Old Parking Ticket Paid
n Iowa City, Iowa
Police in Iowa say a man caught with a large quantity of marijuana claimed all he had in mind was recycling.
A complaint by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office says the 30- year-old man told police in Iowa City that he planned to turn several large bags of marijuana into compost.
Officers report the bags he had when he was arrested early Saturday held a “gallon” or more of marijuana each.
The complaint says officers didn’t buy the compost story. The suspect remained in jail Sunday without posting $14,000 bail on a charge of possessing marijuana with intent to distribute.
* Hugo, Minn.
As residents in Hugo begin to move on from last week’s tornado, some say they noticed a few bizarre things amid all the damage.
Jason Akins said the twister unwound a roll of toilet paper in his bathroom – draped it across the countertop, then rewound it in the sink. The toilet paper didn’t even rip.
“All I could say was, ‘You have got to be kidding me,’” Akins recalled.
He also said that winds overturned sofas and ripped away his roof, but dishes of cat food and water were untouched. The cat food was actually still in the bowl.
While hurricanes, floods and blizzards create broad swaths of damage, tornados seem to have tiny fingers that can reach in to small areas and cause some weird mischief. Some say tornados have their own personalities.
Terry Clarkin said the Hugo tornado stuck four steak knives in the yard – and they landed in a perfect square, with the blades in the dirt about three inches.
Across the street, a tree had been stripped of leaves, and instead was filled with pink wads of insulation – looking much like a tree from a cartoon.
* Hughes, Ark.
Police didn’t have to look too hard to figure out the source of a soda vending machine found in a front yard – they just followed the tracks.
Deputies from the St. Francis County sheriff’s office spotted a Pepsi machine on Thursday in the yard of a home in Hughes. A set of dolly tracks in front of the machine led back to a liquor store less than a mile away that had reported it missing.
Two men in the yard fled when authorities arrived. One was arrested on suspicion of theft, fleeing on foot and obstructing government operations. The other remains at large.
About 1,800 residents live in Hughes, about 30 miles southwest of Memphis, Tenn.
* Kenosha, Wis.
Someone in Texas apparently had a guilty conscience, paying up on a parking ticket handed out 21 years before.
The Kenosha Police Department says officers found a $6 payment for the ticket, issued Jan. 20, 1987, in a drop box.
A notice on the ticket indicated that failure to pay within 120 hours would result in doubling of the $3 forfeiture.
It was signed by a man who listed a Dallas address.
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