Chuck’s Hand-Picked Overnight Weird News for Tuesday

Update: California death-row inmates' web pages
From the Los Angeles Times: "Scott Peterson's Web page features smiling photos of himself with his wife Laci, whom he was found guilty of murdering and dumping into San Francisco Bay while she was pregnant with their unborn son. It also links viewers to his family's support site, where Peterson has a recent blog posting on his 'wrongful conviction.'" Looking for pen pals: Randy Kraft (condemned Orange County slayer of 16 young men), northern California serial killer Charles Ng (who describes himself as shy), and the tattooed and muscled Richard Allen Davis (whose abduction and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas helped trigger California's "three strikes" law). But (in the specific admonition of one condemned man), pen pals should be "nonjudgmental." Los Angeles Times
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Update: The Boston firefighters' disability scam grows
This time it's fire inspector Albert Arroyo, on tax-free disability since March from an unwitnessed on-the-job injury, who apparently heroically overcame his condition and in May finished 8th in the 2008 Pro Natural American bodybuilding championships. (Said his lawyer, time in the gym was a way to get his mind off the depression over not being able to work!) (A Boston Globe investigation in January found 102 firefighters with mostly-mysterious job injuries, taking full retirement, with some doing a paperwork shuffle to a temporarily higher grade so their retirement pay would be higher.) Boston Globe
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Forgiveness Is Divine
Gang members broke into a home in Modesto, Calif., at about 6 a.m. and beat and stabbed the 32-yr-old resident before realizing, oops, their bad, wrong man, apologizing and leaving. And during a flight from Poland, Newark, N.J., Catholic priest Tomasz Zielinski, allegedly fondled a 16-yr-old girl and attempted to pull her pants zipper down (requiring her to change seats), but then a few minutes later walked over to her new seat and sought forgiveness. (No can do, said she.) Modesto Bee // Star-Ledger
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Your Daily Loser
Victor Marin, 20, was reduced to getting down on his knees in the hallway and sticking a procession of dollar bills under the door of retired rabbi Yaakov Kanelsky's apartment, begging, please, that since he's now returning all the cash he just swiped, can Kanelsky kindly give him back the wallet he left on the bed during the burglary? Marin had snatched 92 $1's in addition to the larger bills, and thus the whole thing took a while, and police got there before he was done. New York Post
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More Things to Worry About on Tuesday
The scrap-metal market is also paying good money in, er, Afghanistan, where young boys dash out in the middle of firefights to scoop up spent cartridges from U.S. Army machine guns . . . . . Griffin, Ga., is pretty far from the coast and not the place where you'd expect to see six dead sharks on the side of the road (missing all their teeth) . . . . . The family bathroom was basically dismantled, by firefighters, because that was the only way to get little Seth's fingers unstuck from the bathtub drain . . . . . A highway truck tumble in Atlanta: 21 tons of Dos Equis (but not a drop wasted!) . . . . . In Ohio, a man was hospitalized when a nearly-five-ton microscope fell on him (Bonus: at the Nat'l Institute of Occupational Safety and Health). Today's Newsranger: Paul Music
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