NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An East Nashville man was arrested after he allegedly stole a box full of human ashes that his family said he more than likely believed was a bag full of cocaine.

"William thought it was drugs, he thought he'd done found him a box of cocaine is what he thought," explained the man's grandmother, Wanda Allen.

According to a police affidavit, William "Billy" Cantrell took an XBox from his neighbor along with a small box last week. His grandmother said the 28-year-old brought both of the items back to her house on North 2nd Street but she believes he was not sober at the time of the incident.

"If he gets to drinking and doing drugs he's out there. He needs help. There needs to be more to it than putting him in jail," she explains.

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/22879238/man-steals-human-ashes-thinks-its-cocaine

OAKDALE, Calif. -- Authorities say a shirtless man who allegedly stole a transit bus from a San Francisco terminal drove it 100 miles before being arrested.

California Highway Patrol officers put down road spikes to flatten the tires and get the bus to stop on Friday.

The driver faces charges including reckless driving, failure to yield, and grand theft.

Alameda County Transit spokesman Clarence Johnson tells KPIX-TV (http://cbsloc.al/1246qSI) that the bus was outfitted with a GPS system which allowed authorities to track it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/shirtless-man-steals-bus_n_3626023.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird%20News

Sammy Jenkins, 20, is terrified of the food and dreads going to shops and seeing it.

The fear — known as turophobia — once forced her to reject a job interview to be away from it.

Now she is desperate for professional help to beat the terror.

Sammy said last night: “I feel so disgusted by the idea of touching or eating cheese it’ll bring me out in cold sweats.

“My mum tells me I did eat it once before I was old enough to remember.

“I don’t know what has happened to make me so afraid of it. I didn’t think it was so much of a problem when I was younger but now I want to get help.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5021987/Girl-wants-to-conquer-her-fear-of-cheese.html#ixzz2ZWYmQR5z

Shortly after winning the beer drinking prize at a festival in Spain's Murcia region, Joaquín Alcaraz Gracia began to vomit.

Before that "he was fine", explained Antonio Alcaraz told Spanish newspaper Hoy.

"He had drunk six litres of beer, and when he won he lifted the trophy.

"Then he just started to vomit without stopping and he never spoke again," Alcaraz said.

It was a tragic end to the beer drinking competition in Murcia's Gea y Truyols district.

Rules of the competitive booze-up are straightforward. Contestants have to down as many litre-glasses of beer as they can in 20 minutes.

"But it seems Joaquín's body said enough was enough," said witness Santiago García of the man emergency officials later described as "obese".

"He started to vomit in his chair. I was one of the people who held him upright," said the man.

"He vomited a lot but I sat with him for ten minutes, and he was sleeping and snoring away," municipality vice president Pedro Rodríguez told Hoy newspaper.

http://www.thelocal.es/20130719/beer-competition-death

FULTON COUNTY-- Officials are investigating what may have caused a fireworks store in Rochester to go up in flames late Wednesday night.

Firefighters were called out to Windy City Fireworks in the 1400 block of West 18th Street (State Road 14) just before 10 p.m. Wednesday.

When firefighters arrived, the 16,000 square foot warehouse was completely engulfed by flames.

According to the Fulton County Sheriff's Department, the building also housed an antiques store.

WSBT has learned every fire department in Fulton County was at the scene, trying to battle the flames.

Since the building did house fireworks, we're told firefighter had to dodge fireworks that were being activated by the flames.

http://www.wsbt.com/news/wsbt-breaking-news-multiple-departments-responding-to-fire-at-rochester-fireworks-business-20130717,0,4222888.story

The real-life intelligence agents of the CIA tried to copy the gadgets used in James Bond movies, research from the University of Warwick suggests.

Prof Christopher Moran, an expert in US national security, has been studying the friendship between the director of the CIA and Bond author Ian Fleming.

He says CIA boss Allen Dulles was fascinated with the fictional spy.

Prof Moran says he has found a "surprising two-way influence between the CIA and the James Bond novels".

His study of declassified letters and writing by Dulles, director of the CIA in the 1950s, has shown how much the professional spies of the Cold War wanted to emulate the gadget-powered success of the fictional agent James Bond.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23346632

"You're a man now, so I posted an ad on Craigslist in hopes that someone would be incited to claim your v-card," is something no mother should say, ever. A Craigslist post, apparently written by a concerned Philadelphia mother, is seeking one young woman (19 or younger, please) to help her Harvard-bound son go from "high school nerd" to "cool college kid" by way of having lots and lots of sex with him. Repeatedly. In multiple positions. Lots of it. It won't be too bad. After all, he's a varsity athlete with "almost zero body fat." Only, CATCH, you have to eventually break up with him. He couldn't be dating a sugar baby at Harvard, now could he? You can read the full post below. — By Michaela Gianotti [Source]

This is going to sound strange but my son is a senior in High School and I want to help him. He's 18 and will go away to Harvard in the fall. He's extremely smart but socially awkward, has never had a girl friend and I'm sure he's a virgin. I want to find a cute young girl to date him and turn him from high school nerd to cool college kid. He's very handsome and extremely fit, he's on the varsity cross country team so I'd say there's almost zero body fat on him. You need to be 19 or under as 20+ would probably freak him out. lol

Here's my plan. I'll buy 4 tickets to some great concert coming up and give two to my son and 2 to you. He will know nothing about the other 2 tickets. He'll go to the show with one of his buddies (no way he'll take a girl, he's to shy to ask them out) and you and your friend will be in the seats next to them. Now you spring into action, you start talking to him during the concert and eventually pick him up. Ask him to take you somewhere after and ditch your friends. Then you seduce him and take his virginity. Keep dating him (and showing him different sex positions) til he goes to college and then let him go gently so he'll have the confidence to date other girls once he's there.

http://now.msn.com/mom-posts-craigslist-ad-to-take-virginity-of-her-son

SAN DIEGO -- Come for the pizza! An employee already has, allegedly.

The owner of Jersey Joe's Pizzeria told HuffPost Weird News today that he's not the guy in a photo circulating around the Internet, showing a white-haired man masturbating in a pizzeria kitchen -- nor is it anyone working at his establishment.

Reporters at the shop showed Giusepp "Jersey Joe" Scire the photo, which was posted on the photo-sharing website 4Chan, and then Yelp.

"It is not me [in the photo] and that's not my pizzeria," Scire told HuffPost Weird News.

Scire said that he "fired two guys recently" and suggested that he might be the victim of a disgruntled ex-employee.

The bombshell dropped on Wednesday, when 4Chan users posted links to several random, unsecured webcams. That's when, those users claim, they found Scire jerking his Joe, and took screenshots. The photo shows a man in a white T-shirt and shorts sitting at a desk with his pepperoni in his hand. The backdrop is a kitchen, complete with a fridge, sink and containers that are used to keep pizzas warm.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/jersey-joes-pizzeria-masturbation-photo-video_n_3618816.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) – A Vancouver man who fired a shotgun to chase away alleged car prowlers pleaded not guilty Wednesday and cited Vice President Joe Biden as the reason he did this.

Jeffery Barton, 52, pleaded not guilty to one count of illegal aiming or discharging a firearm at his arraignment in Clark County Court.

Barton reportedly admitted to deputies that he fired his weapon while chasing away people who he thought were breaking into his vehicles at 5804 NE 124th St. in the early morning hours Monday.

Deputies are investigating whether a large teen party that got out of control at a neighbor’s home may have been linked to the shooting. However, at this point, deputies have said there was no evidence of prowlers on Barton’s property.

http://www.koin.com/2013/07/17/vancouver-man-who-fired-gun-cites-biden-in-defense/