Sorry Drake, Your Strange Security Story Doesn’t Make the Cut
You know there has been a lot of strange security-adjacent news in the month when a huge fireball over Toronto caused by the filming of a video to promote Drake's new album is relegated to the “and our editors ran across these other strange stories” section of the article.
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We’ll get right to this month’s strangest security news, but remember our standard disclaimer applies: Security is serious business, and the lighter approach to these stories is not intended to minimize any actual suffering caused by the actions described.
A Story so Strange (and Good) It Makes a Repeat Appearance in Strange Security: Back in December 2024, we first brought you the story of four Los Angelenos (why is it always California?) charged with devising a scheme where one of them dressed in a bear suit and damaged vehicles in a location and position so that it was easily captured on video. Justice has now been administered to three of them who entered no contest pleas. They will be spending weekends in jail, followed by probation, and have to pay $50,000 in restitution. The alleged fourth member of the gang will head to trial.
Our Best Strange Easter Story: That’s Not an Egg! If you want your children to enjoy a nice family Easter Sunday rather than scar them for life, it’s best not to plan your egg hunt in the park outside of LA (ahem, again, that’s Los Angeles, California) where they hide the dead bodies. That’s right, a partially exposed skull and mandible are what a child discovered instead of an egg during a family Easter Egg hunt.
Bless the NYTimes Headline Editor Who Gave Us “Pasta-and-Switch” And it’s a story about a Lego heist! So much weirdness in this story of a man from—you guessed it—California who allegedly purchased Lego sets, replaced the Legos with pasta, then sold the unboxed actual Legos kits as well as the Lego boxes filled with pasta. He was charged with grand theft after more than $34,000 in fraudulent sales—and birthday parties all over were ruined when kids went to build their Marvel Avengers Tower Building only to discover elbow macaroni instead of Lego bricks.
Weaponizing Honeybees: Proving that there are strange incidents outside of the Golden State, a beekeeper in the U.S. state of Massachusetts was charged with weaponizing her honeybees during an eviction order. She opened their container, and when the bees were jostled, one sheriff’s deputy was stung around the head and neck and another was hospitalized.
There Aren’t Many People Who Can Impersonate NFL Players: Luther Davis, who played on the defensive line for Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide from 2007 to 2010, is allegedly one of them. At least if he dons some makeup and wigs. That’s according to reports that Davis was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and identity theft in a scheme to secure $20 million of loans and investments.
More strange security-adjacent stories our editors picked up on in the last month:
An Explosion Rattles a Toronto Neighborhood. A Drake Video Was to Blame.
No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In
Cambodia Unveils Statue to Honor Famous Landmine-Sniffing Rat
