Tummy Tuck
A nearly 300-pound Tennessee man who pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape, kidnapping and robbery is trying to overturn his conviction by accusing interrogators of using junk food to coerce a confession.
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Bruce Tuck, the so-called “Big-Bellied Rapist,” said jailers softened him up by feeding him only lettuce. Tuck said the detective then came in and offered him a bag of chips and cold drink in exchange for talking about the case. Tuck confessed to 19 felony charges that led to a 60-year sentence.
Tuck’s public defender said he did not know what Tuck ate in jail.
What a dip
A 42-year-old Delaware man was charged after twice stripping off his swim trunks at his apartment’s pool.
Police said a 17-year-old female lifeguard saw that Dean Rissler was swimming naked in the pool and told him to put his swim trunks back on.
Rissler complied, but about five minutes later, the lifeguard noticed Rissler had ripped off his trunks again and was raising his legs and floating on his back.
Police were called, and Rissler was taken into custody.
Caught in web of stupidity
A Maryland man will spend the next four years in prison after stealing a spider from a public library.
Staff at the Westminster library called police after Chili Rose, a Chilean rose tarantula, had disappeared from the information desk. Witnesses told police they saw Randy Humple, 27, with the spider and that he bragged about swiping it. It wasn’t hard to identify Humple. He’s a white guy with blond dreadlocks and tattoos on his face.
Humple received 90 days for the spider, and four years in prison for violating his probation in a 2007 assault case.
The judge said that while what Humple did may have been “stupid on one level,” it was also “criminal on another level.”
More like waffle-and-whiffle
A dine-and-dash escapade in Missouri failed utterly when two of the fleeing diners left their purses behind.
Three women ran from a Waffle House restaurant without paying their $39 bill, but one women returned and demanded the purses. The manager told her she needed to wait for the police, but she left.
Police said the purses contained IDs, along with a check stub from another Waffle House in Arkansas.
Check-cashing store would have only given him $750,000
An Indiana man was arrested after he went to the drive-through window and tried to cash a check for one million dollars.
Police said the teller kept the check, and made a copy of the suspect’s driver’s license before the man left. Police arrested Justin Johnson, 21, at his home and charged him with forgery.
Police said Johnson was given a blank check by a man for whom he had done some work.
— Compiled by Scott McCabe
