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Weird news triggers Vox’s curiosity
August 14, 2008 | 12:00 a.m. CST
With a woman bitten by a monkey this summer and the recent discovery of a funeral home hiding dead bodies, Columbia is no stranger to odd news. We’ve dug through Missouri newspaper archives to bring you some peculiar tales that occurred right here in the Show-Me State.
2000
Children in Cole County got something extra special in their trick-or-treat bags. Jonathan C. Asher was arrested for handing out condoms and (thankfully) unused syringes, along with candy, to children as young as 7 years old. He was charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, which is a class A misdemeanor crime.
2001
Four inmates in Greene County found that sometimes serving time isn’t so sanitary. Positioned on a catwalk above the outdoor recreation area, guards urinated on the prisoners as they stood below. Courts awarded each victim $25,000.
2002
A 47-year-old Festus man had been collecting his dead grandmother’s Social Security checks since 1987. When Mark Sheppard’s grandma died of natural causes, his mother devised a plan to dump her body and start cashing in. And once his mother passed away, Sheppard continued the tradition. Investigators finally realized something was fishy when they noticed the woman was 102 years old but hadn’t had a doctor’s visit or prescription filled in 15 years. Get a job, son.
2003
Seventy-five years of sliced bread, and it all started in Chillicothe! The baked good’s origin had long been debated until Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune editor Kathy Stortz Ripley found old documents claiming that a local factory had patented the first sliced-bread machine. Missouri officially has it all: Mark Twain, the Pony Express and the birthplace of sliced bread.
2004
A 10-year employee of the Jefferson County Water District used supplies he stole from work to construct a meth lab in the base of a water tower in High Ridge. After the lab was found, the water district manager made sure to alert people that the water supply had not been tainted.
2005
You might expect to see deer, rabbits and maybe even armadillos around Missouri these days, but residents of Branson saw a black panther roaming around. Jeff McRoy, a local animal control officer, was assigned to the job and told The Associated Press, “I want to be the only redneck trying to catch this thing.” Yet he didn’t succeed — the panther was never caught.
2006
Michael Sullivan and Joseph Seidl were cruisin’ down I-70 when officers pulled them over and ended up searching their vehicle. In the trunk, police found a homemade rocket filled with packaged meth that was set to eject upon the push of a button — James Bond-style. Too bad the traffickers forgot the rocket needed to be plugged into the cigarette lighter, therefore rendering it useless. Q would never make such a mistake.
2007
A naked and masked man walked into a convenient store in De Soto and started hula dancing for the clerk. The dancer intended to distract the clerk as a friend stole beer, while a third friend waited in the getaway car. Although the trio was caught later, these three were ballsy.
2008
In February, an 18-year-old Columbia teen led police on a 20-minute car chase through town after being stopped. “The officer pulled up with his Taser, and I booked,” suspect Damian Dancy told the Columbia Daily Tribune. Escaping the police could be an animalistic instinct for some, but Dancy kept it classy by obeying traffic signals and signs and driving slowly — he just didn’t want to stop for the police. Eventually, however, he was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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