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HAMBURG, Germany - Imagine the surprise of gas station attendants when a man showed up at the station carrying the severed head of his wife. The 40-year-old man, who claimed to be mentally ill, had decapitated his wife and brought the head to the Hamburg gas station. He asked an attendant to call police and confessed to the killing. Police found the rest of his wife's body at the man's home, along with the couple's two small daughters. "The 40-year-old appeared confused and said that he had killed his wife," said police spokeswoman Karina Sadowsky. The daughters were taken into state custody.

 

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - A Florida woman who heard someone knocking at her front door was shocked when she looked out and spotted an 8-foot alligator. The alligator was even more frightening because it had a bloody jaw. She called her husband who then called the superintendent of their gated community, who summoned an alligator trapper. The alligator remained at the door for an hour, banging its head against it occasionally. When it slid into the community's pond, the trapper got it. Experts say this is the time of year when male alligators wander, looking for prospective mates. 

 

LONGMONT, Colo. - Jason Niccum thought he had the perfect setup. Using a device that let him change traffic lightsfrom red to green, he was able to practically fly to work everyday. But the party is over now that he has received a $50 ticket on suspicion of interfering with a traffic signal. Niccum said he bought the device on eBay for $100, and it has cut his driving time to work. "I guess in the two years I had it, that thing paid for itself," he told the Daily Times-Call. The device is known as an Opticon and is similar to what firefighters use to change lights during emergencies. Niccum was cited after police caught him using the Opticon to change traffic lights. 

 

MIAMI - A Miami man was due in court on a car-stealing charge with no way to get there, so, police say, he stole another car to keep his date. That landed Thomas Minks in a lot of trouble -- with the law catching up with him in the parking lot of the Miami-Dade Justice Building where a stun gun was used to stop him after he tried to flee and reportedly almost ran down two officers, the Miami Herald said. The Mercedes he was accused of stealing was equipped with a Global Positioning System that guided police right to him. Minks, 32, faces two counts of aggravated assault on police officers and single counts of grand theft auto and fleeing and eluding police officers.