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Last-Minute Gift Idea: $1 Million Perfume

Smell Like a Million Bucks:
DKNY Sells $1M Perfume

Dec 7, 2011 5:00 PM CST

Smell Like a Million Bucks: DKNY Sells $1M Perfume

DKNY teams with jewelry designer for luxe bottle

(Newser) - How much do you normally smell like? Would you rather smell like a million bucks? Now it's possible. DKNY has unveiled a $1 million bottle of Golden Delicious perfume. It helps that the container is molded from 14-karat yellow and white gold and adorned with 2,700 white diamonds,...

MythBusters Cannonball Rips Through Neighborhood

MythBusters Cannonball
Rips Through Home

OOPS

Dec 7, 2011 12:22 PM CST

MythBusters Cannonball Rips Through Home

It goes on a wild ride through neighborhood

(Newser) - Um, whoops: MythBusters was attempting to fire a cannonball through barrels of water and a cinder block wall in order to slow its inertia. Instead, the cannon misfired, sending the reality TV show's cannonball on a tear through a residential California neighborhood yesterday. The cannonball first blasted through the...

Tenn. Home Burns...
as Firefighters Watch

THIS AGAIN

Dec 7, 2011 9:11 AM CST

Tenn. Home Burns... as Firefighters Watch

'Pay to spray' fee strikes again

(Newser) - Stop us if you've heard this one before: A home caught fire in Obion County, Tenn., recently, and firefighters showed up ... to watch it burn. The boys in red didn’t lift a hose to stop the fire because the homeowners hadn't paid their $75 yearly fee for...

Women Who Smoke and Have Breast Reductions or Lifts Are in Danger of Losing Their Nipples: Plastic Surgeon

Smokers May
Lose Their
Nipples

surgeon says

Dec 6, 2011 5:42 PM CST

Smokers May Lose Their Nipples

At least for those who get breast lifts or reductions

(Newser) - A plastic surgeon wants smokers to know: If you light up within a month of a breast lift, your nipples could literally drop off. That's because smoking can reduce blood flow to some parts of the anatomy. If those body parts don't get blood, they die, writes Anthony...

Woman Confesses
to Killing Roommate

Dec 6, 2011 2:27 PM CST

Woman Confesses to Killing Roommate

...then hiding her body under pile of presents

(Newser) - Today in the Terrible Crimes Department: 67-year-old Florida woman Michele O'Dowd was murdered last week and then "hidden" under a pile of Christmas presents in her bed. Family friend and former roommate Patty White, 40, who stayed with O'Dowd when times got rough, confessed to killing her,...

Iran Embassy Raiders Stole Invasion Plans—for D-Day

Dec 6, 2011 6:28 AM CST

Iran Embassy Raiders Stole Invasion Plans—for D-Day

Protesters 68 years too late to thwart Allied invasion

(Newser) - The Iranians who ransacked the British embassy in Tehran last week made off with some documents labeled "Most Secret" that outlined plans for a massive invasion involving the UK and the US. The intel comes nearly 70 years too late, however: The stolen documents dated from 1943 and outlined...

Granny: I Was
Strip-Searched
by TSA Guards

Dec 5, 2011 1:40 AM CST

Granny: I Was Strip-Searched by TSA Guards

'It was very traumatic,' says Lenore Zimmerman, 85

(Newser) - A "strip-searched" Long Island granny is threatening to sue the Transportation Security Administration, even though the agency has apologized. "I may sue them anyway because it was a very traumatic experience," 85-year-old Lenore Zimmerman tells the New York Daily News . Zimmerman said she was roughly strip searched...

Match.com User's Monthly Haul: $1K Worth of Dinners

Dec 4, 2011 8:39 AM CST

Match.com User's Monthly Haul: $1K Worth of Dinners

NYC 23-year-old saved money by dating online suitors

(Newser) - How did a young woman in New York City rack up $1,200 a month in free fancy dinners? By signing up for online dating site Match.com and orchestrating a rotation of suitors eager to wine and dine her. "Before I barely had enough money to pay for...

Prankster Plants Pot at Court

Australian police confiscate about 60 seedlings

(Newser) - Australian police are calling it a pot prank. Someone apparently planted dozens of marijuana plants in the front garden of the Bellingen Court House in New South Wales. Police sniffed it out after people started calling in the plant sightings, reports ninemsn of Australia. Authorities found and confiscated about 60...

7-Year-Old Accused
of Sex Harassment
After Groin Kick

Dec 4, 2011 7:19 AM CST

7-Year-Old Accused of Sex Harassment After Groin Kick

Mother says son was just defending himself from bully

(Newser) - A 7-year-old boy in Boston has been accused of sexual harassment, but his mother says he was just defending himself from a bully, reports the Boston Globe . The boy's mother says the incident happened on the school bus last month, when a bully choked her son, Mark, and stole...

Guys Think
About Sex
19 Times
a Day

study says

Dec 3, 2011 10:17 AM CST

Guys Think About Sex 19 Times a Day

For women, it's about half that: Study

(Newser) - So maybe men don't really think about sex every seven seconds, as one famous study claimed a while back. Maybe they just think about it 18.6 times a day. And women think about it 9.9 times a day. A new study out of Ohio State University gave...

News Anchor
Hates Santa,
Ticks Off Parents

Dec 2, 2011 1:22 PM CST

News Anchor Hates Santa, Ticks Off Parents

Nonbeliever declares 'there is no Santa' during newscast

(Newser) - A news anchor in Chicago got into hot water with parents for an on-air rant against Santa Claus, reports the Huffington Post . After a segment on how to handle kids' Christmas expectations in a lousy economy, Robin Robinson of Fox Chicago told her co-host: "Stop trying to convince your...

Lawsuit:
Airline Food
Killed Passenger

Dec 2, 2011 1:07 PM CST

Lawsuit: Airline Food Killed Passenger

American Airlines hit with litigation

(Newser) - Try not to think about this one next time you’re on a long flight: A Miami family is suing American Airlines and Sky Chefs for more than $1 million, claiming that a family member died after eating a contaminated in-flight meal on a trip home from Barcelona. Othon Cortes...

Kid Arrested
for Burping
in Class: Suit

Dec 2, 2011 12:37 PM CST

Kid Arrested for Burping in Class: Suit

200 children arrested in school district over 3 years: lawyer

(Newser) - A New Mexico middle schooler was handcuffed and sent to a juvenile detention center over an in-class belch, a lawsuit alleges. After the 13-year-old “burped audibly” in gym class, his teacher called school officials; now the principal, teacher, and a school cop are facing the suit, the AP reports....

Airport Security Detains
Teen Over Purse Design

Dec 2, 2011 9:00 AM CST

Airport Security Detains Teen Over Purse Design

They say it's a banned 'replica weapon'

(Newser) - TSA stopped a dangerous 17-year-old from boarding a flight recently because she had a gun—a gun design on her purse, that is. Vanessa Gibbs says she has traveled with her clutch many times, but on a recent flight from Virginia to her native Jacksonville, Florida, it was flagged as...

Woman's Face Erupts in Flames During Surgery

Dec 2, 2011 3:30 AM CST

Woman's Face Erupts in Flames During Surgery

29-year-old mom of three was having cysts removed from her head

(Newser) - A Florida woman was airlifted to a burn center after her face erupted in flames during surgery. The 29-year-old mom of three was having cysts removed from her head when the accident occurred. Firefighters were called, but the flash fire was out by the time they arrived. It's not...

See Snakes
Let Loose at
Tax Office

Dec 2, 2011 12:05 AM CST

See Snakes Let Loose at Tax Office

Man angry he didn't get a parcel of land

(Newser) - As reported earlier , a venomous North Indian snake charmer got back at government bureaucrats the best way he knew—by releasing cobras in their office. The snake charmer told reporters he had been promised a plot of land for his reptiles two years ago by a district magistrate, but nothing...

Senior Donates Suit to Goodwill, Loses Life Savings

Dec 1, 2011 4:21 PM CST

Senior Donates Suit to Goodwill, Loses Life Savings

His $13K was in a pocket

(Newser) - Before donating clothing, it’s best to check the pockets. An 80-year-old man has paid a hefty price—quite literally—for forgetting: He had hidden his life savings in a suit he donated to Goodwill, he says. Now employees of the store in Moline, Illinois, are sifting through a warehouse...

$200K Blows Out
of Armored Car

Dec 1, 2011 3:48 PM CST

$200K Blows Out of Armored Car

Oddly, much of the cash hasn't been returned

(Newser) - Merry Christmas, travelers on Pennsylvania's Route 19. It seems an armored car ferrying bags of cash on Wednesday drove for some time with a back door wide open—and that allowed about $200,000 to fly out, reports WPXI . A passing motorist finally managed to alert the armored car'...

Florida Police Employees Fired for Trying to Cast Spell

Dec 1, 2011 2:03 PM CST