Werewolf Syndrome
Twelve-year-old Bithi Akhtar of Bangladesh suffers from what’s known as “werewolf syndrome,” or hypertrichosis. Her face, hands and legs are covered with black hackle-like strands. She’s now under treatment at Bangabandu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. But while her ailment is curable, her father, Abdur Razzak, a motorcycle driver, believes he won’t be able to afford all the treatment she’ll need.
Men Get Advice As They Pee
Men in Colorado are getting good advice about drunken driving while they are peeing. Bars in the state have installed a device called an “Interactive Urinal Communicator,” which plays an anti-DWI public service announcement on a speaker as a patron approaches the urinal.
Cops Thought Drywall Dust Was Cocaine
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It’s one thing to be busted for possession of cocaine. It’s quite another to go down for being caught holding . . . drywall. Such was the Kafka-esque odyssey for Oviedo, Fla., handyman Karlos Cashe. The hapless guy was already on probation for a weed/coke charge dating back to 2015. But it got worse when, as Vice reports, a police officer pulled him over for driving at night without headlights. That’s when the cop noticed what he thought was cocaine in the car. Drug-sniffing dogs and field tests somehow confirmed his belief. Cashe was arrested and, thanks to his previous run-in with the law, held without bail. His claims of innocence were ignored. “I know for a fact [that] it’s drywall because I’m a handyman,” Cashe told a news reporter from local TV station WFTV-9. “I said that continuously during the arrest stop.” Ninety days later, lab tests confirmed that he’d been telling the truth: The substance was dope-free. “I sat there 90 days knowing I was innocent,” Cashe said of his time in the slammer. “Look at my record. If I get in trouble, I plead to it.” He’s not the only victim of cops who are dopes about dope. One officer mistook a moldy french fry for weed, but the accused managed to avoid the slammer. As The New York Post reported, NYPD knuckleheads busted a guy for possession of MDMA; it wasn’t until he spent 30 hours behind bars that they realized the “ecstasy pills” were actually Pow Energy mints. Then there was the 64-year-old Orlando man who got nailed for possessing Krispy Kreme icing. Addictive though it might be, it certainly wasn’t meth. As the man told the Orlando Sentinel, “It was incredible. It feels scary when you haven’t done anything wrong and get arrested . . . It’s just a terrible feeling.” It’s enough to make you want to reach for a doughnut or inhale some drywall.
The Gray Wolf
For the first time in 150 years, an endangered gray wolf was spotted in Kentucky - so, of course, some hillbilly shot it. “I was like - wow - that thing was big!” the 31-year-old hunter reportedly said. “It looked like a wolf, but who is going to believe I shot a wolf?” Officials let the hunter off because they believe he mistook the wolf for a coyote.
