Man out-spits father, claims pit-spitting title

By The Associated Press

EAU CLAIRE, Mich. – Brian “Young Gun” Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship.

Krause’s winning spit on Saturday was 56 feet, 7« inches.

That’s 6« inches better than his father, the second-place finisher and defending champion, 54-year-old Rick “Pellet Gun” Krause of Tuba City, Ariz., who spit 56 feet, 1 inch.

Thirty-year-old Brian Krause, of Dimondale, currently holds the Guinness World Record after spitting a pit 93 feet, 6« inches in 2003.

Wis. stun gun thief who posted video gets prison

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WAUKESHA, Wis. – A Wisconsin man who posted a video online showing him and his father shocking each other with a stolen police stun gun has been sent to prison.

Paul Crowell pleaded guilty to possession of an electric weapon and was sentenced June 20 to two years.

Documents say he stole a Taser from an East Troy police officer. He got it while sitting in a patrol car after his vehicle was found in a ditch.

The 22-year-old allegedly showed the online video to a girl, and she reported it to police.