The W.O.E. Awards

When Pirates Attack A Navy Ship…

Fishy — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:54:09 +0000

…they lose.

FOXNews.com – Oops! Pirates Captured After Threatening Wrong Ship

It couldn’t have happened to nicer guys. Note to pirates: It’s probably not the best idea to attack a naval vessel chock full of weaponry and fighters…

Woman Finds 8-Foot Alligator in SUV Engine

Fishy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:18:03 +0000

So that‘s why it was running slowly! 0_0

Read the story here- LINK

In other “news,” I’ve decided to give Florida its own category at The W.O.E. Awards. It seems to need one…

Woman Tapes Dog to Refrigerator

Fishy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:17:45 +0000

A Colorado woman is accused of taping her boyfriend’s dog to the refrigerator with packing tape because he wouldn’t get rid of it.

Read the Full Story Here

…The only comments I can think of to describe my feelings about this are too rude to type.

Victorian Ghost Shows Up in Google Streetview

Fishy — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:51:43 +0000

I found this at The Telegraph:

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A ghostly figure filmed on Google Street View near Cardiff’s Millennium Centre Photo: WALES NEWS

Experts have been called in to examine the Google ghoul filmed at a former Victorian docklands which has a dark and sinister past.

The woman dressed in long skirt, crisp blouse, bow tie, blue boater hat and scarf appears to be shimmering above the pavement.

She was captured by the Google Street View cameras in Tiger Bay, Cardiff – the scene of murders and unsolved mysteries going back 200 years.

Read the rest of the article

…Now, for the first time, Google Street View is actually interesting to me.

x-posted to The Happy Fish + Mobilis in Mobili + The W.O.E. Awards

Thief Robs Retired Police Chief at Police Convention

Fishy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:12:26 +0000

Read the story here.

I think that this guy was really, REALLY trying to make it into "America’s Dumbest Criminals." You have to admire his efforts, if not his brain…

(Note: on a tip from JammieWearingFool.)

Suspect trips over his pants while fleeing police

Fishy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:05:26 +0000

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Authorities said a burglary suspect was literally caught with his pants down while trying to run away. A deputy responded to an alarm at a convenient store early Tuesday morning and reported seeing a 37-year-old man exiting through a smashed-out front door while carrying several packs of cigarettes.

Deputies said the man tried to flee, but the handfuls of cigarettes prevented him from holding up his pants, which fell down and tripped him before he could make it out of the parking lot.

The man was charged with criminal mischief, burglary, theft and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was being held on $12,000 bail.

Source: Yahoo! News

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Florida does seem to have a superabundance of dumb criminals, doesn’t it? :/ Of course, that’s better than having an overflow of smart offenders…

Candy wrapper trail fingers Fla. burglary suspects

Fishy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:52:00 +0000

PALM BAY, Fla. – Five Florida teens face burglary-related charges after police followed a trail of candy wrappers from the crime scene back to the house of one of teens.

Officers responded to a break-in Tuesday in Palm Bay on Florida’s central Atlantic coast. An officer then followed a trail of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups packages in the backyard. The officer noticed another wrapper on the front porch of a house near the victim’s house.

Officers found several juveniles at the other house. Police say the teens confessed to the burglary and informed officers that the stolen property was in the attic.

Three of the teens face armed burglary charges and two others face charges of resisting arrest without violence and tampering with evidence.

Source: Yahoo! News

German police seize teens’ motorized office chair

Fishy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:33:15 +0000

BERLIN – German police have confiscated what may be the world’s fastest office chair. Police say officers happened on the contraption — the work of two inventive 17-year-olds — in the western town of Gross-Zimmern on Saturday.

The pair had added a lawnmower engine, bicycle brakes and a metal frame to the revolving chair — making into a go-kart-like vehicle.

Police said in a statement Monday the inventors insisted they had only tested it over a few meters, but witnesses reported seeing it on several streets.

They are being investigated over a variety of possible offenses, including defying insurance regulations, driving without a license and violating registration requirements.

Police did not say what top speed the chair could reach.

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Whale calf lost in Sydney waters, bonds with yacht

Fishy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:31:23 +0000

SYDNEY, Australia – Australian media say a lost humpback whale calf has bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother. The 1- to 2-month-old calf was first sighted Sunday in waters off north Sydney, and on Monday tried to suckle from a yacht, which it would not leave.

Rescuers towed the yacht out to sea, and the calf finally detached from the boat but still swam nearby, Australian Broadcasting Corp. and Channel 10 television news reported.

The calf appears exhausted but rescuers hope it will continue out to sea and search for its mother or another pod of whales.

“The outlook is not good, but we are giving the calf its only option. It can’t be fed, and in fact we wouldn’t know what to feed it” because it is not weaned, National Parks and Wildlife regional manager Chris McIntosh told ABC radio.

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Confused sea turtles march into restaurant

Fishy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:28:18 +0000

ROME (Reuters) – About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched into an Italian restaurant instead, a conservation worker said on Monday.

The baby turtles — which ended up under the tables of startled diners at the beachside restaurant — were probably thrown off track and lured by the eatery’s bright lights, said Antonio Colucci, who was called to help rescue the group.

“They saw the artificial lights and took the wrong route,” said Colucci, who works on a turtle monitoring project for the conservation group WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature).

“The diners were at first quite curious and then someone alerted the coastal authorities.”

The stranded turtles, which had hatched on a beach in the southern Italian region of Calabria, were released into the sea.

Female sea turtles nest on beaches and their offspring instinctively head to the sea after hatching from their eggs.

(Reporting by Deepa Babington; editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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