WEIRD BUT TRUE
By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Wire Services
June 29, 2007 -- Wisconsin rage-aholic Anastacio Molina was arrested after he stomped on his girlfriend's pet tropical fish.

Sheboygan police had been at the home earlier after Molina tried to throw his girlfriend out, but cops were summoned back and found the squashed fish, named Oscar.


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Come blow up your horn.

Salt Lake City Bomb Squad cops were called in when a suspicious package was spotted outside a fast-food restaurant.

They used a robot to detonate the case - only to discover it contained a trumpet.

"Some very alert citizens watched this package for a considerable amount of time and then they called police, thinking it didn't look right," said Detective Gary Trost.


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Here's a wild way to end a marriage.

A California truck driver was sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting his wife after she neglected to renew his driver's license.

Gary Alan Hemsted pleaded no contest to chasing wife Lisa down their driveway, leveling a rifle at her as she tried to jump over a fence, shouting "you're dead" and opening fire, striking her in the leg.


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An out-of-shape criminal in the Philippines asked pursuing police for a "time out" because he had run out of breath during a chase.

"He was panting and gasping for air when we caught up with him after a long sprint," said Officer Erwin Beunceso.

The man and an accomplice had broken into a home and stolen two cellphones.


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An Israeli criminal slipped away from house arrest by putting his electronic ankle monitor on his dog, police said.

It wasn't until cops came to take Nabil Farumi, convicted of attempted murder, to a sentencing hearing that he was gone without a trace.

"After we searched the house, we saw that he somehow managed to take the monitor off his leg and place it around he neck of his dog, who continued to walk around the house," said police commander Yoram Danielis