The Following are true life stories. Besides being true, the stories are most likely strange, weird, surprising or funny.


1. December 18, 1992. Michael J. Schmidt, 29, set up a hidden video camera at his home near Superior, Wis because he had been burglarized several times and thought he could catch the culprits in the act. The burglars came back and were captured on tape, which Schmidt turned over to the Sheriff. Among the items the burglars took was a box containing eight marijuana plants. Schmidt was immediately arrested and charged with drug possesion.


2. In Saturday in Bellevue, Wis, police broke up a disturbance between a couple arguing over which one was drunker. Both were arrested and taken to Overlake hospital for treatment of injuries on their heads. The police charged them with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace of the community but not assault because they each injured themselves and not the other. According to police and witnesses, the couple were taking turns bashing their heads into the wall and wooden door of their apartment in other to prove they were so drunk that they couldnt feel the pain.

Are you kidding me??

3. In 1989, a union bridge school permitted a female student, Tawana Hammond, 17, to try out its football team under the pressure of a federal statute that bars school discrimination on the basis of gender. On her first scrimmage, Tawana, a running back, was tackled and suffered massive internal injuries. In october 1992, she filed a $1.5million lawsuit against the council of education for its alleged failure to tell her how dangerous football is.


4. On february 10, 1993, Florida authorities arrested Paul Flasher, 45, who had been sentenced to Five years in prison in 1980 for theft but who had never been jailed. Flasher said he had gone home from the sentencing hearing in Tampa and "sat tight", just as his lawyer had instructed, waiting for notification to report to prison. Authorities forgot him for 12 years.

5. Sunday, November 29, 1992, Robert A. Chase, 45, was charged with threatening an 11-year-old boy with a knife in Madison, Wis. The boy was watching Chase play basketball with another adult when the opponent accused Chase of "traveling" (taking steps without dribbling the ball).To seek an impartial opinion, Chase asked the boy, but the boy agreed that Chase had traveled. Chase then allegedly grabbed the boy, held a knife to his throat, and asked, "Now. Did I travel?"



6. The "Environmental Engineering News" published some rather sobering information about punishment for drunk driving convictions in other countries.In Australia, the names of drunk drivers are printed in newspapers under the caption, "He's drunk and in jail."In Malaysia the driver is jailed and, if married, the spouse is jailed.In the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden there's an automatic jail term of one year.In Turkey, drunk drivers are driven twenty miles out of town and forced to walk back ten miles.In Bulgaria, a second drunk-driving conviction results in capital punishment.In El Salvador, your first offense is your last -- execution by firing squad.

7. October 21, 1992, Kenneth Jeffries, 24, was arrested in West Haven, Conn., in August for robbing a convenience store. Police reported that he had first offered the clerk $1 for a pack of gum as a ruse and then taken $40 in the robbery.However, said police, Jeffries returned a minute later and asked, uncertainly, "Did I pay for the gum?"By that time the clerk had summoned police, and Jeffries was soon apprehended.


8. November 29, 1992, The Ontario Press Council dismissed a complaint filed by Allan Sorensen against the Toronto Sun, which had reported that Sorenson had choked his ex-girlfriend. Sorensen's complaint was that his reputation was damaged because the Sun engaged in "speculation " that he had used only one hand to choke her (the other being forced into her mouth). In fact, he said he used both hands."