State police say a woman was arrested last week for stealing a truck, but then tried to escape custody through the ceiling at a local hospital while getting treatment.

Shylen Salazar reportedly admitted to state police that she had possession of stolen truck for nearly two months.

According to police, when Salazar was put in a holding cell she told the guards that she swallowed a bunch of drugs to hide them from police.

While being treated at Presbyterian Hospital police say she climbed into the ceiling above her hospital bed and hid there for more than an hour before police found her.

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3621139.shtml#.VGw7bskubkg

Maybe ATM stands for 'another terrifying moment?"

After all, any machine that spits out cash is bound to attract some trash.

After getting reports of a man causing a disturbance at a bank, Fort Pierce cops found a dude, identified as Gregory Herndon, who was allegedly blocking folks from using an ATM, reports Will Greenlee in his Off the Beat blog for TCpalm in Stuart.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/strange/floriduh-blog/sfl-flduh-blocked-using-atm-20141113-story.html

Two days after Neil deGrasse Tyson praised a lot of the science in Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar," the famed astrophysicist focused on some of the film's fiction. Over a series of nine tweets that he called "Mysteries of #Interstellar," Tyson took the movie to task for some of its plot contrivances. Warning: Spoilers ahead.

Mysteries of #Interstellar: Who in the universe would ever know the titles of all their books, from behind, on an bookshelf.

Mysteries of #Interstellar: How a pickup truck can drive with a flat tire among densely planted corn stalks taller than it.

Mysteries of #Interstellar: If you crack your space helmet yet keep fighting, the Planet's air can’t be all that bad for you.

Mysteries of #Interstellar: Gotta tell you. Mars (right next door) looks waay safer than those new planets they travelled to.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/11/neil-degrasse-tyson-mysteries-of-interstellar_n_6140674.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird%20News

The warmer weather is said to have caused thousands of spiders to flood homes, but if you’re concerned about the invasion, spare a thought for the owners of a waste treatment plant in the US.

The Baltimore property was so riddled with arachnids that webbing covered approximately 95 per cent of the entire building.

This was the equivalent to four acres - or three American football fields - and was said to house more than 107 million of the eight-legged critters.

These spiders included a species known as a Long-jawed orb weaver, or Tetragnathidae, typically found in damp or swamp habitats. They have long slim bodies with shiny abdomens.

Last month, researchers in Guyana discovered a puppy-sized spider living in the rainforest.

Known as the South American Goliath birdeater, the spider was spotted by entomologist and photographer Piotr Naskrecki from Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

He wrote on his blog that the arachnid is officially the world’s largest spider, according to the Guinness World Record book, and it’s leg can grow to a foot (30cm).

It can also weigh up 6 ounces (170g), which the photographer compared to the same weight as a newborn puppy.

Orb webs produced by the Araneidae species, of which the Tetragnathidae is a member, are used for catching prey.

Other webs are used either for reproduction, or to help spiders find their way back to a specific location.

The giant web was originally reported by the owners of the Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant to pest controllers in 2009, and the photos were released as part of a Halloween feature on Wired.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2819066/Scared-spiders-Look-away-Terrifying-photos-reveal-FOUR-ACRE-web-teeming-107-MILLION-arachnids.html#ixzz3Ijrc9Wr4
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The Colorado State University student accused of stealing an ambulance and attacking deputies at the Larimer County jail says he went to a Halloween concert where he took "molly" and cocaine, according to the extensive police reports obtained by 7NEWS.

Police said emergency crews with Poudre Valley Hospital were treating an intoxicated student for seizures on campus in Fort Collins early Sunday morning, and when they came outside with the patient, their ambulance was gone.

The ambulance, which had a GPS system on board, was tracked to Loveland. Loveland police officers said they found the ambulance in the middle of Highway 34 with several doors open, heavy front-end damage and fluid leaking.

One officer said it appeared the driver of the ambulance had hit the raised median, jumped the curb, hit a sign, went the wrong way and crossed back over the median before stopping.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/front-range/fort-collins/ambulance-theft-suspect-stefan-sortland-says-he-took-drugs-at-halloween-concert

A Florida woman was arrested Saturday after trying to pass herself off as her daughter who was two decades younger.

Jennifer Crosby, 43, allegedly told a deputy at a traffic stop in Indian River County that she was only 22 and “has a medical condition that makes her age faster.” According to an arrest report obtained by The Smoking Gun, Crosby was pulled over for inoperable tail lights, and when deputy Colby Smith asked for her license, she said she had forgotten it.

Crosby then allegedly gave Smith the wrong name and a 1992 birthdate. Smith wrote that when he appeared skeptical of the birthdate, Crosby made the outlandish claim about accelerated aging.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/jennifer-crosby-43-22-ages-faster_n_6100796.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. — A Kentucky woman’s mugshot has gone viral thanks to her shirt.

Deborah Delane Asher, 37, was arrested and charged with trafficking in a controlled substance, first degree and possession of methamphetamine.

The Laurel County Sheriff’s Department posted her mugshot on its Facebook page. In the photo, Asher is wearing a “I Heart Crystal Meth” shirt.

http://fox17online.com/2014/11/07/woman-wearing-i-heart-crystal-meth-shirt-arrested-for-possession-of-meth/

Perhaps the most important — and definitely the most expensive — election in California on Tuesday is the down-ballot battle for state school superintendent. The $30 million race has generated three times as much spending as the contest for governor, with money pouring in from across the country.

But the election is not a partisan fight between the two major parties. The combatants — incumbent Tom Torlakson and challenger Marshall Tuck — are both Democrats, and their fight embodies the major divide within the Democratic Party over the best way to educate children.

“These two candidates represent almost the perfect contrast between the two sides in the national debate over public schools,” said Dan Schnur, executive director of the Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California. “This debate has the potential to divide the Democratic Party just as significantly as immigration and abortion has divided the Republicans in the past.”

Torlakson is heavily backed by the teachers union; Tuck is receiving significant support from well-heeled donors who are behind the national charter-school movement and the effort to weaken teacher tenure.

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His donors include the heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton; Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York; Eli Broad, the housing and insurance mogul; and Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Even some Hollywood stars made a video supporting Tuck.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/californias-biggest-race-will-surprise-you-its-for-state-school-superintendent/2014/11/03/90d560fe-639b-11e4-bb14-4cfea1e742d5_story.html