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Weird and Wacky Wednesday blog posts are supposed to come out Wednesday morning, but we’re a little slow. Blame it on summertime. Things move more slowly maybe. We lose track of time. In our office we’re always busy in the summer but the days do seem to merge into one another. Somehow nothing seems as serious in the summer which is perhaps the reason one Atlanta thief’s crime failed somewhat unspectacularly.

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Those in the news business know firsthand that editors and news people are often proud of certain headlines they’ve written. Those old newspaper people may regale anyone who will listen with tales of fantastic headlines that just seemed to work. This one caught my eye and I suspect it is the product of a proud editor:

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Welcome to this edition of Weird and Wacky Wednesdays where we bring you regular updates on not-so-regular news. For this week we have a mugger with romantic intentions, a leak from a beer factory (don’t get your hopes up), and the newest and youngest Taylor Swift fan in the world.

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On this week’s Weird and Wacky Wednesday, we have unlikely waterslide buddies, unusual contraband from an Ecuador prison and a bonus trip to the ER for a ‘Price is Right’ contestant.

Follow along and get the weirdest and wackiest news from around the globe!

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This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesday a woman in Florida was caught with a crack pipe and a baby raccoon, a man in Illinois shot himself in his sleep and in Buffalo a man was caught stealing so many parking meters.

Follow the jump for more of this weeks weirdest and wackiest cases from around the globe!

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This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesday an 82-year-old man was given a stern warning as punishment for selling drugs, in Florida, a man crashed a family’s dinner and was surprised they could see him and a man set a house on fire to the tune of ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire,’ by Billy Joel.

Follow the jump for more of this week’s weirdest and wackiest cases from around the globe!

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This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesday we have some animal-themed stories, starting in North Carolina, where cows guided the police to a hiding suspect, police in Oklahoma mistake an upset goat for a person in distress and in Colorado a man tried to blame his dog for his crazy driving!

Follow the jump for more of this week’s weirdest and wackiest cases from around the globe!

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