By MICHELLE MILLHOLLON

Baton Rouge Advocate staff writer

He was dubbed the serial snuggler for slipping into women's apartments to watch them sleep and climb into bed to cuddle.
Before his slide into the surreal, Steve Danos led a commendable life, a judge said Wednesday before placing the former LSU student on five years' probation.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) -- Two men who were arrested for walking through a Wal-Mart while wearing women's thong underwear blamed the stunt on a "triple-dog dare," authorities said.

The men, ages 35 and 36, bought two pair of underwear at the store Tuesday, went into a bathroom and came out wearing only the thongs and T-shirts, police said.

Witnesses said the men walked through the store and out to their car.

Police caught the men in the parking lot, and reviewed a surveillance tape before arresting them for public indecency and disorderly conduct.

The expression "road rage" usually refers to infuriated drivers who lose control of their temper and lash out at other motorists. But what if a car could also express anger, crouching low on its wheel base and glowering with red headlights like a lion about to pounce?

Four inventors working for Toyota in Japan have won a patent for a car that they say can help drivers communicate better by glaring angrily at another car cutting through traffic as well as appear to cry, laugh, wink, or just look around.

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AN Adelaide[, Australia] man will escape drugs charges, despite dobbing himself in for growing cannabis at his house.

Police said the man had been targeted by thieves, who stole two cannabis plants from his house in Clearview, in Adelaide's north at 3am today.
He reported the theft after the offenders stole the plants by smashing a window of the house. The premises was targeted solely because of the drug, police said.

However, police said the homeowner was not charged with drug offences because there was no longer any evidence of the drug.

From the New Straits Times:
PETALING JAYA, July 15 -- A snatch thief running away from his victim was killed in a hit-and-run accident along Jalan Seri Kembangan yesterday morning.

The 23-year-old man, whose identity has been withheld, had dashed across the road after snatching a waist-pouch from a hawker about 12.30am.

EAST WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) — When the Washington state Department of Employment Security notified Sandi Bryan that she owed money for an unemployment compensation overpayment more than six years ago, she picked up the phone.

Little good that did — until word that she was being threatened with court action over a nickel reached the right ears.

Bryan told The Wenatchee World she asked the state employee who took her call on a toll-free line whether she should mail in a nickel taped to a piece of paper.

A man was fined about R2 100 for drunk driving a donkey cart in a small South African town, and then telling police he was unconcerned "because the animals knew the way home."

Hans du Toit was stopped recently in the town of Philipolis, about 650 kilometres south of Johannesburg, when traffic officials noticed his donkey cart swerving all over its one main road.

He was told not to continue driving, the daily Beeld newspaper said on Wednesday.

I believe I speak for all delivery drivers when I say that there's only so much quality service to go around. This means that we must prioritize. The chief criterion for deciding who gets the best service is quality of tip. That is to say, if someone is a known non-tipper, I am going to be more likely to show preference to another who does tip. Obviously, this does not mean that I will not provide service to a paying customer who does not tip, but I might for example visit a tipper, if you will, before I would a non-tipper, regardless of actual order.

This evening I was watching 60 Minutes and came to the following conclusion: that Andy Rooney resembles Dune's Thufir Hawat more than just a little. Could it be that ol' Andy is a Mentat? I mean, just look at those eyebrows.