Only in Wisconsin

I’ve heard grumbling from the masses about my lack of bloggish activity in recent days. Let’s just chalk that up to real life getting in the way. 🙂 I’ll put up a post with pictures sometime soon about what I’ve been up to since then, but until that happens, I thought I’d at least post a few links to odd news stories from Wisconsin the last couple weeks.
First, an Appleton woman was charged with felony extortion for placing a microwaved rat in her food at a restaurant, and then demanding $500,000. Too bad (for her) the restaurant doesn’t own a microwave. Or white lab rats.
Second, participants in the annual Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw in Prairie Du Sac on Labor Day weekend are already hard at work picking out the perfect cow chips. What a crappy job. (h/t Jeff [Frame])
And finally, if your lawn mower wouldn’t start, what would you do? Look at the starter, the spark plugs, or something like that? No, that’s far too logical. How about shooting the lawn mower with your sawed-off shotgun? Why yes, that sounds like a great idea! And that’s exactly what a Milwaukee man did. And his defense? “I can do that. It’s my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want.” Disorderly conduct charge aside (he fired a weapon within city limits), you might not wanna try that defense when you used a sawed-off shotgun, a weapon that’s illegal to possess to begin with (even in Wisconsin). (h/t Kent)
On Wisconsin!