Cops: Man tried to use $1Million Dollar bill at NC Walmart

LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Do you have change for a million-dollar bill? Police say a North Carolina man insisted his million-dollar note was real when he was buying $476 worth of items at a Walmart. Investigators told the Winston-Salem Journal (http://bit.ly/u7ZrEN ) that 53-year-old Michael Fuller tried to buy a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven [...]

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Top Weird News 2011: The Year’s 11 Oddest News Stories

While doomsday evangelist Harold Camping predicted the world would end May 21, we at HuffPost Weird News knew the truth — our strange world was only becoming more bizarre this year. Among many other amazing things, 2011 gave us the birth of conjoined twins who share one two-headed body, and at last report, the extremely [...]

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Presenting The 2011 Mug Shots Of The Year

  The top 25 booking photos, as picked by a blue ribbon panel Nearly 12 months in the making, here is The Smoking Gun’s annual collection of our favorite booking photos. The images feature some of the most unusual suspects arrested during 2011. We’ve arranged the photos in ascending order, beginning with arrestee #25. Click [...]

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Vancouver restaurant selling $100 hot dog

VANCOUVER – Vancouver, known for its bustling street food scene, will also soon be known as home to the “most expensive hot dog in the world” – a $100 cognac-infused sausage topped with oil-seared Kobe beef, lobster meat and a picante sauce. “When you come up with a $100 hot dog, you’ve got to have [...]

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Police: Passenger smoked pot on flight to NJ

A man faces drug charges after allegedly smoking pot on a JetBlue flight to Newark, N.J. Airport police say the man claimed he had the marijuana for medicinal purposes. Crew members from Flight 510 from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., say they became suspicious Monday when the man, identified as 43-year-old Adam Blumenkranz of Los Angeles, dropped [...]

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Shcool’s Out: Embarrassing ‘SHCOOL’ Sign Replaced In NYC

NEW YORK — An embarrassing misspelling of “school” is gone from the street outside a New York City school building. Utility workers used heavy machinery to ground up the wrongly placed “H” and “C” in the “SHCOOL X-NG” sign on Tuesday. The correction was made a day after the New York Post reported the spelling [...]

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Driver arrested on suspicion of DUI three times in five days

  An San Diego man has been arrested for suspected drunken driving three times in the last five days, deputies said Sunday. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a report of a drunken driver on Seacoast Drive in Imperial Beach about 6:30 a.m. Sunday. When they arrived they found the driver, David Lakarnafeaux, 44, had walked [...]

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Alaska woman, 85, uses shovel to fend off moose

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An 85-year-old Alaska woman used a grain shovel to fend off an agitated moose that was stomping her husband. George Murphy says his wife saved his life. The Anchorage Daily News (http://bit.ly/yahDtF) says the 82-year-old pilot, who flew for three decades for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, was hiking with his [...]

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Man shot nail into brain and didn’t know it

ORLAND PARK, Ill. — Gail Glaenzer still can’t believe that her fiance unknowingly shot a nail into his skull, let alone that he posted a picture of the X-ray on Facebook during his ambulance ride between hospitals for surgery. But she was joking about the circumstances Friday, a day after doctors successfully removed the 3.25-inch(8.25-centimeter) [...]

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Daytona Beach man arrested, jailed, for spitting on sidewalk

Daytona Beach – The 18-year-old was arrested and carted off to the slammer after police officers saw him breach a city ordinance by spitting on a Daytona Beach sidewalk. The incident occurred last Saturday. Austin Kennedy was walking on North Grandview Avenue in the city, in the 700 block to be precise, when he was [...]

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Tiger on roof turns out to be false alarm!

+ Humble – On Wednesday night, commuters stopped along their ride as their eyes were drawn to a tiger sitting upon a roof. Drivers called emergency lines to report the ‘escaped’ tiger. The roof belonged to an abandoned hotel near Will Clayton and Eastex Freeway. The Houston Fire Department received a stream of calls coming [...]

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Video: Sex scene plays in the background of TV news broadcast

London – A television monitor showing a nude woman engaged in a sex act shocked sharp-eyed viewers who spotted the x-rated action as it appeared in the background of a live news broadcast. Viewers of the program Scotland Tonight were watching a discussion on Ed Miliband’s Labour leadership when the cameras cut to political blogger [...]

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Teen Calls Cops When She Hears Mom Having Sex

JANUARY 23–A Florida teenager who called 911 last week asked police to place her in a Christian children’s shelter because she “heard her mother having sex.” Responding to a domestic disturbance call Thursday around 4 AM, a cop questioned the mother and daughter at their Panama City residence, according to a police report. The duo [...]

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