On April 7, 2012, a an Oklahoma City apartment fire prompted a local news channel to do a story. Their newscast featured Sweet Brown, an excited apartment resident who was forced to relocate after the apartment fire, which she mistook for barbequein’, broke out. She recounts the events: “Well, I woke up to go get me a cold pop. And then I thought somebody was barbequein’. I said, ‘Oh, Lord Jesus, it’s a fire!’ Then I ran out. I didn’t grab no shoes or nothin’, Jesus. I ran for my life. And then the smoke got me. I got bronchitis! Ain’t nobody got time for that!”

In Boaz, Alabama, a maintenance worker at Walmart made a startling discovery.
While inside the women's rest room he discovered pseudoephedrine pills and a plastic water bottle with residue in the bottom.
The police were contacted and Chief Terry Davis called it a one-pot 'shake and bake' type of lab.
Davis told WHNT news that he had never heard of a shake and bake meth lab inside a business before.
Police said it takes 15 to 30 minutes to make a low-caliber methamphetamine, but believed the pills were not from Walmart, but another pharmacy.

WISCONSIN  — A Portage woman has apparently won a seat on the City Council even though she received only two votes — hers and her husband's.

There were no candidates for the City Council's 7th District seat. So on a whim, Carolyn Hamre wrote in her own name in Tuesday's election. She asked her husband to do the same.

A Portage Daily Register report says there were 11 other write-in votes but each only got one vote. So Hamre won, at least according to unofficial results. The election won't be official until the city holds its canvass Monday.

Hamre says it was mostly a joke. She says she plans to talk with others in town to help her decide whether to accept the position or to defer to another write-in candidate.

There's no way this guy saw this coming.

One person, or possibly several people, decided to show their dislike for a n Greek journalist in unique fashion. They pelted a news anchor with a barrage of eggs while he was on the air a few days ago.

He then goes off camera, cleans up and comes back to say something, most likely to offer some kind of explanation.

None of us here at Burd Droppings speak Greek, so we don't know why this happened or what anyone says. Found on this blog, it also offers little clarification other than what we can see.

If anyone who reads this does speak Greek and could translate it for us, email me.

By Dave Herndon
Twitter: @NHDaveH

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune is reporting that two people in ninja costumes robbed a medical marijuana delivery person Friday evening in West Covina, Calif.

The delivery person was reportedly returning to his vehicle from a delivery when two ninja-suit clad people attacked him.

The delivery person dropped his bag, which contained both marijuana and cash. It it unknown how much of either was taken.

No other ninja-style thefts have been reported in the area.

Check out the original story on thenewsherald.com here.

By David Komer

Girls with public Facebook profiles pop up in walking distance to you thanks to a new iPhone app.
Plotted on a Google map, the four-square based check-in radar allows you to access profiles of every female within your vicinity who has yet to master their privacy settings.
According to a Gawker post report on Cult of Mac

blogger John Brownlee used Girls Around Me to check out the bikini pictures and personal histories of strangers in his vicinity on a Saturday night in Boston.
Girls Around Me is free to download. All you need is a FourSquare account to log in.
Photos courtesy of iTunes.

Alan Burdziak might be relaxing, but the rest of the News-Herald isn't. Working hard to bring you the latest in weird headlines and vexing leads.

A start-up company has begun selling reproduced Twitter feeds on rolls of toilet paper.

Collector’s Edition has a product called S*****r that allows customers to print their Twitter feeds, timelines, favorite tweets or print their favorite celebrity’s tweets on four rolls of paper for $35 according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.

The product is printed by a company in Illinois and is the brainchild of three Australians and a Canadian.

The first orders were taken Wednesday and the first batch of printings have already sold out, David Gillespie, one of the company’s founders, said.

“If we make people smile, we feel we’ve done our job,” he said in a published report.

The first customers can expect to receive their products by the end of next week, Gillespie said.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

By Dave Herndon
Twitter: @NHDaveH

KJ Online is reporting that in Augusta, Maine a man dressed like the McDonaldland character The Hamburglar snuck through a drive-through line and stole a bag of food as it was being passed out the window to a customer.

Police report that a teenage boy was dressed in clothes that resembled the former McDonald’s advertising character when he ran between a car and the building to snag the food right as an employee opened the window to hand it to the customer.

The theft occured at about 6 p.m. March 25.

A witness flagged down a police officer who was exiting a nearby convience store. The officer found the man in an Arby’s parking lot a few doors down eating the evidence.

The man fled into the woods while yelling obscenities at the police .

The man remains on the lam.

By Jackie Harrison-Martin

BROWNSTOWN TWP. — Two women had a knockdown, drag-out fight in the parking lot of an adult novelty store after a misunderstanding.

The incident occurred at about 8 p.m. Dec. 7 at Adam & Eve, 22772 West Road.

A store employee told police several young men came into the store and became disruptive. She asked to see the boys’ identification and they began screaming profanities at her as they were being put out of the store.

According to a police report, the employee followed the juveniles to the parking lot and exchanged words with them.

While in the parking lot, the employee told police she suddenly heard a woman screaming profanities at her from a nearby apartment complex. A witness said the resident was yelling at the employee from her apartment window.

The report said the employee began yelling back at the resident, called her a name and told her to come into the parking lot.

It wasn’t long before the resident came out of her apartment complex and into the store’s parking lot, where the two women began slugging it out.

The employee, 27, said the resident, 32, assaulted her by grabbing her and scratching her face. According to the report, she put the resident in a headlock during the fight and told another employee to call 911.

The two were separated by another store employee and the resident’s brother, but the exchange of derogatory words continued and the woman began fighting again.

The report said they eventually were separated and the resident added a few threats before going back to her apartment.

This story originally ran in The News-Herald December 2011