Weird News
The Weird News topic gives corrections officers a place to get articles covering the bizarre, including strange crimes, wacky courtroom appearances, and oddball encounters COs have on a daily basis. The job is deadly serious, but there are dozens of moments in corrections that leave officers shaking their heads and laughing as they make their rounds.
Rashid Kambarov said that the state’s failure to accommodate his religion violates the First and 14th Amendments
Joshua Hansen escaped from a federal prison with the intention of breaking back in laden with bottles of alcohol and home-cooked treats
Rodwell Clay’s wife said every day she looks in the mirror she’s reminded of the attack and hopes to have surgery to further repair the damage
A viral YouTube video claims to turn your smart phone into a stun gun
The prisoner escaped during a bathroom break, shoved aside a valet-parking attendant, and stole a BMW
The man was seen a few months go and apparently had been living in Las Vegas
Facebook posts included his recent meals and that it snowed and he won $600 playing keno on Oct. 26
The judge sentenced the men stiffly, saying ‘drunken and boneheaded is not an excuse’ for such senseless behavior
Spider-Man and Captain America face assault charges for; breach of peace for Poison Ivy
Man answered his door on Halloween night expecting to see a trick-or-treater, but was instead stabbed by a person dressed in a full-body gorilla suit
Inmate had escaped from an Oklahoma prison and killed a man during an armed robbery
Not wanting to pay a $100 fine, man busted his pooch out of ‘jail’ using bolt cutters
Though the substance purchased was not marijuana, the man could face other charges
After a fight, the mayor fled in his SUV with purse and woman clinging to the side of the vehicle
The Kentucky inmate has filed over 5,000 lawsuits since 2006
The convicted bank robber, who was supposed to go to a halfway house, tried to rob a mid-town Manhattan bank with a knife
A Florida police officer had to resort to the use of his stun gun when a jogger wearing only a pair of swimming goggles refused to stop.
Justin L. Owen fired nine rounds from a sawed-off shotgun at a house, hitting nobody, but inducing a heart attack in a 58-year-old woman
Doctors were unable to save the tip of his nose; he will require plastic surgery to repair the damage
Concerns about contraband smuggling led to the prohibition of touchy, feely times
Convicted woman, who committed burglaries while pregnant, blamed her actions on addiction to painkillers
Owner said he was only training bird
Will serve a year of probation and faces a year in jail if arrested for anything other than a minor traffic violation
The caffeine-intoxication strategy is unusual, but has succeeded in court at least once before
Will serve 90 days in jail and won’t be allowed to work as a public employee in the state
Neither the boy, nor his family, knew she escaped from prison back in 1975
A British judge told the star his addiction to marijuana put him and the public at risk
After making the controversial comparison, the judge also told the drug dealer that he would have been executed in some countries for such drug crimes
The man, who was stabbed in the head with an ice pick, was a central figure in the rioting throughout Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood in 1991
They punched out a ceiling panel, then knocked a hole in the metal siding of the building