SNIPPETS

MAY 20,  2009

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Fire officials in Washington state said a sunny day and a dog's glass water bowl combined to cause a blaze that charred the back of a home. Bellevue Fire Department Lt. Eric Keenan said investigators determined the glass bowl of water focused sunlight enough to act like a magnifying glass and start the fire on the home's wood deck Sunday.

All right, class.  Write a letter explaining that to an insurance company.

(AP) A man who left jury duty after lunch because he was "extremely bored" will be back at the courthouse Tuesday to be arraigned on a charge of contempt of court. A police report said officers found the 25-year-old man near his home earlier this month and asked why he skipped out. He said he was bored, and "just couldn't take it" anymore.

Talk about self-indulgent.  Maybe they could have music at the next murder trial.  Or a magic act.

MAY 19,  2009

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., May 18 (UPI) -- A North Carolina cafe owner said he tackled a robber who claimed to be armed and discovered the man only had a banana -- then the robber ate the evidence.

A real-life variation on Alfred Hitchcock's description of a perfect suspense story - wherein a woman murders her husband by beating him with a leg of lamb, then cooks the lamb and serves it - the murder weapon - to the police.

ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court has ordered an employer to reinstate a woman who was fired after she kissed her boyfriend at work, ruling it was just a stolen kiss and that no customers saw it, state-run Anatolian said on Wednesday.

Our Supreme Court would have divided 5-4.

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