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2 hrs ago | snafu-ed.blogspot.com | Iria

Burglars Steal Babya s Ashes

A family in Arizona was burglarized, but are willing to give the burglars everything if they can just get an old music box back. The reason: the box contains the ashes of their dead child.

3 comments

Related Topix: Snafu, Pop/Rock, Peoria, AZ

6 hrs ago | www.tripbase.com | Burento

Most Common Travel Scams Exposed and Explained

We all enjoy going on vacation. Taking that welcome break from standard everyday life in order to maybe go abroad and relax in a different environment to what we're used to.

2 comments

7 hrs ago | blogs.app.com | HOGstr

Man pays teen to spit in his face

A California man faces misdemeanor charges after allegedly paid a teenager $31 to spit in his face.

11 comments

Related Topix: Ventura County, CA

7 hrs ago | technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

Woman Loses Disability Insurance Over Facebook Photos

We've discussed how using Facebook and other social networking sites can get you fired, or even keep you from getting a job. In this case, a Canadian woman lost her disability insurance payment because of Facebook photos.

13 comments

Related Topix: Social Software

10 hrs ago | blogs.app.com | HOGstr

Customs seizes 316,000 bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments

U.S. customs agents seized 860 boxed of glass bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments yesterday in California.

12 comments

Related Topix: Drugs

11 hrs ago | www.reuters.com | HOGstr

New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles in Sahara

New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday.

5 comments

Related Topix: Science, Paleontology, National Geographic, Vocal

12 hrs ago | www.kionrightnow.com | HOGstr

Sarah Palin "Just Plain Nutz" On Sale

Bookshop Santa Cruz on Pacific Avenue is offering an essential item as a companion to the new Sarah Palin book Going Rogue.

11 comments

Related Topix: Santa Cruz, CA, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

12 hrs ago | www.wishtv.com | HOGstr

Santa's Wish: To be added to H1N1 priority list

St. Nick will soon be making his annual pilgrimage to shopping centers, holiday celebrations, and the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.

4 comments

Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Indianapolis, IN

12 hrs ago | www.wapt.com | HOGstr

Boy Rescued After Getting Stuck In Chimney

Emergency crews freed a boy from a chimney Thursday morning after he became stuck inside it.

4 comments

12 hrs ago | www.clickorlando.com | HOGstr

School Seeks Toilet Paper Donations

A Central Florida elementary school principal is asking for toilet paper donations, but the request is about a bigger issue.

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13 hrs ago | thecabin.net | HOGstr

Man beaten with squeegee after gas pump argument

A Conway man was arrested late Tuesday afternoon after allegedly using a gas pump squeegee to bludgeon a man in his mid-60s after an altercation over who was first in line for gas.

15 comments

Related Topix: Conway, AR

13 hrs ago | hosted.ap.org | HOGstr

Ohio State students pee in lake as ritual

Intrepid Ohio State University researchers have learned students don't just party in a campus lake during rituals before the annual Michigan game.

3 comments

Related Topix: Ohio State University, Michigan, Michigan Government

Thu Nov 19, 2009

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Chicken Suit Crashes City Council Mtg

A person in a chicken suit showed up at a city council meeting in Durango, Colorado, as members discussed rules for keeping backyard chickens.

13 comments

Related Topix: Durango, CO, Video

blogs.app.com | HOGstr

Backpack saves man from suicide

A Romanian man who tried to commit suicide by jumping off cliffs in Greece was saved by his backpack.

8 comments

blogs.app.com | HOGstr

Men used dog poo to hide drugs

Two Australian cousins were sentenced to four years in prison for trying to smuggle drugs into the Northern Territory by covering them with dog feces.

15 comments

Related Topix: Drugs

www.thesun.co.uk | Dark_Island

It's a butter-duck squash

GARDENER Lionel Partridge did a quack double-take when he harvested this marrow — and found it was in the shape of a DUCK.

The freakish veg came complete with a beak, head, neck, body and tail.

[This story just quacks me up. -ed.]

8 comments

Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Life, Food, Vegetables

blogs.app.com | HOGstr

Priest: Swine flu injections have microchips to destroy mankind

A Croatian priest is calling on members of his congregation not to get the swine flu injections because he believes they are part of a mass plan to destroy mankind.

26 comments

Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Europe, World News, Croatia, Medicine, Influenza

www.philly.com | HOGstr

Trove of history found at SugarHouse

Researchers flush the dirt of centuries from SugarHouse relics, some of which date to 1500 B.C. - about 3,200 years before Penn inked his treaty with the Lenapes just a few blocks away.

5 comments

Related Topix: Archaeology, Anthropology, Science

www.klewtv.com | HOGstr

New car came with 23-pound bale of pot in back seat

A local car dealership got more than they bargained for when a shipment of new cars came into Lewiston Monday night.

18 comments

Related Topix: Lewiston, ID

www.wpbf.com | HOGstr

Police: Man Killed Ex-Girlfriend, Kept Body Inside Home

Police say a 49-year-old man killed his ex-girlfriend and kept her body in his Boca Raton home.

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