“Chicagoist Weekend Blotter”

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 01:36 PM PDT

A Carpentersville man, attempting to hide drug contraband during his arrest, gave new meaning to the term "crack pipe."
A downstate Illinois man came up with an unusual defense in a sexual assault case against him, claiming that he was sleepwalking and wasn't aware of what he was doing. And guess what? It worked.
Chicago police shot two different men in two different incidents late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, in less than four hours of each other.
If you're going to drive away from the scene of an accident because you're afraid of getting a DUI, be sure to not leave your license plate behind.
This guy had better look out for random lightning bolts -- a man was charged with prying open donation boxes at two churches and stealing the contents.
People are putting out some bad karma this weekend -- first robbing churches, now somebody stealing the wedding and engagement rings off a dead woman's finger.

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