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By Travis Leeper

Oh the Brewmanity
A bottle of Lowenbrau beer containing around 80 percent of its original contents went on auction November 14. The beer was recovered from the wreckage of the Hindenburg crash in New Jersey, dating back to 1937.

The rare bottle of beer is reported to be the most expensive beer ever put to auction. Along with the bottle of beer, a recovered milk pitcher will be sold as well. The bottle and pitcher are some of a handful of items recovered from the crash. A fireman had recovered several bottles of Lowenbrau from the crash, giving some to friends and one to the original brewery. All have been lost except for the one to be auctioned and the one that remains at its original place of bottling.

The beer is expected to sell for more than $8,000.

911, not 900
Police report that Tampa resident Joshua Basso, 29, called 911 in an attempt to sleep with a female dispatcher. The dispatcher hung up on Basso repeatedly but was met with four more callbacks resulting in his arrest.

Basso claimed to not realize that calling 911 would result in police involvement. He also claimed that he had run out of cell phone minutes and that 911 was the only number he was able to dial.

Freed by the Feed
A 19-year-old New Yorker under arrest for robbery was cleared of all charges due to a Facebook status update that read: "WHERE MY IHOP?"

Rodney Bradford was under suspicion for the robbing of two people who lived in his Brooklyn public housing complex. Bradford's attorneys successfully demonstrated that his status was not only updated just a minute before the crime took place but also updated from his father's Harlem home, 13 miles away. The status was aimed at Bradford's girlfriend, who was due to deliver Bradford the meal.

The case marked the first time a Facebook status update has been used in court as evidence of a person's whereabouts. Bradford remarked to the New York Post that, "If it wasn't for Facebook I'd still be on Rikers Island."

Originally Published: Issue 824 - November 18, 2009

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