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Fri, May 16th, 2008 | 1:18pm | Submitted by niraj
It looks like much of Texas is being overrun by crazy ants. Specifically, crazy rasberry ants which came into the country from a cargo ship. They're causing all kinds of havoc and destruction since they remove moisture from plants, eat endangered grouse hatchlings, and weirdest of all, are...
Thu, May 24th, 2007 | 11:30am | Submitted by niraj
This is crazy. Apparently some guy was trying to illegally transport 700 snakes on a flight.
Customs officers at Cairo's airport have 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,...
Mon, Apr 16th, 2007 | 3:06pm | Submitted by niraj
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I got a phone call that's never fun today.
AmEx: "Did you charge $1996.00 on your American Express Card at Coach today?"
Me: "Um, no...I'm at work. The only thing I've charged today was lunch."
AmEx: "It looks like you've had some fradulent charges on your account. We need to cancel your...
Thu, Apr 12th, 2007 | 1:44pm | Submitted by niraj
Well, you may be one of many that has issues with your cellphone, but I'm guessing you won't go to the lengths this guy did to vent your frustration.
It seems a gentleman in Korea -- we'll simply call him "Kim," since that's the only name we have for him -- got just a little upset when his shiny...
Wed, Mar 14th, 2007 | 2:33pm | Submitted by niraj
In case you didn't know, Yellowstone National Park is sitting on top of a supervolcano, which builds up pressure over a long period of time, and eventually releases it in a massive eruption capable of covering an entire continent in ash. So it's definitely scary when you hear that it is behaving...
Fri, Feb 16th, 2007 | 10:04am | Submitted by niraj
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So remember when you were little and it snowed a lot? So much so that you could do even better than a fort...you could make a snow cave! Well, make sure that you don't do it in the vicinity of a parking lot, or you could end up getting plowed into a snowbank!
Two Windham teenagers were trapped...
Mon, Oct 30th, 2006 | 3:06pm | Submitted by niraj
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What's with the creepy-as-hell Sony commercial for the upcoming Playstation 3? It has a plastic baby that is super creepy.
Seriously, no matter how many times I use the word creepy, it's not enough.
Tue, Aug 22nd, 2006 | 3:08pm | Submitted by niraj
There's a story in Florida local news about a scary viewing of Snakes on a Plane. Apparently, some "pranksters" released a couple of venomous rattlesnakes into the theater.
The two snakes caused a panic in the dark theater, according to the report. "That to me is very scary," herpetological...
Fri, Apr 21st, 2006 | 1:26pm | Submitted by niraj
The Washington TImes has an article on how some fire departments are using Homeland Security grants on gyms and clowns because there isn't a restriction against it.
The spending choices are allowable under the guidelines of the Assistance to Firefighters grant administered by the Homeland...
Sat, Apr 1st, 2006 | 1:31pm | Submitted by niraj
An investigation by the FBI yesterday revealed that iPods are programmed to take over the world this June. Apple made the product sleek and sexy to make it a must-have item. By doing so, they have ensured that almost everyone owns one. In June, these millions of iPods will each rise up and enslave...
Mon, Mar 27th, 2006 | 12:13pm | Submitted by niraj
The US National Debt Clock is going to run out of digits in two years if it keeps up the current rate of increase. That's according to an AFP article on Yahoo.
The national debt clock, as it is known, is a big clock. A spot-check last week showed a readout of 8.3 trillion -- or more precisely...
Fri, Mar 10th, 2006 | 2:26pm | Submitted by niraj
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Ever get a credit card application in the mail? Of course you have, unless you're some weird superfreak. And I am assuming you don't apply for every card you receive an application for. So what do you do to discard those other applications? If you're like me you rip it up a bunch and throw it out....
Wed, Dec 14th, 2005 | 10:46pm | Submitted by dave
dave submitted a link to a Times Online story about a woman who survived a fall, then discovered she was pregnant.
Shayna Richardson, 21, was making her first solo skydiving jump when she began to have trouble with her parachute.
Hurtling towards a parking lot in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, Ms...
Mon, Nov 21st, 2005 | 10:37am | Submitted by niraj
According to a news.com.au story, a French tourist on an Australia-bound plane tried to open the door mid-flight to go have a smoke.
Sadrine Helene Sellies, 34, was placed on a good behaviour bond after pleading guilty in Brisbane Magistrates' Court today to endangering the safety of an...
Sun, Nov 6th, 2005 | 11:25pm | Submitted by niraj
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Parents taking their kids to see Chicken Little at a Times Square movie theater were in for a shock, according to The New York Daily News. They were instead treated to a foreign film that started out with a young boy committing suicide.
"It's pandemonium," Joshua Gallo, 30, told the Daily News...
Wed, Nov 2nd, 2005 | 11:29am | Submitted by niraj
Yahoo has an article about two 14-year old boys who went trick-or-treating in Rome. A 70-year-old man was "scared" by their demon costumes and the noise they made and shot at them 4 times with his hunting rifle. "Police arrested the man, who lived alone and was the victim of several robberies, for...
Sun, Sep 25th, 2005 | 11:04pm | Submitted by niraj
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They're not quite sharks with freakin' laser beams, but The Guardian reports that there is a possibility that some military trained dolphins armed with toxic dart guns got loose in the Gulf of Mexico due to Katrina.
Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint...
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