine. He is also accused of stealing a purse latest news from the world of the Weird. Visit marijuana in his apartment and packaged the belonging to one of the rescue workers and of The ‘X’ Zone at www.xzoneradio.com. dope in McNugget boxes. The arrests came after breaking into a car several hours earlier and one alleged customer was spotted coming out of stealing credit cards, a cellular phone and a In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada the teen's apartment building with the PlayStation portable video game. (Johnson City In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada People Listen To McNugget box. (The Register Citizen) Press) People Listen To The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show Gentlemen, Count Your Swans! Failing The Employee Of The Month with with Quiz Rob McConnell Rob McConnell Buckingham Palace has announced that the on annual Swan Upping, a tradition dating back to Spanish police have arrested a man whom they on AM 580 CFRA the 12th century which involves a count of the suspect hired a contract killer to murder his boss AM 580 CFRA swan population on the River Thames, will be in a desperate bid to avoid being laid off, conducted by the queen's official Swan Marker newspaper El Pais reported. The head of from July 20-24. The process involves the Swan audiovisual services at the Barcelona Marker, David Barber, rowing up the Thames International Convention Center contracted a for five days with the Swan Warden in Colombian man who shot and killed the director traditional garb while wearing special scarlet of the convention center on Feb 9, according to uniforms and counting, weighing and police. The director had planned to lay off the measuring swans and cygnets. It may seem arrested man as part of a restructuring project. eccentric, but it is very important to the queen. (El Pais) In medieval times, the Swan Marker would not only travel up the river counting the swans, but Rolling on "E" can get you Twenty! would catch as many as possible as they were sought-after for banquets and feasts. (Reuters) State police in New York say two Pennsylvania Bus Bash For Michael men robbed a gas station and might have gotten away if they had also fueled up. Troopers said they caught a 29-year-old, and 51-year-old, A fight broke out on a Florida bus when news of after their getaway car ran out of gas while the Michael Jackson's death sparked debate over were trying to escape. They're accused of using whether he should be remembered as a great a knife to rob a clerk at the Quickway musical talent, and one passenger was charged Convenience Store in Kirkwood, near the New with assault. The bus was moving through the York-Pennsylvania border about 80 miles south