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Having lost various items in “long-drop” loos at campsites, I can contest that the pit isn’t the most hospitable looking environment, and if you do drop something in there the sensible plan is to just cut your losses and leave it there.  An American gentleman however seems to have developed an affinity for being in there:

Portland’s Gary Moody has been caught — for a second time — hiding inside a pit latrine at a campsite. The first time he claimed he’d dropped his wedding ring (authorities sieved the biomass and found no ring); this time he claimed he’d dropped his shirt.

Least-impressed out of all this must have been the authorities who had been given the job of “sieving the biomass”.

[via BoingBoing]

Yes, horse buggery.

A South Carolina man was charged with having sex with a horse after the animal’s owner caught the act on videotape, then staked out the stable and caught him at shotgun point, authorities said Wednesday.

Don’t worry, there’s no picture.

[thanke Bruce]

Short back & sides sir?

In Colorado Springs a 7-11 store was held up & robbed by a masked man brandishing what store clerks identified as a Klingon Bat’leth sword.

(The specimen pictured left, from the Daily Mail, was handed in during a UK sword amnesty – the Heil selected the most outrage-inspiring weapon they could find, obviously, and claimed that “It is a particularly nasty weapon that can, literally, take someone’s head off.”)

The story reports that after successfully robbing the first store,

A half hour later, police received a call from a 7-Eleven at 2407 N. Union Blvd., where a man matching the previous description entered the store with a similar weapon. He also demanded money from the store clerk. The clerk refused and the robber ran off.

Presumably the clerk figured that, armed with a big pointy sword or not, he could probably take down a Star Trek nerd.

[Denver News, via /.]