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Seven Pennsylvania district attorneys are now jointly pursuing Vivid Seats over fees that only surface at the end of checkout. The price on the listing was, allegedly, never the price.
Damariscotta police fielded an unusual volume of calls about a Sasquatch on Main Street, including one sighting at school drop-off. The case closed when an officer walked up and had a word with the man in the very convincing costume.
Neighbors are suing their Orlando homeowners association over where exactly the money has been going. The association's books are now a matter for the court.
A Chino man turned his front lawn into a working food garden — sweet potatoes, sugar cane, bananas, passion fruit — and the city declared it a nuisance. The first fine was $750, with another $500 queued up if the dandelions stay.
Less than a month out of jail for killing and eating a swan at Lake Eola, he allegedly put an Arby's window through, then the Dunkin' sign next door, then a bank ATM. Police say the tour continued down East Colonial Drive, where he threw a pipe at passing cars.
Someone had been working through funeral homes across four states, and what he was after was the stretchers — over $12,000 of mortuary equipment from two Ozark parlors alone. A Florida man was arrested as the operator of the ring.
A Richmond doctor woke at 6 a.m. dreaming that a field mouse was crawling into her mouth, then found the dream was a bat and it was real. She folded its wings back with her bare hand; it later tested negative for rabies.
An 83-year-old was arrested for helping himself to saw palmetto berries he had no permit to pick. In Florida the shrub is protected enough that berry-picking is a felony.
A resort island property owners association fined a man for the things he wrote about them online. He is now suing, which is unlikely to improve his standing with the board.
A bear wandered up to a Los Angeles home and was promptly run off by a coyote roughly a fifth its size. The footage settles nothing about the food chain.
A deputy pulled over a red riding lawn mower on a public road because it was not, in any legal sense, a vehicle. The bag between the driver's feet turned out to hold meth, pills, and weed.
A Michigan man was fined $15,000 for docking boats at his own property. His attorney's characterization of the penalty is not printable in a family publication.