IDIOT - Alleged burglar does laundry, gets pizza
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A burglar who made himself at home after a break-in overstayed his visit, police said. Larcellus Angelo Scott, 23, had ordered a pizza and was doing a load of laundry Wednesday when Denise Bealessio returned home from work.

CRAZY - Man wears cardboard box at Pa. hearing
Justin Michael Kalich, 26, wore the blue-and-white box at the suggestion of his lawyer, Jeff Leonard, while he waited outside the office of District Judge James Albert for a 10:45 a.m. appointment.

BIZARRE - Teenagers rape sex symbol of the 20th century
Teenagers rape sex symbol of the 20th centuryAuthor of the unique wax figure collection Viktor Zharkovskiy invited our special correspondent to check out his final piece – Marilyn Monroe. As soon as we arrived to the artist’s workshop we discovered a horrifying scene: Marilyn’s disfugered body lay on the floor in a shameless pose. She was completely naked, her arms torn off, her legs broken…

CRAZY - Steel Beam Falls 20 Stories, Crushes Taxi
(AP) EAST VILLAGE Five people were injured when a steel beam from a large construction crane plummeted about 20 stories into traffic and struck a taxi Friday afternoon, officials said.

INTERESTING - Millions Of Anchovies Die On Spain Beach
(AP) MADRID, Spain Millions of anchovies — a protected species in Europe — have died in northern Spain after an unexplained mass beaching, officials said Friday.

WEIRD - Chess Championship Halts Over Toilet Tiff
(AP) ELISTA, Russia The future of the world chess championship was in question Friday when a player did not show up for the fifth game and threatened to withdraw from the match after he was accused of cheating and locked out of his private bathroom.

IDIOT - Employee Charged With Trying To Poison Boss
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- A University of Miami employee is charged with trying to poison his boss with liquid mercury fumes in an act of revenge.

BIZARRE - Doctor Claims He Travels Back In Time To Heal
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio chiropractor,Dr. James Burda, who claimed to treat patients using time travel has surrendered his license to practice.

INTERESTING - Game Show Contestant Runs for Office
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - September 29, 2006 - He's no Ken Jennings, but a candidate for statewide office in Ohio is trying to get some mileage out of "Jeopardy!"

FUNNY - White House gates shut to "Kazakh reporter" comic
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Borat, the fictional TV reporter from Kazakhstan, may have gotten under the skin of Kazakh officials but on Thursday he couldn't get past the gates of the White House.
Secret Service agents turned away British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as the boorish, anti-Semitic journalist, when he tried to invite "Premier George Walter Bush" to a screening of his upcoming movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."

BIZARRE - Ethnic games tainted by cross-dressing cheats
BEIJING (Reuters) - Touted as a celebration of sport, culture and national unity, the Ethnic Minority Games held in southwestern China descended into a farce of cross-dressing cheating and mob violence, state media reported.

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Trivia

It's estimated that armed citizens kill three times more criminals than police officers do.

The female ants are the ones that do all the work.

There are 132 Hawaiian islands.

There are 24 flowers on each Oreo cookie.

America has just about an equal proportion of extroverts (49.3 percent) and introverts (50.7 percent).

Charles Dickens wrote under the pen name Boz.

The expression "hat trick" comes from cricket, where at one time, if a player scored three consecutive wickets, he was awarded a hat.

Bruce Lee was the 1958 Cha-Cha champ of Hong Kong.

It takes 60 seconds for blood to make one complete circuit of the human body.

A male donkey is a jackass. A female is called a jenny.

In France, the U.S. TV drama Law and Order is called New York District.

Fishermen in China train otters to herd fish into their nets.

The most push-ups ever performed in one day was 46,001.

John D. Rockefeller was world's first billionaire.

King Arthur's horse was named Lamri. The word means "the foaming one."

Studies show more women talk to their cars than men do.

The perfect pickle should have seven "warts" per square inch.

1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.

1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.

1882 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.

1906 - Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.

1927 - Babe Ruth, Becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season

1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

1939 - General W?adys?aw Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.

1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joined the United Nations; Public holiday.

1947 - Baseball: The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.

1949 - The Berlin Airlift ends.

1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.

1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.

1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.

1962 - Last episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast on CBS Radio, marking the end of The Golden Age of Radio.

1965 - Civil unrest follows a failed coup attempt by Indonesia Communist Party (PKI). More than a million people died.

1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.

1967 - BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.

1967 - Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as Radio Ceylon.

1970 - Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.

1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

1979 - The Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).

1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders.

1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.

1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.

1991 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.

1993 - An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.

1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.

2004 - AIM-54 Phoenix which became the primary missile for the Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from U.S. Navy.

2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.

2005 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".

2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

2006 - The daytime train, The Overlander express between the cities of Auckland and Wellington is discontinued due to lack of patronage by Tranz Scenic NZ.

Woman's 7.5 metre fingernails
A US woman who has been growing her fingernails since 1979 has made the Guiness Book of Records. Lee Redmond, 65, from Utah, qualified for entry in the 2007 edition after her nails reached a combined length of 7.5 metres.

Man allegedly seeks revenge over glasses
HAMMOND, Ind. - A man upset that his neighbor's children helped break his wife's eyeglasses is accused of trying to bomb the neighbor's house in retaliation. David Michielsen, 27, of Hammond is charged with detonating a destructive device with intent to intimidate or destroy and manufacturing a destructive device. He faces 58 years in prison if convicted on both counts.

Dry cleaner finds note about 'murder'
ANN ARBOR, Michigan - Dry cleaners find all kinds of things hiding in the clothes of their customers - but probably nothing quite like what some employees stumbled across recently. A note found in a customer's clothing read, "You have committed a murder, but no one believes it. All I can do is kill myself, then everyone will see what you have done."

Finger length linked to female sporting potential
LONDON (Reuters) - The length of a girl's ring finger could be an indicator of her future sporting potential, researchers at King's College London said on Thursday.

Victim's Name Tattooed On Child Killer's Forehead
The man who pleaded guilty to molesting and killing a 10-year-old southern Indiana girl now has her name tattooed on his forehead.
Anthony Stockelman, serving a life sentence at the Wabash Correctional Facility for killing Katie Collman, was found with the words "Katie's Revenge" on his forehead.

Burglar's piano playing wakes owner
A BURGLAR who broke into a house in the Dutch town of Tiel could not resist playing the piano he found there after ransacking the living room, police said today.

Ring puts anniversary heat on
A RING has been invented which can prevent absent-minded husbands from ever forgetting their wedding anniversary again.

Web Search For St. Petersburg Public Library Turns Up Sex Site
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A Web site featuring "Bra Babes" was among the results people were given when using Google to search for the city's public library.

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