Odd / Tags / Found

ODD / NEWS Mon Jan 14, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

Yahoo News -- Two weeks after a Florida man found a rare pearl in his seafood, it's happened again — this time to a New Jersey man who was eating fried oysters. Mike McHenry thought he had chomped down on a piece of shell Wednesday night and instead spit out a pea-.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 8:26pm neoform

CNN -- A 23-year old Serb was found dead and half-eaten in the bear cage of Belgrade Zoo at the weekend during the annual beer festival. The man was found naked, with his clothes lying intact inside the cage. Two adult bears, Masha and Misha, had dragged the.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 2:38am neoform

Yahoo News -- An 800-year-old, gold-plated crucifix that went missing after being seized by the Nazis has been found in a rubbish skip in Austria, police said. The crucifix, made of copper and enamel, was crafted in Limoges, France, and was part of a Polish art coll.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jul 2, 2007 @ 10:59pm neoform

SF Gate -- A woman who works as a makeup artist and deli clerk found $20,000 at a bank's drive-up depository, then calmly walked into the bank and turned over the cash. Linda Hatch said her mind raced in the seconds after she found the two $10,000 bundles in a plast.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 9:57am neoform

CNN -- Police found more than 8,000 pieces of women's clothing and lingerie in the home of a Japanese man who stole the items so he could sleep buried in them. Maeyasu Kawamura, 60, was indicted for theft on Friday, police in Osaka prefecture, western Japan,.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri May 4, 2007 @ 9:44am neoform

Yahoo News -- An upstate New York couple didn't think a few bats in the attic were much of a problem when they were buying a house last summer. Months later, they found out how wrong they were when they discovered more than a ton and a half of bat droppings up there.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 10:51pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Surveyors looking for the source of a clogged drain in southern Adams County found a 7-foot dead alligator. "At first they thought it was a turtle in there, but then they discovered an alligator," Adams County sheriff's Deputy Larry Butler said. He sai.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Mar 27, 2007 @ 12:14pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A man was charged with theft and burglary after police said they found 93 pounds of women's panties, brassieres and other underwear at his home. Investigators believe Garth M. Flaherty, 24, took as many as 1,500 undergarments from apartment complex lau.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Sat Mar 24, 2007 @ 10:10pm neoform

USA Today -- A rare 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence sold at auction for $477,650 by a man who found it last year in a Nashville thrift store for $2.48. Michael Sparks, a music equipment technician, sold the document Thursday at Raynors' Historical Coll.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 1:34pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A 74-year-old Italian grandmother who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a live grenade among the spuds. "I found a bomb in the potatoes," Olga Mauriello said in a telephone interview with Reuters. "I went to the market to buy s.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Jan 19, 2007 @ 9:24am mrmdc

Daily Mail -- A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police and a man claiming to be her father said Thursday... Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jan 8, 2007 @ 7:03pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Police shut down 10 blocks of businesses in the heart of downtown early Monday after dozens of birds were found dead in the streets, but officials said preliminary tests showed no dangerous chemicals in the air... Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Nov 20, 2006 @ 8:15am neoform

News 24 -- East London - A 24-year-old man has been arrested at Butterworth for carrying a human head in his luggage at a bus rank in the Eastern Cape town on Saturday, said police... Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Authorities say a woman has been found living with hundreds of rats and four malnourished snakes in a home outside Rochester. Thurston County Animal Services Director Susanne Beauregard says an official from the Area Agency on Aging alerted authorities.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Dec 28, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

Yahoo News -- It wasn't Santa Claus but a would-be burglar that rescue workers found stuck up a chimney in central Australia on Friday. Staff at the Gapview Hotel in Alice Springs heard a man groaning when they arrived for work in the hotel bar, and called the fire.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Dec 28, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

Yahoo News -- Sam Haskins didn't ask for a fur coat for Christmas. But he got six of them. Haskins, the new owner of a hardware store, made an unexpected discovery early this month when he started poking around the basement: a climate-controlled vault containing six.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Sep 6, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

TheSun.co.uk -- CABBIE Mike Sutton found his new home had been under-pinned — with a stash of 100 false legs beneath the floorboards. The artificial limbs were found by a plumber repairing the bungalow’s central heating. Mike, 65, said: “He came up and showed.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Aug 23, 2007 @ 8:52pm neoform

Daily Mail -- A pair of tiny abandoned ducklings found battling against waves after being washed out to sea are being nursed back to health - in a teacup. The fluffy birds were saved from a watery grave when they were found by passing canoeist Chris Murray. He pl.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Aug 13, 2007 @ 4:57pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A man who decided to go for a late night swim in the buff was found hours later by rescue crews, hiding under a pier not far from where he jumped in the water, authorities said Sunday. Neal Mello, 37, of Brooklyn, was found around 5:30 a.m., and appear.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Sat Jun 16, 2007 @ 10:53am neoform

Yahoo News -- A prisoner who went missing from a jail in eastern India for almost 24 hours was found by prison guards snoring on the roof of the jail, officials said on Friday. Raju Gaji, 19, arrested for banditry and theft and sent to a jail in Kolkata earlier this.. Read More