Via the Indy Star: Indianapolis, Indiana – Jeri Holland, 25, of the 3700 block of West 10th Street, said a man in a pick-up truck stole the basketball goal in front of her house at 6 p.m. After backing his silver Chevrolet pick-up onto her property, the robber — about 5-feet, 10-inches tall, and 145-pounds [...]
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Via WISH TV: HAMILTON COUNTY (WISH) – A pet monkey went berserk Wednesday morning injuring two people and prompting a family to barricade themselves in a Hamilton County home. Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a home in the 2900 block of East 276th Street after Eujo, the Patas monkey, got out of his [...]
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Via WIBC: Officials with a child advocacy group are trying to retrieve some 1,000 plastic ducks that remain on the loose following a Fort Wayne duck race last month. Stop Child Abuse & Neglect says 17,000 ducks were placed in the St. Joseph River for the annual fundraiser duck race on June 19, but were [...]
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God Bless Hardee’s… USA Today – A cheeseburger sold as a foot-long sandwich, with three burgers and three cheese slices, is being tested at 50 Carl’s Jr. restaurants in Southern California and 50 Hardee’s units in Indiana. That’s the same chain that introduced the world to the 1,400-calorie Monster Burger and the Monster Breakfast Sandwich, [...]
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Via WTHR: Goshen, Ind. – The Indiana Department of Natural Resources believes a hybrid of a rare tropical jungle cat is living in a vacant lot in Goshen. DNR spokesman Phil Bloom says an Indiana conservation officer went to investigate Wednesday after a neighbor spotted an unusually large cat living there. Bloom says experts looked [...]
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Via the Indy Star: Giving food or water to feral cats that have not been spayed or neutered is now illegal in Terre Haute. The new ordinance also increases the city license fee for an unsterilized cat or dog to $100, up from the current $25. Licenses for pets that have been spayed or neutered [...]
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Via the Indy Star: Dean Asbury was fishing with his father Sunday night near the Harrison Bridge in Lafayette (Indiana), looking for catfish, when Asbury pulled a piranha from the fishing hole. The 21-year-old Lafayette man said he had no idea what kind of fish it was at first. “My dad actually stuck his thumb [...]
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Via Reuters (Robert Basler): …if it’s August, it’s just about Oktoberfest over there in Germany. Isn’t this about the time they show some cute chick with those huge – watcha-call ‘ems? They say it’s the “world’s biggest beer festival,” which I guess means they’ve never been to the Indianapolis 500. While I’ve never been to [...]
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Via Channel 6 in Indy GARY, Ind. — Church leaders visiting a former funeral home they recently bought in a tax sale stumbled upon a gruesome discovery — four unidentified bodies that had been left behind, perhaps for years, in the vacant building. Lake County Coroner David J. Pastrick described the situation as “unbelievable.” Leaders [...]
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Madison County, Indiana — Jerry Hugh Guffey, 53, is charged with murder in the death of John Collier, 78. Guffey claims to have “beheaded” Collier and stole his car because “he apparently viewed (Collier as) a romantic rival.” (Guffey’s wife filed for divorce last week.) This is just insane on numerous levels I won’t go [...]
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