The notorious white separatist Craig Cobb is currently soliciting like-skinned people to move to his tiny town of Leith, N.D. (pop. 16), to create a deluxe Caucasian enclave, but at the urging of a black TV host he submitted to a DNA test in November to "prove" his lineage — and turned up 14 percent black ("Sub-Saharan African"). He has vowed to try other DNA tests before confirming those results. Bobby Harper, previously Leith's only black resident, was gleeful: "I knew there was one other black person in town." (In mid-November, Cobb was charged, along with an associate, with seven counts of terrorism for walking menacingly through Leith wielding a long gun.)

Great art!

Leandro Granato, 27, said that he discovered, as a kid in Argentina, that liquids sucked up through his nose could then be squirted out of his eye — and an art career was born. News sites reported in October that Granato's "eye paintings" of ink colors, splattered out as tears on canvas in various motifs (from up to 1½ pints of ink each), are offered for sale at a top-end price of the equivalent of $2,400 each.

Police report

Rachel Gossett blew a 0.216 alcohol reading in Loganville, Ga., in November, but that was probably a formality after an officer witnessed her attempting to put a cheeseburger from a Waffle House onto her foot as if it were a shoe. And Rashad Williams, 38, was charged with drunken driving in Atlanta in October after he crashed through the front of a Walgreens drugstore and then, according to a witness, calmly exited his vehicle (which was sticking halfway into the building) and resumed drinking next door at the Anchor Bar.

Sheriff's deputy Darrell Mathis of Newton County, Ga., a five-year veteran, was arrested in September and charged with selling marijuana locally — from his squad car, in uniform, and apparently without inhibition. A confidential informant, unnerved by Mathis' alleged brazenness, convinced FBI agents in April 2013 to do a by-the-book sting (with which Mathis, of course, naively cooperated, according to bureau affidavits). In their final meeting before the arrest, for example, Mathis took pains to assure the agents: "Don't worry. I'm on your side." He was reportedly enthusiastic about the sting's plan to run marijuana and cocaine from Alabama to North Carolina.

Sights to behold

When Franco Scaramuzza witnessed two men pepper-spraying a couple in a shopping center parking lot in Nashville in September, he bravely responded in the only way he knew. Scaramuzza, who teaches the art of fencing, drew his fencing sword ("epee") and challenged the men. With his epee held high and aimed, and chanting fencing-type yells, he charged at the men. As he said later, "They completely panicked and dropped everything ... and really took off." Michael Butt and Zachary Johnson were arrested nearby and charged with robbery.

In a courthouse lobby in Kelso, Wash., in October, a woman brought a cake in with her through security. Robert Fredrickson, a stranger, was also in the building on business. Without warning, Fredrickson attacked — the cake, not the woman — feeding himself with his hands before washing them off at a drinking fountain. "Stand right there. Don't move," yelled a deputy, attempting to bring Fredrickson to justice. As soon as the officer looked away, however, Fredrickson returned to clawing at the cake and stuffing his mouth. Finally, several deputies arrived to subdue Fredrickson and charge him with theft and resisting arrest.

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