Category: Crime

  • The Monterey county inn offered a special rate. The deal included a “breakfast basket.” Around 8:30 am someone would knock. On the step they would leave a basket with packaged  pastries, juice, fruit, yogurt, and hardboiled eggs, which you could draw inside and consume at leisure. They warned that birds might steal from your basket…

  • Curiosity killed the cat. I never heard exactly how. But The History of Borough Fen Decoy,  written by Tony Cook & R.E.M. Pilcher, explains how curiosity killed a lot of ducks. With the help of some dogs. A decoy, in this sense, is not a fake duck meant to encourage real ducks to fly down…

  • A black bear is being sought by New Jersey police on suspicion of stealing a minivan. Officer Dave Dehard came across the stolen minivan abandoned by the side of the road with dented door panels and a broken passenger window. Looking for clues…, Dehard found the front seat covered with drool, candy wrappers, and coarse…