Posted in Astonishing, Bad Cops, Boats, Planes, Trains & Autos, Caught, Crime, Funny, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Oddly, Terrible, To Ponder, Transportation, Weird, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 26 July, 2008 | No Comments »
MIAMI — Police have arrested an 18-year-old man accused of stealing at least three county buses and driving them on their routes.
James L. Harris is charged with three counts each of third-degree grand theft and burglary of an occupied conveyance, WPLG-TV reported.
The most recent theft occurred Tuesday, when he was arrested and charged.
According to Miami-Dade [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Crime, Emergency, Entertainment, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Media, Morons, Ranting, Shocking, Terrible, Weird, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 25 July, 2008 | No Comments »
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A man who had threatened a Christian radio station was shot and killed by police Friday after he fired at officers with a rifle and tried to run them over with his sport utility vehicle, authorities said.
WTLR station manager Mark VanOuse said the station received a tip around 10 a.m. that [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Crime, International, Lost & Found, Money, Morons, Oddly, Weird, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Monday, 21 July, 2008 | No Comments »
A package of baby diapers yielded an unlikely load in Mexico on Friday, according to the defense ministry: nearly half a million dollars in cash.Soldiers conducting a routine check “found in a tractor-trailer a packet of diapers containing 490,300 dollars,” the ministry said in a statement.
It said that the cash was likely a stash of [...]
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Posted in Animals & Wildlife, Astonishing, Caught, Lost & Found, Nature, Oddly, Weird, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 17 July, 2008 | No Comments »
GORHAM, Maine (AP) — A Gorham woman got the shock of her life when she found an 8-foot snake mixed in with clothes in her washing machine.
The snake, identified as a reticulated python, somehow got into the water pipes of Mara Ranger’s 1800s-era farmhouse and slithered into the machine. After Ranger took her blue jeans [...]
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Posted in Caught, Communication, Decision, Frivolous, Hypocrisy, In Their Own Words, Investigation, Morons, Oddly, Ranting, Shocking, Signs of the Times, To Ponder, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 11 July, 2008 | No Comments »
ATLANTA - In the battle of the sexes, women’s magazine editor Cynthia Good said this was a skirmish she had to fight.
Across Atlanta they stood, orange signs with black letters that read “Men At Work” or “Men Working Ahead.”
Sometimes, the signs stood next to women working alongside the men.
Good demanded Atlanta officials remove the [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Communication, Emergency, Horrific, Investigation, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Morons, Oddly, Search & Rescue, Shocking, Terrible, To Ponder, Video, Weird, Wellness, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 2 July, 2008 | No Comments »
LOS ANGELES - A woman who lay bleeding on the emergency room floor of a troubled inner-city hospital died after 911 dispatchers refused to contact paramedics or an ambulance to take her to another facility, newly released tapes of the emergency calls reveal.
Edith Isabel Rodriguez, 43, died of a perforated bowel on May 9 at [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Boats, Planes, Trains & Autos, Caught, Decision, Europe, Morons, Naval, Oddly, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Monday, 30 June, 2008 | No Comments »
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A drunken 78-year-old Swede stole a dinghy after a night out in the Danish town of Helsingor and tried to row back to Sweden, but fell asleep halfway, Danish police said on Monday.
When the man discovered he lacked the necessary funds to pay for the ferry from Helsingor to Helsingborg in Sweden [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Decision, Investigation, Life & Death, Morons, Oddly, Psychological, Terrible, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 20 June, 2008 | No Comments »
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School, school officials said.
Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine in a story published Wednesday that the girls confessed to making the pact [...]
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - A 1.8 meter (nearly six feet) python has been found in a toilet bowl in a highrise apartment in Australia’s northern tropical city of Darwin, media reported on Friday.
The Northern Territory News said the black-headed python was found in a 10th floor toilet.
Reptile catcher Chris Peberdy told the newspaper the python, likely [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Teachers, Caught, Crime, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Morons, Schools, Shocking, Terrible, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 20 June, 2008 | No Comments »
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) - A public school teacher preached his Christian beliefs despite complaints by other teachers and administrators and used a device to burn the image of a cross on students’ arms, according to a report by independent investigators.Mount Vernon Middle School teacher John Freshwater also taught creationism in his science class and [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Caught, Impressive, Lost & Found, Oddly, Weather, Weird, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 19 June, 2008 | No Comments »
OMAHA, Neb. — Holt County snowplows were out Tuesday night clearing 8 inches of hail that fell during a storm.
Near O’Neill, pea to marble-sized hail piled up on one stretch of roadway.
In Atkinson, there were reports of baseball-sized hail that broke out windows at the town’s airport.
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Posted in Astonishing, Beauty & Fashion, Business, Clothing, Decision, Frivolous, Funny, Legal, Money, Morons, Oddly, To Ponder, Weird, Wellness, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 18 June, 2008 | No Comments »
LOS ANGELES (thesmokinggun.com) - As she was attempting to put on a Victoria’s Secret thong, a Los Angeles woman claims that a decorative metallic piece flew off the garment and struck her in the eye, causing injuries and a new product liability lawsuit against the underwear giant.
Macrida Patterson, 52, alleges that she was hurt last [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Decision, Funny, Government, Investigation, Life & Death, Morons, Oddly, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Tuesday, 17 June, 2008 | No Comments »
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The residents of a Romanian village knowingly voted in a dead man as their mayor in Sunday’s municipal election, preferring him to his living opponent.
Neculai Ivascu, 57, who ran the village for almost two decades, died from liver disease just after voting began — but still won the election by a margin [...]
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ROME (Reuters) - An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.
The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car and [...]
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BLANCHARD, Mich. — No one quite understands the term “striking it lucky” better than 16-year-old BreAnna Helsel. The Michigan teen survived being struck by lightning and went on to win $20 in the lottery the next day.
Helsel was at her home in Blanchard, about 50 miles northeast of Grand Rapids, watching thunderstorms roll by on [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Decision, Flip-Flop, Government, Medical, Morons, Oddly, Shocking, Terrible, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Friday, 6 June, 2008 | No Comments »
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has authorized sex-change operations and will offer them free for qualifying citizens, an official said Friday. The move is the latest in a series of changes implemented by President Raul Castro since he succeeded his elder brother, Fidel, in February. Raul Castro’s daughter, Mariela, heads Cuba’s National Center for Sex Education, [...]
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Posted in Caught, Crime, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Money, Oddly, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Thursday, 5 June, 2008 | No Comments »
TAMPA, Florida - Sometimes hiring a sexy lady do the housework without her clothes on can cost a little more than the $100-an-hour you were expecting to pay. A 50-year-old man in Tampa, Fla., found this out the hard way when a woman allegedly came to his house, took her clothes off, did a little [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Boats, Planes, Trains & Autos, Celebrities, Entertainment, Investigation, Money, Oddly, Television, Wealth, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 4 June, 2008 | No Comments »
LOS ANGELES — Ed McMahon, who for decades appeared as Johnny Carson’s sidekick on “The Tonight Show,” is fighting to avoid foreclosure on his multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills home, according to published reports.
The former “Star Search” host was $644,000 behind on payments on $4.8 million in mortgage loans when a unit of Countrywide Financial Corp. filed [...]
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore man was jailed for three years after he faked his own death in a civil war shoot-out in Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape his creditors and claim S$331,341 ($243,600) in insurance money, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The Straits Times said that Gandaruban Subramaniam fled Singapore more than 20 years ago [...]
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Posted in Animals & Wildlife, Astonishing, Emergency, Lost & Found, Nature, Oddly, Shocking, Terrible, Weird, Wellness, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 31 May, 2008 | No Comments »
BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. — One young shopper at a Wal-Mart in West Virginia had to watch out for more than falling prices.
A 12-year-old girl picking up a seedless watermelon from a bin was stung Sunday by a tan, inch-long scorpion that had apparently stowed away in a shipment from Mexico.
Megan Templeton, of Barboursville, was taken to [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Astonishing, Bad Business, Caught, Decision, Food & Beverage, Morons, Oddly, Ranting, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 31 May, 2008 | No Comments »
US coffee chain Starbucks has come under fire for a new logo that critics say is offensive and overly graphic.
The Resistance, a US-based Christian group, has called for a national boycott of the coffee-selling giant.
It says the chain’s new logo has a naked woman on it with her legs “spread like a prostitute… The company [...]
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Posted in Alert, Astonishing, Caught, Impressive, Lost & Found, Oddly, Shocking, To Ponder, Weird, Wow, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 31 May, 2008 | No Comments »
One of South America’s few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru.
The Brazilian government says it took the images to prove the tribe exists and help protect its land.
The pictures, taken from an aeroplane, show red-painted tribe members brandishing bows and arrows.
More than half the world’s [...]
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Posted in Bad Parents, Caught, Children, Crime, Horrific, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Life & Death, Lost & Found, Morons, Oddly, Shocking, Terrible, Trajedy, Weird on Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 | No Comments »
BERLIN — German police say a mother who believed her newborn baby girl had died has confessed to stashing her in a freezer — but an autopsy showed the child was still alive at the time.
Police in the town of Horb, in southwestern Germany, say the young woman came to them on Sunday and said [...]
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Posted in Communication, History, In Their Own Words, Lost & Found, Morons, Oil & Gas, To Ponder, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 | No Comments »
WELLINGTON, Utah (AP) — Along Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon lies what some call the longest art gallery in the world - thousands of prehistoric rock carvings and paintings of bighorn sheep and other wildlife, hunters wielding spears, and warriors engaged in hand-to-hand combat. But now, a dramatic increase in natural gas drilling is proposed on [...]
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Posted in Astonishing, Bad Parents, Caught, Children, Computers & Technology, Crime, Decision, Investigation, Law Enforcement, Lost & Found, Money, Morons, Oddly, Shocking, Signs of the Times, Terrible, WWW, Weird, You've GOT to be Kidding on Saturday, 24 May, 2008 | 1 Comment »
BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in southern Germany said Saturday they have taken custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, the equivalent of $1.57.
Peter Hieber, a spokesman for police in the Bavarian town of Krumbach, said the baby was placed in the care [...]
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