A 66-year-old woman who said she wanted to shower “poor Mexican women” with gifts went into a randomly selected discount store in San Diego and paid for a $5,000 shopping spree for 50 se?oras and se?oritas.
Then, out of nowhere, benefactor Claudia Smith shouted profanity at the women as they checked out and yelled, “Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye, Aieeeee!”
Smith insisted she wasn’t drunk, although she once had a “drinking and drugging” problem.
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A computer tech pulled a scam straight out of “Revenge of the Nerds.”
When the Fullerton, Calif., geek fixed laptops for female customers, he secretly installed a Webcam program, authorities said.
He then told the women to take the computers into their steamy bathrooms while they showered in order to keep the machines clean.
Several women fell for the line, leading to the arrest of the nasty nerd.
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It didn’t take Sherlock Holmes to solve this.
Cops caught a vandal who painted graffiti on more than 20 cars in Palm Harbor, Fla., after they found one clue — a trail of paint droppings leading back to his home.
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This kid knows how to grab the bull by the horns.
Welsh farm boy Tom Philips, 10, saved his dad from getting gored by a bull by jumping on the family’s tractor and ramming it into the animal.
It was the first time he ever drove the tractor, since he’s forbidden from taking it for a ride. No doubt his dad didn’t mind him breaking the rules.
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The highest court in the European Union has issued an ultimatum to France: Protect your hamsters, or else.
The EU court blasted France for not doing enough to save wild hamsters from extinction, claiming that some 1,000 hamster burrows have been destroyed by French policies.