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The Colonial Pipeline shutdown and subse- quent gas crisis has produced its fair share of hys- teria-fueled incidents in the Southeast, but Jesse Smith, 25, of Griffin, Georgia, may have set the bar. Police there were able to track down and arrest the would-be thief after he attempted to steal gas from a U-Haul truck on May 12 by drilling holes in its tank, result- ing in a huge hazardous materi- als mess ... and no looted gas.
Thief Comes Up Empty After Failed Gas Heist
WSB-TV reported that Smith was long gone by the time his handiwork was dis- covered, but security cameras in the U-Haul lot caught Smith walking around the trucks, and
The World Toe Wrestling Federation has announced that the 2021 championship matches will go ahead in Au- gust in Derbyshire, England, and organizers are looking for people who want to dip their toes in the water of pro com- petition.
“It’s a people’s sport; there are no levels or qualifiers, and anyone can join,” Woodroffe said encouragingly.
According to The Smoking Gun, Peterson became upset on May 9 because he couldn’t find his phone, so he stunned his mother, then left her home with 20-year-old Colleen Parker and their child.
The Toe Must Go On
ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GALACGAC
Toe wrestling, The North- ern Echo reported, takes place sitting down and barefoot,
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a camera trained on the area behind the KFC where Smith parked his own truck caught his hopeful arrival and the walk of shame that followed his failed gas heist.
Going Toe-to-toe
with the competitors’ toes linked. But matches are no tiptoe through the tulips: Ben “Total Destruction” Woodrof- fe, who is ranked second in the world (and had his toe- nails surgically removed to give him a competitive edge), had his ankle snapped in two places by 16-time champion Alan “Nasty” Nash — during a practice session.
what thanks do you get in re- turn? For a 43-year-old Lone Rock, Wisconsin, woman, “Happy Mother’s Day” was expressed with a shock to the neck from a Taser wielded by her 22-year-old son, Andrew Peterson.
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Peterson was arrested for the shocking assault; Park- er also was arrested for al- legedly punching Peterson’s mom in the face earlier in the week.
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