Dedicated Post reader Mickey Metcalfe offered the following tidbit from his local paper:
An upstate cop blasted an 81-year-old woman with pepper spray after she assaulted him and his partner, according to the Medina Journal-Register.
Octogenarian Genevieve Snaith called the police to complain about a dog, and while one of Medina’s Finest was explaining how the complaint would be handled, she allegedly pushed him off her porch and doused him with ginger ale. When the cop tried to collar her, she allegedly struck his partner in the head with a glass.
The officers eventually overpowered and handcuffed Snaith, whom a judge remanded for psychiatric evaluation.
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Minnesota cops opened a coffin supposedly meant for an 89-year-old woman and found 15 pounds of opium inside.
Police say Mark Sa Yang, 41, insisted the coffin delivered to his home in St. Paul was being used to bury his mom, but investigators smelled a rat.
When the jig was up, Yang allegedly told detectives he smoked a lot of opium every day and hadn’t planned to sell it.
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A mural in Helena, Mont., has sparked a furor because the nude dancer depicted looks just like Gov. Judy Martz.
The dancer, wearing glasses and sporting short hair with bangs similar to the 60-year-old governor, is shown kicking up her heels.
“It’s hilarious to watch people come and look at it and see their reactions,” said one observer.
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A mom says she found a tooth in a can of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup.
Tina Keeney, of West Jordan, Utah, says she was feeding her 13-month-old son when she discovered the molar in his hand. Now she’s suing.
“Here’s a woman who can’t eat soup. Her family can’t eat soup. And, to be honest with you, I haven’t eaten soup since this happened,” said her lawyer, Daniel Irvin.
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A adventurous chipmunk is being flown back to Utah this week after stowing away in a car and hitching to California.
The animal was “dehydrated and stressed out” after the three-day roadtrip, but otherwise OK.