Odd News: Inmate bitten on penis by rodent may sue

 New York - A man who says a rat bit his penis during a jail stay may sue county officials, a judge has ruled. Peter Solomon, who said he later had to endure a course of rabies jabs, says jailers knew the ward in which they placed him was infested with rodents. He says the jail was negligent and mistreated him because he is black. Lawyers for Nassau County sought to have the suit dismissed stating its experts said they saw no evidence of serious injury.  More…

Odd News|Fox shoots hunter

Moscow - A wounded fox shot its would be killer in Belarus by pulling the trigger on the hunter’s gun as the pair scuffled after the man tried to finish the animal off with the butt of the rifle. The unnamed hunter, who had approached the fox after wounding it from a distance, was in hospital with a leg wound, while the fox made its escape.  More…

Police have six-hour standoff with unconscious man

Massachusetts - A suspect in a Massachusetts armed robbery was taken into custody and hospitalized for a drug overdose after a state Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team was called to a Nichols Road residence. Jeremy Q. Curtis, 40, of Hanover, Mass., was taken into custody and then brought to Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro following a six hour incident during which Curtis was unconscious.  More…

Odd News-Man shoots self in buttocks after threat

Montana - A man accused of sticking a pistol in his girlfriend’s mouth accidentally shot himself in the buttocks after he shoved the gun down the back of his pants. 27-year-old Johnathan William Hartman and his girlfriend had been arguing. The woman said that Hartman stuck the gun in her mouth and threatened to kill her before firing a shot next to her ear. Hartman apparently placed the pistol into the back of his waistband and the gun discharged into his buttocks while he was driving erratically....More

Odd News-Rat takes cigarette to bed with him, starts fire

UK - A pet rat named No Name triggered a fire in his beer can-strewn cage when he stole a smoldering cigarette butt from an ashtray and took it to bed with him. Miraculously, No Name survived the cage blaze and was found scampering around the floor at owner Nelly Banks’s apartment. A member of the local fire crew said he believed No Name was building a nest and managed to escape through an open door when he discovered his home was about to go up in flames....more

Odd News-Atheist ads compares Christ to Bigfoot

Canada - The atheist group behind last year’s controversial bus ads suggesting “there’s probably no God” is rolling out a provocative new set of posters on buses across the country that places Allah beside Bigfoot and Christ beside psychics. The new posters bear the slogan: “Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence” with “Allah, Bigfoot, UFOs, Homeopathy, Zeus, Psychics, Christ” listed below...More

Odd News Man mails hundreds of live tarantulas

Odd News California - A German man has been arrested on animal smuggling charges after he allegedly mailed hundreds of live tarantulas to customers in the United States. Sven Koppler, 37, was busted when he arrived in Los Angeles to meet with an associate. The federal probe of Koppler began in March, when agents intercepted a package headed for L.A. that contained about 300 tarantulas...More

Odd News Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin up for auction

California - The coffin in which JFK alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was buried is to go under the hammer for the first time. The pine coffin is partially water-damaged by the 18 years it spent in the ground before Oswald’s body was exhumed in 1981 to lay to rest rumors that a lookalike Soviet agent was buried in his place. The body — confirmed as genuinely his — was reburied in another casket, and the original is only now being offered for sale at auction....More

Odd News Grandmother throws granddaughter off walkway

Virginia - A 50-year-old woman accused of throwing her granddaughter to her death off a parking garage walkway has been charged with murder. Carmela Dela Rosa allegedly threw two-and-a-half-year-old Angelyn Ogdoc off a sixth floor outdoor walkway. Dela Rosa was walking with other family members when she picked up and threw the girl off the walkway in a matter of seconds....More

Odd News Muskrat hunter freed from pipe

Odd News Indiana - Emergency crews say they rescued an Indiana muskrat hunter stuck in waist-deep mud inside a culvert under an interstate. Brownsburg Fire Territory Deputy Chief Administrator Patrick Carmean said it took about 45 minutes to free the man who got stuck in the pipe while trapping the animals....More

Odd News I didn’t kill her. I killed the demon inside her.

Odd News New York - An unhinged actor calmly described hacking his beloved mother to death with a sword because he believed a demon had taken hold of her soul. “I didn’t kill her. I killed the demon inside her,” Michael Brea said. When told his mother, Yannick Brea, 55, had died in the grisly assault, Michael was unrepentant. “So be it. It was the work of God,” he said...more

Odd News TSA advertises jobs on pizza boxes

Odd News Washington - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is advertising jobs in the Washington area where college students are sure to see them — on pizza boxes. TSA spokesman Greg Soule said the pizza box job ads are aimed at gaining a wider pool of applicants for the available positions and is part of a campaign posting ads at gas stations, movie theaters and on trains. “A Career Where X-Ray Vision and Federal Benefits Come Standard”, the pizza box ad reads....More

Odd News Drug dealer accepts food stamps as payment

Odd News St. Louis - They used state welfare money to buy drugs. Now investigators are tracking them down. Detectives with the Wellston Police Department caught a drug dealer who was accepting EBT cards or electronic benefit cards as a form of payment. He kept 60 of them. Police confiscated the cards as well as drugs, weapons and other items..More

Odd News Man builds wall, traps himself in cellar

Odd News Germany - A German DIY enthusiast accidentally walled himself into his own basement and only managed to escape by drilling his way through to his neighbours. The 64-year-old pensioner in the eastern town of Gumperda had — inexplicably — aimed to seal off the entrance to his cellar and went downstairs armed with bricks, mortar as well as food and drink. He was on the wrong side of the wall when his work was finished....More

Odd News Minor Surgical Procedure Turns Into Double Amputation

Odd News New York - A simple surgery has turned into a living nightmare for a Brooklyn mom. She was supposed to be in and out of the hospital on the same day. Instead, both her legs had to be amputated because of an alleged medical mishap and now she wants justice. Stacy Galette went to Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola for what she said was supposed to be a minor gynecological procedure. However, something went wrong and both of her legs were amputated.....More

Odd News Police misplaced police car for three weeks

Pennsylvania - Millcreek police officers took five unmarked police vehicles to Pittsburgh for a week of SWAT training. But in what Millcreek Police Chief Thomas Carlotti called “a perfect storm of mix-ups,” they only returned with four of them. It wasn’t until three weeks later, when Pittsburgh police called about the car left in a motel parking lot, that Millcreek police realized a 2006 unmarked white Ford Crown Victoria had been left behind....More

Odd News Hazmat crew responds to letter containing poop

Florida - A letter sent to the principal of Seminole High School contained what Sanford police believe to be human feces. Investigators said it’s not clear who sent the envelope to the principal, but it is being turned over to investigators. A hazmat crew responded to the scene....More

Odd News Man pays $800,000 for a 13-mile trip

New York - Brooklyn federal prosecutors say that megamillionaire feng shui master Tony Chan paid for the trip with his American Express card — and that car-service driver Peter Rahhaoui, of Flushing, Queens, then used the card number to rack up thousands of dollars in charges over the next few months. Amazingly, the controversial Chan is so rich that he didn’t even realize he was being bilked....More

Odd News:Florida Clerk Beats Customer over 50 Dollar Bill

Odd News:Florida - Authorities in Florida said they arrested a gas station clerk who allegedly used a stick to beat a customer who wanted to use a $50 bill to pay for his beer. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office said Renu Zaman, 22, a clerk at the Sunoco Gas Station in Immokalee, became angry when a customer attempted to buy a six-pack of beer with a $50 bill....More

Odd News:Woman Called 911 to Ask for Date

Ohio - A woman is facing charges after she reportedly called 911 to ask dispatchers for a date. Bernadette Music, 43, allegedly called emergency dispatchers four to five times on July 26 and asked two dispatchers if they wanted to go on a date with her, Local12.com reports. ---...More