Port St. Lucie, Florida police are looking for two adults who passed two phony twenties to Girl Scouts selling cookies outside a supermarket. Sympathetic police officers are giving the girls cash to cover their counterfeit losses.
More than 400 Cambodians in Phnom Penh were left homeless when a roasted cat caught fire, sending flames shooting through a village of wooden shacks. The fire, which destroyed 62 houses, was started by a man who tried to cook a cat.
Police are searching for the culprit.
As a packed Hull to Bridlington train stopped at signals, dozens of passengers stared out in amazement as Stephen Hall, a 23-year-old chef had sex with a goat.
Police were summoned by passengers on the train and two bystanders subdued the goat shagger until they arrived.
A vet who examined the goat said it has not suffered any long-term injury.
Yesterday, Hall, who is gay, admitted a sex charge involving an animal to Judge Jacqueline Davies. He is due to be sentenced on March 13.
A hospital has changed its mortuary policy after a deceased premature baby was accidentally thrown into a laundry and boil washed. The baby’s mother, Amaia Fernandez, who gave birth to the 1lb 1oz son 17 weeks early, has returned home to get medical care.
Queen Mary’s Hospital will no longer wrap deceased infants in linen but will store them in opaque containers which will be refrigerated.
A videotape shows an angry Enron employee asked then-boss Kenneth Lay whether he was on crack. The note read…
I would like to know if you are on crack. If so that would explain a lot, if not you may want to start because it’s going to be a long time before we trust you again.
Lay, who claims to be almost penniless is estimated to be worth at least $35,000,000.
Full story from Reuters
A Belgian woman who received harrassing nuisance phone calls for two weeks has discovered that the culprit was dairy cow.
A farmer programmed the cow’s milking machine to call his cell phone if it malfunctioned. Unfortunately he put in Caroline Lenaerts’ phone number by mistake.
Actress Kim Delaney, who plays detective Kathleen Maguire on the television show Philly, was arrested for drunken driving at her home in Malibu, California, on Saturday.
Another driver saw her driving erratically and called 911. He followed her home and identified her to sheriff’s deputies. Delaney stumbled into her home, setting off own burglar alarm, which caused additional duputies to arrive.
She was released from jail pending a court appearance on March 27th.
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