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Archive for December, 2003

Cuban paper alters photo of Castro to look like Hitler

December 30, 2003 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Cuba is investigating how the official newspaper of the Communist paper ran a photo of Fidel Castro altered to look like Adolf Hitler. When the edition of Granma was released party members scooped up as many as possible to keep them out of the hands of foreign journalists.

Former Miss South Africa attacked by hippopotamus

December 27, 2003 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

A former Miss South Africa was attacked by a wild hippopotamus while canoeing in Botswana yesterday. The 1991 Miss South Africa was airlifted to a hospital for treatment for her injuries.

Philadelphia police computers plagued by pop-up ads

December 23, 2003 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

The computers on board police patrol cars in Philadelphia are inundated with pop-up ads for a sexual performance enchancer. The department blames their internet service provider, Verizon, for the problem.

Hugh Grant flees from hookers

December 22, 2003 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Hugh Grant ran from a bar in Thailand as dozens of hookers chased him trying to grab his crotch. Grant is in the country shooting a movie. Earlier on the set, Grant was forced to change clothes after an elephant urinated on him.

Dead teen’s foot sent to family

December 20, 2003 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

A dismembered foot was accidentally sent to the family of a dead teenager in North Carolina. A medical center representative blamed the incident on an overcrowded refrigerator in the morgue.

Corpse in intersection ignored for two months

December 19, 2003 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Police in Osaka, Japan said Thursday a man’s corpse was ignored on a busy downtown street corner for two months authorities were alerted. The body is believed to be that of a homeless man in his late 60s or early 70s.

Composer’s music is sung to him by mushrooms

December 18, 2003 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Vaclav Halek of Prague composes music that is sung to him by mushrooms and other fungi. Halek estimates he has collected the tunes of 1,700 different types of mushrooms.