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Offbeat News tagged with crime

Cherokee Nation Mutual Help Home Tests Positive for Meth
Offbeat  (tags: Meth lab, cooked house, crime, dangerous )

Lone
- 4 hours ago - cherokeephoenix.org
WAGONER, Okla. - A modest brick home with blue trim sits in a nice neighborhood. A passerby could walk by and never guess that methamphetamine was cooked in the home. That was the case at a Cherokee Nation Housing Services Mutual
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3 Accused of Using Craigslist to Rob People
Offbeat  (tags: police, craigslist, robbery, crime, bizarre )

Lone
- 4 hours ago - chicagobreakingnews.com
Three men are accused of using the popular Web site Craigslist to rob a number of people by luring them to alleys on the promise of selling them televisions and other items, Chicago police said
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Shaming Undermines Justice
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, interesting, crime, signs, public, news )

Lone
- 3 days ago - blogs.usatoday.com
Across the country, judges and prosecutors and jailers are freelancing by imposing their own brands of retributive justice: forcing people to wear humiliating clothing, parade in public and even sleep in doghouses. The punishments are wildly
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State Farm Ordered to Pay Texas Homeowners $310 Million for Overcharging
Offbeat  (tags: rip-offs, insurance policies, crime, interesting )

Lone
- 3 days ago - dallasnews.com
AUSTIN - State Farm Insurance must repay its customers $310 million for charging them too much for homeowners coverage dating back to 2003, the state insurance commissioner ruled Monday.
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How Hitler and the Nazi's Tried to Steal Christmas
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, bizarre, Nazis, crime, culture )

Cal
- 3 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The Nazi Party tried their best to remove Christ from Christmas by paganising carols, producing glittering swastika, iron cross and toy grenade baubles for the fir tree, research for a new exhibition has found.
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Oldest Graffiti Vandal Arrested: 74-Year-Old Gets Tagged By Cops
Offbeat  (tags: graffiti, humor, funny, unusual, crime, police )

Lone
- 5 days ago - nydailynews.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 74-year-old man said to be the oldest graffiti vandal ever captured in Los Angeles County was arrested Friday, authorities said
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Brazilian Man Turns Up Alive at His Own Funeral-As Is Customary in Brazil, the Funeral Was Held the Following Day.
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, odd, interesting, bizarre, auto, crime, humor, performance, police, safety, society, news )

Suzybell
- 11 days ago - metro.co.uk
A Brazilian man who was thought to have been killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family when he turned up alive at his funeral. Relatives of bricklayer Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a car crash on Sunday night, pol
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"Unusual Activities At The WTC Before Collapse" [Video]
Offbeat  (tags: 9/11, crime, curious, government, interesting )

Janet
- 12 days ago - disclose.tv
Strange how many things before & on 9/11 point to something organized by. ? Maybe Bush and companians? Just to go to war and save face with regard to domestic problems? Maybe we'll know in about 25 to 50 years. I say: "To be continued!"
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Open Trading of Rare Conchs, Corals and Shell Needs Attention - Sukanya Kadyan   video
Offbeat  (tags: environment, ethics, crime, government )

Sukanya
- 15 days ago - youtube.com
A joint raid was arranged and conducted by OIPA in India / PFA Haryana with Wildlife Inspector, Faridabad. Many banned articles were recovered, one person was detained for inquiry and further investigations. Wild Life Protection Act, 1972 amended in 2001.
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Fatal End to Brooklyn Road Rage: Driver Shoots Man, Attempts Escape in UPS Truck
Offbeat  (tags: Road rage, murder, crime, police )

Lone
- 16 days ago - nydailynews.com
A road-rage clash ended in murder in Brooklyn Tuesday when a hotheaded driver shot another motorist who then tried to escape by jumping into a delivery truck, police and witnesses said.
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Rapping at McDonalds Not Allowed in Utah, Apparently-- Watch Video
Offbeat  (tags: children, teens, bizarre, environment, culture, crime, off-beat, performance, interesting, police, safety, society, unusual, ethics, funny, goodnews, custom )

Suzybell
- 17 days ago - metro.co.uk
A McDonalds restaurant in Utah called the police because four teenagers were rapping their orders at a drive-through window.The police, taking this sort of heinous crime very seriously, issued disorderly conduct citations to the teenagers. The teens said
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Cop & His Wife Call 911 Dying of Pot Brownie Overdose :)   video
Offbeat  (tags: cops, corruption, law, stupid, marijuana, video, funny, crime, etics, bizarre, culture, humans, humor, odd, off-beat, society, police, interesting, performance )

Barb
- 26 days ago - youtube.com
Officer resigned, no charges filed for stealing marijuana...
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Struck Dog Leads to Ugly Roadside Scene
Offbeat  (tags: dog hit by car, animal abuser, crime, animal owner )

Simone
- 32 days ago - ohmidog.com
An ugly scene on the side of the road turned uglier in McClellanville, S.C. last week, leaving a dog dead, one man in the hospital and another in jail.
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Sheriff: Criminal Charges to Be Filed in 'Balloon Boy' Case
Offbeat  (tags: hoax, crime, police, bizarre, unusual, odd, news )

Lone
- 33 days ago - argusleader.com
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - A Colorado sheriff says criminal charges will be filed in the saga of a boy who was believed to be in balloon sailing across the high plains on Thursday, the Associated Press is reporting at this hour.
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Plane Grounded By Beer Thief
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, odd, humans, culture, bizarre, food, funny, crime, ethics, interesting, humor )

Suzybell
- 33 days ago - metro.co.uk
An aeroplane had to be diverted and a passenger was arrested after he stole some beer and then tried to flush the evidence down the in-flight toilet. The flight, an Air Canada Jazz flight from Vancouver to Fort McMurray, had to be had to be diverted to t
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Cherokee Nation Mutual Help Home Tests Positive for Meth
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