You think landing a part on Broadway is tough?
Down in Texas, an 18-year-old coed who wanted the lead role in her high-school play spiked a rival actress’ soda with chemicals, cops say.
“When she was about to take a drink, there was an unusual odor like chlorine or bleach,” Hurst police Sgt. Craig Teague said of the incident at L.D. Bell HS. “She didn’t take a drink.”
The suspect has been banned from graduation ceremonies and the prom.
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Bonnie and Clyde would slap this guy upside the head.
An armed robber who marched into Rocky’s Mini Mart in Hesperia, Calif., and demanded money from the cash register was told “no” by the clerk – and politely walked out.
“The clerk explained that she couldn’t do that . . . The suspect then said, ‘Thanks’ and left,” said Roxanne Walker of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
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This will give Japanese husbands a jolt.
A new survey has found that nearly half of Japan’s wives keep a secret bank account averaging $20,000, and most doubt that their spouses have any idea about it.
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What’s going on with nurses in Britain these days?
Authorities banned one nurse, Patricia Jennings, 55, from practicing after she slapped a colleague’s face with a frozen trout, then moved the fish’s lips, saying, “Give us a kiss!” She was also charged with poking a woman’s breasts to see if she was pregnant.
Meanwhile, Christine Mitchelson, 52, was shown the door after she put a patient’s glass eye in a glass of Coca-Cola and served it to a colleague. She was also accused of drawing a smiley face over a patient’s hernia incision.
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An undertaker in Serbia organized a funeral service for a man who was alive.
As Bogoljub Topalovic’s coffin was lowered into the ground, his daughter got a call from the supposed corpse, wondering why nobody had been to visit him that day.
Seems a nurse, out to claim the commission paid for info about new deaths, mistakenly noted the wrong name when calling the funeral home, whose staff compounded the goof by collecting someone else’s corpse.