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What's Going On In The World
Florida man has followers drink Giant African Snails' mucas
: Federal authorities began investigating the guy after getting complaints that the so-called "healing" practice "is not an accepted practice of the Santería religion," and that worshipers were falling ill after drinking the snail mucus. (Miami Herald)
Senior center evacuated over vegetables that are "the bomb"
: There's a simple explanation for why "bomb" was written on a box of vegetables sent to a senior center: The woman who sent the package said it was the "bomb" for making cabbage stew. (Appeal-Democrat.com)
Sex offender's scam: Advertising for female Christian band member
: Jeremy Daniel Wicker (left) was jailed after a 21-year-old woman complained to police that he was stalking her after she responded to his Craigslist ad seeking a female lead singer for a Christian band. (Dallas Morning News)
Newlywed sues Dr. Phil over discussion of his penis blemishes
: Tyler Bowling agreed to be on the show in exchange for having his pearly penile papules [NSFW images] (PPP) removed for free in a brief laser-surgery procedure. He was surprised to see the direction the show took. "I felt like...
A reminder: Don't stick your head out the window of a moving car
: The drunk driver just might sideswiped a power pole, and you'll be history. (TampaBay.com)
Man steals truck after making copy of key during test drive
: "We're a small lot," says the Red Star Auto owner. "A lot of dealers, they send the salesman with them on every test drive." At Red Star, apparently they trust you to return the vehicle -- and not make a...
Moviegoer stabbed after complaining about cellphone user
: Someone plunged a meat thermometer into the neck of the guy at a "Shutter Island" showing. (Los Angeles Times)
Finger-in-chili woman says she's banned from Wendy's for life
: The woman who claimed she found a finger in her chili at Wendy's has made a clean breast of her crime for the first time in a TV interview. "I cooked it," she says. (San Jose Mercury News)
Bus driver admits enjoying vodka and oranges before going to work
: Betty Burden, 54, allegedly drove a bus full of students while nearly three times the legal blood alcohol limit. She wasn't arrested until she had completed her route and dropped off all of her young passengers. (Chicago Sun-Times)
Mississippi school cancels prom rather than let lesbians attend
: "A bunch of kids at school are really going to hate me for this, so in a way it's really retaliation," says senior Constance McMillen, who wanted to go to prom with her girlfriend. (Clarion Ledger)
Driver, 76, plows into church after Toyota gas pedal gets stuck
: "It was just like in the movies," she says. “I was hitting everything." (New Herald Britain)
Homeless man lives off his airline and hotel rewards points
: Jim Kennedy, 46, lost his six-figure job 19 months ago, fell behind on his mortgage payments and lost his house. He filed for bankruptcy last August and it was finalized in January. Now he's using rewards points to live and...
Gun-wielding woman robs 11 people, gets away with only just $6
: She was last seen climbing into an old Honda. (Riverside, CA Press-Enterprise)
Court: It's illegal to spy on your spouse when she's in the bathroom
: A three-judge Minnesota panel ruled that "a spouse does not lose all claims to privacy through previously sharing some intimate information, activity, or viewing with the other spouse." (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
This is *not* the way I'd want to go if I was considering suicide
: A man who was distraught over marital problems died when he slammed his truck into a wooden fence at a high rate of sped and intentionally slammed into the curb. A piece of fence partially decapitated him. (Houston Chronicle)
Naked man arrested for refusing to leave Fort Myers tavern
: Irving Edwin Howard came into the bar without shoes and was told he had to leave. He responded by taking off all of his clothes. (NBC-2.com)
Woman gives birth to boy in bathroom, unaware she was pregnant
: Instead of calling for an ambulance or driving to the hospital, Kelly Bottom's first thought was that her 7-year-old needed to be picked up at school. "I cleaned myself up the best I could and went to the school," she...
Civil war buff's muzzleloader accidentally discharges in class
: "When I dropped the hammer on it, to all of our surprise, it went off," says the school superintendent and former Civil War reenactor. A stunned student blurted out, "Holy criminy, you just shot the map." (Billings Gazette)
Women accused of tricking drunk guys into revealing PIN numbers
: The two then steal the guys' cards and make withdrawals. They've been nabbed. (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
Man arrested for smoking pot on his way home from prison
: The guy had just finished serving a four-month sentence for dealing in marijuana, hash oil or hashish, according to Indiana Department of Corrections records. (Indianpolis Star)
"Lonely" mom jailed after daughter misses half year of school
: The 14-year-old girl has missed 85 of 113 school days this year, and about 850 since kindergarten. Because of it, her mother, Charlotte Fair, 45, was put behind bars without bail more than a week ago. (TampaBay.com)
Woman "afraid to set foot in her house" after bank screw-up
: She returned home one day to find her locks had been changed, her furniture and carpets had been damaged, her belongings had been scattered and her parrot missing. Bank of America wrongly repossessed the place. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Michigan school district ordered to pay $800,000 to bullied student
: The bullying started in middle school and continued in high school. The last straw was when the boy was taunted in a locker room by a naked student rubbing against him. (Detroit Free Press)
College student jailed over class project involving dynamite/Toyota
: The theater student built the device for a stage craft class. His assignment was to build a prop that could be used on stage and, a school spokesperson says, "he chose to make a weapon." (Orlando Sentinel)
Some tea retailers have a problem with the Tea Party movement
: "I wouldn't be surprised to see a place like American Girl [stores] start avoiding the term ‘tea party,' even though we know the tea party from England, the afternoon tea have nothing to do with the political movement," says a...
Driver shaving bikini area while ex-hubby steers causes crash
: A trooper says: "About 10 years ago I stopped a guy in the exact same spot ... who had three or four syringes sticking out of his arm. It was just surreal and I thought, 'Nothing will ever beat this.'...
Man slugs McDonald's customer, 82, for taking favorite parking spot
: Even the defense attorney says of the case: "It's so incredible because we're talking about a parking space. At a doggone McDonald's. It's tragic." (Coloradoan.com)
Inmate charged with squirting breast milk at female jail deputy
: Toni Tramel, 31, was initially tossed in the slammer for public intoxication. Her milk-squirting got her another charge. (WKYT/comments || Photo)
Teacher, 41, accused of sending nude photos of herself to boy
: Court documents say she also allegedly continuously sent the 15-year-old text messages, saying she wanted to perform a sexual act with him. The teen e-mailed the photos to two other students, and the boy's father showed police an e-mail of...
"Facebook flasher" charged after sending nude photo to woman
: James Alan Douglas and his female "friend" exchanged messages -- none, prosecutors note, of a sexual or romantic nature -- and at one point she received an e-mail containing a photo of Douglas naked in a car. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
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