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Police in Duluth, Minnesota, arrested Randall Dean Adams, 27, in the early morning hours of June 6 inside a basement after a neighbor called 911. When an officer found Adams and asked what he was doing, Adams allegedly said that he had been hired for a remodeling job and had come to look things over.
In January Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda of India, who suffers from a reputation for being lazy, told a meeting of government employees in Bangalore that he is actually a workaholic. Photographs allegedly showing him dozing off during official meetings have been misinterpreted, he said. “Most of the time I am in deep thought about various welfare programs for the people.”
Jeffrey Maurice Young, 19, of Troy, Michigan, was arrested in Gastonia, North Carolina, in July and charged with assault and attempted theft. According to police, Young hid beneath a table at the Bloomin’ Onion Steakhouse, lay on his back, and touched the legs of two women who sat down to eat. He ran away after he was discovered, but police later found him hiding on a shelf at a nearby Circuit City.
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