D.A. Of The Day - 12/8

WEIRD NEWS: Vet Saves Pacified Pooch

An Oklahoma family brought their sick dog to the vet and wound up getting to the bottom of a mystery which had perplexed them for weeks.

Dovey, a four-year-old Shar-Pei, was sick and losing weight. So when she vomited up a baby's pacifier, it occurred to the family that she might have been behind the mysterious disappearance of other pacifiers. They brought her to the animal hospital and told the vet they believed she may have swallowed a few "binkies." An X-ray led the vet to suspect there might be as many as seven pacifiers in the dog's stomach. But he was wrong.

A surgeon opened up the pooch's stomach and removed 21 pacifiers! Dovey is recovering well.

WEIRD NEWS: Police Cop-Block Booty Call

A Florida man who was driving to a booty call landed in jail when he ignored the police car on his tail. 

An officer in an unmarked car spotted 18-year-old Ruben Hughes speeding and driving erratically. The officer put on his lights and siren and pursued the sex-hungry speedster for several miles. Hughes refused to stop, so more police officers joined the chase. He was eventually caught and placed under arrest for fleeing and eluding a police officer.

During questioning, Hughes told officers he did not see or hear them following him because he was "trying to meet his girlfriend for relations and he was trying to get there." 

WEIRD NEWS: Package Number-Two Stolen

A fed-up Oregon mother recruited her infant son to fight back against thieves who stole a package from her front porch.

Angie Boliek said she ordered Christmas pajamas for her son Ben, but the delivery to her house was stolen. She devised a plan to fight back. She collected a pile of Ben's dirty diapers and then packed them up in a box with a handwritten note which read, "Enjoy this, you thief!"

Angie says the diapers happened to be especially pungent because Ben had been sick for a few days. She placed the box on her front porch on Sunday and it was gone on Monday. She reported the theft to police, but only then thought to install a security camera on her front porch. 

WEIRD NEWS: Tape Needs Surveillance

You can add one more item to the list of things that duct tape can do -- after a roll of it prompted a woman in Maine to call 911 when she mistook it for a home intruder.

The woman, whose name was not released, called police when her dog started barking at a “thump-thump-thump” coming from her basement. But when cops arrived, they discovered the sound had come from the roll of tape, which had fallen off a high shelf and bounced down the stairs, one thump at a time.

In his report of the incident, Lieutenant Tim Cotton wrote that his department handled the call professionally, but "realized the woman was from Maine, had a dog and a roll of duct tape. She probably could have held her own until we arrived."