Popbitch reports that a Utah woman was arrested after driving a motorized cart arrived a supermarket with no underwear and her trousers round her ankles. She said she’d arrived in town with the circus but had got left behind.

Sadly photo unavailable.

It might seem that we are picking on Utah lately. We’re not. It’s just that so many stories seem to emanate from there (including here and here).

Just to even it out, here is a story based in Southern California.

Man retires.
Celebrates by buying a $600 metal detector.
Tests it on his lawn, detector beeps.
Convinced this means gold is under his house he begins to dig.
Hires 3 laborers and digs 60 foot unreinforced shaft.
Worker at the bottom sucking on garden hose to breathe.
Authorities shut the whole thing down.

You pick the moral of these two stories:

Don’t let retirees buy metal detectors.
Retirees should all move to Utah.
As long as they don’t have their pants around their ankles, old people should be able to dig for gold wherever they please.

tags: utah metal detector

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