Posted on 30 June 2008
A Manchester man has been arrested after he allegedly strolled along Interstate 291 wearing nothing but a thong, fake breasts and a wig. Police say they received several calls about the man, which prompted an hour-long search over the weekend.
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Popularity: 13% [?]
Tags: fake breast, thongs, wig
Posted on 06 April 2008
A transsexual man who is six months pregnant said in an interview aired by Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that he always wanted to have a child and considers it a miracle.
“It’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human desire,” a thinly bearded Thomas Beatie said. “I have a [...]
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Tags: child birth, childbearing, female, male, Oprah Winfrey, parenting, pregnancy, pregnant, pregnant man, transgender, transsexual
Posted on 26 March 2008
A rattlesnake rancher who calls himself Bayou Bob found a new way to make money: Stick a rattler inside a bottle of vodka and market the concoction as an “ancient Asian elixir.” But Bayou Bob Popplewell’s bright idea appears to have landed him on the wrong side of the law, because he has no liquor [...]
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Tags: Bob Popplewell, Palo Pinto County, rattlesnake, snake tequila, tequila, Texas, Texas Rancher, Vodka, Vodka bottle
Posted on 26 March 2008
Suburban New York police say a drunken driver had a suspended license and had marijuana in her car. Oh, they also say she didn’t have any pants on.
Yonkers police say 22-year-old Long Island resident Angelica Buchanan was found Saturday standing bottomless in a street near her car. They say she was so drunk she had [...]
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Tags: Angelica Buchanan, drivers license, drunk driver, drunk woman, ganja, marijuana, New York Police, Rockville Centre, weed, Westchester County
Posted on 23 March 2008
Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350. “We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen,” said Melissa McIntire, 23. “There’s a lot of relief involved.” The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is [...]
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Tags: Corn Flake, Illinois, Illinois Corn Flake, Illinois-shaped corn flake, Melissa McIntire, Monty Kerr, pop culture, State of Illinois, Virginia
Posted on 23 March 2008
The man thought the patient would enjoy seeing his stallion, said Lani Yukimura, a spokeswoman at the hospital. He and the horse entered the hospital earlier this month and rode an elevator up to the third floor, where they were met and stopped by security personnel,
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Tags: horse, hospital, Patient, stallion, Wilcox Memorial Hospital
Posted on 21 January 2008
His lottery ticket was a $1,000 winner, but police have seized it saying it was bought with proceeds from an illegal drug sale. Michael David, who had been staying at an Ellsworth motel, sold four 10-milligram methadone pills for $15 each last week, Police Chief John Deleo said. He then went to a convenience store [...]
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Posted on 21 January 2008
When Elizabeth Emerson confessed to a newspaper that her only real indulgence has been an occasional chocolate bar during her 87 years, she wasn’t prepared for the sweet response that followed. The 87-year-old Emerson was featured in a New York Times story about the impact of soaring fuel prices, generating letters from across the country, [...]
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Posted on 26 December 2007
A baby Jesus statue here is getting a Global Positioning System for Christmas. The statue, part of a nativity scene, will be equipped with the device after the previous statue went missing, even though it had been bolted down.
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Posted on 26 December 2007
Some people get surprise birthday parties. Ilda Ruth Southey gets surprise weddings.
Twice in her life Southey was surprised with a wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve, both times to Francis Southey.
Her future husband planned their original wedding for Christmas Eve 1942 while he was stationed in Sherman, Texas, awaiting orders to ship off to Europe during [...]
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