Real Stories
It's wacky out here in the burbs. Real Stories brings you the funniest, most absurd and stranger-than-fiction real stories from all over America. Stories that can only happen in the burbs. We, the B-Team, provide original headlines, plus our own crazy Burbia "takes" on the stories. Send us your stories too. If they meet Burbia's stringent standards (e.g., they make us laugh), we'll tee up them too.

Another Guy With A Bag Of Pot Taped To His Head ... Busted
Lebanon PA
B-Take: You have to hand it to this guy. Not only was the pot literally stuck to his forehead when the cops entered the convenience store, but they found him peeing in his hat. (No wonder things were sticky around the head area.) Authorities were uncertain whether the man intended to place the hat back on his head after peeing...but presumably the investigation is ongoing....see the full story.

German Garden Gnomes Against Hitler
Straubing, GRP
B-Take: It's about time garden gnomes did something useful--in this case with the help of a German artist who placed 1500 of them, arms outstreched in the traditional Hitler salute, in a German Square to remind people that Naziism still needs to be rejected. No worries, once the display is over, the gnomes will be returned to their traditional homes...their patches of ivy, clusters of shrubs. But they'll always have 'Straubing Square', and this important statement for human and gnome-kind....see the full story.

F.U Sign A-OK On Neighbor's Lawn
Stonington, CT
B-Take: Want to tell your neighbors how you really feel? No problem. At least in this small town where local authorities decided that a resident's right to free expression -- featuring the colorful F.U. on a sign painted by that resident's way talented teenage daughter -- outweighed any hurt feelings or standards of decorum controlled by town zoning or other laws. The First Amendment. It means something. Get over it....see the full story.