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Sex Offenders have to live in a van down by the river....and the problem is
2007-04-06 03:10:00
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The sparkling blue waters off Miami's Julia Tuttle Causeway look as if they were taken from a postcard. But the causeway's only inhabitants see little paradise in their surroundings. Five men -- all registered sex offenders convicted of abusing children -- live along the causeway because there is a housing shortage for Miami's least welcome residents. "I got nowhere I can go!" says sex offender Rene Matamoros, who lives with his dog on the shore where Biscayne Bay meets the causeway. The Florida Department of Corrections says there are fewer and fewer places in Miami-Dade County where sex offenders can live because the county has some of the strongest restrictions against this kind of criminal in the country. Florida's solution: house the convicted felons under a bridge that forms one part of the causeway. The Julia Tuttle Causeway, which links Miami to Miami Beach, offers no running water, no electricity and little protection from nasty weather. It...
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Angry at your school board? Hey, here's some grapes...
2007-04-06 00:07:00
So-called activists disrupted the school board as it voted to balance its budget by closing schools to keep its costs in line with its declining student population. One audience member threw grapes, hitting a board member in the chest and getting arrested.Detroit is so mired in the past - the way the auto industry works, the way the state legislature doesn?t, the way race relations stymie our progress ? that it is possible that some activists still believe that it?s 1968.But the type of antics that occur at most board meetings accomplish nothing ? except to provide entertainment for news-watchers across America.Agnes Hitchcock, the Grape-Thrower, could have offered the board suggestions on how to continue to serve steak on a hamburger budget. Instead, she became the Grape-Thrower, a national laughingstockProblem is, she made Detroit a laughingstock as well. And that ought to be a crime. Source: freep.com Goosey's Gabbings... Agnes is part of what is called the "Call Em Out" Coal...
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English Dentist caught peeing in surgical sinks
2007-04-06 00:00:00
LONDON (Reuters) - A British dentist was found guilty Thursday of urinating in his surgery sink and using dental tools meant for patients to clean his fingernails and ears. A medical tribunal said it was satisfied the evidence showed 51-year-old Alan Hutchinson, who "routinely" did not wear gloves or wash his hands, had risked the health of "himself, staff and patients" for more than 28 years. A dental nurse who worked for Hutchinson for 16 years said she had caught him urinating in the sink more than once. "He was tucking something into his trousers before zipping them up hastily. I walked over and I was behind him. He moved to the left and I could smell urine," the nurse told the tribunal. A later hearing will decide if the dentist's unhygienic habits impaired his ability to treat patients, and if so, whether he should banned from practicing.Source: Reuters Goosey's Gabbings... Ok, so what does he use the sink for? How about the actual toilet? It's bad enough to fear for ...
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India to World: Don't blame us for Sanjaya
2007-04-05 23:55:00
NEW DELHI Apr 5, 2007 (AP)? So much for the India n Call Center Theory: Under-talented singer Sanjay a Malakar's unlikely wave of "American Idol" support apparently isn't coming from his father's homeland. Indians are usually attuned to the successes of their compatriots abroad. But apart from a few brief newspaper articles, at least one short TV news segment and a few blog mentions, the reedy 17-year-old with the unsteady voice is a virtual unknown here. One reason is that the show is broadcast a day late in India, and on an English-language channel that attracts relatively few viewers inthis country of 1.1 billion. "He's also an object of ridicule," said Amit Varma, who runs the popular India Uncut blog. Malakar's success with viewers, who vote by phone or text message for their favorite performers, has come despite withering criticism from the three "Idol" judges on New Corp.'s hit Fox network show. The irascible Simon Cowell has even threatened to quit if the native of F...
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Wonkaland for stoners found in Tennessee
2007-04-05 03:44:00
Law enforcement officers in Tennessee make the greatest underground discovery since Tutankhamen?s tomb was unearthed in the Valley of the Kings. Under this ordinary house is a marijuana grow-op unlike any you have ever seen. Within the caves of middle Tennessee, growers constructed a complex of offices, living quarters, restroom facilities, and a climate-controlled forest of over one thousand cannabis plants. The vegetative and flowering chambers each contained over 500 plants on a hydroponic irrigation system. Three men were arrested. The mastermind behind the operation was running it from Florida. Goosey's Gabbings... I bet the ATF and DEA are going to really second guess if these "stoners" are as far out as they think...obviously something like this took a ton of planning. technorati tags:news, marijuana, tennessee, underground-lair-found, bizarre, odd, offbeat, offbeat-news, funny, humor, drugs, funny-humor, quirky, stoner-humorBlogged with Flock
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If you have to go, a good idea would be to NOT go in the sheriffs departmen
2007-04-05 03:24:00
A 31-year-old Oakfield man was arrested Saturday for urinating in the lobby of the Fond du Lac County Dispatch Center. The man, who was apparently intoxicated, was waiting in the lobby around 5 p.m. Saturday to be picked up by his father, according to a Fond du Lac Police Department report.Instead he was booked into the Fond du Lac County Jail on a disorderly conduct charge when his father did not show up. Goosey's Gabbings... Pee Pee in the first degree...well, if you gotta go, you gotta go. technorati tags:news, fon-du-lac, wisconsin, man-urinates-in-sheriffs-department, funny, funny-humor, peeing, urinating, odd, comedy, humor, bizarre, offbeat, offbeat-news, quirky, strange, dumb-criminalsBlogged with Flock
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Man falls 300 feet down steep hillside
2007-04-05 02:22:00
Pittsburgh--A man fell 300 feet down a steep hillside on Wednesday in Armstrong County.Officials told Channel 11 the incident happened behind Morris Tire Service on Butler Road in East Franklin Township around 12:20 p.m.Arnold Morris, owner of Morris Tire Service, said the man was a customer.Morris said the man and his wife pulled into the parking lot to pick up a vehicle that was being serviced.The man apparently had some papers that blew out of his hand and chased after them, Morris said.He apparently ran off the end of the parking lot, which has no guard rail, and tumbled down the hillside.The man's wife went running into the tire store and alerted workers. They called 911.The man's name and condition are not known. Goosey's Gabbings.. Ok, so this is not all that funny, but I mean...how important can these papers be? Honestly???? technorati tags:news, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, odd, offbeat, offbeat-news, quirky, scary, weird, bizarre, sick-humor, man-falls-300-feetBlogged w...
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Woman falls six floors, saved by pile of crap
2007-04-05 02:14:00
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese woman survived a plunge from a sixth-floor balcony thanks to a convenient pile of excrement which broke her fall, local media said. The accident happened when the woman was hanging out laundry on Monday in Nanjing, capital of the eastern province of Jiangsu, the Kuaibao tabloid said on its Web site (www.kuaibao.net). "Workers happened to be emptying the building's septic tank, which had not been tended for a long time and had regularly blocked sewage pipes," the newspaper said. "She probably stretched out too far and fell ... right on to a 20 cm-thick heap of excrement." The woman suffered only slight injuries, the newspaper said. In March, a six-year-old girl broke only her left leg when she fell six floors on to a pile of snow in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Goosey's Gabbings... So, I guess there was more than one meaning when the lady was heard falling going "ohhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh**************ttt ttttttttt"...
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Workers find 17000 under slot machines
2007-04-05 01:59:00
Goosey's Gabbings... Ok, so we've all had those times when we've reached into our pockets of a jacket and pull out some change, and sometimes even some cold cash. We usually get that giddy feeling and even consider our luck and putting down some money on our local lottery. Bottom line: it's unexpected at best and it makes ya "feel good". Now, consider that the Sands Casino Hotel in Atlantic City is closed and being cleaned up before demolition. And when this cleaning occurred, they found a little more than cold cash. In fact, they found 17,193.34 under the over 2000 slot machines throughout the casino.Of course, Uncle Sam has to get his piece of this "find". The Sands have to pay 8% tax on the findings, just like anyone who took home gambling winnings.Here's to hoping some day I find maybe 1% of that in my jeans. Ahhh well....one can dream, can't they? technorati tags:news, the-sands, casino, gambling, slot-machines, workers-find-17000, atlantic-city, odd, bizarre, weird, q...
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Laxative Donuts on the menu in New York School
2007-04-03 03:33:00
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. ? Some 8th-graders got an early start on April Fool's Day when they handed out doughnuts laced with laxatives to classmates, but it was no laughing matter when five were ticketed by police. There were no apparent injuries but ambulances were dispatched Friday to Sequoya Middle School on Long Island as a precaution, a spokeswoman for the Sachem School District said. Suffolk County Police said 19 students and a teacher ingested some of the doped doughnuts. They were screened by the school nurse, Holtsville Rescue personnel and field physicians from the county health department. Two 13-year-olds and three 14-year-olds were charged with second-degree tampering with a consumer product. The teens, who were not identified because of their age, were issued appearance tickets for Family Court and released to their parents' custody. Classes proceeded as usual, but parents were given the option to pick up their children. The district also said it would take "appr...
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Mexico cracking down on porn in taxis, especially when the travelers are si
2007-04-03 03:26:00
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico ? Three taxi drivers were arrested on charges of showing pornographic DVDs in their cabs in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula. The men were arrested Friday after receiving a complaint from a woman who said she was traveling in a taxi with her 6-year-old son when the driver put on a pornographic film, Tapachula police spokesman Gerardo Ramirez said. "I asked the taxi to remove the film and he ignored me. It really bothered me and I asked to get out and went to file a complaint," Edelma Gonzales said. Ramirez said police were debating whether to fine the drivers for moral turpitude or pass the suspects on to state investigators on charges of child sexual molestation. Pirated DVDs of pornographic films are sold on the streets across Mexico and are particularly prevalent in Tapachula, a rough border town across from Guatemala. Goosey's Gabbings... First question---why does a taxi driver need to watch film while driving, much less porn? Did I ...
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28 Pedophiles arrested in Florida Sting
2007-04-03 03:19:00
ORLANDO, Fla. ? Three Walt Disney Co. employees were among 28 men charged with soliciting sex from a minor amid a weeklong sting operation in the Orlando area, authorities said. The men, ranging in age from college students to their 40s and 50s, had chatted online with people they believed to be boys and girls, ages 13 and 14, Polk County Sheriff's spokeswoman Donna Wood. She said several agencies worked together to set up the sting at a Polk County home, where the suspects were arrested through Sunday. Three of the men worked for Walt Disney Co., one as a 21-year-old intern, another as a 55-year-old part-time instructor at Disney's Animal Kingdom, and the third as a 44-year-old electronics technician, according to the sheriff's office. The other men included laborers, food service workers and salesmen. One man said he was an IBM consultant; another a vice president for a South Florida real estate company, authorities s...
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Native Americans won't be included in Terror Report...except for Tanto...
2007-04-03 02:58:00
OTTAWA -- References to radical natives in the Canadian army's counterinsurgency manual will not appear in the final version of the document, Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor has announced. Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine said yesterday the inclusion of natives in the manual could threaten the ability of Canadian natives to travel internationally. The use of "radical Native America n organizations" as an example of insurgents in a draft version of the manual has incensed native leaders, who viewed the wording as a threat to their political rights to protest. On the 11th page, under the heading "Overview of insurgencies and counter-insurgencies," a paragraph is highlighted, which states: "The rise of radical Native American organizations, such as the Mohawk Warrior Society, can be viewed as insurgencies with specific and limited aims. Although they do not seek complete control of the federal government, they do seek particular political concessions in their ...
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Jesus vs. Satan: The battle of the BEEPs
2007-04-03 02:29:00
A battle between good and evil is brewing on Rubber Avenue.Workers at two neighboring businesses in a small shopping plaza at 195 Rubber Ave. have differing opinions about whether or not people should show support for Jesu s . An owner of a shop that puts photos onto DVDs placed a sign in front of a parking lot, which is used by both businesses, that says, "Easter: Beep for Christ."A tattoo artist next door countered Friday with a sign that says, "Honk twice for..." and shows a caricature of a red devil underneath the text.And so the battle began."Beep! Honk, honk!" Those were the sounds that blared all day from the cars of hundreds of commuters who traveled on Rubber Avenue, one of the busiest streets in the borough. Some beeped twice, while others gave just one toot on their car horns.Claudette Soden, a devout Christian and owner of Photos Onto DVD, fired the first shot last week when she put up her Easter sign. Phil Young, who works at No Regrets next door to Soden's business, cou...
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Fourth-grader's freedom of speech violated, district rules
2007-04-03 01:39:00
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Apr 2, 2007 (AP)? A school district violated a fourth-grader's constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection by refusing to allow her to distribute "personal statement" fliers carrying a religious message, a federal judge has ruled.According to the family's 2004 lawsuit, Nicole Bloodgood tried three times to get permission for Michaela to pass out the homemade fliers to other students at Nate Perry Elementary School. The flier, about the size of a greeting card, started out: "Hi! My name is Michaela and I would like to tell you about my life and how Jesus Christ gave me a new one." Bloodgood's requests to school officials said that her daughter, now a sixth-grader, would hand them out only during "non-instructional time," such as on the bus, before school, lunch, recess and after school. Liverpool officials said at the time there was "a substantial probability" that other parents and students might misunderstand and presume the district endorsed the r...
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Man Shows up to DUI Hearing Drunk
2007-04-03 01:32:00
YORK, Pa. -- Police in York County said a man who arrived at court drunk for a drunken-driving hearing has been charged again with driving under the influence. Paul Zeigler, 45, of Glen Rock, appeared at a preliminary hearing at the Shrewsbury district court on March 26 for a DUI charge from December. Police said Zeigler appeared to be intoxicated at the hearing.After his court appearance, police said, Zeigler failed a portable breath test for alcohol and was taken into custody for a blood test. Officials said the second test revealed that Zeigler's blood-alcohol level was twice the legal driving limit and he was charged with DUI.Goosey's Gabbings...Well, there's been stupider, but not much dumber...I can just see it, like the scene from Hoosiers when Dennis Hopper stumbles onto the court--"I'm outta order, you're outta order, the cigarette machine is out of order!!"technorati tags:news, pennsylvania, york-pennsylvania, bizarre, odd, offbeat, offbeat-news, weird, quirky, ...
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NIT Championship Shirts Misspelled
2007-03-31 04:31:00
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Ouch! These T-shirts are hardly worthy of the NIT champions.They say "West Virgina." That's right, no "i" before the "a."The Mountaineers wore them anyway after their 78-73 victory over Clemson on Thursday night.WVU sports information director Shelly Poe said the NIT printed the shirts. Calls to tournament officials were not immediately returned Friday.West Virginia coach John Beilein also could not be reached for comment. He and the team were on their way back to West Virginia after winning their first NIT title in 65 years. Goosey's Gabbings... Well, could have been worse than Virgina... I guess that hiring good work for the 66th-best team in the country is hard to come by. Better luck next time. technorati tags:news, offbeat, odd, basketball, NIT, west-virginia, hoops, bizarre, weird, offbeat-news, funny, t-shirts-misspelled, funny-humor, humor, humorousBlogged with Flock
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Cincinnati Little League Bans Negative Chatter
2007-03-31 04:17:00
(Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati Enquirer) In a few weeks, 23,000 kids in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area will celebrate the 75th anniversary of Knothole baseball by filling the springtime air with the nostalgic sounds of the game we all grew up with: Hey, battuh-battuh. Please swing if it makes you feel good about yourself! The Knothole Club of Greater Cincinnati has decided to eliminate "chatter." Unless the chatter is "positive" and directed at your own team. You can't say "We want a pitcher, not an underwear stitcher!" unless, maybe, you grew up in a culture that idolizes underwear stitchers. Standings for the Feelgood Division of the Self Esteem League will be available any time now. Until then, a moment of silence for the death of an American tradition. Proponents of the new edict say it was a necessary response to increased incidents of taunting. They cite one especially ugly example from June, involving a game in Colerain Township between two teams of 14-year-olds in t...
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When you rob a bank, you may want to avoid using Google to learn how to do
2007-03-31 04:06:00
NORWICH, Conn. Mar 30, 2007 (AP)? A bank robbery suspect was arrested after leaving a trail of cyberclues, including an online search for "how not to rob a bank," police said. Kevin Fitzpatrick, 32, was arraigned Thursday on charges of robbery and larceny for a Sept. 28, 2005, robbery. He was held on unrelated charges in New York at the time of his arrest. Police said Fitzpatrick was staying with a woman at the time of the Norwich robbery and spent a great deal of time on her computer. They had met on the Internet and had never met in person when he asked to stay for several days, borrowing her car the day of the robbery and returning with a lot of cash, claiming he won it at the Mohegan Sun casino, police said. Police allege Fitzpatrick walked into a Liberty Bank branch and handed a teller a note demanding money. A week later, a tip led police to the friend, who said she recognized Fitzpatrick from a surveillance photo posted on a newspaper Web site. Police said when th...
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Student Newspaper has little news, lots of sex; Strangely gets pulled
2007-03-31 03:38:00
HAMPTON, N.H. -- Some parents are protesting the "sex" edition of the student newspaper at Winnacunnet High School. Several said they were especially offended by a photograph of two women kissing under the headline, "Why men love women who love women," a quiz question about anal sex, and an interview with an unnamed custodian who said he had found a vibrator in the girls' shower. "Those articles offended me personally as a parent," said Venus Merrill, a school board member. "It's not something you want to read with your 10-year-old and it's not something that should be going home." Principal Randy Zito said the Winnachronicle had crossed the line of responsible reporting and that he had dealt with the problem privately. He also said he had pulled copies of the paper that normally would have been sent to middle schools in the cooperative school district. The newspaper's faculty adviser defended the editors' decisions and said the February edition of the paper was intended t...
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10-year olds redefine "Little Rascals" in attacking homeless man
2007-03-30 14:32:00
(CNN) -- Egged on by a 17-year-old, two 10-year-old boys joined in the attack of a Florida homeless man, leaving him bruised and bloody, police said. The incident highlights an upswing in violent crime across the U.S. against the homeless. In 2006, there were 142 attacks and 20 murders, several involving teenagers seeking a vicious thrill, according to the Washington, D.C.-based National Coalition for the Home less. Tuesday's incident, which took place in Daytona Beach, Florida, may make history, said the nonprofit's acting executive director Michael Stoops. "If we're talking about 10-year-olds, that means we've hit an all-time low," said Stoops. "The youngest person to have ever been arrested for a crime like this is 13." Daytona Police Sgt. Billy Walden said the teen and two boys were walking in their neighborhood around 9 p.m. when they saw 58-year-old John D'Amico. They began throwing rocks at the homeless man. The 17-year-old, Jeremy Woods, punched D'Amico who the...
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Man tries to illegally smuggle geckos in his socks
2007-03-30 14:26:00
A MELBOURNE man allegedly caught hiding three native geckos in his socks will be charged with wildlife offences. The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) says the man caught the protected native lizards then hid them in socks while transporting them through central Victoria. DSE north west region wildlife officer Shaun Burke said the Marble-velvet Gecko, an Eastern Spiny-tailed Gecko and a Three-spot Knob-tailed Gecko are believed to have been taken from the wild in New South Wales and brought into Victoria. Police from Heathcote, near Bendigo, found the lizards during a search of the man's car and alerted wildlife authorities a week ago. Mr Burke said the man's home was searched but no other protected wildlife was found. Mr Burke said some species of geckos were popular pets and could fetch high prices on the black market but removing them from the wild had serious consequences. "The removal of animals like these can heavily affect the local popu...
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Teacher arrested for stealing Toilet Paper
2007-03-30 14:23:00
OSAKA -- A staff member of an Osaka Prefecture high school has been dismissed for stealing toilet paper from the school, the Osaka Prefectural Board of Education said. The 44-year-old female staffer was allegedly caught putting toilet paper -- worth 37 yen -- into her bag on Aug. 23 last year. The principal of the school subsequently filed a report with police. The woman was summarily indicted and fined 100,000 yen. She reportedly has admitted to the allegations, but said she "didn't know" when asked why she had stolen the toilet paper. The woman's colleagues had apparently been watching her behavior after toilet paper began running out at an abnormally fast pace around September 2004. (Mainichi) Goosey's Gabbings... I am pretty sure this woman will not be able to wipe this stain from her record. technorati tags:news, funny, funny-humor, odd, bizarre, weird, offbeat, offbeat-news, comedy, humor, humorous, japan, teacher-caught-stealing-toilet-paper, crimes, dumb-criminalsBl...
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North Dakota woman bites boyfriend "where it counts" while sleeping
2007-03-29 16:34:00
A North Dakota woman has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault and criminal trespass after biting her boyfriend while he slept.Police say the Dickey County resident broke into her boyfriend's house while he slept on March 22. Then, say police, Amanda Rall climbed into bed and bit the man in his private area.He called police and was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released.The 25-year-old Rall was arrested and charged but is currently out on bond.She is awaiting her first court appearance. Goosey's Gabbings... What is the deal with all of these women attacking men's genitalia while they are sleeping? I mean, does a company need to develop some type of chastity jockstrap that is opened by DNA passkey only for men who are in la-la land while their partners scrape off their kibbles and bits? I mean......jeeeeeeeeesh!!!!!! Actually..one piece of irony here...the people reside in Dickey County *snicker* technorati tags:news, offbeat, offbeat-news, fu...
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Australian Burglars decide to have a romp in the sack while stealing
2007-03-29 16:29:00
DARWIN,Australia , March 29--Burglars who broke into a house in Darwin, Australia, had sex in the victim's master bedroom before fleeing with their loot.The Northern Territory News reported the homeowner returned from vacation to find he had been robbed of cash and alcohol while a housesitter he had employed slept throughout the raid in another bedroom. "He'd been out drinking and didn't hear what was going on," said the householder, who asked not to be named. "But the evidence of what the thieves got up to before leaving was there for all to see," he told theNews. "The sheets have been taken away for DNA sampling and I have told the police that I don't want them back." Goosey's Gabbings... New on DVD! THIEVES GONE WILD!! AUSSIE STYLE! I'm going to make a wild guess and go out on a limb that the housesitter will probably not be asked back to duty. Just a hunch. technorati tags:australia, darwin, news, funny-humor, humor, funny, odd, offbeat, offbeat-news, weird, bizarre...
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Students to get college credit by attending Final Four
2007-03-29 16:24:00
ATLANTA (AP) -- Some students may skip classes this week to attend college basketball's Final Four, though at least a dozen have managed to score class credits out of the trip. The students are sports management majors at Lynn University in South Florida. As part of a course titled "The Final Four Experience," they will be traveling with a couple of professors to Atlanta to get a firsthand look at what goes into the major sporting event. And get this, each student gets three credits for the excursion. "It's a chance for us to meet people with high positions and see how they got to where they are now," junior Emily Lipman said. "Then we'll be able to feed off that." The group arrived Wednesday and won't just attend the Final Four. They will tour the city's pro and college sports stadiums, network with team executives and some sponsors, including representatives of The Coca-Cola Co. The trip cost $3,250 per student. It may seem pricey but the total covered the cost o...
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Are you alive? Prove it--but you'll have to pay to do so
2007-03-29 04:03:00
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A cashier for Romania's state-owned railway has been asked to pay a month's worth of wages to receive government confirmation that she is alive. Filoftea Popescu discovered when she applied for a passport that the Romania's People Registration Service had mistakenly declared her dead in November 2005, stripping her of all her rights as a citizen. "I went to the police ... and I found out that I have no rights in the Romanian state because I died in 2005," the 55-year-old Popescu was quoted on Monday by daily Evenimentul Zilei as saying. Romania is struggling to cut through vast red tape and complicated legislation to improve a bloated and ineffective administration in order to benefit from new membership in the European Union. "A lawyer told me it costs me 500 lei (to obtain a court order). Why should I pay to prove I am alive?" Popescu said. The People Registration Service admitted its error and said it fired the staff responsible. But...
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Michigan Sewage missing--15 million gallons worth
2007-03-29 03:55:00
SAND LAKE, Mich. (AP) - About 15 million gallons of partially treated sewage water disappeared from a 250,000 square-foot storage lagoon into a sinkhole, but officials don't know where it went after that. Kent County utility operator Nathan Danenberg, who runs the sewage treatment system for Sand Lake, discovered the leak in the 8-foot-deep lagoon on Friday while taking samples. It wasn't clear when or why the leak occurred. "I don't know if maybe there are old mines in the area," Danenberg told The Grand Rapids Press for a story published Tuesday. "It's an odd case. A sinkhole gobbled up all the water and we don't know where it went... It seems to have just gone down into the earth. "We don't smell anything and we don't see anything." Mike Bolf, drinking water district engineer for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, said the state would conduct tests on nearby municipal wells, which are downstream as groundwater flows. But the wells are believed deep...
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Another day, another husband with his penis cut off
2007-03-29 03:45:00
A Chinese woman escaped jail after she cut off her husband's penis and threw it out of the window. The man drove himself to hospital - but doctors couldn't reattach the organ as it had been eaten by a dog, reports Jinling Evening Post. Yao Fengfang was given a three year suspended jail sentence after her husband, Li Gengbao, asked the judge to be lenient. Li, a taxi driver in Nanjing city, said he wanted his wife to keep her liberty so she could look after him for the rest of his life. Yao suspected her husband, of having an affair with his ex-wife and confronted him after seeing his taxi parked outside of her house. On the way back home, Yao threatened to 'disable' his husband but he thought she was bluffing. Li went to bed early but he was woken at midnight by a sharp pain. He said: "My wife was holding a large part of my penis, and I pleaded with her to send me to hospital immediately, but she refused firmly, and when I pleaded with her to give m...
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Peeping Tom must wear fluorescent jacket
2007-03-29 03:19:00
A peeping Tom has been banned from going out at night without a fluorescent jacket on. Stephen Cooper, 24, has been ordered to wear the high-visibility clothing so he can be spotted by potential victims. The pervert, who has pleaded guilty to voyeurism, received the order after being caught creeping into a woman's garden and staring through a crack in her curtains. Cooper is awaiting sentence for the offence but in the meantime he has been ordered to don a bright neon coat whenever he ventures out after dark. Cooper admitted the offence which took place on January 11. He was already on the Sex Offenders Register and the offence was the second time he had breached the conditions imposed on him. Judge Peter Dedman made the bizarre ban at Southend Crown Court in Essex after adjourning sentencing while psychiatric reports are drawn up. He said: "I think it is appropriate such an order should be made for the protection of the public in particular women alone, either at hom...
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