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WATCH: Monkey Wreaks Havoc At A Train Station, Evades 100 Policemen

CBS | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home


A roving monkey recently wreaked havoc in a Tokyo train station when 100 policemen armed with nets failed to catch him. Police say that the animal wa...

Bigfoot Body Revealed To Be A Rubber Gorilla Suit

AP | JUANITA COUSINS | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home


ATLANTA — Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in...

Rubber Sidewalk Installed In Iowa Town To Prevent Keg Damage

AP | Posted 08.18.2008 | Home


AMES, Iowa — A sidewalk project means there may be a little bounce to the beer kegs instead of dings in the pavement when delivery trucks unload...

Penguin Knighted In Norway

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 08.15.2008 | Home


LONDON — Nils Olav already has medals for good conduct and long service. He made honorary colonel-in-chief of the elite Norwegian King's Guard i...

Horse Massage Apparently Not Legal, Equine Masseuse Sues Maryland

AP | NAFEESA SYEED | Posted 08.11.2008 | Business


DAMASCUS, Md. — Mercedes Clemens is certified to massage humans, but she claims the state of Maryland is keeping her from her first love: Massag...

Spilled Cash Starts Free-For-All On California Freeway

AP | Posted 08.11.2008 | Home


MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — It wasn't the man on the hog who found himself being greedy. Police near Los Angeles say motorists stopped in speeding ...

Evil Internets Trying to Hook Your Kids on Digital Drugs: Either that, or the MSM is Dead

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 08.10.2008 | Living


Maia Szalavitz

A radio host claims that "websites are targeting your children with so-called digital drugs. These are audio files designed to induce drug-like effects."

Unconventional Weaponry: Man Tries To Rob Video Store With A Jello Box

Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 08.07.2008 | Home


A West Virginia man recently attempted to rob a video store wielding an empty Jello box, claiming the container held a bomb. The Charleston Gazette re...

Tremayne Durham, 33, Admits To Murder In Exchange For Junk Food

AP | Posted 08.07.2008 | Home


PORTLAND, Ore. — A New York man who pleaded guilty to murder in Oregon in exchange for buckets of fried chicken will get calzones and pizza to g...

"Ninja" Sighting Shuts Down NJ School

Associated Press | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home


The Associated Press reports: BARNEGAT, N.J.--It's the case of the nonexistent ninja. Public schools in Barnegat were locked down briefly after someo...

Greyhound's "Bus Rage" Ad Campaign Canceled After Rider Beheads, Cannibalizes Fellow Passenger

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home


TORONTO — Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of behea...

Man Calls 911 Twice After Subway Leaves Sauce Off Sandwich (AUDIO)

AP | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home


Jacksonville police say Reginald Peterson needs to learn that 911 is not the appropriate place to complain that Subway left the sauce off a spicy Ital...

Cheerleaders Cram Into Elevator, Break It, Have To Be Rescued

AP | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home


AUSTIN, Texas — How many cheerleaders can cram into an elevator? Apparently not 26. A group of teenage girls attending a cheerleading camp on th...

Zimbabwe Faces 50 Million Percent Inflation, Uses Gasoline Coupons For Currency

AP | ANGUS SHAW | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business


HARARE, Zimbabwe — Reeling from the highest inflation rate in the world, barred by the government from using U.S. dollars for purchases, Zimbabw...


 

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