Strangely odd news

By April Silvaggio  

MARCH 21, 2010 3:37 p.m. (0)

If the plan is to outrun the police, don’t choose a go-cart as a getaway vehicle.

It’s a lesson a 29-year-old Union man had to learn the hard way.

That’s after a Union County Sheriff’s deputy heard a report go out about a stolen go-cart, just moments before he spotted one chugging along the road in front of him. The officer turned on his lights and siren.

When Edward Matthew Sweezy realized he couldn’t outrun the deputy, he pulled over. An incident report said the two men struggled. That’s apparently when the deputy spotted a crack pipe and a bottle with three pills inside.

Sweezy was charged with resisting arrest, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and public drunkenness.

No word on whether it was the go-cart authorities were initially looking for.

Seems a good many British reporters have folks looking for the corpse of the Godfather of Soul.

That’s after what is being called a bad Internet rumor had several British tabloids reporting that James Brown’s body was missing. But authorities from the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office and a funeral director who managed the 2006 burial of Brown are somewhat “Bewildered.”

Brown’s body has been kept in a crypt on the grounds of his daughter Deanna’s Aiken County home while a public mausoleum is constructed. But another daughter, LaRhonda Pettit, told reporters the body was missing and presumed stolen.

Other family members also say her report is false.

Brown died on Christmas Day 2006 from what was officially ruled as heart failure complicated by pneumonia. But Pettit, one of the singer’s illegitimate children, has said she believes foul play may have been involved. She has wanted to have the body exhumed and an autopsy performed.

Seems the Brown children need to follow their daddy’s advice and just “Get it together.”

A teenage couple got into an argument at an A.C. Moore store in Myrtle Beach.

Witnesses called police after they heard the young man threaten to kill his girlfriend, authorities said. When police pulled up on the scene, they saw a couple matching the descriptions they’d been given go into the nearby Dollar General.

Officers saw the man peek outside, then quickly duck back in the store.

According to a police report, one of the police officers approached the couple inside the store, and immediately noticed a large scratch on the boyfriend’s face.

The youngster told the police he and his girlfriend had been in a “stupid argument.” The girlfriend told an officer that her boyfriend had put his hands around her neck, and that she swung and hit him in the face.

Both were arrested on suspicion of criminal domestic violence. Once in custody, officers found a “blunt” filled with a green, leafy substance that appeared to be marijuana in his jacket pocket. Two clear baggies containing the same green leafy substance were found in his sock.

A man walked into the CVS on South Kings Highway, went straight to the beer cooler, pulled out two 12-packs of Bud Light and walked back out of the store.

Employees said they tried to stop the man, who walked right past them out the checkout and out the door.

It was all caught on video.

The beer thief’s identity remains a mystery.

Health officials say Jim Becker’s devotion to the Green Bay Packers likely saved his life.

The story eventually led the team to induct the 79-year-old man into its Fan Hall of Fame.

Becker attended Packers games for 56 years. In the midst of it all, he and his wife raised 11 children, so money was tight. To buy his tickets without taking money from his family, Becker began selling his blood for $15 per pint.

His doctor later learned that Becker’s father died at 43 from a medical condition in which the blood retains too much iron. The only treatment is to remove the iron by giving blood.

If Becker hadn’t sold his blood to buy the tickets, he’d likely have died young.

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