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Offbeat News tagged with police

Fatal End to Brooklyn Road Rage: Driver Shoots Man, Attempts Escape in UPS Truck
Offbeat  (tags: Road rage, murder, crime, police )

Lone
- 3 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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Bandit Hits Same Bank 3 Times
Offbeat  (tags: bank robber, same one, unusual, police, off-beat )

Lone
- 4 days ago - news.aol.com
Miami (Nov. 3) -- They say he's a man of few words, and he's almost a regular. So, when the stocky man wearing dreadlocks walked into a Bank Atlantic branch in Tamarac, Fla., one teller knew exactly what to do.
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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
- 4 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
- 14 days ago - youtube.com
Officer resigned, no charges filed for stealing marijuana...
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Police Seize Wolf, Say It Might Be A Dog
Offbeat  (tags: authorities, seized dog, not wolf, police )

Simone
- 15 days ago - postchronicle.com
Authorities in Minnesota said a seized animal that was sold as a wolf, but may actually be a dog, will be given a new home. Austin Police said a city man purchased the animal, named Dakota, through Craigslist
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Mohawk Tribe Promises No Questions Asked at Gun Buyback
Offbeat  (tags: Native Americans, guns, news, police, buy back )

Lone
- 17 days ago - standard-freeholder.com
CORNWALL - The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe is offering, for the first time, a no-questions-asked gun amnesty aimed at promoting public safety and discouraging violent crime in Akwesasne.
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Sheriff: Criminal Charges to Be Filed in 'Balloon Boy' Case
Offbeat  (tags: hoax, crime, police, bizarre, unusual, odd, news )

Lone
- 21 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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Woman Calls Cops Over Stolen Marijuana Plants
Offbeat  (tags: environment, bizarre, interesting, funny, off-beat, performance, humans, unusual, odd, police, safety, society, humor, health, design, culture, crime, ethics )

Suzybell
- 22 days ago - metro.co.uk
In a further example of how some people haven't quite grasped what it is the police do, a woman called the cops to report the fact that her marijuana plants had been stolen. According to police the 54-year-old woman from Brant Township in Michigan called
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Long Dead Grouse Gets the Last Laugh
Offbeat  (tags: abuse, abused, AnimalCruelty, animaladvocates, animalrights, animalwelfare, crime, cruelty, environment, ethics, GoodNews, habitat, humans, investigation, killed, killing, law, protection, society, wildanimals, wildlife, americans, animals, bizarre, envir )

Wolfweeps
- 25 days ago - alaskadispatch.com
An easy shot at dinner turned out to be costly for 33-year-old Rockmon Davisson of Sterling, according to Alaska Wildlife Troopers, who caught Davisson ground-sluicing a grouse on the Kenai Peninsula Monday. Two problems for Davisson: One, the grouse in
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11-Year-Old Boy Leads High-Speed Chase
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, humans, ethics, culture, bizarre, children, design, environment, police, safety )

Suzybell
- 34 days ago - metro.co.uk
Police in Wyoming say that an 11-year-old boy driving a large SUV led officers on a high speed chase reaching speeds of 100 mph. Bureau of Indian Affairs police say the chase started early on Tuesday morning in central Wyoming, and ended about 50 miles a
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Psychic Charged Over Claims Other Psychics Beat Her Up
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Suzybell
- 38 days ago - metro.co.uk
An American psychic who claimed that she was beaten up by rival psychics apparently failed to read the future very well - as she has just been arrested over accusations she lied about the attack. Janet Lee, who describes herself as the 'foremost psychic
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Man Jailed for 18 Months Over Armed Hotdog Robbery
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, odd, ethics, food, funny, crime, culture, bizarre, performance, police, safety, society, humor, interesting, environment, humans )

Suzybell
- 38 days ago - metro.co.uk
A man who stole a hot dog from another man sitting under a tree in a park has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.Police say Antonio Judd grabbed the hot dog in August after flashing what appeared to be a gun in Elm Park in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Cops Break Up Men's Makeup Fight
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, safety, off-beat, performance, humor, interesting, ethics, crime, culture, bizarre, society, police, design, environment, odd )

Suzybell
- 43 days ago - metro.co.uk
Police in Tennessee had to be called to break up a fight that erupted between two men, after one man put makeup on the other while he was asleep. The makeup fight occurred on Saturday in Lawerenceburg, Tennessee, after the twenty-five-year-old 'victim'
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Miss. Police Use Taser, Handcuffs on Wayward Emu
Offbeat  (tags: police, emu, escaped, tasered, wild animal )

Simone
- 46 days ago - google.com
Officers had to use a stun gun and handcuffs to capture an emu running loose on Interstate 20 in central Mississippi on Sunday. Police Officer Kiley Culpepper told WLBT-TV in Jackson that motorists had been calling 911 since Friday to report sightings of
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Naked 91-Year-Old Holds Intruder at Gunpoint
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, humans, funny, bizarre, culture, crime, goodnews, odd, interesting, humor, police )

Suzybell
- 46 days ago - metro.co.uk
A 91-year-old man in Florida who caught a drunk man on his property held the suspected burglar at gunpoint until police arrived - while stark naked. World War II veteran Robert E. Thompson was in bed when he heard his dog growling and attacking the intru
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