Weird News

He's charged in computer slaying
Colorado Springs, Colo. ----------- For killing the source of his frustration and abandoning the body in an alley, a Colorado man could be considered lucky for just receiving a citation ------- except his victim was his computer.
                                                          Lucas Hinch, 37, was slapped with a ticket for discharging a weapon within city limits after he took his computer outside and shot it eight times.
                                                          Colorado Springs police Lt. Jeff Strossner, who issued the citation, says Hinch told him he had been fighting his computer for months before he decided to exact his revenge.  Hinch accepted his citation without problem and told Strossner he did not realize he was breaking the law.


That took walls
Monrovia, Ind. ---------------------An Indiana man wanted on a probation violation has been rescued by firefighters after he became wedged inside a wall of his home while trying to avoid arrest when he squeezed down a narrow hole in the attic floor near the chimney at his home in Monrovia.
                                                       Morgan Township Fire Chief Miguel Ongay said Shuler had to stay in his 16-inch-wide hiding place for more than a day because he couldn't climb out.  A visiting friend found him the next morning and called firefighters to retrieve him.  Shuler was arrested on the probation violation and thrown in the county jail.


Talk about a hot date
La Center, Wash. ----------------- A Washington teen who strapped fake explosives to his body in a stunt to ask a date to prom has been suspended from school.
                                                      The five-day suspension will prevent Ibrahim Ahmad from attending La Center High's dance tonight.
                                                      The 18-year-old senior said he was trying to go all out with his proposal, wearing a vest filled with paper-tube props made to look like explosives.  At lunchtime, Ahmad stood on the cafeteria stage and held a sign that said he was "the bomb" and inviting his would-be date to prom.
                                                      Superintendent Mark Mansell said Ahmad's actions were inexcusable and that he deserved punishment for disrupting the learning environment.  Ahmad said the girl accepted, so they will likely go to dinner on prom night.


Some real dung twisters
                                                      Entries are piling up for a slogan contest being held this year by the North American Manure Expo.
                                                     The trade show, now in its 13th year, showcases the latest technology in manure handling, treatment and application.  It's being held in July in Chambersburg, Pa.
                                                     An official event slogan has already been settled on: "2015 Manure Expo: Manure than you can Handle!"  It will appear on the front of a T-shirt.
                                                     But contestants are vying to land a spot on the back of the T-shirt, which event organizers say will display 10 of the "crappiest" also-rans.  Many entries, predictably, contains a vulgar substitute for "manure."