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Edward and Cheryl Patton of Lake View, New York, tried for three years to identify who was throwing used paper coffee cups — some with cigarette butts inside — on their front yard nearly every night, but they could never get a good look at the minivan as it drove by. Edward began keeping records of the litter- ing and collecting the cups, eventually filling 10 garbage bags, reported The Buffalo News. They even installed a surveillance camera, but it wasn’t until neighbors set up a stakeout and captured the license plate number that the mystery was solved.
On April 18, police set up
Vengeful Litterbug Caught After Three-year Spree
The Incest Test
spouses are unable to procreate together.”
orange for Sputnik V and blue for Moderna, Reuters reported. “Anyone can try these,” says confectioner Katalin Benko, and “the only possible side ef- fect would be a little smile on
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ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GALACGAC
their own stakeout and pulled over Larry Pope, 76, a former co-worker of Cheryl’s whom she had disagreements with. Pope was charged with ha-
The petitioner is a parent of an adult child, but court documents do not reveal the couple’s genders, ages, home- town or relationship. The filing does detail that the “proposed
Mourners at Phil McLean’s funeral in Wellington, New Zealand, first gasped, then laughed as his coffin, shaped like a giant cream doughnut, was brought into the chapel, the Associated Press reported on April 15.
rassment and throwing refuse onto a roadway. The Pattons said the littering has stopped since his arrest.
McLean had designed the coffin with his cousin, Ross Hall, owner of Dying Art, a business in Auckland special- izing in custom coffins. Over
In other Weird happenings:
An anonymous New York resident seeking to marry their adult child filed suit in federal court in Manhattan on April 1 (no joke) asking that laws barring incestuous marriage be overturned, Fox News re- ported. In court papers, the petitioner claims such a mar- riage is a matter of “individual autonomy” and asks to remain unnamed because “a large seg- ment of society views (the re- quest) as morally, socially and biologically repugnant.”
Manhattan family and mat- rimonial law attorney Eric Wrubel predicts, “It’s never gonna fly.”
their face.”
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A family-owned patisserie in Veresegyhaz, Hungary, is offering its customers sweet relief from COVID-19 angst with colorful layered mousses, each topped with a decorative syringe. The Sulyan family’s special desserts are colored with jelly toppings represent- ing the different COVID-19 vaccinations available in Hun- gary: citrus yellow for As- traZeneca, darker yellow for Sinopharm, green for Pfizer,
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