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Wait a second ... where's my suicide bomb?

By TIMES WIRES
Published November 4, 2006

A man in Bergen, Norway, thought it would be funny to dress up as a suicide bomber for Halloween. Because, well, what could go wrong? Nothing, until he discarded his fake bomb on a car. Then it became a national incident. When the wired package was discovered the next morning, bomb squads raced across the country to figure out what to do about it. Then it hit the news, and the original reveler saw it and realized what had happened. He called the police and apologized profusely. They understood.

Their guns are bigger than my gun

Ryon Shelton, 15, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, thought it would be funny if he took his BB gun and scared people in cars on Halloween. He started off this night of frivolity by staring down an unmarked police car. The two officers thought it was so funny that they played along, pulling out their .40-caliber Glocks and pointing them at little BB gun boy. "He dropped the gun and attempted to run and was apprehended," said Lt. Kenneth Washburn. Washburn didn't mention if Shelton made any sad whimpering sounds before he took off, but we bet he did. Shelton said he was "just playing around." The police said, in not so many words, "we weren't," then released him to relatives.

He wanted disks. Now he has disks.

Brandon Sample is sitting in a federal prison in Georgia, serving a 14-year sentence for money laundering. He has been fighting since 2003 for computer disks containing phone numbers and administrative data on the prison. The prison offered him paper copies of the information, but no way, said Sample, gotta be disks. He was so adamant about it, he fought to an appeals court in Washington, which said they should give him the disks. So the prison figuratively shrugged and gave him the disks. It seems as though the ruling did not compel the prison to give Sample access to a computer to read the disks on, so they didn't. Enjoy those disks, though.

Clothes or curtains, dude; up to you

If you like to cavort around the house without taking the time to put on clothes and you thought that was totally legal, you should know there is a caveat: keep the windows closed. A 43-year-old Massillon, Ohio, man was arrested this week for allegedly failing to use his curtains in a manner that would obscure his nakedidity.

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