TGIF. No, Really.

Think you’ve had a bad week? It could have been worse. Check out what happened to these guys… In New Ipswich, New Hampshire, an unnamed homeowner here had some frozen pipes on the second floor of his home… this is not the way to remedy the situation… Fans of James Bond movies will recall that array of gadgets in his Aston Martin… including oil slicks and a smokescreen on demand… well, turns out that in Hebron, Carmarthenshire, UK, Simon Chaplin, 62, had rigged a bucket of diesel, a pump and pipes behind the passenger seat of his battered Peugeot 309… to produce “colossal” amounts of grey smoke from his exhaust… and used that capability to elude police… there was just one little problem… In Clarksville, Tennessee, Ronald Taylor, was arrested for impersonating an officer… but you’ll never believe where he did it… or why… In Manchester, New Jersey, Alan Bienkowski, 58, offered up an unusual alibi… claiming that on a particular day he was, among other things, using heroin and trying to buy more heroin… so you can imagine what he was trying to provide an alibi for… And finally, in Springfield, Massachusetts, Stebastian A. Ross, 28, was understandably relieved to have armed robbery charges dismissed against him… after a sales receipt and video proved he was shopping at the South End market, rather than being involved and not participating in a nearby robbery at Compucell, an electronics retail and repair shop… aside from the problems that criminal charges would bring (Stebastian was apprehended with “several bags” of marijuana), there is the reputational damage that he might have suffered from involvement with the sequence of events at the robbery… Have a great weekend, folks!