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Goldfish Revisited
— Emma Marsh of Kuraby, Australia, shelled out $500 in September for emergency medical care to remove the pebble stuck in her goldfish Conquer’s throat. Brisbane’s Courier-Mail noted that the $500 could have bought
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Super Size-Me
At 700 pounds, 27-year-old Texan Monica Riley is the most recent “super-sized” woman to exhibit herself semi-nude for fans who watch as morbidly obese people eat. She told the celebrity news site Barcroft Media
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Pizza Hut Turntable Boxes
Pizza Hut announced that it had finally mastered the technology it needed to turn its cardboard delivery boxes into turntables for customers. The turntable boxes will be made available shortly in five stores in
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Virtual Fandom
The phenomenal Japanese singer Hatsune Miku is coming off of a sold-out, 10-city North American concert tour that featured high-energy audiences — blocks-long lines to get in; raucous crowd participation and hefty souvenir sales.
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Win Lottery, Invest In Meth Lab
Ronnie Music, Jr., 45, won a scratch-off lottery prize of $3 million in Waycross, Ga. He must have thought he was on a roll, because he soon flipped the money into a Georgia methamphetamine
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FASHION CHALLENGES
— Beautician Sarah Bryan of Wakefield, England, garnered worldwide notoriety last year when she introduced a wearable dress made of 3,000 Skittles. She returned this summer with a wearable skirt and bra made of
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Wood Tick Racing
Milwaukee’s WITI-TV, in an on-the-scene report from Loretta, Wis., described the town’s baffling fascination with “Wood Tick Racing.” The race is held annually in May, provided someone finds enough wood ticks to place in
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It’s A Dirty Job
Erick “Pork Chop” Cox, 32, in an angry construction-site clash in DeBary, Fla., in June, used his front-end loader to dump two heaps of dirt onto his boss. Perry Byrd, 57, was buried up
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Dudes Took My Cat
The Moscow Times reported in May that bailiffs in Russia’s Perm region arrested a debtor’s cat. The bailiffs listed the feline’s value at $23. The man came up with that sum the next day
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Can You Spell Handcuffs?
Timothy Trammell, 36, was arrested on several charges in Jonesville, S.C., after a sheriff’s deputy spotted him spray-painting a car that wasn’t his. According to the deputy’s report, Trammell had just finished angrily painting
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