Taking "Stupid Criminal" To A New Level

On New Year's Day in Murfreesboro (Tennessee), a car pulls up to a gas pump in a service station. An hour later, that car is still sitting by the gas pump and the station employee calls the police. It's a good thing that he did.

When the police arrive they find the driver, 31 year-old Nathan Beasley, passed out behind the steering wheel -- drunk as a skunk. In the back seat of the car, police found a meth lab. And that lab was active. It had a chemical process going on to further the production of methamphetamine.

Since some meth lab ingredients and processes can be explosive, the fire department was called. They shut off the gas pumps before moving the car and dismantling the meth lab. This drunk fool, by pulling up next to a gasoline pump with an active meth lab, could have caused a serious explosion that would have killed him and anyone else in the area.

Beasley has been charged with Driving Under The Influence, Driving With A Suspended License, Reckless Endangerment and Manufacturing of Methamphetamine. He is in jail with a $15,000 bond.

This nut has taken the term "stupid criminal" to a new level. I hope he gets some substantial jail time -- for the public's safety and his own.

Messing With Wrong Wheelchair-Bound 95-Year-Old

I just love stories like this. It really doesn't need any commentary. This is from Channel 8 News (ABC) in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Armed only with a screwdriver, a 95-year-old woman in a wheel chair kept a burglar from breaking into her home by repeatedly stabbing his hand.

It was 3 a.m. when a 95-year-old Bartlesville woman heard somebody break the glass on her front door and push the door open. When a hand came inside and tried to unlock the door, she stabbed it. Again and again.

She stabbed that hand many times over the next hour, say Bartlesville Police.

The woman would not leave the door for fear the man would break in while she was calling for help.

Eventually, the man gave up.

When police arrived, they found the bloody suspect passed out on the front porch with dozens of stab wounds to his lower arms and hands.

"What do you tell your friends in jail about where did you get those wounds, asks a neighbor, Gerri Lynn Grindle. "I don't know that he's going to tell anybody he got them from a little old lady confined to a wheel chair."

The elderly woman told a neighbor she was going to get the screw driver gold plated and put it on a pedestal to serve as a warning to anybody else who tried to break in.

The suspect, 46-Year-Old Robert Horsley, is in jail facing one count of first-degree burglary.