CRIME NEWS

Here in Tulsa, the judge sentenced a man to 75 years in prison for robbing a Walgreen's pharmacy while he free on bond for robbing a Walgreen's pharmacy.


Try once, and if you don't succeed...

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As best I can make out, it was a game of strip golf that left a naked lady on the putting green at the Boiling Springs golf course over in Woodward County, Oklahoma, during the  Elks Lodge Rodeo Golf Tournament. The sheriff says he won't press charges because he can't find a complaining witness. 

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And police don't know why a man climbed 150 feet up a Tulsa radio tower during a lightning storm., but they'll try to find out as soon as he comes down. He's been up there now for 19 hours.

(8/13 update -- After 36 hours he's still up there, and drawing a crowd.)

(8/14 -- He's still up there.)
(8/15 -- Still there!)
(8/16 -- Still.
8/17 update-- After 128 hours, he's down and safe, dehydrated but OK. Police are taking him to what they call a "mental health facility," what I call the "booby hatch.")

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