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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 Jan 14, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

Yahoo News -- A man who wrote a vulgar message on the memo line of a check he used to pay a $5 parking ticket has apologized in writing, leading police to drop a disorderly conduct charge against him. Clerks were offended by the message, and the disorderly conduct c.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Nov 29, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

Yahoo News -- A bank teller in Clearwater had a million reasons not to open an account for an Augusta, Ga., man Monday, authorities said. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to op.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 8:30am neoform

Yahoo News -- A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said. The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home northwest of South.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Nov 9, 2007 @ 4:42pm neoform

Yahoo News -- EL PASO, Texas - A man hiding in a suitcase and a driver have been detained by Customs and Border Protection officers after a failed smuggling attempt. Authorities believe both men were headed for Denver. The discovery came during a stop at the Paso de.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 10:03am neoform

Yahoo News -- Change for a million? That's what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket. But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage, police sa.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Sat Sep 15, 2007 @ 12:27pm neoform

News.com.au -- A VENEZUELAN man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy. Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy on.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 12:25pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A feckless stick-up man chose the wrong target when he was beaten and hospitalized in an attempted robbery of a karate school in Bucaramanga in northwestern Colombia, police said. "The man entered the academy with a firearm, but could not intimidate th.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

Reuters -- A Chinese man recovers from surgery that removed part of his facial tumours, which weigh more than 20 kilogrammes in total. A Chinese man says he is relieved after a part of his facial tumours, which weighed about 23 kilogrammes, was removed. Yet docto.. Read More

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

Yahoo News -- It was very nearly a real-life version of "Snakes on a Plane." A man was stopped at Cairo's airport just moments before he boarded a Saudi Arabia-bound plane with carry-on bags filled with live snakes, as well as a few baby crocodiles and chameleons. S.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Aug 8, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- A man smuggled a monkey onto an airplane Tuesday, stashing the furry fist-size primate under his hat until passengers spotted it perched on his ponytail, an airline official said. The monkey escapade began in Lima, Peru, late Monday, when the man board.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Jul 4, 2007 @ 1:14pm neoform

CNN -- A Chinese man bit to death a fierce dog that was savaging his beloved puppy. Awakened by the puppy's yelps, a villager named Geng first tried to chase the dog away by hurling watermelons at it, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday. The farmer the.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 11:19am neoform

Yahoo News -- While Wal-Mart is known for dropping its prices, one West Monroe man took the ad campaign seriously when he dropped the price of a plasma television from $984 to $4.88. Police arrested Chandon L. Simms, 23, on Tuesday at the retail store on a charge of fe.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Jun 27, 2007 @ 11:36pm neoform

CBS News -- A woman was arrested Tuesday after her husband woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible headache and later learned he had a bullet lodged in his head. St. Lucie County Sheriff's deputies initially thought Michael Eugene Moylan had been hit by.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jun 18, 2007 @ 2:48pm neoform

United Press International -- An 18-year-old Kansas man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly shooting his friend on a dare. Police said the incident began when the 17-year-old friend taunted the 18-year-old with a gun, saying the 18-year-old would not shoot him, The Wichita.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 5:51am neoform

FOX News -- A bride-to-be who wanted to get out of a date with a man she met on a phone chat line sent officers on a wild chase when she faked her abduction, police said. Sara White, 20, was charged Wednesday with a misdemeanor charge of abusing emergency dispatch.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A man was taken on a wild ride when his wheelchair became lodged in the grille of a semitrailer and was accidentally pushed down a highway for four miles at about 50 mph, authorities said. The 21-year-old man, whose name was not released, was unharmed.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 6:30pm neoform

News.com.au -- A NEW York man has sued the makers of a health drink, saying it has given him a permanent erection for the last two years. Christopher Woods said he drank the vitamin-enriched Boost Plus, made by the Swiss-based Novartis pharmaceutical company, on June.. 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 Thu May 24, 2007 @ 3:33pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- Customs officers at Cairo's airport today detained a man bound for Saudi Arabia who was trying to smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane, airport authorities said. The officers were stunned when a passenger, identified as Yahia Rahim Tulba, told them his c.. Read More