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The world is truly an interesting place… AP
Here’s a job opportunity you won’t need to buy a new wardrobe for.
Hoping to take advantage of Rhode Island’s floundering economy, owners of the Foxy Lady strip club in Providence plan to hold a job fair on Saturday.
They say they’re looking to fill around 30 positions, from strippers [...]
What is this world coming to? AFP
Spanish police said Friday they had detained a man who received a parcel in the mail from Venezuela containing a dinner set that was made with 20 kilos (44 pounds) of cocaine.
The 35-year-old was arrested as he received the package containing the 42-piece dinner set made up of cups, [...]
Intersting, very interesting… Telegraph
Californian judges have ruled that a contract written in blood is not legally enforceable.
The ruling came in the case of a man who had gone to extreme lengths to reassure a friend he would reimburse money from bad investment.
But the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana decided the blood contract [...]
Interesting AFP
An eccentric pilot was sacked for letting a Premier League footballer into his cockpit — after being given a final warning for undressing during a security check, an employment tribunal heard Wednesday.
Pablo Mason, a former RAF Tornado pilot who served in the 1991 Gulf War, was dismissed last year after letting Robbie Savage, then [...]
What is really going on here? Greenville Online
Laurens County (The Greenville News) – Tammy Fausel said that she and her family were shocked at what happened during her uncle’s funeral in Gray Court.
A Candler, N.C., woman danced in front of the service, waved a wand around the casket, opened the lid, laid her hands on [...]
When in Rome, do as the Romans do… CourierMail
A TOURIST who refused to take his clothes off at a swinger sex party has been blamed for “a mini-riot” at a north Queensland nudist colony.
Police were called amid threats of violence and lewd behaviour and ordered the Brisbane man and his wife from the adults-only “anything [...]
This is why at times, it’s good to let idiots be idiots… NYP
It started with a simple request: Stop talking so loud on your cellphone.
But what happened next in a Borough Park bodega nearly put the woman who made the request in the hospital – with bruises to her body, coffee burns to her face [...]
Get out the silver bullets… New Scientist
A SKELETON exhumed from a grave in Venice is being claimed as the first known example of the “vampires” widely referred to in contemporary documents.
Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy found the skeleton of a woman with a small brick in her mouth (see right) while [...]
Hmmm
A 26-year-old passenger on board an American Airlines jet from Charlotte to Dallas opened a door and slid down an inflatable emergency chute Tuesday as the aircraft waited to taxi to its gate at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
The man, who had not been identified Tuesday night, reportedly ran into the first class section of American [...]
What is there to say, she wanted her MNuggets… TSG
Angered that her local McDonald’s was out of Chicken McNuggets, a Florida woman called 911 three times to report the fast food “emergency.” Latreasa Goodman, 27, last Saturday called police to complain that a cashier–citing a McDonald’s all sales are final policy–would not give her a [...]