Category Archives: Strange

FBI: Man took cab from home to rob bank, then rode to work

By doris | Published: June 24, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MIAMI — The FBI has arrested a man accused of putting on a suit and tie, robbing a South Florida bank and then leaving in a taxi. Jeffrey Harrington, 27, of North Miami, is accused of robbing the Bank of America branch in Hallandale Beach on Tuesday morning. He was arrested [...]

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You can have any size, as long as it’s a 2 or a 4

By doris | Published: March 31, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com Sixteen cocktail waitresses at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City were fired after being told they’re not a fit for the casino’s new sexy uniforms. All of the 16 women who lost their jobs were middle-age, long-time employees who were happy to retain their jobs after the casino’s sale only to [...]

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Kick ’em off: Do you know what your shoes are doing to you?

By doris | Published: December 5, 2010

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com.com Introduction: Why bare your feet? “Footgear is the greatest enemy of the human foot.”— Dr. Samual Shulman “There’s no such thing as a sensible shoe.”— Dr. William Rossi These quotes encapsulate the basic premise of this book — that feet and shoes are at odds with each other. The war between [...]

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Man falls 25 feet from ride line at Disney park

By doris | Published: August 20, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A 20-year-old man waiting in line for a ride at Disney’s California Adventure Park fell 25 to 30 feet Wednesday night, Anaheim police spokesman Sgt. Rick Martinez said Thursday. The man was in the building housing the queue for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, when he put his [...]

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Octuplet Mom: A Huge Family Was ‘Always a Dream’

By doris | Published: February 6, 2009

 People.com Nadya Suleman says she tried for seven years to get pregnant before she successfully conceived with in-vitro fertilization at a facility – “and then I just kept going in.” In an interview for the Today show, the recent mother of octuplets – who has six other children at home – tells NBC’s Ann Curry: [...]

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Eye on the Earth

By doris | Published: November 25, 2008

Full Story At  washingtonpost.com A glimpse of our changing natural environment and how humans may be impacting it.

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Mystery piano in woods perplexes police

By doris | Published: November 24, 2008

Full Story CNN.com (CNN) — Was it a theft? A prank? A roundabout effort to bring some holiday cheer to the police? Authorities in Harwich, Massachusetts, are probing the mysterious appearance of a piano, in good working condition, in the middle of the woods.A police officer examines an oddly placed piano in the woods of [...]

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Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project for Takeoff

By doris | Published: November 22, 2008

Full Story At Wired.com Pentagon mad-science division Darpa is helping build thought-controlled robotic limbs, artificial pack mules, real-life laser guns and “kill-proof” soldiers. So it comes as no surprise, really, that the agency is now getting into the flying-car business, too. Darpa hopes its “Personal Air Vehicle Technology” project, announced yesterday, will ultimately lead to [...]

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Man ‘killed wife, wanted her eaten’

By doris | Published: November 18, 2008

Full Story at news.ninemsn.com.au A philandering husband allegedly strangled his wife to death, smeared her in peanut butter and dumped her body in a ditch hoping wild animals would devour the evidence, a report claims. New York police say William Walsh, 29, has admitted to killing wife Leah after the pair had an explosive argument [...]

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‘Pregnant man’

By doris | Published: November 18, 2008

Full Story At Video -CNN.com The “pregnant man” is pregnant again. Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy talk with CNN’s Larry King

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Thinking outside the square finds light in oven

By james | Published: August 21, 2008

More at The Sydney Morning Herald FOR her 10th birthday, Nicole Kuepper received an inspirational present from her parents – her first solar-energy kit. It sparked a fascination with solar technology that last night led to Ms Kuepper, 23, winning two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for her scientific research. She has developed a simple, cheap [...]

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Urine Bottles: Another Result Of High Fuel Prices?

By doris | Published: August 8, 2008

Full Story At CBS News AP) Police say there’s been an alarming rise in urine-filled plastic containers found along a three-mile stretch of Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon. A litter crew for the Oregon Department of Transportation picked up an estimated 200-300 urine filled plastic bottles, along the highway, about half of which were found [...]

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Police: Pa. Man Rams Home With Semi During Fight

By doris | Published: August 8, 2008

Full Story At CBS News AP) Authorities say a Pennsylvania man rammed his house with a semitrailer during a fight with his roommate and tried to run down police called to the scene. State police say 20-year-old James H. Rosenberg injured no one Thursday. Authorities say Rosenberg rammed a pickup into a garage door, then [...]

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Chicken Crosses The Road, Then Abandoned By Thief

By doris | Published: August 8, 2008

Full Story At CBS News (AP) Why did the chicken cross the road? In the case of Jerry Sleater’s 5-foot, 400-pound bright blue rooster, that’s apparently as far as whoever was trying to steal it could get it. When the 76-year-old Eastern Washington man went to get his newspaper Thursday morning, the big bird named [...]

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Grandma arrested for driving with child on roof

By doris | Published: August 8, 2008

Full Story At Yahoo! News MARATHON, Fla. – Authorities say a grandmother was arrested for driving around the parking lot of a Marathon grocery store with her 3-year-old child sitting on the roof of the car.ADVERTISEMENT Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to the Publix store Tuesday and arrested a 54-year-old woman after she [...]

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Apple removes $1,000 featureless iPhone application

By james | Published: August 8, 2008

More at Los Angeles Times Blog Eight iPhone owners have joined an elite clan: Their Apple gadget is running a program that cost nearly $1,000. When the iPhone first hit the market in June 2007, those who paid the $499 entry price — and signed the two-year AT&T contract — owned a status symbol. A [...]

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Woman convicted in pastor’s death gets custody

By doris | Published: August 4, 2008

Full Story At msnbc.com MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Mary Winkler, the woman convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting death of her minister husband, has taken custody of her three daughters, one of her lawyers said Monday. Rachael Putnam, a custody attorney, said the former minister’s wife picked the girls up Friday from the slain [...]

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Eyeballs Are so Spoiled These Days

By doris | Published: July 30, 2008

Full Story At ABC News For those who are bored with ordinary contact lenses, there’s quite a few strange new objects out there and others in the works that you can stick in your eye and not go blind (hopefully). For instance, an artist-designer in the Netherlands named Eric Klarenbeek has created what he calls [...]

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Stolen Motorcycle Found After 34 Years In N.J.

By doris | Published: July 23, 2008

Full Story At CBS News P) Prosecutors say a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that was stolen nearly 34 years ago in Rhode Island has surfaced in central New Jersey. The 1971 Sportster was purchased on eBay for $2,400 by Michael Meistrell of Cranford. The Union County prosecutor’s office says he learned it was stolen on Halloween 1974 [...]

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