A Florida city will pay nearly $20,000 to a stripper whose business they tried to shut down.
Key West tried to put exotic dancer Christy Sweet’s lap dance emporium out of business, first granting it an adult entertainment license and then drastically tightening regulations.
The city’s lawyer said they agreed to pay Sweet because “she was going to win” in court.
No word on whether she’ll get the money one dollar at a time.
When 13-year-old Jessica Dunkley of Pearland, Texas, was ordered to spend an hour in detention for being late to school six times in two months, her mother and stepfather decided to go with her.
“We’re more at fault than she is,” the teen’s mom said, explaining Jessica was late because the family’s van wouldn’t start.
Two first-graders were caught trying to have sex under a stairwell at an elementary school in Indianapolis.
The boy and girl, both 6 years old, had removed some clothing, but hadn’t gotten beyond that when they were interrupted, officials said.
“With videos and various cable TV shows, there’s an awful lot that kids are exposed to. Kids will imitate what they see and hear,” noted a local school psychologist.
The mayor of a Romanian town received an official police request to investigate a baby accused of theft. Police said the suspect was born on Feb. 27, 2004. Turned out the thief was born in 1972, not 2004.
Villagers in the Spanish fishing town of Bermeo were stumped about what to do when a 50-ton whale washed up on the beach.
They’ve decided to keep it. They plan to tow it out to sea, let it decompose and then put its skeleton on display.
He was seeing double!
A Canadian constable pulled over an 18-year-old woman from Akwesasne for driving at 96 mph earlier this week.
Hours later he stopped the same car – this time traveling in the opposite direction – for zipping along at 92 mph.
The woman behind the wheel was the identical twin of the first driver.