Drunk groom’s brother steps in – marries the bride

PATNA, India – Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom had arrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married the groom’s more sober brother instead, police said Monday.

“The groom was drunk and had reportedly misbehaved with guests when the bride’s family and local villagers chased him away,” Madho Singh, a senior police officer told Reuters after Sunday’s marriage in a village in Bihar state’s Arwal district. Read more

Police say man distributed nude pics of ex-wives

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – A 57-year-old man is accused of passing out sexually explicit fliers that included images of two ex-wives.

Gordon Wayne Wright was arrested Thursday and faces preliminary charges of distributing obscene matter and invasion of privacy, both misdemeanors, Evansville police said.

Police believe Wright distributed at least 1,000 copies of the fliers, which show two nude women in sexually explicit poses. Both women were identified as ex-wives of Wright. Read more

Man Dies From Sex with Horse

King County sheriff’s detectives are investigating the owners of an Enumclaw-area farm after a Seattle man died from injuries sustained while having sex with a horse boarded on the property.

Investigators first learned of the farm after the man died at Enumclaw Community Hospital July 2. The county Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that the death was accidental and the result of having sex with a horse.

A surveillance camera picked up the license plate of the car that dropped the man off at the hospital, which led detectives to the farm and other people involved, said sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart. Read more

Police: Mom Tries To Drown Infant

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Police said a Springfield mother called 911 and claimed that she tried to drown her 6-month-old daughter and then cut her own wrists.

The incident happened on Sunday afternoon at a home on Vester Avenue in Springfield, NewsChannel5 partner ONN reported. Read more

Naked porn-surfing Army recruiter arrested

HACKETTSTOWN, N.J., April 24 (UPI) — A U.S. Army recruiter in Hackettstown, N.J. is charged with stripping naked, entering a home and surfing Internet pornography sites.

Court records said Jerry Mahaffey, 26, was charged early Saturday morning when police received a call about an intruder bleeding from cuts, the Eastern (Pa.) Express-Times reported Tuesday. Read more

Rabbits block traffic in Hungary

Five thousand rabbits blocked a highway Monday, tying up traffic after the truck that was carrying them collided with another vehicle and overturned. Neither driver was hurt, but some 500 rabbits were killed, authorities said.

The M1 highway — the main road between the capitals of Hungary and Austria — was closed for hours while authorities gathered up the animals, Highway Patrol Spokeswoman Viktoria Galik said. Read more

Prisoner flees in hijacked helicopter

Two men hijacked a helicopter Sunday and forced the pilot to land in a prison courtyard, where they picked up an inmate in a dramatic jailbreak, the pilot told Belgian television.

The accomplices paid for a helicopter ride at an airstrip near the city of Sint-Truiden, about 40 miles east of Brussels, saying they were tourists from Marseilles in southern France, pilot Eric Mathieu told the RTL-TVI network. Read more

16-year-old accused of paying another teen $5 to kill father

A 16-year-old is accused of paying another teen $5 to kill his father. He has been arrested, and police are looking for the youth allegedly hired for the hit.

“Basically it was a deal where the teenager didn’t want to be told what to do where he could live, when to come and go,” Caddo Parish sheriff’s Detective Michael Escude said Friday. “He was tired of having to live by rules.” Read more

Monkey flees zoo, attacks bus passenger

A spider monkey that escaped from a Mexico City zoo boarded a bus and attacked a passenger, Red Cross officials said Tuesday. The monkey got on the bus at about 11 p.m. Monday after escaping from the San Juan de Aragon Zoo, Red Cross spokesman Jair Martinez said. Zoo officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Read more

Lost dog found four years later, 1,100 miles from home

A Boston terrier named Mickey who disappeared four years ago from his suburban Kansas City backyard was found in Montana and reunited with his owners this week.

Cher Jarosz and her daughter Kari Mitchell thought they had lost Mickey forever — until they received a call from an animal shelter last week 1,100 miles away in Billings, Montana. Read more

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