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The Reverend James Bishop canceled the lunch he had promised to eat, alone, atop the steeple of his Baptist church in Glen Burnie, Maryland, in April as payoff for increased Sunday school attendance. Reason for cancellation: just hours before Bishop’s lunch, a huge lightning bolt split the steeple in two.
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The Jasper, Texas, panty bandit (not related to the Salt Lake City or Tempe, Arizona, panty bandits) was arrested in January after an 11-month reign, hampered by several victims’ reluctance to report details of the crime to police. Said the sheriff, “People don’t hold to nobody breaking into their homes and trifling with their undergarments.”
Stephen Baker, 20, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound in Vancouver, Washington, in February. According to a witness, Baker had hit a man’s car with a snowball from an overpass. The man got out of his car, aimed a rifle at Baker, fired one shot, got back in his car, and sped off.
