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Cat Burglar Is ... Actual Cat
 Cat Burglar Is ... Actual Cat 
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Jun 25, 2011 1:30 PM CDT

Cat Burglar Is ... Actual Cat

Dusty takes shoes, swimsuits, and more

(Newser) - A prolific cat burglar has stolen precious possessions from homes near San Francisco. But police are staying off the case—the burglar really is a cat. Dusty, a 5-year-old feline from San Mateo, has taken hundreds of items during his nearly nightly heists. Dusty's owner tells the San Francisco ...

Fried Kool-Aid: America's Latest Culinary Horror
 The Latest 
 Culinary Horror: 
 Fried Kool-Aid 
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Jun 25, 2011 6:50 AM CDT

The Latest Culinary Horror: Fried Kool-Aid

Because whatever is bad for us in liquid form is better in fried form

(Newser) - Maybe we've all been drinking the Kool-Aid too much, so it could be time to just plain deep fry it. That's the latest culinary monstrosity to grace San Diego's county fair, a longtime scene of gastric debauchery, writes Melissa Bell for the Washington Post. Seems "Chicken”...

Woman Wakes Up at Own Funeral, Dies of Shock

No, this is not an Onion headline

(Newser) - There’s irony, and then there’s the story of Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, a 49-year-old Russian woman who woke up at her own funeral only to have a heart attack and die when she realized what was going on. Mukhametzyanov had been falsely declared dead after collapsing with chest pains, the...

Perv Hid in Portapotty Tank at Yoga Festival

Portable toilet peeping Tom sought on sex charges

(Newser) - If you happened to spot a tall white male covered in crap fleeing a yoga festival, police in Colorado would like to talk to you. Authorities say a woman entered a portable toilet at a yoga festival in Boulder on Friday and discovered a man hiding in the tank below...

Doug Hutchison, 51, Marries Courtney Alexis Stodden, 16: Is This the Creepiest Marriage in Hollywood History?
 Welcome to 
 the Creepiest 
 Marriage in 
 Hollywood 
she's 16, he's 51
Jun 21, 2011 9:49 AM CDT

Welcome to the Creepiest Marriage in Hollywood

Bit actor Doug Hutchison, 51, marries aspiring pop star, 16

(Newser) - There are so many kind of creepy things about the marriage of Doug Hutchison and Courtney Alexis Stodden, it’s difficult to know where to begin. There’s the fact that Hutchison, a character actor with roles in The Green Mile and Lost, is 51 while Stodden is 16. There'...

Guy Robs Bank ... to Get Prison Health Care

NC man aimed for 3-year sentence with $1 heist

(Newser) - A North Carolina man with a bad back, a growth on his chest, and no job or money decided to swap his freedom for prison health care by robbing a bank. Richard James Verone, 59, walked into a bank, handed the teller a note demanding just $1—then sat down...

Brit Marine Leaves Pals $150K for Vegas Extravaganza

David Hart liked to have a good time

(Newser) - A British marine killed in Afghanistan left 32 of his closest friends a hefty parting gift: $150,000 for a Las Vegas vacation, reports the Huffington Post . Before David Hart left for duty, he took out a life insurance policy for roughly $400,000, and gave strict instructions that a...

Lawsuit: Gov. Scott Running Florida a la Monty Python

Florida governor sued by blind woman for rules change

(Newser) - A blind Florida woman is suing Gov. Rick Scott over his order suspending the state’s rulemaking process—and her attorneys had some fun with the filing. Rosalie Whiley thinks the governor overstepped his constitutional bounds, while the governor says he has the “ supreme executive power ” to do...

Women Arrested After Cop Busts Baby Funeral Scam

Pair pulled in $700 in just a few hours

(Newser) - Two women in Modesto allegedly came up with a decidedly heartless way to score some easy money: They solicited “funeral donations” for a six-month-old who supposedly died of a heart condition while they were on vacation, racking up $700 in just a few hours on Saturday. A police officer...

Spanish Village Goes Blue for Smurfs Movie

Juzcar turned into living Smurf village for movie promotion

(Newser) - What the Smurf? Everything—and we mean everything—has been painted bright blue in Júzcar, a small town in the south of Spain, as part of Sony's marketing campaign for the new Smurfs movie, reports the Huffington Post . It took a dozen painters more than 1,000 gallons...

Prison Escapee Caught After Knocking on Guard's Door

Still in prisoner's uniform, James Russell made a little mistake...

(Newser) - An escaped convict was caught following a day on the loose after he knocked on a cabin door—only to find out the man renting the lodge was an off-duty guard at the prison he just fled. James Edward Russell took off from the Washington state penitentiary Tuesday morning. Early...

'Deer With Wings' Causes Power Outage

Well, not exactly...

(Newser) - An energy company has identified the cause of a brief power outage as "deer with wings," according to one Montana resident. The woman was outside with her dogs around the time the power went out when a truck from the power company pulled up, giving her a chance...

California High School Yearbook Contains 'Child Porn'
 Yearbook Contains 'Child Porn' 
Jun 17, 2011 8:50 AM CDT

Yearbook Contains 'Child Porn'

In background of photo, students possibly engaged in sex act

(Newser) - A picture of a 17-year-old boy with his hand down the pants of a 15-year-old girl somehow made it into a California high school yearbook, and now all the students are being asked to turn in the annuals. "The photo was taken at a dance and the suspect and...

For Sale in Colorado: Rights to 'Frozen Dead Guy' Fest

Cryogenics put these residents in the party mood

(Newser) - The small Colorado community of Nederland is looking to sell the rights to its annual Frozen Dead Guy Days festival, ideally to an event company that will retain all the morbid splendor that comes with … throwing a party in honor of a frozen dead man. The trademarked three-day fest...

7.8M-Gallon Reservoir Drained After Guy Pees in It

Little mishap will cost Portland water bureau $36K

(Newser) - You pee in one little reservoir, and the next thing you know, 7.8 million gallons of drinking water are being drained. Yesterday’s incident, in which a 21-year-old man was caught urinating in one of Portland’s uncovered reservoirs by a surveillance camera, will end up costing the Portland...

Franco's Latest Bizarre Project: Invisible Art

Who wouldn't want to spend $100 on an imaginary sculpture?

(Newser) - James Franco’s latest project is arguably his weirdest yet— and that’s saying something . The multi-hyphenate recently teamed up with conceptual art duo Praxis to create the Museum of Non-Visible Art (MONA), the Huffington Post reports. On the project’s Kickstarter site , MONA is described as being "composed...

Snake-Infested Home Like 'Living in a Horror Movie'

Home was most likely built on a winter snake sanctuary, says biologist

(Newser) - Ben and Amber Sessions thought they’d scored a major bargain when they found a five-bedroom house in the rural Idaho countryside for less than $180,000. But the dream house they purchased in 2009 turned out to be infested with hundreds upon hundreds of garter snakes, reports the AP....

340-Ton Rock Embarking on Epic Journey

Boulder will travel 60 miles in nine days

(Newser) - When does it take nine days to travel 60 miles? When you’re towing a 21-foot-tall, 340-ton boulder. The solid piece of granite—known in Riverside, Calif., simply as “the rock”—is making the 60-mile journey from a quarry to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the...

Playboy Model Sues After Trampoline Photo Shoot

Denise Underhill wants more than $25K for injury that required surgery

(Newser) - Sexy: a model jumping on a trampoline. Definitely not sexy: tearing the meniscus in your right knee. But the latter is what Denise Underhill claims happened to her in a new lawsuit filed against Playboy. Underhill’s suit says she was asked "to jump on a trampoline ... in order...

Wife: Hubby's Ex Tried to Assault Me With Peanut Butter

Peanut butter-smeared letter could lead to charges

(Newser) - Anyone might find a letter smeared with peanut butter a bit odd, but one woman considered it … assault. The woman says her husband’s ex-wife sent him the letter, and since she’s highly allergic to peanuts, she believes it was actually an attempt to harm her. She found...

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