September 12th, 2008
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MSNBC reports some German firefighters were pumping water out of a flooded apartment in Essen Friday when they got the shock of their lives in the form of a three-meter long python.
Apparently a water pipe burst, flooding the vacant apartment and prompting somebody to call firefighters.
Police were unable to […]
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September 9th, 2008
All of the news services have been buzzing about Yoda, the cat with four ears. Apparently the feline became an almost instant celebrity after the owners’ son posted his picture.
And suddenly Ted and Valerie Rock’s phone was ringing off the hook with interview requests and media inquiries. It’s the backstory that makes this even more […]
By Becky -- 0 comments
September 9th, 2008
We really could not make this stuff up, readers. The Dallas Morning News reports that on Sept. 3 a man in a wheelchair entered a Dallas 7-Eleven, rolled straight toward the cash register and began hitting it with a baseball bat.
Oh, but wait. Instead of cash, the suspect stole 10 boxes of […]
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September 2nd, 2008
Your dearest grandma dies. She was so wonderful, and you were so close to her, that you just want to find a special way to remember her. Forever. A grave is too temporal. Cryogenics too iffy and impersonal. So why not make her into a … diamond ring?
A company in Switzerland uses people’s ashes to […]
By Becky -- 2 comments
August 29th, 2008
A woman in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina lost her cat. Not just any cat. This guy, Sylvester, was 17 years old. And he was found over 1,000 miles away in Quebec.
The poor cat was practically starving. He was missing bits of hair and his nose was scabbed and bloody. And he limped. Sounds like he […]
By Becky -- 0 comments
August 29th, 2008
A Baptist minister in Tucson has created a bit of controversy after he announced plans to deliver a series of sermons about sex. Sending out 35,000 fliers to promote the series may just have a little bit to do with it. That, and a web site claiming “God wants you to have great sex.”
His church […]
By Becky -- 2 comments
August 24th, 2008
Do you think nuns are all old, sour, carrying around rulers waiting to rap your knuckles for being naughty? An Italian priest wants to change nun stereotypes, so he’s organizing an online beauty pageant. For nuns. He thinks it will give them more visibility and a positive light.
And this priest, Rev. Antonio Rungi, apparently has […]
By Becky -- 4 comments
August 22nd, 2008
As the saga of the two Georgia men who claimed to find Bigfoot continues, it turns out that one of the men involved is a police officer. Er, was a police officer.
Matt Whitton was fired from Clayton County Police. The police chief didn’t find all that lying very funny. It ruined Whitton’s credibility. Especially since […]
By Becky -- 2 comments
August 19th, 2008
You might wish you had the luck of this Wisconsin couple. They both entered the lottery. And they both won $350,000. How do you like them apples?
Verlyn Adamson is actually an accountant and he claims he has a secret formula that has garnered him small lottery winnings over the last 20 years. This is […]
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August 16th, 2008
Right now, Simply Dumb is categorizing this find as Just Weird.The Associated Press reports that two men claim they stumbled onto a Bigfoot corpse in the backwoods of Georgia. Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer have not helped their case a lot so far. They’ve released a YouTube vid with a fake scientist that turned out […]
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