http://www.thedailyurinal.com/ Pissin The Day Away en-us chris@thedailyurinal.com (Chris) chris@thedailyurinal.com (Chris) http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100510/NEWS03/100510017/Clarksville+man+steals+beer++says+they+w After reportedly stealing beer from a gas station on the Bypass, a man brought the drinks back minutes later and attempted to exchange the stolen beers because they weren't cold enough. A clerk told police that she went into the back of the store while re-stocking the beer, and when she returned a few cases were missing, according to a Montgomery County Sheriff's Office report. At that point, the man who appeared drunk, the clerk said came in with the warm beer and asked to exchange it 2010-05-18 http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100510/NEWS03/100510017/Clarksville+man+steals+beer++says+they+w http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1050742/topless-woman-saves-apartments-from-fire A Darwin woman who used a hose to save a burning apartment building was so caught up in the moment she didn't realise she was topless. Tash Bennett was sunbaking by the pool at the Alatai Apartments in Darwin on Thursday when she noticed specks of ash falling on her, the NT News reports. 2010-05-18 http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1050742/topless-woman-saves-apartments-from-fire http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/TSA-Fracas-After-Body-Scanner-Reveals-TMI-92971929.html Perhaps the new airport body scanners are a bit too revealing. A TSA worker in Miami was arrested for aggravated battery after police say he attacked a colleague who'd made fun of his small genitalia after he walked through one of the new high-tech security scanners during a recent training session. Rolando Negrin, 44, was busted for assault after things got ugly at Miami International Airport between Negrin and some of his fellow Transportation Security Administration workers on Tuesday. 2010-05-18 http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/TSA-Fracas-After-Body-Scanner-Reveals-TMI-92971929.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/12/2897064.htm?section=justin Police say three people have been charged with drink-driving in the same car in Alice Springs overnight. Just after 4am police stopped the vehicle and say a 25-year-old man was arrested for high-range drink-driving and a range of other driving offences. Within 10 minutes, police stopped the vehicle again and charged a 31-year-old woman after she was over the alcohol limit. Again within a ten minute period, police found the car back on the road and a 30-year-old man was charged with drin 2010-05-18 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/12/2897064.htm?section=justin http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/alan-29040-rolling-marijuana.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium CRESTVIEW -- Mayor hopeful Alan Sampson said someone broke into his home last week and left marijuana rolling papers in his bathroom drawer. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident. Sampson, who was charged March 21 with marijuana possession and possession of narcotics equipment, told deputies someone planted the rolling papers in his home. 'I don't know if someone was trying to leave me a message or if it was some of the kids in the neighborhood,' Sampson sai 2010-05-18 http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/alan-29040-rolling-marijuana.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37208622/ns/us_news-weird_news/ CHICOPEE, Mass. - A Massachusetts man offered to trade his 3-month-old daughter to an employee at a gas station and convenience store in exchange for beer, or perhaps crack cocaine, police say. 2010-05-18 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37208622/ns/us_news-weird_news/ http://www.dailychilli.com/news/3160-lover-almost-killed-by-huge-breasts British woman Claire Smedley almost killed her lover during sex - with her enormous breasts. Mum-of-three Smedley, 27, who has 40LL breasts, panicked when she lifted them up while having sex and found that her lover Steven had stopped breathing. In an exclusive video interview with the News of the World, she revealed how Steven usually loved being smothered by her breasts. "This time, he started flailing around a bit but I assumed it was because he was so excited, so I kept going. A few 2010-04-08 http://www.dailychilli.com/news/3160-lover-almost-killed-by-huge-breasts http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2923222/Cops-go-in-hard-on-willy-bust.html COPS swooped on a furniture store after shocked shoppers reported this bizarre case of indecent exposure. Store owner Jason Hadlow was slapped with a fine of £80 for displaying a 4ft stone penis in his shop window. A member of the public complained after spotting the offending appendage which was displayed in his shop, Simply Dutch, near Bedale, North Yorkshire. The firm, which bills itself as "the most interesting store in the North", recently stocked a new range of garden furniture, i 2010-04-08 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2923222/Cops-go-in-hard-on-willy-bust.html http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/crime/article/woman_accused_of_operating_strip_club_out_of_trailer/34 CHESTERFIELD, S.C.A disgruntled customer led deputies last week to a strip club operating out of a mobile home with a pole in the middle of the living room. The man called 911 dispatchers about 1 a.m. March 21 to report the strip club because he 'had paid $25 and didn't get what he wanted,' Chesterfield County Sheriff's Investigator Daniel Scott said. When deputies knocked on the door, 'The homeowner, Gwendolyn Lowery, opened the door, and in the middle of the floor there were a bunch of 2010-04-07 http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/crime/article/woman_accused_of_operating_strip_club_out_of_trailer/34 http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_14761689 LAS CRUCES - A teen who allegedly defecated in a man's car - thinking it was his girlfriend's - was indicted Thursday on multiple charges of criminal property damage. Leaving work late the night of March 11, the car's owner reported finding 18-year-old Austin Horries Purifoy in the back seat of his Honda Civic, pulling up his underwear. "This is your car?" Purifoy said, according to documents filed in court. "I thought this was Desiree's car." Purifoy then allegedly got out of the car a 2010-03-30 http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_14761689 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/03/24/Goose-woos-statue-traps-woman/UPI-97271269452966/ WITT, Ill., March 24 (UPI) -- An Illinois woman said a goose with romantic intentions toward a concrete statue held her hostage in her home for several hours. Joanne Martin said she tried to leave her Witt, Ill., home earlier this month and caught an amorous goose in the throes of mating season making advances to the concrete goose statue next to her car, the Springfield (Ill.) State Journal Register reported Wednesday. 2010-03-26 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/03/24/Goose-woos-statue-traps-woman/UPI-97271269452966/ http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/032210-New-Scent-Boasts-Vaginal-Aroma DALLAS - A new scent claims to accurately capture the "the vaginal scent of a beautiful woman." Vulva Original bills itself not as a perfume, but an erotic feminine scent designed to offer pleasure and arousal by smelling it. It is not clear what compromises the concoction but it is advertised as being a "slightly yellow, desirable substance" that contains "more organic content." 2010-03-26 http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/032210-New-Scent-Boasts-Vaginal-Aroma http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/company-boss-spent-pound104000-on-firms-credit-card-in-l A British company director spent more than £100,000 (€111,000) on his firm's credit card in a lapdancing club and falsified profits so he could get a bigger bonus, a court has heard. Ian Tulloch, 59, a married father-of-two, spent the equivalent of nearly twice his annual salary on naked dancing girls at the Spearmint Rhino club in central London. The sum would have paid for more than 5,000 nude lap dances, at £20 a time. 2010-03-25 http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/company-boss-spent-pound104000-on-firms-credit-card-in-l http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100323/ap_on_re_as/as_india_chili_grenades GAUHATI, India The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili. After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized "bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said Tuesday. 2010-03-25 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100323/ap_on_re_as/as_india_chili_grenades http://www.wishtv.com/dpps/news/strange/fairfield-bank-robbers-call-ahead_3287022 Fairfield, Conn. (WTNH) - Two people have been arrested after they called a Fairfield bank demanding money, police said. The call came in to the People's United Bank in Stratfield Center around 3:00 p.m. The caller stated that he was sending someone in and that the teller should hand over $100,000. 2010-03-25 http://www.wishtv.com/dpps/news/strange/fairfield-bank-robbers-call-ahead_3287022 http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/100323/K032308AU.html VIERA, Fla. - A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for violating his probation by trying to break into the Brevard County jail. A judged sentenced 25-year-old Sylvester Jiles on Monday. He was convicted in January of trespassing on jail property and resisting an officer. Authorities say Jiles tried to climb a 12-foot (3 1/2-meter) fence at the Brevard County Detention Center in August. He was caught and hospitalized with severe cuts from the barbed wire. He had been rele 2010-03-25 http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/100323/K032308AU.html http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=301785 Police have detained a man they say was waving a large sword around and stabbing objects in the parking lot of a Bainbridge Island building supply store. The shirtless 35-year-old man was covered with scrapes and cuts. He told the off-duty Bainbridge Island police officer who approached him Tuesday afternoon that he was "hunting werewolves and chuds" who could disguise themselves as humans. The man said he feared getting hurt. 2010-03-25 http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=301785 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8570398.stm A man who assaulted a female police officer with his penis has been fined. Marium Varinauskas, 28, tried to strike the officer on the head with his penis when she was called out to his flat, but she got out of the way. Lithuanian Varinauskas admitted a charge of assault at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and was fined £600. 2010-03-18 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8570398.stm http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1027360/woman-aims-to-become-worlds-fattest An obese mother in the US is trying to put on weight in order to become the world's fattest woman. Donna Simpson, from New Jersey, weighs 273kg but told the Daily Mail newspaper she had her heart set on reaching her goal weight of 1000lb (450kg) in two years. The 42-year-old already holds the title of the world's fattest mother after giving birth to her daughter in 2007 when she weighed 241kg. "I'd love to be 1000lb ... it might be hard though, running after my daughter keeps my weight 2010-03-16 http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1027360/woman-aims-to-become-worlds-fattest http://www.ksdk.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=197439&catid=28 NBC -- Police in Wichita, Kansas are investigating an odd crime that involves drugs, assault and Monopoly money. It started as a routine traffic stop in a Wichita neighborhood Thursday evening. When police pulled over the car they found a 33-year-old man bleeding from the head and telling an unusual story. The victim said a couple of weeks ago he bought several hundred dollars of crack-cocaine with Monopoly money and now the dealer was ready for pay back. 2010-03-10 http://www.ksdk.com/news/national/story.aspx?storyid=197439&catid=28 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/romania/7405695/Romanian-street-sign-warns-drivers- Officials in Pecica, a village town about 13 miles from the Hungarian border in the country's west, ordered the bright red signs, complete with the phrase 'Attention - Drunks'. The 10 road signs, which also show a person crawling on their knees while clutching a glass in one hand, were erected in popular nightspot areas close to the city's bars and restaurants. 2010-03-10 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/romania/7405695/Romanian-street-sign-warns-drivers- http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/87109677.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU A 22-year-old Lakeville newlywed is contending that a "Dr. Phil" spinoff national TV show tricked him into appearing and discussing the blemishes on his genitals, then airing a rerun of the episode over his protests. 2010-03-10 http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/87109677.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14519745?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1 A Vallejo teenager allegedly shot himself in the testicles Thursday afternoon, police said. Police said the 17-year-old, whose name is being withheld because he's a minor, walked into Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center at about 5:45 p.m. with a gunshot wound. The gun is still outstanding, police said, and the teen has not been cooperative. 2010-03-10 http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14519745?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1 http://www.wtsp.com/news/mostpop/story.aspx?storyid=125664&provider=top TAMPA, Florida - StripperMobile, the strip club on wheels, will not return to the streets of Tampa Friday night as originally planned. City officials put the brakes on the mobile advertisement for the Déjà Vu gentlemen's club because of registration issues with the truck's Nevada license plate. 2010-02-23 http://www.wtsp.com/news/mostpop/story.aspx?storyid=125664&provider=top http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Nursing-Home-Residents-Form-a-Biker-Gang-84805857.html Lydia Scheltes woke up in her bed at Bethesda Retirement Center one morning with pinkish hair, a tattoo on her arm and a hangover. Not a typical morning for the 90-year-old. 'Seniors are more fun than you'll ever know,' she said. Scheltes wasn't alone: Seven ladies and one dude aged 65 to 97 all had a similar hazy look in their eyes after they hung out with bikers at the Evil Olive bar in Wicker Park on Feb. 11. 2010-02-23 http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Nursing-Home-Residents-Form-a-Biker-Gang-84805857.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7259636/Swiss-prostitutes-trained-to-use-def Brothel owners in the Lugano area say electric shock treatment to restart customer's hearts is needed because so many elderly customers are using their services. The most recent victim was a pensioner, thought to be having fun with the help of anti-impotence medication. His death followed a series of other incidents, some fatal, in which heart attacks have claimed brothel customers in the area. 2010-02-19 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7259636/Swiss-prostitutes-trained-to-use-def http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22604290/detail.html ATLANTA -- A runaway zebra was spotted on Atlanta's downtown connector during Thursday afternoon's rush hour. Channel 2 Action News has learned that the runaway zebra belongs to the Ringling Brothers Circus. 2010-02-19 http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22604290/detail.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35462323/ns/health-more_health_news/?gt1=43001 BOGOTA, Colombia - A Colombian woman declared dead of a heart attack moved one of her arms just as an undertaker was about to embalm her, doctors said Wednesday. Noelia Serna, 45, was rushed to a hospital in the city of Cali, where she was in critical condition in an intensive care unit Wednesday, said hospital director Luis Fernando Rendon. "Her chances of survival are slim," Rendon said. 2010-02-19 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35462323/ns/health-more_health_news/?gt1=43001 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/15/ap/strange/main6210547.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMai It took five long months for a Czech woman to discover the reason for her pain: Doctors had left a foot-long medical tool inside her abdomen. This month, doctors at a clinic in the southeastern town of Ivancice discovered their colleagues had forgotten to remove a spatula-like surgical instrument from the woman following gynecological surgery in September. 2010-02-17 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/15/ap/strange/main6210547.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMai http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201002150833/NEWS01/100215002 Police arrested Ronald McDonald for possession of marijuana and allowing others to use drugs at his residence on Sunday. According to police, officers responded to the 44-year-old's residence, 2023 Taylor Dr. at 5:43 after receiving a report of a suspicious odor. Outside McDonald's residence, officers could smell a strong odor or marijuana coming from the residence. 2010-02-17 http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201002150833/NEWS01/100215002 http://heritage.com/articles/2010/02/16/milan_news_leader/news/doc4b79caa7cf7d2725126210.txt A woman wearing a bikini and covered in Jell-O was arrested for driving while under the influence shortly after leaving a Milan bar last week, according to police reports. A Milan police officer on patrol witnessed a 1998 Chevrolet Lumina roll through the stop sign at the intersection of Lewis Avenue and Lee Street at about 10:20 p.m. Feb. 8. The driver swerved the vehicle before stopping on southbound North Street. 2010-02-17 http://heritage.com/articles/2010/02/16/milan_news_leader/news/doc4b79caa7cf7d2725126210.txt http://spectator.org/blog/2010/02/12/iowa-court-discovers-art-looph Nude dancing is still an art form in Iowa, at least at a strip club in the tiny town of Hamburg. The Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed the state's request for a review of the issue. The request followed a judge's 2008 decision that Clarence Judy, then-owner of Shotgun Geniez, didn't violate the state's public indecent exposure law. Judy was charged after a 17-year-old girl stripped onstage in the southwestern Iowa club in 2007. 2010-02-17 http://spectator.org/blog/2010/02/12/iowa-court-discovers-art-looph http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-utah-school15-2010feb15,0,906102.story The proposal by state Sen. Chris Buttars would chip away at Utah's $700-million shortfall. He's since offered a toned-down version: Just make senior year optional. 2010-02-17 http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-utah-school15-2010feb15,0,906102.story http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8508077.stm An Arab country's ambassador to Dubai has had his marriage contract annulled after discovering the bride was cross-eyed and had facial hair. The woman had worn an Islamic veil, known as the niqab, on the few occasions the couple had met. 2010-02-11 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8508077.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7187010/US-soldier-gives-four-year-old-da Joshua Tabor allegedly told police he had used the technique because he was angry and knew his daughter was scared of water. The 27-year-old, who had recently gained custody of the young girl, said she "squirmed" as he pushed her under the water three or four times, it was claimed. 2010-02-11 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7187010/US-soldier-gives-four-year-old-da http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS16/2080342 Scantily clad dancers were the draw at a downtown men's entertainment club over the weekend for an event that raised nearly $1,000 for victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Marilyn's on Monroe, 715 Monroe St., billed Saturday's affair as "Lap dances for Haiti." Although the billing may be misleading - lap dancing is illegal in Ohio - the intention isn't. General Manager Kenny Soprano said Sunday the club donated all the money from the day's regular $10 cover charge to International Servic 2010-02-11 http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS16/2080342 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/02/09/Phony-corpse-tip-leads-to-marijuana-bust/UPI-77071265740763/ MONTREAL, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Canadian police in Montreal suspect rivals were responsible for a fake tip about a dead body in a house that actually was a marijuana farm. Police got an anonymous 911 emergency call at 11:45 p.m. Monday night about a corpse in a house in suburban Laval, Constable Nathalie Lorrain told The (Montreal) Gazette. Officers got no answer at the front door and circled the house and then found the front door ajar, she said. 2010-02-11 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/02/09/Phony-corpse-tip-leads-to-marijuana-bust/UPI-77071265740763/ http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=151820 AIRMONT -- An Orange County woman was arrested in the Ramapo Diner after police said she agreed to meet an acquaintance to return jewelry that she allegedly took from her home. Melissa A. Dineen, 22, of Monroe was arrested at the diner Monday evening after she agreed to meet a Ramapo resident there. The resident told police that $6,400 worth of jewelry had been taken from her Fred Eller Drive home Friday. 2010-02-11 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=151820 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584936,00.html An 11-year-old girl in the Northeast recently gave birth to a baby boy, the girl's family told Fox News. "My daughter and (her) baby are fine, and the baby is absolutely beautiful," said the mother of the 11-year-old girl. The girl and her family are not being named in order to protect the new parent's privacy. 2010-02-11 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584936,00.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35253846/ns/business-world_business David Kiely, who works in Macquarie Private Wealth in Sydney, opened e-mails on Tuesday containing pictures of model Miranda Kerr, unaware a colleague behind him was doing a live television interview about the Australian economy. 2010-02-05 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35253846/ns/business-world_business http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/6694557/booze-boobs-promotion A nightclub in Singapore is attracting attention for a marketing strategy that offers free drinks according to women's bra sizes, the China Press reports. The OverEasy nightclub introduced the event 'Fill My Cups' recently to promote events hosted by Australian DJ DCUP. The promotion allows A-cup patrons one free drink, B-cups two, C-cups three, and D-cups can claim a free bottle of vodka. 2010-01-21 http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/6694557/booze-boobs-promotion http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/01/07/Man-crashes-into-cafe-orders-breakfast/UPI-48261262892310/ PORT ORANGE, Fla., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A 91-year-old man who crashed his car into a popular Florida restaurant proceeded to sit down and order breakfast near his vehicle, authorities said. Tonya Gilardi, a spokeswoman for Port Orange Fire, said Charles Pierce was not injured when he crashed his car into the Biscuits 'N' Gravy restaurant at 11:11 a.m. Monday, but another customer was treated for minor injuries at Halifax Health Medical Center in Port Orange, the Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal 2010-01-18 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/01/07/Man-crashes-into-cafe-orders-breakfast/UPI-48261262892310/ http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=2307 Police were called to Crittenden Middle School on Friday to arrest a 14-year-old boy for angrily throwing a football at another boy's leg during a football game. Police spokesperson Steve McCoy said school administrators called the police at 2:14 p.m. last Friday to report the incident. The unnamed 13-year-old hit in the leg by the football was uninjured. 2010-01-18 http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=2307 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6946257/Mans-penis-removed-from-pipe.html Medics at Southampton General Hospital could not get the man's penis out of the stainless steel pipe because the restricted blood flow had caused it to become aroused. So they called in Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service. 2010-01-18 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6946257/Mans-penis-removed-from-pipe.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6946257/Mans-penis-removed-from-pipe.html Medics at Southampton General Hospital could not get the man's penis out of the stainless steel pipe because the restricted blood flow had caused it to become aroused. So they called in Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service. 2010-01-18 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6946257/Mans-penis-removed-from-pipe.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/01/10/Glasgow-Parents-take-teens-to-washroom/UPI-71201263149893/ GLASGOW, Scotland, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A Scotland city council regulation says a parent must escort children under 16 years old to the washroom in places such as restaurants. The Glasgow rule requires parents to accompany their children everywhere within a licensed establishment, which arguably would mean that, for example, a teenage boy would have to go to the women's restroom with his mother, The Sunday Times of London said. 2010-01-18 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/01/10/Glasgow-Parents-take-teens-to-washroom/UPI-71201263149893/ http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Murderer-in-call-for-porn.5973714.jp A notorious Wigan murderer has demanded that female prison warders be axed so that he can watch pornographic movies in his cell. 2010-01-18 http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Murderer-in-call-for-porn.5973714.jp http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/6990753/Weight-Watchers-clinic-floor-collaps As the dieters queued to see how many pounds they had shed, the floor beneath them in the clinic in Växjö, in south-central Sweden, began to rumble, according to a report in The Local, Sweden's English-language newspaper. "We suddenly heard a huge thud; we almost thought it was an earthquake and everything flew up in the air. 2010-01-15 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/6990753/Weight-Watchers-clinic-floor-collaps http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/offbeat/iowa-man-spells-out-wife%27s-birthday-message-in-manure_541 ZWINGLE, Iowa - Ask this Iowa wife if she got the perfect birthday present and she'll tell you her hubby "dung good." Carole and Dick Kleis live together on their eastern Iowa farm. This year for her birthday, Dick used more than 120,000 pounds of manure to spell out a special message. It basically says 'Happy Birthday, Love You,' but in shorthand. 2010-01-06 http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/offbeat/iowa-man-spells-out-wife%27s-birthday-message-in-manure_541 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1240770/France-introduce-new-law-banning-psycholog Married couples in France could end up with criminal records for insulting each other during arguments. Under a new law, France is to become the first country in the world to ban ' psychological violence' within marriage. The law would apply to cohabiting couples and to both men and women. 2010-01-06 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1240770/France-introduce-new-law-banning-psycholog http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-911-bar,0,3000599.story OLDSMAR, Fla. -- A man was arrested after authorities say he called 911 to ask for a ride to a bar. The sheriff's office reports that 37-year-old Gregory J. Oras called 911 three times early Tuesday morning. One call was made while Oras was leaving a bar, and he reportedly told the 911 operator that he had a broken nose, bleeding ears and people shooting at him. It turned out he just wanted a ride to another bar in Oldsmar. 2010-01-05 http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-911-bar,0,3000599.story http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100102/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_back_seat_meth MURFREESBORO, Tenn. Police say a driver passed out in his car at a Tennessee gas station while a batch of methamphetamine was cooking in the back seat. An employee at the gas station in Murfreesboro, about 30 miles southeast of Nashville, called police because the car was sitting at the pump for about an hour on New Year's Day. 2010-01-05 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100102/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_back_seat_meth http://www.toledoonthemove.com/news/story.aspx?id=396613 TOLEDO, OHIO -- An East Toledo woman became so enraged that chicken nuggets were not available at a Toledo McDonald's that she punched through the drive-thru window. Toledo Police say Melodi Dushane, 24, stopped at the fast-food restaurant at Front and Main Streets in East Toledo early Friday morning and asked for chicken nuggets. When the drive-thru attendant told her the restaurant was only serving breakfast and that the item was not available, Dushane reached through the window and punched t 2010-01-05 http://www.toledoonthemove.com/news/story.aspx?id=396613 http://www.wsmv.com/automotive/22082612/detail.html ROME, Ga. -- Planning to drink and drive this New Year's? A north Georgia funeral home has a deal for you. Between now and noon Thursday, drivers can visit McGuire, Jennings and Miller Funeral Home in Rome to sign a contract stating they plan to drink or take drugs and then drive on New Year's Eve. If they die in a wreck that day, the funeral home will give them a free burial. 2009-12-29 http://www.wsmv.com/automotive/22082612/detail.html http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091217/tod-breast-flasher-hit-by-distracted-dri-7f81b96.html A teenager flashing her breasts in the middle of a New Zealand road paid for her drunken revelry when a distracted driver ran into her. Cherelle Dudfield, 18, was dared to flash passing cars in the southern city of Invercargill after a night out drinking with friends. She had exposed herself to a couple of cars from a strip in the middle of the road when the stunt went awry. 2009-12-24 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091217/tod-breast-flasher-hit-by-distracted-dri-7f81b96.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091215/od_nm/us_france_jackpot TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) A French court has split the jackpot from a casino slot machine between the woman who put in the money and the man who pulled the lever, ending months of argument between the two. Marie-Helene Jarguel walked off with over 2 million euros ($2.91 million) in March after a bet of 50 euros on a one-armed bandit, only for her gambling partner Francis Sune to contest her gain based on the fact that he activated the machine. 2009-12-24 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091215/od_nm/us_france_jackpot http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/22/Man-with-knife-in-chest-orders-coffee/UPI-24511261519921/ WARREN, Mich., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Police in Michigan said a man with a 5-inch knife lodged in his chest walked into a restaurant, called 911, ordered coffee and sat down to wait for paramedics. Warren police said the 52-year-old man told the 911 operator he had been stabbed in Warren and walked half a mile to Bray's Hamburgers in Hazel Park to use the telephone, WDIV-TV, Detroit, reported Tuesday. 2009-12-24 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/22/Man-with-knife-in-chest-orders-coffee/UPI-24511261519921/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091216/od_nm/us_drinking BEIJING (Reuters) The Chinese police captain who named his subordinate a "martyr" after he died from a drinking binge has been suspended, the Shenzhen Public Security Authority said on Tuesday. Traffic officer Chen Lusheng of the southern city of Shenzhen was off-duty when he attended a banquet with officials from Mabu village in late October. After repeated toasts, he vomited and passed out on a couch, where he suffocated, state media said. 2009-12-24 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091216/od_nm/us_drinking http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/18/Abandoned-baby-thanks-rescuers/UPI-19491261171777/ FAIRFAX, Va., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Two friends who discovered a newborn girl in front of a Virginia townhouse when they were teenagers said the girl contacted them 20 years later. Christopher Astle and Emily Yanich-Fithian, now both 35, said they discovered the newborn by the front door of an empty townhouse in their Fairfax County apartment complex Sept. 6, 1989, The Washington Post reported Friday. 2009-12-24 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/18/Abandoned-baby-thanks-rescuers/UPI-19491261171777/ http://www.ksfy.com/news/local/79701822.html Well we wanted to introduce you to Timothy the cat tonight. The poor thing is lucky to be alive and recovering after someone glued him to a Minnesota interstate. A couple saw the cat on the side of the road, and thought it had been hit by a car. When they stopped and picked up the cat, sadly the glue ripped off his paw pads and pulled out some of his claws. Second Chance Rescue crews say they've never seen anything like this. "It's a mouth dropper because you are just like are you kidding me? bu 2009-12-24 http://www.ksfy.com/news/local/79701822.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8427415.stm A man who encouraged his teenage son to marry and rape his 12-year-old cousin has been jailed. The 54-year-old organised a sham Muslim ceremony between his son, then 16, and the girl at his home in Woolwich, south-east London, in March last year. 2009-12-24 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8427415.stm http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/nude-kiwi-cyclists-warned-over-helmets/story-e6frfku0-122581307 CYCLING starkers might be okay in New Zealand - but just make sure the cops don't catch you without a helmet. Two Kiwi men wearing nothing but their birthday suits have been issued with a warning for riding without protective head gear on a jaunt around a sleepy New Zealand seaside town. Senior Constable Cathy Duder was patrolling Whangamata, a beach resort in the North Island, on a quiet Monday night when she came across the two nude men, both in their early 20s. "They were more shocked than I 2009-12-23 http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/nude-kiwi-cyclists-warned-over-helmets/story-e6frfku0-122581307 http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20091210/SHE0101/91209077 A 36-year-old Waldo man who urinated on a police officer during a fifth drunken driving arrest has been sentenced to a year in jail. Daniel L. Shilts Jr., of 720 W. Second St., was sentenced Nov. 30 by Judge Gary Langhoff to the jail term and three years probation, according to court records released Wednesday. A three-year prison sentence was imposed and stayed, meaning Shilts will serve the prison time if his probation is revoked. 2009-12-16 http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20091210/SHE0101/91209077 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/09/Women-to-row-Atlantic-naked/UPI-59681260399124/ BRISTOL, England, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Two British women attempting a world record by rowing across the Atlantic say they hope to shave a few days off the trip by completing the feat naked. Mel King, 37 and Annie Januszewski, 40, of Bristol, England, said they are hoping to row 3,000 miles from Gomera in the Canary Islands to Antigua in the West Indies in only 70 days, to beat the previous 75-day record for a two-woman team, The Sun reported Wednesday. 2009-12-16 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/09/Women-to-row-Atlantic-naked/UPI-59681260399124/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121300007.html When a man in the UK was asked to be the best man at his friend's wedding, he was touched. So touched, that he promised not to pull any pranks before or during the wedding. After the wedding though, that's another story 2009-12-16 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121300007.html http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/245976 A slow-moving horse and buggy led to the arrest Sunday night of a Paradise man, who was charged with drunken driving. Police said Elmer Stoltzfoos Fisher, 22, was found slumped over and asleep in a buggy that was moving slowly in the first block of North Ronks Road. 2009-12-09 http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/245976 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/805351-naked-santa-statue-not-popular-with-texas Barry McBee, of Big Spring, Texas, insists he was just trying to raise a smile from passers-by when he added a Santa hat and white beard to the 5-foot-tall replica of the Renaissance statue. Unfortunately, within a fairly short time, parents started calling Big Spring city officials complaining that their children were asking why Santa was naked. 2009-12-09 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/805351-naked-santa-statue-not-popular-with-texas http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3586858.html?menu Scientists had to give up on a study of pornography - because they couldn't find any men who had not watched hardcore movies before. Researchers planned to recruit two groups of men in their twenties to compare regular porn users with those who had never seen explicit films. But they were shocked when they could not find any men who had not watched blue movies, reports The Sun. 2009-12-04 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3586858.html?menu http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34264774/ns/world_news-wonderful_world/?GT1=43001 BUDAPEST, Hungary - Talk about a reversal of fortunes. Two brothers who are so poor they live in a cave on the outskirts of Budapest and get by selling scavenged junk are in line to receive a $6.6 billion inheritance from a long-lost grandmother, the U.K. Daily Telegraph reports. 2009-12-04 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34264774/ns/world_news-wonderful_world/?GT1=43001 http://gawker.com/5414932/heroic-stripper-is-like-the-cesar-chavez-of-stripping One woman is on a crusade to reform Portland, Oregon's strip club industry by suing evil club owners who put making a profit before paying women fairly to take off their clothes and wiggle around on a pole. Solidarity forever! Meet Zipporah Foster, profiled by Willamette Week last week. She's a 28 year-old single mother and a stripper who's had enough of skeezy club owners stiffing (ahem!) her and her co-workers. Foster is filing lawsuits against a brace of Portland strip joints in protest of tw 2009-12-02 http://gawker.com/5414932/heroic-stripper-is-like-the-cesar-chavez-of-stripping http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/110353/Manure-pervert-is-caged/ A PERVERT who gets sexual thrills from manure has been jailed after being caught pleasuring himself in a pile of slurry. Twisted David Truscott, 40, was jailed for 16 weeks in October after being found at it in a muck spreader. 2009-12-02 http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/110353/Manure-pervert-is-caged/ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/12/01/2009-12-01_plastic_surgery_kills_former_miss_argent BUENOS AIRES - The pageant world is mourning the loss of a queen: Solange Magnano. The former Miss Argentina, 38, died from complications after undergoing a gluteoplasty a cosmetic surgery on her buttocks. She died of a pulmonary embolism Sunday after three days in critical condition following the gluteoplasty, the Associated Press reported. 2009-12-02 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/12/01/2009-12-01_plastic_surgery_kills_former_miss_argent http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/residents-23106-burglar-showers.html CRESTVIEW A man accused of breaking into a Crestview home and taking a shower reportedly told residents who showed up 'President Obama let him in' the house. According to a Crestview Police Department report, St. Petersbug resident Donald Leon May, 48, entered a home in the 400 block of East Railroad Avenue Nov. 18 through an unlocked back door and took a shower. 2009-12-02 http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/residents-23106-burglar-showers.html http://www.wlwt.com/news/21761138/detail.html HYDE PARK -- Cincinnati police said a man took his quest for safe sex a bit too far. Officers released photos Monday of a man who police said walked into a Walgreens in Hyde Park earlier this month, stuffed a box of condoms down his pants and walked out. 2009-12-02 http://www.wlwt.com/news/21761138/detail.html http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Time-In-Prison--70426052.html?yhp=1 If you're frustrated by poor service at a restaurant, think twice before you decide to not tip. You may be in for a bit more than just a dirty look from the waiter. "Nobody, nobody wants to be forced to pay a tip or be arrested for terrible service," Leslie Pope said when her happy hour ended in handcuffs. 2009-12-02 http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Time-In-Prison--70426052.html?yhp=1 http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091116/NEWS/91116007/Des-Moines-police-searching-for-nake Des Moines police are looking for a pair of burglars, one of whom reportedly was naked when discovered Sunday by a homeowner. Javier Pagannazario, 29, told police his wife, Genoveva, was awakened by footsteps upstairs early on Sunday morning in the 7500 block of Southview Drive in Des Moines. Javier went upstairs to investigate and found a man asleep on his couch. The man jumped up and ran out the front door. Genoveva, meanwhile, confronted a woman on the lower level. The intruder was described 2009-11-18 http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091116/NEWS/91116007/Des-Moines-police-searching-for-nake http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story/Police-Used-Taser-on-10-Year-Old-Girl-in-Arkansas/T OZARK, Ark. (AP) -- Ozark Police Chief Jim Noggle says one of his officers used a Taser on a 10-year-old girl who was combative when the officer tried to get her into a patrol car to be taken to a youth shelter. 2009-11-18 http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story/Police-Used-Taser-on-10-Year-Old-Girl-in-Arkansas/T http://www.kcra.com/automotive/21568661/detail.html BRISBANE, Australia -- It was just a routine car wash. Except there was no car -- and no clothing. Four Australian men who allegedly undressed and soaped up at a car wash have been charged with exposure and public nuisance. Police say the two 19-year-old and two 23-year-old men paid for a wash before stripping nude and cleaning themselves in the soapy water while their female companions took photos. 2009-11-18 http://www.kcra.com/automotive/21568661/detail.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/11/10/Explicit-pornaments-back-on-shelves/UPI-52071257884054/?pvn=1 JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Christmas ornaments featuring reindeer and snowmen in sexual positions are back on store shelves in Jacksonville, Fla., a pastor says. The decorations, dubbed "pornaments" by some when they triggered protests three years ago, have returned to the holiday ornament aisles of some shops, WJXT-TV reported Tuesday. Instead of a line of six sexually oriented ornaments, just the reindeer and snowmen are being offered this holiday season, the Jacksonville TV station 2009-11-18 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/11/10/Explicit-pornaments-back-on-shelves/UPI-52071257884054/?pvn=1 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1224770/Bulgarian-girl-Kordeza-Zhelyazkova-11-give An 11-year-old girl became one of the world's youngest mothers - and went into labour on the way to her wedding. Kordeza Zhelyazkova, from Sliven in Bulgaria, was still wearing her wedding dress and tiara as she was rushed to hospital, where she gave birth to 5lb 8oz Violeta. Proudly displaying her baby, she told reporters: 'I'm not going to play with toys any more - I have a new toy now.' 2009-11-05 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1224770/Bulgarian-girl-Kordeza-Zhelyazkova-11-give http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=147636 ORLANDO, Fla. -- A woman who said she had her pants pulled down before being spanked more than one dozen times by an Ocoee Police Department sergeant plans to attend an upcoming court hearing and hopes to speak to a judge. The 29-year-old victim said she is outraged that her accused attacker, former Ocoee Police Sgt. Tom Maroney, is seeking leniency in court. 2009-11-05 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=147636 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/11/02/Breathalyzer-man-charged-with-DUI/UPI-22381257187091/ OXFORD, Ohio, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Police in Ohio said they charged a man dressed as a Breathalyzer with driving under the influence of alcohol and underage drinking. Oxford police said James Miller, 18, was pulled over just prior to 2:30 a.m. Sunday for driving the wrong way on a one-way street and officers determined the man, who was dressed in a Breathalyzer costume, appeared to have been drinking, WLWT-TV, Cincinnati, reported Monday. 2009-11-05 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/11/02/Breathalyzer-man-charged-with-DUI/UPI-22381257187091/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8331136.stm Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife. Ahmed Muhamed Dore - who already has 13 children by five wives - said he would like to have more with his new wife, Safia Abdulleh, who is 17 years old. 2009-11-05 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8331136.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8343576.stm A 59-year-old Brazilian man has surprised his family by turning up at his own funeral, local media report. Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, a bricklayer, had identified him as the victim of a car crash in southern Parana state the previous day. 2009-11-05 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8343576.stm http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/10/31/2009-10-31_source_tot_thrown_in_bathtub__whipped Four-year-old Jayden Lenescar was whipped bloody in a bathtub and left in agony for two days before his death - all because he touched himself. That's the sick excuse his mother and a friend gave for a thrashing so savage paramedics who examined the body couldn't believe their eyes, sources told the Daily News. 2009-11-05 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/10/31/2009-10-31_source_tot_thrown_in_bathtub__whipped http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/11/01/Couple-sues-Neighbors-smoke-outdoors/UPI-15301257122542 EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A California couple has filed a lawsuit seeking relief from their next-door neighbor's second-hand cigarette smoke, their attorney said. 2009-11-05 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/11/01/Couple-sues-Neighbors-smoke-outdoors/UPI-15301257122542 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223114/Gang-set-mans-beard-slept-train.html A gang of youths allegedly set a man alight as he slept on a train in a 'gratuitous and malicious attack', a court heard today. The four males, who were all teenagers at the time of the incident - with one aged just 13 - are accused of using a lighter to set fire to Luke Kennedy's beard in December last year. 2009-10-30 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223114/Gang-set-mans-beard-slept-train.html http://www.wbaltv.com/news/21430106/detail.html BALTIMORE -- A Baltimore city police officer was charged with assault after he pulled a gun on a haunted house character over the weekend. Baltimore County police said Sgt. Eric Janik, 36, pulled his gun on a haunted house employee dressed up as the killer from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" at the House of Screams show in Essex on Sunday. 2009-10-30 http://www.wbaltv.com/news/21430106/detail.html Teenager killed widow with axe in drink-fuelled rage after losing a computer game to his brother Re A schizophrenic teenager killed a grandmother with an axe when he went on a drunken rampage after losing at computer games. After drinking a bottle of vodka, James Callaghan, 17, stormed out of his home in a rage armed with an axe and a long-bladed knife. 2009-10-30 Teenager killed widow with axe in drink-fuelled rage after losing a computer game to his brother Re http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Two-Headed-Snake-Found-In-Drawer-Full-Of-Rubbish-In-Co A two-headed snake has been discovered in a drawer full of rubbish in Illinois. When Jerry Williamson's wife first told him she had found the scary reptile he thought she was pulling his leg. But to his surprise she was telling the truth. 2009-10-30 http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Two-Headed-Snake-Found-In-Drawer-Full-Of-Rubbish-In-Co http://news.softpedia.com/news/5-Year-Old-Boy-Sets-New-Record-Becomes-World-s-Strongest-125417.shtml When other boys of his age are probably playing outside and just being normal 5-year-old kids, Giuliano Stroe goes to the gym and works out with his dad, a practice he's been keeping ever since he was just two years of age. Giuliano doesn't mind and perhaps the fact that he's just made it into the Guinness Book of Records has a lot to do with it, World Records Academy says. 2009-10-30 http://news.softpedia.com/news/5-Year-Old-Boy-Sets-New-Record-Becomes-World-s-Strongest-125417.shtml http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Worst_disguise_ever?_Burglars_cover_faces_with_permanent_m If you're going to commit a burglary, it's a good idea to have a disguise. However, you should probably do better than this pair of would-be burglars, whose disguise attempts extended to just drawing on their faces with a black marker pen. 2009-10-30 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Worst_disguise_ever?_Burglars_cover_faces_with_permanent_m http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/10/12/Wife-Man-out-of-cigarettes-went-nuts/UPI-77361255377127/ DELAND, Fla., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said a man who believed his wife had taken his last cigarette attacked his spouse, killed a pet rat and tried to flee sheriff's deputies. Kaela Daniels, 20, of DeLand, told deputies her husband Darren Daniels, 22, "went nuts" at 1:30 a.m. Thursday upon discovering he was out of cigarettes and accused her of taking his last one, the Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal reported Monday. 2009-10-23 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/10/12/Wife-Man-out-of-cigarettes-went-nuts/UPI-77361255377127/ http://www.wisn.com/news/21288900/detail.html BROOKFIELD, Wis. -- An unpaid bar tab led to the arrest of a Brookfield man on child pornography charges. Police said that Aaron Klein left his cell phone as collateral when he couldn't pay his bill after drinking at the bar on Calhoun Street. 2009-10-23 http://www.wisn.com/news/21288900/detail.html http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/13/florida.teen.burned/index.html Five juveniles were in custody Tuesday after a 15-year-old was intentionally set on fire at a Deerfield Beach, Florida, apartment complex, police said. 2009-10-23 http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/13/florida.teen.burned/index.html http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=146787 APOPKA, FL -- A teenager was shot four times after he was caught having sex with the shooter's daughter, police said. Officials said the 16-year-old girl's stepfather walked into the girl's bedroom and saw her having sex with her boyfriend. That's when Wade Edwards closed the door to load a gun and then fired at the boy, police said. 2009-10-23 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=146787 http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2009/10/23/free-money-too-good-to-be-true-no-conviction IN 2007 young pizza shop employee Brian Sommer must have thought he had it made. The computer whiz had stumbled across a system which could cheat ATMs out of thousands of dollars. After perfecting his system he targeted an ATM at a Bundaberg service station, taking $21,120, and then drove down the road an hour and found a friendly machine in Hervey Bay which handed over $7500 to him. 2009-10-23 http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2009/10/23/free-money-too-good-to-be-true-no-conviction http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2696480/Lottery-winners-ticket-pinched.html Willis Willis asked store clerk Pankaj Joshi to check if he had won anything in a Mega Millions draw. But Joshi told 67-year-old Willis his six numbers had NOT come up and pocketed the ticket. Weeks later, the brazen cashier claimed the $1million (£600,000) prize and fled the US to his native country of Nepal. 2009-10-23 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2696480/Lottery-winners-ticket-pinched.html http://www.abcactionnews.com/mostpopular/story/Teen-turns-burrito-into-deadly-weapon-cops-say/uC64nG HERNANDO BEACH, FL -- Hernando County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a South Carolina teen on a charge of throwing a deadly missile at a moving vehicle. That missile was a burrito, deputies said. 2009-10-15 http://www.abcactionnews.com/mostpopular/story/Teen-turns-burrito-into-deadly-weapon-cops-say/uC64nG http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33290495/ HOUSTON - A Houston man found asleep with a corpse inside a closet of a vacant home has been charged with misdemeanor drug offenses, authorities said Monday. 2009-10-15 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33290495/ http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2009/10/13/drunk-lesbian-admits-romp-with-naked-man- DRUNKEN lovers put on a steamy sex show in broad daylight - in a police station car park. Ross Welsh and lesbian Leanne Richardson got so carried away they didn't know the public and cops were watching. Officers based in Portobello, Edinburgh, finally had to pull Welsh, 30, away from Richardson, 26. 2009-10-15 http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2009/10/13/drunk-lesbian-admits-romp-with-naked-man- http://kdka.com/local/deer.tackles.boy.2.1244873.html A boy in Ohio was playing football with friends over the weekend and was tackled by a deer. The incident happened Saturday when Brandon Hiles, 7, went to retrieve a ball that had rolled into the woods in Wintersville, Ohio. "The deer started charging at me and then it hit me in the back of the leg and then I flipped over," Hiles said. 2009-10-15 http://kdka.com/local/deer.tackles.boy.2.1244873.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33319472/ns/us_news-weird_news/?gt1=43001 COLUMBUS, Ohio - A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. 2009-10-15 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33319472/ns/us_news-weird_news/?gt1=43001 http://in.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idINTRE59558U20091006 MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Adult fans at one of Australia's most popular motor sport races, the Bathurst 1000, will be limited to one "slab" of beer a day -- or 24 375 ml cans -- as police focus on reducing alcohol-related crime. The 24-can rule would also be placed on mixed drinks for the V8 car race starting Thursday which draws thousands to the rural town of Bathurst in eastern New South Wales state, the NSW police said Tuesday. But more restrained spectators would be able to slake their thirst, i 2009-10-09 http://in.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idINTRE59558U20091006 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561641,00.html?test=latestnews PARIS Somali pirates in two skiffs fired on a French navy vessel early Wednesday after apparently mistaking it for a commercial boat, the French military said. The French ship gave chase and captured five suspected pirates. 2009-10-09 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561641,00.html?test=latestnews http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/wcnc-100709-al-air_reshener_incident.1f251247e.html CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A 72-year-old woman fights back against an intruder with the only thing she had at hand -- a can of air freshener. 2009-10-09 http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/wcnc-100709-al-air_reshener_incident.1f251247e.html http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/09/28/20090928hotdogtheft-CR.html WORCESTER, Mass. A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing a hot dog from a man as he sat under a tree at a city park. Antonio Judd pleaded guilty Monday in Worcester Central District Court to charges including larceny from a person. Police said Judd stole a hot dog from a man in Elm Park in Worcester in August after flashing what appeared to be a gun. 2009-10-07 http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/09/28/20090928hotdogtheft-CR.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/09/29/School-bans-sex-with-roomie-present/UPI-74801254256149/ MEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Officials with a Massachusetts university said complaints led to a new policy banning students from having sex while their roommates are present. Tufts University spokeswoman Kim Thurler said officials added the rule to the 2009-10 guest policy after receiving about a dozen complaints from students "who expressed concerns that they were experiencing uncomfortable situations with their roommates' sex-tracurricular activities," The Boston Herald reported Tuesday. 2009-10-07 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/09/29/School-bans-sex-with-roomie-present/UPI-74801254256149/ http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/09/28/romantic-proposal-results-in-turtle-deaths/ A Hilton Head, S.C., man's elaborate candlelight wedding proposal resulted in the death of 60 endangered sea turtles. We knew it was only a matter of time before one of these ridiculous question-poppings got out of hand. The unnamed man lit about 150 luminaries and stuck them on the beach in the shape of a giant heart. Unfortunately, it's hatchling season, and 60 endangered sea turtles were also on the beach, emerging from their eggs to head towards the ocean. Turtles find their way to the ocean 2009-10-07 http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/09/28/romantic-proposal-results-in-turtle-deaths/ http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/10/05/20091005childinbox05-ON.html ALBERTVILLE, Ala. - An Alabama woman has been arrested and accused of endangering the welfare of a child after police say she let her daughter ride in a cardboard box on top of their van. Albertville Police spokesman Sgt. Jamie Smith said the 37-year-old woman was arrested Sunday after police received a call about a minivan on a state highway with a child riding on top. 2009-10-07 http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/10/05/20091005childinbox05-ON.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/09/21/Boys-find-86000-while-fishing/UPI-94811253556242/ LISMORE, Australia, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Australian police said two teenage brothers turned in more than $86,000 they found in a creek while fishing in the eastern part of the country. Police said the boys hooked the money, which was in a plastic package, while fishing for catfish in Tuntable Creek, near the town of Lismore, and spent three weeks deciding on a plan of action before telling their mother and obtaining legal advice on how best to turn the cash over to police, The Times of London repor 2009-10-07 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/09/21/Boys-find-86000-while-fishing/UPI-94811253556242/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33175101/ns/us_news-life/ LAKELAND, Fla. - Animal control officers hope to trap a pack of raccoons that mauled a 74-year-old woman who tried to chase them from her yard. The sheriff in Polk County, east of Tampa, said Gretchen Whitted fell when five raccoons surrounded and attacked her Sunday. She was taken to a hospital with extensive cuts from her neck to her legs. 2009-10-07 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33175101/ns/us_news-life/ http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Strip-Club-Gives-Seniors-a-Shot-in-the-Arm-60652957.html Amid the shiny stripper poles, strobe-lit stages and scantily-clad performers at Rachel's Gentlemen's Club, you'll find Barbara and Sylvia, two old beauties who come for the free food and flu shots -- and stay for the ambiance. 2009-09-25 http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Strip-Club-Gives-Seniors-a-Shot-in-the-Arm-60652957.html http://www.komonews.com/news/local/60924562.html EVERETT, Wash. -- Five baristas at a local bikini coffee stand are accused of engaging in prostitution while on the clock. Police spokesman Robert Goetz said the five employees of Grab-N-Go Espresso were charged with prostitution and violating the city's adult entertainment ordinance following a two-month undercover investigation. Goetz said no sex was involved, but the women, ages 18 to 24, are accused of groping and other sexual acts, including exposing their breasts and privates and licking w 2009-09-25 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/60924562.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6226187/Prisoners-get-drunk-on-swine-flu-han Inmates have been drinking the liquid soap placed on their wing after realising it contained alcohol. The detergent was meant to beat off the threat of swine flu in the Verne Prison on Portland, Dorset. However, instead of rubbing it into their hands, inmates at the category C prison have been placing their mouths over the dispensers and consuming it. 2009-09-25 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6226187/Prisoners-get-drunk-on-swine-flu-han http://www.lawrenceburgnow.com/092109men.html Police officers were summoned to intervene in a fight that erupted at a Roberts Avenue home Saturday evening after one man applied makeup to another while he was unconscious. When they arrived on the scene, Lawrenceburg Police Officers met with the twenty-five-year-old victim. He reported that he and some others, including his neighbor, had been drinking at his home the previous night. After a while, he said he passed out on the porch. He awakened later, he said, to discover someone had applied 2009-09-25 http://www.lawrenceburgnow.com/092109men.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/francecrimeoffbeat COLMAR (AFP) A Frenchman was arrested for drunk driving after taking his car to a police station to distribute Alcoholics Anonymous pamphlets there, police said Wednesday. 2009-09-25 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/francecrimeoffbeat http://www.wmur.com/education/20990241/detail.html WOLFEBORO, N.H. -- An English teacher is being closely monitored at Kingswood Regional High School after administrators said she assigned an inappropriate essay topic to her students. Jack Robertson, superintendent of the Governor Wentworth Regional School District, said the teacher asked students to respond to the question: "If you knocked your brother down, would you urinate in his mouth?" 2009-09-21 http://www.wmur.com/education/20990241/detail.html http://www.clickorlando.com/news/20990238/detail.html FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. -- A man was accused of driving naked and exposing himself to motorists on Friday. Florida Highway Patrol said Mark Duffus, 45, was driving his blue Honda Pilot on Interstate 95 in Flagler County in the nude while masturb*****. 2009-09-21 http://www.clickorlando.com/news/20990238/detail.html http://www.shawanoleader.com/articles/2009/09/20/news/news4.txt A Green Bay man shot in the head while hunting Sunday was wounded by his hunting partner, according to a Department of Natural Resources conservation warden. Chou Vang, 70, was struck below the right ear by a round from a .22 caliber rifle fired by his cousin, Ge Vang, 46, also of Green Bay. 2009-09-21 http://www.shawanoleader.com/articles/2009/09/20/news/news4.txt http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/1273232/Baby-boy-born-with-penis-on-back-in-China-Penis-on The tot was born to farmer dad Li Jun, 30, and his unnamed wife, who live in Hejian city in central China's Henan province. But he was rushed to Tianjin Childrens' Hospital on May 27 for surgery to remove his extra manhood. The rare condition, the first for Tianjin Childrens' Hospital, is called fetus in fetu (FIF). 2009-09-21 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/1273232/Baby-boy-born-with-penis-on-back-in-China-Penis-on http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=144956 MISSOULA, MT -- It's a dream come true for ice cream and beer lovers. An ice cream shop in Missoula, Montana has created a beer-flavored ice cream. The Big Dipper Ice Cream Shop partnered with Kettlehouse Brewery in order to create "Cold Smoke" ice cream. 2009-09-21 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=144956 http://mashable.com/2009/09/17/facebook-robber-arrested/ So apparently it actually works both ways: careless Facebook (Facebook) use can both get you robbed and get you arrested for burglary. According to The Journal, a 19-year-old Pennsylvania man was arraigned earlier this week on a charge of felony daytime robbery. How did police catch him? Simple: the burglar left a trail, by way of checking his Facebook account before leaving the house with two diamond rings and forgetting to log out. 2009-09-21 http://mashable.com/2009/09/17/facebook-robber-arrested/ http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.samurai16sep16,0,114199.story Hours earlier, someone had broken into John Pontolillo's house and taken two laptops and a video-game console. Now it was past midnight, and he heard noises coming from the garage out back. The Johns Hopkins University undergraduate didn't run. He didn't call the police. He grabbed his samurai sword. 2009-09-21 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.samurai16sep16,0,114199.story http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=145274 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey police say a 4-year-old boy shared cocaine with his friends at day care because his father told him it was candy. Newark police say 25-year-old Shaheed Wright of East Orange put several baggies of cocaine inside his son's jacket after police nearly caught him with it. The boy shared the drugs with three other 4-year-olds at his day care center Friday. 2009-09-21 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=145274 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=144962 PHILADELPHIA, PA -- A Pennsylvania woman is asking for forgiveness after violently attacking a gas station clerk during an argument over a $20 bill. Vickie Gambrell was arrested for punching the clerk in the face and holding a pair of scissors to his throat in a dispute over how much money she had given him. 2009-09-21 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=144962 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009894327_apusmentalinstitutionescape1stldwritethru SPOKANE, Wash. A criminally insane killer from eastern Washington is on the run after escaping during a field trip to the county fair that his mental hospital organized. Why such a dangerous person was out in public was a question many, including Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, were asking as authorities searched for Phillip Arnold Paul. Authorities at Eastern State Hospital, where Paul is a patient, are being criticized for allowing him to visit the fair despite his violent criminal past and 2009-09-21 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009894327_apusmentalinstitutionescape1stldwritethru http://www.nydailynews.com/real_estate/2009/09/08/2009-09-08_cops_find_queens_man_isnt_dead_just_slo The awful stench coming from a Queens apartment on Monday was so bad that cops thought they would find a body inside. But when firefighters busted down the the door, they found tenant Ming Li Sung was very much alive - and living with rotting garbage piled floor to ceiling. 2009-09-10 http://www.nydailynews.com/real_estate/2009/09/08/2009-09-08_cops_find_queens_man_isnt_dead_just_slo http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20090907/WDH0101/90907018/1981 Two Stratford men are in the Marathon County Jail after leading law enforcement on a highway chase of up to 120 miles per hour Monday morning and throwing a beer keg out the window of their vehicle during the pursuit, according to the Sheriff's Department. 2009-09-10 http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20090907/WDH0101/90907018/1981 http://cbs4denver.com/local/Army.Rocky.Mountain.2.1171211.html The Army has made an unusual and unwanted discovery at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal northeast of Commerce City. They are in charge of cleaning up the arsenal, a job that includes reseeding some areas. When their seed started to grow, they realized it was marijuana. 2009-09-10 http://cbs4denver.com/local/Army.Rocky.Mountain.2.1171211.html http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/dpgo_no_charges_bandit_gorilla_suit_lwf_090809_3392073 A woman wanted for stealing a styrofoam banana from a Wisconsin gas station while wearing a gorilla suit will not be charged. Police in Fond du Lac said that the 24-year-old suspect walked into a Kwik Trip store on May 20 wearing the hairy suit, yanked the $50 display banana and walked out. The theft was caught on surveillance tape. 2009-09-10 http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/dpgo_no_charges_bandit_gorilla_suit_lwf_090809_3392073 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6155017/Trapped-girls-updated-Facebook-instead-of-cal The girls, aged 10 and 12, used their mobile phones to access the popular website and update their statuses, alerting friends and family that they were lost in a storm drain in Adelaide's southern suburbs. Their exact status updates have not been released. 2009-09-10 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6155017/Trapped-girls-updated-Facebook-instead-of-cal http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/25/Police-Shoplifter-returned-to-ask-for-job/UPI-81091251240466/ COLNE, England, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- British police said they arrested a man who showed up for a job interview at a store he had stolen from three days earlier. 2009-09-01 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/25/Police-Shoplifter-returned-to-ask-for-job/UPI-81091251240466/ http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Turkeys/Article/200908415368181?lpos=World_News_News_You Two turkeys are recovering after being cut open by drug smugglers and stuffed with five kilogrammes of cocaine. 2009-09-01 http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Turkeys/Article/200908415368181?lpos=World_News_News_You http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=143998 GAINESVILLE, FL (AP) -- Gainesville police have arrested three suspects in connection to a robbery that netted 75 cents. Gainesville Police Department spokesman Lt. Keith Kameg says three men approached a 17-year-old Monday and demanded $5. When the teen could only produce 75 cents, one of the men punched him in the mouth. 2009-09-01 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=143998 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=143968 ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FL -- A man from St. Johns County is facing up to life in prison for a home invasion robbery that netted $7. A jury on Wednesday found Rodney L. Dallas guilty of a first degree felony. 2009-09-01 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=143968 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/27/Police-Robber-left-traffic-ticket/UPI-83001251402382/ IRONDEQUOIT, N.Y., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Police in upstate New York said they tracked down a bank robbery suspect using a traffic ticket left behind at the scene. 2009-09-01 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/27/Police-Robber-left-traffic-ticket/UPI-83001251402382/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/27/Woman-arrested-in-air-freshener-attack/UPI-62231251403558/ NICEVILLE, Fla., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Police in Florida said they arrested a woman for attacking a smoker with air freshener sprayed from a can. 2009-09-01 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/27/Woman-arrested-in-air-freshener-attack/UPI-62231251403558/ http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/27b67d1a7d174420816f1ad03433c02c/22-07-2009%2009-07/ Berlin - A male sea lion from California called Mike has died of exhaustion after over-exerting himself during the mating season in an animal park in Nuremberg, Germany, the city said on Tuesday. 2009-09-01 http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/27b67d1a7d174420816f1ad03433c02c/22-07-2009%2009-07/ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBcH-7ocMhHqdNcyFZb2vwyNKjxQD9A84SMO0 CLEVELAND Police said a Cleveland barber became so upset by what he considered bad beef jerky that he returned to the store where he bought it and tried to rob the owner. Police said the 28-year-old barber walked into the store where he bought the snack, just two doors down from his barbershop, and tried to rob the owner Thursday night. 2009-08-24 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBcH-7ocMhHqdNcyFZb2vwyNKjxQD9A84SMO0 http://www.connpost.com/ci_13180634 MILFORD -- An Orange police officer was charged Friday with posing as his twin brother to trick a 25-year-old woman into having sex with him at his parents' Milford home last month. 2009-08-24 http://www.connpost.com/ci_13180634 http://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/node_10/node_37/node_82/2009/07/13/124745294567041.shtml An old man in a northwestern Chinese city has won wide support online for throwing bricks at cars that run red lights through pedestrian crossings. Yang Zhiguo, a retired school teacher in Lanzhou City, capital of Gansu Province, threw bricks at cars that didn't stop at a crossing in his neighborhood last Thursday, Lanzhou Morning Post reported yesterday. 2009-08-24 http://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/node_10/node_37/node_82/2009/07/13/124745294567041.shtml http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/2781912/Man-glued-to-toilet-seat A man had to be rescued after he became glued to the seat of a public toilet in Cairns in an embarrassing prank, Australian police say. The 57-year-old man found he had become stuck to the seat after using a cubicle in a male bathroom at the Cairns shopping centre on Saturday. 2009-08-24 http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/2781912/Man-glued-to-toilet-seat http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/crime_krqe_albuquerque_man_accused_of_sex_act_with_car_2009081313 ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - An Albuquerque man faces indecent exposure charges after police say children saw him simulating a sex act with his car in a grocery store parking lot. 2009-08-14 http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/crime_krqe_albuquerque_man_accused_of_sex_act_with_car_2009081313 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/11/Police-Man-tried-to-sell-fake-TV/UPI-37231250028483/ SAN LEANDRO, Calif., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A California man tried to fool someone into buying an oven door the man said was a flat-screen TV, police said. 2009-08-14 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/11/Police-Man-tried-to-sell-fake-TV/UPI-37231250028483/ http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=143198&provider=rss SILVERDALE, WA -- A man is under arrest, accused of voyeurism. But this alleged peeping tom has taken the crime to a new level. Last week, April Miller made the creepy discovery while she was getting ready to move out of her apartment. 2009-08-14 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=143198&provider=rss http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/12/Church-bell-resumes-when-locals-bang-pots/UPI-52181250115581/ MEZZEMA, Italy, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Residents of a small Italian town said their local priest has resumed ringing local church bells after a pause requested by the town's only tourist. 2009-08-14 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/12/Church-bell-resumes-when-locals-bang-pots/UPI-52181250115581/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538860,00.html?test=latestnews HOUSTON Prosecutors told jurors Monday that a Texas woman accused of cutting off her infant son's genitals two years ago was a drug abuser who showed no remorse or concern for her child as he was on the verge of death. 2009-08-14 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538860,00.html?test=latestnews http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/13/FBI-Robber-showed-ID-to-teller/UPI-27251250198250/ ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Authorities in Alaska said a bank robber showed his ID and gave his name and bank account number to a teller before the crime. 2009-08-14 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/13/FBI-Robber-showed-ID-to-teller/UPI-27251250198250/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/11/Banner-tells-Miller-to-stick-to-singles/UPI-96111250020825/ MALIBU, Calif., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A California millionaire paid for a banner to be flown over a beach after seeing former Indiana Pacer Reggie Miller hitting on his girlfriend, sources said. 2009-08-14 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/11/Banner-tells-Miller-to-stick-to-singles/UPI-96111250020825/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/13/Cops-arrest-gator-carrying-bicyclist/UPI-24921250191733/ BOUTTE, La., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A Louisiana man riding a bicycle with an alligator around his neck was arrested after he dropped the reptile on the ground and ran off as police approached. 2009-08-14 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/13/Cops-arrest-gator-carrying-bicyclist/UPI-24921250191733/ http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_98d65fba-869c-11de-9576-001cc4c03 GLENROCK, Wyo. - Glenrock Police Chief Tom Sweet says two officers "probably didn't do things the best way" when they used a Taser on a 76-year-old man driving an antique tractor in a parade. 2009-08-14 http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_98d65fba-869c-11de-9576-001cc4c03 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1204038/Scorned-lovers-use-superglue-exact-revenge Three women exacted a painful revenge on a cheating husband they discovered had been sleeping with them all at the same time - by superglueing his private parts. The angry women lured married father Donessa Davis to a motel where they decided to humiliate him. The ambush was set up by the man's wife after she discovered he had been cheating on her with as many as five women. 2009-08-05 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1204038/Scorned-lovers-use-superglue-exact-revenge http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204049/Grieving-mother-fined-86-crematorium-taking-long-say When her son died at the age of only five weeks, Terrie Rouse was naturally heartbroken. At his funeral, she could not bear to leave his tiny coffin and spent a few extra precious minutes with it before allowing it to be taken away for cremation. Her grief turned to shock, however, when officials told her she had taken too long to say goodbye and fined her £86. 2009-08-05 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204049/Grieving-mother-fined-86-crematorium-taking-long-say http://www.baynews9.com/content/89/2009/7/27/501340.html?title=Man%20sleeping%20in%20dumpster%20gets TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities said a man, who had been sleeping in a Dumpster, sustained minor injuries after he was picked up by a garbage truck along with the trash. Authorities said that when firefighters and paramedics arrived, they heard Kevin Hallaran, 52, banging on the metal sides of the sanitation truck asking for help. 2009-07-28 http://www.baynews9.com/content/89/2009/7/27/501340.html?title=Man%20sleeping%20in%20dumpster%20gets http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32088144/ns/us_news-weird_news/ ARVADA, Colorado - A land mine found in a suburban Denver Goodwill donation box forced the evacuation of a strip mall. 2009-07-28 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32088144/ns/us_news-weird_news/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5897234/Blind-border-collie-gets-his-own-gui Black and white hound Clyde is totally blind and relies on his partner and fellow collie Bonnie to guide him everywhere. She stays inches from Clyde's side while guiding him on walks or to food or water, and lets him rest his head on her haunches whenever he becomes disorientated. 2009-07-28 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5897234/Blind-border-collie-gets-his-own-gui http://www.baynews9.com/content/89/2009/7/27/501422.html?title=Man+with+fetish+charged+with+stealing MILWAUKEE (AP) -- An Illinois man was accused of stealing more than $45,000 worth of eyeglasses from suburban Milwaukee stores because he enjoys being around eyewear. Jerry Lowery, 38, was charged with three counts of armed robbery and one count of fleeing an officer. The charges carry a maximum penalty of more than 120 years in prison and a $310,000 fine. 2009-07-28 http://www.baynews9.com/content/89/2009/7/27/501422.html?title=Man+with+fetish+charged+with+stealing http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/27/Civilian-arrested-as-Army-deserter/UPI-20911248735589/ CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 27 (UPI) -- A Seattle man said he was arrested at a Charlotte, N.C., airport and detained as an Army deserter, even though he has never been in the military. 2009-07-28 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/27/Civilian-arrested-as-Army-deserter/UPI-20911248735589/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/27/us/AP-US-Cliff-Death.html LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A father who had no interest in his 4-year-old daughter did the unimaginable -- hurling her off a 120-foot cliff to avoid paying child support, a prosecutor said Monday during the man's murder retrial. 2009-07-28 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/27/us/AP-US-Cliff-Death.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/28/world/AP-AS-Australia-Toilet.html?_r=1 BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -- An Australian woman was rescued after spending a week wedged between her toilet and the bathroom door, an official said Tuesday. 2009-07-28 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/28/world/AP-AS-Australia-Toilet.html?_r=1 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/27/Burglars-pick-wrong-place-to-sleep-it-off/UPI-42361248738531/ SWANSEA, Wales, July 27 (UPI) -- After stealing about $1,154 in liquor, two burglars decided to celebrate and got so drunk they fell asleep instead of escaping, police in Swansea, Wales, said. 2009-07-28 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/27/Burglars-pick-wrong-place-to-sleep-it-off/UPI-42361248738531/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32182108/ns/us_news-weird_news/?GT1=43001 SOUTHAVEN, Miss. - Police in Mississippi say a woman was carjacked by a bikini-clad suspect, who they say later tried to rob an RV dealership. Southaven Police Chief Tom Long said the 24-year-old suspect approached another woman in her driveway and demanded the car on Thursday. 2009-07-28 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32182108/ns/us_news-weird_news/?GT1=43001 http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1678923,men-charged-beauty-pageant-beating-072209.article Two men -- at least one of whom was a contestant in a beauty pageant -- were charged early Wednesday with using a trophy to beat a judge because they allegedly did not like his vote in the West Side competition earlier this month. 2009-07-24 http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1678923,men-charged-beauty-pageant-beating-072209.article http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Girl_hit_by_plummeting_tortoise_loses_memory&in_article_id Cheng Cheng, 12, was walking with her aunt Ling Lang at Chongqing in China when she was struck by the plummeting tortoise. Lang said: 'I was walking and suddenly I heard a scream from my niece who was behind me and I looked round to see her lying on the ground covered with blood. 'There was a tortoise lying beside her and I could see it had hit her on the head.' 2009-07-24 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Girl_hit_by_plummeting_tortoise_loses_memory&in_article_id http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/554452/ Newswise The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing has received a $3 million federal grant to continue research to identify risk factors for excessive drinking among lesbians. 2009-07-24 http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/554452/ http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/07/22/86135_fun-weird-news.html THE attempted armed robbery of a Russian hairdresser became a three-day sex ordeal for the would-be thief. 2009-07-24 http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/07/22/86135_fun-weird-news.html http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2549237/Drunk-man-got-two-hammered.html These incredible x-rays show how Viorel Firoiu attempted to nail his severe constipation with the help of his handy tools. The intoxicated 48-year-old turned up at his local hospital complaining of excruciating stomach pain. Worried doctors, in Orlea, southern Romania, carried out scans and were knocked sideways to find he had not one but TWO hammerheads stuck in his rear end 2009-07-24 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2549237/Drunk-man-got-two-hammered.html http://www.3news.co.nz/Fire-fighters-rescue-boy-from-tambourine/tabid/973/articleID/113598/cat/272/D Fire fighters received a bizarre call out yesterday after a boy managed to get a tambourine stuck around his neck while at a Napier day care centre. A fire crew was sent to Kidspace on Kennedy Road shortly before 9am. A spokesman from the Napier Fire Service said it took a crew member around a minute to remove the tambourine. The boy and instrument both came away unscathed from the incident. 3 News 2009-07-24 http://www.3news.co.nz/Fire-fighters-rescue-boy-from-tambourine/tabid/973/articleID/113598/cat/272/D http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090722/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_garage_dentist NAPLES, Fla. Florida officials have arrested a woman for allegedly practicing dentistry in a garage she converted into an office with a drill set and black reclining chair. Rosa Maria Toledo, 56, was arrested Tuesday. In her garage deputies found a cabinet containing dental castings, molds, dental crown glues, partial dentures and bridges. 2009-07-24 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090722/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_garage_dentist http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2009/07/22/pittsburg-states-joe-windscheffel-out-for-season-after-z Division II football players like Pittsburg State's Joe Windscheffel don't always have it as easy as major college players are perceived to. Many of them hold down jobs, in addition to their full-time school schedule and a practice schedule that isn't a whole lot different from their big-time brethren. In the case of Windscheffel, the need to get some work done off the football field has cost him any chance of playing this season. 2009-07-24 http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2009/07/22/pittsburg-states-joe-windscheffel-out-for-season-after-z http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=141846 FLORIDA -- It's not too unusual to hear stories of married couples who met online. But it IS unusual when that couple that meets online and marries also has the same name. In this case, it's a guy from Texas named Kelly Hildebrandt and a gal from Florida named Kelly Hildebrandt. In three months, they're getting married. 2009-07-21 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=141846 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/19/Police-bust-lemonade-stand-in-Pennsylvania/UPI-25831248029566 CHESTER, Pa., July 19 (UPI) -- The deputy police chief in Haverford Township, Pa., says a police officer's decision to shut down a lemonade stand run by children was a misunderstanding. 2009-07-21 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/19/Police-bust-lemonade-stand-in-Pennsylvania/UPI-25831248029566 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=142020&catid=82 LEXINGTON, KY (AP) -- A father was frantically calling 911 to report his missing newborn when he spotted the baby, bleeding from the mouth and clutched in the mouth of a family dog who had carried him from his crib to the heavily wooded backyard. 2009-07-21 http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=142020&catid=82 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5832956/Masked-ball-descends-into-orgy.html Halswell House in Somerset was hired for £9,000 by a group of 350 revellers who arrived in a fleet of Porsches, BMWs and Aston Martins. They were all wearing long cloaks and masks and the party continued normally until midnight - when they stripped down to leather pants, corsets and suspenders. The guests then started kissing and a mass orgy ensued with couples having sex "everywhere". 2009-07-17 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5832956/Masked-ball-descends-into-orgy.html http://journalstar.com/articles/2009/07/16/news/local/doc4a5f3e1e4b5d3763606907.txt Police say a 19-year-old man made up a story about being robbed to explain why he was walking around Wilderness Park au naturel Monday afternoon. 2009-07-17 http://journalstar.com/articles/2009/07/16/news/local/doc4a5f3e1e4b5d3763606907.txt http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/07/17/mtl-woman-killed745.html#socialcomments The Régie du bâtiment and the City of Montreal have launched an investigation into the death of a woman who was struck and instantly killed by a piece of falling concrete Thursday evening. 2009-07-17 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/07/17/mtl-woman-killed745.html#socialcomments http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8149910.stm The traditional throwing of a bride's bouquet for luck ended in disaster at an Italian wedding when the flowers caused a plane to crash. 2009-07-15 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8149910.stm http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3400793.html A police patrol car spotted water leaking from the driver's cab as it sped along the Jinyi expressway, reports Changjiang Business Daily. "We worried the driver may not have known about a mechanical problem so we signalled him to pull over at a service station," said a police spokesman. 2009-07-15 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3400793.html http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090713-NEWS-90713023 WELLS -- Police arrested a Wells man on a drunk driving charge July 6 after a homeowner reported the man was mowing a lawn with a riding lawnmower without consent. 2009-07-15 http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090713-NEWS-90713023 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2525921/Teen-pregnant-after-swimming-in-pool.html A WOMAN is suing an Egyptian hotel claiming her daughter got pregnant - from using the swimming pool. Magdalena Kwiatkowska's 13-year-old returned to Poland from their holiday expecting a baby. Magdalena believes the teenager conceived from stray sperm after taking a dip in the hotel's mixed pool. She is now seeking compensation from the hotel. 2009-07-13 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2525921/Teen-pregnant-after-swimming-in-pool.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5806280/Prisoner-escapes-after-switching-ide Simon Peter Maclellan, 27, from Gosport, Hants, has not been seen since Friday afternoon when he was released by magistrates. 2009-07-13 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5806280/Prisoner-escapes-after-switching-ide http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/12/Same-sex-penguin-couple-split/UPI-56931247417354/ SAN FRANCISCO, July 12 (UPI) -- Linda the penguin has split up two male penguins who lived as a nesting couple for six years at the San Francisco Zoo, caretakers said. 2009-07-13 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/12/Same-sex-penguin-couple-split/UPI-56931247417354/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8147032.stm A 14-year-old schoolboy from the Isle of Man has died while on holiday in Thailand after being sucked into a swimming pool pumping system. 2009-07-13 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8147032.stm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31853449/ns/local_news-new_york_ny/?GT1=43001 We all know that walking and texting is a tough combination -- but a Staten Island teen learned the hard way when she fell into an uncovered sewer manhole while trying to send a message. 2009-07-13 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31853449/ns/local_news-new_york_ny/?GT1=43001 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/03/us/AP-US-ODD-Teacher-Sex-Tape.html?_r=1 ELK GROVE, Calif. (AP) -- A Northern California elementary school teacher sent her students home for the summer with a video of class memories, only the DVD included six seconds of her having sex on a couch. 2009-07-06 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/03/us/AP-US-ODD-Teacher-Sex-Tape.html?_r=1 http://www.nvdaily.com/news/2009/07/dumpster-diving-woman-ends-up-at-landfil.html WINCHESTER -- "Dumpster diving" turned dangerous for a Boyce woman found alive in one of the large bins at the regional landfill Thursday morning. 2009-07-06 http://www.nvdaily.com/news/2009/07/dumpster-diving-woman-ends-up-at-landfil.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5748855/Man-cuts-off-own-penis-during-drunk-DIY.html Mr Keen, 54, suffered horrific injuries as he used the saw to cut wood for a cabinet he was making in his home workshop. He rang the emergency services operator and said: "Help me I'm bleeding to death." 2009-07-06 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5748855/Man-cuts-off-own-penis-during-drunk-DIY.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5752269/Man-runs-100-yards-on-fire-and-break Keith Malcolm, from Aberdeen, was doused in petrol before sprinting 259ft ablaze to beat the previous fire-run record of 227ft. To claim the record the amateur stuntman wore eight layers of protective clothing, including four layers of fireproof undergarments, a Formula One fireproof jacket and three overalls. 2009-07-06 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5752269/Man-runs-100-yards-on-fire-and-break http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31757022/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001 McALLEN, Texas - Grainy cell phone videos showing developmentally disabled students forced to fight each other will likely be shown to jurors this week as four former employees at a Texas school go on trial. 2009-07-06 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31757022/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_vomiting_deputy FARGO, N.D. A sheriff's deputy and his mother face charges of disorderly conduct after the deputy vomited on people at a Kenny Chesney concert in Fargo and refused to leave, authorities say. Police Sgt. Mark Lykken said Stark County Deputy Justin Krohmer, 26, and his mother, Susan, 47, whose husband is the Ada, Minn., police chief, were arrested after the Saturday night incident. 2009-06-24 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_vomiting_deputy http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_oldest-man-thanks-cigarettes-whisky-and-wild-wild-women_1267230 London: Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man, attributes his longevity to "cigarettes, whisky, and wild, wild women". The Brit, who has spent 113 years and 14 days on earth, is currently living at St Dunstan's care home for blind ex-service personnel in Ovingdean, near Brighton. 2009-06-24 http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_oldest-man-thanks-cigarettes-whisky-and-wild-wild-women_1267230 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3371901.html?menu= A Chinese farmer dug a 50ft hole inside his house to go fishing. Li Huiyan, of Chongqing, hired 30 villagers for six months to dig the hole in his kitchen, reports IC Media. He wanted to reach an underground river which he suspected was full of fish. 2009-06-23 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3371901.html?menu= http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/06/19/Police-Man-reported-drug-dealer-robbery/UPI-44271245440881/ MELBOURNE, Fla., June 19 (UPI) -- Police in Florida said a man called 911 to report a marijuana dealer had taken his money without giving him drugs. 2009-06-23 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/06/19/Police-Man-reported-drug-dealer-robbery/UPI-44271245440881/ http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3371877.html?menu= Dutch police have arrested twin brothers on suspicion of robbery after their alleged victim spotted a picture of them following him on Google's Street View. 2009-06-23 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3371877.html?menu= http://www.newschannel9.com/news/won-979429-fritz-game.html A 62-year-old Augusta, Ga. man struck it big twice in the Georgia Lottery. Earl Fritz won the top prize of $777,777 in the instant game Super Lucky 7's. That dwarfed the $1,000 he won a week earlier in a different game. 2009-06-23 http://www.newschannel9.com/news/won-979429-fritz-game.html http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=azcentral&sParam=31023023.story SWANTON, Vt. (AP) Police say a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of beer overturned in Vermont and closed a highway for several hours. 2009-06-23 http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=azcentral&sParam=31023023.story http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/10/israel.mattress.money/index.html JERUSALEM (CNN) -- It was supposed to be a pleasant surprise, but turned into the shock of a lifetime. A woman in Tel Aviv, Israel, gave her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise gift, throwing out the old tattered bed her mother had slept on for decades. The gesture ended up bankrupting Annat's mother, who had stuffed her savings of nearly $1 million inside her old bed for decades, Annat told Israel Army Radio. 2009-06-23 http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/10/israel.mattress.money/index.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/06/14/Elementary-school-accidentally-shows-porn/UPI-23811245017512/ BROOKLYN, N.Y., June 14 (UPI) -- A hardcore pornographic movie was accidentally screened at PS 17 in Brooklyn, N.Y., school officials said. Students from five classes at the school had assembled to watch "Camp Rock," a Disney Channel movie starring the Jonas Brothers, but after a teacher powered up the DVD player and walked away to get the Disney movie, a skin flick began to play, the New York Post reported Sunday. 2009-06-16 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/06/14/Elementary-school-accidentally-shows-porn/UPI-23811245017512/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/06/15/City-to-employees-Wear-underwear/UPI-93341245074849/ BROOKSVILLE, Fla., June 15 (UPI) -- The City Council of Brooksville, Fla., has approved a citywide dress code requiring city employees to wear underwear, deodorant and properly-fitted clothes. 2009-06-16 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/06/15/City-to-employees-Wear-underwear/UPI-93341245074849/ http://www.fox5sandiego.com/news/sns-ap-us-odd-breakfast-spitter,0,6817184.story BERRIEN SPRINGS, Mich. (AP) Authorities said a man faces a felony charge after allegedly spitting on a police officer's McDonald's breakfast sandwich. Police said a 32-year-old man was working the drive-thru window at the southwest Michigan restaurant when an unidentified officer bit into an Egg McMuffin on June 3 and immediately realized something was wrong. 2009-06-16 http://www.fox5sandiego.com/news/sns-ap-us-odd-breakfast-spitter,0,6817184.story http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/06/15/Polish-woman-wakes-up-in-morgue/UPI-39401245075442/ WARSAW, Poland, June 15 (UPI) -- An 84-year-old woman, declared dead by a doctor in central Poland, woke up in a morgue as morticians were preparing her for a funeral, doctors said. 2009-06-16 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/06/15/Polish-woman-wakes-up-in-morgue/UPI-39401245075442/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5523230/Man-had-broken-leg-for-29-years.html Steve Webb, 49, broke his left leg in a motorbike crash when he was 20-years-old. But after suffering decades of pain he found it had never actually healed. 2009-06-16 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5523230/Man-had-broken-leg-for-29-years.html http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/48006187.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc: It was after midnight when Ariel Wade rolled into the drive-through at the 24-hour White Castle, one block from the State Capitol. Wade rolled away "madder than fish grease" after the staff refused to hand over any burgers. The reason: She was riding in an electric mobility scooter. The drive-throughs are for licensed motor vehicles only. White Castle says it's a safety measure that's standard in the industry, to keep pedestrians from getting creamed by cars. 2009-06-16 http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/48006187.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/31/international/i135406D17.DTL&tsp=1 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday. After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his reproductive organ, said a police official. 2009-06-02 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/31/international/i135406D17.DTL&tsp=1 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/05/31/Urinals-among-top-memorabilia-requests/UPI-53781243804486/ NEW YORK, May 31 (UPI) -- An executive involved in the sale of pieces of the old Yankee Stadium says urinals are a hot commodity for those seeking New York Yankees mementos. 2009-06-02 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/05/31/Urinals-among-top-memorabilia-requests/UPI-53781243804486/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521886,00.html LINCOLN, Neb. Police in Nebraska are looking for a man who stole cigarettes while disguising himself with a beer carton on his head. 2009-05-27 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521886,00.html http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Governor+General+eats+seal+heart+support+hunters/1629613/story.htm Canada's Governor General began her Arctic tour by gutting a freshly slaughtered seal and eating a slice of its raw heart, according to media reports. 2009-05-27 http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Governor+General+eats+seal+heart+support+hunters/1629613/story.htm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1187773/Residents-Butt-Hole-Road-club-change-streets-unfortu In the end, the constant jokes were just too much to take for the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road. Groups of youths used to visit the street and bare their backsides for photographs while many delivery firms simply refused to believe it existed. 2009-05-27 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1187773/Residents-Butt-Hole-Road-club-change-streets-unfortu http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/24/us/AP-US-Standoff-Shooting.html?_r=1 TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- A man who didn't get his nightly telephone call from his mother while she was traveling mistakenly claimed his neighbors had kidnapped her and stormed into their house to kill them before police officers shot him dead in a bloody standoff, authorities said. 2009-05-26 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/24/us/AP-US-Standoff-Shooting.html?_r=1 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3331974.html?menu= Lukas Neuhardt, 27, had forgotten to put the safety catch on when he stuffed the gun into his trouser pocket to impress pals in Saarbruecken, Germany. 2009-05-26 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3331974.html?menu= http://www.wpbf.com/mostpopular/19538581/detail.html WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputy was arrested Friday, accused of smuggling pornography into the juvenile section of the county jail. 2009-05-26 http://www.wpbf.com/mostpopular/19538581/detail.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8064867.stm Lai Jiansheng, 66, said he was fed up with the desperate man's "selfish activity" which caused huge traffic jams in Guangzhou, southern China. 2009-05-26 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8064867.stm http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25543033-23109,00.html DISABLED pedestrians in Indonesia are required to wear signs identifying them as handicapped under new traffic regulations passed unanimously by parliament. 2009-05-26 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25543033-23109,00.html http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7556740&page=1 Terrified residents at a Corpus Christi, Texas, state school for the mentally disabled were forced to be part of a brutal "fight club" operated by night shift employees, who made videos of the sessions with their cell phones, the newly released videos show. 2009-05-14 http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7556740&page=1 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/12/us/AP-ODD-Amish-Buggy-Beer.html LEON, N.Y. (AP) -- Police cracking down on rowdy Amish youths ticketed a teenager for having beer in his horse-drawn buggy when they pulled him over on a western New York road. They said the 17-year-old was charged with underage possession of alcohol after he was stopped by deputies late Monday night in the town of Leon, 40 miles south of Buffalo. 2009-05-14 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/12/us/AP-ODD-Amish-Buggy-Beer.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5298543/Plumber-gives-birth-to-twin-in-scene A plumber's embryonic twin spilled out of his stomach, in a scene reminiscent of the movie Alien. 2009-05-14 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5298543/Plumber-gives-birth-to-twin-in-scene http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Woman_bites_lovers_penis_off_in_car_crash&in_article_id=64 A boss and his secretary who were having an affair saw their romantic tryst interrupted in a wince-inducing manner - after a car crash led her to accidentally bite his penis off. 2009-05-14 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Woman_bites_lovers_penis_off_in_car_crash&in_article_id=64 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/05/09/Preacher-gives-congregants-50-each/UPI-61701241904372/ CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio, May 9 (UPI) -- A Cleveland Heights, Ohio, preacher befuddled congregants when he began passing out money rather than passing the collection plate. 2009-05-14 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/05/09/Preacher-gives-congregants-50-each/UPI-61701241904372/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/09/us/AP-US-Off-Road-Shooting.html HOUSTON (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy who was allegedly shot in the head by a couple who thought he and three other people were trespassing on their property died Saturday, authorities said. 2009-05-14 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/09/us/AP-US-Off-Road-Shooting.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180826/Landlady-transforms-pub-smoking-research-centre-lega With her pub struggling to survive, landlady Kerry Fenton needed a way to bring in business - fast. So when one of her regulars claimed he had found a 'legal loophole' to get round the smoking ban, she decided to act on his advice. 2009-05-14 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180826/Landlady-transforms-pub-smoking-research-centre-lega http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/05/12/Surgery-saves-frog-injured-by-lawnmower/UPI-51801242161641/ BATCHELOR, Australia, May 12 (UPI) -- An Australian veterinarian said a green tree frog that underwent surgery for injuries caused by a lawnmower is recovering nicely. 2009-05-14 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/05/12/Surgery-saves-frog-injured-by-lawnmower/UPI-51801242161641/ http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newEAST02051309.htm Instead of scoring 20 pounds of pot, two men were robbed at gunpoint of the $12,000 they were carrying to make the purchase, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said. 2009-05-14 http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newEAST02051309.htm http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/12/us/AP-US-ODD-Rotten-Office-Food.html?_r=1 SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill. 2009-05-14 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/12/us/AP-US-ODD-Rotten-Office-Food.html?_r=1 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1181000/How-dare-point-gun-Hero-father-wrestles-armed-raider This is the moment a have-a-go hero reduced an armed robber to tears - by grabbing his gun and pinning him down until police arrived. Leslie Shott, 34, confronted the hooded youth after he burst into a shop brandishing an airgun. The yob pointed the pistol at Leslie's face but the brave welder simply grabbed the barrel, wrestled him to the ground and told him: 'How dare you point a gun at me!' 2009-05-14 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1181000/How-dare-point-gun-Hero-father-wrestles-armed-raider http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/14/bowl-of-chili-used-to-fend-off-robbers/ When two men broke into her home, Wanda Bray defended herself with what she had - a bowl of chili and some household objects. 2009-05-14 http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/14/bowl-of-chili-used-to-fend-off-robbers/ http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE53Q4VA20090427?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnou BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said Monday he did it to show how desperate he and other workers were. 2009-05-04 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE53Q4VA20090427?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnou http://www.startribune.com/nation/44029912.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiacyKUUr BISMARCK, N.D. - Police in North Dakota say a naked motorist has been charged with driving under the influence after crashing a pickup into a hospital emergency room. No one was hurt. 2009-05-04 http://www.startribune.com/nation/44029912.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiacyKUUr http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/30/us/AP-ODD-Senior-Citizens-Heroin.html STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A northeastern Pennsylvania prosecutor said he's shocked that two sisters accused of selling heroin are 65 and 70 years old. Monroe County District Attorney David Christine told reporters Wednesday that to look at the suspects, it's hard to believe the charges they face. 2009-05-04 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/30/us/AP-ODD-Senior-Citizens-Heroin.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g5dL4cpCIVhgzNZmAaibeZllmpVQD97TA5300 FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) An Alaska man shoved a police officer just so he could join his brother in jail. Thirty-five-year-old David Jacob Ginnis pleaded guilty Wednesday to assault on a police officer and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, with the full sentence suspended. 2009-05-04 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g5dL4cpCIVhgzNZmAaibeZllmpVQD97TA5300 http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Lakeshore%20woman%20charged%20with%20bestiality/1538531/story.html Police call it one of the most shocking and disturbing crimes they've seen after a woman allegedly broadcast herself on a webcam having sex with her toddler child and her dog. 2009-05-04 http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Lakeshore%20woman%20charged%20with%20bestiality/1538531/story.html http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090501/NEWS01/305010016/1055/NEWS HAMILTON Officials at a private elementary school in Hamilton have expelled a third-grader accused of making a "hit list" that included students and a teacher. 2009-05-04 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090501/NEWS01/305010016/1055/NEWS http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/04/30/Man-says-he-shot-himself-in-his-sleep/UPI-77711241137602/ NORTHPORT, Ala., April 30 (UPI) -- An Alabama man with a bullet wound in his shoulder told police he shot himself by accident while sleeping with a 40-caliber handgun. 2009-05-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/04/30/Man-says-he-shot-himself-in-his-sleep/UPI-77711241137602/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1174378/Teenager-burned-alive-scene-horror-movie-caught-love A teenager who was doused in petrol and burned alive had an affair with the girlfriend of one of his alleged killers, jurors were told today. Simon Everitt, 17, was seen arguing with one of the accused Jonathan Clarke shortly before he disappeared on June 6 last year. 2009-05-04 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1174378/Teenager-burned-alive-scene-horror-movie-caught-love http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518703,00.html FREMONT, Neb. Police say a woman arrested in Nebraska on suspicion of drunken driving hit fences, garages and a house as she left a $26,000 trail of destruction. 2009-05-04 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518703,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/01/world/AP-EU-Britain-Castle-Sex.html?_r=2 LONDON (AP) -- Queen Elizabeth II was at home at Windsor Castle, the sentries who guard her were on duty, and the large park surrounding the magnificent building was full of tourists on a Sunday afternoon. So it didn't take long for people to realize that something was out of order when an inebriated couple arrived from a nearby restaurant and began having sex on a grass bank outside the castle, according to witnesses. 2009-05-04 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/01/world/AP-EU-Britain-Castle-Sex.html?_r=2 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/04/27/Wife-Bank-told-hubby-about-account/UPI-23661240864354/ NEW YORK, April 27 (UPI) -- A New York woman has sued her bank for letting slip to her husband that she had $800,000 in an account in her own name. 2009-05-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/04/27/Wife-Bank-told-hubby-about-account/UPI-23661240864354/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090423/ap_on_fe_st/odd_pregnant_robber FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Police are looking for a pregnant woman they say tried to rob a North Carolina bank at gunpoint but left empty-handed after answering her cell phone. Fayetteville police spokeswoman Teresa Chance said Wednesday the woman had a handgun and demanded money when she entered a Carter Bank & Trust branch at 9:43 a.m. Tuesday. 2009-04-24 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090423/ap_on_fe_st/odd_pregnant_robber http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25375039-5005961,00.html A LIVE shark dumped on the doorstep of an Australian country newspaper office had local police puzzled today, with authorities vowing to charge the person who left it with animal cruelty. 2009-04-24 http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25375039-5005961,00.html http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Clown_banned_from_wearing_giant_shoes&in_article_id=630690& A clown has been told he cannot wear his giant comedy shoes during his act because they breach health and safety rules. 2009-04-24 http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Clown_banned_from_wearing_giant_shoes&in_article_id=630690& http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30345146/wid/11915829?GT1=40000 PHILADELPHIA - Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000. 2009-04-22 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30345146/wid/11915829?GT1=40000 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30344675/?GT1=43001 WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Usually, it's an empty threat: "If you kids don't stop fighting, I'm going to stop this car right now and leave you here!" But a mother from an upper-crust New York suburb went through with it, ordering her battling 10- and 12-year-old daughters out of her car in White Plains' business district and driving off, police said Tuesday. 2009-04-22 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30344675/?GT1=43001 http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=6770518&rss=rss-ktrk-article-6770518 Last Thursday, a man walked into the Wachovia Bank in the 2700 block of Smith and reportedly told the teller he had a gun and ordered her to give him money. Fearing for her life, the teller gave the man some cash bundles with exploding dye packs in them. The susp 2009-04-22 http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=6770518&rss=rss-ktrk-article-6770518 http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/articles/2009/04/20/news/doc49eca869969f0453197390.txt SCRANTON A city woman faces aggravated and simple assault charges for fighting with a firefighter who tried to get her to leave an apartment building where a fire had been reported, police said. 2009-04-22 http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/articles/2009/04/20/news/doc49eca869969f0453197390.txt http://onlineathens.com/stories/041209/cop_428276457.shtml An Athens man complained to police after he picked up a prostitute who stole his pants and wallet while he was in a motel room bathroom, according to an Athens-Clarke police report. 2009-04-17 http://onlineathens.com/stories/041209/cop_428276457.shtml http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_fe_st/odd_peeing_passenger HONOLULU A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail for urinating on a 66-year-old woman during a Continental Airlines flight last month from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Jerome Kenneth Kingzio, a resident of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was sentenced after pleading guilty Tuesday to assault charges in federal court in Honolulu. 2009-04-17 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_fe_st/odd_peeing_passenger http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1292/42/376242.htm In what is either the weirdest Russian crime story of the year so far or a new low in yellow crime journalism, a female hair stylist in the Kaluga region is suspected of holding an armed robber in captivity as a sex slave for two days after he unsuccessfully tried to knock over her beauty salon. 2009-04-17 http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1292/42/376242.htm http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/04/09/2009-04-09_suicide_jumper_lands_on_teen_at_que A distraught woman jumped 60 feet to her death at the crowded Queens Center Mall Wednesday, landing on a teenager relaxing in a massage chair. 2009-04-13 http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/04/09/2009-04-09_suicide_jumper_lands_on_teen_at_que http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=113345&provider=top&catid=188 CHEYENNE - In one month, a Cheyenne teenager sent 10,000 text messages and received about the same - all while her family's plan did not include texting. 2009-04-13 http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=113345&provider=top&catid=188 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1167704/The-adventures-Tom-Thumb-The-tiny-puppy-set-worlds-s He is a third of the size of an average guinea pig, and weighs in at just a few ounces - but this tiny puppy could be a big deal when it comes to world records. 2009-04-13 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1167704/The-adventures-Tom-Thumb-The-tiny-puppy-set-worlds-s http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514465,00.html Marion County deputies arrested 49-year-old Barry Alexander on Thursday. A woman staying at the Tall Pines Motel in Ocklawaha told deputies her shower had been broken for three days and she had been using the manager's. She said she found the camera in the floor vent. 2009-04-13 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514465,00.html http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/11/polar.bear.attack/index.html BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- A polar bear attacked a woman at Berlin Zoo Friday afternoon after she climbed a fence and jumped into its habitat during feeding time, police said Saturday. 2009-04-13 http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/11/polar.bear.attack/index.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/ap_on_fe_st/odd_skimp_on_shrimp HALTOM CITY, Texas A woman called 911 to report she didn't get as much shrimp as she wanted in her fried rice at a Texas restaurant. Haltom City police on Tuesday released the taped emergency call, in which the customer is heard telling the dispatcher, "to get a police officer up here, what has to happen?" 2009-04-08 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/ap_on_fe_st/odd_skimp_on_shrimp http://www.kmtr.com/news/local/story/Man-shoots-himself-during-Watchmen-movie/H0qmxSQyCkim5hh80WuOSA Eugene (KMTR) A man shot himself to death in a Eugene movie theater just after midnight Monday morning. 2009-04-08 http://www.kmtr.com/news/local/story/Man-shoots-himself-during-Watchmen-movie/H0qmxSQyCkim5hh80WuOSA http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090403/ap_on_fe_st/odd_titanic_traffic_ticket BETHLEHEM, Pa. A police captain in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley said it's the highest fine he's ever seen on a traffic ticket: $37,554.54. Bethlehem Police Capt. David Kravatz said the major violation was not getting the "super load" permit that was needed because the truck was hauling a 213,000-pound steel cylinder. Police cited the driver and truck owner. 2009-04-08 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090403/ap_on_fe_st/odd_titanic_traffic_ticket http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5100613/Chinese-worker-blows-himself-up-over-un Han Wushun, a migrant worker from Sichuan Province, said he was owed the money after working for a road and bridge construction company in the western province of Xinjiang for three months in 2007. 2009-04-08 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5100613/Chinese-worker-blows-himself-up-over-un http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30048430/ JETERSVILLE, Va. - A 13-year-old Virginia boy apparently loaded his family's pickup truck with food, clothes and his dog, hitched up a trailer with two horses in tow and drove nearly 1,300 miles to Texas, police said. The teen's parents found him safe Friday. 2009-04-08 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30048430/ http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3271143.html?menu= A Polish driver is facing a prison sentence after a 'dead' deer he left on the back seat of his car regained consciousness. 2009-04-08 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3271143.html?menu= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30057314/?GT1=43001 STOCKHOLM - Police say a Japanese pop star dressed up as a pineapple has been robbed while shooting a music video in southern Sweden. 2009-04-08 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30057314/?GT1=43001 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1167708/Brothers-charged-attempted-murder-young-playmates-sl Two brothers aged ten and 11 appeared in court today charged with attempted murder over an attack that left two young playmates with serious head injuries and knife wounds. 2009-04-08 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1167708/Brothers-charged-attempted-murder-young-playmates-sl http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/07/world/AP-AS-Australia-Castaway-Dog.html?_r=1 SYDNEY (AP) -- A pet dog swept off a sailboat in choppy seas off Australia was found alive four months later on a remote island -- and returned to her family, who'd thought she was dead. 2009-04-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/07/world/AP-AS-Australia-Castaway-Dog.html?_r=1 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5108978/Footballer-given-yellow-card-for-dis The referee decided the Chorlton Villa player made the noise deliberately and the spot-kick, which was saved, was retaken. The second time it went in. Then Villa's goalkeeper was sent off for saying the referee was "the worst he had seen in years". 2009-04-07 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5108978/Footballer-given-yellow-card-for-dis http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/04/01/911_call_Woman_locked_inside_car/UPI-83411238615564/ KISSIMMEE , Fla., April 1 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said a woman dialed 911 to report that she had locked herself in her car and the electrical system wasn't working. 2009-04-02 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/04/01/911_call_Woman_locked_inside_car/UPI-83411238615564/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/02/us/AP-Daughter-Pregnancy-Plot.html?_r=1 PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania mother has been charged with giving her 13-year-old daughter drugs and alcohol so the woman's boyfriend could get the girl pregnant, police said Thursday. 2009-04-02 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/04/02/us/AP-Daughter-Pregnancy-Plot.html?_r=1 http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/03/30/revenge/ A young woman stuffed her boyfriend's sex toy with glass wool after finding out he had been unfaithful to her. As a result, the man had to be taken to hospital for vital surgery. 2009-04-02 http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/03/30/revenge/ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2339701.ece A BID to halt legislation banning gay jokes which stir up hatred was defeated yesterday. MPs from all parties tried to include a defence of 'free speech' into the Bill which makes it a criminal offence to incite hatred over sexual orientation. 2009-04-01 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2339701.ece http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12026391 A McDonald's drive-through was shot up early Sunday after a customer was angered that the restaurant had shifted from the lunch menu to the breakfast menu, police said. 2009-04-01 http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12026391 http://www.abajournal.com/news/judge_rules_pole_dancing_is_art_qualifying_for_sales_tax_exemption After reviewing DVDs of exotic dancers, an administrative law judge has determined that pole dancing is "no small feat"and it's also art qualifying for a tax exemption. The judge, Catherine Bennett, ruled the Albany-area club Nite Moves was entitled to a 'dramatic arts' tax exemption and did not have to pay $129,000 in sales taxes, the New York Law Journal reports. The state of New York had contended it was owed taxes on cover charges and dancer fees paid between 2002 and 2005. 2009-04-01 http://www.abajournal.com/news/judge_rules_pole_dancing_is_art_qualifying_for_sales_tax_exemption http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2349648.ece A SEX-STARVED woman has undergone a painful two-hour op to remove a giant PINE CONE. Surgeons have revealed embarrassed spinster Mirjana Gavaric is recovering after getting steamy with the seedy item in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. 2009-04-01 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2349648.ece http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKTRE52U1V920090331 OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian church used lemon-flavoured cola instead of water in a baptism ceremony after its taps were temporarily turned off because of freezing temperatures, daily Vaart Land said on Tuesday. 2009-04-01 http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKTRE52U1V920090331 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090331/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_killer BERLIN (Reuters) German police are struggling to explain why they chased a phantom serial killer for 16 years after confusion over an innocent woman's DNA samples. Police in the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg had searched since 1993 for a woman they believed had taken part in more than 40 crimes, from murders to muggings. Her DNA was found repeatedly at crime scenes in Germany, France and Austria. 2009-04-01 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090331/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_killer http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29971638/?GT1=43001 NEWARK, Ohio - A 28-year-old man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool, Ohio authorities said. 2009-03-31 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29971638/?GT1=43001 http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/20080641249701 Two pupils who used weed killer to draw a giant penis on their school lawn can now see the naughty image from satellite photos posted on the internet. 2009-03-27 http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/20080641249701 http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090324/MICRO060301/90324072 A Hendersonville man was charged with public indecency after he allegedly tried to buy beer in the buff. James T. Golden, 48, of Pecanwood Court, is alleged to have twice entered the Stop N Buy at 137 Walton Ferry Road completely nude to purchase beer. 2009-03-27 http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090324/MICRO060301/90324072 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510746,00.html SAGINAW, Mich. A man police caught performing a sex act with a car wash vacuum has been sentenced to 90 days in prison. 2009-03-27 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510746,00.html http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/911-call-Someones-trying-to-steal-my-beer/igfI895FjUa0 TAMPA, FL -- A Tampa woman was behind bars Thursday morning, accused of misusing the 911 system. Police say Evon Cavett called 911 three times to complain her roommate was stealing her beer. 2009-03-27 http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/911-call-Someones-trying-to-steal-my-beer/igfI895FjUa0 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/23/Man_runs_52_marathons_in_52_days/UPI-12861237853615/ TOKYO, March 23 (UPI) -- A Japanese man says he ran 52 marathons in 52 days, culminating with his entry in the Tokyo Marathon this week, and he thinks it's a world record. 2009-03-26 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/23/Man_runs_52_marathons_in_52_days/UPI-12861237853615/ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2337687.ece Eighteen-year-old Alina Percea is offering a weekend of unprotected sex but has only drawn bids of £5,000 so far and has just three days to go. 2009-03-26 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2337687.ece http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7959155.stm A US man who thought he was dying and confessed to having killed a neighbour in 1977 has been charged with murder after making a recovery, US media say. 2009-03-26 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7959155.stm http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/24/us/AP-ODD-False-Summonses.html WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- An ex-New York state trooper has admitted in court that he issued fake traffic tickets to a man he'd argued with. 2009-03-26 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/24/us/AP-ODD-False-Summonses.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29875894/ BANGKOK - A Thai firefighter dressed as Spider-Man to rescue an autistic boy who climbed onto a third-floor balcony and dangled his legs over the side because he was nervous on his first day of school. 2009-03-26 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29875894/ http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1104477_letter_shock_for_grieving_parents THE parents of a girl who died suddenly two months ago have been sent a letter from her school demanding she improves her attendance. Signed by the deputy headmaster, the letter threatened to ban Megan Gillan from the end of year prom. 2009-03-26 http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1104477_letter_shock_for_grieving_parents http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/21/world/AP-EU-Europe-Incest.html?_r=1 BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Surprising as it may seem, incest is not always a crime in Europe. Three European Union nations -- France, Spain and Portugal -- do not prosecute consenting adults for incest, and Romania is considering following suit. 2009-03-26 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/21/world/AP-EU-Europe-Incest.html?_r=1 http://www.1010wins.com/New-Jersey-Scraps-Plans-to-Ban-Genital-Waxing/4058181 TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey is smoothing out differences over a plan to ban bare-it-all bikini waxing. The state on Friday decided to reverse course on the proposal after angry salon owners complained about losing business ahead of swimsuit season. 2009-03-23 http://www.1010wins.com/New-Jersey-Scraps-Plans-to-Ban-Genital-Waxing/4058181 http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2009/article7186.html PHUKET CITY: Vachira Phuket Hospital on Wednesday morning received a transfer patient in a lot of pain from a somewhat embarrassing illness a broken penis. 2009-03-23 http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2009/article7186.html http://news.aol.com/article/malaysian-mistakes-woman-for-a-monkey/382277 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -Police said a man in Malaysia shot his neighbor as she picked sapodilla fruit in his tree thinking she was a monkey. Police chief in eastern Pahang state Yahaya Othman said the woman was gathering fruit Thursday when her neighbor shot her. Yahaya said the man came home and saw rustling in the tree and fired into it. "Then there was screaming ... and only then did he know it was his neighbor." 2009-03-18 http://news.aol.com/article/malaysian-mistakes-woman-for-a-monkey/382277 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7949018.stm A Finnish computer programmer who lost one of his fingers in a motorcycle accident has made himself a prosthetic replacement with a USB drive attached. 2009-03-18 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7949018.stm http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509456,00.html PHOENIX Phoenix police say a sanitation worker has been crushed to death in the compactor of his garbage truck. 2009-03-18 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509456,00.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1162401/Will-sleep-Downs-syndrome-son-Mother-makes-appeal- Like most mothers Lucy Baxter wants her child to live a fully rounded life - including the experience of a physical relationship and even finding love. But her 21-year-old son Otto has Down's syndrome and has had trouble finding a partner. So she is appealing for women to come forward so Otto can 'enjoy the same experiences as other men his age'. 2009-03-18 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1162401/Will-sleep-Downs-syndrome-son-Mother-makes-appeal- http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/18/world/AP-AS-Indonesia-Child-Bride.html?_r=1 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A Muslim cleric whose marriage to a 12-year-old girl triggered controversy in Indonesia has been detained along with the girl's father on suspicion of violating the child protection law, police said Wednesday. 2009-03-18 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/18/world/AP-AS-Indonesia-Child-Bride.html?_r=1 http://www.startribune.com/nation/41422937.html BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A kindergarten teacher in a Bridgeport school has been arrested for allegedly forcing a 5-year-old boy to eat his lunch from a garbage can. 2009-03-18 http://www.startribune.com/nation/41422937.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5003408/Duck-who-thinks-she-is-a-dog-baffles Essy the duck wags her tail, tries to bark, and competes for treats with her canine companions two Staffordshire cross dogs. 2009-03-18 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5003408/Duck-who-thinks-she-is-a-dog-baffles http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5004431/Family-who-are-too-fat-to-work-say-2 A family of four with a combined weight of 83 stone (1162 pounds) say they are "too fat to work" and need more than the £22,000 they currently receive in benefits. 2009-03-18 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5004431/Family-who-are-too-fat-to-work-say-2 http://www.news4jax.com/news/18878160/detail.html#- WOODBINE, Ga. -- A Camden County inmate was recently arrested as he was trying to sneak back into jail. Sheriff Tommy Gregory said Saturday that Harry Jackson, 25, of St. Marys had broken out of the jail and strolled to a nearby convenience store, where he broke in and stole more than a dozen packs of cigarettes. 2009-03-12 http://www.news4jax.com/news/18878160/detail.html#- http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Woman-Severely-Injured-in-Sex-ToyPower-Tool-Encounter.html LEXINGTON PARK, Md. -- Some sexual experimentation landed a southern Maryland woman in a hospital with injuries tough to imagine and even more difficult to forget. 2009-03-12 http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Woman-Severely-Injured-in-Sex-ToyPower-Tool-Encounter.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/09/Church_gives_free_gas_to_first-timers/UPI-18441236627419/ IRMO, S.C., March 9 (UPI) -- A South Carolina pastor said her church is offering free gas cards to new visitors as a means of helping out worshipers hit by the faltering economy. 2009-03-11 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/09/Church_gives_free_gas_to_first-timers/UPI-18441236627419/ http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2009/03/10/man_says_he_moved_pot_plants_to_keep_burglars_awa JACKSONVILLE, Fla.Authorities said a man stopped with 17 marijuana plants in the bed of his pickup told police he was moving them to protect them from burglars who robbed his house the night before. Police said they arrested a 26-year-old man after receiving a tip that two men were loading pot plants onto a truck around noon Saturday. Police reported finding the plants beneath a cover in the truck bed. 2009-03-11 http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2009/03/10/man_says_he_moved_pot_plants_to_keep_burglars_awa http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/09/13-year-old_caught_driving_85_mph/UPI-13491236650083/ TAUPIRI, New Zealand, March 9 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old boy was caught driving almost 85 mph while his father slept in the passenger's seat, officials in New Zealand said. 2009-03-11 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/09/13-year-old_caught_driving_85_mph/UPI-13491236650083/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/09/Pa_plans_liquor_store_training/UPI-31101236626055/ HARRISBURG, Pa., March 9 (UPI) -- The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has announced a $173,000 program to train state liquor store employees to use their best manners at work. 2009-03-11 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/09/Pa_plans_liquor_store_training/UPI-31101236626055/ http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,25165588-5014090,00.html The unique bottlenose - first spotted in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary in Louisiana, by boat captain Erik Rue, 42, in 2007 - has surfaced again. And comments from heavy-hitters including the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society suggest it's real. 2009-03-11 http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,25165588-5014090,00.html http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/mar/08/sexting-teenagers-face-child-porn-charges/ ORLANDO After his former girlfriend taunted him, Phillip Alpert remembered the nude photos she e-mailed to him while they were dating. 2009-03-11 http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/mar/08/sexting-teenagers-face-child-porn-charges/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/11/us/AP-ODD-Pet-Store-Human-Corpse.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Employees of a Pennsylvania pet store expecting a shipment of tropical fish and salt water got a man's dead body instead. Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in northeast Philadelphia, where the mix-up was discovered Tuesday. He says he learned the body was that of a 65-year-old San Diego-area man who died of early onset Alzheimer's disease. 2009-03-11 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/11/us/AP-ODD-Pet-Store-Human-Corpse.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/10/us/AP-ODD-Stripper-Tax.html?_r=1 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- You might call it a ''pole tax.'' The New York legislator who brought the nation its first law against driving while using a cell phone is proposing a $10 tax for patrons of nude and seminude dance clubs and strip bars. 2009-03-11 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/10/us/AP-ODD-Stripper-Tax.html?_r=1 http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2009/02/23/Boy_killed_by_exploding_office_chair A young Chinese boy has died after an office chair he was sitting on exploded, according to reports. The 14-year-old suffered massive blood loss after the chair's gas cylinder burst, sending parts of the metal chair into his rectum. 2009-03-06 http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2009/02/23/Boy_killed_by_exploding_office_chair http://www.kansas.com/news/weird/story/722669.html BLAINE, Wash. - A Canadian says he got a face full of pepper spray after repeatedly asking a U.S. border inspector in Blaine, Wash., to say please. Desiderio Fortunato says he thought the inspector who told him to turn off his engine Monday was rude and asked him to say please. 2009-03-06 http://www.kansas.com/news/weird/story/722669.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7923986.stm A Tyneside woman deliberately bit off her boyfriend's tongue during a drunken birthday kiss, a court has heard. 2009-03-06 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7923986.stm http://www.smh.com.au/world/nineyearold-incest-victim-aborts-twins-20090305-8oom.html A nine-year-old girl who was carrying twins, allegedly after being raped by her stepfather, has undergone an abortion despite complaints from Brazil's Catholic Church. 2009-03-06 http://www.smh.com.au/world/nineyearold-incest-victim-aborts-twins-20090305-8oom.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/05/us/AP-ODD-Gun-in-Class.html?_r=1 ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina technical college student was arrested after authorities said a gun went off in his pocket during class. Reports released by police Thursday show the 19-year-old student originally said the gun fell from his pocket and went off during class at York Technical College on Wednesday. 2009-03-06 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/05/us/AP-ODD-Gun-in-Class.html?_r=1 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/04/Teen_fined_for_oinking_at_cops/UPI-46771236202771/ SOLNA, Sweden, March 4 (UPI) -- A 15-year-old Swedish boy has been fined $22 for insulting a police officer after he called a pair of officers "pigs" and made oinking noises at them. 2009-03-06 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/04/Teen_fined_for_oinking_at_cops/UPI-46771236202771/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29498350/from/ET/?gt1=43001 FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets. 2009-03-04 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29498350/from/ET/?gt1=43001 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/03/us/AP-ODD-Bong-Cat.html?_r=1 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A man who tried to cool out his hyper cat by stuffing her into a boxlike homemade bong faces cruelty charges -- and catcalls from animal lovers. Lancaster County sheriff's deputies responding to a domestic disturbance call Sunday alleged they saw 20-year-old Acea Schomaker smoking marijuana through a piece of garden hose attached to a duct-taped, plastic glass box in which the cat had been stuffed. 2009-03-04 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/03/us/AP-ODD-Bong-Cat.html?_r=1 http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-odd-urine-drink,0,6178147.story HARTFORD, Wis. (AP) For the second time in three months, police are investigating whether a high school student urinated in a drink before someone took a sip. Police said Tuesday a 16-year-old boy at Hartford Union High School urinated in a drink and offered it to his basketball teammates in November. A 15-year-old boy took a sip and stopped when other boys laughed. 2009-03-04 http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-odd-urine-drink,0,6178147.story http://www.startribune.com/nation/40684187.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU ELKO, Nev. - A Florida truck driver got an unexpected passenger when an eagle busted through the windshield of his semitrailer on Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada. Matthew Roberto Gonzalez of Opalocka, Fla., reported to the Nevada Highway Patrol Monday afternoon that he had just struck an eagle while driving westbound on I-80 near Wells, about 100 miles west of the Nevada-Utah line. 2009-03-04 http://www.startribune.com/nation/40684187.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/04/us/AP-ODD-Teeth-in-Wallet.html?_r=1 FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- A customer shopping at a Wal-Mart for a wallet claims he found something that definitely didn't fit the bill: human teeth. Police say the man found 10 human teeth Saturday when he unzipped a compartment in the wallet. One tooth had a filling. 2009-03-04 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/04/us/AP-ODD-Teeth-in-Wallet.html?_r=1 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/03/Man_mistakenly_gave_10K_to_thrift_store/UPI-10431236125540/ DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., March 3 (UPI) -- A Florida man credited thrift store employees with returning $10,000 that was mistakenly mixed in with plastic grocery bags that he donated. 2009-03-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/03/Man_mistakenly_gave_10K_to_thrift_store/UPI-10431236125540/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/03/Woman_found_phone_in_bag_of_chips/UPI-21931236132961/ JANESVILLE, Wis., March 3 (UPI) -- A Wisconsin woman said she discovered a Nokia cell phone inside a bag of Clancy's Ripple Potato Chips that she purchased at an Aldi store. 2009-03-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/03/03/Woman_found_phone_in_bag_of_chips/UPI-21931236132961/ http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2009Feb26/0,4670,ODDVacuumSex,00.html SAGINAW, Mich. A man has pleaded no contest to indecent exposure after police said he was arrested for performing a sex act with a car wash vacuum. The Saginaw News reported 29-year-old Jason Leroy Savage entered the plea Wednesday in Saginaw County Circuit Court. A no-contest plea is not an admission of guilt but will be treated as one at sentencing on March 25. 2009-02-27 http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2009Feb26/0,4670,ODDVacuumSex,00.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_fe_st/odd_candy_veteran;_ylt=AkZo63T.7XDyCeZufEpNqU_Zn414 FORT PIERCE, Fla. Authorities arrested a man who claimed he was justified in stealing candy at a truck stop because he had served in the military. Police said an officer confronted a 31-year-old man at the truck stop early Monday morning. The officer reported finding several packages of candy and nuts, two black T-shirts and a 20 oz. bottle of beer in his pockets. 2009-02-27 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_fe_st/odd_candy_veteran;_ylt=AkZo63T.7XDyCeZufEpNqU_Zn414 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/24/Robbers_use_fake_chimney_to_cut_into_bank/UPI-40291235530420/ NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Thieves equipped with industrial blowtorches used a fake chimney as a shield while they cut through the roof of a New York City bank branch, police said. 2009-02-27 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/24/Robbers_use_fake_chimney_to_cut_into_bank/UPI-40291235530420/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/26/us/AP-ODD-Pan-Attack.html?_r=1 ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) -- The 70-year-old wife of an Ohio judge said teens who tried to rob her made her so angry that she whacked one in the head with a sauce pan. Ellen Basinski said she was on the phone with her husband Tuesday when four boys pushed their way into her home in Elyria, west of Cleveland. 2009-02-27 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/26/us/AP-ODD-Pan-Attack.html?_r=1 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6941993&page=1 You've heard plenty of stories about foreclosures, but the latest victims of this brutal recession are about to lose their cave. That's right. For nearly five years, Curt Sleeper and his family have lived in a cave. His mortgage is about to come due and, like millions of other Americans, he can't refinance. 2009-02-27 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6941993&page=1 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500186,00.html Vivid Entertainment has made a $1 million offer to Nadya Suleman to make a pornographic video. In an offer letter obtained by TMZ.com, the president of the pornography studio and distributor Steven Hirsch says the company would release the film under their "Vivid-Celeb imprint, which has released titles starring such personalities as Pamela Anderson, Kim Kardashian, and most recently, former Miss USA Kelli MCarty." 2009-02-27 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500186,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/25/world/AP-AS-ODD-Brunei-Beer-on-a-Boat.html?_r=1 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AP) -- It was a beer run on the high seas. Brunei's customs officers arrested two men who tried to smuggle 1,382 cans of contraband beer by boat into the Muslim-majority country, a news report said Wednesday. 2009-02-26 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/25/world/AP-AS-ODD-Brunei-Beer-on-a-Boat.html?_r=1 http://www.startribune.com/nation/40239847.html CONCORD, Calif. - A woman who just lost her job would also be out thousands of dollars if it weren't for the honesty of a good Samaritan. Police said a man who found a bank bag full of money and checks in a shopping center parking lot over the weekend flagged down police and turned it over. 2009-02-26 http://www.startribune.com/nation/40239847.html http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece BOY dad Alfie Patten yesterday admitted he does not know how much nappies cost but said: 'I think it's a lot.' 2009-02-26 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/22/Police_say_man_reports_own_drunken_driving/UPI-79201235334078 PITTSBURGH, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania man called 911 to inform authorities he was too drunk to drive and was pulling his car over as a precaution, state police allege. 2009-02-26 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/22/Police_say_man_reports_own_drunken_driving/UPI-79201235334078 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/23/13-year-old_hijacks_smashes_Beijing_bus/UPI-31041235439873/ BEIJING, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A 13-year-old boy stole a city bus in Beijing, smashed it into a dozen vehicles and knocked down two utility poles before the escapade ended, police say. 2009-02-26 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/23/13-year-old_hijacks_smashes_Beijing_bus/UPI-31041235439873/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/25/Thief_says_police_grabbed_wrong_guy/UPI-59621235593666/ NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Police in New York said an alleged armed robber confessed loudly to his entire neighborhood after police apprehended the wrong man. 2009-02-26 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/25/Thief_says_police_grabbed_wrong_guy/UPI-59621235593666/ http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/feb/23/stuart-man-75-tackles-hefty-robber-who-stole-his-c/ STUART A 75-year-old Stuart man chased down a 6-foot 1-inch, 230-pound, 29-year-old robber who had just snatched his laptop computer and printer on Sunday. 2009-02-26 http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/feb/23/stuart-man-75-tackles-hefty-robber-who-stole-his-c/ http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McDonalds_No_workers_comp_for_employee_0222.html Fast food giant McDonald's has denied workers compensation benefits to a minimum wage employee who was shot when he ejected a customer who had been beating a woman inside the restaurant. 2009-02-26 http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McDonalds_No_workers_comp_for_employee_0222.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,499847,00.html Woodland, CA The attorney for a Woodland dentist told jurors that his client massaged women's chests as part of a medical treatment. 2009-02-26 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,499847,00.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmvDIE_Kw-OZ-alpicIkSYrIDqDAD96EMTS00 NATICK, Mass. (AP) All the customer wanted was coffee. Instead, he needs four new tires. Police say a worker at a Massachusetts Dunkin' Donuts slashed the tires on a customer's Jeep after the two got into an argument Tuesday. 2009-02-25 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmvDIE_Kw-OZ-alpicIkSYrIDqDAD96EMTS00 http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25066433-3102,00.html AMOROUS brush turkeys are raping chickens as their numbers rise in Brisbane and they look for a mate, a leading Queensland biologist says. 2009-02-19 http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25066433-3102,00.html http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_021309_news_oregon_beer_tax.126942e1.html?npc PORTLAND, Ore. -- Five Oregon state lawmakers want to impose a hefty tax on beer and have introduced a bill that brewers say would cripple them. 2009-02-19 http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_021309_news_oregon_beer_tax.126942e1.html?npc http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2245953.ece HIS ear hair is 25cm long and still growing but Indian grocer Radhakant Baijpai has no intention of trimming it. 2009-02-19 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2245953.ece http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/17/china.mistress.contest/index.html BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A married Chinese businessman who could no longer afford five mistresses held a competition to decide which one to keep. The businessman and his spurned mistress met in Qingdao, pictured here last August, local media report. But the contest took a fatal turn when one of the women, eliminated for her looks, drove the man and the four other competitors off a cliff, Chinese media reported. 2009-02-19 http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/17/china.mistress.contest/index.html http://www.indianas4.com/pages/landing/?Man-runs-out-of-gas-after-robbing-gas-st=1&blockID=210894&fe CAPE HAZE, Fla. (AP) Authorities said they arrested a man who apparently forgot to fill up when he was robbing a gas station. The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office said a 23-year-old man used a Bowie knife to rob a Cape Haze gas station early Sunday. Deputies said the man pulled the 12-inch blade and demanded money. But when he left, a customer followed him and called 911. 2009-02-12 http://www.indianas4.com/pages/landing/?Man-runs-out-of-gas-after-robbing-gas-st=1&blockID=210894&fe http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/10/Incest_dads_rented_flat_on_e-Bay/UPI-36421234310150/ ST. POLTEN, Austria, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A tenant of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man accused of using his daughter as a sex slave, is offering tourists a chance to stay in his apartment. 2009-02-12 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/10/Incest_dads_rented_flat_on_e-Bay/UPI-36421234310150/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1141267/Saudi-judge-sentences-pregnant-gang-rape-v A Saudi judge has ordered a woman should be jailed for a year and receive 100 lashes after she was gang-raped, it was claimed last night. 2009-02-12 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1141267/Saudi-judge-sentences-pregnant-gang-rape-v http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/10/Police_10-year-olds_tried_to_sell_pot/UPI-74171234287176/ BURNETTOWN , S.C., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Police in South Carolina said a pair of 10-year-olds allegedly tried to trade Marijuana for money, bubble gum and pies. 2009-02-12 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/10/Police_10-year-olds_tried_to_sell_pot/UPI-74171234287176/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/12/us/AP-Dragged-By-Car.html?_r=1 NEW YORK (AP) -- A pedestrian killed after he was hit by an SUV, then trapped under another vehicle and dragged nearly 20 miles, was identified Thursday as a 26-year-old Ecuadorean immigrant recently laid off from a construction job. 2009-02-12 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/12/us/AP-Dragged-By-Car.html?_r=1 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,490857,00.html MEDICAL LAKE, Wash. Sheriff's officers have arrested an 82-year-old man after his wife died on the floor of their home, apparently about 10 weeks after she fell out of bed and was unable to get up. 2009-02-12 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,490857,00.html http://www.switched.com/2009/02/11/hackers-steal-9-million-from-atms-oceans-11-style/?icid=200100397 If you're one of the many who envision hackers and identity thieves as pitiful, grubby men, slouched behind their computers in their parents' basements, peering at their computer screens with beady, glazed eyes, then the group of hackers that stole $9 million from global ATMs this past November might just put a new image in your mind. 2009-02-12 http://www.switched.com/2009/02/11/hackers-steal-9-million-from-atms-oceans-11-style/?icid=200100397 http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9208328/'Joba-The-Not'-sentenced-for-impersonating-Yankee?MSNHPHC BELMAR, N.J. (AP) - He signed autographs, sweet-talked star-struck women and even scored free food and drinks at bars and restaurants by claiming he was New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain. 2009-02-12 http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9208328/'Joba-The-Not'-sentenced-for-impersonating-Yankee?MSNHPHC http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/ap_on_fe_st/odd_clogged_toilet EAGAN, Minn. An elementary school principal could be disciplined for allegedly forcing a 6-year-old boy to unclog a toilet with his bare hands. The principal of Rahn Elementary has been on paid leave since mid-December while the school district investigated a complaint from the boy's parents. The school board proposed disciplinary action on Thursday. The nature of the discipline wasn't made public. 2009-02-09 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/ap_on_fe_st/odd_clogged_toilet http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/08/Milkman_delivered_marijuana_to_elderly/UPI-50301234076397/ BURNLEY, England, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A 72-year-old English milkman who claimed he provided marijuana for customers who needed it to ease their pain has received a suspended sentence. 2009-02-09 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/08/Milkman_delivered_marijuana_to_elderly/UPI-50301234076397/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/07/us/AP-ODD-Bad-Driver.html?_r=1 BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Elvis has left the vehicle. A man was arrested on more than 50 traffic citations -- all in one day. Police said Elvis Alonzo Barrett, 46, fled from police trying to stop him for a traffic violation Thursday morning. Police said he ran through red lights, crashed into another car and a fence. Police said they found crack cocaine and a crack pipe in his car. 2009-02-09 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/07/us/AP-ODD-Bad-Driver.html?_r=1 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1138947/Driver-wins-20-000-stress-parking-tickets-sends-bail A motorist sued a council for £20,000 over the stress of receiving four parking tickets. Zun Noon, who refused to pay the four £50 fines, claimed he suffered emotional distress after bailiffs were sent round to reclaim the money. 2009-02-09 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1138947/Driver-wins-20-000-stress-parking-tickets-sends-bail http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/teen_14887___article.html/beer_year.html CRESTVIEW - A 32-year-old man was arrested for battery after he attacked a 16-year-old with a beer can. 2009-02-09 http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/teen_14887___article.html/beer_year.html http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25027147-17001,00.html RESIDENTS in a rural area of Darwin have renamed their street "Dildo Boulevard" after 30 sex toys were found lying in front of a house on Friday morning. 2009-02-09 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25027147-17001,00.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/08/Lemonade_shortage_prompts_911_call/UPI-18911234124607/ BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A 66-year-old man is facing charges for calling 911 to complain that a Florida fast-food restaurant was out of lemonade, police say. 2009-02-09 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/08/Lemonade_shortage_prompts_911_call/UPI-18911234124607/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/09/16-illegals-sue-arizona-rancher/ An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border. 2009-02-09 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/09/16-illegals-sue-arizona-rancher/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28917619/?gt1=43001 RALEIGH, N.C. - Larry Whitfield was on foot, his getaway car wrecked, his rookie attempt at robbing a bank thwarted by a set of locked doors, according to detectives. Looking for a place to hide, police say, he found himself inside the home of a frightened old woman. 2009-01-30 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28917619/?gt1=43001 http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/28/2365303-pizzeria-owner-accused-of-beating-man-over-calzone PALM COAST Flagler County authorities said a restaurant owner pistol-whipped and beat a customer who complained that his takeout order was incorrect. The owner of Goomba's Pizzeria was charged with aggravated assault and battery with a deadly weapon and released on bail. 2009-01-30 http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/28/2365303-pizzeria-owner-accused-of-beating-man-over-calzone http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1630766/study_womens_armpits_smell_of_onions/index.html?source A Swiss research group says a study it conducted found that women's underarms typically smell like onions, while men's smell like cheese. Firmenich of Geneva, Switzerland, said its research on the armpit sweat of 24 men and 25 women found that women typically release an onion-like smell due to the combination of bacteria and a sulfur-containing compound, The Daily Telegraph said Thursday. 2009-01-30 http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1630766/study_womens_armpits_smell_of_onions/index.html?source http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/25/us/AP-Boy-Fake-Officer.html?_r=1 CHICAGO (AP) -- A 14-year-old aspiring police officer donned a uniform, walked into a Chicago police station and managed to get an assignment -- patroling in a squad car for five hours before he was detected, police said Sunday. 2009-01-27 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/25/us/AP-Boy-Fake-Officer.html?_r=1 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/26/Woman_arrested_for_overdue_library_book/UPI-94651233014734/ INDEPENDENCE, Iowa, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A woman charged with theft after failing to return a book to an Iowa library said she believes her arrest was "extreme." Shelly Koontz, 39, said she was arrested at her Independence home at 8:30 p.m. Thursday and charged with a misdemeanor count of fifth-degree theft for failing to return "The Freedom Writers Diary" to the Jesup Public Library after checking the book out in April, The (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Gazette reported Monday. 2009-01-27 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/26/Woman_arrested_for_overdue_library_book/UPI-94651233014734/ http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/01/man-buys-used-ipod-gets-60-pages-of-sensitive-military- After purchasing a used iPod, a New Zealand resident found that it wasn't much use for rocking out. Instead of playing MP3s, the gadget contained 60 pages of data on US military personnel, mission briefings, and equipment deployment. 2009-01-27 http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/01/man-buys-used-ipod-gets-60-pages-of-sensitive-military- http://www.thelocal.se/17142/20090125/ A 47-year-old woman from a small town in northern Sweden has been arrested after stabbing her partner during a romantic get-together designed to repair their rocky relationship. 2009-01-27 http://www.thelocal.se/17142/20090125/ http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Car_not_built_to_fly,_flies_onto_roof&in_article_id=503051 Emergency services had to rescue a man from his car after he managed to crash it into a church roof in Limbach-Oberfrohna, Germany, today. The 23 year-old from Chemnitz was severely injured in the accident. According to the police the driver missed a turn, ploughed on up a sloping field and then finally 'took off' to land in the church roof. 2009-01-27 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Car_not_built_to_fly,_flies_onto_roof&in_article_id=503051 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2009/01/19/8069546-sun.html A man who was stabbed at the York Hotel opted to return to the bar to finish his beer rather than seek medical attention. 2009-01-23 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2009/01/19/8069546-sun.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28678112/?GT1=43001 HAMMOND, Ind. - In a scene straight out of the movie "A Christmas Story," a 10-year-old boy got his tongue stuck to a metal light pole. 2009-01-19 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28678112/?GT1=43001 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28679588/ In an unusual legal case arising from the increasingly popular practice known as 'sexting,' six Pennsylvania high school students are facing child pornography charges after three teenage girls allegedly took nude or semi-nude photos of themselves and shared them with male classmates via their cell phones. 2009-01-19 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28679588/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/16/world/AP-LT-Mexico-Painted-Teens.html?_r=1 MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Four teenagers say police in a northern Mexican town spray-painted their hair, shoes and buttocks to teach them not to paint graffiti on public property. 2009-01-19 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/16/world/AP-LT-Mexico-Painted-Teens.html?_r=1 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1119122/Hundreds-queue-cash-ATM-machine-pays-DOUBLE.html In the gloomy days of credit crunch Britain, it was a stroke of luck no one was going to turn down. When a cash machine began issuing customers with double the amount they had requested, the word spread like wildfire. 2009-01-19 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1119122/Hundreds-queue-cash-ATM-machine-pays-DOUBLE.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE50F5D420090117 LISBON (Reuters) - A Portuguese businessman said he cut off one of his fingers in court with a butcher's knife in an "act of despair" after a judge refused his offer to settle a 170,000 euro debt and said part of his farm must be sold. 2009-01-19 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE50F5D420090117 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120114/Paramedic-molests-date-rape-drug-girl-ambulance.html A paramedic called to help a teenage girl after her drink was spiked with a date-rape drug is facing jail for sexually assaulting her in the back of the ambulance. 2009-01-19 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120114/Paramedic-molests-date-rape-drug-girl-ambulance.html http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2008/261108taser.htm Wisconsin Police were caught on camera tasing a 54 year old woman and confining her to a wheel chair after she sat in the wrong seat at a football game in Madison. 2009-01-19 http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2008/261108taser.htm http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/marry_or_pay;_ylt=AtDvjQ50SNKYgD_2j9Ce2oLZn414 FLINT, Mich. The state of Michigan is giving a father a choice: pay the medical cost of his daughter's birth or marry the girl's mother. 2009-01-19 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/marry_or_pay;_ylt=AtDvjQ50SNKYgD_2j9Ce2oLZn414 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/07/Woman_plans_to_sue_over_knife_left_in_head/UPI-98191231369491 JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A Florida woman who claims part of a knife was left inside her head after she was stabbed three years ago said she plans to sue the hospital that treated her. 2009-01-12 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/07/Woman_plans_to_sue_over_knife_left_in_head/UPI-98191231369491 http://www.wmtw.com/cnn-news/18417928/detail.html VASSALBORO, Maine -- Planning officials in Vassalboro unanimously approved Tuesday evening a proposal for a topless coffee shop in their rural town. 2009-01-12 http://www.wmtw.com/cnn-news/18417928/detail.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478184,00.html WOONSOCKET, R.I. Two Woonsocket High School boys did the right thing by trying to get to school on time. It was the way they got there that police had a problem with. Police tell The Call of Woonsocket the boys ages 15 and 16 stole a car Tuesday morning in order to make it to school on time. 2009-01-12 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478184,00.html http://cbs11tv.com/watercooler/inmate.eats.eye.2.904152.html A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye, authorities said Friday. Andre Thomas told officers he ate it. 2009-01-12 http://cbs11tv.com/watercooler/inmate.eats.eye.2.904152.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/11/us/AP-Castle-Home-Fire.html?_r=1 JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) -- A luxurious castle-like home in Johnson City, Tenn., has been badly burned by fierce flames. 2009-01-12 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/11/us/AP-Castle-Home-Fire.html?_r=1 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/11/Woman_posts_ad_for_wedding_party/UPI-32591231709569/ LONDON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A Ukrainian woman whose family cannot attend her wedding in London has posted an ad for people to sit on her side of the church. The Telegraph on Sunday reported the unnamed woman posted her ad on the classifieds Web site Gumtree.com for 30 people to sit with her. 2009-01-12 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/11/Woman_posts_ad_for_wedding_party/UPI-32591231709569/ http://www.champions365.com/blog/view/id/332 aussie fisherman.jpg Aussie spear fisherman Greg Robertson is recovering in hospital after a freak accident in which he speared himself in the groin with a speargun. Yep, that bit made me cross my legs too. 2009-01-12 http://www.champions365.com/blog/view/id/332 http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/giant-plasma-tvs-face-ban-in-battle-to-green-b Energy-guzzling flatscreen plasma televisions will soon be banned as part of the battle against climate change, ministers have told The Independent on Sunday. 2009-01-12 http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/giant-plasma-tvs-face-ban-in-battle-to-green-b http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2009-01-12-Man-stabbed-girlfriend-to-death-in-row-over-kitten A man stabbed his partner to death after a disagreement about naming their new kitten exploded into a fatal argument, a court heard today. 2009-01-12 http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2009-01-12-Man-stabbed-girlfriend-to-death-in-row-over-kitten http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Spurned_saleswoman_defecates_on_porch&in_article_id=468191 A spurned saleswoman took her revenge on a housewife who refused to answer the door by defecating on her doorstep. The 31-year-old woman said she refused to answer the door of her Florida home as she didn't recognise the car parked outside. But the suspected Mary Kay cosmetics saleswoman, apparently angered by the snub, decided to leave an unconventional calling card. 2009-01-12 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Spurned_saleswoman_defecates_on_porch&in_article_id=468191 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090111/ap_on_fe_st/odd_potbellied_ninja WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. A ninja, or at least someone dressed like one, is lurking in the shadows of Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office says a heavyset man with a visible potbelly and a ninja costume unsuccessfully tried to steal two different ATMs over the past two weeks. 2009-01-12 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090111/ap_on_fe_st/odd_potbellied_ninja http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/07/2460860.htm A Darwin man has been fined $2,000 for filming himself masturbating while speeding along the Stuart Highway. 2009-01-09 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/07/2460860.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7813418.stm Motorcyclists in Nigeria have been wearing dried pumpkin shells on their heads to dodge a new law forcing them to wear helmets, authorities say. 2009-01-09 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7813418.stm http://www.wwmt.com/articles/wants_1357690___article.html/long_divorce.html LONG ISLAND, New York (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Divorces can get ugly, especially when you're not ready to let go. "There is no deeper pain you can ever express than betrayal from someone who you loved and devoted your whole life to. And I saved her life," said Dr. Richard Batista. Dr. Batista says his wife broke his heart. Now he wants her kidney. 2009-01-09 http://www.wwmt.com/articles/wants_1357690___article.html/long_divorce.html http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2105253.ece SHOCKED surgeons were forced to use their imagination after operating on woman with a huge can of hairspray stuck in her bum. 2009-01-09 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2105253.ece http://newmedia.covnews.com/news/article/5310/ Officers with the Covington Police Department arrested a nude man looking for a fight Sunday at the Wal-Mart on Industrial Boulevard. 2009-01-09 http://newmedia.covnews.com/news/article/5310/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4174217/Pensioner-banned-from-driving-until- Luba Relic had her disqualification increased after being convicted for crashing her Honda Civic in a car park while driving without a licence. The pensioner, who has appeared in court more than 70 times on a variety of charges in recent years, insisted she was a "good driver" and had been unfairly targeted by police. 2009-01-09 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4174217/Pensioner-banned-from-driving-until- http://jonathanturley.org/2009/01/06/new-york-man-arrested-for-posing-as-doctor-and-convincing-peopl New York police have arrested construction worker, John Brady, 49, in a rather odd crime. Brady is accused of calling people and posing as a doctor. He would then convinced them to give themselves a rectal examination while he was on the telephone. He has been charged with second-degree aggravated harassment. 2009-01-07 http://jonathanturley.org/2009/01/06/new-york-man-arrested-for-posing-as-doctor-and-convincing-peopl http://www.fairfield-echo.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2009/01/06/op010909policewebmom.html A 37-year-old Oxford woman was arrested Jan. 2 for allegedly shoplifting a parenting book while accompanied by her two young children. 2009-01-07 http://www.fairfield-echo.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2009/01/06/op010909policewebmom.html http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0106091vail1.html JANUARY 6--In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado's ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. 2009-01-07 http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0106091vail1.html http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24874073-2702,00.html A MOTHER of three accused of murdering her husband by setting his genitals alight allegedly told neighbours she was a "jealous wife" who had learned he was having an affair, a court heard today. 2009-01-06 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24874073-2702,00.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_on_fe_st/odd911_escape SARASOTA, Fla. Authorities said a Sarasota man about to be pulled over by police tried to lure officers away by making a fake 911 call. Officers said they were following a 28-year-old man's car Monday to make a traffic stop when they got a 911 call for an armed robbery happening several blocks away. 2009-01-05 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_on_fe_st/odd911_escape http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article5420921.ece Two ambulancemen have been arrested by police after they were heard allegedly discussing whether they should bother to resuscitate a disabled man who had collapsed at home and subsequently died. 2009-01-05 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article5420921.ece http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/01/Homeless_man_ordered_to_wear_underpants/UPI-15251230849947/ WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A New Zealand homeless man accused of obscene exposure has been released on bail with one important condition -- he must wear underwear. 2009-01-05 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/01/Homeless_man_ordered_to_wear_underpants/UPI-15251230849947/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475404,00.html BISMARCK, N.D. Police get calls about drunken drivers all the time, but rarely do they come from the alleged offender. A 17-year-old girl in Bismarck called 911 on New Year's Eve "to report herself driving under the influence," police Lt. Randy Ziegler said. "I've never heard of such a thing happening, and neither has anyone here." 2009-01-05 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475404,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475424,00.html FORT WORTH, Texas A jail in northern Texas has been closed and its nearly 60 inmates transferred as authorities investigate what they call dangerous conditions for jailers and those behind bars including cells that locked from the inside or contained recliners. 2009-01-05 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475424,00.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_re_us/lottery_legacy DANBURY, Conn. On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family. Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store on Nov. 1 as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack while working in his yard in Danbury. 2009-01-05 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_re_us/lottery_legacy http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475629,00.html NEW ORLEANS A man who initially told police gunmen kidnapped his 2 1/2-year-old son was arrested Saturday, accused of committing an "extremely hideous" murder because he was ordered to pay child support, Police Superintendent Warren Riley said. 2009-01-05 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475629,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475574,00.html A brother and sister in England spent 40 years trying to find each other then discovered they lived only 300 yards apart. Ken Whitty, 64, walked past 62-year-old Yvonne's house countless times and even saw her in the garden, but did not recognize her. 2009-01-05 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475574,00.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5404186.ece For Mr Invisible, the first and last blow to his burgeoning career as a superhero was an unexpected punch that flattened his nose. 'After months of designing my costume, getting my street moves just right, it was my first week out as a Real Life Superhero and probably my last. This tiny, tiny girl did not like me trying to calm down her screaming boyfriend. She blindsided me, I'm still bruised. It's dangerous out there,' said the deflated would-be crime fighter last week. 2008-12-31 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5404186.ece http://www.kptv.com/news/18381560/detail.html#- TROUTDALE, Ore. -- A naked man fled the home he broke into Tuesday morning after the woman who lives there attacked his genitals, police said. 2008-12-31 http://www.kptv.com/news/18381560/detail.html#- http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/30/Bank_apologizes_for_145B_overdraft_error/UPI-44051230676259/ IRVINE, Scotland, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A Scottish man said his bank has apologized after his online statement showed his account was overdrawn by $145 billion. Donald Moffat, 38, a full-time student and part-time care worker, said his account with bank Barclay's showed two withdrawals Tuesday morning of about $72 billion each, the BBC reported Tuesday. 2008-12-31 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/30/Bank_apologizes_for_145B_overdraft_error/UPI-44051230676259/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/30/us/AP-ODD-Discarded-Lottery-Ticket.html?_r=1 BERLIN, Vt. (AP) -- A Vermont man is $650,000 richer after retrieving a lottery ticket he had been given for Christmas but accidentally threw away. Steven LeClair of Richford got the ticket for the Dec. 24 Tri-State Megabucks drawing as a gift from his mother. But it was in a gift bag that LeClair threw out, not knowing it was inside. 2008-12-31 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/30/us/AP-ODD-Discarded-Lottery-Ticket.html?_r=1 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3131755.html?menu= A Chinese man had to be rescued by firefighters after he was reportedly blown onto a tree by a strong gust of wind. 2008-12-29 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3131755.html?menu= http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/26/Four-legged_shoplifter_takes_279_bone/UPI-50561230334824/ MURRAY, Utah, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Workers at a Murray, Utah, grocery store said surveillance video recorded a dog walking into the store and taking a rawhide bone. 2008-12-29 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/26/Four-legged_shoplifter_takes_279_bone/UPI-50561230334824/ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5397932.ece A pregnant woman was left unattended for hours and had to give birth on a hospital floor despite her desperate appeals for a bed. 2008-12-29 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5397932.ece http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/635134.html FAIRBANKS -- Fairbanks police got an unusual report on Christmas morning. A man told them his marijuana had been stolen at gunpoint. 2008-12-29 http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/635134.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7798480.stm A Catholic priest has been criticised by parents in a city in northern Italy for telling their children that Father Christmas does not really exist. 2008-12-29 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7798480.stm http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,473433,00.html WILKES-BARRE, Pa. A family did not realize they had an unexpected Christmas guest until a man who had been in their attic for days emerged wearing their clothes, police said. 2008-12-29 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,473433,00.html http://www.thelocal.se/16590/20081227/ A Swedish man's attempt to impress his girlfriend on Friday night backfired, putting him in the hospital with serious burn injuries and facing allegations of endangering the public. 2008-12-29 http://www.thelocal.se/16590/20081227/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7792475.stm Mice may be responsible for a blaze that killed nearly 100 cats at an animal shelter near the Canadian city of Toronto, officials say. 2008-12-23 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7792475.stm http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Driver_banned_for_having_worlds_most_untidy_car&in_article Police have banned a woman driver's car from the road - for being too untidy. The Vauxhall Astra was so full of junk, magazines, old clothes and even bits of furniture that they could barely see the driver at it roared down a motorway in Dusseldorf, Germany. 2008-12-23 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Driver_banned_for_having_worlds_most_untidy_car&in_article http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3130481.html?menu=news.quirkies A clown wearing colourful pantaloons, huge shoes and a flashing police helmet was strip searched by airport security guards. 2008-12-23 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3130481.html?menu=news.quirkies http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/12/22/23011_ntnews.html A TERRITORY businessman who pleaded not guilty to possessing more than 70 ecstasy tablets told Darwin Magistrates Court he thought they were birth control pills for his dog. 2008-12-23 http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/12/22/23011_ntnews.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/22/world/AP-EU-Germany-Polar-Bear.html?_r=1 BERLIN (AP) -- A man jumped into the Berlin zoo enclosure of famed polar bear Knut on Monday, but officials were able to keep the animal away from the intruder by distracting him with a leg of beef, police said. The 37-year-old man jumped over a fence into a water-filled ditch at the edge of the bear's enclosure Monday morning, police said in a statement. 2008-12-23 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/22/world/AP-EU-Germany-Polar-Bear.html?_r=1 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/20/Landlord_forced_to_live_in_neglected_home/UPI-83461229774934/ CLEVELAND, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A Cleveland judge sentenced a landlord accused of multiple code violations in dozens of rental properties to spend house arrest in one of the neglected units. 2008-12-23 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/20/Landlord_forced_to_live_in_neglected_home/UPI-83461229774934/ http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081221/twl-no-divorce-for-eight-year-old-3fd0ae9.html An eight-year-old girl who was married off to a 58-year-old must stay with the man until she reaches puberty, a Saudi court has ruled. 2008-12-23 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081221/twl-no-divorce-for-eight-year-old-3fd0ae9.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28300375/ RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. - A man who was hit by a stray bullet in the back of the head is back at work with the slug still stuck in his skull. E.T. Strickland, 74, a commercial real estate seller, said the bullet hurts, but not enough to keep him from his job. 2008-12-23 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28300375/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/21/Dead_man_receives_calls_in_grave/UPI-33961229889731/ NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- New York defense lawyer John Jacobs continues to receive voice-mail messages three years after he was buried with his beloved cell phone. 2008-12-23 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/21/Dead_man_receives_calls_in_grave/UPI-33961229889731/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/17/Dutch_pick_penis-shaking_term_as_top_word/UPI-73411229494794/ AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Dutch dictionary company says Web visitors have voted "swaffelen" -- an English slang verb meaning to swing one's exposed penis -- as the word of the year. 2008-12-19 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/17/Dutch_pick_penis-shaking_term_as_top_word/UPI-73411229494794/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/16/Mans_11_lottery_tickets_all_winners/UPI-81141229487908/ HAMPTON, Va., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A Virginia man who bought 11 identical lottery tickets for the same drawing has won $1.1 million from a game with a top prize of $100,000, gaming officials say. 2008-12-19 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/16/Mans_11_lottery_tickets_all_winners/UPI-81141229487908/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_fe_st/odd_eggbeater_threat TAMPA, Fla. It really must have been a special item. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, two men entered a man's home early Sunday and demanded his eggbeater. One suspect was holding a pistol while the other brandished a knife to the resident's neck. 2008-12-19 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_fe_st/odd_eggbeater_threat http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/17/Stabbing_follows_spat_over_TV_remote/UPI-62941229517740/ ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A St. Paul, Minn., woman was being held on $50,000 bail after allegedly stabbing her ex-boyfriend while arguing over control of the TV remote, police said. 2008-12-19 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/17/Stabbing_follows_spat_over_TV_remote/UPI-62941229517740/ http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3124777.html?menu= A 15-year-old cat's eyesight has been restored by contact lenses in what's believed to be a medical first. 2008-12-19 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3124777.html?menu= http://www.nbcbayarea.com/around_town/the_scene/Smell-Like-a-Burger-Get-All-the-Ladies.html Hey ladies, don't you just love a man who smells like charred meat? Burger King has read your thoughts and answered your prayers with FLAME™, a new limited-edition body spray for men. 2008-12-19 http://www.nbcbayarea.com/around_town/the_scene/Smell-Like-a-Burger-Get-All-the-Ladies.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4BG6UH20081217 CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian man said on Wednesday he was offering his 20-year-old daughter in marriage to Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad on Sunday, 2008-12-19 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4BG6UH20081217 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7791321.stm US surgeons operating on a brain tumour in a baby boy found a tiny foot inside his head. Doctors operated on three-day old Sam Esquibel after finding what looked like a microscopic tumour on an MRI scan. But while removing the growth, they also found a nearly perfect foot and the partial formation of another foot, a hand and a thigh. 2008-12-19 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7791321.stm http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/18/Wrong_inmate_released_from_Tenn_jail/UPI-63881229652886/ NASHVILLE, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A burglary suspect walked out of a Tennessee jail posing as another man with a similar name who had been ordered released on his own recognizance. 2008-12-19 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/18/Wrong_inmate_released_from_Tenn_jail/UPI-63881229652886/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,467147,00.html PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. Police say a Port St. Lucie man was arrested for throwing a sandwich at his girlfriend, the second food attack that sent a man to jail in about a month. 2008-12-16 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,467147,00.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4BB5R320081212 CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian gambler who lost millions in a A$1.4 billion ($909 million) gaming spree is suing one of the country's largest casinos, claiming he was targeted by managers despite a known gambling addiction. 2008-12-16 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4BB5R320081212 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081213/christmasparty_shooting_081213/20081213 A man has been charged with first-degree murder after a shooting at an office Christmas party in Vancouver Friday. 2008-12-16 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081213/christmasparty_shooting_081213/20081213 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008http://thedailyurinal.com/vipsubmit.php?txtAddress=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. LONDON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A British housing association has apologized to a homeowner who was told to remove her Christmas lights so they would not offend non-Christian neighbors. 2008-12-16 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008http://thedailyurinal.com/vipsubmit.php?txtAddress=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008http://thedailyurinal.com/vipsubmit.php?txtAddress=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. LONDON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A British housing association has apologized to a homeowner who was told to remove her Christmas lights so they would not offend non-Christian neighbors. 2008-12-16 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008http://thedailyurinal.com/vipsubmit.php?txtAddress=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/15/eBay_cancels_auction_of_mans_soul/UPI-92831229388090/ LONDON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The Internet site eBay has canceled a British man's auction for his soul. Dante Knoxx, 24, had offered the "used" item for a starting bid of $37,600 or a "Buy it now" price of just more than $1 million, The Daily Mail reported Monday. 2008-12-16 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/15/eBay_cancels_auction_of_mans_soul/UPI-92831229388090/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/07/Mom_says_computer_Scrabble_game_swears/UPI-71771228679066/ LONDON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A British mother says she was shocked to discover a Nintendo's Scrabble 2007 game's computer was choosing to play swear words against her 8-year-old son. 2008-12-16 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/07/Mom_says_computer_Scrabble_game_swears/UPI-71771228679066/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-Nagged-Husband.html WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A ''nagging'' wife who pushed her husband to buy a lottery ticket helped scoop the $4.2 million ($7.7 million New Zealand dollar) first prize -- with only minutes to spare. The man from New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, bought his ticket just two minutes before ticket sales closed Saturday night. 2008-12-16 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-Nagged-Husband.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3115002.html?menu=news.quirkies A mystery Santa demanded a toy ransom for an orphanage after pinching a builder's £3,000 digger. Jaroslaw Kryzwonos was ordered to buy £200 of toys for the children's home in Lublin, Poland, in a phone call from a man identifying himself as Father Christmas. 2008-12-16 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3115002.html?menu=news.quirkies http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4B75EO20081208 BEIJING (Reuters) - A young woman in southern China has partially lost her hearing after her boyfriend ruptured her eardrum during an excessively passionate kiss, local media reported Monday. 2008-12-16 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4B75EO20081208 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/09/us/AP-ODD-Deer-Crash-Course.html COOPERSVILLE, Mich. (AP) -- A fourth-grade class in Michigan learned firsthand about animal behavior when a deer crashed through a window and into its classroom. 2008-12-16 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/09/us/AP-ODD-Deer-Crash-Course.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-odd-honest-patron,0,5476812.story MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) A Murfreesboro woman says she returned $97,000 she claims to have found in a Cracker Barrel restroom, but police said Tuesday they have no report of the find. Billie Watts, 75, told The Daily News Journal that she discovered the money inside a tapestry bag hanging from a hook on a stall door last Thursday. 2008-12-16 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-odd-honest-patron,0,5476812.story http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/09/us/AP-ODD-Mission-to-Steal.html?_r=1 MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (AP) -- Bare footprints on a toilet seat led sheriff's deputies to find a man hidden away inside a Baxter County gas station ceiling, apparently ''on a mission'' to steal, officials said Tuesday. 2008-12-16 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/09/us/AP-ODD-Mission-to-Steal.html?_r=1 http://kezi.com/news/national/70831 Three employees of a Kentucky Fried Chicken have been suspended for bathing in a deep sink used to clean dishes. The prank was discovered after one of the young women posted photos on a social networking site of the trio posing and cavorting in the steaming water in their underwear and swim wear. 2008-12-16 http://kezi.com/news/national/70831 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,464484,00.html Arizona Department of Public Safety Detectives have confiscated about 2,118 pounds of marijuana from a truck that appeared identical to a United Parcel Service truck. 2008-12-16 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,464484,00.html http://www.newsobserver.com/2197/story/1328838.html ST. LOUIS - Santa aside, that trip down the chimney doesn't work so well after all. Police arrested a burglar early Wednesday who spent a harrowing three hours stuck inside the chimney of a pawn shop. 2008-12-16 http://www.newsobserver.com/2197/story/1328838.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28191199/ WILLMAR, Minn. - A 50-year-old man who told authorities he was fed up with teens toilet-papering his house decided to defend his property with a squirt gun filled with fox urine. 2008-12-16 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28191199/ http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/dec/12/drunk-pedestrian-roof-wont-come-down-seeks-more-be/ FORT PIERCE When the Binney Drive resident returned from work Wednesday night, he noticed something that could be considered unusual a 28-year-old woman drinking beer on his roof. 2008-12-15 http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/dec/12/drunk-pedestrian-roof-wont-come-down-seeks-more-be/ http://web1.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1203082gas1.html Meet April Westfall (and her green Subaru wagon). The Nevada woman was arrested early yesterday on a drunk driving rap. And while there's nothing special about a 4:30 AM DUI bust, the circumstances of Westfall's arrest are unique. 2008-12-09 http://web1.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1203082gas1.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3659873/Man-fined-for-swearing-at-TV.html Plumber Martin Solomon, 62, was heard by neighbours as he shouted 'foul and offensive language' at his TV, magistrates in Stroud, Glos, heard. 2008-12-09 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3659873/Man-fined-for-swearing-at-TV.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-marijuanacigarett,0,5822639.story MUNCIE, Ind. - Police say a Muncie woman was arrested after asking a state trooper whether she could smoke -- and then trying to light up a marijuana joint. 2008-12-09 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-marijuanacigarett,0,5822639.story http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Charred_monkey_meat_found_in_mans_luggage&in_article_id=43 A passenger has been caught with three charred monkeys in his luggage as he passed through customs. The man had flown into Washington from the African city of Bangui, in the Central African Republic, when he was stopped at Dulles International Airport after a sniffer dog alerted customs officials. 2008-12-09 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Charred_monkey_meat_found_in_mans_luggage&in_article_id=43 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/07/Woman_finds_cash-stuffed_boots_at_store/UPI-70481228688326/ MILWAUKEE, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A Wisconsin woman says she found a wad of cash in a pair of boots she purchased at a thrift store. 2008-12-08 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/07/Woman_finds_cash-stuffed_boots_at_store/UPI-70481228688326/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Suicide-Body-in-Freezer.html WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities responding to a suicide in Florida have made a chilling discovery -- a body stored in a carport freezer. 2008-12-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Suicide-Body-in-Freezer.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081204/ap_on_re_us/proposal_death NESKOWIN, Ore. A romantic marriage proposal on the Oregon coast turned deadly for the bride-to-be when a wave swept her out to sea. Scott Napper had taken 22-year-old Leafil Alforque to Proposal Rock near Neskowin Beach to pop the question at a place that got its name from couples ready to marry. Napper and Alforque had been dating since they met on the Internet in 2005. 2008-12-08 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081204/ap_on_re_us/proposal_death http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Towns-Vegas-Vacation.html FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- The tiny town of Cranfills Gap really needs a vacation. That's why Las Vegas tourism officials decided to fly nearly half the 350 residents to the desert playground for a five-day getaway and publicity stunt. 2008-12-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Towns-Vegas-Vacation.html http://www.sheboyganpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008312050026 An elderly border collie mix froze to the sidewalk when it was left outside overnight in single-digit temperatures, but the 'morbidly obese' dog survived due to insulation from layers of fat, according to the Sheboygan County Humane Society. 2008-12-08 http://www.sheboyganpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008312050026 http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=6540925 SAN CLEMENTE, CA -- A young man who told San Clemente police he was jumped and stabbed apparently made up the story in an effort to get an ex-friend in trouble. 2008-12-08 http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=6540925 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Nursing-Home-Abuse.html ALBERT LEA, Minn. (AP) -- Two teenage girls who worked at a nursing home have been charged with abuse, accused of taunting, spitting on and groping residents who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. 2008-12-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Nursing-Home-Abuse.html http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/12/04/7638156-ap.html ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A woman is suing a Pennsylvania sports bar and restaurant, saying she got stuck inside a toilet bowl for 20 minutes after the seat broke. 2008-12-08 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/12/04/7638156-ap.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3108869.html?menu=news.quirkies A would-be smuggler was arrested after trying to outrun border police with £300,000 of cigarettes in a horse and cart. 2008-12-08 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3108869.html?menu=news.quirkies http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Speed-Camera-Attack.html GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- A 26-year-old man faces criminal charges after being accused of using a pickax to attack a speed enforcement camera recently installed along a Phoenix-area freeway. 2008-12-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Speed-Camera-Attack.html http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/04/ap/strange/main4648768.shtml Two suspected shoplifters are arrested after one of them zapped a Wichita Wal-Mart employee with a Taser. Police said that two Wal-Mart workers on Wednesday afternoon confronted a pair of women who tried to leave the store without paying for merchandise. At that point, one of the women fired an electroshock from the Taser. 2008-12-08 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/04/ap/strange/main4648768.shtml http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/04/Street_cleaner_finds_20000_shredded/UPI-81791228373958/ LINCOLN, England, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A street cleaner in Lincoln, England, says police have allowed him to keep a bag containing an estimated $20,000 in shredded cash he found in a trash bin. 2008-12-08 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/04/Street_cleaner_finds_20000_shredded/UPI-81791228373958/ http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-child-designated-driver,0,5943588.story CAPE CORAL, Fla. (AP) _ Authorities in southwest Florida say an intoxicated man had his 9-year-old son take him on a beer run. Cape Coral police arrested the 27-year-old man last week, after seeing a pickup truck drive onto a median. 2008-12-08 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-child-designated-driver,0,5943588.story http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460205,00.html SAN ANTONIO A man who rammed his truck into a woman's vehicle on a highway early Friday told authorities he crashed into her while going more than 100 mph because God told him "she needed to be taken off the road." 2008-12-08 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460205,00.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/03/GPS_unit_leads_car_down_stairs/UPI-21441228283158/ TRIESTE, Italy, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- An Italian man said his car's satellite navigation system guided him to make a right turn that led his car to roll down two flights of stairs in Trieste. 2008-12-08 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/03/GPS_unit_leads_car_down_stairs/UPI-21441228283158/ http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-grilling-arrest,0,4167201.story LEDYARD, Conn. (AP) _ Police arrested a 44-year-old man who lit a small charcoal grill inside his apartment, endangering his neighbors. Police charged him with second-degree reckless endangerment after two people became ill. 2008-12-08 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-grilling-arrest,0,4167201.story http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Christmas-Tree-Weapon.html?_r=1 PARRISH, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say a Florida man who lives with his parents has been charged with attacking his father with a Christmas tree and its metal stand. 2008-12-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Christmas-Tree-Weapon.html?_r=1 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/02/400000_found_hidden_in_SUV/UPI-26731228272428/ BOSTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The Massachusetts State Police said an SUV that was pulled over during a routine traffic stop was found to contain more than $400,000 in a hidden compartment. 2008-12-08 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/02/400000_found_hidden_in_SUV/UPI-26731228272428/ http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1603292/man_beats_attacker_with_giant_candy_cane/index.html A California man used a 2-foot decorative lawn candy cane to beat and subdue a neighbor who allegedly attacked guests with a knife, police say. 2008-12-02 http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1603292/man_beats_attacker_with_giant_candy_cane/index.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1603564/sperm_donor_fathers_46_children/index.html?source=r_od A Dutchman known as Europe's most committed sperm donor says he's fathered 46 children and is willing to keep at it. 2008-12-02 http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/1603564/sperm_donor_fathers_46_children/index.html?source=r_od http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24728761-5006790,00.html IT WOULD be enough to put phobia sufferers in their grave - 14 carpet pythons slithering around in your bedroom. 2008-12-02 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24728761-5006790,00.html http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/25/1688782.aspx At the age of 5, my son Jayan had a routine set of dental X-rays that showed a disturbing fact. The X-rays revealed that he possessed not one, not two, but three sets of front teeth. There were his baby teeth, his permanent teeth and in between, an extra set. A bonus pair, if you will. 2008-12-02 http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/25/1688782.aspx http://cbs3.com/watercooler/Man.wins.cars.2.876537.html TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ― In a span of 10 days, a man learned he won two automobiles in separate contests. Michel Horton picked up his newest ride on Friday, a 2008 "Bon Jovi Special Edition" Saturn Outlook, at a dealership in Topeka. He was notified of the win on Oct. 15. 2008-12-02 http://cbs3.com/watercooler/Man.wins.cars.2.876537.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_flatulence_arrest;_ylt=As.nF91oG2ZrX2onnG2JzTzZn414 STUART, Fla. A student at a Florida school has been arrested after authorities said he was "passing gas" and turning off his classmates' computers. According to a report released Friday by the Martin County Sheriff's Office, the 13-year-old boy "continually disrupted his classroom environment" by intentionally breaking wind. He then shut off some computers other students were using. 2008-12-02 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_flatulence_arrest;_ylt=As.nF91oG2ZrX2onnG2JzTzZn414 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AO6G720081125 RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Three Norwegian tourists came under fire and one was shot after the satellite navigation system in their car guided them straight into one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous slums. 2008-12-02 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AO6G720081125 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/25/Parking_space_price_tag_500000/UPI-86651227662473/ VAIL, Colo., Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A resident of the ski resort town of Vail, Colo., said he is seeking $500,000 for his parking space in the Vail's Founders garage. 2008-12-02 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/25/Parking_space_price_tag_500000/UPI-86651227662473/ http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_DRUNKEN_DRIVER?SITE=KYLOU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- A 21-year-old man was accused of driving drunk and leading police on a chase that finally ended with him running over himself. The man was treated for minor injuries at a Santa Fe hospital and booked in to the Sandoval County detention center on charges of aggravated driving while intoxicated, fleeing a police officer, careless driving and two other outstanding traffic warrants. 2008-12-02 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_DRUNKEN_DRIVER?SITE=KYLOU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/27/Woman_Police_confused_tomatoes_for_pot/UPI-40681227819398/ SHIELDAIG, Scotland, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- An elderly Shieldaig, Scotland, woman said police raided her home after mistaking the tomato plants in her window for marijuana. 2008-12-02 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/27/Woman_Police_confused_tomatoes_for_pot/UPI-40681227819398/ http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AQ5Z020081127 BERLIN (Reuters) - An eight-year-old German schoolboy who wanted to complain to his mother about being sent out of class took his teacher's car and crashed it, police said. 2008-12-02 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AQ5Z020081127 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/29/Bank_robber_actually_a_cardboard_cutout/UPI-13781227936536/ SOMERVILLE, N.J., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- It appears the 'robber' spotted by police inside a bank in Somerset County, N.J., was actually a cardboard figure, authorities say. 2008-12-02 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/29/Bank_robber_actually_a_cardboard_cutout/UPI-13781227936536/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/28/Teen_role_model_reports_10000_find/UPI-42031227927303/ FEDERAL WAY, Wash., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A Washington state teen who turned in a satchel containing a customer's life savings says he wouldn't be much of a Sunday school teacher if he had kept the bag. 2008-12-02 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/28/Teen_role_model_reports_10000_find/UPI-42031227927303/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/28/Neighbors_not_saluting_7-story_flagpole/UPI-17351227911629/ CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Folks in an Illinois community say the 75-foot-tall cell phone tower disguised as a flag pole and planned for a local park isn't going to fool anyone. 2008-12-02 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/28/Neighbors_not_saluting_7-story_flagpole/UPI-17351227911629/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456453,00.html MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. A West Virginia mother faces charges after being accused of burning the word "wimp" into her 6-year-old daughter's neck. 2008-11-24 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456453,00.html http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_11021578 A lawyer representing a man arrested in Fairfield for drunken driving says the state's breathalyzers discriminate against black people. "They are KKK in a box," said lawyer James O. Ruane of Shelton. "We really have some racist machines here." 2008-11-24 http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_11021578 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Jackpot-Winner.html?_r=1 HONOLULU (AP) -- A 24-year-old woman, on her first trip to Las Vegas, is worrying less about the nation's economy. That's because Jessica Agbunag won $2.4 million on Wednesday at a Wheel of Fortune slot machine at the California Hotel and Casino. 2008-11-24 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Jackpot-Winner.html?_r=1 http://www.examiner.com/a-1700048~Rapper_gets_20_years_after_writing_shooting_song.html?cid=rss-Stra DUBLIN, Ga. (Map, News) - He shot a man twice and felt so good about it, police said, a rapper wrote a song describing the shooting and calling out the victim by name. A judge sentenced 25-year-old Rico Todriquez Wright Monday to spend the next 20 years in prison after his victim mentioned the hip hop confession to police. 2008-11-24 http://www.examiner.com/a-1700048~Rapper_gets_20_years_after_writing_shooting_song.html?cid=rss-Stra http://www.kctv5.com/news/18007514/detail.html#- OLATHE, Kan. -- Olathe, Kan., police are investigating after a 13-year-old student hugged his teacher. 2008-11-24 http://www.kctv5.com/news/18007514/detail.html#- http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/20/Men_plead_not_guilty_to_digging_up_grave/UPI-89141227222815/ MADISON, Wis., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Three men charged with attempted theft after they allegedly tried to dig up a grave have pleaded not guilty, said the Grant County, Wis., clerk of courts. 2008-11-24 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/20/Men_plead_not_guilty_to_digging_up_grave/UPI-89141227222815/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/20/Released_prisoner_refused_to_leave/UPI-17941227222285/ OAK PARK HEIGHTS, Minn., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Officials with the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights said they had to call the police after a released prisoner refused to leave prison grounds. 2008-11-24 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/20/Released_prisoner_refused_to_leave/UPI-17941227222285/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/20/Lost_cockatiel_spoke_to_owners_on_phone/UPI-97741227217484/ GWERSYLLT, Wales, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A Gwersyllt, Wales, woman who found a missing cockatiel said the bird uttered its first words in her care when she put it on the phone with its owners. 2008-11-24 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/20/Lost_cockatiel_spoke_to_owners_on_phone/UPI-97741227217484/ http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1227162176143780.xml&coll=1 When Ronald "R.J." Richard jumps on his tractor to do yard work, he normally clips his cell phone to the hip pocket of his overalls. 2008-11-24 http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1227162176143780.xml&coll=1 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Octogenarian-Dealer.html FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- Law enforcement authorities arrested an 81-year-old man who illegally sold powerful prescription pain relievers. The arrest followed a raid on a home Monday by the Alaska Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement. 2008-11-24 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Octogenarian-Dealer.html http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=670539 A man is suing McDonald's Corp after he left his mobile phone at one of the chain's restaurants and nude photos of his wife ended up online. 2008-11-24 http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=670539 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/22/Mailman_lauded_for_withholding_junk_mail/UPI-60731227380894/ APEX, N.C., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Residents along mailman Steve Padgett's route in Apex, N.C., say he's their hero for refusing to deliver at least seven years' worth of junk mail. 2008-11-24 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/22/Mailman_lauded_for_withholding_junk_mail/UPI-60731227380894/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/22/Panda_attacks_man_who_wanted_hug/UPI-13551227369452/ GUILIN, China, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A Chinese college student who wanted to hug a panda bear climbed into its pen, but instead of getting a cuddle he was mauled by the animal, officials said. 2008-11-24 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/22/Panda_attacks_man_who_wanted_hug/UPI-13551227369452/ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/11/21/2008-11-21_mom_who_lost_hands__feet_so_happy_to_be_.html A Brooklyn mom was released Friday from the hospital where, she says, a medical bungle turned her into a quadruple amputee. 2008-11-24 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/11/21/2008-11-21_mom_who_lost_hands__feet_so_happy_to_be_.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456546,00.html PORTLAND, Ore. Henry Marcum has nothing but kind words for the dog that shot his 23-year-old son this weekend. 2008-11-24 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456546,00.html http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/11/20/Penis_in_pasta_jar_led_to_police_chase A man caught with his penis in a jar of pasta sauce continued "pleasuring himself" as police tried to wrestle him to the ground, a court has heard. 2008-11-21 http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/11/20/Penis_in_pasta_jar_led_to_police_chase http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_re_us/funeral_taser WILMINGTON, N.C. Five sheriff's deputies will be disciplined after they used a Taser while serving an arrest warrant on a man at his father's funeral, a North Carolina sheriff said Wednesday. 2008-11-21 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_re_us/funeral_taser http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20081117/1107213.html Police in Lawrence, Mass., said they are investigating the origins of an abandoned safe found with nearly $180,000 inside. 2008-11-19 http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20081117/1107213.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/18/Police_Carjackers_couldnt_drive_manual/UPI-70821227041777/ KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Police in Kansas City, Mo., said attempted carjackers were forced to abort their theft when the vehicle turned out to have a manual transmission. 2008-11-19 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/18/Police_Carjackers_couldnt_drive_manual/UPI-70821227041777/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453667,00.html GLEN CARBON, Ill. It took some fancy footwork, but a Goodwill store in Illinois has found the owner of $7,500 in cash mistakenly donated with old shoes. 2008-11-19 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453667,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453644,00.html LOS ANGELES A homeless man has been sentenced to 45 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $101 million in restitution for starting two fires, including a 2006 blaze that burned more than 163,000 acres in Los Padres National Forest. 2008-11-19 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453644,00.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/18/City_threatens_lien_over_1-cent_bill/UPI-35501227052192/ ATTLEBORO, Md., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- A 74-year-old blind Massachusetts woman says the city of Attleboro has threatened to put a lien on her home if she doesn't pay an outstanding bill of 1 cent. 2008-11-19 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/18/City_threatens_lien_over_1-cent_bill/UPI-35501227052192/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_re_us/child_charged;_ylt=AlxlrYMiL6Kg0KD3ZYio0J_9xg8F ST. JOHNS, Ariz. An 8-year-old boy accused in the deaths of his father and another man gave police conflicting accounts about the shootings, at one point saying, "I wasn't shooting any guns" before admitting to firing at least two shots at each of the men. 2008-11-19 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_re_us/child_charged;_ylt=AlxlrYMiL6Kg0KD3ZYio0J_9xg8F http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24668335-17001,00.html A NORTHERN Territory woman says she will have nightmares for the rest of her life after an horrific operation gone wrong at the Alice Springs Hospital. 2008-11-19 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24668335-17001,00.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/18/Woman_Burglar_stole_everything/UPI-86661227042821/ NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- A New York woman said a burglar stole so many large items from her house that he would have needed a moving truck to remain inconspicuous. 2008-11-19 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/18/Woman_Burglar_stole_everything/UPI-86661227042821/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454744,00.html An extraordinary account from a German army medic has finally confirmed what the world long suspected: Hitler only had one testicle. 2008-11-19 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454744,00.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/14/Fla_boy_allegedly_tried_to_bribe_mom/UPI-94801226698347/ FORT PIERCE, Fla., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- An 11-year-old Fort Pierce, Fla., boy tried to bribe his mother with a $5 bill to refrain from calling the police after he hit her with a saw, police said. 2008-11-19 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/14/Fla_boy_allegedly_tried_to_bribe_mom/UPI-94801226698347/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/14/Listeners_complain_after_Deport_contest/UPI-39031226714636/ PERTH, Australia, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A Perth, Australia, radio station has drawn complaints for a competition that reunited long-lost relatives only to rip them back apart. 2008-11-19 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/14/Listeners_complain_after_Deport_contest/UPI-39031226714636/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,452626,00.html STUART, Fla. Investigators were searching Saturday for a teenage girl they say stabbed five others during a melee that ensued after a high school football game in southeast Florida. 2008-11-19 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,452626,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,452628,00.html HUNTSVILLE, Ala Talk about being lucky a north Alabama man is alive after being run over by a train on Thursday afternoon. Huntsville Fire and Rescue officials said a train engineer spotted 61-year-old Arnold Romine lying across railroad ties. Witnesses said the conductor sounded the horn and tried to stop the train. 2008-11-19 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,452628,00.html http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081113/girl_beaten_081113/20081113?hub=Canada WINNIPEG -- A five-year-old girl was beaten bloody with a metal rod and had her face shoved in her own vomit before one final beating left her dead on the family's dirty basement floor, a Manitoba court heard Thursday. 2008-11-19 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081113/girl_beaten_081113/20081113?hub=Canada http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10999712 Denver police have made an arrest in the killing of a neighbor who complained about a loud party. 2008-11-19 http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10999712 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-macaroni-attack,0,3717612.story NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) _ An unemployed man faces a domestic assault charge after he allegedly attacked his girlfriend last Saturday for making him macaroni for dinner. Investigator Dale Matuszczak said the woman called for help after locking herself in a bathroom. 2008-11-14 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-macaroni-attack,0,3717612.story http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AC4QA20081113 CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian holiday resort will hold a month-long, nude "anything goes" party to combat an expected economic downturn, media reports said on Thursday. 2008-11-14 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AC4QA20081113 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AB7JY20081112 OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian prison authorities were forced to release a 450-pound (205 kg) drug gang member this week because he was too large for his cell, the Journal de Montreal newspaper reported on Wednesday. 2008-11-14 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4AB7JY20081112 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27666284/?gt1=43001 SAO PAULO, Brazil - Police say a woman has died on the way to a cemetery when a traffic accident hurled her husband's coffin against the back of her neck. 2008-11-14 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27666284/?gt1=43001 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/12/Cat_home_after_going_missing_for_13_years/UPI-59971226537818/ SANTA ROSA, Calif., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A Santa Rosa, Calif., couple said their beloved pet cat, George, has finally returned home after he went missing more than 13 years ago. 2008-11-14 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/12/Cat_home_after_going_missing_for_13_years/UPI-59971226537818/ http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3080737.html?menu=news.quirkies A Bristol shop has received an apology letter and £100 from a former drug addict who stole 400 cigarettes in 2001. 2008-11-14 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3080737.html?menu=news.quirkies http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/12/Portable_urinal_disguised_as_golf_club/UPI-90261226538053/ MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A Miami Beach, Fla., urologist said he has invented a stealth urinal resembling a golf club for players too busy to stop their game to relieve themselves. 2008-11-14 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/12/Portable_urinal_disguised_as_golf_club/UPI-90261226538053/ http://news.webindia123.com/news/printer.asp?story=/news/Articles/World/20081114/1104231.html A Scottish terrier, trained to pick up its mistress' mail, ended up in the hands of an English vet after a fast-food menu glued its teeth together. 2008-11-14 http://news.webindia123.com/news/printer.asp?story=/news/Articles/World/20081114/1104231.html http://omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10486391 GERING, Neb. Brothers Kip and Cole Russell shivered as the sun set late Wednesday afternoon. The wind picked up, but they knew they weren't going anywhere. Brothers Kip and Cole Russell in Gering with their signs. (To read the signs, click the photo to enlarge it.) The brothers were going to spend the next hour and another hour Thursday publicly apologizing for shoplifting from the nearby Dollar General store in Gering. 2008-11-14 http://omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10486391 http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20081113/ARTICLE/811130373/0/COLUMNIST SOUTH VENICE - A North Port man has been awarded $100,000 for pain and suffering after he was falsely arrested and charged with molesting a 5-year-old neighbor. 2008-11-14 http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20081113/ARTICLE/811130373/0/COLUMNIST http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/13/172_grandchildren_gather_for_funeral/UPI-78521226621117/ SALFORD, England, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The funeral of Maggie Ward in Salford, England, drew a sizeable crowd -- including her 172 grandchildren -- the family said. 2008-11-14 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/13/172_grandchildren_gather_for_funeral/UPI-78521226621117/ http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3080761.html?menu=news.quirkies Police in Germany are hunting a thief with no arms who managed to walk out of a shop with a 24-inch TV. 2008-11-10 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3080761.html?menu=news.quirkies http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/10/Woman_sues_fortune_teller_for_13200/UPI-62281226338013/ NAPLES, Fla., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A Florida woman has filed suit in small claims court to recover $13,200 she paid to a fortune teller. 2008-11-10 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/10/Woman_sues_fortune_teller_for_13200/UPI-62281226338013/ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1876715.ece Chris Nicholls, 23, collapsed after getting over-excited as he viewed the blue movie in his bedroom, an inquest heard. 2008-11-10 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1876715.ece http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4A66LQ20081107 LONDON (Reuters) - A British police officer who admitted having sex with one woman while on duty and propositioning another after she had been arrested was jailed for four months on Friday. 2008-11-10 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4A66LQ20081107 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Evanston-Deaths.html?_r=1&oref=slogin EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- A 90-year-old woman apparently has been living in a house with the bodies of her three siblings, one of whom may have been dead since the early 1980s, police in suburban Chicago said. 2008-11-10 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Evanston-Deaths.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27554007/ MILWAUKEE - A teenage boy has survived after being accidentally dumped into the back of a recycling truck and compacted, police said. 2008-11-10 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27554007/ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/11/09/2008-11-09_councilman_vows_to_quit_alcohol_after Pea-brained Jersey City Councilman Steven Lipski swore off booze Sunday - two days after he was busted for urinating on a crowd of revelers at a Washington D.C. nightclub. 2008-11-10 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/11/09/2008-11-09_councilman_vows_to_quit_alcohol_after http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10301376.asp?gid=244 ISTANBUL - The mayor of Batman, a city recently under scrutiny due to unsolved murders and increasing rates of female suicides, will sue the director of the movie "Batman" movie. Not a superhero with supernatural abilities, or a person wealthy enough to buy high-tech toys to fight evil, but a simple human being named Hüseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of the southeastern city of Batman, declared war against his city's namesake superhero, Batman. 2008-11-10 http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10301376.asp?gid=244 http://colombiareports.com/colombian-news/trivia/1913-donkey-brothel-fares-well.html Two brothers from Sincelejo, tired of being one of the many unemployed on Colombia's Caribbean coast, decided to set up a brothel. In this tropical brothel you won't find a variety of luscious mamis though. Thirty donkeys are available to fulfill the randy man's needs. 2008-11-07 http://colombiareports.com/colombian-news/trivia/1913-donkey-brothel-fares-well.html http://www.ok.co.uk/worldinaction/view/4736/Spot-the-real-dummy/ DEPARTMENT store staff were left shocked after discovering a burglar tucked up in bed with some of their plastic female dummies. 2008-11-07 http://www.ok.co.uk/worldinaction/view/4736/Spot-the-real-dummy/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081107/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_japan_airforce TOKYO (Reuters) A male Japanese air force major caught naked while shopping for women's underwear has been suspended from his duties for 10 days, a spokeswoman at his base said on Friday. 2008-11-07 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081107/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_japan_airforce http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-drunken-auto-theft,0,6500058.story FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) _ A North Pole man was surprised when police accused him of stealing a car from a gentlemen's club in Fairbanks. The man, 27, explained to officers that he was in his Chevy Cavalier. The only problem, police said, was that he was behind the wheel of a Ford Escort. 2008-11-07 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-drunken-auto-theft,0,6500058.story http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Fox-Attack.html?_r=1&oref=slogin PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) -- Authorities in Arizona say a jogger attacked by a rabid fox ran a mile with the animal's jaws clamped on her arm and then drove herself to a hospital. The Yavapai County sheriff's office said the woman told deputies she was on a trail near Prescott on Monday when the fox attacked and bit her foot 2008-11-07 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Fox-Attack.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/06/Branch_saves_cat_in_17-story_plunge/UPI-96811225981232/ MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A cat's last-second grasp of a tree branch is credited with saving its life just before it ended a 17-story fall from an apartment west of Toronto. 2008-11-07 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/06/Branch_saves_cat_in_17-story_plunge/UPI-96811225981232/ http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4A47P020081105 WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand rape victim drove her rapist to a police station when he fell asleep in his car after assaulting the woman, local media reported on Wednesday. 2008-11-07 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4A47P020081105 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4A573320081106 TOKYO (Reuters) - A 9-year-old boy was caught driving his parents' car alone after police received a report about an unmanned vehicle moving down the street. 2008-11-07 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4A573320081106 http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/national-13/122601954670540.xml&storylis PRYOR, Okla. (AP) A dog waiting in a car while at a car wash slipped the vehicle into gear and drove in a loop before the car came to a stop. Pryor police officer Brent Crittenden said the dog's owner was washing the vehicle when the 70-pound pit bull jumped on the dash and somehow shifted the car into reverse. 2008-11-07 http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/national-13/122601954670540.xml&storylis http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-odd/20081107/ODD.Careful.Burglar/ BEAUFORT, S.C. It could be called the case of the careful cat burglar. Authorities said a man wore not one, but two masks when he broke into a house in Beaufort on Wednesday. The Beaufort Gazette reported the suspect got away with a woman's purse and several other items. 2008-11-07 http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-odd/20081107/ODD.Careful.Burglar/ http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Nov06/0,4670,ODDHumanShieldGrandfather,00.html TAMPA, Fla. Authorities said a 22-year-old Tampa man used his grandfather as a shield while he was being arrested. According to an arrest affidavit, the man pulled his 72-year-old grandfather out of a chair and in front of officers Wednesday morning. 2008-11-07 http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Nov06/0,4670,ODDHumanShieldGrandfather,00.html http://www.beaufortgazette.com/weirdnews/story/609795.html A 30-year-old man faces criminal charges after police said he was spotted driving nude on Interstate 84 in Southbury. Troopers said the man was driving nude on I-84 Wednesday morning near Exit 14, near the state police barracks. 2008-11-07 http://www.beaufortgazette.com/weirdnews/story/609795.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/06/Police_Prayer_scared_off_attempted_robber/UPI-13501226019087/ GREENSBORO, N.C., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Police in Greensboro, N.C., said a woman scared off an attempted robber by praying too loudly for the suspect's comfort. 2008-11-07 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/06/Police_Prayer_scared_off_attempted_robber/UPI-13501226019087/ http://www.ketv.com/news/17885466/detail.html?rss=oma&psp=news An Omaha restaurant's staff has been treated to an early Christmas after receiving a tip of more than $10,000. 2008-11-05 http://www.ketv.com/news/17885466/detail.html?rss=oma&psp=news http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/04/Man_Airline_wants_extra_for_prosthetics/UPI-70651225847148/ LONDON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A British double-amputee said a budget airline has told him he will need to pay extra to bring his spare prosthetic legs with him on vacation. 2008-11-05 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/04/Man_Airline_wants_extra_for_prosthetics/UPI-70651225847148/ http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/483432.html The call came out early in the third quarter Sunday to investigate numerous complaints of a commotion in a ladies' restroom across from Section 336 in Ralph Wilson Stadium. 2008-11-05 http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/483432.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/31/Court_Diarrhea_no_excuse_for_speeding/UPI-18531225429025/ TRELLEBORG, Sweden, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A court in Trelleborg, Sweden, has ruled that a woman's diarrhea was not a sufficient reason for her to break the posted speed limit while driving. 2008-11-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/31/Court_Diarrhea_no_excuse_for_speeding/UPI-18531225429025/ http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/10/31/7268176-cp.html KINGSVILLE, Ont. - A 34-year-old woman from Kingsville, Ont., has been charged with impaired driving - on a Zamboni. 2008-11-04 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/10/31/7268176-cp.html http://www.oanow.com/oan/news/local/article/cat_gets_new_lease_on_life/43768/ A cat brought to the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine Friday with a crossbow arrow lodged in its head went home with minor injuries on Tuesday. 2008-11-04 http://www.oanow.com/oan/news/local/article/cat_gets_new_lease_on_life/43768/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/01/Senior_interrupts_jewelry_story_robbery/UPI-72631225582255/ LONDON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A senior citizen is said to have thwarted two youths breaking into a jewelry shop in London with sledgehammers. 2008-11-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/01/Senior_interrupts_jewelry_story_robbery/UPI-72631225582255/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/01/Superman_goes_bad_on_Halloween/UPI-88981225585926/ NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Superman, the "Man of Steel," Friday night became the "Man of Steal," taking part in a New York home intrusion robbery, police say. 2008-11-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/01/Superman_goes_bad_on_Halloween/UPI-88981225585926/ http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Man-Taken-To-Hospital-In-Dudley-West-Midlands-Stuck-To A 35-year-old man has been taken to hospital stuck to a public toilet after a prankster covered the seat with glue. 2008-11-04 http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Man-Taken-To-Hospital-In-Dudley-West-Midlands-Stuck-To http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445924,00.html MANASSAS, Va. An 18-year-old Manassas woman has pleaded guilty to arranging with her mother to have her father killed. 2008-11-04 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445924,00.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27535339/ RAMSEY, Minn. - When their children returned from Halloween trick-or-treating, a couple found suspected methamphetamine and $85 in cash among their 7-year-old son's Snickers bars and Skittles. 2008-11-04 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27535339/ AUSTIN — A woman has been charged with child endangerment, a state jail felony, for beating her 4-y PARAMUS, N.J. Dressing up as Jesus Christ for Halloween turned out to be a problem for a northern New Jersey boy. 2008-11-04 AUSTIN — A woman has been charged with child endangerment, a state jail felony, for beating her 4-y http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445686,00.html AUSTIN A woman has been charged with child endangerment, a state jail felony, for beating her 4-year-old daughter before throwing her into the path of an oncoming vehicle, police said. 2008-11-04 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445686,00.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/02/Wrong_guy_was_guest_of_honor_at_Mo_wake/UPI-42441225651188/ BALLWIN, Mo., Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A Missouri family says the toughest part about the wrong body being brought to their father's wake was getting the funeral home staff to believe them. 2008-11-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/02/Wrong_guy_was_guest_of_honor_at_Mo_wake/UPI-42441225651188/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/30/Couple_offer_free_mortgage_for_hole-in-one/UPI-64231225405079 STILLWATER, Minn., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A Stillwater, Minn., couple said the mortgage on their for-sale house will be paid off if the buyer makes a hole-in-one at a local golf course. 2008-11-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/30/Couple_offer_free_mortgage_for_hole-in-one/UPI-64231225405079 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/02/Ghost_car_racks_up_tickets/UPI-20881225653293/ CHICAGO, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Chicago police say they are investigating how a 1992 Chevrolet Lumina racked up nearly $4,000 in tickets in the year after it was presumed crushed. 2008-11-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/02/Ghost_car_racks_up_tickets/UPI-20881225653293/ http://www.spike.com/blog/sexy-teacher-strips/70150 A 20-something German teacher was caught on camera (video below) performing a sexy strip tease for her 15 year-old students at a start of term party in Hungary. The teacher, who was meant to be supervising the party, joined in on a game of truth or dare and decided to seductively remove her clothes. 2008-11-04 http://www.spike.com/blog/sexy-teacher-strips/70150 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4A24OR20081103 SYDNEY (Reuters) - The long arm of the law didn't have to reach too far to arrest one Australian teen-ager, who was caught breaking into a police station in the early hours of Monday. 2008-11-04 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4A24OR20081103 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3072237.html A Chinese telecom worker has made a successful test voyage in the plane he built himself from scratch. 2008-11-04 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3072237.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/31/Nudists_seek_clothing-optional_voting/UPI-57661225511447/ LAND O' LAKES, Fla., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Residents of the clothing-optional Caliente Resorts in Land O' Lakes, Fla., said they are lobbying to create the first clothing-optional U.S. polling place. 2008-11-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/31/Nudists_seek_clothing-optional_voting/UPI-57661225511447/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/31/Suspect_fled_into_police_dogs_yard/UPI-74911225508101/ BRISBANE, Australia, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Police in Brisbane, Australia, said a fleeing armed robbery suspect made an unlucky move when he hopped into a police dog's yard. 2008-11-04 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/31/Suspect_fled_into_police_dogs_yard/UPI-74911225508101/ http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49U6JZ20081031 BERLIN (Reuters) - A soup kitchen exclusively for dogs has opened its doors in Berlin providing pets of the homeless and unemployed with a free meal, the director of the establishment said on Friday. 2008-11-04 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49U6JZ20081031 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3284449/Multi-millionaire-wins-600000-a-year Keenan Altunis, 33, has just left for a Caribbean holiday with his family, which was already booked before his win. He lives in a £750,000 apartment in Clerkenwell, London, with his wife and one-year-old daughter. 2008-11-04 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3284449/Multi-millionaire-wins-600000-a-year http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1082720/Priest-nuns-quizzed-police-beating-restaur The 49-year-old victim suffered neck and stomach injuries in the attack which also left his restaurant 'looking like a Wild West saloon.' Tables and chairs were overturned and plates smashed during the fracas which erupted over a dispute over ownership of the venue. 2008-11-04 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1082720/Priest-nuns-quizzed-police-beating-restaur http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1876886.ece The clergyman told stunned casualty nurses he fell backwards on to his kitchen table while hanging curtains. He happened to be nude at the time of the mishap. 2008-11-03 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1876886.ece http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24576444-5005961,00.html SHANGHAI police have smashed a professional cricket fighting ring in a raid that snared the city's most notorious handler of the insects, state media reported today. 2008-11-03 http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24576444-5005961,00.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3369609/Teenager-changes-name-to-Captain-Fan A teenager has changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined. 2008-11-03 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3369609/Teenager-changes-name-to-Captain-Fan http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=upiUPI-20081030-110811-3101&show_article=1 OREBRO, Sweden, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A woman in central Sweden who alleged she drove with one eye closed to avoid double vision is guilty of drunken driving, a court has ruled. 2008-10-30 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=upiUPI-20081030-110811-3101&show_article=1 http://www.chicoer.com/ci_10818797?source=most_emailed ORLAND -- A wanted man tried to carjack an off-duty Orland police officer Wednesday morning, who had joined a pursuit of the suspect in his private car. 2008-10-30 http://www.chicoer.com/ci_10818797?source=most_emailed http://www.postchronicle.com/news/strange/article_212182149.shtml School officials in Louisville, Colo., say they banned a popular T-shirt because the phrasing implied drug use and engaging in sex. 2008-10-30 http://www.postchronicle.com/news/strange/article_212182149.shtml http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/28/Nurses_naughty_knickers_were_on_eBay/UPI-13571225241308/ LONDON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A British nurse who used her hospital e-mail address to sell her underwear on eBay could be barred from hospital premises, officials said. 2008-10-30 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/28/Nurses_naughty_knickers_were_on_eBay/UPI-13571225241308/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/28/Woman_kicked_off_train_not_pantless/UPI-95541225235896/ MURRAY, Utah, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- The Utah Transit Authority said a woman booted from a train for being nude below the waist turned out to be wearing a miniskirt concealed by her jacket. 2008-10-30 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/28/Woman_kicked_off_train_not_pantless/UPI-95541225235896/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Suburban-Sex-Club.html DUNCANVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A man illegally used his home to run a sex club in his quiet suburban Dallas neighborhood, a municipal jury ruled Tuesday. 2008-10-30 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Suburban-Sex-Club.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Gangster-Grandma.html WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida teenager has been sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention for coaxing his senile grandmother into holding a gun and threatening to shoot ''all the pigs'' in a homemade ''gangster rap'' video. 2008-10-30 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Gangster-Grandma.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-AS-ODD-Vietnam-Road-Rules.html?_r=1&oref=slogin HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Faced with mounting public criticism, Vietnam's Health Ministry suspended a widely ridiculed plan to ban short, thin and small-chested drivers. 2008-10-30 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-AS-ODD-Vietnam-Road-Rules.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/30/Police_Children_brought_to_robberies/UPI-12631225384124/ ALBUQUERQUE, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Police in Albuquerque, N.M., suspect two children, ages 1 and 4, were likely taken along to robberies allegedly committed by their mother. 2008-10-30 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/30/Police_Children_brought_to_robberies/UPI-12631225384124/ http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE49Q3X220081027 TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man set fire to the hotel where he was due to get married at the weekend, rather than go through with the ceremony later the same day, newspaper reports said Monday. 2008-10-28 http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE49Q3X220081027 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081027/od_nm/us_austria_driving VIENNA (Reuters) An Austrian man, charged with drink driving, drove to a police station to complain about the charge whilst drunk, officials said on Monday. 2008-10-28 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081027/od_nm/us_austria_driving http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Dog-Defiled.html MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) -- A 36-year-old man took revenge on his roommate after she refused to have sex with him by allegedly urinating on her dog, police said. Police said the man was arrested early Thursday morning on tentative charges of criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct related to domestic violence. 2008-10-28 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Dog-Defiled.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1080042/Meet-Mr-Green-Genes--worlds-glow-dark-cat.htm His eyes glow ghoulishly in the right light, just like any other cat's - but so do his nostrils, gums and tongue. 2008-10-28 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1080042/Meet-Mr-Green-Genes--worlds-glow-dark-cat.htm http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-EU-Britain-Sex-Ed.html LONDON (AP) -- It's a controversial idea in a land known for prudishness about sex -- teaching kids as young as 5 about the birds and bees. 2008-10-28 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-EU-Britain-Sex-Ed.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Grandmother-Surrogate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" CLEVELAND (AP) -- Not only has a 56-year-old Ohio woman given birth to triplets, but they're her own granddaughters. Jaci Dalenberg, of Wooster, carried the babies as a surrogate for her daughter, Kim Coseno. The two identical twins and their sister were born by Caesarean section Oct. 11 at the Cleveland Clinic's Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights and are still in the hospital's care. They were more than two months premature and each weighed less than three pounds. 2008-10-28 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Grandmother-Surrogate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Marijuana-Tacos.html?_r=1&oref=slogin LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP) -- A Colorado couple found an unusual topping on their order of tacos: a small bag of marijuana. 2008-10-28 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Marijuana-Tacos.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443715,00.html NORMANDY, Mo. Students at a suburban St. Louis high school headed to the gymnasium for HIV testing this week after an infected person told health officials as many as 50 teenagers might have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS. 2008-10-28 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443715,00.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1080256/Cannibal-cult-mother-skinned-son-eat-flesh Klara Mauerova, 31 - a member of a sinister religious cult and her sister Katerina led the sickening torture of her eight-year-old son Ondrej and his ten year-old brother Jakub. 2008-10-28 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1080256/Cannibal-cult-mother-skinned-son-eat-flesh http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/11/content_9919993.htm JAKARTA, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Twelve teenagers died and 10 others were having medical treatment in hospitals and their homes after they consumed alcohol-brewed drink on Monday in Indramayu regency of West Java province in Indonesia, the local police spokesman named only Suhiro said on Thursday. 2008-10-28 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/11/content_9919993.htm http://www.nypost.com/seven/10242008/news/regionalnews/horror_abuse_by_cops_135071.htm A gang of rogue cops clobbered a Brooklyn man they saw smoking a joint, then sodomized him with a walkie-talkie antenna during a broad-daylight attack in a subway station, law-enforcement sources and the victim's lawyer said yesterday. 2008-10-28 http://www.nypost.com/seven/10242008/news/regionalnews/horror_abuse_by_cops_135071.htm http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081027/ap_on_el_pr/skinhead_plot WASHINGTON Two white supremacists allegedly plotted to go on a national killing spree, shooting and decapitating black people and ultimately targeting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday. 2008-10-28 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081027/ap_on_el_pr/skinhead_plot http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444191,00.html DETROIT A 37-year-old man who had been laid off from his job at a plant in Saginaw was shot in Detroit by a robber who made off with about $1,700 the sum of the victim's final paycheck from his job. 2008-10-28 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444191,00.html http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/24/Car_shows_porn_on_dashboard_display/UPI-85821224851647/ WINDSOR, Ontario, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A Canadian pizza delivery driver in Windsor, Ontario, says his car's wireless rear-view camera system shows pornography when he drives on a certain street. 2008-10-28 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/10/24/Car_shows_porn_on_dashboard_display/UPI-85821224851647/ http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2008/10/german-police-seek-speeding-british.html German traffic police have been left looking like proper muppets by a British prankster. An Audi TT with British registration plates has been repeatedly caught speeding on roads in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth. But because continental speed cameras are set up for left-hand drive vehicles, the cameras keep missing the driver's face. 2008-10-28 http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2008/10/german-police-seek-speeding-british.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081023/sc_livescience/thestinkinfartscontrolsbloodpressure A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds. The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes its way, well, out. 2008-10-27 http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081023/sc_livescience/thestinkinfartscontrolsbloodpressure http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24557197-952,00.html A MAN running down the street in nothing but underwear and a bike helmet adorned with exploding fire crackers caused a stir in Mt Isa last night. 2008-10-27 http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24557197-952,00.html http://www.theage.com.au/world/train-delayed-after-man-gets-arm-stuck-in-toilet-20081027-59q2.html A high-speed TGV train en route to Paris was delayed for over two hours after a passenger got his arm stuck in the toilet, France Info radio reported today. 2008-10-27 http://www.theage.com.au/world/train-delayed-after-man-gets-arm-stuck-in-toilet-20081027-59q2.html http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1830926.ece AN airline pilot was arrested in a jet's cockpit minutes before take-off yesterday on suspicion of being DRUNK. 2008-10-23 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1830926.ece http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_fe_st/odd_thumbless_suspect WASHINGTON Police said a man suspected in an armed robbery at an alleged brothel in Washington's Columbia Heights neighborhood left some evidence at the scene his thumb. 2008-10-23 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_fe_st/odd_thumbless_suspect http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/21/ap/strange/main4537784.shtml z was arrested Tuesday after pulling over an off-duty Hartford police lieutenant. 2008-10-23 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/21/ap/strange/main4537784.shtml http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3056200.html?menu=news.quirkies A woman was disqualified from her driving test after she failed a breath-test - on the written section of her exam. 2008-10-23 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3056200.html?menu=news.quirkies http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20081021/NEWS01/810210343 MUNCIE -- A rural Muncie man who last year proclaimed his hatred for blacks and Jews on the steps of city hall has been accused of repeatedly biting a 9-year-old boy. 2008-10-23 http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20081021/NEWS01/810210343 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49L6DB20081022 LONDON (Reuters) - A naked man was arrested on suspicion of burglary Wednesday after getting stuck in the chimney of the Tesco store he was allegedly trying to steal from, police said. 2008-10-23 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49L6DB20081022 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,442742,00.html NEW YORK A 76-year-old woman who gave her address as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. has been arrested for the 73rd time in almost four decades, this time on charges of stealing a police decoy wallet in a supermarket and stuffing it in her bra. 2008-10-23 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,442742,00.html http://www.wrva.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104673&article=4452541 Toledo, OH (WSPD-AM) - An Ohio Police officer will spend three days at home on unpaid suspension for not trimming back his "General Custer" style mustache. 2008-10-23 http://www.wrva.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104673&article=4452541 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_fe_st/odd_vacuum_sex THOMAS TOWNSHIP, Mich. Police say a Michigan man has been arrested after "receiving sexual favors from a vacuum" at a car wash. 2008-10-21 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_fe_st/odd_vacuum_sex http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/16/ap/strange/main4526677.shtml A man who went to buy cigarettes in a gorilla suit to win a bet with his girlfriend is now being accused of receiving stolen property. Altoona police said they noticed a 20-year-old man walking down the city's Sixth Avenue just after midnight on Wednesday dressed as an ape. 2008-10-21 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/16/ap/strange/main4526677.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Big-Burger.html CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) -- It took Brad Sciullo 4 hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon. A meat marathon, that is. The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds. 2008-10-21 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Big-Burger.html http://www.myphl17.com/pages/landing_weird/?Suspected-robber-uses-stolen-cell-phone-=1&blockID=10392 RENO, Nev. (AP) _ A suspected robber was arrested after he used a stolen cell phone to call a relative, and the relative later called back and instead got the victim who had transferred the number to a new phone, police said Thursday. 2008-10-21 http://www.myphl17.com/pages/landing_weird/?Suspected-robber-uses-stolen-cell-phone-=1&blockID=10392 http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/511436.html Altoona man arraigned on theft, receiving stolen property charges. The Altoona man who unexpectedly found an extra $280,000 in his bank account late last year - and proceeded to spend more than half of it - has been charged with theft and receiving stolen property. 2008-10-21 http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/511436.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49F96N20081016 TORONTO (Reuters) - An Ontario woman was charged with a traffic violation after having her nine-year-old daughter drive her home following a night of drinking. 2008-10-21 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49F96N20081016 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49G43O20081017 LAGOS (Reuters) - A father took his 20-year old son to an Islamic court in northern Nigeria for idleness, asking that he be sent to prison for refusing to engage in productive activities, state news agency NAN said Friday. 2008-10-21 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49G43O20081017 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49G43O20081017 LAGOS (Reuters) - A father took his 20-year old son to an Islamic court in northern Nigeria for idleness, asking that he be sent to prison for refusing to engage in productive activities, state news agency NAN said Friday. 2008-10-21 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49G43O20081017 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49G43Y20081017 TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran failed Friday to register what it said would be the world's largest sandwich in the Guinness book of World Records after people rushed forward and began eating it -- before it was measured. 2008-10-21 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49G43Y20081017 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Thoughtful-Burglar.html LONDON (AP) -- A repentant robber in England sent his elderly victim a bouquet of flowers to apologize for frightening her, police said Friday. A 91-year-old woman received the flowers and a note after confronting a burglar in her home around 4 a.m. on Oct. 9, police said. 2008-10-21 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Thoughtful-Burglar.html http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/newsletter/sns-ap-odd-begging-to-be-shot,0,6199917.story CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) _ Authorities said a woman who shot her husband in the knee won't face charges because he begged her to do it. The Arapahoe County Sheriff's office said a 35-year-old woman accused her husband of being drunk and becoming violent during an argument. 2008-10-21 http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/newsletter/sns-ap-odd-begging-to-be-shot,0,6199917.story http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7667605&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=T MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -- More than 60 years after Mary Ruth Justice's wallet disappeared, her family returned to Georgia College & State University to claim it. 2008-10-21 http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7667605&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=T http://www.newsnet5.com/news/17755843/detail.html BLUE ASH, Ohio -- She took a teenager's ball and wouldn't give it back. Now 89 year-old Edna Jester from Blue Ash is facing charges. 2008-10-21 http://www.newsnet5.com/news/17755843/detail.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7679695.stm A chef who stabbed his lover to death before cutting flesh off his thigh and cooking and eating it has been jailed. 2008-10-21 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7679695.stm http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_fe_st/odd_waffle_bill FORT PIERCE, Fla. A woman decided to go to jail rather than pay her bill at a Fort Pierce Waffle House restaurant. The total she went to jail over: $7.45. According to a police report, Maryanne O'Neill, 66, ordered coffee and a sandwich at a Waffle House restaurant on Saturday but refused to pay the bill. 2008-10-21 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_fe_st/odd_waffle_bill http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49J4QW20081020 CANBERRA (Reuters) - A woman voted best-dressed at an Australian fashion contest was unable to collect her prize after she was bitten by a deadly snake, local media said on Monday. 2008-10-21 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49J4QW20081020 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Obama-Dead-Bear.html?_r=1&oref=slogin CULLOWHEE, N.C. (AP) -- Police at Western Carolina University and wildlife officials were investigating the discovery early Monday of a dead bear cub draped with a pair of Barack Obama campaign signs. 2008-10-21 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Obama-Dead-Bear.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/10/15/7090906-sun.html CALGARY -- Placing his genitals on the face of a passed out minor wasn't simply a prank, a judge said yesterday in jailing a former Calgary man. 2008-10-16 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/10/15/7090906-sun.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,438525,00.html IDAHO FALLS, Idaho An eastern Idaho woman whose boyfriend impregnated her 9-year-old daughter has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. 2008-10-16 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,438525,00.html http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2008/10/dozens-get-gas-in-wis-for-35-cents-after-mistake-2 Sure, gas prices have come down lately. But to 34.9 cents a gallon? That's what Kelly Joosten and dozens of other motorists paid at a Citgo station Monday. The sign advertised $3.43 for a gallon of premium fuel, but the pump cost read $0.349 a gallon. 2008-10-16 http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2008/10/dozens-get-gas-in-wis-for-35-cents-after-mistake-2 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Cats-Last-Request.html OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) -- Five veterinary clinics in eastern Alabama received 32 surprises in the last week: Healthy cats in containers and carriers, along with notes from an anonymous donor saying she is dying from cancer. 2008-10-16 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Cats-Last-Request.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,438081,00.html An elderly California grandmother allegedly was cremated in her backyard by her daughter and grandson, who then cashed her monthly retirement checks for nearly a year, authorities say. 2008-10-16 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,438081,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434402,00.html BRIDGEPORT, Conn. A judge has brushed off a Connecticut woman's claim that L'Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products. 2008-10-16 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434402,00.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/suing_god LINCOLN, Neb. - A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator's lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn't properly served due to his unlisted home address. State Sen. Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year seeking a permanent injunction against God. 2008-10-16 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/suing_god http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49E86N20081015 LONDON (Reuters) - A man discovered making kebabs near a corpse has been banned from managing food businesses and fined 3,800 pounds, Wolverhampton City Council said Tuesday. 2008-10-16 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49E86N20081015 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27167122/?GT1=43001 VERO BEACH, Fla. - A McDonald's cashier called 911 after a Vero Beach drive-thru customer allegedly offered to pay for his meal with marijuana. The Indian River County Sheriff's Office said the cashier called Monday with a description of the vehicle the suspect had been riding in. 2008-10-16 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27167122/?GT1=43001 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3046637.html?menu=news.quirkies Traffic police in Romania tested a horse for alcohol after the cart it was pulling hit a man who was sitting on a bench. 2008-10-16 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3046637.html?menu=news.quirkies http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7665747.stm A musician who underwent brain surgery to treat a hand tremor played his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure. 2008-10-16 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7665747.stm http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Pumpkin-Contest.html HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) -- Thad Starr's giant pumpkin really began putting on weight in August -- a lot of weight. The pumpkin gained about 30 pounds a day on its way to victory Monday at the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay. Starr's pumpkin finished at a record 1,528 pounds. 2008-10-16 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Pumpkin-Contest.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Teacher-Student-Sex.html?_r=1&oref=slogin ABILENE, Texas (AP) -- A teacher initially placed on leave over a book controversy has been charged with trying to have sexual contact with three students, allegedly even asking one girl what she would do for a better grade. 2008-10-16 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Teacher-Student-Sex.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077831/Pictured-Fat-Boy-pony-got-drunk-fermented-apples-fel It was not Fat Boy the pony's best night. First he ate so many fermented apples that he became drunk. 2008-10-16 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077831/Pictured-Fat-Boy-pony-got-drunk-fermented-apples-fel http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Robber-Strong-Armed.html?_r=1&oref=slogin WARREN, Mich. (AP) -- Police said a strong-arm robber got locked in a chokehold by his intended victim and ended up $30 in the hole. Police in the Detroit suburb of Warren said the robber approached a 36-year-old man and demanded money on Tuesday night. 2008-10-13 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Robber-Strong-Armed.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434645,00.html NEWARK, Ohio Central Ohio authorities have filed felony charges against a 15-year-old girl accused of taking nude cell phone photos of herself and sending them to high school classmates. 2008-10-13 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434645,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434544,00.html DETROIT Three seventh-grade girls at a school in Monroe were ordered to strip to their underwear while a teacher investigated the alleged theft of $42, their parents charge. 2008-10-13 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434544,00.html http://cbs2.com/watercooler/scalding.water.groin.2.839051.html BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) ― Authorities say a woman has been arrested in west Florida after pouring scalding hot water on her husband's groin. Manatee County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a 52-year-old woman on Wednesday on a charge of aggravated battery with great bodily harm. 2008-10-13 http://cbs2.com/watercooler/scalding.water.groin.2.839051.html http://www.insidebayarea.com/weird/ci_10677140 URBANA, OhioA defendant had a hard time facing the music. Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to classical music by the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. 2008-10-13 http://www.insidebayarea.com/weird/ci_10677140 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435658,00.html A 4-year-old boy in Watertown, N.Y., is growing an extra skeleton due to a rare genetic condition, the Watertown Daily Times reported Thursday. 2008-10-13 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435658,00.html http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/10/07/7002151-sun.html SELKIRK, Man. -- A Manitoba man is suing the mother of his child, claiming he shouldn't have to pay child support because he was asleep when she had sex with him. 2008-10-13 http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/10/07/7002151-sun.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3042658.html?menu=news.quirkies A Chinese man is selling his wife's excess breast milk online because he doesn't want it to go to waste. 2008-10-13 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3042658.html?menu=news.quirkies http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article847365.ece BAYONET POINT On Friday morning, Joseph Prudente put on a pair of shorts and his "Grandpa Gone Wild" T-shirt. He took off his wedding band and put his heart medication in a plastic Wal-Mart bag. 2008-10-13 http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article847365.ece http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7622815&version=1&locale=EN-US&layout NEW TAMPA - A mail carrier is recovering after being bitten by a poisonous rattlesnake that was hidden in a mailbox. 2008-10-13 http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7622815&version=1&locale=EN-US&layout http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/08/1971042-burned-washington-state-woman-shot-by-stove A woman in Washington state says her cast-iron stove shot her in the leg. Cory Davis tells the Peninsula Daily News that she had just stoked the heating stove in her home Sunday when she heard a loud bang and was struck in her left calf. 2008-10-10 http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/08/1971042-burned-washington-state-woman-shot-by-stove http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434921,00.html Unregulated sperm donation is leading to unusual situations in which the children of lesbians are mixing socially creating a risk of incest. One of South Australia's foremost experts in reproductive technology - Andrew Dutney - said that in one reported case, about 30 lesbians were impregnated by sperm from one man, the Advertiser reported. 2008-10-10 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434921,00.html http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081008/NEWS/81008013/1001/NEWS A man who is alleged to have taken another man's property from his house in a recent burglary has challenged the victim of the crime to a fight, Des Moines police are reporting this morning. The winner takes all. 2008-10-10 http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081008/NEWS/81008013/1001/NEWS http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1788363.ece BRITAIN'S oldest virgin who celebrates her 105th birthday this weekend says no sex is the secret to her long life. 2008-10-10 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1788363.ece http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10652263?source=most_viewed A 20-year-old man shot a prostitute in the back because she got tired after having sex for 10 minutes, according to a recently released search warrant. 2008-10-10 http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10652263?source=most_viewed http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27106369/?GT1=43001 EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - A man who caused damage at a waste water treatment plant in Eau Claire has decided to pick public humiliation over jail time to pay for his crime. 2008-10-10 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27106369/?GT1=43001 http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/129753 An Aspen man who was arrested in May for driving drunk and carrying a jar of cocaine entered a guilty plea yesterday for possession of marijuana, which he was not accused of. 2008-10-08 http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/129753 http://www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=5971&format=html A Kansas man whose girlfriend was physically stuck to the toilet in their home wins $20,000 in the state Lottery, for the second time this year. 2008-10-08 http://www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=5971&format=html http://www.stuff.co.nz/4720296a4560.html A woman was arrested after she kicked in the door of her ex-partner's home, then kicked him, in a dispute over custody of a possum. 2008-10-08 http://www.stuff.co.nz/4720296a4560.html http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=240841 Police are investigating whether an Elgin woman used nude photos of her daughter's 13-year-old ex-boyfriend as blackmail to get the two back together. 2008-10-08 http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=240841 http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008810060325 Tommy Fox was driving home from his job in Dover Wednesday at about 11 p.m. when a beautiful red fox dashed in front of his SUV. After he ran over the fox, he stopped his GMC Jimmy to get the fox to cut off its tail for a souvenir, and he put it in the back seat, said Dale Grandstaff, a Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency wildlife officer. 2008-10-08 http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008810060325 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ML-Kuwait-Concert-Kiss.html KUWAIT CITY (AP) -- A Kuwaiti official says authorities abruptly ended a music concert by an Egyptian singer in this conservative Muslim country when a young female fan jumped on stage, hugged the male singer and gave him a kiss. 2008-10-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ML-Kuwait-Concert-Kiss.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27054266/ GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. - A Glenwood Springs animal shelter was trying to find homes for 86 cats rescued from a two-bedroom condominium. The Colorado Animal Rescue Shelter received the cats on Wednesday. Since then, workers have been scrambling to accommodate the animals at area shelters and homes. 2008-10-08 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27054266/ http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/10/05/7695_ntnews.html A TEENAGE girl woke when a snake that had slithered into her bed and wrapped itself around her neck bit her on the arm. 2008-10-08 http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/10/05/7695_ntnews.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_fe_st/juror_intoxication JACKSON, Mo. - Curtis Lemons was supposed to report for jury duty in a drunk driving case. Instead, according to authorities, the 50-year-old Cape Girardeau man skipped the jury duty so he could drink himself. 2008-10-08 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_fe_st/juror_intoxication http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Teacher-Underwear-Photos.html GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- A former Michigan teacher convicted of trying to take photos up a 15-year-old student's skirt during class has been sentenced to 180 days in jail. 2008-10-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Teacher-Underwear-Photos.html http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20081007/NEWS01/810070365 When Louis Johnson brought his wife to the emergency room on May 6, 2007, he didn't think they would be there long -- she just had a bad case of indigestion. 2008-10-08 http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20081007/NEWS01/810070365 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Powerball-Winners.html ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Roswell, N.M., is usually more associated with little green men than with greenbacks. But nine residents brought different attention to the town Friday when they claimed a Powerball jackpot worth more than $200 million. 2008-10-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Powerball-Winners.html http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/03/australia.zoo.carnage.ap/index.html SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said Friday. 2008-10-08 http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/03/australia.zoo.carnage.ap/index.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3031517.html?menu=news.quirkies A couple who weighed 38 stone (531 lbs) between them were told they were too heavy for their plane to take off. 2008-10-08 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3031517.html?menu=news.quirkies http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-EU-Austria-Burned-In-Laws.html?_r=1&oref=slogin VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A man killed his parents-in-law by setting them on fire with a homemade flame-thrower, Austrian police said Saturday. 2008-10-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-EU-Austria-Burned-In-Laws.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432701,00.html WENATCHEE, Wash. A 19-year-old accused of smearing peanut butter on the forehead of a fellow high school student with a peanut allergy has been charged with assault. 2008-10-08 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432701,00.html http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9008454 BLOUNTVILLE A 10-year-old boy reportedly driving almost 90 mph crashed a van Sunday and sent five people to the hospital. A Bristol man and woman who were in the van are facing numerous criminal charges. 2008-10-07 http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9008454 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_fe_st/odd_horn_blowing GLENS FALLS, N.Y. - Sometimes, blowing your own horn is too much of a good thing. Glen Falls police said an upstate New York driver who was stopped for blowing his vehicle's horn excessively was charged with driving while intoxicated. 2008-10-03 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_fe_st/odd_horn_blowing http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Gang-Mom.html LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- A California woman accused of driving her teenage son and his friends to confront a rival gang insists she didn't plan for a 13-year-old boy to die in the fight. 2008-10-03 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Gang-Mom.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Tennessee-Bus-DUI-Charge.html?_r=1&oref=slogin LOUDON, Tenn. (AP) -- Police in eastern Tennessee say they found a school bus driver passed out behind the wheel of a loaded bus that was stopped in the middle of a road. 2008-10-03 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Tennessee-Bus-DUI-Charge.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4907M220081001 BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man became so angry in an argument with a taxi driver over parking that he struck him on the head with a machete and chopped off the man's finger. 2008-10-03 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE4907M220081001 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3029027.html?menu=news.quirkies A Florida teenager claims he was attacked and robbed by four topless blonde women on his way to work. 2008-10-03 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3029027.html?menu=news.quirkies http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/02/ap/strange/main4496043.shtml A Central Falls man faces criminal charges after the cigarette he was smoking inside a car apparently ignited fireworks. Police arrested a 28-year-old man on Sunday after an officer found a black 1997 Infinity smoking in the middle of the street. 2008-10-03 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/02/ap/strange/main4496043.shtml http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081002/ap_on_fe_st/odd_frustrated_boyfriend FORT MYERS, Fla. - Authorities say a Fort Myers man shot himself in the arm after his girlfriend refused to have sex with him. The Lee County Sheriff's Office reported that a 29-year-old man and his girlfriend returned home from a bar early Wednesday morning. 2008-10-03 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081002/ap_on_fe_st/odd_frustrated_boyfriend http://www.abc26.com/pages/landing_weird/?Wisconsin-man-burns-his-hands-after-usin=1&blockID=79525&f MUKWONAGO, Wis. (AP) _ Police said a man was arrested after he used a cigarette lighter while trying to siphon gasoline from a van. The man, who was visiting friends, went to drive home early Saturday but realized that he didn't have enough gas in his SUV. 2008-10-03 http://www.abc26.com/pages/landing_weird/?Wisconsin-man-burns-his-hands-after-usin=1&blockID=79525&f http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1757267.ece FAST food fan Natalie Jackson was hit with a £150 fine at KFC for staying too long gorging on a monster-sized 'family bucket' 2008-10-03 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1757267.ece http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080925/NEWS03/809250421/1005 A Calhoun County man who sodomized a sheep will not have to register as a sex offender because the sheep cannot be considered a victim of sexual assault under Michigan law, a court ruled this week. 2008-10-01 http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080925/NEWS03/809250421/1005 http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Health/Pregnant-Bride-Emma-Lowden-Gives-Birth-During-Wedding/Articl Emma Lowdon's contractions began as she tied the knot with her partner Sean Allum, 35, but she was determined to finish the service. 2008-10-01 http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Health/Pregnant-Bride-Emma-Lowden-Gives-Birth-During-Wedding/Articl http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/dogged-aussie-detective-work-reveals-10m-ripoff/2008/09/30/122265 Detective work by an Australian online poker player has uncovered a $US10 million cheating scandal at two major poker websites and triggered a $US75 million legal claim. 2008-10-01 http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/dogged-aussie-detective-work-reveals-10m-ripoff/2008/09/30/122265 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26948434/?GT1=43001 IOWA CITY, Iowa - A hug has landed an Iowa City man in hot water. An Iowa City man who thought a police officer just "needed a hug" faces several charges including assault on a peace officer and public intoxication. 2008-09-30 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26948434/?GT1=43001 http://www.fox59.com/pages/landing_weird/?New-York-tenants-say-landlord-used-dead-=1&blockID=72715&f NEW YORK (AP) _ Tenants of a Brooklyn building said their landlord came up with a new idea for how to kick them out: Let the smell of the cats out of the bag. Dead cats, that is. 2008-09-30 http://www.fox59.com/pages/landing_weird/?New-York-tenants-say-landlord-used-dead-=1&blockID=72715&f http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Florida-Beer-Killing.html?_r=1&oref=slogin PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida teenager told police Monday that he slashed a woman to death during a burglary and a witness said the teen used the $6 he stole during the burglary to buy beer. 2008-09-30 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Florida-Beer-Killing.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429746,00.html Timothy Wayne Shepherd, 28, confessed last year to strangling Texas A&M student Tynesha Stewart, 19, last year, and now faces trial for the murder, the Houston Chronicle reports. 2008-09-30 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429746,00.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3107900/Girl-who-bleeds-without-being-cut-baffl Twinkle Dwivedi, 13, has a strange disorder which means she loses blood through her skin without being cut or scratched. 2008-09-30 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3107900/Girl-who-bleeds-without-being-cut-baffl http://www.miamiherald.com/news/5min/story/707023.html ISLAMORADA -- Greg LeNoir watched in horror as the shark's mouth opened wide, chomping a large set of teeth on his beloved 14-pound dog, Jake. 2008-09-30 http://www.miamiherald.com/news/5min/story/707023.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE48T6YN20080930 LONDON (Reuters) - The credit crisis and tight student budgets hold no fears for a British teenager who won 7 million pounds ($12.68 million) on the Lottery. 2008-09-30 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE48T6YN20080930 http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=d15fac17-5c19-4679-8572-44f76fcb7f81 Police in Middletown made a rather bizarre arrest Monday night, taking into custody a woman dressed in a cow suit who was seen acting erratically. 2008-09-30 http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=d15fac17-5c19-4679-8572-44f76fcb7f81 http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/local/crime/Man_sues_Md_doctor_says_butt_stapled_shut_.html BALTIMORE A man alleging a Maryland doctor stapled his rectum shut during an operation causing him to go without defecating for 17 days took his federal lawsuit to trial Monday in Baltimore. 2008-09-30 http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/local/crime/Man_sues_Md_doctor_says_butt_stapled_shut_.html http://cbs13.com/watercooler/breast.implants.hitman.2.827661.html FOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) ― A Colorado teenager hired men to kill his mother so he could use her money to get breast implants for his girlfriend, police said. 2008-09-29 http://cbs13.com/watercooler/breast.implants.hitman.2.827661.html http://www.denverpost.com/watercooler/ci_10567381 SAO PAULO, BrazilBrazilian police reportedly have caught up with a motorist who owes the equivalent of nearly $2 million in unpaid traffic fines. Folha OnLine said police stopped a 36-year-old man on Wednesday night and discovered he has been ticketed nearly 1,000 times since 2001, the year he bought his current car. 2008-09-29 http://www.denverpost.com/watercooler/ci_10567381 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-BBN-Bogus-Dodger.html?_r=1&oref=slogin LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man faces criminal charges for allegedly stealing a uniform from Dodger Stadium and posing as one of the team's players. 2008-09-29 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-BBN-Bogus-Dodger.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26891761/ DES MOINES, Iowa - The president of an Iowa college says he's sorry about an unfortunate and offensive typo in a school handbook. 2008-09-29 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26891761/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Foreclosure-Stalking-Case.html?_r=1&oref=slogin GAHANNA, Ohio (AP) -- John and Jamie Petree couldn't believe their luck. The home they bought in this Columbus suburb was near family and quality schools. Its huge backyard promised years of afternoon fun for their 2-year-old daughter and about-to-be-born son. 2008-09-29 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Foreclosure-Stalking-Case.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429233,00.html OGDEN, Utah A Utah homeowner was billed for 1.4 million gallons of water for part of last winter, and even though Rick Baur disputes it, he paid the bill. 2008-09-29 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429233,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429473,00.html An aspiring chef died after eating a super-hot chilli sauce as part of an endurance competition with a friend. 2008-09-29 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429473,00.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063590/Devout-Muslim-sues-Tesco-making-carry-alcohol.html A Muslim who claims he did not know Tesco sold alcohol is suing the store for religious discrimination after having to carry crates of drink as part of his job. 2008-09-29 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063590/Devout-Muslim-sues-Tesco-making-carry-alcohol.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427788,00.html A Kentucky man who claims his penis was removed without his consent during what was supposed to be a circumcision has sued the doctor who performed the surgery. 2008-09-29 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427788,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427604,00.html TEMPE, Ariz. Police say members of an Arizona State University fraternity vomited milk from a campus bridge and caused a car crash that injured two people. 2008-09-29 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427604,00.html http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7501923&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode= FOND DU LAC, Wis. -- A father who bought a beer for his 4-year-old son at the Fond du Lac County Fair and shared it with the boy's 2-year-old sibling is cited after becoming belligerent when he was approached by police. 2008-09-29 http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7501923&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode= http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_10549962?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contrac DUBLIN, Calif.Police have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of stealing dead animals from a veterinary hospital morgue and stuffing them into empty lockers at a Bay Area high school. 2008-09-29 http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_10549962?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contrac http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hlZbpXbUt5CbF3Ra6tEc-6uzzToAD93DPJO84 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Nine children were left at a hospital by their father late Wednesday under the state's new safe haven law, a move officials say illustrates the problems many feared when the rule went into effect. 2008-09-29 http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hlZbpXbUt5CbF3Ra6tEc-6uzzToAD93DPJO84 http://www.wral.com/news/strange/story/3613165/ BOISE, Idaho A man who was hit by a truck near the city's downtown was also slapped with a citation. Boise police ticketed Ebrahim Balah, 62, for jaywalking shortly after the accident Wednesday. 2008-09-29 http://www.wral.com/news/strange/story/3613165/ http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7477341&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutC Round Lake Beach, IL. -- A north suburban woman who hit her husband on the head with a hammer said she thought he was an alien, police said Friday. 2008-09-29 http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7477341&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26876770/?GT1=43001 YORKTOWN, N.Y. - A man who took his pants off before going out for doughnuts at a shop just north of New York City has pleaded guilty to public lewdness. John Greco admits he exposed his genitals in February while placing an order at a Dunkin Donuts drive-through in Yorktown. 2008-09-25 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26876770/?GT1=43001 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1061051/Londons-Olympic-Park-toilets-turn-away-Mecca-respect Toilet facilities are being built at London's Olympic Park so Muslims will not have to face Mecca while sitting on the loo. 2008-09-25 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1061051/Londons-Olympic-Park-toilets-turn-away-Mecca-respect http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/29653059.html SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- As if getting a DUI wasn't enough, a man arrested for driving under the influence got in a lot more trouble at the police station. 2008-09-25 http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/29653059.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Porch-Couches.html?_r=1&oref=slogin LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Relaxing on the porch in a ratty recliner might not be allowed in Lincoln any longer. The city council voted 5-2 Monday to ban porch couches and other indoor furniture used outside. 2008-09-24 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Porch-Couches.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://kdrv.com/news/strange/47223 KALAMAZOO, Mich - A judge has decided the best punishment for a man found guilty of stealing should be to take his son's words to heartand wear them on his sleeve. 2008-09-24 http://kdrv.com/news/strange/47223 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE48M8WN20080923 ROME (Reuters) - Dog excrement used to be merely a nuisance to pedestrians, now it could be used as evidence against pet owners and may lead to fines. 2008-09-24 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE48M8WN20080923 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE48M2VX20080923 GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - At least 15 Indian train robbers looking to steal diesel from a freight carriage died Saturday after inhaling poison gas stored in another tank they accidentally broke open, police said. 2008-09-24 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE48M2VX20080923 http://www.modbee.com/local/story/437971.html A 24-year-old Ceres man with his pockets full of jewelry and women's underwear was arrested late Saturday after being chased from a home authorities say he was burglarizing. 2008-09-24 http://www.modbee.com/local/story/437971.html http://www.nypost.com/seven/09192008/news/regionalnews/kinky_bid_to_be_tax_xxx_empt_129829.htm This was not the "happy ending" William Halby was looking for. The 77-year-old Brooklyn lawyer owes tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes for wrongly deducting more than $300,000 in prostitutes, porn, sex toys and erotic massages, a state tax judge ruled yesterday. The ruling came despite the meticulous efforts of Halby - a tax lawyer - to prove the deductions were reasonable medical expenses in his effort to fight depression and erectile dysfunction brought on by age. 2008-09-24 http://www.nypost.com/seven/09192008/news/regionalnews/kinky_bid_to_be_tax_xxx_empt_129829.htm http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Bartending-in-the-Buff.html DELHI, Ill. (AP) -- Here's a tip: Bartending nude can get you arrested. Sheriff's deputies doing a routine check this week at a southern Illinois bar say they discovered a not-so-routine sight. Authorities allege that 33-year-old Janet Brannon was naked while serving bar patrons at the Cabin Tavern in Delhi. 2008-09-22 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Bartending-in-the-Buff.html http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93A01RG0&show_article=1&catnum=9 SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) - A man has been convicted of sneaking into a 2-year-old girl's bedroom and stealing $20 from a piggy bank while she slept and was sentenced to six years in prison. Four-time convicted burglar Ryan Mueller, 31, was convicted Thursday after a two-day jury trial of felony burglary as a repeat offender. 2008-09-22 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93A01RG0&show_article=1&catnum=9 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Blaming-the-Victim.html NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Mark Poveromo feels ripped off twice over. A judge ordered him to repay money he collected from a builder convicted of stealing from him -- and told him to kick in the thief's attorney fees and court costs, too. 2008-09-22 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Blaming-the-Victim.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425503,00.html NEW YORK Police arrested a man accused of taking a cell phone picture under a subway rider's skirt after the victim said she used her own phone to snap back. 2008-09-22 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425503,00.html http://www.fox59.com/pages/landing_weird/?Okla-students-brag-on-MySpace-about-part=1&blockID=63290&f OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Be careful when you boast. Oklahoma college students who bragged on MySpace that their party business had served thousands of revelers have been hit with a state tax bill of $320,000. 2008-09-22 http://www.fox59.com/pages/landing_weird/?Okla-students-brag-on-MySpace-about-part=1&blockID=63290&f http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Fatal-Dog-Mauling.html?_r=1&oref=slogin SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A judge has sentenced a dog owner to 15 years to life in prison, seven years after her canines fatally mauled her neighbor in an upscale San Francisco neighborhood. 2008-09-22 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Fatal-Dog-Mauling.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Childs-Foot-Search.html RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- A family dog brought home a child's severed foot, but searchers combing surrounding woods in northwest Alabama found no signs of any other remains and don't know where the child might be. 2008-09-22 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Childs-Foot-Search.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26799738/?GT1=43001 BILLINGS, Mont. - A man was charged with burglary after he allegedly broke into a home, ate cheese from the refrigerator, made a mess in a bathroom and fell asleep on a child's bed. 2008-09-22 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26799738/?GT1=43001 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSLH55047120080917 ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A small hotel on Turkey's Mediterranean coast has fired all its male employees for repeatedly having affairs with foreign female guests, the manager said on Wednesday. 2008-09-19 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSLH55047120080917 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Stuck-Burglar.html KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- It wasn't the preferred way to enter the Knoxville Museum of Art, but Richard Anthony Smith told police he was on a mission. The 25-year-old Knoxville man called 911 from his cell phone before dawn Wednesday saying he was trapped in an air conditioning duct leading from the museum roof, Knoxville police spokesman Darrell DeBusk said. 2008-09-19 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Stuck-Burglar.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Bathroom-Bill.html SAUGATUCK, Mich. (AP) -- Steve Oswald isn't getting back the $156.94 he charged the city for cleaning a public bathroom. However, he did get the attention of city officials who promised to take better care of the bathroom -- and honored his efforts Tuesday with the Golden Plunger Award. 2008-09-19 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Bathroom-Bill.html http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24353334-5012895,00.html A 2cm long fish apparently found it's way into the penis of a 14-year-old boy from India in a bizarre medical case. 2008-09-19 http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24353334-5012895,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-AS-Japan-Oldest-Man.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin TOKYO (AP) -- The world's oldest man celebrated his 113th birthday Thursday in southern Japan, telling reporters he wants to live another five years. Tomoji Tanabe, who was born Sept. 18, 1895, received birthday gifts, flowers and $1,000 cash from the mayor of his hometown of Miyakonojo, on Japan's southern island of Kyushu. 2008-09-19 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-AS-Japan-Oldest-Man.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin http://www.idahostatesman.com/102/story/506395.html The Bush administration's top attorney in Idaho is bringing charges against a North Idaho woman for refusing to pay for a Diet Coke and then pouring it out on a counter at a cafeteria at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Boise. 2008-09-19 http://www.idahostatesman.com/102/story/506395.html http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckPersona&U=cce7c5f9d55442c7b8aeafa5e07cafe5&pl An Australian pub once criticized for employing a dwarf to pour liquor down patrons' throats is now offering free drinks to women customers who take off their underwear. 2008-09-19 http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckPersona&U=cce7c5f9d55442c7b8aeafa5e07cafe5&pl http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,,24369959-5001021,00.html A GIRL believed to be the youngest person in the world to have a sex change is set to become a pop star. 2008-09-19 http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,,24369959-5001021,00.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26771119/ NEW YORK - A trial has begun in the case of a baseball player-turned-actor accused of brutally killing a cat in a jealous rage after complaining that his ex-girlfriend cared more for the feline than she did for him. 2008-09-19 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26771119/ http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080916/tpl-australia-politics-jobs-offbeat-b034b0a.html SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian politician has used his first speech to parliament to call for unemployed idlers to be stung with a cattle prod to get them to work. 2008-09-19 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080916/tpl-australia-politics-jobs-offbeat-b034b0a.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080917/od_afp/italygameoffbeat_080917151629;_ylt=AhGIaNtIQGGHMmvhz3dOu ROME (AFP) - The winner of a free funeral has not turned up to claim his prize after ticket number 11 was chosen in a raffle in southern Italy, an Italian newspaper reported Tuesday. 2008-09-19 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080917/od_afp/italygameoffbeat_080917151629;_ylt=AhGIaNtIQGGHMmvhz3dOu http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2976181/Swiss-restaurant-to-serve-meals-cook The owner of the Storchen restaurant in the exclusive Winterthur resort will improve his menu with local specialities such as meat stew and various soups and sauces containing at least 75 per cent of mother's milk. 2008-09-19 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2976181/Swiss-restaurant-to-serve-meals-cook http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2008/08/29/judge-gives-disabled-man-driving-ban Barmy German bureaucrats have banned a disabled man from 'driving' for a month after he was caught drink driving in his wheelchair. 2008-09-17 http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2008/08/29/judge-gives-disabled-man-driving-ban http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Dishwashing-Dispute.html FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Police say a 20-year-old woman faces an aggravated assault charge after she bit her boyfriend, broke a picture frame across his face and swung at him with a sword during an argument about him not doing the dishes. 2008-09-17 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Dishwashing-Dispute.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/15/florida-police-taser-nude_n_126617.html TALLAHASSEE, Fla. A 40-year-old man walking his dog in the nude was Tasered by police when he refused to follow an officer's commands. David McCranie of the Tallahassee Police Department said an officer on patrol spotted the man shortly after 8 p.m. Friday. 2008-09-17 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/15/florida-police-taser-nude_n_126617.html http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-cans-for-crack,0,4724727.story WATERFORD, Mich. (AP) _ A Waterford man told police his crack cocaine habit drove him to steal nearly 250 empty beer cans from a 7-Eleven store. 2008-09-17 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-cans-for-crack,0,4724727.story http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSMOL55012520080915 KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Hundreds of disco workers protested in Kathmandu on Monday against a government crackdown on "nude dancing" in its bid to improve the deteriorating law and order. 2008-09-17 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSMOL55012520080915 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Ike-Tales-of-Survival.html?_r=1&oref=slogin BOLIVAR PENINSULA, Texas (AP) -- Many years from now, a small group of Hurricane Ike survivors will probably still be telling the story of how, on the night the storm flattened their island, they took sanctuary in a church -- with a lion. 2008-09-17 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Ike-Tales-of-Survival.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,423867,00.html PHOENIX Phoenix police are investigating the discovery of a newborn found alive in a trash can at a Phoenix school. 2008-09-17 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,423867,00.html http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24336376-952,00.html THE Queensland Government wants to hear of any sex-related incidents at state primary schools, after revelations of a "sex club" run by six-year-old boys. 2008-09-15 http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24336376-952,00.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3007681.html?menu=news.quirkies A 33-year-old US woman posed as her 15-year-old daughter to enroll at school because she wanted to be a cheerleader. 2008-09-15 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3007681.html?menu=news.quirkies http://icantseeyou.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/i-think-you-have-a-cavityplease-remove-your-blouse. Shy about going to the dentist now? Just wait. If the Maine Board of Dental Examiners gets its way, women in the state who require certain "standard of care" dental procedures will have to bare their chests to their dentists. This is not a joke. 2008-09-15 http://icantseeyou.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/i-think-you-have-a-cavityplease-remove-your-blouse. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Dog-Dials-911.html PHOENIX (AP) -- ''Man's best friend'' doesn't go far enough for Buddy -- a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure. 2008-09-15 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Dog-Dials-911.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422181,00.html DELTONA, Fla. An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter's boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter's room. 2008-09-15 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422181,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,421924,00.html WINTER GARDEN, Fla. Authorities say a Winter Garden woman returned home to find a sport utility vehicle and two dead bodies in her backyard swimming pool. 2008-09-15 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,421924,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420681,00.html A 22-year-old college grad looking to pay off her student loans will auction off her virginity at Nevada's infamous Moonlight Bunny Ranch, Us magazine reported. 2008-09-15 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420681,00.html http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=8b4678f0-4780-42c7-8317-c5562c541489 An elderly man who robbed a Kern bank knew he was going to be caught. In fact, he said Thursday, that's exactly what he wanted. 2008-09-15 http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=8b4678f0-4780-42c7-8317-c5562c541489 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Donation-Declined.html PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York charity says it has turned down a share of a $3 million lottery jackpot because accepting the money could send the wrong message to gambling addicts. 2008-09-15 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Donation-Declined.html http://www.njbiz.com/article.asp?aid=75841 A businessman said he was so frustrated with the condition of a public bathroom in the western Michigan tourist town of Saugatuck that he cleaned it himself, and billed the city $156 for his work. 2008-09-15 http://www.njbiz.com/article.asp?aid=75841 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-nursing-home-assault,1,160267.story MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ Police who videotaped a man having sex with his comatose wife in her nursing home room violated his constitutional rights, an appeals court ruled Thursday. 2008-09-15 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-nursing-home-assault,1,160267.story http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Seized-Frogs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Authorities who seized scores of illegal African clawed frogs from Nevada residents say they have traced the creatures -- banned because of their potential for ecological damage -- to a company that sells tadpoles over the Internet. 2008-09-15 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Seized-Frogs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/11/content_9919993.htm JAKARTA, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Twelve teenagers died and 10 others were having medical treatment in hospitals and their homes after they consumed alcohol-brewed drink on Monday in Indramayu regency of West Java province in Indonesia, the local police spokesman named only Suhiro said on Thursday. 2008-09-15 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/11/content_9919993.htm PANGUITCH, Utah - One Utah community is cheering a special bear — but don't call him Smokey. A 20-stone mugging victim's life was saved in Germany when a bullet fired at him was trapped in his fat. Rolf Mittelhaus, 49, didn't even notice he'd been shot until he was examined after reporting the attack to police two days later. 2008-09-10 PANGUITCH, Utah - One Utah community is cheering a special bear — but don't call him Smokey. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26558624/ PANGUITCH, Utah - One Utah community is cheering a special bear but don't call him Smokey. 2008-09-10 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26558624/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080904.wcatmicrowave0904/BNStory/National/home CAMROSE, Alta. Two 16-year-old Alberta boys who admitted to breaking into a neighbour's house, putting the family cat in a microwave and then watching it cook to death have been sentenced to one year of probation and 100 hours of community service. 2008-09-10 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080904.wcatmicrowave0904/BNStory/National/home http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Million-Mile-Driver.html PALESTINE, Texas (AP) -- A routine package delivery turned into a milestone for a UPS driver in East Texas. Brent Boyd, 51, on Thursday surpassed one million miles on his UPS delivery truck, the same vehicle he's driven for 22 years with the company. 2008-09-10 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Million-Mile-Driver.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Toddler-in-Trunk.html GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- The body of a toddler found in the trunk of his mother's car may have been there for months as she drove around town, evaded questions about him and was even arrested, police said. 2008-09-10 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Toddler-in-Trunk.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSKUA45660120080904 LONDON (Reuters) - A father mistakenly declared dead after going missing eight years ago has been reunited with his family after his son spotted him on television, police said on Thursday. 2008-09-10 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSKUA45660120080904 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Swimmers-Missing.html?_r=1&oref=slogin DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A father and his 12-year-old son are safe after spending more than 12 hours overnight treading water in the Atlantic miles from the central Florida coast. 2008-09-10 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Swimmers-Missing.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/09/ap/strange/main4432210.shtml A man with four previous drunken driving convictions who was stopped for weaving in and out of traffic on Interstate 40 was ready with an excuse for his poor driving: his passenger spilled his beer. 2008-09-10 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/09/ap/strange/main4432210.shtml http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL944618720080909 LAGOS (Reuters) -A Nigerian court has granted temporary reprieve to an 84-year-old Muslim preacher with 86 wives after local leaders threatened to force him to leave the area unless he divorced all but four of them. 2008-09-10 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL944618720080909 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Missing-Body.html NEW YORK (AP) -- A man who tried to send his late wife's body to their native Ecuador for burial is suing American Airlines and a funeral home, claiming her remains were sent to the wrong country. 2008-09-10 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Missing-Body.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-23000-Big-Macs.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) -- Talk about a Big Mac attack! Don Gorske says he has eaten 23,000 of the burgers in 36 years. 2008-09-10 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-23000-Big-Macs.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24302102-401,00.html DESPAIR among human rights workers in Pakistan over a rash of so-called "honour killings" intensified yesterday when it was disclosed that a girl forced into marriage with a 45-year-old man at the age of nine had been killed by her parents because she asked for an annulment. 2008-09-10 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24302102-401,00.html http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/8528480?MSNHPHCP>1=39002 LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Track and field's ruling body wants Ivan Ukhov to explain his conduct at the Athletissima meet in which rival high jumpers said the Russian had been drinking vodka and Red Bull during the competition. 2008-09-05 http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/8528480?MSNHPHCP>1=39002 http://www.wgal.com/news/17400234/detail.html A printing mistake on some U.S. postal stamps could have people calling a phone sex hot line. 2008-09-05 http://www.wgal.com/news/17400234/detail.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,415943,00.html TUCSON, Ariz. Sheriff's deputies in Pima County say they've arrested a couple on child abuse charges after discovering they kept their 9-year-old grandson in a small closet and rarely let him out. 2008-09-05 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,415943,00.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL343921120080903 BERLIN (Reuters) - A naked German hiker has vowed to carry on rambling in the nude despite spending 10 days in jail for breaking public nudity laws. 2008-09-05 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL343921120080903 http://www.ktla.com/pages/content_landing_page/?Ga-police-arrest-woman-they-say-starting=1&blockID=4 ATHENS, Ga. (AP) _ Athens-Clarke police have arrested a woman who they say started mooning motorists after she received a ticket for jaywalking. An officer stopped the 23-year-old woman and a friend about 1:10 a.m. Saturday after they walked diagonally across the intersection in downtown Athens. 2008-09-05 http://www.ktla.com/pages/content_landing_page/?Ga-police-arrest-woman-they-say-starting=1&blockID=4 http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep04/0,4670,ODDFakeMoneySchool,00.html OCALA, Fla. Authorities say an 8-year-old boy was handing out hundreds of dollars in fake $20 bills at an Ocala elementary school. School officials reported the boy to police on Tuesday. 2008-09-05 http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep04/0,4670,ODDFakeMoneySchool,00.html http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/080904/K090406AU.html The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says the driver of a tractor-trailer rigged the front license plate of his vehicle so that it would "disappear" as he drove through a toll plaza, allowing him to avoid paying the $40 fee. 2008-09-05 http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/080904/K090406AU.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4674411.ece A hotel that refused a wounded soldier a room, forcing him to spend the night in his car, was backed into a 'grovelling' apology yesterday after receiving a barrage of abusive phone calls. 2008-09-05 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4674411.ece http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26513679/?gt1=43001 IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa City police said a man who was driving drunk tried to bribe a police officer with a sandwich. 2008-09-03 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26513679/?gt1=43001 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,414545,00.html COLUMBUS, Ohio A Columbus teenager who was throwing eggs at cars as part of a late-night prank was fatally shot, police said Sunday. 2008-09-03 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,414545,00.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080831/ap_on_re_us/amputation_attempt MODESTO, Calif. - Police say a man tried to cut off his own arm at a restaurant in Modesto, Calif., because he thought he had injected air into a vein while shooting cocaine and feared he would die unless he took drastic action. 2008-09-03 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080831/ap_on_re_us/amputation_attempt http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/08/29/girl-17-killed-by-her-mobile-115875-20715665/ A schoolgirl died from a heart attack triggered by a mobile phone alarm - after medics failed to spot she had a rare condition. 2008-09-03 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/08/29/girl-17-killed-by-her-mobile-115875-20715665/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080831/od_afp/malaysiasexoffbeat;_ylt=AodXvTigbd6CBM0XxHb7dzShOrgF KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A Malaysian welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to lengthen it before he gets engaged next week went embarrassingly wrong, a news report said Sunday. 2008-09-03 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080831/od_afp/malaysiasexoffbeat;_ylt=AodXvTigbd6CBM0XxHb7dzShOrgF http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0846525920080829 CHUR, Switzerland (Reuters) - Diamonds really are forever. Algordanza, a small company based in the mountainous southeast of Switzerland, uses the ashes of dead people to make diamonds as a permanent memento for their nearest and dearest. 2008-09-03 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0846525920080829 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-Britain-Death-Scam.html LONDON (AP) -- As a dead man, Ahmad Akhtary shouldn't have needed a doctor's appointment. 2008-09-03 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-Britain-Death-Scam.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7589247.stm A US court in Dayton, Ohio, has convicted a mother of murdering her one-month-old daughter by burning her to death in a microwave oven. 2008-09-03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7589247.stm http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,414363,00.html ALGONQUIN, Ill. An Algonquin waitress got the tip of a lifetime after someone dropped a $1,000 gratuity at her table. 2008-09-03 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,414363,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Affairs-of-the-Heart.html On an overcast spring morning in southeast Georgia, Sonny Graham drank some coffee and headed out the door for another day in the family landscaping business and to take his 9-year-old stepson to the dentist. But Graham made a detour to the backyard shed that he'd built. 2008-09-03 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Affairs-of-the-Heart.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2663030/Seven-year-old-girl-being-kept-alive-by-Viagra.html Medics thought Natalie Archibald was suffering from over-excitement when she collapsed after opening her presents on Christmas Day two years ago. 2008-09-03 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2663030/Seven-year-old-girl-being-kept-alive-by-Viagra.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,415203,00.html DUBAI, United Arab Emirates A British couple on trial for allegedly having sex on a Dubai beach asked the judge on Tuesday to be allowed to leave the country. 2008-09-03 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,415203,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Stolen-Bras.html?_r=1&oref=slogin NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York man has been charged with selling $80,000 worth of stolen Victoria's Secret bras online. 2008-09-03 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Stolen-Bras.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article1630897.ece SCIENTISTS are trying to stop the most powerful experiment ever saying the black holes it will create could destroy the world. 2008-09-03 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article1630897.ece http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26523365/?GT1=43001 BERLIN - Police are trying to track down a man filmed riding a skateboard down a steep stretch of highway at 62 mph, far above the speed limit. 2008-09-03 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26523365/?GT1=43001 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/blotter/chi-botched-store-robbery-web-aug27,0,2957573.story A robber's plan to hold up a Southwest Side convenience store Monday afternoon took a different turn: The robber shot himself in the foot, got stabbed by a store employee and ended up in police custody at a city hospital, Chicago police said. 2008-08-29 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/blotter/chi-botched-store-robbery-web-aug27,0,2957573.story http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-Saved-by-Diaper.html?_r=1&oref=slogin SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday. 2008-08-29 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-Saved-by-Diaper.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412188,00.html TOKYO A nearly fatal bite by a poisonous snake led to the arrest of a man Wednesday for keeping 51 deadly cobras and mambas in his Tokyo apartment without permission, police said. 2008-08-29 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412188,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412190,00.html MILFORD, Conn. Police in Illinois found a Connecticut man who was reported missing last year, but it remains a mystery why he left his wife and son. 2008-08-29 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412190,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,411984,00.html HEMET, Calif. A sheriff's helicopter patrol guided Riverside deputies to a $150 million marijuana garden in remote hills south of Hemet. 2008-08-29 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,411984,00.html http://www.nypost.com/seven/08262008/news/regionalnews/slain_coulples_weird_will_126221.htm They were bitter to the end - and beyond. A Brooklyn couple slain in their home last month spoke from the grave in drafted last wills, leaving a bizarre legacy for unloved ones they detested in life. 2008-08-29 http://www.nypost.com/seven/08262008/news/regionalnews/slain_coulples_weird_will_126221.htm http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412185,00.html HONOLULU Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land. 2008-08-29 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412185,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412193,00.html A two-headed baby born in Bangladesh on Monday has died after his parents took him home because they could not afford medical care, Agence France-Presse reported Thursday. 2008-08-29 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,412193,00.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSPEK4202120080828 SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai police will post photos and videos of jaywalkers in newspapers and on TV in a bid to shame them out of breaking traffic rules, local media reported on Thursday. 2008-08-29 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSPEK4202120080828 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1049610/Ready-Tiddles-Meet-cats-sprouted-wings.html While most cats are renowned for having nine lives, these moggies are clearly living on a wing and a prayer 2008-08-29 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1049610/Ready-Tiddles-Meet-cats-sprouted-wings.html http://www.kcra.com/money/17325477/detail.html TORONTO -- Air Canada's regional carrier, Jazz, is removing life vests from all of its planes to save weight and fuel. 2008-08-29 http://www.kcra.com/money/17325477/detail.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1048026/Pictured-The-burglar-left-dangling-shoelaces-victims As a burglar, John Pearce thinks nothing of turning his victims' homes upside down. But this time it was the house that turned him the wrong way up. 2008-08-26 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1048026/Pictured-The-burglar-left-dangling-shoelaces-victims http://www.welt.de/english-news/arti2369407/Couple_offered_sex_with_child_for_used_car.html A sordid San Antonio couple is accused of trying to trying to trade sex with the woman's 5-year-old daughter for an apartment, a used car and child care for her 10-month old daughter. 2008-08-26 http://www.welt.de/english-news/arti2369407/Couple_offered_sex_with_child_for_used_car.html http://www.nypost.com/seven/08252008/news/regionalnews/hit__run_jerk_sues_over_car_125992.htm A hit-and-run driver who killed a man with his Bentley is suing the city - for damaging his car while it was impounded. 2008-08-26 http://www.nypost.com/seven/08252008/news/regionalnews/hit__run_jerk_sues_over_car_125992.htm http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/8488564/9-year-old-barred-for-pitching-too-well?MSNHPHMA NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player - too good, it turns out. The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said. 2008-08-26 http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/8488564/9-year-old-barred-for-pitching-too-well?MSNHPHMA http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/judo/news/story?id=3549903 BEIJING -- Cuba's Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee square in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match, prompting the World Taekwondo Federation to recommend that he be banned for life. 2008-08-25 http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/judo/news/story?id=3549903 http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/aug/14/man-gets-2-years-in-prison-for-killing-cat/ A Los Angeles man who killed his girlfriend's cat, telling her to "follow the blood trail to find Tweety," has been sentenced to two years in prison. 2008-08-25 http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/aug/14/man-gets-2-years-in-prison-for-killing-cat/ http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/gatecrashers-flee-whipwielding-dad/2008/08/16/1218307309535.html A MARAUDING gang of teenage gatecrashers got more than they bargained for when an angry householder used a whip to eject them from his 16-year-old son's party. 2008-08-25 http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/gatecrashers-flee-whipwielding-dad/2008/08/16/1218307309535.html http://www.nypost.com/seven/08232008/news/regionalnews/one_legged_hooker_slain_125697.htm A one-legged hooker was killed in Brooklyn after a john hit her over the head, causing her to fall backwards out of her wheelchair and slam her skull against the wall, cops said yesterday. 2008-08-25 http://www.nypost.com/seven/08232008/news/regionalnews/one_legged_hooker_slain_125697.htm http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Sign-Vandals.html?_r=1&oref=slogin PHOENIX (AP) -- When it comes to marking up historic signs, good grammar is a bad defense. 2008-08-25 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Sign-Vandals.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409328,00.html WEST DUNDEE, Ill. A Kane County judge has sentenced a West Dundee woman to pick up roadkill after she pleaded guilty to stabbing two of her ex-husband's lizards, killing one of them. 2008-08-25 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409328,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409442,00.html OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma officials say a typo resulted in a state employee receiving a bonus of $850,000 but it was only temporary. 2008-08-25 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409442,00.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2978067.html?menu= A man in the US has managed to catch and land a record-breaking catfish on a Barbie fishing rod just 2-and-a-half feet long. 2008-08-25 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2978067.html?menu= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26326998/ TOKYO - A 61-year-old Japanese woman gave birth to her own grandchild, using an egg donated by her daughter, a clinic said Thursday. 2008-08-25 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26326998/ http://www.wftv.com/news/17275048/detail.html BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. -- The Lee County Sheriff's Office says a Bonita Springs man has been arrested after offering undercover deputy who was posing as a prostitute two cents for sex. 2008-08-25 http://www.wftv.com/news/17275048/detail.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_argentina_dog BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A newborn baby abandoned outdoors in winter by her 14-year-old mother was found safe in a dog pen with a mother dog and her brood of puppies near the city of La Plata, Argentine media reported on Friday. 2008-08-25 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_argentina_dog http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080823/NEWS/808230336/1001/NEWS A man allegedly high on mushrooms jumped headfirst into a Marion County sheriff's patrol car and fought with the deputy until a police dog intervened, officials said. 2008-08-25 http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080823/NEWS/808230336/1001/NEWS http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26353351/?GT1=43001 OMAHA, Neb. - Nebraska's new 'safe-haven' law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked is unique in a significant way: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19. 2008-08-25 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26353351/?GT1=43001 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409322,00.html SAN ANTONIO, Texas Court authorities in Texas will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring. 2008-08-25 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409322,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404223,00.html LONGVIEW, Texas A 35-year-old Texas woman has been jailed after police say she made her 12-year-old daughter drive her to a bar. 2008-08-25 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404223,00.html http://www.cbs8.com/stories/story.138302.html People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to buy a SeaWorld park, possibly the one in San Diego, free the animals inside and replace them with virtual reality exhibits, it was reported today. 2008-08-25 http://www.cbs8.com/stories/story.138302.html http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/21/ap/strange/main4371603.shtml A Grafton woman has been arrested and booked for failing to pay her library fines. Heidi Dalibor, 20, told the News Graphic in Cedarburg she ignored the library's calls and letters as well as a notice to appear in court. 2008-08-22 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/21/ap/strange/main4371603.shtml http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2975867.html?menu= A novice monk was arrested in Germany after he tried to give away money as part of his religious training. 2008-08-22 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2975867.html?menu= http://www.stuff.co.nz/4664546a11.html A 15-year-old boy was beaten unconscious then left at the edge of a train station platform in an attack involving pupils from his school. 2008-08-22 http://www.stuff.co.nz/4664546a11.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2580303/Motorist-goes-to-the-aid-of-a-dying-crash-victim-only-to-fin An executive at a famous rugby club went to the aid of a pedestrian who had been knocked down in the street only to discover it was his dying wife. 2008-08-21 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2580303/Motorist-goes-to-the-aid-of-a-dying-crash-victim-only-to-fin http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1047397/Worlds-oldest-man-dies-age-138.html A great-grand father believed to be the world's oldest man has died at the age of 138. 2008-08-21 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1047397/Worlds-oldest-man-dies-age-138.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_fe_st/lottery_couple;_ylt=Ao2JK1yvQBpS.K2XB0pj38es0NUE MADISON, Wis. - This couple won't have to argue about how to spend their lottery winnings. That's because the Mount Horeb husband and wife each won their own $350,000 jackpots in this weekend's SuperCash state lottery. 2008-08-21 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_fe_st/lottery_couple;_ylt=Ao2JK1yvQBpS.K2XB0pj38es0NUE http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/415938.html Armed with a battering ram and shotguns, Buffalo police looking for heroin broke down the door and stormed the lower apartment of a West Side family of eight. 2008-08-21 http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/415938.html POINT MARION, Pa. (AP) -- An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A New Castle man thought a garbage can on Cunningham Avenue would be a good place to hide his money, but that didn't turn out to be the case. 2008-08-21 POINT MARION, Pa. (AP) -- An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-911-at-Gunpoint.html POINT MARION, Pa. (AP) -- An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said. ''I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun,'' Leda Smith said. 2008-08-21 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-911-at-Gunpoint.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Pricey-Pot.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A Tyler man accused of growing marijuana in an alleged cost-saving move is jailed on felony possession charges. Bond is $15,000 for 55-year-old John Daniel Miller III, who remained in the Smith County Jail late Tuesday. 2008-08-21 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Pricey-Pot.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/08/07/man-almost-loses-penis-humping-steel-bench/ Last night in Hong Kong, the police received a disturbing call from a man in trouble. 2008-08-21 http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/08/07/man-almost-loses-penis-humping-steel-bench/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2579105/Man-declared-dead-while-on-holiday.h Neighbours of Michael O'Neill were surprised to receive a postcard from his Australian holiday - because they thought he had been declared dead. 2008-08-21 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2579105/Man-declared-dead-while-on-holiday.h http://wtop.com/?nid=456&sid=1463515 ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) - Police said a man called 911 and reported a robbery after a gas station employee refused to give him his money back for an unopened box of condoms. 2008-08-21 http://wtop.com/?nid=456&sid=1463515 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,406762,00.html LAKE HAMILTON, Fla. A Florida man was arrested after allegedly going on a violent rampage after a minor fender-bender, slashing and stabbing the occupants of a car, then running over and killing a woman who had been riding in another nearby vehicle. 2008-08-21 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,406762,00.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSWEL11843920080819 WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand court has allowed a parade of topless porn stars on motor bikes to proceed on the main street of the country's biggest city, local media said Tuesday. 2008-08-21 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSWEL11843920080819 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046684/Meet-Yoda-cat-FOUR-ears.html If Batman had a cat, it would probably look something like this. The household pet, named Yoda, was born with an extra set of ears. 2008-08-21 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046684/Meet-Yoda-cat-FOUR-ears.html http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080815053413.qvidog9b&show_article=1 Children from China's dominant Han population were used in a key part of the Olympics opening ceremony, not youngsters from all 56 ethnic groups as claimed, an official said in comment published Friday. 2008-08-21 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080815053413.qvidog9b&show_article=1 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSPEK30262920080821 BEIJING (Reuters) - At least a dozen shoppers, many of them retirees, were injured in a rush to buy cheap cooking oil and eggs on offer at a supermarket in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, according to a local newspaper. 2008-08-21 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSPEK30262920080821 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,407005,00.html A British man was jailed for five hours after he photographed a cop reversing the wrong way up a one-way street. 2008-08-21 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,407005,00.html http://www.wavy.com/global/story.asp?s=8824024&srvc=latest NEWPORT NEWS (Va.)--A local business owner got the shock of a lifetime when she left the Bank of America in Newport News Friday. She'd asked for money to pay her employees, but what she got has her seeing red. 2008-08-21 http://www.wavy.com/global/story.asp?s=8824024&srvc=latest http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Lawn-Birth.html FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) -- Alone and in labor, Jessica Higgins found the first place she could to give birth -- her front lawn. 2008-08-18 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Lawn-Birth.html http://www.ktvu.com/news/17174989/detail.html?rss=fran&psp=news PALO ALTO, Calif. -- While Bigfoot sightings have been reported from the wilderness near Northern California's majestic Mt. Shasta to the backwoods of Michigan, three hunters of the elusive beast announced Friday that they believe at least three have been living in a rural Georgia swamp for years. 2008-08-18 http://www.ktvu.com/news/17174989/detail.html?rss=fran&psp=news http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,405187,00.html BEIJING A group of American Christians who had more than 300 Bibles confiscated by Chinese officials when they arrived in China is refusing to leave the airport until they get the books back, their leader said Monday. 2008-08-18 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,405187,00.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1504868.html A 93-year-old woman with a "grip like iron" fought back against a robber by grabbing him by the testicles. 2008-08-18 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1504868.html http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_local_orlandocrime/2008/08/11-year-old-use.html?loc=interstiti Orlando police said an 12-year-old boy pulled two BB guns on employees and customers at a 24-hour Walgreens. 2008-08-18 http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_local_orlandocrime/2008/08/11-year-old-use.html?loc=interstiti http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/bizarre&id=6333305 Police in Wichita say it appears a man broke into a house Friday night to wash his clothes but fled in boxers, with his jeans still in the washer. 2008-08-18 http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/bizarre&id=6333305 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-Australia-Ugly-Women-Wanted.html?_r=1&oref=slogin SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Life can get a little lonely for bachelors in the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa. So the mayor has offered up a solution: recruit ugly women. 2008-08-18 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-Australia-Ugly-Women-Wanted.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Egypt-Septuplets.html?_r=1&oref=slogin CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- A day after giving birth to septuplets, a 27-year-old Egyptian woman said Sunday she's only seen her babies on television and hopes to hold them and name them soon. 2008-08-18 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Egypt-Septuplets.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26207560/ LONDON - A British man has been banned from visiting his girlfriend's home after neighbors complained about noisy sex, a local official said Thursday. 2008-08-18 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26207560/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26232364/ ROANOKE, Ind. - A man's forgotten bifocals led to a $3 million lottery jackpot. 2008-08-18 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26232364/ http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2967937.html?menu= A motorist was given a £50 ticket for bad parking when her car was shunted into a tree by another driver. 2008-08-18 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2967937.html?menu= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26232369/ STANTON, Texas - Memo to anyone planning a drug store robbery: don't lock your keys in the getaway vehicle. 2008-08-18 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26232369/ http://www.ktvu.com/news/17174989/detail.html PALO ALTO, Calif. -- While Bigfoot sightings have been reported from the wilderness near Northern California's majestic Mt. Shasta to the backwoods of Michigan, three hunters of the elusive beast announced Friday that they believe at least three have been living in a rural Georgia swamp for years. 2008-08-18 http://www.ktvu.com/news/17174989/detail.html http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/173027 Two Pembroke teenagers have been charged in connection with a series of playing cards that were defaced with threatening writing and left at stores in Christiansburg and Pearisburg -- a gesture police said the teens admitted had been inspired by this summer's Batman movie, "The Dark Knight." 2008-08-18 http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/173027 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080813/ap_on_re_us/family_captivity LAVONIA, Ga. - When police finally searched the squat white mobile home where they say a man held his family captive for three years, the place was so filthy and bug-infested that one officer had to wear a gas mask and another refused to continue. 2008-08-18 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080813/ap_on_re_us/family_captivity http://www.disaboom.com/Blogs/saydrah/archive/2008/08/15/women-ejected-from-dunkin-donuts-and-threat Kiersten Niles, who uses a service dog for seizure alert and hearing assistance, says she was refused service at Dunkin' Donuts in Manchester, New Hampshire last month. Ms. Niles was told that her service dog, Loretta, was not welcome in the store. 2008-08-18 http://www.disaboom.com/Blogs/saydrah/archive/2008/08/15/women-ejected-from-dunkin-donuts-and-threat http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2008/08/13/woman-faces-eviction-for-flushing-toilet A vulnerable council tenant who says she is facing eviction for little more than flushing her toilet too noisily has failed to win a reprieve from a High Court judge. 2008-08-18 http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2008/08/13/woman-faces-eviction-for-flushing-toilet http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403702,00.html A 7-year-old Bulgarian boy was kept chained up by his parents in order to keep him away from 'bad company.' 2008-08-18 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403702,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403146,00.html A Kentucky college student has hired a lawyer after she was escorted out of a mall by security on Sunday because her dress was deemed too short, MyFOXBoston reports. 2008-08-18 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403146,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-One-Horse-Town.html?_r=1&oref=slogin HICKMAN, Neb. (AP) -- Talk about your one-horse town. This burg of 1,084 residents is just that. 2008-08-18 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-One-Horse-Town.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Burger-King-Bath.html XENIA, Ohio (AP) -- Burger King Corp. said Tuesday it had parted ways with an employee who was recorded taking a soapy bath in a utility sink in one of its restaurants in a video that ended up on his MySpace page. 2008-08-13 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Burger-King-Bath.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUST27183520080812 TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police have arrested a 20-year-old man who attacked and robbed two people after they stared at his Winnie-the-Pooh costume, officials said on Tuesday. 2008-08-13 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUST27183520080812 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Porn-Inspector.html?_r=1&oref=slogin LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) -- A man suspected of posing as a police detective and telling an adult novelty shop to give him free X-rated videos so he could check for underage performers was arrested Tuesday, authorities said. 2008-08-13 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Porn-Inspector.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,402111,00.html A British rape victim has had a court decision overturned that cut the money she was awarded by a quarter because she was drunk at the time of the incident, The Daily Mail reported Tuesday. 2008-08-13 http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,402111,00.html http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/08/12/loyal.dog.ap/index.html?eref=edition GREELEY, Colorado (AP) -- A dog stood guard over her owner's body for up to six weeks after the man committed suicide on the remote northeastern Colorado plains, authorities said. 2008-08-13 http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/08/12/loyal.dog.ap/index.html?eref=edition http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Spanish-basketball-team-poses- Spain's Olympic basketball team posed for an advertisement prior to the Games which appears to show all its players slanting their eyes, a move that could offend its Olympic hosts in Beijing. The ads, for a Spanish courier company, appeared in the Spanish-language newspaper La Marca. 2008-08-13 http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Spanish-basketball-team-poses- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402004,00.html BALTIMORE A toddler whose remains were found inside a suitcase in Philadelphia this spring was starved to death by members of a religious cult, including his mother, in part because he refused to say "amen" after meals, police said. 2008-08-13 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402004,00.html http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9007654 A Johnson City man set himself on fire after taking an overdose of his mother's medication during a domestic disturbance on Monday. 2008-08-13 http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9007654 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71931 In the middle of an armed robbery of a Tulsa, Okla., grocery store by a man wearing a Batman mask, one customer leaped into action, charging, wrestling and subduing the gunman until police arrived. 2008-08-11 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71931 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,401044,00.html MADRID A Spanish sweetshop owner was counting cash in his till in the city of Aviles when he came across a coin bearing the likeness of Homer Simpson instead of Spanish King Juan Carlos, Reuters reported. 2008-08-11 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,401044,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Freeway-Money.html?_r=1&oref=slogin MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) -- It wasn't the man on the hog who found himself being greedy. 2008-08-11 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Freeway-Money.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,401305,00.html LAS CRUCES, N.M. Most people want to get rid of their old phone books, but a Las Cruces woman has been indicted for fraud for allegedly keeping more than 100,000 directories. 2008-08-11 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,401305,00.html http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/08/07/man-almost-loses-penis-humping-steel-bench/ Last night in Hong Kong, the police received a disturbing call from a man in trouble. 2008-08-11 http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/08/07/man-almost-loses-penis-humping-steel-bench/ http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24148764-1242,00.html A VIOLENT argument over a car space in one of Sydney's busiest shopping malls has left one man fighting for life after he was stabbed in the back and stomach. 2008-08-11 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24148764-1242,00.html http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-odd-snack-trail,0,3443963.story ST. PAUL (AP) _ St. Paul police followed a trail of Cheetos in order to nab three teenagers suspected of burglarizing a vending machine. Officers were called to the Arlington Recreation Center on July 29, where they found a vending machine's glass had been broken with a chair. 2008-08-08 http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-odd-snack-trail,0,3443963.story http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Big-Rig-Assault.html SAEGERTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities say a Pennsylvania man rammed his house with a semitrailer during a fight with his roommate and tried to run down police called to the scene. 2008-08-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Big-Rig-Assault.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Child-Car-Ride.html MARATHON, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say a grandmother was arrested for driving around the parking lot of a Marathon grocery store with her 3-year-old child sitting on the roof of the car. 2008-08-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Child-Car-Ride.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Urine-Disposal.html?_r=1&oref=slogin ONTARIO, Ore. (AP) -- Police say there's been an alarming rise in urine-filled plastic containers found along a three-mile stretch of Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon. 2008-08-08 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Urine-Disposal.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/474284 BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table. 2008-08-08 http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/474284 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_re_us/ice_cream_killer PORTLAND, Ore. - A New York man who pleaded guilty to murder in Oregon in exchange for buckets of fried chicken will get calzones and pizza to go with his life sentence. 2008-08-08 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_re_us/ice_cream_killer http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-911-Sandwich-Call.html JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- The sauce for a spicy Italian sandwich was apparently a must have for one Florida man. The man, Reginald Peterson, called 911 twice after a sandwich shop left off the sauce. 2008-08-06 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-911-Sandwich-Call.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,398661,00.html An Indian man who was knocked unconscious during a stampede of thousands of religious pilgrims on a steep Himalayan mountain path woke up as doctors were preparing to perform his autopsy, the Times of India reported. 2008-08-06 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,398661,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Underwear-Researcher.html?_r=1&oref=slogin CINCINNATI (AP) -- A man accused of conning parents into allowing him to be alone with their children to conduct a ''marketing survey'' of underwear was indicted Monday on 19 criminal counts involving 11 minors. 2008-08-06 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Underwear-Researcher.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/374150 BIG SUR, Calif. - A tourist is nursing only cuts and bruises after sliding 76 metres down a cliff on California's coast. 2008-08-06 http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/374150 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Japan-Missing-in-Manhole.html TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese fire department spokeswoman says four people are missing after being washed away by a surge of sewage water while working in a manhole in downtown Tokyo. 2008-08-06 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Japan-Missing-in-Manhole.html http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10525565 Police are not encouraging people to follow the example of a Christchurch dairy owner who opened fire with an air pistol on two armed robbers. 2008-08-06 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10525565 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSKUA55867020080805 BERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of German policewomen will receive what media have labeled "bullet-proof bras." 2008-08-06 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSKUA55867020080805 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Mountain-Lion.html IDLEDALE, Colo. (AP) -- A mountain lion crept through an open door into a house outside Denver, snatched a Labrador retriever from a bedroom where two people were sleeping and left the dog's dead body outside, wildlife managers said Tuesday. 2008-08-06 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Mountain-Lion.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-SKorea-Cloned-Dogs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Booger is back. An American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world's first successful commercial canine cloning service. 2008-08-06 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-SKorea-Cloned-Dogs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_odd_just_couldnt_wait.html SNOHOMISH, Wash. -- A dump truck driver who couldn't wait to relieve himself is being blamed for losing his load. 2008-08-05 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_odd_just_couldnt_wait.html http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080731.wmanbus0731/BNStory/National/home BRANDON, MAN. - A young man travelling on a Greyhound bus was stabbed to death and beheaded by a stranger in a horrifying act of apparently random violence. 2008-08-04 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080731.wmanbus0731/BNStory/National/home http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396001,00.html A young girl's skin is turning to stone as she suffers from a rare, incurable disease called acute systemic scleroderma, Scotland's Daily Record reported Thursday. 2008-08-04 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396001,00.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26006350/?GT1=43001 JERUSALEM - An Israeli couple going on a European vacation remembered to take their duty-free purchases and their 18 suitcases, but forgot their 3-year-old daughter at the airport, police said Monday. 2008-08-04 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26006350/?GT1=43001 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2953708.html?menu= A farmer landed in hospital after a horny bull mistook him for a cow. The randy steer tore off the farmer's clothes in a frenzy after he caught the scent of cows on them at the dairy farm in Wies Dlugie, eastern Poland. 2008-08-04 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2953708.html?menu= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25972909/ DES MOINES, Iowa - Nude dancing remains an art in Iowa. A judge Friday ruled in favor of a nude dancing club owner charged with violating Iowa's indecent exposure law. 2008-08-04 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25972909/ http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/google.pl?id=970-18 A man has been jailed for five and a half years after shooting one of his neighbours, a homosexual, who he claims committed an act of sodomy with his cat and made the animal homosexual too. 2008-08-04 http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/google.pl?id=970-18 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24103030-2703,00.html A NIGHTCLUB that barred fat women has backed down after international protests and claims that it was guilty of discrimination. 2008-08-01 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24103030-2703,00.html http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/07/31/4887_ntnews.html A TERRITORY man filmed himself speeding at 150km/h while masturbating at the wheel of his drug-laden car, a court heard. 2008-08-01 http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/07/31/4887_ntnews.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395294,00.html New York's celebrity-obsessed Hamptons summer season got even sillier this week when a strange-looking, very dead creature washed up on a beach in Montauk at the far eastern end of New York's Long Island. 2008-08-01 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395294,00.html http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/investigators_comb_the_scene_at_a_home_in_mobile_ala_ MOBILE, Ala. -- While Anthony Hopkins was leading a revival in a small church on the outskirts of Jackson, Ala., on Monday (July 28) night, the body of a woman, presumed to be his wife, was stuffed in a freezer at his house in Mobile, waiting to be discovered by police. 2008-07-31 http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/investigators_comb_the_scene_at_a_home_in_mobile_ala_ http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0728082joker2.html THREE RIVERS, Michigan (AP) -- Three Rivers police have arrested a man who they say tried to steal posters and other items related to the new Batman movie from a cinema lobby while dressed up as the Joker. 2008-07-30 http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0728082joker2.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSPEK2833420080729 BEIJING (Reuters) - Scores of Chinese air passengers smashed computers and desks and clashed with police Tuesday after a night stranded at an airport without accommodation, state media said. 2008-07-30 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSPEK2833420080729 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,392003,00.html ISLIP TERRACE, N.Y. A Long Island man has been charged with driving drunk with his wife on the roof of their car, throwing her to the ground and seriously injuring her. 2008-07-30 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,392003,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,393982,00.html BLANCHARD, La. A woman disciplining a child for breaking a glass was attacked by her boyfriend's pit bull. 2008-07-30 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,393982,00.html http://wcco.com/iteam/swat.team.honored.2.783216.html MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) ― On Monday, Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan handed out honors to a team of officers involved in a botched raid at an innocent family's home more than seven months ago. The family is upset and their attorney criticizes the awards and questions the timing. 2008-07-30 http://wcco.com/iteam/swat.team.honored.2.783216.html http://fe21.news.re3.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_jet_fuel_theft SAN JOSE, Calif. - Authorities are investigating how a man got through the locked gates at Reid-Hillview Airport in East San Jose and filled up at the gas pumps. 2008-07-30 http://fe21.news.re3.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_jet_fuel_theft http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_10041575 GAYLORD, Mich.For somebody who'd been playing golf 50 years and never had a hole-in-one, Bob Hickey got the hang of it quickly. The 66-year-old Grayling man used a 7-iron to card his first-ever ace Thursday on the 167-yard 10th hole at Marsh Ridge in Gaylord. Then Hickey used an 8-iron to ace the 147-yard 17th hole. 2008-07-30 http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_10041575 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,394242,00.html Two women were charged with prostitution in Camden County on Thursday after they were arrested in a sting operation at a Lake Ozark hotel last week. 2008-07-30 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,394242,00.html http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5joJ5tgBOGOql7BD56dwDyIcxU0WgD92533LG0 MILWAUKEE (AP) A Milwaukee man was accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn't start. Keith Walendowski, 56, was charged with felony possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle and misdemeanor disorderly conduct while armed. 2008-07-28 http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5joJ5tgBOGOql7BD56dwDyIcxU0WgD92533LG0 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Pot-Smoking-Toddlers.html FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison. 2008-07-28 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Pot-Smoking-Toddlers.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,388563,00.html ROME, Ga. Veterinarians at a north Georgia college have been treating an odd-looking deer after it was attacked by a dog. 2008-07-28 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,388563,00.html http://www.news4jax.com/news/16970491/detail.html MIAMI -- Police have arrested an 18-year-old man accused of stealing at least three county buses and driving them on their routes. 2008-07-28 http://www.news4jax.com/news/16970491/detail.html http://wwl.com/Lafource-man-crashes-and-flips-car--winds-up-on-ro/2670813 State police say a 39-year-old man suffered moderate injuries when his car flipped into a yard in Chackbay and he was thrown on top of a house. 2008-07-28 http://wwl.com/Lafource-man-crashes-and-flips-car--winds-up-on-ro/2670813 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5908047.html Freeport police Sgt. Jay Newton took a licking from a drunken suspect and now he's taking a lot of joking from his fellow officers. 2008-07-28 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5908047.html http://www.myfoxprovidence.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7070610&version=3&locale=EN-US&layo WARREN, R.I. (WPRI) -- Rhode Island state police and the Attorney General's office say the bodies of a missing couple have been discovered in the septic tank on their property. 2008-07-28 http://www.myfoxprovidence.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7070610&version=3&locale=EN-US&layo http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080725/hooters_restaurant_080725/20080725?hub= Police in Dartmouth, N.S. have told employees of a Hooters restaurant not to practice calisthenics outside because their bouncing bodies have been deemed a major distraction for nearby drivers. 2008-07-28 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080725/hooters_restaurant_080725/20080725?hub= http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-California-Budget.html?_r=1&oref=slogin SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to pay thousands of state employees the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until lawmakers reach a deal on California's overdue state budget. 2008-07-28 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-California-Budget.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www2.kerrang.com/2008/07/emo_and_goth_to_be_made_illega.html The Russian government is in the process of drafting a law to make emo and goth music illegal. 2008-07-28 http://www2.kerrang.com/2008/07/emo_and_goth_to_be_made_illega.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25827708/?GT1=43001 WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it. 2008-07-24 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25827708/?GT1=43001 http://www.sunherald.com/pageone/story/698748.html GULFPORT -- A boater who fell overboard Monday night near Ship Island defied all odds, authorities said. Facing rough seas and high winds, he swam, he floated and he even hallucinated. About 19 hours later, he made his way to a Gulfport beach. 2008-07-24 http://www.sunherald.com/pageone/story/698748.html http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080722/NEWS0107/807220309 Robyn Lee, 23, of Corryville, was charged with aggravated assault after being accused of trying to cram a peanut in the mouth of her allergic neighbor Saturday evening. Lee appeared in court Monday on the peanut charge and a related criminal damaging charge. 2008-07-24 http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080722/NEWS0107/807220309 http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/07/22/man-caught-using-impersonator-to-divorce-wife/ An Indian man took a new approach to the painful process of divorce recently. Sanjib Saha decided it would be best if he hired an impersonator to act as his wife during divorce procedures in the eastern city of Kolkata. 2008-07-24 http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/07/22/man-caught-using-impersonator-to-divorce-wife/ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/21/state/n051523D56.DTL&tsp=1 Two practical jokers are behind bars for setting their passed-out drinking buddy's crotch ablaze while boozing in Grover Beach. 2008-07-22 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/21/state/n051523D56.DTL&tsp=1 http://www.theage.com.au/world/fears-of-a-nofun-olympics-in-beijing-20080718-3hkb.html FEARS of a "no fun Olympics" are growing as security restrictions increase and become more bizarre with less than 20 days to go until the opening ceremony. 2008-07-22 http://www.theage.com.au/world/fears-of-a-nofun-olympics-in-beijing-20080718-3hkb.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-Kangaroo-Attack.html?_r=1&oref=slogin SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- An elderly woman was attacked by a large kangaroo on a farm in Australia and was lucky to be alive after a pet dog leapt to her aid, her son said Saturday. 2008-07-22 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ODD-Kangaroo-Attack.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/19/canada.feet.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- One of five feet that have mysteriously washed up on the shores of British Columbia over the past year has been linked to a depressed man who disappeared a year ago, police said Saturday. 2008-07-22 http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/19/canada.feet.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/612834.html BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A cable repairman fixing overhead lines in a cherry picker truck got a lift he wasn't expecting. Police said a Bakersfield man stole the Brighthouse Networks truck on Saturday while 50-year-old Curtis Bartell was elevated 25 feet in the air. The thief drove off, tearing down several phone lines before crashing into a utility pole. Police say Bartell did not suffer any major injuries. 2008-07-22 http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/612834.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1644936620080717 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man claimed in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday that he found a knife with a 7-inch (18-cm) blade baked into the bread of his foot-long "Cold Cut Trio" Subway sandwich. 2008-07-22 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1644936620080717 http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=8693659 DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - Family members are angry and speaking out after Dayton police used a stun gun on a woman who is blind and suffering from cancer. Police said they were looking for a suspect when they knocked on Denise Harris's door Thursday morning. But according to both police and witnesses, things quickly got out of hand and Harris was tased. 2008-07-22 http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=8693659 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2142142620080721 NEW YORK, July 21 - A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday. 2008-07-22 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2142142620080721 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,387521,00.html TALLINN, Estonia Authorities say a skydiver was killed when she walked into a spinning aircraft propeller at an airfield in Estonia. 2008-07-22 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,387521,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/21/italy.race?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront Questions about the attitude of Italians to their Roma minority were again being asked yesterday after photographs were published of sunbathers continuing as normal with a day at the beach despite the bodies of two Gypsy girls who had drowned being laid out on the sand nearby. 2008-07-22 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/21/italy.race?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12771&size=A# The district of Muzaffargarh rules in favour of the Muslims, rejecting the request from the family that wants to bring home the two sisters - 13 and 10 years old - kidnapped last June 26. Christian associations charge that they could end up as prostitutes. 2008-07-22 http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12771&size=A# http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Fish-Pedicures.html?_r=1&oref=slogin ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Ready for the latest in spa pampering? Prepare to dunk your tootsies in a tank of water and let tiny carp nibble away. 2008-07-22 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Fish-Pedicures.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.sheboyganpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080715/SHE0101/80715010/1973 An 18-year-old Plymouth man whose bad dancing at a city festival attracted the attention of authorities was charged Monday with two drug-related misdemeanors, according to a criminal complaint. 2008-07-17 http://www.sheboyganpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080715/SHE0101/80715010/1973 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2928568.html?menu= Two lovers ended up in hospital in Taiwan after their car plunged 150ft down a cliff face as they made love in the back seat. 2008-07-17 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2928568.html?menu= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25683493/ DENTON, Texas - While a robbery at a pizza restaurant was in progress, a clerk discovered her father was the robber when another clerk struck the man, knocking him out and knocking off his wig and sunglasses on Friday night, Denton police said. 2008-07-17 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25683493/ http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Squad-Car-Wrecked.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin HOBART, Ind. (AP) -- Police officer Tim Pochron's first day on the job went poorly: Less than a half-hour into it, his squad car was wrecked in a crash. 2008-07-17 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Squad-Car-Wrecked.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080716_Surgeon_sued_for_giving_anesthetized_patient_te In a lawsuit filed yesterday, a Camden County woman accused her orthopedic surgeon of "rubbing a temporary tattoo of a red rose" on her belly while she was under anesthesia. 2008-07-17 http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080716_Surgeon_sued_for_giving_anesthetized_patient_te http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1641363920080717 PARIS (Reuters) - A French air hostess will become one of Europe's pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere. 2008-07-17 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1641363920080717 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,384529,00.html A Tasmanian computer technician who considered himself a beast has been given a suspended jail sentence after being caught possessing bestiality images. 2008-07-17 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,384529,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,384504,00.html LOUISVILLE, Ky. Police can't be everywhere, so 11-year-old Landon Wilburn is on patrol in the Stone Lakes subdivision in Louisville. Landon told The Courier-Journal he used to shout at speeders to slow down then had a better idea. 2008-07-17 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,384504,00.html http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_9186825 A man charged with attacking a stranger at a bus stop dived through a closed third-floor courtroom window in Denver on Tuesday and was seriously injured when he landed on a metal grate below. 2008-07-17 http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_9186825 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381284,00.html CHICAGO Doctors and family members say a 7-year-old boy who fractured his skull when he was struck by a foul ball at Wrigley Field was recovering and expected to live. 2008-07-15 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381284,00.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1026165220080710 BERLIN (Reuters) - Firefighters called to a blaze at an apartment building in a southern German town were astonished to discover a fully equipped extremely drunk imposter in their ranks, police said on Thursday. 2008-07-15 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1026165220080710 http://www.wftv.com/health/16850913/detail.html KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A man said he was so consumed by the spirit of God that he fell and hit his head while at a Knoxville church. 2008-07-15 http://www.wftv.com/health/16850913/detail.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,380146,00.html A 44-year-old Arizona man allegedly tried to fool the photo radars that record a vehicle's speed. It worked for a while until the police caught up with him. 2008-07-15 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,380146,00.html http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Olympics_China_bans_dog_meat_/articleshow/3224162.cms BEIJING: Image conscious China has banned the serving of dog meat in designated restaurants that will cater to athletes, spectators and tourists during the Olympic Games. But it has spared restaurants from serving other kinds of meat like donkey meat that are equally popular among a section of people in Beijing. 2008-07-15 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Olympics_China_bans_dog_meat_/articleshow/3224162.cms http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080711/NEWS01/807110337 NEW CASTLE A report of a family fight Wednesday afternoon in New Castle didn't turn out to be what police expected. A nine-year-old girl called 911 after she awoke from a nap and heard her mother screaming. She went to her mother's bedroom and thought her mother was being attacked. Turns out, her parents were just enjoying marital relations. 2008-07-15 http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080711/NEWS01/807110337 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2924430.html?menu= A couple have been given back their VW Golf car - 14 years after it was stolen. 2008-07-15 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2924430.html?menu= http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/12/2301960.htm?section=justin A divided US appeals court has ruled an Arizona school violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old student by conducting a strip search for ibuprofen. 2008-07-15 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/12/2301960.htm?section=justin http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL12503938.html ROME (Reuters) - An Italian court has ruled the government must pay 100,000 euros (79,981 pounds) in damages to a man who was told to retake a driving test because he was homosexual. 2008-07-15 http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL12503938.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Gas-Naming-Rights.html?_r=1&oref=slogin ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Someday, when a boy named Dixon and Willoughby Partin asks how he got his 24-letter name, he'll learn it came with a hundred bucks worth of gasoline. 2008-07-15 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Gas-Naming-Rights.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1441724120080714 ATHENS (Reuters) - Nine British women were facing prostitution charges after being arrested at the weekend for taking part in an oral sex competition in the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos, police said on Monday. 2008-07-15 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1441724120080714 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381521,00.html JERUSALEM An Israeli lifeguard taking his regular morning swim off the Mediterranean coast in southern Israel discovered a 2,500-year-old marble talisman to ward off the evil eye, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Sunday. 2008-07-15 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381521,00.html http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24018307-29277,00.html POLICE are searching for a man who robbed a Brisbane service station armed with a fluorescent light bulb. 2008-07-15 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24018307-29277,00.html http://www.wboc.com/global/story.asp?s=8664817 DOVER, Del. - Authorities say a police officer was dragged by a car after a teen tried to get away after stealing gas from an unmarked police car in Dover on Friday. 2008-07-15 http://www.wboc.com/global/story.asp?s=8664817 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080712/ap_on_fe_st/odd_chatty_suspect;_ylt=AvJKMWiX7WOzyR5kwn57x5FxFb8C WINNSBORO, Texas - An apparently intoxicated suspect chatted with a burglary victim long enough for officers to arrive and arrest him, authorities said. 2008-07-15 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080712/ap_on_fe_st/odd_chatty_suspect;_ylt=AvJKMWiX7WOzyR5kwn57x5FxFb8C http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/14/wife.cold.cases.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) -- Jeff Carstensen was spooked when he learned his grandmother planned to buy him a $100,000 life insurance policy -- and name herself the beneficiary. Betty Johnson Neumar is shown at her booking. She is being held in a North Carolina jail on $500,000 bond. "She told me that people of our stature have insurance policies on each other," he said. "That way, if something happens to you, you take care of me, and if something happens to me, I take care of you. It was 2008-07-15 http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/14/wife.cold.cases.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview http://www.nypost.com/seven/07142008/news/regionalnews/crook__needs_a_clue_119842.htm A hapless burglar who swiped more than $200 from a Brooklyn apartment was back within moments begging to return the stolen cash - in exchange for the wallet he left behind. 2008-07-15 http://www.nypost.com/seven/07142008/news/regionalnews/crook__needs_a_clue_119842.htm http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Rat-Scheme.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin APPLETON, Wis. (AP) -- A woman accused of planting a dead lab rat in restaurant food and demanding $500,000 to keep quiet was charged Monday with one felony count of extortion. Debbie R. Miller, 41, of Appleton, also faces misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and resisting an officer. 2008-07-15 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Rat-Scheme.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin http://www.ktvz.com/global/story.asp?s=8663477 Throughout her life, Linda Rittenbach of Redmond has struggled with her weight. 2008-07-15 http://www.ktvz.com/global/story.asp?s=8663477 http://journalstar.com/news/nebraska/doc487b958dd8e37749011020.txt SIDNEY A Sidney police officer and his family have won $40,000 from a restaurant that had served them food tainted by an employee's spit and urine. 2008-07-15 http://journalstar.com/news/nebraska/doc487b958dd8e37749011020.txt http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25619313/?GT1=43001 DALLAS - Police didn't have to go far to find $400,000 worth of cocaine it was in an undercover car they'd been driving for two months. 2008-07-10 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25619313/?GT1=43001 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,378142,00.html POTTER VALLEY, Calif. A Mendocino County woman who was trying to kill mice in her trailer with a gun ended up shooting herself and another person. 2008-07-10 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,378142,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Sock-Snatcher.html?_r=1&oref=slogin BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- James Dowdy has gone to prison three times, and may go there again, for the same crime: burglarizing homes and stealing women's socks. 2008-07-10 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Sock-Snatcher.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0919437820080709 ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday. 2008-07-10 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0919437820080709 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,379223,00.html MADISON, Wis. Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in reinstating charges against three men accused of digging up a corpse to have sex with it. 2008-07-10 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,379223,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,378462,00.html NEW HAVEN, Conn. A New Haven man is recovering after being shot during a robbery, but his life may have been saved by his lunchbox. 2008-07-10 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,378462,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/also_in_the_news/7493256.stm New Zealand rugby fans watching a regular sports programme found themselves viewing hardcore pornography instead on Sunday afternoon. 2008-07-09 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/also_in_the_news/7493256.stm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25571617/?GT1=43001 JONESBORO, Ga. - A daughter's refusal to stay in an arranged marriage led to her death and resulted in her father's arrest, according to police in Clayton County. 2008-07-09 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25571617/?GT1=43001 http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6937185&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode= Police on Tuesday arrested a teen they said delivered LSD-laced cookies to two police departments. They said Christian Phillips of Watauga made his first delivery on Monday -- stopping by the Blue Mound Police Department to drop off a batch. The 18-year-old said he also planned to deliver cookies to Lake Worth Police Department, police said. 2008-07-09 http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6937185&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode= http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Robbed-Buying-Drugs.html HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- An East Hartford man called police to report he had been robbed while trying to buy crack cocaine. Max Minnefield called police Monday to tell them he had paid a man and a woman $8 for drugs he never received. 2008-07-09 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Robbed-Buying-Drugs.html http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0714742020080708 MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Moscow court convicted a man of fraud on Monday for preying on people mourning loved ones by saying he could resurrect the dead. 2008-07-09 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0714742020080708 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0743771320080707 HANOI (Reuters) - Police have detained two custodians who were about to harvest their first crop of cannabis, a source of drugs like hashish and marijuana, from a cemetery in Vietnam's capital, a state-run newspaper reported on Monday. 2008-07-09 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0743771320080707 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSDEL30766120080707 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - It pays to use a toilet in southern India, as residents are earning close to a dollar a month by using public urinals, a scheme launched by authorities to promote hygiene and research in rural areas. 2008-07-09 http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSDEL30766120080707 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2920754.html?menu= A teenager was stunned to find that a baby bat had been curled up inside her bra for five hours - as she was wearing it. 2008-07-09 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2920754.html?menu= http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2919607.html?menu= A 16-year-old Essex schoolgirl who has lived in England virtually all her life has been told she does not officially "exist". 2008-07-09 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2919607.html?menu= http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Britain-Lottery-Rapist.html?_r=1&oref=slogin LONDON (AP) -- A British woman assaulted by a serial rapist has won the right to sue the attacker who became a millionaire by winn