Joe Stokes, Author at Crazy America

Customer leaves $2,500 bar tip to help staff through emergency shutdown

March 17, 2020 by Joe Stokes

Photograph of $30 check from the Coaches Bar and Grill in Columbus, Ohio, to which a generous loyal customer added a $2,500 tip

Ohio patron digs deep to do his bit as state measures against coronavirus impact livelihoods in the sector.

Woman turns up to jail with weed-scented bail money, lands in the slammer herself

April 23, 2020March 16, 2020 by Joe Stokes

Louisiana resident gets busted after trying to free an inmate using tainted cash.

Toilet paper thief falls foul of the cops

March 13, 2020 by Joe Stokes

Florida man arrested after helping himself to single roll of bath tissue from neighbor’s truck.

Schoolboy ridiculed for dressing like deputy gets VIP escort

March 11, 2020 by Joe Stokes

North Carolina second-grader Daniel Thigpen proudly wearing his sheriff's deputy outfit

North Carolina second-grader mocked for wearing law enforcement costume to careers day is stunned as real-life deputies turn out to accompany him to school.

Father and son miraculously survive plane crash “without a scratch”

April 23, 2020March 10, 2020 by Joe Stokes

Small aircraft smashes into a tree just short of landing strip but pilot and passenger somehow walk away unhurt.

Police rescue five-foot alligator from Ohio basement

April 29, 2020March 2, 2020 by Joe Stokes

25-year-old American alligator will now be transported to a sanctuary.

Ex-sheriff’s deputy out on bond for burglary caught breaking into another home

February 29, 2020February 28, 2020 by Joe Stokes

Bottles of prescription hydrocodone pills

Former Wisconsin corrections officer who scanned obituaries for empty homes to rob is busted again mid-trial after forcing her way into property and stealing hydrocodone pills.