Around the Weird: Bizarre News Briefs

Around the Weird: Bizarre News Briefs



STUART, Fla. (Wireless Flash) – It didn’t take much to wrench a confession from serial burglar Michael Daniel Camerota – just a large pepperoni pizza. “If you buy me a pizza, I’ll tell you everything I know,” he told cops. After eating the pizza, Camerota confessed to 50 car burglaries and a host of other crimes in the Stuart, Florida, area.

SANTIAGO, Chile – A Chilean family narrowly cheated death recently after the roof of their home collapsed from the weight of 15 years’ worth of pigeon poop.

NEWPORT, England – A British woman will be crawling into prison after being convicted of throwing her pet iguana at a police officer.

TOKYO – Homeless folks in Tokyo are getting into a scrap with authorities over aluminum cans. So many homeless are collecting cans out of trash cans that patrols are being sent out into neighborhoods to prevent the garbage thefts.