Weird Massachusetts

BOVINE BROUHAHA: These Party Crashing Cows Drank Up The Suds

AP | Posted 05.25.2012

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BOXFORD, Mass. -- Police say a roving group of cows crashed a small gathering in a Massachusetts town and bullied the guests for their beer. Boxford ...

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Woman's Torso Sent To The Wrong Address

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 04.23.2012

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Part of a dead woman's body was mistakenly sent to the BJ's Wholesale headquarters in Westborough, Mass. on Friday -- all because of an itty bitty shi...

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WATCH: This Is The World's Fastest Robot

Reuters | Posted 05.06.2012

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A four-legged robot known as the Cheetah lived up to its name on Monday, setting a new land speed record for legged robots by ...

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WATCH: This Is The World's Fastest Robot

Reuters | Posted 05.06.2012

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A four-legged robot known as the Cheetah lived up to its name on Monday, setting a new land speed record for legged robots by ...

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PHOTOS: Rhode Island Bakery Offers 'TSA-Approved' Cupcakes

Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Tsa, Video, Cupcakegate, Cupcakes, Weird News, Tsa Cupcake, Rebecca Hains, Extra Screening, Weird Massachusetts, Weird Las Vegas, Travel News

UPDATE, 1/17: Baker Kelly Colgan emails HuffPost Travel to report that one of her cupcakes successfully passed TSA screening at T.F. Green Internation...

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TSA Defends Confiscation Of Mass. Woman's Cupcake (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 03.10.2012

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PEABODY, Mass. -- The federal Transportation Security Administration is defending its decision to confiscate a frosted cupcake from a Massachusetts wo...

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Weird Advertisements Bring Together Classical Music And Crime Scene Cleanup

Reuters | Posted 02.26.2012

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By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Who says beautiful music and blood spatter cleanup can't go together. When Ch...

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Fowl Play: City Threatens 80-Year-Old 'Bird Lady' With Jail

Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Lynn-Massachusetts, Video, Ducks, Dont Feed the Ducks, Massachusetts Crime, Claire Butcher, Feeding the Ducks, Weird Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Criminal Charges Feeding Ducks, Crime News

This law is for the birds, but it shouldn't be, according to an 80-year-old woman who's defied a Massachusetts town rule that bans feeding ducks and g...

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Unidentified Hunk Of Metal Crashes Through Warehouse Roof

AP | Posted 12.02.2011

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PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- The owners of a furniture warehouse in Plymouth, Mass., want to know the origin of a chunk of metal that plunged through the roof. ...

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Moonshine Still Discovered In Mass. Water Plant (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 11.30.2011

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GROTON, Mass. -- A more intoxicating drink than water was apparently being produced at a Massachusetts town's water treatment plant. A town officia...

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Utah Man In First Class Viewed Child Porn On Mass. Flight: Police

AP | Posted 11.27.2011

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BOSTON -- Police say a Utah man who was viewing child pornography on a Delta flight from Salt Lake City to Boston has been arrested. Massachusetts St...

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Dummy Caught Faking Ivy League Credentials -- Again

AP | By DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 01.09.2012

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WOBURN, Mass. -- A Delaware man convicted of fraud for faking his way into Harvard was ordered held without bail Wednesday after admitting he violated...

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Mass. Official Who Performed Bra Trick Resigns

AP | Posted 12.04.2011

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ABINGTON, Mass. -- The chairman of a Massachusetts school board has resigned days after performing a magic trick at a televised meeting that made it a...

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Caller Threatens To 'Shoot Up' Radio Station For Not Playing His Song

Posted 11.30.2011

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Don't you hate it when there's nothing good on the radio? An angry ex-deejay jonesing for a specific tune took his aural frustration too far when...

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WATCH: Nobel Prize Winners Get Silly -- It's Ig Nobel Time

HuffingtonPost.com | Buck Wolf | Posted 11.29.2011

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Can a strong urge to urinate impair your ability to drive? Is yawning contagious? Will motorists stop double-parking if you threaten to flatten their ...

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WATCH: Two-headed Cat Doubly Delighted With 12th Birthday

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.28.2011

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A two-headed cat in Worcester, Mass., has twice the reasons for celebrating his recent birthday: It got him in the Guinness Book of World Records. ...

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Man Who Washed Truck Naked Gets Probation In Mass. (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 11.27.2011

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ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- A man who scrubbed his pickup truck in the nude at a Massachusetts car wash has been sentenced to a year of probation. Robert E...

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Teen Orders Paintball Supplies, Receives Porn, Sex Oils And Male Potency Pills

Posted 11.22.2011

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A Massachusetts teen ordered a part for his paintball gun, but he says he wound up with pornography, sex oils and erectile dysfunction pills. Conno...

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UMass Welcomes Students With World Record Stir-fry (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 11.06.2011

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AMHERST, Mass. — It wasn't just a record, it was delicious and nutritious. Staff and students at the University of Massachusetts celebrated the s...

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PHOTOS: Urban Cliffiv Divers Plunge 90 Feet Into Boston Harbor

Posted 10.24.2011

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When there's a person perched high on the ledge of a city building, normally, it's not okay to encourage that individual to jump. But in Boston on Sat...

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Lawyer: Accused Pirate Just Wanted To Have Fun

AP | Posted 10.10.2011

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SALEM, Mass. (AP) -- A lawyer for a Massachusetts man accused of trying to rob a sailboat with the help of a motor boat flying a skull-and-crossbones ...

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WATCH: Argh In-matey! Pirate Thieves Caught During Boat Getaway

Posted 10.08.2011

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The Coast Guard caught up with a pirate ship and locked up two bungling buccaneers who allegedly tried and failed to raid a sailboat in Gloucester, Ma...

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Game's Over: State Shuts Easy Money Loophole In Lottery

The Huffington Post | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 10.03.2011

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The days of easy wins for savvy gamblers in Massachusetts appear to be over, because state officials shut a loophole in a lottery game that was exploi...

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Cha-Ching! Elderly Couple Game Lottery, Stand To Win Big Bucks

Newsy | Posted 10.02.2011

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Playing the lottery is a sure thing for some number crunchers who are exploiting a loophole in the rules of a Massachusetts game. Every few months,...

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WATCH: $80 For A Ballpark Hot Dog?!?!?!?!

HuffPost Weird News | David Moye | Posted 09.24.2011

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Spending $80 hot dog seems hard to swallow. But a baseball team in Brockton, Mass., managed to get not one, but two people to shell out that much doug...

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