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• Court drops case in nude photo shoot at NYC museum

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Nude, yes. Lewd, no.
  1 hour ago

• Mass. woman seeks funds for turkeys eye surgery

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  A Massachusetts woman is seeking donations from fellow pet lovers to help pay for eye surgery for her turkey named Jerry. Lyndsey Medeiros and her husband adopted three-year-old Jerry and another turkey from a Rhode Island farm last week. But Jerry has cataracts, and the eye problems mean he cant eat independently or ...
  4 hours ago

• Tip your waiter or get arrested in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania!

  
  The Knight Shift — Authority: 139
  Leslie Pope and John Wagner were hauled away from the Lehigh Pub in handcuffs by the police in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania last week. Their "crime"? Refusing to pay a tip!If youre 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 ...
  5 hours ago

• Police: RI teen skipped school, robbed bank

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Police say a 17-year-old Warwick boy who skipped school to rob a bank has been arrested after leaving fingerprints on the threatening note he passed to the teller. Warwick police Capt. Sean Collins said the boy handed a note riddled with misspellings to a teller Thursday, demanding money or "everyone will be shot."
  6 hours ago

• Me-OW! Cat survives Illinois outage-causing run-in

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  A cat went from meow to ow when officials say it accidentally made contact with a substations fuse, causing an outage to about 1,500 homes and businesses in southwestern Illinois. The feline apparently survived the encounter early Monday in the Greene County city of Carrollton.
  6 hours ago

• Tavern owner says hell unveil 100-proof turkey

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Youll need to be 21 to take a bite out of this Thanksgiving turkey. New York City tavern owner Paul Hurley said hell unveil what he is calling the nations first 100-proof turkey on Monday. A spokesman for the owner of OCaseys Tavern in Midtown Manhattan said that the bird is infused with fruit-flavored and 100-proof ...
  6 hours ago

• Ga. high court rules mower isnt a motor vehicle

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  A riding lawn mower may have four wheels, a powerful engine and can cost as much as a used car. If its stolen, however, the Georgia Supreme Court concluded Monday that its not a motor vehicle.
  6 hours ago

• Man Discovers Charles Manson Is His Father

  
  Gone Hollywood — Authority: 584
  Imagine one day your sister turns around and telling you that you’re adopted, so you search for your biological parents and find out that Charles Manson is your father. Well this happened to Matthew Roberts.Roberts, a 41-year-old DJ who is living in Los Angeles, CA, claims that when he went searching for his ...
  9 hours ago

• Awesome or Off-Putting: The Brosno Dragon

  
  Hecklerspray — Authority: 602
  Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, ancient artifacts, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable. The world of the paranormal can sometimes seem to be ...
  10 hours ago

• China’s Hairiest Man Grooms Himself for Fame

  
  Weird Asia News — Authority: 568
  “They ask me why… I’m just a hairy guy…” If the musical “Hair” had featured a title character, it would have been Yu Zhenhuan – the “hairiest man in China”.Yu suffers from, or rejoices in, a hereditary condition called atavism, which causes 96 percent of his body – everything but the palms of his ...
  10 hours ago

• Galileos missing fingers found in jar

  
  Talk Delaware Online — Authority: 147
  Three fingers were cut from Galileos hand in March 1737, when his body was moved in Florence. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Two fingers cut from hand of Italian astronomer Galileo 300 years ago resurface a century after they were last seen Fingers were bought at auction by someone who brought them to a museum in Florence ...
  10 hours ago

• Sex toys of the deep

  
  The Pool Bar — Authority: 126
  Deep-sea researchers claim to have discovered a treasure trove of sex toys, perhaps left behind by citizens of the lost city of Atlantis. Or maybe they just fell overboard from a Kennedy family yacht. We attempt to identify and catalog them here. The Spade "The Spade" is believed to have been intended ...
  12 hours ago

• Christmas kissing: On the cheek to avoid swine flu

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Britains authority on etiquette says its more hygienic to exchange kisses on the cheek than to shake hands - so the swine flu pandemic should not make people afraid of kissing under the mistletoe this holiday season.
  14 hours ago

• The Daily Habit: Psychology

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 141
    11:59 pm He l l0 911?  I’d Like the Sex Phone Special with a Happy Ending  and a Tow Truck – TAMPA, FLORIDA – Do you have any wise ass friends who make it a point in their miserable day to screw with somebody?  You know guys like this oh too well.  They’re your buddies who love to make crank ...
  22 hours ago

• The Stolen Cafe

  
  YesButNoButYes Reader Comments — Authority: 651
  Its readers like Kenzie who help keep us on our toes. If it werent for Kenzie, we would have missed this fantastic story out of the UK about the theft of an entire roadside cabin. In the states, our thieves have the gumption for easy crimes like cash register and bank robberies. Theyd never think of stealing a ...
  1 day ago

• Holy Mother Of God! Look At That! It’s A Justin Bieber Mob

  
  The Dreamin Demon — Authority: 513
  Garden City, New York – What you just witnessed was a mob of teen girls waiting at a Justin Bieber album signing at Roosevelt Field mall. The problem was that police canceled the event. The reason? The crowd was too unruly. Had I not watched the video, I’d have thought the kid a pussy. But now? Well, that was ...
  1 day ago

• Odd Phobias, or Not?

  
  damnum absque injuria — Authority: 121
  I’m going to go out on a very short limb and predict (postdict?) that this slide was prepared by a woman. And not just any woman, mind you, but one who doesn’t watch SNL.
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• Linguist spends first three years of sons life speaking only Klingon

  
  The Knight Shift — Authority: 139
  An expert at linguistics used nothing but the fictional Klingon language from the Star Trek franchise when he spoke to his son for the first three years of the kids life.Dr. dArmond Speers wanted to observe whether baby Alec would pick up Klingon as naturally as most babies learn English or any other real language. ...
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• Conjuring a Demon in a Church

  
  Ghost Stories — Authority: 128
  It seems a little battle has been brewing in Cambridge, United Kingdom between a Catholic Church and a self appointed “King of all Witches”. Magus Lynius Shadee owns occult shops in France and Normandy. His next branch is to be located in Cambridge, supposedly opening on December 24th. Church leaders fear he may ...
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• Police: Ohio suspect may have eaten evidence

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Police say a bank robbery suspect in Ohio may have eaten evidence when he gobbled a piece of paper while handcuffed and lying across the hood of a police cruiser.
  2 days ago

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