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Bride Busted for Drunk Driving ...on Wedding Day

Apparently the bachelorette party lasted all night

(Newser) - And this is why you should never plan your bachelorette party for the night before your wedding: A Washington bride barely made it to her nuptials after being arrested on suspicion of drunk driving just hours before the big event. The 31-year-old was pulled over 6am yesterday with a blood...

Sarah, Newt Don't Get the First Amendment
Sarah, Newt Don't Get
the First Amendment
OPINION
Aug 19, 2010 1:54 PM CDT

Sarah, Newt Don't Get the First Amendment

Here's a little Constitution lesson for them both

(Newser) - What is up with politicians misrepresenting the First Amendment this week? First Newt Gingrich, arguing against the Ground Zero Mosque, claimed Nazis " don't have the right " to put a sign next to the Holocaust museum. Then Sarah Palin tweeted that N-word-spewing Dr. Laura’s “ 1st Amend.rights...

Driver Gets DWI After 11-Mile Ride Sans Tire

Oh, and he's been unlicensed since 1977. And couldn't keep right

(Newser) - So your blood-alcohol content is 3.5 times the limit and you haven't had a driver's license in 33 years—let's go for a drive! And so a tire falls off—let's keep going 11 miles without it! Western New Yorker Duane Bush is charged with doing just that, along...

Salahis: We're Tired of Being the 'It' Couple

Life is so, so hard for Michaele and Tareq

(Newser) - You wouldn't know it from the way they crashed a White House dinner and got themselves on a reality show , but apparently Michaele and Tareq Salahi really, really hate being so famous. They want to "return to who we were," Michaele tells HBO in a profile of their...

Woman Tries to Deposit Cocaine in Bank

She is swiftly arrested

(Newser) - Illicit drug use tip of the day, kids: Don’t try to deposit your stash at the bank. A Connecticut woman learned that crucial lesson yesterday, after allegedly including a baggie full of cocaine in her deposit envelope at a bank drive-through, the Hartford Courant reports. The teller handled the...

Drunk Pregnant Woman Tries to Rob Taco Joint

...but encounters a little trouble after the 'stick 'em up' part

(Newser) - What's worse: Being drunk and pregnant, being drunk and pregnant and needing drug money, or being unable to get your weapon out of your pocket mid-robbery? A La Crosse, Wisc., woman—inebriated, with child, and in need of drug money—was arrested Tuesday night after trying to rob Taco John's....

Man Tries to Open a Grenade...
 Man Tries to Open a Grenade... 
Jul 28, 2010 1:34 PM CDT

Man Tries to Open a Grenade...

You know how this one is going to end

(Newser) - Today, in the Brainiac Department: A man goes walking in a field in Croatia and stumbles upon a grenade left over from the Homeland War of the early '90s. What's his first thought? Scrap metal! The 53-year-old took the grenade home and attempted to break it apart in his garage...

'Flying Pasties' Promise to Beat Airport Scanner
'Flying Pasties' Promise to Beat Airport Scanner
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jul 24, 2010 12:15 PM CDT

'Flying Pasties' Promise to Beat Airport Scanner

They give no hint as to how

(Newser) - Afraid of the people at airport security using their scary full-body scanner to see you naked? Well then the people at FlyingPasties.com have just the product for you. Just slap some peace sign stickers over your private parts, and presto: Instant peace of mind! The stickers won't actually protect...

Thief Swipes Phone... During a GPS-Tracking Demo

Really, what are the odds?

(Newser) - A thief biking down the street plucks an iPhone out of a girl's hands and takes off. It's his lucky day, right? The girl is an intern on an errand for her boss—who also happens to own the phone. She's screwed, right? Except if her boss is an exec...

Scores of Drunk Russians Drown Amid Heat Wave

Hundreds try to swim, fail

(Newser) - With temperatures in Moscow flirting with a 98.6F record, a staggering number of Russians, most of them drunk, are drowning in their attempts to cool off in the city’s lakes and ponds. Just yesterday, 49 people in the country drowned, including two children, a government official tells Reuters...

Text Message Frame-Up Lands Woman in Jail

'Victim' blames ex for threats, gets 1-year sentence

(Newser) - It turns out, you can go to jail for threatening yourself—just call the cops and try to pin it on your ex-boyfriend and his sister-in-law. Jeanne Manunga, a 25-year-old California woman, has been sentenced to a year in jail for sending herself threatening text messages from a prepaid cell...

NY Man Blows Arm Off With Fireworks
 NY Man 
 Blows Arm Off 
 With Fireworks 
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
Jul 4, 2010 5:41 AM CDT

NY Man Blows Arm Off With Fireworks

The idea is to get out of the way

(Newser) - Police say a man lighting fireworks has blown off his arm at a party on New York's Long Island. Suffolk County police say 36-year-old Eric Smith was using a 3-foot-long metal tube to shoot mortars from the street near his Islip Terrace home around 5:45pm yesterday.

Oops! Prof Surfs Porn on Live Teleconference Feed

(Newser) - Texas Tech professor Rodney "Rod" Hicks gave his students more than they signed on for (or he intended). The 50-year-old health sciences professor taught a class via teleconference from Austin, but didn't terminate the live video feed after the lecture. The professor then proceeded to surf the web for...

Colorado Cops Hunt Lewd Leprechaun
 Colorado Cops Hunt
 Lewd Leprechaun 
'TRAGICALLY MALICIOUS'
Jul 1, 2010 8:12 AM CDT

Colorado Cops Hunt Lewd Leprechaun

Leaping leprechaun pesters shoppers

(Newser) - Well, it's a day ending in Y, so why not dress up like a leprechaun and hang out in a supermarket parking lot, leaping out from between cars, giving shoppers the finger, and making shooting gestures with your fingers? Colorado cops are searching for just such a character after surprised...

Cabbie Foils Woman's Plot to Kill Her Husband

Driver tricks woman into hiring undercover 'hit man'

(Newser) - A woman has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after her seemingly loyal cab driver tricked her into trying to hire an undercover police officer to kill her husband. It all started when Veronica Escalona hailed Rachid Rakhis’ cab earlier this month. She told him to follow her estranged...

Dog Runs Over Owner With Truck

Man not seriously injured

(Newser) - A Florida man was taken to the hospital yesterday after his dog ran him over with the man's own pickup truck. Christopher Bishop, 43, made the mistake of putting his Ford F-150 in neutral as he got out to check for oil leaks, the St. Petersburg Times reports. As he...

Utah Police Bust Naked Carjacker
Utah Police
Bust Naked
Carjacker
Jun 23, 2010 2:30 PM CDT

Utah Police Bust Naked Carjacker

Woman jumped out of one car and into another (then another)

(Newser) - Crime stories don’t get much stranger than this, folks: A woman was arrested in Utah yesterday after stealing a car in the nude—and the lack of clothes is barely the weirdest part. According to police, a man had parked his van on the side of the road to...

Want Fries, Er, Knuckle Sammy With That?

'Miscommunication' ends in burgers, punches being thrown

(Newser) - Apparently the customer isn't always right: Hamburgers, fries, punches, and chairs all were thrown during a fight involving customers and employees of a fast food restaurant in Kalamazoo that ended with two arrests. Police said four customers in a vehicle at a Wendy's drive-thru lane midday yesterday claimed their order...

Woman Gets in Argument, Causes Crash, Gives Birth

She was fighting with someone in the back seat

(Newser) - Paramedics were already on the scene when a pregnant woman started having contractions on the side of the interstate in Ohio Saturday—because she’d just caused a five-car accident. Police say the 20-year-old stopped dead in the left lane of I-77 because she was having a fight with a...

Oil Rig Workers Blew Past Red Flags

Equipment showed danger of blowout, but they kept working

(Newser) - Just two hours before the Deepwater Horizon exploded, a major test revealed a “very large abnormality” in the well, but workers simply ignored it and kept working, BP revealed in a report to Congress yesterday. Previously, BP had said the test was inconclusive, the Wall Street Journal notes, but...

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