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'Cheeky' otters dine and dash from harbour restaurant

Strange | 159 hits | 9:14 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

Carole Seggie recently found herself in a tug of war over a 40-pound ling cod. She held onto the frozen tail, while a hungry sea otter aggressively pulled on the head.

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Helmsley's dog gets $12 million

Strange | 111 hits | 8:46 AM on Wednesday | posted by Hyack

Leona Helmsley's dog will continue to live an opulent life, and then be buried alongside her in a mausoleum. But two of Helmsley's grandchildren got nothing from the late luxury hotelier and real estate billionaire's estate.

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Suspected drunk drives off with dead motorcyclist

Strange | 162 hits | 8:43 PM on Tuesday | posted by Streaker

A suspected drunken driver crashed with a motorcycle and then left the scene, unknowingly driving away with the motorcyclist’s dead body lodged in the rear window of his car, investigators said.

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Fossilized walrus penis sells for mere US$8,000

Strange | 119 hits | 8:52 AM on Monday | posted by Hyack

A fossilized penis bone from an extinct walrus isn't the usual kind of artifact to hang above the mantel.

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City of Fredericton honours world-renowned flying saucer expert

Strange | 129 hits | 1:15 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

- If alien visitors to earth ever decide to formally introduce themselves to humankind, they should consider landing in Fredericton.

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Lost Stanley Cup ring found in Gulf of Mexico

Strange | 172 hits | 11:10 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

A treasure hunter searching in Florida waters came across a true Canadian find -- a Stanley Cup ring marking the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs were able to clinch the hockey championship.

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Mattel seeks to shut porn website it says uses Barbie trademarks

Strange | 106 hits | 7:37 AM on Thursday | posted by WDHIII

Toy maker Mattel went to court Tuesday to declare the name of its clean-cut Barbie dolls doesn't belong on a model's pornographic website.

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Former T-Wolves F Griffin confirmed dead

Strange | 102 hits | 12:00 PM on Wednesday | posted by WDHIII

HOUSTON (AP) - Former Minnesota Timberwolves forward Eddie Griffin died last week when his sport utility vehicle collided with a freight train in a fiery crash, the Harris County medical examiner's office said Tuesday (put this in the STRANGE catagory

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Japan recalls arm-wrestling game after limbs broken

Strange | 126 hits | 1:56 PM on Tuesday | posted by WDHIII

TOKYO -- Lose a game of chess to a computer, and you could bruise your ego. Lose an arm-wrestling match to a Japanese arcade machine, and you could break your arm.

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Duathlon organisers insure against Loch Ness monster attack

Strange | 112 hits | 7:31 AM on Tuesday | posted by bootlegga

Organisers of a duathlon in Scotland have taken out a one-million-pound (1.46-million-euro, 1.97-million-dollar) insurance policy against attack by or sighting of the fabled Loch Ness monster.

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Jailed For Robbing Bookies With Vibrator

Strange | 201 hits | 7:47 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack

A robber who held up a bookmakers with his girlfriend's Rampant Rabbit vibrator has been jailed.

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Dwarf glued penis to Hoover

Strange | 341 hits | 8:10 AM on Monday | posted by TattoodGirl

"A show called Circus Of Horrors lived up to its name when a dwarf accidentally glued his penis to a vacuum cleaner"

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Dog Gone Drive

Strange | 160 hits | 10:47 AM on Sunday | posted by WDHIII

An incredible story of a dog and his owner that started with a dramatic chase on Hwy. 401.

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Pet camel kills Australian woman while apparently trying to have sex

Strange | 334 hits | 12:52 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

An Australian woman was killed by a pet camel given to her as a 60th birthday present after the animal apparently tried to have sex, police said Sunday.

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350-pound Calgary man makes big splash in winning national cannonball title

Strange | 109 hits | 7:50 AM on Friday | posted by WDHIII

Bigger is better, after all - at least when it comes to the art of cannonballing.

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New York State governor settles his bet with Ontario premier by buying wings

Strange | 187 hits | 7:48 AM on Friday | posted by WDHIII

Premier Dalton McGuinty has declared a truce with New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer, ending what the premier jokingly called a "major international incident."

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Indiana mom sentenced to jail after posing as son's wife at court hearing

Strange | 209 hits | 8:06 AM on Thursday | posted by WDHIII

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A woman was sentenced to 30 days in jail for claiming in court that she was her son's wife.

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Man brains raccoon bandit after home invaded

Strange | 211 hits | 11:16 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack

A man returning home from work placed an unusual 911 call early this morning seeking assistance to fend off five raccoons in his kitchen attacking his cat.

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Washington man says he was bitten in the finger by a beheaded rattlesnake

Strange | 149 hits | 7:46 AM on Tuesday | posted by bootlegga

Turns out, even beheaded rattlesnakes can be dangerous. That's what 53-year-old Danny Anderson learned as he was feeding his horses Monday night, when a 5-foot rattler slithered onto his central Washington property, about 50 miles southeast of Yakima.

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Chinese Bridge Collapse 28 dead

Strange | 156 hits | 6:00 AM on Tuesday | posted by twister

Another Bridge goes down... Yikes

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Chinese Bridge Collapse 28 dead

Strange | 163 hits | 6:00 AM on Tuesday | posted by twister

Another Bridge goes down... Yikes

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Oscar Mayer's Wienermobile ticketed for illegal parking on Chicago street

Strange | 178 hits | 7:51 AM on Sunday | posted by WDHIII

CHICAGO (AP) - Not even a giant hot dog can escape the long arm of the law. One of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles, a Fiberglas behemoth on a national promotional tour, was discovered parked illegally - hazard lights blinking - on a major downtown street

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Bruin from Winnipeg zoo named world's oldest living polar bear

Strange | 191 hits | 7:47 AM on Sunday | posted by WDHIII

WINNIPEG (CP) - She likes to nap and nosh on her favourite foods, but at her age the grande dame can be forgiven her indulgences. Debby, who lives in a rocky enclosure at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo, was recently named the world's oldest polar be

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Everything's made of ice at new Canadian-designed lounge in boiling-hot Dubai

Strange | 198 hits | 7:46 AM on Sunday | posted by WDHIII

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Outside it was a sticky 44 degrees, but Ali Hamdan was shivering under two parkas as he sipped hot chocolate, surrounded by tables and chairs made of ice.

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Turtle tale with a twist

Strange | 227 hits | 1:30 AM on Sunday | posted by Hyack

This is a turtle tale with a twist: a saga that starts off sorely with a wounded, pregnant wood turtle on a busy Halifax street and ends, in true storybook form

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Safety concerns confine Parliament Hill Mounties

Strange | 216 hits | 11:11 AM on Saturday | posted by WDHIII

A Canadian icon that has long delighted thousands of animal-loving children and shutterbug tourists who visit the nation's capital every year can no longer roam freely on Parliament Hill. Royal Canadian Mounted Police horses and their scarlet-clad rid

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Swedish grandmother hospitalised after beaver attack

Strange | 131 hits | 9:06 PM on Wednesday | posted by Streaker

A grandmother taking a leisurely swim in a Swedish river ended up in the hospital after a beaver attacked her with its tail, regional newspaper Nerikes Allehanda reported Wednesday.

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Giant Lego man found in Dutch sea

Strange | 213 hits | 9:05 PM on Wednesday | posted by Streaker

A giant, smiling Lego man was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort on Tuesday.

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Crocodile falls to earth in Russian nuclear town

Strange | 144 hits | 8:33 AM on Wednesday | posted by bootlegga

Residents in the Russian nuclear research town of Sarov got a jaw-dropping surprise on Tuesday when a crocodile fell from the twelfth-storey apartment of its owner, the emergency situations ministry said.

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Canada too slow to nab credit for finding kryptonite

Strange | 226 hits | 8:23 AM on Monday | posted by WDHIII

Back in April, the world thrilled to news that the British Natural History Museum had discovered a new mineral with the exact same formula given to kryptonite in the Superman movies. Real kryptonite, in Britain! Just one hitch: two Canadians actuall

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Less-than-purr-fect Thai police to sport Hello Kitty armbands as punishment

Strange | 241 hits | 8:05 AM on Monday | posted by WDHIII

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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thai police officers who break police rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring "Hello Kitty," the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of shame, a senior officer said Monday.

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Armoured car spills 32,000 quarters during trip spanning 2 Wisconsin counties

Strange | 111 hits | 8:02 AM on Monday | posted by WDHIII

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Imagine the ringing noise of 32,000 quarters hitting the pavement. An armoured car company reported losing $8,000 in quarters along highways in two Wisconsin counties last month. About half has been returned. "I guess somebody fou

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Bible camp lesson: how to roast a squirrel

Strange | 174 hits | 5:46 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

A Bible camp is defending a counsellor who skinned, roasted and then ate a squirrel in front of a group of boys.

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Canadian minister gets shirty at Asia summit

Strange | 110 hits | 8:25 AM on Wednesday | posted by bootlegga

Apparently, Canada didn't get the memo. Deputy Foreign Minister Leonard Edwards cut quite a figure when he turned up for a gala dinner at the Philippine presidential palace Tuesday in his traditional -- and very transparent -- Philippine shirt.

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Goldman family plans to publish Simpson's If I Did It

Strange | 100 hits | 8:28 AM on Tuesday | posted by WDHIII

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/07/31/simpson-book.html

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Man dies after struggle as cops interrupt exorcism

Strange | 172 hits | 4:20 PM on Monday | posted by Alta_redneck

A bloody, naked 19-year-old woman who police later determined to be Marquez's daughter and the girl's mother was in the room, chanting "something that was religious in nature,"

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Pennsylvania man survives second lightning strike, 27 years after first hit

Strange | 127 hits | 2:46 PM on Monday | posted by kitty

Frick says he survived his second lightning strike Friday - 27 years to the day of his first - and emerged a bit shaken, with only a burned zipper and a hole in the back of his jeans

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Man Burns Down Trailer in Online Feud

Strange | 209 hits | 2:44 PM on Thursday | posted by Alta_redneck

A Navy man who got mad when someone mocked him as a "nerd" over the Internet climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to teach the other guy a lesson.

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