Apparently, diabetes gives you super-strength

Lipscomb official accused of jail damage- al.com

So, Gaston Randle, rogue Lipscomb city councilman, who was picked up in Brighton for wandering around outside a funeral home apparently drunk, somehow did fifteen hundred dollars worth of damage to the plumbing at Brighton city jail while he was there. Actually, the mayor of Brighton says that this is a “guesstimate” and it’s probably more. They say he ripped out a sink, lavatory, and pipes. He says that the sink just “fell off”.

Of course he did

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford calls for employee cuts to pay police, fire raises- al.com

He’s going to raise taxes and cut services. That takes chutzpah.