Iowa City Police reports indicated an intoxicated Poesta man found sitting in a creek earlier this year claimed to be a “King of the Hill” character in search of lost Girl Scouts.

Iowa City Sgt. Vicki Lalla said Sean M. Siegert was arrested this weekend on a warrant stemming from the events of Feb. 10, in which police responded to Ralston Creek near E. Prentiss and S. Linn streets for reports of a man crying for help.

When asked his name the man told police he was “Peggy Hill, from Arlington Texas,” according to police.

Police later identified the then-18-year-old as Siegert, from Poesta.

Police say first responders were able to remove Siegert from the creek, deemed a potentially life threatening scenario, yet he continued to plea for help and told officers he lost four Girl Scouts and needed to find them.

http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20131007/NEWS01/131007004/Police-Drunk-man-claims-to-be-Peggy-Hill-in-search-of-Girl-Scouts?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage&nclick_check=1

This might be one of the only good things to come out of the ongoing government shutdown. Any furloughed employee looking to keep her hands busy can now get a little extra personal satisfaction while stuck at home: namely, in the form of a free, 5-inch pink vibrator.

Vibrators.com is giving away as many as 200 sex toys daily to government employees during the shutdown. The promotion, which began last Friday, started slow, with 400 vibrators given away over the course of the weekend. On Monday, Vibrators.com turned up the speed, filling out orders of their daily stock of 200 toys before noon.

Tom Nardone is the president of PriveCo, which runs Vibrators.com and several other websites that sell items the more-easily embarrassed might not buy in public, much less find with ease: ShopInPrivate.com, for example, sells everything from hair remover to pubic wigs (really). The vibrators they're giving away, Nardone said, are the same ones they usually include as a free gift with orders on their various sites. That means they've been thoroughly tested in the lab of PriveCo's Troy, Mich. warehouse ... and they're also user-approved.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/07/free-vibrator-government-shutdown_n_4055259.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

An embarrassed Liverpool groom triggered a bomb scare at his wedding – so his bride-to-be would not find out he had bungled the booking.

Panicked Neil McArdle telephoned St George’s Hall to pretend an explosive had been left in the building where he was due to marry.

He even let his unwitting fiance turn up in her wedding dress, only to find the historic venue evacuated and swarming with police.

The 36-year-old today faced a jail sentence after admitting making the bomb hoax call.

McArdle, of Medbourne Crescent, Kirkby, had planned to marry his fiance Amy Williams at Liverpool Register Office, within the iconic listed building, on April 24 this year.

The date was pencilled in and the pair were given “right to marry” paperwork to complete in order to legalise proceedings.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/merseyside-groom-sparked-bomb-hoax-6136878

“We spotted the green Hyundai Elantra traveling at approximately five miles-per-hour in the passing lane with a huge shower of sparks coming from the rear of the vehicle. As we got closer we noticed that the rear end of the vehicle was dragging on the ground due to the fact that there were no rear tires or axle on the vehicle,” said Lt. Sullivan of the Canton Police. “After the vehicle pulled over, we approached it and found that the driver was not only drinking a can of beer, but that he was not wearing any pants and that he had urinated on himself.”

After not one, but two, brief foot chases, Francis Fasher, 45, of Foxboro, was placed under arrest.

“There were also two female passengers in the back seat,” stated Lt. Sullivan. “One of the females was asleep, partially clad. The other was extremely hysterical. At that time, we believed that she might have been under the influence of PCP, due to the fact that she claimed there were mice biting at her and climbing on her.”

Because of the size of the two women, police were unable to pull the women out of the rear doors of the vehicle. After members of the Canton Rescue Squad cut the roof off the vehicle, and with the help of a crane supplied by Shaugnessy Crane, the women were lifted out of the car. Police estimate the weight of each woman was between 300 and 450 pounds.

http://thedailycricket.net/2008/06/23/bizzare-arrest-on-rt-95/

If fences make good neighbors, then maybe this couple should consider building something akin to the Berlin Wall.

A Stuart couple complained to cops after seeing too much of their neighbor, 40-year-old Robert Selle, who allegedly stood naked in his yard while yelling at passing cars and throwing stuff around, reports Will Greenlee in his Off the Beat blog for TCPalm.com in Stuart.

Selle reportedly hurled a leather coat, a mailbox, knife, gate and a neck of a guitar at the couple and deputies, who arrived latter, according to the repor

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/strange/floriduh-blog/sfl-flduh-neighbor-temper-clothes-20131003,0,7081041.story

After picking up food from a McDonald’s drive-thru window, a pantsless 69-year-old Florida man allegedly tried to force a female employee to touch him as he masturbated in the front seat of his vehicle, police allege.

Steve Orville Clemons was at the drive-thru window of a Wildwood McDonald’s when the cashier “turned to him to give him his change.” At that point, the woman realized that Clemons was sans pants and was pleasuring himself.

Clemons then allegedly “grabbed the cashier’s hand and attempted to pull her hand into his vehicle,” according to an arrest affidavit detailing the September 21 incident. After pulling her hand away from Clemons, the worker shut the drive-thru window and called 911.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/masturbation-at-mcdonalds-drive-thru-687432

Heavy drinking can have a lot of unwanted side effects: the spins, vomiting, a nasty hangover the next day. But unfortunately, no amount of alcohol will turn paper into a telephone: a lesson one guy learned the hard way.

Iowa City Police arrested Deaaron M. Hearn after he allegedly drunkenly tried to use a $20 bill to make a phone call. The cops claim they found him on a park bench at 2:30 a.m. And we all know nothing good happens in a park at 2:30 a.m.

“Police say officers then offered Hearn the chance to call his friends from his cell phone and instead of grabbing his phone, Hearn placed a $20 bill to his ear and used it as a cell phone,” reports the Iowa City Press Citizen.

http://blog.trutv.com/dumb-as-a-blog/2013/10/03/drunk-man-tries-to-make-call-with-20-bill-cops-claim/index.html#more-17775

A mystery thriller about the resurrection of Jesus is being planned by Waterworld director Kevin Reynolds, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Backers LD Entertainment have pitched it as "Gladiator in tone but with a mystery bent, an all-ages movie that tells of how the first Easter came to be".

Reynolds is attached to Resurrection, which is described as the story "of the first 40 days after the resurrection of Jesus" as seen through the eyes of an "agnostic Roman centurion charged by Pontius Pilate to investigate rumors of a risen Jewish messiah and locate the missing body of Jesus of Nazareth". The narrative takes place against the backdrop of "an imminent uprising in Jerusalem, and the centurion "meets the Apostles and other historical and biblical characters".

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/01/jesus-resurrection-thriller-kevin-reynolds

Bigfoot is real, and now at least one scientist claims there is proof.

A group of Sasquatch researchers who have been collecting over 100 pieces of evidence over the past five years screened “never before seen HD video” of the alleged creature at a news conference in Dallas on Tuesday.

The footage, which came from a similar effort dubbed The Erickson Project, led by Adrian Erickson, included what the group said was a sasquatch moving through wooded areas in Kentucky.

Dr. Melba Ketchum, who has led the group of researchers called the Sasquatch Genome Project, has been working on a $500,000 analysis of DNA samples from an unknown hominin species. Ketchum calls the project “a serious study” that concludes the legendary Sasquatch exists in North America and is a human relative that arose approximately 13,000 years ago.

“They’re a type of people, they’re a human-hybrid, we believe. And all of the DNA evidence points to that. And they can elude us, so if you get [footage] at all, it can be fleeting,” Ketchum told ABC affiliate WFAA.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/10/new-bigfoot-evidence-screened-as-expert-claims-proof-of-existence/

The International Committee of the Red Cross have called for video games to punish crimes committed in battle by adhering to real-life international war conventions.

“The ICRC believes there is a place for international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict) in video games,” the organization that works worldwide to provide humanitarian help for people caught in war zones said in a statement on their website.

“The ICRC is concerned that certain game scenarios could lead to a trivialization of serious violations of the law of armed conflict,” they added. “The fear is that eventually such illegal acts will be perceived as acceptable behavior.”

Bernard Barrett, a spokesman for the organization said they were not trying to censor games or spoil people’s fun, but rather, “make clear that there are rules in battle and that certain acts are illegal.”

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/02/20787029-war-crimes-in-video-games-should-be-punished-icrc-says?lite