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Don MacLeod

22,000 Wake Ups and Counting

Category: Whacky Wednesday

Crime

Stolen Livestock, Poisoned Golf Courses, and Sewage Beaches: This Week’s Chaos

Posted on May 6, 2026May 6, 2026 By Don MacLeod

Some weeks, the news cycle feels like a Mad Libs game written by someone who’s never left their basement. This is one of those weeks. Between Saturday night and Sunday morning, 64 Holstein calves — each worth between $1,800 and $2,000 — disappeared from a converted turkey barn in Coldwater,…

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Whacky Wednesday

Whacky Wednesday Got Weird: Shoplifting Confessions, Phantom Warrants, and Python-Hunting Possums

Posted on April 29, 2026April 29, 2026 By Don MacLeod

Surveillance technology in 2026 has achieved a remarkable trifecta: it can’t catch people who openly admit to crimes, it relentlessly persecutes people who’ve done nothing wrong, and — in a plot twist nobody saw coming — it’s now being outsourced to possums. Welcome to Whacky Wednesday. The Shoplifter Who Won’t…

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Crime

Bear Suits, Pasta Swaps, and a Condom Crisis — This Week’s Whacky Wednesday

Posted on April 22, 2026April 22, 2026 By Don MacLeod

Welcome to Whacky Wednesday, where the news is real but the logic has left the building. This week’s lineup: a man who replaced Lego pieces with dried pasta before returning them to Target, three people who dressed someone in a bear suit to defraud luxury car insurers, and — because…

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