Weird News

Free Brady, free coffee
Lewiston, Maine --------------------  A Dunkin' Donuts shop in Maine is offering free coffee for life to the federal judge who lifted New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's suspension.
                                                          The Sun Journal reports the shop in Lewiston put the offer on a sign outside the store after U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman erased Brady's four-game suspension over Deflategate.
                                                           The offer quickly spread over social media.
                                                           Berman ruled NFL Commissioner Rodger Goodell went too far in punishing the Super Bowl-winning quarterback.  He says the suspension was "premised upon several significant legal deficiencies."

Robber who has priorities straight
Ypsilanti Township, Mich. -------  Authorities say frozen meat and a chain saw were the only things taken during a break-in a home in Michigan.
                                                          The Ann Arbor News reports deputies with the Washtenaw County sheriff's department were called to the home in Ypsilanti Township following the theft.
                                                          According to a summary of the investigation, the suspect or suspects likely entered the home through an open window.  No suspects were identified.

Well, it smelled like pot.........
Adrian, Mich. ----------------------   A man who tried to sell a backpack of dirty socks as manjuana has been sentenced to at least one year in a Michigan prison.
                                                         Michael Suarez was sentenced for committing fraud through false pretenses.  An unarmed robbery charge was dropped.
                                                         Police say Suarez was pursuing a marjuana deal in July when he showed up at a home in Lenawee County's Raisin Township.  But instead of carrying pot, he had a backpack stuffed with dirty socks.
                                                         Police say a purse with $2,800 was stolen from the home.  Suarez and others were stopped after speeding through a stop sign.
                                                         Defense attorney John Glaser says the "false pretenses" were the dirty socks.  Suarez will be eligible for parole after a year in prison.  His maximum sentence is 7 1/2 years.

Chicken, road ........... you know the joke
Oakland, Calif.  --------------------  Three people are claiming ownership of the small brown chicken that fouled up rush-hour traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area earlier this week.
                                                         The Oakland Tribune reports that the Oakland Animal Shelter has the chicken that strutted between cars at the Bay Bridge toll plaza early.
                                                         She was eventually captured by the California Highway Patrol.
                                                         Animal Service Director Rebecca Katz says people claiming ownership of the chicken, named Chip in a nod to the CHP, need to come to the facility with proof, such as previous photos of the famous foul.
                                                         Two rescue groups are also interested in Chip.
                                                          Later in the week, Chip laid an egg.  But the shelter will likely swap in a substitute egg for her to sit on, because it doesn't want any more chickens.