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Police hunt for men dressed as Oompa-Loompas after attack on 28-year-old as he left kebab house • Man was left with cuts to his face, nose and lip, as well as two black eyes • Police are now hunting the two men dressed as the fictional factory workers Two men dressed as Oompa-Loompas from the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory are being hunted by police after they allegedly attacked a man on a night out. The pair - who had painted orange faces and dyed green hair and were wearing hooped tops like the characters in the 1971...

"Zombie" attacks continue: Naked man arrested after biting Fla. man Despite assurances from the CDC that zombies do not, in fact, exist, strange things keep happening in Florida. The Center for Disease Control says we have no reason to fear a zombie virus. But that hasn't stopped a series of strange events, including one in which Rudy Eugene brutally attacked a homeless man, biting off chunks of his face. Perhaps 22-year-old Jeremiah Haughee found Eugene to be an inspirational figure. That's our best guess for why he was climbed naked onto the roof of a St. Augustine, Fla., home, bit...

Transient stabbed in fight over PBJ sandwich SAN DIEGO — One downtown transient stabbed another in the head in a fight over a peanut butter and jelly sandwich Friday, San Diego police said. The two men fought over the sandwich on Union Street near A Street about 6:30 p.m., police Officer David Stafford said. One of the men pulled out a pen and stabbed the other man in the head. Paramedics took the victim to a hospital, where he is expected to recover. The other man went to jail, Stafford said.

Man Ordered to Dance “Moonwalk” at Gunpoint, Police Say Just remember always to think twice before ordering someone to dance the “moonwalk” at the barrel of a gun. An Idaho man has been hit with a felony assault charge for allegedly forcing another man to perform Michael Jackson’s signature “moonwalk” while having a rifle pointed at him, the Bonner County Daily Bee reported. Police accused John Ernest Cross, 30, of using an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle while issuing the bizarre order to mimic a dance the late King of Pop debuted back in 1983. Cross said during an initial court appearance...

I’m Batman … Getting Pulled Over In A Lamborghini Batman drives the Batmobile when he's Batman and, as we've learned, he typically drives a Lamborghini when he's Bruce Wayne. Unfortunately, Bruce Wayne forgot to put a license plate on his Lamborghini Gallardo and went out while still dressed as Batman. Silly, silly Batman. You're not Steve Jobs. You can't get away with that. UPDATE! We've unmasked the Batman Here's what they said: "Yes, Batman was stopped by MCPD on Wednesday,S/B Route 29 at Prelude Dr. for no tags on Batmobile" His repeated attempts to use the Bat Signal as a...

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, two homeowners were burglarized in a Jacksonville neighborhood on Tuesday. But an alert witness saw a man coming from his neighbor's yard who he thought didn't belong, according to a police statement. He called police, then took a picture of the man with his camera phone, reports First Coast News in Jacksonville. It looks as though the suspect cooperatively posed for the photo opportunity. He stole a hat and wore it, stole some snacks and ate them, before he paused briefly for the picture, reports First Coast News. In addition to the Cheez-Its and...

Iliu Gonzalez and Adrian Alonso just wanted to steal a kiss Most people break into homes to steal high-end electronics, cash, some Vicodin if it's handy. Iliu Gonzalez and Adrian Alonso? They just wanted to steal a kiss. The Miami couple was arrested in Key Largo Sunday night after breaking into a vacant home because, well, they wanted to make out. A neighbor called police, and when officers arrived, they saw Alonso and Gonzalez, both 24, lying on the floor. Both were arrested, charged with criminal mischief and burglary and they were booked into jail. Ah, forbidden love. It's just...

Well, it turns out being a pancake could be hazardous to your health here in Bellingham… or at least, dressing up as a pancake, and standing outside a local IHOP Restaurant. Bellingham police spokesperson Mark Young said a man Tuesday afternoon assaulted a 19-year-old woman dressed as ‘Suzie the Pancake’ outside the IHOP just off Samish Way on Byron Street. “She was out there waving to customers as they would drive by,” said Young. “The 19-year-old victim was approached by a 22-year-old suspect who initially just started yelling, and at one point went ahead and started slapping at the pancake.”...

A man probably wishes that he started weeding in his yard sooner. That's after he told police that he discovered a tray of some 28 marijuana seedlings in an overgrown portion of the backyard near his Moscow home... (Assistant Police Chief David Duke) said the man who lives at the property isn't being considered a suspect. Information from: The Moscow-Pullman Daily News, http://www.dnews.com

WATERVILLE — A culinary argument between a brother and sister about whether to use butter or margarine turned violent, resulting in an attack with a knife-edged barbecue spatula, police say. A 21-year-old man called East Wenatchee police on June 6 to say his 17-year-old sister had just attacked him and tried to cut his neck with the serrated edge of the spatula, wrote Officer Carrie Knouf in a police report filed in Douglas County Superior Court. The sister told Knouf she was making macaroni and cheese when her brother asked if she was using butter. “They began to argue over...

BOULDER, Colo. -- A man who police said was naked except for a pair of woman's thong panties he was wearing on his head is the first person arrested under Boulder's new public nudity law. Police said that Glenn Ford, 55, was standing nude on an offramp of Highway 36 during the Thursday afternoon rush hour. Officers located him at the Baseline Road exit, according to a police blotter.

I was involved in a very minor fender bender on 94 West in Milwaukee on Friday. The responding officer took down my driver's license information (even though I was a passenger) and statement (the other car drove off and I gave a partial plate) Today I get 7 mailings from 6 different law firms about my accident, my friend who was the driver received 8 mailings. As the Milwaukee Sheriff's Department is the only entity that knows about it, they must have sold my information to the law firms in the area. Can they do this? I also gave my...

<p>While Virginia Tech appears ready to jump, Miami (Fla.) is showing some uncertainty about joining the Hokies in leaving the Big East for an expanded Atlantic Coast Conference. The ACC confirmed Wednesday that it has extended membership invitations to the two schools, veering from the league's original plan to add Miami, Boston College and Syracuse.</p>

The Eye has it Editor makes Arcata police blotter pure poetry -- and parody Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer Arcata, Humboldt County -- To Kevin Hoover, even a nondescript telephone pole on a normally quiet street in amiable little Arcata has a story behind it. And the wry 48-year-old editor, publisher and police-blotter poet for the weekly Arcata Eye never lets a good yarn go untold. In this instance, the tale involved a curmudgeon who made a habit of tearing flyers off utility poles. His diligence was punished with a sort of purgatory -- he was forced to perpetually rip...