Man bites head off snake while sleeping

His mother found him 'asleep and covered in blood' - and other tall tales

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Man bites head off snake while asleep

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Woman arrested for stealing chips from police

A female diner at an Italian Pizza Kitchen in Washington DC has been arrested for stealing chips from a police officer. According to the arrest report, the woman allegedly sat down at the officer's table and struck up a conversation. Without asking she took a chip from his plate and when he asked her to stop, she took another. The woman was warned she was committing a crime, took another chip, and was arrested and charged with second-degree theft.

Man steals 300,000 pennies from his boss

A Pennsylvania man is accused of stealing about 300,000 pennies from his employer after a massive drum that his boss had used as a "spare change box" for years mysteriously went missing. Police were called to investigate and allegedly found a trail of footprints – and pennies – leading to where 34-year-old Robert Napolitan usually parked his car. Officers searching the vehicle found an unusually large number of pennies, at which point he confessed and was arrested and held on $50,000 bail.

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