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Yup that's news
A Swiss insurance worker lost her job after surfing popular social
network site Facebook while off sick, her employer said yesterday.
A lovesick Dutch woman who made up a story about being kidnapped sparked
an eight-hour police hunt across Germany that ended with her capture by
a special forces unit on a sealed-off motorway.
Australian police released yesterday a shocking x-ray photo showing the
skull of a murdered Chinese immigrant shot 34 times in the head and neck
with a high-powered nail gun.
A series of paintings believed to be by a young Adolf Hitler fetched
nearly 98,000 pounds ($143,000) at an auction in Britain, well in
excess of pre-sale estimates.
A mother was accused of driving a getaway mini-van with her two young
children inside after burglaries at two New York City homes.
A third woman in two weeks has claimed that Paraguay's bishop-turned-
president Fernando Lugo fathered her child, intensifying a political
scandal that has made him the butt of lewd jokes and even a pop song.
Shane Foster, 21, one of those Ku Klux Klan members who practices the
notion that Aryans like him are superior, was ruled by a Louisiana judge
as not bright enough to be tried for taking part in the murder of a
woman who had tried to back out of the Klan.
You had a bad day, maybe, but not as bad as the "pregnant woman running
from bear hit by car" in Colorado Springs, Colo. She's in stable
condition; the bear was tranquilized; the driver's nowhere to be found.
Madlyn Primoff, 45, got a lot of press this week for having tossed her
misbehaving kids, age 10 and 12, out of the car in downtown White
Plains, N.Y., i.e., actually carrying out what, to 50 million parents,
is only a bluff. The older girl came back, but Madlyn had to pick up the
other at the police station, and was promptly arrested. Turns out she's
a big-shot NYC lawyer.
In Akron, Ohio, Rebecca Taylor, needing big bucks for a new apartment,
at first offered to sell her 5-month-old son for $10,000, but was
forced to mark him down to $5,000.
Local government councils in England have been performing "topple tests"
on gravestones to make sure none would fall over on anyone. Cost: nearly
£1 million.
Clowns in Liverpool, England, have to give up their oversized shoes
because they might trip and crash into somebody.
Four performers from the Shreveport (La.) Opera chased Timothy Grim, 39,
for six blocks after he allegedly stole a diva's dress from the
rehearsal room. After they caught him, he offered to sell the dress back
to them, and had lowered his asking price to $1.
And a few days ago, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols had
complained formally about the lack of fiber in his diet at Colorado's
Supermax prison, and it turns out that his Supermax colleague, Atlanta
anti-abortion bomber Eric Rudolph, agrees with him that their "sacred"
colons deserve some bran, at least.
Giving power and money to Congress is like giving liquor
and car keys to teenage boys.
A Swiss insurance worker lost her job after surfing popular social
network site Facebook while off sick, her employer said yesterday.
A lovesick Dutch woman who made up a story about being kidnapped sparked
an eight-hour police hunt across Germany that ended with her capture by
a special forces unit on a sealed-off motorway.
Australian police released yesterday a shocking x-ray photo showing the
skull of a murdered Chinese immigrant shot 34 times in the head and neck
with a high-powered nail gun.
A series of paintings believed to be by a young Adolf Hitler fetched
nearly 98,000 pounds ($143,000) at an auction in Britain, well in
excess of pre-sale estimates.
A mother was accused of driving a getaway mini-van with her two young
children inside after burglaries at two New York City homes.
A third woman in two weeks has claimed that Paraguay's bishop-turned-
president Fernando Lugo fathered her child, intensifying a political
scandal that has made him the butt of lewd jokes and even a pop song.
Shane Foster, 21, one of those Ku Klux Klan members who practices the
notion that Aryans like him are superior, was ruled by a Louisiana judge
as not bright enough to be tried for taking part in the murder of a
woman who had tried to back out of the Klan.
You had a bad day, maybe, but not as bad as the "pregnant woman running
from bear hit by car" in Colorado Springs, Colo. She's in stable
condition; the bear was tranquilized; the driver's nowhere to be found.
Madlyn Primoff, 45, got a lot of press this week for having tossed her
misbehaving kids, age 10 and 12, out of the car in downtown White
Plains, N.Y., i.e., actually carrying out what, to 50 million parents,
is only a bluff. The older girl came back, but Madlyn had to pick up the
other at the police station, and was promptly arrested. Turns out she's
a big-shot NYC lawyer.
In Akron, Ohio, Rebecca Taylor, needing big bucks for a new apartment,
at first offered to sell her 5-month-old son for $10,000, but was
forced to mark him down to $5,000.
Local government councils in England have been performing "topple tests"
on gravestones to make sure none would fall over on anyone. Cost: nearly
£1 million.
Clowns in Liverpool, England, have to give up their oversized shoes
because they might trip and crash into somebody.
Four performers from the Shreveport (La.) Opera chased Timothy Grim, 39,
for six blocks after he allegedly stole a diva's dress from the
rehearsal room. After they caught him, he offered to sell the dress back
to them, and had lowered his asking price to $1.
And a few days ago, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols had
complained formally about the lack of fiber in his diet at Colorado's
Supermax prison, and it turns out that his Supermax colleague, Atlanta
anti-abortion bomber Eric Rudolph, agrees with him that their "sacred"
colons deserve some bran, at least.
Giving power and money to Congress is like giving liquor
and car keys to teenage boys.
