Bum a smoke, go to jail.
A 49-year-old Michigan woman who habitually asked neighbors for cigarette money was arrested for disorderly conduct after a sheriff’s deputy came to warn her — and then she asked the lawman for smoke money.
The Van Buren County Sheriff’s Department said the woman asked for cash from a responding deputy, then tried bargaining for different amounts when he turned her down.
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The cloverleaf turned out to be unlucky for an alleged robber near St. Paul, Minn.
The 32-year-old suspect was busted for ripping off a convenience store and a gas station after witnesses told cops about a distinctive cloverleaf tattoo on his left arm, the cloverleaf on his cap and the Celtic cross tattooed on his right biceps.
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Super-size these retirements!
Marlene Wickerink, 72, and Janet Chapman, 65, retired recently from a McDonald’s in North Muskegon, Mich., taking more than four decades of experience with them.
Wickerink worked in the lobby after joining the crew in 1989, while drive-through cashier Chapman started there in 1988 but had been working at other Midwest McDonald’s since 1980.
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A Wal-Mart employee took a bite out of crime — but ended up getting a chomp mark.
When the unidentified worker in Kingsport, Tenn., approached a 44-year-old female shoplifter, the woman bit the employee on the arm while trying to leave the store’s garden center.
She was arrested for theft and assault.
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India is egging on its rugby squad to put on muscle and weight.
The team’s coach said players must bulk up to be competitive at next year’s Commonwealth Games — so the athletes have been put on a seven-meal, 15-egg daily diet.