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Archive for February, 2004

Thieves steal locomotive

February 29, 2004 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

Metal thieves stole a historic steam locomotive from an open-air museum in the city in eastern Ukraine. Police eventually found the locomotive in a scrap yard cut into pieces. Officials doubt it can ever be restored.

Organization hopes to bring race car driving to the blind

February 27, 2004 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

A new non-profit organization, MD Motorsports, hopes to make the dream of driving a race car a reality for the blind. The founder of the organization lost his sight four years ago.

Agentina deals with plague of beavers

February 26, 2004 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

In 1946, 26 pairs of beavers were introduced into Argentina in hopes of creating a fur industry. Instead, the country is still dealing with a huge ecological disaster caused by beavers who have no natural enemies in the region. Some guides are taking tourists on beaver-watching trips while others are selling beaver meat.

Drug-sniffing dog recovers after snorting heroin

February 24, 2004 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

A drug-sniffing dog at Orange County Jail in Florida returned to work a day after accidentally snorting a hit of heroin that had been concealed under a postage stamp. The dog’s handler noted that when the incident occurred she noticed the dog had a surprised look on his face and white powder on his nose.

Airport security screeners X-ray themselves

February 23, 2004 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

An airport security screener at Denver International Airport and several others across the country are in trouble for passing their bodies through airport X-ray equipment to see what their brains looked like. A Transportation Security Administration spokesperson insists the actions did not interfere with security.

Pigeon-eating hawk caught at Home Depot

February 22, 2004 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

A hawk living in the rafters of a Home Depot in Ohio was captured Friday night and release into the wild. The store had about 15 pigeons living in the store when the hawk arrived a week ago and few are left. While some customers thought the hawk was cool, others found watching the bird rip apart and devour the pigeons disgusting.

English woman fined for registering cows to vote

February 19, 2004 By: Kaboom! Category: Weird News No Comments →

For the second year in a row, Brenda Gould has registered two of her cows to vote in England. The woman has been fined and ordered to pay court costs.