Readers' choice: In October, with the homeowner away on vacation, Beverly Valentine, 54, broke into a house in Douglasville, Ga., and made herself totally at home, commandeering owner Beverly Mitchell's clothes, having the utilities changed to her name, ripping out carpeting, having a new washer and dryer installed, and painting a room, among other changes.

All true: A Texas state representative had his house and yard toilet-papered by a group of adult women who were supporting his opponent. . . . A Louisiana man arrested for indecent exposure confessed to police his long-standing hobby of photographing himself nude in unusual locations. . . . And police called to a Utah man's house to stop him from slitting his wrists also found the man's mother trying to commit suicide by automobile exhaust in the garage.

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by Chuck Shepherd