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• Sculptures made with dust

  
  Perpustakaan — Authority: 140
  Mr Hazelton, who has been dubbed ‘the dustman’ and ‘human Hoover’, has created a humanoid, a briefcase and a moth from the waste matter. The 43-year-old’s latest work is a bedroom complete with a television set, armchairs and a wardrobe, and some of his creations will even be on display at an exhibition ...
  5 hours ago

• The Daily Habit: Weird News

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 140
  Psycho Elf Jailed http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091203/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_santa_bomb
  11 hours ago

• WTF: Man Ruins Young Girl’s Christmas – Forever

  
  Gone Hollywood — Authority: 576
  In today’s WTF news…A man in Parma, OH dressed in a Santa Claus suit tried to abduct a 12 year old girl earlier today, pretty much guaranteeing that future Christmas holidays will be nightmare inducing screamfests.Anthony Russo, 46, was hiding in the bushes when he motioned for the 12 year old girl to come over ...
  13 hours ago

• The Case Of The Exploding Bubble Gum

  
  YesButNoButYes Reader Comments — Authority: 636
  "Up next on Mythbusters..." I will bet you my bag of Big League Chew that this odd tale will be on Mythbusters within the year. In the Ukraine, a student at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute was apparently murdered by and exploding stick of chewing gum . A "loud pop" was heard on the poor lads room. People went ...
  13 hours ago

• Ohio cops: Man in Santa garb tried to kidnap girl

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  Police near Cleveland say a man dressed as Santa Claus tried to kidnap a 12-year-old girl walking to school.
  14 hours ago

• Tongue-Eating Parasite Makes News Again

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 155
  Do you remember the tongue-eating parasite? If not, heres a visual reminder: (Credit: Matthew Gilligan) I told you about this photogenic species, Cymothoa exigua, at Animal Planet back in 2005. The parasite is making news again this week, at Treehugger, ...
  16 hours ago

• Woman accused of drunken ride in Christmas parade

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  A woman has posted $500 bond on a charge of public intoxication after police said she passed out on a horse she rode in the Shelbyville Christmas parade. According to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, a 46-year-old woman was found slumped over on her horse outside a motel.
  17 hours ago

• Man gets year in jail for urinating on officer

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  A Waldo man accused of urinating on a police officer during his fifth drunken-driving arrest has been sentenced to a year in jail. Court records released Wednesday show 36-year-old Daniel L. Shilts Jr. of Waldo was also fined about $3,600 and had his drivers license revoked for three years.
  17 hours ago

• Urine samples swiped from Utah health department

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  Someone broke into public health offices in Logan and made away with 17 urine samples. The break-in happened early Monday morning at the Bear River Health Department. Spokeswoman Jill Parker said the thieves broke a window and somehow got into a padlocked refrigerator to steal the samples, which were stored in small, ...
  17 hours ago

• Heart Attack Victim Ten Feet from Hospital Door, Told To Dial 911

  
  WGNS Radio — Authority: 449
  The elderly wife of an 81-year-old Canadian man says her husband was having a heart attack ten feet from the entrance of a hospital emergency room, but she was told she had to dial 911 for help because staffers wouldn’t go outside. The Canadian Press reports the wife, who walks with a cane and has a heart ...
  19 hours ago

• On Fox and Friends: 59+35+26=100?!?

  
  YesButNoButYes Reader Comments — Authority: 636
  Hang on, checking my desktop abacus. Okay, 59+35+36 ... Wait a minute ... Were not gong to talk about global warming or Climategate or sharks sweating in the oceans or polar bears wearing Snuggies or Eskimos bartering fish for refrigerators. Global warming takes a back seat here to unintentional comedy. On ...
  20 hours ago

• Amish Man Accused of DUI

  
  WGNS Radio — Authority: 449
  We doubt he reached any of his neighbors with his one phone call, but we do know for a fact that an Amish man was arrested for drunk driving last Sunday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  Police found the 22-year-old man asleep in his slow-moving buggy, which was weaving in and out of the center lane.  A breathalyzer test ...
  22 hours ago

• Big Blue Creature (link roundup)

  
  Super Punch — Authority: 675
  Big Blue Monster by Simon Dominic. And a few more links: 1. Really angry email from Harvard Crimson staffers to outgoing editors. 2. An argument that mandating condoms in porn movies would increase the risk that performers get HIV. Via these sites . 3. Someones plaiting horses manes in Dorset. Maybe ...
  23 hours ago

• Book returned to Ohio library after 60 years

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  A book has been mailed back to an Ohio library after six decades, accompanied by an anonymous letter of remorse.
  1 day ago

• Baby alligator, snakes found in university dorm

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  A baby alligator, a diamondback rattlesnake, six pythons and three chameleons have been found in a University of Arkansas dorm room.
  1 day ago

• Japanese Beer Made From Space Barley

  
  MoonDog Sports — Authority: 583
  Japanese brewer Sapporo is launching the world’s first beer produced using malt made from 100% space barley.
  1 day ago

• Farmer sees divine sign in cow born at Conn. dairy

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  A holy cow in Connecticut, perhaps? Or maybe a divine bovine?
  1 day ago

• Owner claims can holding $10K left at Iowa store

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  The owner of a tin can containing more than $10,000 that sat for four days on a Kmart service counter in Iowa has claimed the treasure.
  1 day ago

• Some see divine sign in cow born at Conn. dairy

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  A holy cow perhaps? Or maybe a divine bovine? A calf born at a dairy farm in Sterling last week has a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross. The calfs owner, Brad Davis, told WFSB-TV that he thinks the marking may be a message from above, though hes still trying to figure out what that ...
  1 day ago

• Police: Man dresses up as mom to withdraw cash

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  Police said a Franklin man dressed up as his mother in an attempt to withdraw money from her bank account. Tita Nyambi, 25, was still at the Chase Bank in Franklin, in Somerset County, when police arrived Monday afternoon. Tellers called to report that a man wearing womens clothes and speaking in a high pitched voice ...
  1 day ago

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