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Sandusky Register | Crapshoot results in stinky day for bomb squad

Officers found a fizzing homemade bomb planted in a portable toilet near a construction site at Turtle Bay and decided the safest way to detonate it was to shoot at it.

After five shots with a .22 caliber rifle, the bomb exploded, spraying the contents of the toilet everywhere. One of the bomb squad members was covered in feces, according to the police report.

*Blink blink* I don’t know whether to laugh or to ask for my taxes back. Now that we have the poop news out of the way, on to more important things like

Banning The Creation Of Human-Animal Hybrids

“The Ohio Senate has passed Sen. Buehrer’s bill banning ‘the creation, transportation, or receipt of a human-animal hybrid, the transfer of a nonhuman embryo into a human womb, and the transfer of a human embryo into a nonhuman womb.’ So much for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”

I wish someone would give Adrien Brody five years in prison and $250,000 in fines for having anything to do with that awful Splice movie.

And then …

Ohio Supreme Court Decides That Police Can Hand Out Tickets If You “Look Like” You’re Speeding

“Officers can rely on their unaided visual estimation of a vehicle’s speed, but the intent is not to allow officers to routinely issue tickets based solely upon unaided visual observations,” [Copley Police Chief Mike] Mier said.

Now that they have determined the safest way to defuse a toilet bomb is to shoot at it, I have full faith in all of the rest of their abilities.

1 comment… add one
  • Blair June 4, 2010, 9:05 AM

    And I thought Wisconsin could be weird!

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