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Man Faces Jail Time For Laughing Too Loud

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:44:06 +0000

Robert Schiavelli has a loud booming laugh. And because it disturbed his neighbors the 42-year-old is now facing potential jail time. Yes, folks, this is happening in America.

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School Suspends Boy, 7, For Biting Pastry in the Shape of a Gun

Drew Weisholtz — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:27:22 +0000

The issue over guns in our schools has taken on a very strange twist in one Maryland school.

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Woman Letting Internet Name Her Baby for $5,000

Emerald Catron — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:24:12 +0000

Suddenly we feel very lucky to have been born in the '80s. Back then, our biggest naming danger was being called Brandi or Lacey. One mom-to-be is letting the internet name her child, so who knows what it will be called.

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Notre Dame Linebacker Manti Te'o's Dying Girlfriend Was a Hoax

Wes Glinsmann — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:41:23 +0000

In early September, Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman Trophy candidate Manti Te’o—just days after learning of the death of his girlfriend—led the Fighting Irish to an emotional upset of then-#10 Michigan State. However, in one of the most bizarre twists we’ve seen in college football, it now appears that the whole story about a dying girlfriend was a hoax.

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Video of Drunk Plane Passenger Restrained With Duct Tape Surfaces

Emerald Catron — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:28:32 +0000

Hey, remember this picture of the drunk guy on a flight from Iceland to New York City who had to be restrained with duct tape and zip ties? Allegedly he started screaming on the flight and tried to choke a fellow passenger after drinking a bottle of duty-free alcohol. The crew had to get a little...inventive to resolve the situation. Their solution certainly restrained him, but didn't do much to shut him up, as we now know, thanks to this video of him trying to scream through the duct tape over his mouth.

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Escalator Develops Mind of Its Own and Reverses Direction

Donald Deane — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:27:44 +0000

Commuting is hard enough, but when a train station escalator suddenly decides to throw its riders off by reversing direction, that's when it's time to find an alternative to mass transit.

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Woman Possesses Amazing Ability to Write With Both Hands

Kyle Dowling — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:47:32 +0000

To most, the idea of being capable of writing with both hands is already hard to envision. But how about being ambidextrous and possessing the ability to write with a pencil in two different languages that go in dissimilar directions? To 24-year-old Chen Siyuan the idea isn't that hard to believe.

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Couple Kidnaps Handyman And Forces Him To Do Home Improvements

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:00:22 +0000

If you have stuff around the house that needs fixing, normal people have one of two options: you either do it yourself, or pay somebody else to do it for you. Neither of those options appealed to 36-year-old Jason DeJesus and 33-year-old Chanelle Troedson of Morgan Hill, California. So instead they lured a local handyman to their home and beat him until he agreed to spend the day fixing stuff around their house, gratis.

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You've Never Had the Hiccups as Bad as This Guy

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:33:04 +0000

Drinking water, eating sugar or having a friend scare you are a few of the hundreds of purported hiccup remedies. However, none of them has worked for Micky Cheney, who has been hospitalized for over a week with a case of hiccups that just won't go away.

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Priest Bites Off Fellow Priest's Ear in Fight Over Parking Space

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:30:30 +0000

The last time we heard about somebody having his ear bitten off during a fight, the unfortunate victim was boxer Evander Holyfield. This time both the suddenly ear-less man and the flesh-chomping perpetrator are holy men.

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Man Makes His Living Jumping On Mattresses

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:24:17 +0000

Jumping on the bed is one of the carefree rites of childhood that you probably stopped doing long before you started paying rent or a mortgage. Reuben Reynoso, an adult, makes his living jumping on mattresses.

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Alabama Man Battles Town Over Right to Keep Wife's Remains Buried in Front Yard of Home

Amy Sciarretto — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:13:58 +0000

An elderly Alabama widower is doing battle with local officials over his right to keep his late wife’s remains buried in the front yard of his home.

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Nearby Town Named the Oddest in the US

Jen Austin — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:15:07 +0000

Texas has its share of strange town names.

The state is dotted with towns with names that stand out like, Nimrod, Bug Tussle, Uncertain, Zipperlandville, and Ding Dong.

But thankfully, none of those were singled out by a new article featuring the most unfortunate town names in the US. Findmypast.com gives us the winner – or perhaps the loser in this case. It’s not far away, so maybe you’ve been there.

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Need a Vacation? Visit 10 of the Weirdest Museums in the World

Kathy Landin — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:16:26 +0000

Some museums preserve our history and cultures. Other museums provide interesting entertainment at bargain prices. And still other museums merely give you somewhere to duck into when it suddenly starts raining and you have no umbrella. You can decide which categories these rather strange museums fall into.

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Apocalypse in 2011?

Andree Valentine — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:07:28 +0000

You may want to think twice about relocating to the state of Arkansas, after a series of mysterious deaths occurred over the weekend.

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Husband Could Face Jail Time For Reading Wife's Email

Andree Valentine — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:35:38 +0000

Are you guilty of snooping through your partner’s phone or email address from time to time?

You may want to rethink your actions before doing it again, before you end up in jail.

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