Plane stupid
Holding up a cell phone and yelling “I am going to press this and blow up the plane” is probably not the best way to convince the ticket agent to switch your flight.
But that’s what an Oregon man did at the San Francisco airport after an employee of Philippine Airlines explained that he would have to buy a round-trip ticket if he wanted to get on the plane.
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Mark Field, 46, went ballistic and pointed to his cell phone, “I’m going to press this and blow up the plane.”
Bomb-stiffing dogs searched Field’s bags and the airplane but didn’t find any explosives.
Field was arrested on making a false bomb threat.
Revenge is a dish best served fried
A Texas woman angry at her former husband cooked up a little surprise for him.
The ex-couple were arguing over who should keep the jewelry when the woman took their prized possessions — seven live goldfish. When police went to her apartment to retrieve the pets they found a plate with four tiny fried fish. The other three, she said, she already ate.
Because the pets were bought when the couple lived together, the fish were considered community property and police could not arrest the woman, police said.
This pizza maker is our hero A Pizza Hut employee in North Carolina fended off a masked gunman by biting his hand.
The gunman tried to force pizza worker Therman Martin to open the safe, but Martin said he couldn’t because he was just the oven man.
The gunman held the gun to Martin’s leg and squeezed the trigger. But the gun did not go off.
That’s when Martin started fighting back. He bit the robber’s finger down to the bone until the robber let go of the gun. Blood was everywhere and Martin picked up the gun.
The robber started to run then turned around.
“He said, ‘Please give me the gun back. It’s not my gun,’ ” Martin told North Carolina news stations. “I said, ‘You shouldn’t have been here trying to rob somebody who’s trying to make a living.’ ”
We don’t swim in your toilet …
A Florida man is facing charges after authorities say he was naked and covered in feces when he broke into a resident’s backyard pool.
Robert Stark Higgins, 21, was charged with burglary, disorderly conduct and misdemeanor theft.
The resident told deputies he heard Higgins crash through the screen of his pool and take a splash. The resident turned on the lights and Higgins fled. He found Higgins’ shorts on his front porch, as well as human feces in and around his pool and on the screen door handles.
K-9 dogs easily followed the scent to Higgins’ home where he told deputies he had been drinking vodka shots and beer.
— Compiled by Scott McCabe
