WEIRD CHEMISTRY In Lawrence County, Tennessee, law enforcement officials are confronting the fallout from a new drug known as “Wasp” (crystallized wasp repellant mixed with methamphetamine). To wit: On Dec. 18, as the Johnson family baked Christmas cookies in their Lawrenceburg kitchen, Danny Hollis, 35, walked into their home and asked for help. NewsChannel 5 in Nashville … [Read more...] about NOTW: Weird chemistry, criminally bad haircuts and melting highways
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NOTW: Tennis crimes, fake Tasmanian Devil attacks and overtime-enforcing drones
BUT HE STARTED IT! Tennis instructor Osmailer Torres, 30, of Miami, was arrested in July 2016 after hitting a five-year-old with the child’s pint-sized tennis racket and causing a bruise on the boy’s arm and a lump on his eyebrow, reports the Miami Herald. But now Torres believes he has a grand-slam defense: Florida’s Stand Your Ground self-defense law. Defense lawyer Eduardo … [Read more...] about NOTW: Tennis crimes, fake Tasmanian Devil attacks and overtime-enforcing drones
NOTW: Baby-tossing, vampire tourism and gun-toting bureaucrats
THIS WEEK IN BABY-TOSSING India has supposedly outlawed the “baby-tossing” religious test popular among Hindus and Muslims in rural villages in Maharashtra and Karnataka states, but a July New York Times report suggested that parents were still allowing surrogates to drop their newborn infants from 30 feet up and awaiting the gods’ blessing for a prosperous, healthy life. In … [Read more...] about NOTW: Baby-tossing, vampire tourism and gun-toting bureaucrats