Wacky Wednesday: Dumb Crime Watch!
Here are a couple stories that you’ll have to read twice to truly believe. Working in the insurance industry, we hear a lot of outlandish explanations or claim reports, but none as crazy as the stories you will read below.
Don’t Mess With My Turtle
A woman in Lake Park, Florida, faces battery charges after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend for threatening to hurt her pet turtle. Marie Seymour, 53, was arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, the Associated Press reports. Seymour told police she and her boyfriend were drinking when he said he would harm the turtle. When he allegedly came after Seymour, she claims she took out her paring knife and stabbed him in self-defense, according to a police report obtained by the Palm Beach Post. It’s not clear where Seymour’s boyfriend was stabbed, but when police arrived, he told them he did not want Seymour to go to jail. Deputies did not agree. Seymour was taken to the Palm Beach County Jail and was released on $3,000 bond, Sarasota Patch reports. Neither the name of the turtle nor the victim have been released.
Officer Wet Willy
Lend me your ear and I’ll tell you a story. An intoxicated man home on leave from the Air Force thought it would be a good idea to give a Minnesota police officer a double “Wet Willy.” It was not. Riley Louis Swearingen, 24, pleaded guilty to disruptive intoxication Monday, KARE reports. Swearingen spent several days in jail before taking a plea deal to avoid felony charges for the early Saturday morning incident. Initial charges against Swearingen included assaulting a police officer with bodily fluids, according to the Manakato Free-Press. The punishment for that felony is no doubt quite worse than a school detention.
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