This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesday, we have two incidents with dogs at the centre of them, one in Connecticut and the other in Florida. And we’ll finish off with perhaps the craziest case in a while, where an Irish man thought the best course of action to get someone’s pension money, was to bring their dead corpse along to the post office with him!
Follow the jump to learn more about this week’s weirdest and wackiest legal cases from around the globe!
That barking is going to stop if I have anything to do with it!
You that neighbourhood dog that just barks at anything and everything, and the incessant barking won’t stop, but there’s really nothing you can do about it because it’s a dog, and well, dog’s bark.
Well, a woman in Connecticut concluded that being a dog wasn’t a good enough reason for the continued barking, and while she was house-sitting, instead of speaking to the dog’s owner and trying to find a reasonable solution to her problem, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
After the neighbouring house owner with the dog spotted the woman walking along the fence and leaving something on the tree stump, and then as he returned to the house found another one on his porch steps.
He described it to the police as looking like a chocolate treat and then noticed that it had a mothball inside of it.
When originally questioned about the incident, she denied knowing anything about it but eventually admitted she had in fact put the mothball inside the chocolate, but claimed she had no intention of hurting the dog, only wanting to stop its barking.
She has since turned herself has been charged with a criminal attempt to commit cruelty to animals.
Sir, put the ramen down
After waking up from a nap, a man claims he went to make himself some ramen, which ended up spilling onto a woman who was in his apartment after she was chasing his dog around and fell into the pot on the stove.
The woman has a different story. She says that the man threw the ramen at her after they got into a fight because she allowed his dog onto the bed. She also claims that after he had thrown the noodles, he hit her on the back with the pot.
He has been arrested for domestic battery and has a history of run-ins with the law a few times within the last year.
No, you cannot collect this dead man you’ve brought here’s pension
This last story is very weird and very wacky. In Ireland, a man was turned away at the post office after he attempted to collect another man’s pension money because the man was not present.
He wasn’t going to take no for an answer though, and so returned to the bank with a friend and this ‘said man’ to try again. The only problem was- he was literally dead. Yes, you read that correctly, he and his friend had carried a dead body into the post office.
When a worker asked if the man, they were carrying was okay, the two men allegedly dropped his body and left. Hmm not suspicious at all.
After he was arrested, he claimed the man was in fact his uncle and he didn’t realize he was dead, that he maybe died during the walk.
Note to self; next time I walk in literally anywhere and find myself having to carry the person I’m with, it maybe would be a good idea to check that they are in fact alive.
