


A man stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in coins from coin-cashing machines in grocery stores and other businesses in multiple states over two years by disguising himself as an employee of a coin-cashing company, and pretending to service the machines. Authorities found laundry baskets and bags filled with millions of coins in his hotel room in Vancouver, Wash. He was jailed and ordered to pay around $582,000 in restitution.
BUT LOOK, IT’S REALLY NOTHING TO CRY OVER: A tanker truck crashed on the M6 Highway in Lancashire, England, spilling 5,300 gallons of milk across all of the northbound lanes.
BUT OFFICER, I’M SURE I WON’T CRASH INTO ANYTHING: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested a man for being too drunk to canoe on Christina Lake in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, after he tried in vain to hide under a dock. The Mounties released him from custody as soon as he sobered up.
MESS WITH ME, WILL YOU!?: A bunch of spectators tormented a bull from behind wooden barriers during a bull running event through the streets of Castejon, Spain. The beast came to a sudden stop, and onlookers started shouting, waving and banging their hands against the barricades in an attempt to whip the bull into a frenzy. But, when one of them tried to stab the animal in the face with a long, wooden stick, the bull leapt over the barrier, causing pandemonium and sending the audience scrambling in horror to evade its charge.
FONDUE FOR EVERYONE!: Firefighters were racing to a vehicle fire on I-285 in Fulton County, Ga., when a tractor-trailer carrying about 10,000 pounds of cheese crashed into their fire engine.
YOU’LL NEVER CATCH ME, COPPER!: A man, who mocked the Chicago Police Department by covering his license plate with the message “Don’t embarrass yourself CPD,” fled officers who tried to pull him over. He drove north in southbound lanes and passed vehicles before slamming into another car when he ran a third red light, causing his car to spin out and come to a stop a half-block away. He was cited for “at least 15” traffic violations.
RACING TO A RACETRACK? REALLY?: A man was pulled over for driving 162 mph — more than double the speed limit — on the Coquihalla Highway in Merritt, British Columbia, in an Alfa Romeo Giulia. He was headed to a track where he races the high-performance sports car.
SHE APPARENTLY THINKS THAT HER LIFE IS A MOVIE: A worker at a McDonald’s in Lower Allen Township, Pa., used a movie prop 50-dollar bill to pay for food — crumpling it up and placing it under the register drawer — and took $40 back in change before leaving for the night. The bill was clearly marked “for movie prop use only” in multiple places.
YOU MEAN STORES HAVE SECURITY CAMERAS?!: A 40-year-old man claimed that he slipped on some spilled liquid and fell in a supermarket in Dalton, Ga., but security video showed him purposely lowering himself into the spill.