Trending Topics

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.

Dayshawn Allen, 23, called the officer to his cell and then threw urine on the CO
Sixty-two-year-old Herbert Rodgers had been serving a 30- to 70-year prison sentence in Pennsylvania and died Monday
Officer John Moore was sitting in his vehicle eating a biscuit in the parking lot when Natasha Dawn Mencia tried to get in the passenger side
The 18-year-old was intoxicated at a house party in Western NY
She drove to Flagler County jail and demanded to see specific inmate
Tanya Nelson found guilty of murdering a Vietnamese fortuneteller and her daughter
18-year-old allegedly offered 2 boys several dollars to urinate in a cup
20-year-old factory worker will serve 18-months
Student stabbed a classmate over a math problem
Cantaloupe had tobacco and a baggie full of oxycodone pills stuffed inside
The 4 women tried to glue a cheating lover’s penis to his stomach
Hans Kurt Kubus gets 14 weeks for attempting to smuggle endangered geckos in his underwear
12-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son beat their mother with bat; man gets 25 years
Taco Bell manager took double-decker to the face
Convicted of assulting a teacher, the girl will also recieve 2 months in prison
Man said he was on the wrong plane; charges may come, but not terror related
After 2 year sentence, Theresa Jones arrested for grand theft auto and drug possession
Men from Calif. and Thailand indicted for violating international treaty
Left apologetic robbery note at store and just waited for police out front
Man brought weapons into sex party
Craig “Lazie” Lynch was caught after nearly four months on the run
Man who stole from ex-girlfriend in Wal-Mart is now in jail