Stuff You Just Can't Make Up

Ripped from the headlines:

• Panty-clad man tries robbery with lighter AP - Thu May 10, 10:58 PM ET

  INWOOD, W.Va. - A thief covered his face with a pair of blue women's underwear and used a pistol-shaped cigarette lighter in a botched robbery of a convenience store, police said. "I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried," State Police Sgt. T.C. Kearns told The Journal in Martinsburg.

• Armless, one-legged driver leads chase AP - Thu May 10, 6:19 PM ET

  NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - Authorities were led on a high speed vehicle chase by an armless, one-legged man, and they said this wasn't the first time the 40-year-old eluded police.

• German man found after 7 years dead in bed Reuters - 1 hour, 25 minutes ago

  BERLIN (Reuters) - The decomposed corpse of a German man was found alone in his bed after nearly seven years, police in the western city of Essen said Thursday.

• Executed man gets last meal wish after he dies Reuters - Thu May 10, 2:26 PM ET

  NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A convicted murderer put to death in Tennessee this week got his last meal wish after he died.

I just don't have anything to add to these. The stories write themselves.




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