WEIRD NEWS: Sleepy NFL Player Scores Touchdown -- in a Pond
One day you're scrambling 30 yards for a touchdown and the next you're falling asleep at the wheel and waking up in a pond.
That's the story of Jacksonville Jaguars running back Denard Robinson. Police in Jacksonville say they found the 25-year-old NFL player and a female companion fast asleep inside a Chevy Impala that had been driven into a retention pond. When an officer tapped on the window to wake them up, Robinson briefly opened his eyes and then fell back asleep. The officer woke up his friend, Marissa Staples, in the passenger seat. She rolled down the window, turned to him and ask asked, "What's up?"
Both were able to get out through the passenger side door and neither was injured. The officer doesn't believe Robinson or his friend were impaired at the time and no citations were issued. Robinson later said that he simply fell asleep at the wheel and never should driven while that tired.
WEIRD NEWS: The Pothead Calling the Kettle Black
An Australian family's harmonious existence just went up in smoke after a guy called cops to say his father had committed arson -- by burning a slew of the marijuana plants he'd been growing on his property.
The wanna-be weed farmer phoned authorities to say that he and his old man both got fired up during an argument, which led the dad to make his way over to the pot patch and set it ablaze. Officers arrived at the home in the small town of Humpty Doo, and found the younger man, still angry, demanding to press charges -- not considering the fact that growing the crop in the first place could land him in prison.
Police Superintendent Louise Jorgensen said, “He seemed to believe that the destruction of the same was far worse than the possession in the first instance," but said that since there was no clear evidence of how much weed was torched, there was no way to press charges against either.
Still, sounds like the kid is going to have his nose out of joint for quite a while over this one.
WEIRD NEWS: That's No Turn Signal!
A British pedestrian who was knocked over by a hit-and-run driver responded to that jerk's actions with a jerky action of his own -- an X-rated use of his "gearshift."
As Bouhlel Barhoumi tried to sprint across a busy street against a red light, he was clipped by a vehicle that sped off, leaving him lying in the crosswalk. The 43-year-old got up and assaulted a second driver who had nothing to do with the incident, punching him, then exposing himself and waving his manhood in the direction of a female passenger.
A cop dispatched to the scene ordered Barhoumi to give it a rest. Bad idea -- he got even more lewd, wrapping his leg around the officer, humping him like a dog and capping it all with a headbutt for the man in uniform. Barhoumi faces charges of assault and "outraging public decency."
WEIRD NEWS: What a G-P-S-Hole!
A Florida man left his brain in neutral while he drove up to cops and asked for directions -- despite the fact that he was holding a marijuana pipe that he'd been smoking while on the road.
Christofer Chesson-Dennis pulled into a parking lot where the officers were sitting, rolled down his window and requested help getting to his destination. The deputies didn't immediately offer their services, since one of them noticed a strong weed aroma and asked Chesson-Dennis if he had any contraband -- a question he answered with a "yes," and a quick handover of the pipe.
When the cops said they were going to need to search the car, the 24-year-old saved them the trouble, speedily offering up the bag of meth and second pipe he had stuffed in the pocket of his shorts so they could map out his trip to the county lockup.
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