Strange & Stupid: Amusing News

A recently widowed 18-year-old mother shot and killed a home intruder (not a bed intruder) New Years eve, WHILE ON THE PHONE WITH a 911 operator.

Sarah McKinley, 18, reportedly was home alone with her infant son just a week after her husband died of lung cancer, when two men tried to break into her house.

McKinley managed to push the couch to the front door to create a barricade, but that didn’t stop the intruders.

“He was from door to door trying to bust in,” McKinley told CBS affiliate KWTV. “I don’t know what he had in his hand besides the knife. I believe he actually had a hammer in his hand at some point because he was hitting that back door with it.”

McKinley called 911 and was on the phone with the operator during the entire 21 minute ordeal. She even asked the operator if she could shoot the intruder.

“They said I couldn’t shoot him until he was inside the house,” McKinley said. “So I waited until he got in the door and then I shot him.”

Police said that Justin Shane Martin, 24, died at the scene and his alleged accomplice, 29-year-old Dustin Louis Stewart, ran away, but was later brought to police by his parents. He is currently in jail.

McKinley’s mother told KWTV that Martin had followed her daughter around at a rodeo about two years ago.

She also said McKinley recently bumped into Martin at a convenience store, and that on Thursday night he showed up at her door, introducing himself as a neighbor. McKinley told her mother she did not know who he was until she pieced it all together after the shooting.

Police told KWTV that so far, their investigation revealed that McKinley did everything right in defending herself.

“The Oklahoma laws are clear on the home, and the right to your home are absolute,” said Detective Dan Huff of the Blanchard Police Department.

(NewsCore) - A Colorado woman was arrested after pulling down her pants and punching a $30 million painting — before urinating against it.

Carmen Tisch, 36, is accused of causing $10,000 worth of damage to the Clyfford Still oil-on-canvas last week at a Denver museum dedicated to the late abstract artist.

Tisch was believed to have been drunk when she attacked the 9.5-foot (2.9 meter) artwork, entitled “1957-J-No.2,” at around 3:30 p.m. local time on Dec 29, the Denver Post reported.

She pulled her pants down in the Clyfford Still Museum, according to a police report, and leaned against the iconic painting, before punching it.

She then slid down the artwork and urinated on herself, according to the criminal case against her.

“It doesn’t appear she urinated on the painting or that the urine damaged it, so she’s not being charged with that,” Denver District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough said Wednesday.

Authorities said the work, which is valued between $30 million and $40 million, had visible scratches on it as a result of the attack.

Ivar Zeile, owner of Denver’s Plus Gallery, said that it may be possible to restore the painting, but the value could be affected.

“It does damage the piece, though, even people just knowing that happened,” he said.

Tisch was charged with criminal mischief and was being held Thursday in the Denver County Jail on $20,000 bond. She was due to appear in Denver County Court Friday morning.

Clyfford Still, from North Dakota, was one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism in the 20th century.

The museum, which opened on Nov. 18, holds around 2,400 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from the artist’s 60-year body of work.

for fairness to other video websites, i found this on wimp.com, but they didnt have easily accessible embed code. fail.

So this is a simple diatribe on something I’ve noticed: prime ministers, presidents and first ladies alike all seem to look polished in virtually every photo shot of them.

Why does Hillary Clinton constantly allude this? Is she above it, or whill terrible photos multiplied by one million actually hold her back from being POTUS?

Real-life bloopers don’t often happen to presidents, but when they do….

When leaving Dublin this morning, President Obamas limo - fondly nicknamed “the beast” got stuck on a bump - leaving the POTUS and FLOTUS stranded, albeit momentarily, while awaiting their backup vehicle. Yup, they have a backup vehicle.

Those secret service agents sure do think of everything!

I don’t normally do “cute” here, but I thought that this was such a creative way of proposing that I just had to post the video:

[9 million and counting agree with me.]

Whistleblowing is a common practice in first world nations, but it’s rare to have whistleblowers in corrupt nations. That didn’t stop a man in the Russian Army, who I can only assume was so disgusted he just had to speak out.

Russian Interior Ministry troops were fed dog food in a cost-saving move by the Moscow government.
The whistleblower, ex-Major Igor Matveyev, said the food was served in Vladivostok (in the east). Officers tried to cover up that and other wrongdoings in the area.

He was released from duty for posting a video about the corruption within the armed forces. He says that the dog food was covered with “premium quality beef” labels. “It’s embarrassing to say but soldiers here were fed dog food. It was fed to them as stew.”

Matveyev intends to contest his dismissal order.

President Dmitry Medvedev has said rampant corruption in the ranks is one of the biggest problems facing Russia’s security forces.

A bomb scare at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport turned out to be TSA training…the organization simply forgot to alert authorities to the planned event.

Police surrounded a reported threatening man with guns drawn to confiscate his carry-on. Though the bag didn’t contain a bomb, it’s nice to see the police respond - not let him on the plane.

The drill was conducted last Thursday - TSA was aware of the fake bomb in the suspects bag.

The question is: why didn’t the screener know? And why did s/he alert authorities? Communications failure at the highest level? Or a genuine test of offical response time?

Either way, I’m glad I wasn’t in that airport.

Now England’s Register may not be known for its hard reporting,- it is a tabloid, after all.  But if this story is true, they get a nod from me for some seriously (and serious) in-depth reporting.

A Brazilian man claims that his wife attempted to murder him in an incredibly un-ladylike way last week….the São José do Rio Preto man claims that she put poison into her vagina, then invited him to eat it out.  He claims that this happened after they had an argument, and he would have done it had it not been for the smell emanating from her lady bits.

No word on whether the smell was from toxic substances or a lack of hygeine, but cops are looking into the matter.

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