Weird News

Wise in the ways of Star Wars toys was he 
Juneau, Alaska ------------------- Call Luke Skywalker for backup.
                                                    Police in Juneau took a call this week to check out a suspicious device spotted on the side of a road.
                                                    The Juneau Empire reports the first officer on the scene wasn't sure what to make of the object.  A dispatcher sent out a second officer with expertise in bombs.
                                                    The second officer determined that the device was a plastic light saber toy taped to a stick.  The laser swords were the preferred weapons of Jedi knights.

Predetermination?  At least he's not a killer
Orange, Va. ----------------------- A Virginia man with the last name Stoner is facing drug charges after police found more than $10,000 worth of marijuana plants at his home.
                                                   The Orange County Sheriff's Office says Paul Scott Stoner, 42, of Unionville is charged with growing marijuana and having a firearm while in possession of more than a pound of marijuana.
                                                   Authorities say they acted on a tip that Stoner was selling to children and during the search last Thursday seized marijuana, marijuana plants, drug paraphernalia, prescription drugs, needles, spoons and guns.

86 shades of gray
Salt Lake City ------------------- An 86-year-old Utah woman becme a first-time novelist by writing a steamy romance novel about a bored housewife.
                                                  Georgia Gorringe said it took her five years to write the tale of a woman who listens to talk radio and is turned on by the voice of a man she hears.
                                                  "And that voice on the radio, oh, he had a magic voice!  And it just turned her on!"  Gorringe said in an interview with KUTV. 
                                                  Her adult daughter, Bobbie Posey, is proud of her mother's accomplishment but says she was taken aback by the amount of steaminess in the book.
                                                  "Sometimes I'm like, mother, how could you do that?  How can you write that?"  said Posey.  "But she did!"
                                                  Gorringe, who is a great-great grandmother, insists the story is all fiction, but her daughter isn't buying it.
                                                  "A lot of it is actually real-life," said Posey.  "I mean, we know who she's talking about."

His next T-shirt could have two of his mug shots
Madison, Maine ---------------- A Maine man who served a 48-hour sentence for drunken driving wore something special for his jail booking photo: a T-shirt featuring his mug shot.
                                                  Bobby Burt, 19, of Pittsfield, had the mug shot from his June arrest printed on the orange shirt, along with the words, "Sponsored by Bud Light and Somerset County Sheriff."
                                                  The mug shot is making the rounds online thanks to The Smoking Gun, which posted it earlier this week.
                                                  Burt was using the mug shot for his Facebook profile picture.