THIS is TRUE by Randy Cassingham A weekly column of oddities from around the world WHY THEY CALL IT A “TRAP DOOR”: Police in Utrecht, the Netherlands, responding to a burglar alarm at a school found nothing, but employees carefully locked all the doors in the building. Sure enough, a man was hiding in a […]

THIS is TRUE by Randy Cassingham A weekly column of oddities from around the world A POLITICIAN WITH TEETH: In 1981, Bosco was elected honorary mayor of Sunol, Calif., easily beating out two human contenders. Bosco, a Rottweiler-Labrador mix, died in 1994, but local Mike Cerny doesn’t want the ex-mayor of the unincorporated town to […]

Joke of the Week Three mice were sitting at a bar talking about how tough they were. The first mouse slams a shot and says, “I play with mouse traps for fun. I’ll run into one on purpose and as it is closing on me, I grab the bar and bench press it 20 to […]

THIS is TRUE by Randy Cassingham A weekly column of oddities from around the world A POLITICIAN WITH TEETH: In 1981, Bosco was elected honorary mayor of Sunol, Calif., easily beating out two human contenders. Bosco, a Rottweiler-Labrador mix, died in 1994, but local Mike Cerny doesn’t want the ex-mayor of the unincorporated town to […]

THIS is TRUE by Randy Cassingham A weekly column of oddities from around the world VIRAL MARKETING: Roger Freeman, an Encino, Calif., dentist and lecturer on infectious diseases, wants to start an epidemic. Well, not really: his new company is pushing a line of neckties with magnified pictures of diseases from microscope slides. “The gonorrhea […]

THIS is TRUE by Randy Cassingham A weekly column of oddities from around the world WE’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT, WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU: Sydney, Australia, is sponsoring a legal “shooting gallery” — a safe indoor place for addicts to inject drugs. The facility will be located in the city’s Kings Cross nightclub district, and […]

THIS is TRUE by Randy Cassingham A weekly column of oddities from around the world HIDE AND SEEK: Police in Astoria, Ore., stopped to talk to a driver of a car parked in a crosswalk. He had no license, so the chat was prolonged — enough that a passenger, Roberto Valiente-Martinez, 28, “got fidgety,” police […]

THIS is TRUE by Randy Cassingham A weekly column of oddities from around the world WE’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT, WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU: Sydney, Australia, is sponsoring a legal “shooting gallery” — a safe indoor place for addicts to inject drugs. The facility will be located in the city’s Kings Cross nightclub district, and […]