FUNNY NEWS

[[SS]Wally]

After reading some of the crazy things out there I thought how funny to start a thread on funny news around the world.

Naked maid + stolen jewelry x angry wife = divorced husband

TAMPA -- The naked maid cleaned him out, and now his wife may do the same.

Authorities in Hillsborough County, Florida, say a 50-year-old man hired a nude housekeeper -- while his wife was away caring for her sick mother.

Sheriff's office spokeswoman Debbie Carter says the man told deputies he left the maid alone in the bedroom to clean.

She cleaned, all right.

The victim told authorities that when his wife came home, she discovered $40,000 worth of jewelry missing from the bedroom in their Tampa-area home.

"I'm going to divorce him," the unnamed woman told station WFTS in Tampa. "Because I can't trust him. He violated every core of marriage and trust."

The incident happened last Friday. Authorities say the man claims he hired the maid from an internet posting on Craigslist. The maid arrived wearing a one-piece, light colored dress. She took off the dress, and cleaned the house. Her fee was $100 per hour.

It's unclear how she stole the loot, with no clothes to hide it in.

The husband gave police the woman's web site and a physical description of her, but so far, no arrests.

[[SS]Showstoper]

The evidence is in the Koochie....LOL

[[SS]Wally]

Thong Bandits
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Police hunt for robbers wearing thongs as masks

Sat May 31, 12:08 AM EDT

ARVADA, Colo. — Police in a Colorado town are searching for two robbers whose masks showed plenty of fashion sense but little modesty: women's thong underwear.

A surveillance video released this week by police in Arvada, Colo., shows two unarmed men inside the convenience store. They stole an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes in the robbery May 16.

One man wore a green thong and the other wore blue. Each thong barely covered the man's nose, mouth and chin and left the rest of his face exposed. One also wore a pink backpack in which he stuffed the stolen items.

The suspects also wore T-shirts and pants and were described as in their 20s. One had a left arm tattoo.

[[SS]Wally]

Wow,

Pilot lands safely after going blind in mid-air
British aviator reveals 'terrifying' ordeal after suffering stroke at 5,500 feet
The Associated Press
updated 6:54 a.m. CT, Sat., Nov. 8, 2008

LONDON - A British pilot who was suddenly blinded by a stroke during a solo flight was talked safely down by a military pilot, the Royal Air Force said Friday.

Jim O'Neill asked for help after he was went blind 40 minutes into a flight from Scotland to southeastern England last week. The BBC reported that O'Neill, flying a small Cessna aircraft, lost his sight 5,500 feet in the air.

"It was terrifying," O'Neill said. "Suddenly, I couldn't see the dials in front of me."

The air force said in a news release that O'Neill initially believed he'd been "dazzled" by bright sunlight, and made an emergency call for help. He then realized that something more serious was happening, and said, "I want to land, ASAP."

RAF Wing Commander Paul Gerrard was just finishing a training flight nearby and was drafted in to help the stricken pilot.

Gerrard located the plane, began flying close to it and radioed directions.

"For me, I was just glad to help a fellow aviator in distress," he said.

"Landing an aircraft literally blind needs someone to be right there to say 'Left a bit, right a bit, stop, down,'" Gerrard said. "On the crucial final approach, even with radar assistance, you need to take over visually. That's when having a fellow pilot there was so important.

Blood clot
O'Neill's son, Douglas, said his father is an experienced pilot who has flown for nearly two decades. The 65-year-old is recovering in hospital where he is beginning to regain his sight.

"The doctors have confirmed that he suffered a stroke from a blood clot, but he doesn't seem to have suffered any other ill-effects apart from losing his sight," Douglas O'Neill said. "He says he went blind very suddenly and then, once he'd got over the shock, was able to distinguish a bit of darkness and light."

In a recording posted to the BBC's news Web site, Gerrard gives O'Neill instructions — "a gentle right hand turn, please," is called for at one point — and he can be heard apologizing.

"You could hear the apprehension in his voice over the radio and the frustration he was experiencing," said radar controller Richard Eggleton. "I kept saying 'Are you visual?' and he would reply 'No sir, negative, I'm sorry sir.' He kept on apologizing.

With Gerrard talking him down, O'Neill's plane hit the runway and bounced up again, the RAF said. It did the same on the second touchdown. On the third, O'Neill was able to keep his plane on the ground.

"It's one of those things you might hear about happening in some sort of all-action film but it's hard to believe what they did," Douglas O'Neill said of the RAF. "They were just tremendous."