Wasted Daily News

A parade-goer in a monster mask marches in Greenwich Village’s Halloween parade, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008 in New York.

RACINE, Wis. – A Maltese dog named Max is headed home to Florida after he was spotted in Chicago — 1,000 miles from where he vanished.

Richard Gonzalez had reported a pet theft after Max disappeared several months ago from his daughter’s yard in Brandon, Fla.

Gonzalez says he thought that Max would never get far. But the pooch was identified in Chicago by an implanted microchip. Read the rest of this entry →

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – So how do you make Brazil’s national cocktail?

Maybe you’d better call a lawyer.

Brazil’s government has published legal guidelines insisting that a caipirinha must be made just so: It’s mostly the sugarcane liquor called cachaca. And you can add at least 1 percent crushed lime. But that had better be real sugar in the glass. Read the rest of this entry →

LONDON – In English, the road sign was just fine, warning drivers that the route ahead is not suitable for heavy trucks.

But the translation in Welsh didn’t work so well. “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated,” it said.

Swansea Council says the embarrassing error occurred when officials didn’t realize an e-mailed reply from a translator was a warning that he wasn’t available, not the wording to be used on the sign. Read the rest of this entry →