Portland trailblazer
An Oregon man tried to hide a loaded gun in a Portland airport planter after he realized he could not carry it through security.
Soren Muir Johnson, 69, told the Mail Tribune of Southern Oregon that he planned to pick the weapon back up when he returned from his trip.
“It was impossible to find,” Johnson said. “It was hidden so well.”
Johnson originally asked Portland International Airport security officers what he should do with the loaded gun that he had forgotten to leave at home. After they told him to check the .22-caliber handgun at the ticket counter, they watched him instead bury it in a planter.
He was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment when he returned to the security checkpoint.
“I deserve it,” Johnson said. “It was a stupid mistake.”
Friends till the bitter end
A Michigan woman could face charges after she kept a dead friend’s body for more than a year.
Linda Chase, 72, cleaned, talked to and watched NASCAR with the body of the man she lived with since he died around December 2010, according to MLive.com.
The 67-year-old man’s family asked police to check on him because he had been out of contact.
Chase let the officers inside the house. That’s where they found body mummified in a chair.
She reportedly said she “didn’t want to be alone” and that the man was “the only guy who was ever nice to me,” according to MLive.com.
Chase also told police she had cashed the man’s Social Security checks.
Not worth the wait
A woman who tried to rob a Michigan gas station gave up after she was told to “get back in line.”
CBS Detroit reports a woman with a shirt pulled over her head said she had a gun and demanded cash from the register.
But the clerk said other people were waiting in line and she was going to call police.
The would-be robber then fled on foot.
