Weird News

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• Drilling for Scotch whiskey on frozen continent

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarcticas ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
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• cannibal gets lighter sentence because "he was hungry"

  
  my pointless — Authority: 429
  The story is so bizarre that this blog will not carry the weird(est) details. Sergey Gavrilov, 27, has been convicted of killing his mother after an argument in which she refused to let him take her pension money to spend on alcohol. Sergey killed his mother by striking her with a brick and then spent her money on ...
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• Manholes put to good use (link roundup)

  
  Super Punch — Authority: 691
  Jiae Kwon turns a manhole into a Map Hole , adding a compass, landmarks, and advertisements. And a few more links: 1. From Overheard in New York : Little boy, about little brother: Daddy, he says that when the blood on his knee dries, hes gonna pick it off and throw it at me! Daddy, tell him not to do that! ...
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• Real-Life Frindle

  
  Sellers Library Teens — Authority: 125
  In the childrens book Frindle by Andrew Clements, a boy invents and popularizes the word frindle as a substitute for pen . He is at odds with his teacher, who goes to great lengths to stamp out the word. Of course, this only makes it more popular with the kids at his school and beyond. So, it cracked me up to ...
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• DJ AM’s Family Suing Everyone

  
  Gone Hollywood — Authority: 566
  The estate of DJ AM (aka Adam Goldstein) has decided to take a giant dump on his memory and make some money from his death by filing a wrongful death suit against Clay Lacey Aviation, the company that chartered a plane that crashed, injuring DJ AM and friend Travis Barker.The estate is suing Clay Lacey [...]
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• Low flying pelican and cell phone vs million dollar car: car loses

  
  Gadling — Authority: 690
  Filed under: United States , Transportation , News Earlier this week, a pig on an airport runway in Zimbabwe wrecked a plane and panicked passengers as the plane was taking off. On Wednesday, it wasnt a pig that created a travel brouhaha. It was a low flying pelican--plus a cell phone. Evidently, as the ...
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• The Daily Habit: Cars

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 140
  Who Wrecked the Bugatti? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lagoon_bugatti  
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• Urn with veterans ashes stolen from van in DC

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  An urn containing the ashes of a decorated Korean War veteran has been stolen from a van the soldiers family rented to attend his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
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• Cats demise prompts rumors of Thatchers death

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  When Canadas transport minister decided to name his cat Thatcher, he likely never thought it would cause quite the stir it did during a gala dinner earlier this week. During a tribute to Canadas military in Toronto, some 1,700 luminaries, including Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, were in the middle of dinner ...
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• The Chavez Diet: Venezuelans urged to lose weight

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  Call it the Bolivarian battle of the bulge.
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• Trista Joy Lathern Gives Charity a Bad Name

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 603
  Shame on you, Trista Joy Lathern Trista Joy Lathern: one bad apple. Image from openphoto.net. People have all kinds of excuses for not donating to charity. Most of the people I know and I dont hand out money to people asking for change on the streets because we all agree that unless we know what theyre going to ...
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• LA police arrest 74-year-old tagging suspect

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies have arrested a man they say is the oldest tagger theyve ever captured. Lt. Eric Ruble said 74-year-old John Scott was arrested Friday when deputies spotted him putting stickers on a stairwell at the downtown 7th and Metro Center subway station in Los Angeles. Ruble said the oldest ...
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• Man distracted by bird drives Bugatti into marsh

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. The accident happened about 3 p.m. Wednesday on the frontage road of Interstate 45 northbound in La Marque, about 35 miles southeast of Houston.
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• Police: Drunk man survives being run over by train

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  Police said a highly intoxicated man who survived when multiple freight train cars rolled over him is "the luckiest guy alive." Police Major Kevin Lemke said Canadian National Railway employees reported they ran over someone lying between the tracks and did an emergency stop about 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
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• Bugatti Veyron lands in lagoon after driver is distracted by … a pelican?

  
  Auto Motion — Authority: 432
  As a car lover, this is something you just cringe at the thought of: A Bugatti Veyron, one of the world’s most expensive and fastest production cars, going out of control and landing in the thick muck of a lagoon.This was the sad case on Wednesday in Texas when such a car, valued at $2 [...]
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• Suspect returns to crime scene for cell phone

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  Sioux Falls Police arrested a 20-year-old man on Wednesday when he returned to the scene of a crime to retrieve his cell phone. Police said they got a call Wednesday evening from a woman who saw a man inside her unlocked car. She and a neighbor shooed the man away - but she noticed later that her digital camera was ...
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• Praise Lord, then pass ammo at church gun class

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  The issue this week at a Chattanooga church isnt just sanctification, but safety - gun safety. Pastor Fred Smith at the East Chattanooga Church of God says about 40 people have been taking a safety course on firearms. "Were not a pistol-packing church, by any means," he said, "but many outdoorsmen have an interest, ...
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• Tanker overturns, spilling whiskey on Ky. road

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  It was a "bottoms up" of a different variety. Authorities in Scott County said a tanker truck carrying Canadian Club whiskey overturned Wednesday on U.S. 460 as it was being driven to the Jim Beam distillery in Frankfort. No other vehicles were involved and Scott County Emergency Management Agency director Jack ...
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• Ala. robbery suspect jailed minus part of his nose

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  A northwest Alabama man is in jail minus part of his nose, which police said was bitten off during a robbery attempt. Police said a 40-year-old man was in custody Friday after surrendering to authorities. He will be charged in what police said was a robbery attempt that occurred Monday in Tuscumbia.
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• Woman who mistook cop for Sonic car hop faces DUI

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 836
  A woman who mistook a police officer for a car hop at a Sonic drive-in was charged with DUI and possession of drug paraphernalia. A caller to 911 Saturday reported the woman nearly struck several vehicles before pulling into the drive-in.
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