Brickbats

Reason magazine has a feature called "Brickbats" which features amusing excerpts from newspaper and magazine articles. Below are a sampling.

In Hillsboro, Illinois, the Rev. Anthony Dearinger faces felony charges of cruelty to children. It seems the pastor threw an 8-year-old boy across the church during a sermon to demonstrate what will happen when God meets Satan on Judgment Day. (6/94)
"We called the stolen car victim and told her we had some good news and some bad news," said El Cajon, California, police spokesperson Debbie Setzer. "The good new is that we recovered your car. The bad news is that we stole it." Seems that the woman left her car parked near the police station; officers thought it was an unmarked police car and drove off in it. (5/93)
In Tennesee, the Memphis Zoo had to refund the admission charges to several vistors to a special exhibit on dinosaurs. Seems the people complained after they discovered there were no live dinosaurs in the exhibit. (6/93)