Weird News

A collection of weird and strange news articles from around the Internet.

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Mean squirrel attacks Pa. letter carrier
OIL CITY, Pa. - Letter carriers occasionally have to deal with angry dogs or maybe even a spider's nest in a mailbox, but a mean squirrel? Barb Dougherty, a 30-year Postal Service employee, said she was attacked and bitten Monday by a squirrel while delivering mail in Oil City, about 75 miles north of Pittsburgh.

The Trick Was On Jailers; Ex-Con Dresses As Inmate
(CBS/AP) WHITE PLAINS The Westchester County Jail went into lockdown on Halloween night when a former inmate went out trick-or-treating in a prisoner's orange jumpsuit and officials feared he might be an escapee.

Unusual Museum Receives Unusual Donation
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - November 1, 2006 - The Museum of Funeral Customs is used to some spooky donations, but a rare casket recently arrived with an unusual addition: a human skeleton.

Girl Scouts Sue Over Cookie Dough
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. -- Don't even think about cheating Girl Scouts out of their cookie money. They'll sue.

'Liberated' gnomes found
SOME 79 garden gnomes snatched by a so-called gnome liberation group, were discovered today along the banks of a stream in the central Limousin region, police said.

Rare tigers found in mini-van
Customs officers doing a routine border check opened the back doors of a mini van to discover two fully-grown Siberian tigers.

Raid Yields Counterfeit Golf Items
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - November 1, 2006 - A raid on a warehouse yielded more than 1,000 high-end counterfeit golfing items that were offered for sale over the Internet, a sheriff's official said.

Colorado town awakes to pumpkins aplenty
BOONE, Colorado (AP) -- Nobody knows who, but someone with a lot of Halloween spirit decorated this small southern Colorado town with hundreds and hundreds of pumpkins.

Cool Links

A collection of cool, weird and funny links from around the Internet.

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How to make a woman Happy
It's really not difficult...To make a woman happy; a man only needs to be:

Chuck Norris
Google won't search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you.

Fresh Air

How to kill crickets and mice quickly and easily
Disclaimer: I’m pretty sure this entire experiment is, at the very least, irresponsible. It may be illegal, as you will effectively be utilizing chlorine gas to kill a bunch of bugs. It’s overkill. Big time.

Joke of the Day

You gotta have faith

A couple of nuns who were nursing sisters had gone out to the country to minister to an outpatient. On the way back they were a few miles from home when they ran out of gas. They were standing beside their car on the shoulder when a truck approached.

Seeing ladies of the cloth in distress, the driver stopped to offer his help. The nuns explained they needed some gas. The driver of the truck said he would gladly drain some from his tank but he didnt have a bucket or can.

One of the nuns dug out a clean bedpan and asked the driver if he could use it. He said yes and proceeded to drain a couple of quarts of gas into the pan. He waved goodbye to the nuns and left.The nuns were carefully pouring the precious fluid into their gas tank when the highway patrol came by.

The trooper stopped and watched for a minute, then he said: "Sisters, I dont think it will work, but you sure have faith!"

676 - Donus became Pope.

1675 - A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.

1772 - American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.

1783 - In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".

1795 - The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.

1861 - American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.

1868 - Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally

1889 - North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

1895 - The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000

1899 - The Boers started their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

1914 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

1917 - Zionism: The Balfour Declaration proclaims support for Jewish settlement in Palestine.

1920 - In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.

1930 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

1936 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.

1936 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.

1936 - the British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

1947 - In California, Designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

1948 - U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the US presidency.

1953 - The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

1957 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.

1959 - Quiz show scandals: "Twenty-One" game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1959 - Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.

1959 - The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, was opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway

1960 - Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case

1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðìhn Di?m is assassinated following a military coup.

1964 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.

1965 - At 5:15 P.M., Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, set himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.

1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

1967 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "the Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.

1974 - 78 die as the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.

1981 - Antigua and Barbuda become independent from the United Kingdom.

1982 - Channel 4 in the United Kingdom was launched.

1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Day, the only current national holiday honoring an individual American.

1984 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

1988 - The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.

1991 - Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.

1998 - WWF hardcore title awarded to Mankind

2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.

Weird News

A collection of weird and strange news articles from around the Internet.

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Lebanon war puts damper on Israeli pot smokers
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's recent war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas has sent cannabis prices sky high in the Jewish state. Boosted security on the Lebanon frontier brought a drastic reduction in drug smuggling, with the cost of cannabis in Israel up eight-fold, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Teen Girl Loses Breast from Piercing
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - October 29, 2006 - A teenager who decided to get her breasts pierced for her 18th birthday faces reconstructive surgery after a flesh-destroying infection forced doctors to remove her left breast.

Two accused of stealing grave ornaments
WINTON, Calif. - Two suspects were arrested for allegedly stealing about 30 grave ornaments from a Merced County cemetery and selling them for drug money, sheriff's officials said.

Man accused of licking woman's toe
STUART, Fla. - A man with mischief afoot entered a home and licked the toe of a sleeping woman over the weekend, police said. The man reportedly licked the woman's left big toe while she was sleeping early Sunday, the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers reported.

Truck spills 2 tons of pig heads on road
BERLIN - A truck spilled two tons of pigs' heads on a road in western Germany, giving passing drivers a shock on the night before Halloween, police said Tuesday.

Mayor Mistakenly Hands Out Sex Number
(AP) EDMOND, Okla. The mayor personally distributed thousands of fliers discouraging underage drinking only to find they mistakenly contained the phone number for a sex talk line.

Man gets 60 days for lewd photos on cars
WAUKESHA, Wis. - A Hartford man has been ordered to serve 60 days in jail and placed on two years' probation for putting photographs of his genitalia on cars driven by women in Menomonee Falls.

Senator's Supporters Push, Tackle Protester
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A protester who shouted questions at Virginia Sen. George Allen was pushed to the floor during Allen's campaign appearance Tuesday at a Charlottesville hotel.

Weird News

A collection of weird and strange news articles from around the Internet.

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Lebanon war puts damper on Israeli pot smokers
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's recent war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas has sent cannabis prices sky high in the Jewish state. Boosted security on the Lebanon frontier brought a drastic reduction in drug smuggling, with the cost of cannabis in Israel up eight-fold, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Teen Girl Loses Breast from Piercing
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - October 29, 2006 - A teenager who decided to get her breasts pierced for her 18th birthday faces reconstructive surgery after a flesh-destroying infection forced doctors to remove her left breast.

Two accused of stealing grave ornaments
WINTON, Calif. - Two suspects were arrested for allegedly stealing about 30 grave ornaments from a Merced County cemetery and selling them for drug money, sheriff's officials said.

Man accused of licking woman's toe
STUART, Fla. - A man with mischief afoot entered a home and licked the toe of a sleeping woman over the weekend, police said. The man reportedly licked the woman's left big toe while she was sleeping early Sunday, the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers reported.

Truck spills 2 tons of pig heads on road
BERLIN - A truck spilled two tons of pigs' heads on a road in western Germany, giving passing drivers a shock on the night before Halloween, police said Tuesday.

Mayor Mistakenly Hands Out Sex Number
(AP) EDMOND, Okla. The mayor personally distributed thousands of fliers discouraging underage drinking only to find they mistakenly contained the phone number for a sex talk line.

Man gets 60 days for lewd photos on cars
WAUKESHA, Wis. - A Hartford man has been ordered to serve 60 days in jail and placed on two years' probation for putting photographs of his genitalia on cars driven by women in Menomonee Falls.

Senator's Supporters Push, Tackle Protester
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A protester who shouted questions at Virginia Sen. George Allen was pushed to the floor during Allen's campaign appearance Tuesday at a Charlottesville hotel.