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  • September 2008

    • Beer-Loving Mare Banned From UK Bar

      Evening Chronicle (UK)  |  Sep 30, 08 2:00 PM CDT

      Beer-Loving Mare Banned From UK Bar

      (Newser) - A beer-swigging mare has been kicked to the curb following renovations at her favorite British watering hole, reports the Evening Chronicle . Peggy, a regular at the establishment since following her owner into the pub years ago, has been told to keep her hooves off the new carpeting. “Although she is probably cleaner than some of my customers, I had to put my foot down and show her the door,” said the bar's landlady. More »

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      England  • weird  • horse  • bars  • animal behavior

    • Overgrown LA Tract Turns to 'Scape Goats

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 9, 08 11:58 AM CDT

      Overgrown LA Tract Turns to 'Scape Goats

      (Newser) - The sight of 100 goats feasting through a weedy tract in downtown Los Angeles yesterday had commuters guessing whether the caprine contingent was part of a movie, performance art—or perhaps lunch. In fact, the city hired the (land)scape goats in lieu of gas-powered weed whackers as a greener, cheaper fix, the Times reports. More »

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      environment  • weird  • goats

    • Jumping Fish Breaks Teen's Jaw

      Associated Press  |  Sep 8, 08 2:17 PM CDT

      Jumping Fish Breaks Teen's Jaw

      (AP) - An Arkansas teenager's jaw was broken when a fish flew from the lake where he was riding in an inner tube and smacked him in the face last week. Seth Russell, 15, was cruising Lake Chicot on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asian carp leaped from the water and knocked him unconscious. More »

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      fish  • Arkansas  • weird

    • Monster Bans, Other Crazy Illinois Laws

      CBS2 Chicago  |  Sep 7, 08 9:21 AM CDT

      Monster Bans, Other Crazy Illinois Laws

      (Newser) - Sure, every state has some bizarre laws on the books, but Illinois might take the cake for the oddest. Some highlights from WBBM-TV's compilation of the most perplexing: In Chicago, it is illegal to eat in a burning building. In Eureka, a man with a mustache is prohibited from kissing women. Evanston: No bowling allowed. More »

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      Chicago  • Illinois  • law  • weird  • CBS2 Chicago

    • Book on Greek Postmen Wins Weird Title Prize

      Guardian (UK)  |  Sep 6, 08 7:45 PM CDT

      Book on Greek Postmen Wins Weird Title Prize

      (Newser) - Greek Rural Postmen and their Cancellations is the weirdest book title of the past 30 years, according to The Bookseller magazine, which awarded the 72-page tome—a record of Greece’s postal routes—its coveted prize for weirdest title. The postmen narrowly beat out People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders  and What to Do About It and How to Avoid Huge Ships . More »

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      book  • weird  • awards  • publishing industry

    • Calif. Brewer Wins Fight to Sell 'Legal Weed'

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 2, 08 1:27 PM CDT

      Calif. Brewer Wins Fight to Sell 'Legal Weed'

      (Newser) - Vaune Dillmann can market his beer from the small California town of Weed with the slogan "Try Legal Weed" after regulators backed off what could have been a drawn-out court battle, the Los Angeles Times reports. The feds tried to block Dillmann, citing a law prohibiting drug references on alcoholic beverages. "They said I was guilty of a thought crime," he said. More »

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      California  • marijuana  • weird  • court cases  • weed  • Weed, Calif.

  • August 2008

    • Newborn Is Mile-High Miracle

      Associated Press  |  Aug 28, 08 2:13 PM CDT

      Newborn Is Mile-High Miracle

      (Newser) - An Indian newborn can claim his birthplace is miles in the sky after his mother gave birth during a flight from Hong Kong to Australia yesterday, the AP reports. Four doctors helped deliver the premature 6-pound boy. Mom—who was flying for the first time ever to reunite with her hubby—and baby were admitted safely into a hospital after the plane was diverted. More »

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      India  • Australia  • weird  • childbirth  • premature birth

  • July 2008

    • Dog Adopts Zoo's Tiger Cubs

      Associated Press  |  Jul 31, 08 12:21 PM CDT

      Dog Adopts Zoo's Tiger Cubs

      (Newser) - A golden retriever has adopted three white tiger cubs abandoned by their mother at a southeast Kansas zoo, the AP reports. The Safari Zoological Park's owner says the dog, who recently weaned her own puppies, licks, cleans, and feeds the days-old cubs as if they were her own. More »

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      dog  • zoo  • adoption  • weird  • animal behavior  • tiger

    • The Weirdest Sporting Events

      Times (UK)  |  Jul 29, 08 2:00 PM CDT

      The Weirdest Sporting Events

      (Newser) - If curling strikes you as a strange sport, you've obviously never heard of wife carrying or bottle kicking. The London Times explores the weirdest pastimes from across the globe: Wife-carrying, Maine, USA: Wives hang on for dear life as husbands tote them through an obstacle course, upside-down. Winners receive the wife's weight in beer. More »

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      list  • sports  • culture  • weird  • Bangkok  • Maine  • Kyrgyzstan  • world

    • Flesh-Nibbling Fish Latest Pedicure Fad

      Associated Press  |  Jul 22, 08 11:37 AM CDT

      Flesh-Nibbling Fish Latest Pedicure Fad

      (Newser) - Fish pedicures where dozens of tiny carp smooth out your tootsies by eating away the dead skin is the latest in spa pampering. Since March, a DC area salon has offered the pools of garra rufa, aka doctor fish—popular in Turkey and Asia—as an alternative to scraping razors. So far 5,000 people have taken the plunge, the AP reports. More »

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      Washington DC  • Virginia  • fish  • weird  • beauty  • spa  • alternative treatment

    • How Do They Do It? It's Not Pretty

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 3, 08 3:43 PM CDT

      How Do They Do It? It's Not Pretty

      (Newser) - For every time you watched a scrawny guy chow dozens of hot dogs in 12 minutes and wondered where, exactly, he puts it, scientists may have your answer. As compared with us mere mortals, the Wall Street Journal reports, a professional’s stomach appears as a “giant balloon that looks like it has no limit.” More »

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      scientific study  • weird  • hot dogs  • Takeru Kobayashi  • Joey Chestnut  • stomach  • competitive eating

  • June 2008

    • Dungeon Daughter 'Not Prepared' to Testify

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 25, 08 4:31 AM CDT

      Dungeon Daughter 'Not Prepared' to Testify

      (Newser) - Two months after being rescued from an Austrian cellar where her father imprisoned her as a sex slave for 24 years, Elisabeth Fritzl isn’t emotionally prepared to testify against him, reports the Guardian . Her doctors have postponed the ordeal for at least three weeks. The 42-year-old woman was scheduled to testify next week in a video hearing during which she would have been able to see her father and face questioning by him . More »

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      court  • Josef Fritzl  • incest  • Elisabeth Fritzl  • weird  • captivity

    • Mayor: No Proof of Teen Pregnancy Pact

      Associated Press  |  Jun 23, 08 6:00 AM CDT

      Mayor: No Proof of Teen Pregnancy Pact

      (Newser) - The mayor of Gloucester says there’s no proof that teenage girls in the Massachusetts town made a pact to have babies together, the AP reports. The principal of Gloucester High School, where a bizarre spate of 17 girls got pregnant this year, was quoted in Time saying the girls had conspired to conceive. But the principal can’t remember his source of information, the mayor says. More »

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      pregnancy  • teen pregnancy  • birth control  • weird  • contraception  • social conservatives  • Catholic

    • 17 High School Teens Pregnant After Secret Pact

      Time  |  Jun 20, 08 3:21 AM CDT

      17 High School Teens Pregnant After Secret Pact

      (Newser) - A pact among teenage girls to get pregnant has resulted in 17 pregnancies at a single Massachusetts high school—and sparked a debate in the conservative Catholic fishing town about birth control and available career options, reports Time magazine. Officials began to get wise to the secret pact when girls flooded the high school clinic for pregnancy tests last fall—and high-fived each other after positive results. More »

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      pregnancy  • teen pregnancy  • birth control  • weird  • contraception  • social conservatives  • Catholic

    • French Gnab Gnome Bandit

      Der Spiegel  |  Jun 12, 08 4:12 PM CDT

      French Gnab Gnome Bandit

      (Newser) - Decorative gnomes might be the bane of garden purists the world over, but for one Frenchman, they're apparently worth risking a stint in the slammer. Police in Brittany have arrested a 53-year-old man accused of stealing 170 garden gnomes and other ornaments, Der Spiegel reports—to the surprise of the many who figured the Garden Gnome Liberation Front was behind it. More »