Oscar the Cat Predicts Death

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means […]

Commercial rant #2 - McDonald’s/gofbot.com

Watch me be much too lazy to copy the formatting from the first one of these I did! Hopefully I’ll get close enough. I had such lofty plans to make them all look the same… oh well.
I have a vile and thorough hatred for all of McDonald’s advertising, particularly since they adopted the obnoxious “I’m […]

Baby monitor picks up Space Shuttle video

PALATINE, Illinois (AP) — An elementary school science teacher in this Chicago suburb doesn’t have to turn on the news for an update on NASA’s space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor.
Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger’s baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the […]

Man fails school exams on 38th try

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Indian farmer who vowed not to marry before passing his high school exams has failed to get through for the 38th time.
Shiv Charan Yadav has been taking the exams — normally given to schoolchildren at the age of 15 — every year since 1969, without success.
He was in his […]

Australian ‘ghost ship’ mystery puzzles rescuers

SYDNEY, Australia - Australian rescuers were on Friday trying to solve the “Mary Celeste” style mystery of a yacht found floating off the coast with its engine running, food on its table ready to eat, but no crew.
The 36-foot catamaran was found 80 nautical miles off Townsville on the northeast coast, but there was no […]

Hateful couch label spews racial epithet

A Brampton woman who purchased dark brown leather sofa, loveseat and chair from a Mississauga furnitute store said she was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as “Nigger-brown.” Doris Moore said said it was actually her seven-year-old daughter who first noticed the shocking label on the chocolate-coloured sofa set that she and […]

Horror fan slashed sleeping pal’s face with Freddy Krueger-style glove

A horror movie fanatic who repeatedly slashed his terrified friend with a home-made Freddy Krueger glove was jailed for life yesterday.
Jason Moore was obsessed with the Nightmare on Elm Street killer and spent hours crafting various recreations of his ‘horrific’ weapon.
His final model featured four curved steel blades - each as sharp as a cut-throat […]

Tory councillor behind new lap dance venue

TORY councillor Kimberley Anderson is celebrating her latest business venture - opening a lap dancing club in Liverpool.
By day the 25-year-old Conservative councillor makes sure people in her ward get their fences mended and helps keep youths off the streets. But by night the Ellesmere Port and Neston politician shows a racier side - […]

Girl finds missing dog’s head in box on doorstep

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) — A 17-year-old girl who spent weeks looking for her missing dog unwrapped a box left on her doorstep and found the pet’s severed head inside, authorities said.
Homicide investigators were looking into the case because of the “implied” terroristic threat, St. Paul Police Sgt. Jim Gray said. The Humane Society of […]

Invasion of the body-snatchers

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed into a cemetery in southern Mexico and stole the buried corpse of a suspected drug gang hitman killed days earlier in a shootout, local officials said on Thursday.
The four armed men broke into the graveyard in the town of Poza Rica, Veracruz state, on Tuesday night, tied up a […]