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We Really Don't Make This Stuff Up...
CNN
 A woman was working in a post office in California. One day she licked the envelopes and postage stamps instead of using a sponge, and in the process of licking an envelope she cut her tongue. A week later, she noticed an abnormal swelling of her tongue, and though it was not sore, she went to the doctor, but they found nothing wrong. A couple of days later, her tongue started to swell more, and it began to get so sore that she could not eat.
She went back to the hospital, and demanded something be done. The doctor took an x-ray of her tongue and noticed a lump. He prepared her for minor surgery. When the doctor cut her tongue open, a live cockroach crawled out! Due to roach eggs on the seal of the envelope she had licked, the egg was able to hatch inside of her tongue, because of the warm and moist environment of her mouth and saliva.
Like Something Out of a Cartoon
Reuters
 Can't get out of bed in the morning? Scientists at MIT's Media Lab in the United States have invented an alarm clock called Clocky to make even the doziest sleepers, who repeatedly hit the snooze button, leap out of bed.
After the snooze button is pressed, the clock, which is equipped with a set of wheels, rolls off the table to another part of the room.
"When the alarm sounds again, simply finding Clocky ought to be strenuous enough to prevent even the doziest owner from going back to sleep," New Scientist magazine said Tuesday.
Vermont Boy's Sneakers Named Smelliest in U.S.
 Lisa Rathke
There wasn't much left of the sneakers Noah Nielsen entered into the contest Tuesday, but it was the stench that earned him the top prize.more »»»
Darwin Award Winners Announced
 Off the Net
The Darwin Award is an annual honor given to the person who did the "gene pool" the most service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way. Last Year's Winner was the fellow who attempted to wash his own balls in a ball washer at the local golf course.more »»»
'Crazy Big' Breast Implant Being Auctioned on eBay
CNN
 A former topless dancer who was famously cleared of battering a Florida nightclub patron with her "crazy big" breasts has shed her oversized silicone implants and put one of them up for auction on eBay.
The woman known professionally as Tawny Peaks said on Wednesday she recently came across the implants in a box in her closet after watching a television discussion about crazy things sold on eBay and decided, "Why not ... I don't need it any more."
"Somebody might bid on it. It's like the first boob to be sued over in a lawsuit," she said. Peaks said she would autograph the auctioned implant for the winner but would keep its mate "for good measure." She explained that she had her size 69-HH implants removed and underwent breast reduction surgery in 1999 after retiring from the business to start a new life.
Lawyer Plans to Strip, Jump in Friend's Car; Gets in Wrong Car, Goes to Jail
Canadian Press
 A prosecutor who may have had a little too much to drink thought it would be funny to run naked across a parking lot and hop into a friend's car. It was funny, until he jumped into the wrong car.
Albert Tasker, who works for the Monroe County State Attorney's Office, apparently got in the back seat of a car occupied by a woman waiting for her boyfriend. The woman screamed and her boyfriend appeared. After the woman called 911, a Key West police officer found the naked Tasker in the middle of the parking lot.
Tasker, 28, was arrested Monday morning and faces charges of disorderly intoxication and indecent exposure, both misdemeanors. He has been placed on administrative leave without pay and his office is conducting an internal review of the incident. "It's terribly embarrassing for both him and for us, and we'll wait to see how the facts unfold," said J. Jefferson Overby, the chief assistant state attorney.
Women Sue Over Gorilla's Breast 'Fetish'
 May Wong
Two fired caretakers for Koko, the world-famous sign-language-speaking gorilla, have sued their former bosses, claiming they were pressured to expose their breasts as a way of bonding with the 300-pound simian.more »»»
Nebraska Supreme Court Spares Life of Dog
 Associated Press
The Nebraska state Supreme Court granted clemency Friday to a dog sentenced to death for fighting with a neighbor's pet, when they ruled unanimously that Murphy, a malamute-shepherd mix, should not be killed for causing "relatively minor injury" to the other dog.more »»»
Lawsuits Fly Over Penis Enlargements
 Reuters
A New Jersey man has filed a false advertising lawsuit against a maker of herbal penis enlargement pills, alleging the medicine does not fulfil its promises, the plaintiff's lawyer says.more »»»
Well, at Least He Won't Be Fathering More Fans...
Associated Press
 A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles to celebrate Wales beating England at rugby, the Daily Mirror reported Tuesday. Geoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday's match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, "If Wales win I'll cut my balls off," the paper said. Friends at the club in Caerphilly, south Wales, thought he was joking.
But after the game Huish went home, severed his testicles with a knife, and walked 200 yards back to the bar with the testicles to show the shocked drinkers what he had done. Huish was taken to hospital where he remained in serious condition, the paper said. Wales's 11-9 victory over England at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was their first home win over England in 12 years.
Legal Challenges Aren't Squeezing This Nudie Juice Bar
 Dirk Lammers - Associated Press
The mix of nude dancers, orange juice and black-and-white independent films wasn't in Bob Rieger's original business plan. But it has helped his Racehorses Gentlemen's Club survive amid the cornfields of McCook County and fend off a two-year barrage of challenges from politicians and outraged members of Citizens Against Nude Juicebars and Pornography.more »»»
N.Y. Man To Use Tattoos As Advertisements
 Associated Press
The Next Big Thing, according to 31-year-old Joe Tamargo: The body is a billboard. Tamargo is selling advertisers the opportunity to permanently tattoo their messages on his body.more »»»
Weird Fish!
 PVNN
Take a look at a photo galley of some of the deep sea creatures they have been finding "laying around" on the beaches in the tsunami area.more »»»
Man Rents Out Forehead
Associated Press
 Omaha, Neb. - A web-page designer who auctioned off the use of his forehead for advertising space is letting it go to his head.
Andrew Fischer, 20, of Omaha, who put his forehead for sale on eBay as advertising space, received $37,375 US on Friday to advertise the snoring remedy, SnoreStop.
Fischer will display the SnoreStop logo on his forehead for one month.
"I look forward to an enjoyable association with Andrew, a man who clearly has a head for business in every sense of the word," SnoreStop CEO Christian de Rivel said.
"People will always comment on something out of the ordinary," Fischer said in his sales pitch. "People like weird."
But there were limits: He refused from the outset to be the conduit for any message or product deemed tasteless or unacceptable in traditional advertising formats.
'Survivor' Winner Hatch No Match for U.S. Tax Man
Reuters
 Boston - Richard Hatch evaded getting kicked off the island to win $1 million on the reality-television show "Survivor," only to be accused of dodging the tax man on his earnings. Hatch will plead guilty to tax evasion after federal prosecutors charged him with failing to report the $1 million winnings in 2000 and more than $300,000 he earned the following year from radio appearances.
The U.S. Attorney's office in Providence, Rhode Island, announced on Tuesday that it had charged Hatch, 43, with two counts of filing false tax returns. The charges against Hatch carry a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine, but the government said it would recommend a lesser sentence. Hatch, who lives in Newport, Rhode Island, is due to appear in court next Monday in Providence, prosecutors said.
The first "Survivor" became a ratings sensation for CBS and helped spark a boom in reality-based TV shows. Hatch, who wandered around naked on the show and who was once described by a fellow contestant as a "snake," was not immediately available for comment.
Man with Nail in Skull Has $100,000 Headache
Reuters
 Denver - Doctors who removed a 4-inch (10-cm) nail from a Colorado construction worker's skull have left him with huge headache - a $100,000 hospital bill. Patrick Lawler, 23, who was recovering on Tuesday from surgery to remove the nail, said he had no health insurance and would have to find a way to pay the whopping bill after he is released from the hospital this week.
Lawler walked around with the nail in his skull for six days before seeking medical attention after accidentally shooting himself with a nail gun on a construction site. He said he did not realize the pain in his mouth and blurred vision were the result of a nail in his head.
"We just thought it was like a big contusion or a punch," he told reporters. Asked what was going through his mind as he sat in a press conference contemplating the nail, Lawler replied: "a new career."
Earn Some Easy Cash in Your Spare Time...
Reuters
 Bogota, Colombia - Colombia on Wednesday invited the world's bounty hunters to scour its jungles and mountains and drag back rebel chiefs in return for cash rewards.
"It would be great if all the bounty hunters in the world came to capture those bandits. The money's there for them, and the rewards are good," Vice President Francisco Santos told reporters.
The Colombian government has put rewards of up to about $2 million on the heads of outlaws like Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, veteran Marxist commander of the 17,000 fighters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Santos' comments came after officials said they had paid an unspecified reward to an anonymous informant who helped them catch Rodrigo Granda, a top rebel who authorities called the FARC's "foreign minister."
Granda's capture has caused a diplomatic squabble with neighboring Venezuela, which says he was kidnapped from a street in Caracas. The Colombian government, which has long suspected Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez of sympathies for the FARC, insists they nabbed Granda within their borders.
Colombia's war with the FARC and other illegal armed groups has lasted 40 years and claims thousands of lives annually.
President Alvaro Uribe owes his 70-percent approval rating to a military campaign against the FARC but the group's top commanders keep safe in hideouts in the country's extensive mountains and jungles.
But Colombia is outgunned in the reward stakes by its ally the United States, which has offered up to $25 million for information leading to the arrest of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Doctor Pleads Guilty In Oral Sex Case
 New York Times
New York — A Bronx doctor who began performing oral sex on a patient while examining his genitals, pleaded guilty Thursday to sexual misconduct, prosecutors said.
As part of a plea agreement, Brian Shaw, 42, of Wilton, Conn., will be sentenced to six years probation and is required to register as a sex offender, said Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson. Shaw also surrendered his medical license to the New York State Health Department.
The patient, a 49-year-old truck driver, had gone to the Throggs Neck Urgent Medical Care facility on Dec. 9, 2003, because of a rash on his chest and legs. During the examination, Shaw began to examine the man's testicles and then performed oral sex on him against his will, Johnson said.
Shaw, a 1993 graduate of Eastern Virginia Medical School, was acquitted of a similar crime in 2002.
Eeeeeeeewwwwwwww!
Reuters
 London - The makers of the handy spray lubricant WD-40 proudly list 2,000 uses for their product, from unsticking rusty screws or squeaky bicycle chains to polishing frying pans. But British police have found another - keeping the public from snorting cocaine off toilet lids in bars.
Police in the English city of Bristol said Tuesday they have been advising pub and nightclub owners to spray the colorless lubricant on toilet seats and other flat surfaces in the lavatory that customers often use to snort drugs. Apparently, cocaine and spray lube don't mix.
"A chemical reaction takes place with the cocaine that causes it to congeal and become a mess so it's unusable," a police spokesman said. "It's one very small, very cheap way in which you can very seriously restrict the amount of drug use in your premises." Constable Graham Pease, a liquor licensing officer, said he discovered the trick a few years ago while discussing with pub owners how to reduce drug use on their premises. "We were discussing with licensees how we could keep cocaine from being snorted from surfaces," he told Reuters. "It came about that we wanted to spray something on surfaces that cocaine would stick to. And somebody mentioned WD-40."
The new use seems to have taken its makers by surprise. "Its not meant to be ingested. It says so clearly on the can so we wouldn't advocate it for that purpose. But people will use it how they will," said a British spokeswoman for the San Diego, Calif-based WD-40 Co.
Naked Man Hides In Plane Wheel Well At LA Airport
Associated Press
Los Angeles - A naked man climbed a fence at Los Angeles International Airport, ran across the tarmac and climbed into the wheel well of a departing plane before firefighters talked him out, airport officials said.
The 31-year-old Canadian man, who was described as mentally unstable, had been turned away hours earlier when he tried to buy a ticket on a Qantas Airways flight to Australia with only a credit card receipt.
Neil Melly told authorities he stripped naked to protest the airline's decision to deny him a ticket, said Nancy Castles, an airport spokeswoman. Baggage handlers saw Melly climb over an 8-foot barbed-wire fence and sprint to the Boeing 747 as it backed away from the gate.
He climbed into a landing gear wheel well of the plane, which came to a stop. He initially ignored police officers' commands to come out, but complied when city firefighters arrived. Melly later was booked on trespassing charges. Melly suffered from bipolar disorder and had been listed as a missing person in Canada, Castles said.
KKK Costume Wins First Prize - And A Suspension
Off the Net
Grand Rapids — A high school student's costume garnered a top prize - and a five-day suspension - at the school's Halloween masquerade party.
The Ku Klux Klansman getup took the prize for the scariest costume at the City High School dance attended by the principal, assistant principal and other staff members.
Superintendent Bert Bleke said he agreed with the school's decision to suspend the student but wanted to know why adults at the party failed to stop the senior, who was wearing a white-hooded outfit, from entering, much less winning a prize. "There are a number of questions I have and don't yet have answers to," Bleke said.
Contacted by the newspaper, the student declined to discuss his Halloween outfit. He said school leaders advised him to keep mum, and that he didn't want to cause any more trouble for himself. |
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