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    Gallery Weird News Photos

    Nov 21, 2008 | 19 comments

    From snorkeling Santas to flying pigs check out these pictures of off-beat, interesting happenings from around the world.

  • Video Release Runaway Flamingo Captured by Zoo Keepers

    Nov 20, 2008

    Des Moines, Iowa's pink menace is no more. Zookeepers have captured a runaway flamingo that recently flew the coop at the Blank Park Zoo.

  • Video Release Teen Finds Needle in Burger

    Nov 21, 2008 | 8 comments

    The 14-year-old Massachusetts girl was eating her double cheeseburger from McDonalds when she found a piece of needle or syringe inside. Health officials believe that it was a piece of a veterinary needle...

  • Article Range Rover: Long Island Dog Takes Van for a Spin

    Nov 20, 2008 | 7 comments

    The dog's name might be Bentley, but this pooch likes to drive a Ford.

  • Article Meteor Lights Up Canadian Sky

    Nov 22, 2008 | 2 comments

    Scientists are still looking for fragments of a meteor that burned across the Canadian sky Thursday evening. Reports of a fireball in the sky spread from Edmonton to Regina--- for those not versed in Canadian...

  • Link This Stinks: Florida Boy Arrested for Farting External website

    6 hours ago

    A 12-year-old Florida student was arrested earlier this month after he "deliberately passed gas to disrupt the class," according to police.

  • Link Hitler Had One Testicle? That Explains A Lot External website

    Nov 20, 2008

    A new account from a German army medic confirms what the world has long suspected, according to the London Sun.

  • Video Release Trucking Duck

    Nov 18, 2008 | 15 comments

    Minnesota trucker's pet duck hits the road.

  • Video Release Teacher Sells Ad Space on Tests

    Nov 20, 2008

    Driven by state budget woes, a California high school teacher uses creativity to pay for classroom supplies: ads on test papers. On back to school night, he collected $270 from parents who sponsored a...

  • Video Release Whale Shark Encounter

    Nov 18, 2008 | 3 comments

    Two Florida divers recently taped their encounter with a rare whale shark swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Captiva Island.

  • Video Release Models Robbed

    Nov 18, 2008

    As models hit the stage outside Evie's On The Green during a recent police fund raiser in Sarasota, Florida thieves took a seat inside the popular ice cream parlor.

  • Video Release Wrong Flight

    Nov 19, 2008

    Employees at US Airways are looking into how an 83-year-old woman in a wheelchair flying Monday from New York to Tampa instead found herself at an airport in Puerto Rico.

  • Video Release Breast Pump Bandits

    Nov 19, 2008

    Port St. Lucie, Florida police are looking for two Coral Springs men who they suspect stole more than four dozen breast pumps from a local Babies "R" Us store.

  • Video Release Cat Burglar

    Nov 19, 2008

    Police in Dallas, Texas are looking for a man who stretches the traditional definition of "cat burglar".

  • Video Release Jurors Love Letters

    Nov 19, 2008

    A convicted Nevada killer could receive a second chance at freedom thanks to a juror who apparently fell in love with him.

  • Video Release Dead Woman Charged for Ambulance

    Nov 19, 2008

    A Wisconsin woman was charged years after her death for an ambulance call she made.

  • Video Release Rare White Deer Shot

    Nov 19, 2008 | 21 comments

    Joe and Mike Furrer are true outdoorsmen and when father and son get something special, like a ten point white buck, they want to share.

  • Link Tit for Tat: Men with Brothel Tattoo Get Free Entry External website

    Nov 19, 2008

    One of the largest brothels in Europe is encouraging its customers to trade ink for kink by giving free entry to men who tattoo the risque club's name on their arms.

  • Article Tiger Cub Dies Days After it was Beaten by Villagers

    Nov 19, 2008 | 11 comments

    Veterinarians carried out a rare blood transfusion in an attempt to save a 7-month-old wild tiger that had been attacked and beaten by angry villagers in central India

  • Article Flush Fund: Woman Kept Corpse on Toilet for Cash

    Nov 18, 2008 | 26 comments

    A woman accused of helping her religious leader hide a decaying corpse on her toilet so they could continue collecting her Social Security was convicted of a misdemeanor.

  • Link 'Sex Party' Wants You External website

    Nov 17, 2008

    Looking for a little more spice in your political life? Consider joining the Sex Party -- a political group in Australia that will launch this week and hopes to use porn shops as its headquarters.

  • Link "Nursing Home Sex" Shouldn't Be Taboo: Experts External website

    Nov 18, 2008

    Nursing-home residents have sexual needs too. And now researchers are finding ways to educate staff on the taboo topic and provide accommodations for the elderly to shack up under some privacy.

  • Video Release Scaredy Cat

    Nov 18, 2008

    13-year-old Gabe says he's tried everything to get his cat to come down off his perch atop this city light utility pole.

  • Link Stripper, 44, Fired for Age, Charges Discrimination External website

    Nov 20, 2008

    Exotic dancer Kimberlee Ouwroulis filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario because she says against Canadian strip club "New Locomotion" fired being her for being over the hills.

  • Link Boy Collapses After Playing Computer Game for 24 Hours Straight External website

    Nov 18, 2008

    A 15-year-old boy who played a new version of the World of Warcraft computer game for 24 consecutive hours suffered an apparent epileptic seizure.