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.
Rapper DMX’s attorney pulled an unusual move in court in hopes of convincing a judge to be lenient on the rapper
The prison identification card of Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has sold at auction for more than $11,000
A group of inmates is tending to 200 roosters at an Arkansas sheriff’s office pending their use as evidence against 137 people arrested at a cockfight
Teachers found 17 small plastic bags containing crack cocaine in the girl’s shoe after she complained that her foot hurt
Andrew DeMarchis and Kevin Graff had a brisk business selling cupcakes, cookies, brownies and Rice Krispie treats
Amid claims about denial of medical treatment to prisoners, Butyrka prison is adopting some interesting new policies
Man lit up a marijuana joint, instead of a cigar, to celebrate his child’s birth at a western Pennsylvania hospital
Inmate rejects previous agreement which would give her state-issued women’s underwear; instead wants state funded sex change
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