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One of Australia’s foremost sleep-disorder experts predicted that the next edition of the professional manual would include the disorder of “sleep sex,” in which a person still asleep leaves the home and seeks random sex with strangers. “Incredulity is the first staging post for anyone involved in this,” said Dr. Peter Buchanan.

Police in Madison, Wisc., arrested Anthony R. Gallagher, 23, alleging he used a computer to make fake parking citations, which he then posted on cars. Victims, they say, paid him hundreds of dollars in $40 “fines” by mailing checks to the post office box address shown on the bogus tickets. Police tracked the fakes to Gallagher because he had rented the PO box, and because the serial number on the fake citation matched the number on a real one — which had recently been issued to Gallagher for illegal parking.

After witnessing a driver throwing a beer can out his window, a motorist called the police to report it, adding the vehicle “looks like one of your police cars.” Sure enough, the driver was Port Washington (Wisc.) Police Chief Ed Rudolph, 63, and the car was his unmarked cruiser. Rudolph told sheriff’s investigators he “may have drank a beer” and “may have” thrown the empty 24-ounce can out his window. The chief was cited for littering and suspended pending further investigation. Rudolph also took a leave of absence from his teaching position at the Milwaukee Area Technical College, where for 15 years he has taught a class on “responsible alcoholic beverage service” to bartenders.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration says it probably won’t prosecute school teacher Kathryn Harrington, 52, of Laurel, Md. She was passing through security at Tampa (Fla.) International Airport when agents pulled her aside for carrying a weapon: a leather strap with tiny weights in each end. “It was a bookmark,” Harrington says. “It’s not a weapon. I could not understand why I was being handcuffed and put into a police car.” She notes she has carried the bookmark through airport security several times without incident, but won’t again. (St. Petersburg Times)

I’ll leave you with a bonus – take a look at a photo of the actual bookmark she was arrested for.

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