Three dead in helicopter crash while filming reality TV show
Three people were killed in a helicopter crash while filming a reality TV show early Sunday morning, Feb. 10, 2013. The chopper crashed around 3:40 a.m. at Polsa Rosa Ranch near the rural city of...
View ArticleBaby Geniuses: Three-year-old girl from Surrey has higher IQ than Hawking
The next stage in human evolution is upon us and it was foretold in a Christopher Lloyd movie.Early yesterday morning, reports surfaced that three year old Alice Amos from Surrey was inducted into...
View ArticleRussia’s Vladimir Zhirirnovsky suggests sex restrictions
Vladimir Zhirirnovsky, founder and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and current vice speaker of the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian legislature), has taken a proposed law...
View ArticleBirth announcement for 13-year-old captures the public's attention
For all intents and purposes, this bit of Weird News is actually quite beautiful. Yesterday, NBC's Today Moms blog posted an article featuring wildly popular baby photos of one Latrell Higgins. The...
View ArticleBaby given 5 percent chance of survival saved by ‘freezing’
Reports of an innovative treatment used by doctors in London to save a baby threatened by a fatal heart condition have spread like wildfire as citizens of the world celebrate the success of the...
View ArticleFailing to protect border from teddy bears lands guard two years in jail
A border guard in Belarus was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday for failing to report a border crossing by a plane carrying hundreds of teddy bears. Pro-democracy activists hired a Swedish...
View ArticleJoe Biden makes waves after telling the public to 'Buy a shotgun'
Less than two weeks after embarking on a tour to discuss the need for gun control, Joe Biden is again in the headlines, this time for advocating guns in the home. Yesterday, Feb. 19, the Vice...
View ArticleRussian woman inadvertently catches boyfriend cheating via online map
A Feb. 19 article from Gawker.com has given the unfaithful of the world a reason to keep a wary eye out for photo mapping cars, such as those used by Google and its Russian equivalent,...
View ArticleDaring helicopter prison escape attempt in Greece foiled
The Oscars may have been last night, but the real theatrics occurred yesterday in Greece, where a helicopter prison escape was foiled as a convicted murderer’s attempted his fourth escape from the...
View ArticleFull face transplant completed for woman who suffered chemical burns
Earlier this month Carmen Blandin Tarleton celebrated becoming a published author. Now, according to a Feb. 27 report from CBS News, among others, Tarleton has even more cause for celebration. A team...
View ArticleFifth grader looking at expulsion for trying to get his father off drugs
A Virginia fifth grader faces expulsion today after bringing a bag of marijuana to school to, reportedly, keep his father from getting stoned. Suffolk city police responded to Driver Elementary on...
View ArticleCincinnati septuagenarian chooses jail over $160 fine: 'I had a good time'
Is it possible that lock up isn't the exercise in human misery Law & Order has led us to believe? A report from Cincinnati.com yesterday seems to indicate exactly that (at least, if you're...
View ArticleMan wrestles shark away from children while on vacation, gets fired
Paul Marshallsea, a 62-year-old Welsh charity worker grabbed headlines when he dragged a 6-foot long dusky whaler shark away from some children playing in the shallows of an Australian beach. The man...
View Article10 weird common food ingredients
Most of us put some thought into the origins stories of our food-- where it came from, who's handled it. But how do we know what's exactly in our foods?We already know that nutritional labels...
View ArticlePublic works employees told to supply their own toilet paper at work
In what may be the ultimate tale of refusal to spare a square, a group of 10 public works employees in Windsor, Mo., were, for a time, living under a BYOTP mandate, according to a March 18 article...
View Article10 weird dog allergies
Did you know our canine pals can suffer from the same enemy that plagues us every spring? That's right, your dog can suffer from allergies.But while your allergies so conveniently make themselves...
View ArticleSober man DUI: Had clean breathalyzer (Video)
Surprise, AZ gave one man an arrest that has certainly shocked the town. A 64-year-old man was arrested for DUI, yet his breathalyzer test showed he had a blood alcohol level of 0.00. Arresting...
View ArticleUgly baby lawsuit: Fact or fiction?
The latest story being passed around Facebook news feeds is about a man who allegedly sued his wife for having an ugly baby. Here’s some backstory, in case you’ve missed the original – which has been...
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