Posted on August 4th, 2007 by reflex
ROME (Reuters) - A Sicilian mother took away her 61-year-old son’s house keys, cut off his allowance and hauled him to the police station because he stayed out late.
Tired of her son’s misbehavior, the retiree in the central Sicilian city of Caltagirone turned to the police to “convince this blockhead” to behave properly, La Sicilia, [...]
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Posted on July 8th, 2007 by reflex
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 [...]
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Posted on June 14th, 2007 by reflex
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 [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2007 by reflex
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 [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2007 by Jason
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Chuang Chuang the panda has been spending his days in front of a big screen television watching panda porn.
Authorities at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand hope the images will encourage him to mate with his partner, Lin Hui, and serve as an instructional lesson in how to do [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2007 by BRiT
Hooters, the restaurant chain known for its tasty wings and scantily clad servers, is heading to Israel.
Atlanta-based Hooters of America Inc. said in a statement Monday that it has reached a franchise deal with Ilana and Ofer Ahiraz to open the first Hooters restaurant this year in Israel, with several more locations in Israel to [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2007 by reflex
DETROIT (Reuters) - With bidding stalled on some of the least desirable residences in Detroit’s collapsing housing market, even the fast-talking auctioneer was feeling the stress.Â
“Folks, the ground underneath the house goes with it. You do know that, right?” he offered.
After selling house after house in the Motor City for less than the $29,000 it [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2007 by BRiT
BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck.
Police in the eastern town of Sonneberg said on Friday the trained mason measured the single-storey summer house — which was some 8 meters (26 feet) [...]
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Posted on March 7th, 2007 by reflex
LOS ANGELES - An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.
The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2007 by Jason
Minneapolis An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that the man had ejaculated on her.
The FBI identified the man as Samuel Oscar Gonzalez, 20, of Lakewood, Wash. He was charged in federal court with simple assault, a misdemeanor.
It happened on the redeye Monday morning from Seattle [...]
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