Weird News

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• Terrance Watanabe wants to share the responsability of losing $127 millions with the casino

  
  WagerWeb Entertainment — Authority: 157
  During a year-long gambling binge at the Caesars Palace and Rio casinos in 2007, Terrance Watanabe managed to lose nearly $127 million. The run is believed to be one of the biggest losing streaks by an individual in Las Vegas history. It devoured much of Mr. Watanabe’s personal fortune, he says, which he built ...
  8 hours ago

• TreasuryDirect.gov-Buy Your Treasury Bills Online From TreasuryDirect

  
  fileunderi — Authority:
  Todays obscure Hot Search is TreasuryDirect or TreasuryDirect.gov , which is exactly what you think it is...a website to buy T-Bills , U.S. Savings Bonds , and the like direct. If you have ever wanted to buy Treasury Bills or Bonds right on the internet, directly from the source, TreasuryDirect gives you ...
  14 hours ago

• Bungling burglar at Mich. shop busted by workers

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 825
  Authorities said a man trying to burglarize a southwestern Michigan towing and auto-repair shop got a surprise when he found tow truck drivers inside still on the job.
  15 hours ago

• Police nab woman with nearly $600 of stolen meat

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 825
  Galesburg police said they have filed a retail theft charge against a woman who was reportedly found pushing a cart filled with nearly $600 worth of meat and meat products outside a supermarket.
  15 hours ago

• NY cops slip oil-change-bribe suspect into slammer

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 825
  Authorities said a drunken driving suspect tried to grease the wheels of justice with a bribe: free oil changes and car inspections. Suffolk County Police Officer Robert Kall responded by arresting the 44-year-old Shirley, N.Y., resident on two charges Thursday.
  15 hours ago

• Ind. man caught on bike with stolen Christmas tree

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 825
  Authorities said they caught an Indiana man riding a bike while balancing a stolen Christmas tree across the handlebars. Police in Portage said they spotted 48-year-old Phillip Menefee about 1 a.m. Friday riding the bike equipped with a homemade motor but no lights. Police had been investigating motor noise near a ...
  15 hours ago

• Police jail man for rubbing burger in wifes face

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 825
  A 25-year-old Port St. Lucie man was arrested for allegedly rubbing a hamburger on his wifes face during an argument. Police said Daniel Boss and his wife got into it late Thursday night and started calling each other names. At some point, the woman apparently poured soda on Boss hamburger, causing him to grab the ...
  15 hours ago

• Tenn. man arrested for allegedly drunk-dialing 911

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 825
  A Middle Tennessee man was arrested after police said he drunk-dialed 911 and has called police 47 times over the last year. Murfreesboro police arrested a 57-year-old man on Thursday after police responded to an emergency call to find him intoxicated in his home. According to the police report, officers asked him why ...
  15 hours ago

• Consumer Group Claims Zhu Zhu Pets Unsafe-What Is Antimony?

  
  fileunderi — Authority:
  Uh Oh...The hot tickets this Christmas are those cute and cuddly little Zhu Zhu Pets , but now a consumer group claims one of the Zhu Zhu Pets Hamsters has unsafe levels of Antimony . Wait a minute... Zhu Zhu Pets toxic ? Website GoodGuide claims that Mister Squiggles , the light brown robotic hamster, is ...
  15 hours ago

• Brittany Murphy Fired From Her Latest Movie

  
  fileunderi — Authority:
  Heres a shocker to start your day... Brittany Murphy Fired From Her Latest Movie ! Now what do you think the odds are/were of you ever reading about " Brittany Murphy Fired "? You and I get fired for being hard to get along with, and just basically being Prima donna s...but NOT Brittany Murphy ?!! Well, ...
  16 hours ago

• Cori Rist-Tiger Woods Fifth Mistress

  
  fileunderi — Authority:
  Tiger Woods continues to be stuck in the rough with the revelation of his fifth mistress ...one Cori Rist . Ms. Cori Rist is listed as a " Manhattan Clubgoer " by The NY Daily News. She is 31 and (like the others) Blonde. Tiger even broke this streak last night, with number 6 (A Brunette!) coming out of the ...
  17 hours ago

• Andrew Conley, 17, Kills 10 Year old Brother, Blames “Dexter”

  
  Gone Hollywood — Authority: 576
  Well this is just all kinds of effed up.A 17 year old Ohio County, Indiana kid showed no remorse when telling prosecutors that he had fantasized about killing someone for years, and modeled himself after TV’s Dexter.Andrew Conley, aka “psychotic little douchebag”, murdered his 10 year old brother Connor by ...
  22 hours ago

• Crazy Headline of the Day: "Australian dives face-first into deadly peanut-sized jellyfish."

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 481
  I simply had to link this .
  1 day ago

• Man creates his own wanted poster – sort of

  
  Bits & Pieces — Authority: 648
  Man in stolen cell phone pic turns himself in PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia teenager who authorities say used a stolen cell phone to snap a photo of himself that automatically got sent to the victim has turned himself in. Eighteen-year-old Kadeem Cook turned himself in around 11:30 p.m. Thursday. Cook is ...
  1 day ago

• After 14 Years, Man Digs Tunnel For Parking Space

  
  MoonDog Sports — Authority: 584
  An Indian villager burrowed for 14 years with a hammer and chisel to cut a tunnel through a mountain so that he could park his truck outside his home.
  1 day ago

• Short Takes

  
  Bark Bark Woof Woof — Authority: 567
  A fire in a Russian nightclub has killed over 100 people. Suicide bomber kills 40 in Pakistan. American Amanda Knox has been convicted of murder in Italy. The Senate preserves long-term healthcare in the proposed bill. Sen. Max Baucus nominated his girlfriend to be a U.S. attorney. The Florida ...
  1 day ago

• The Daily Habit: Weird News

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 141
    11:59 pm Mother, Get The Bible Our Hen Laid An Egg With An Upside Down Cross On It -  BURLESON, TEXAS -  In the bible belt, hard working people are known to live and die by the good book, no questions asked.  They’re church going folks who fear the word of the Lord and when it comes to religion they ...
  2 days ago

• Jealous wife accused of setting fire to husbands penis

  
  Perpustakaan — Authority: 141
  A jealous wife in Australia who allegedly set her husbands sex organ / penis on fire will answer a murder charge in January. Rajini Narayan, 44, appeared briefly in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday charged with murder, arson and endangering life. The mother of three allegedly set fire to the genitals of ...
  2 days ago

• Tila Tequila Claims Rihanna Has Herpes

  
  Gone Hollywood — Authority: 576
  Tila Tequila is proving yet again that she’s pretty much a useless washed up “celebrity”, full of venom and nuttier than a Payday candy bar.Today’s Tila craziness comes in the form of a long, barely literate rant that she posted on her blog, where she claims that Rihanna has herpes, and she is a fan [...]
  2 days ago

• Fla. Gov. Crist sent callers to telephone sex line

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 825
  Oops! In an embarrassing blunder, Gov. Charlie Crist mistakenly directed parents of uninsured children to call a toll-free sex line.
  2 days ago

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