A 41-year-old woman, arrested in Callaway, Fla., for beating her husband with a rock, explained that she was angry that he was endangering his health by smoking despite being ill.
Said she, “A woman can only take so much.”
A nice
long
‘break’
would do 
Katrina Camp, 30, was picked up by deputies in September on a Forest Service road near Nederland, Colo., having earlier walked away from her unclothed 2-year-old daughter, whom she had left to fend for herself in a pickup truck.
Camp, however, was candid about the problem: “I suck.”
“You’re a parent,” she told a deputy.
“You know how it is. Sometimes you just need a break.”
Sometimes
stupid
smarts   
Thieves often leave police-trackable trails from the scene to their home, but for alleged shoplifter Michael Barton, 29, of Venango County, Pa., the trail was of his own blood, starting at the Wal-Mart where he had cut himself badly removing razor blades from their packages in order to fit more into his pocket.
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