Wasted Daily News

A marijuana dealer telephoned police after armed thieves stole his quarter-pound stash of pot. The 19-year-old Felton man told police that two men, one of them armed with a handgun, robbed him at gunpoint as he sat in his car on Tuesday night.

“It was unique to have people who were dealing drugs calling us when they’ve been ripped off,” police spokesman Zach Friend said.

After the thieves made off with his stash, the dealer telephoned police. When police arrived, the dealer’s story became progressively confused. Read the rest of this entry →

A 23-year-old woman who boarded a Southwest Airlines plane in a short skirt for a flight to Arizona says she was led off the plane for wearing an outfit that was considered too skimpy.

Kyla Ebbert said a Southwest employee asked her to leave her seat while the plane was preparing to leave San Diego’s Lindbergh Field on July 3.

Ebbert, a student who was headed to Tucson for a doctor’s appointment, said Friday on NBC’s “Today” show that the employee told her she would have to catch a later flight. Read the rest of this entry →

Earlier this summer, Betty Kratzke noticed that something was disturbing the ground near the flowers that line her driveway. Solving the mystery this week proved to be a snap — when baby snapping turtles started crawling around her yard.

“They just keep popping up out of the hole,” said Cliff Hanson, Kratzke’s brother-in-law.

The turtles had recently hatched and were no bigger than a half dollar coin, said Darrell Perry, another brother-in-law.

Family members scooped up 44 turtles in all. They were put in a cardboard box and taken to the nearby James River.

“They went swimming away like crazy,” Kratzke said.

Snapping turtles live to be decades old and can grow up to 40 pounds, said Gene Van Eeckhout, a biologist with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. They do not make nice pets, he said.

“They’re not very friendly to play with,” Van Eeckhout said.

Kratzke said she thought some sort of animal was disturbing her flowers. “But it was a long ways from being a muskrat or a raccoon,” she said. “They are the cutest little things.”

Perry said the experience was one to remember.

“While they were coming out, we just stood there and watched them in amazement,” he said.