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Waitress Sues Cops for $12K 'Gift' From Diner

Minnesota police confiscated what they say is drug money

(Newser) - A Minnesota waitress who says a customer told her to keep a box with $12,000 in it has sued police who later impounded the cash as suspected drug money. Stacy Knutson of Moorhead filed a lawsuit asking that the cash be returned to her. She said she believes the...

Sheriff's Captain Took Inmate Golfing

Jeff Donahue just wanted help with his swing, OK?

(Newser) - Frank Carrillo is a total sports guy. He was a pro golfer. Then he started stealing cash and Rolexes from golf courses. Then he swiped a World Series championship ring at a golf event. So it makes complete sense that while in prison for these crimes he was whisked to...

Enough Is Enough! Pilot Finds Snake in Cockpit

Braden Blennerhassett says the snake slithered over his leg at one point

(Newser) - A real-life Snakes on a Plane played out in Australia on Tuesday, when pilot Braden Blennerhassett was forced to make an emergency landing after a snake slithered out of his dashboard 20 minutes after he took off from Darwin Airport. "I turned [the plane] around and got it headed...

Pit Bull Survives Shot in Head After Saving Owner

Staten Island pooch helps scare off home invader

(Newser) - A courageous dog saved the day in Staten Island when he helped scare off a home invader and survived a bullet to the head, reports the New York Post . The drama began when a burglar disguised as a FedEx deliveryman tried to break into Justin Becker's apartment. Becker threw...

47 Years Later, 10K Eggs Cover Easter Tree

Here's the amazing part: They're real, not plastic

(Newser) - Money may not grow on trees, but Easter eggs apparently do, thanks to one German man. Volker Kraft's apple sapling sported just 18 eggs when he first decorated it for Easter in 1965. The number increased year by year; by last year, the sturdy tree was festooned with 9,...

Teller to Bank Robber: We're Closed, Come Back

Improbable fib thwarts robbery

(Newser) - Hate the short hours at your local bank? Think how Olga L. Perdomo feels. Last week, she tried to rob Albany Bank and Trust in Chicago, but was thwarted when a wily teller told her the bank was closed, and to come back tomorrow. The full story: Perdomo walked into...

Aussie Finds Maggots in Airline Snack

Qantas says it is investigating how snacks were contaminated

(Newser) - Coffee, tea, or maggots? That's the unpleasant dining option several passengers discovered on a recent Qantas flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne, reports the New York Daily News . Victoria Cleven says she was eating snack mix when she noticed something wrong, "like hair or something over my mouth,...

Pre-Chewing Baby's Food Looks to Be A-OK

Alicia Silverstone's practice offers benefits similar to breastfeeding

(Newser) - Alicia Silverstone's video of herself chewing her baby's food last week prompted disgusted comments, but she may actually be doing little Bear Blu a favor. Our ancestors did the same, and plenty of non-Western cultures still do it, Life's Little Mysteries notes. Like breast-feeding, "pre-mastication" offers...

Man Tries to Board Plane With Knife in Mayo

But it wasn't a great hiding spot: the TSA considers mayonnaise a gel

(Newser) - Score one for the TSA: Security screeners at New York's Kennedy Airport caught a man trying to smuggle a knife onto a flight ... by sticking it in a full tub of mayonnaise. A TSA rep says screeners stopped the man today as he arrived for a trip to Mexico...

Man Busted for Peeing on Co-Workers' Chairs

Raymond Charles Foley urinated on those belonging to 'attractive females'

(Newser) - If your office chair seems a little damp ... well, you might want to find another one. A 59-year-old Des Moines man was charged with criminal mischief yesterday after turning himself in for peeing on the chairs of his Farm Bureau colleagues. Security cameras installed after mysterious stains began appearing on...

Priest Flashes Gay Porn During Communion Talk

He has no idea how it got on memory stick

(Newser) - A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland insists he has no idea how gay porn ended up on a memory stick he was using for a Powerpoint presentation to families before their children's First Communion. After he clicked on a folder and explicit images filled the screen, the "visibly...

Unruly Patron Bites Off Bartender's Pinky: Cops

Said patron had just been caught having sex at said bar

(Newser) - Crazy things happen at bars, and then crazeeee things happen at bars ... a tale of the latter, out of New York: Glens Falls police report that Ernest Vannier was caught having sex with a woman around 4am yesterday in the smoking room of a bar called the Daily Double. It...

DUI Suspect Sings &#39;Bohemian Rhapsody&#39;
 DUI Suspect Sings 
 'Bohemian Rhapsody' 
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Apr 1, 2012 7:00 PM CDT

DUI Suspect Sings 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

Canada's Robert Wilkinson belts it out a cappella in cop car

(Newser) - Instant classic. A YouTube video of 29-year-old Robert Wilkinson of Alberta, Canada, singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the back of a police cruiser easily qualifies. Wilkinson had just been pulled over on suspicion of drunken driving, reports the Smoking Gun . Police gave Wilkinson the video as part of his still-pending...

And the Oddest Book Title of the Year Is ...

Other contenders included books about chicken sexing, office chairs

(Newser) - There were plenty of odd book titles last year, such as Estonian Sock Patterns All Over the World and A Taxonomy of Office Chairs. But the winner of the Diagram prize for strangest book title of the year is Cooking with Poo, reports the Guardian . Actually, Cooking with Poo is...

Body Part Found in Flier's Luggage

Chinese passenger busted at Bucharest airport

(Newser) - A Chinese airline passenger en route to Italy was busted in Bucharest after a body part was found in his luggage, apparently tucked away amid the underwear and shirts. A portion of a "human lower limb" was discovered during a security check, reports the Telegraph . "The fragment of...

Bigfoot Search Requires Permit: Park Rangers

31 Sasquatch seekers stopped in Arkansas

(Newser) - The National Parks Service doesn't allow just anyone to conduct a search for Bigfoot. A man conducting a group mission to track down Sasquatch was halted by park rangers who told him he needed a permit, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. That's because the leader of the search around...

Man Killed Wife After Dog Pooped in House: Cops

Michael Stephen Stolz shot their two dogs, too

(Newser) - Yikes: A Texas man is charged with shooting and killing his wife after one of their dogs pooped in the house. Michael Stephen Stolz, 76, told police that he first shot the defecating dog—a German Shepherd mix—after the incident Saturday. Then he shot the couple's other dog,...

'Cinnamon Challenge' Landing Teens in Hospital

YouTube dare riskier than it seems, poison centers warn

(Newser) - Kids these days aren't smoking nutmeg, they're swallowing cinnamon—or trying to, the nation's poison centers warn. More and more teens appear to be attempting the "cinnamon challenge"—in which you try to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon without choking—and poison centers have...

The Weird Fight Over Oswald's Tombstone

How it wound up at a small auto museum in Illinois

(Newser) - The Historic Auto Attractions museum in Roscoe, Illinois, is home to a Lincoln once owned by Elvis, an Andy Griffith Show squad car, three Batmobiles, and... Lee Harvey Oswald's tombstone? It's not quite as weird as it sounds—the tiny museum has an array of non-vehicular esoterica, including...

Guy Busted for Trying to Swipe ID of Microsoft&#39;s Allen
Man Steals Identity of ...
One of World's Richest Men
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Mar 27, 2012 9:59 AM CDT

Man Steals Identity of ... One of World's Richest Men

It just seems obvious that this was going to end really badly

(Newser) - Ways to land in trouble:
  1. Go AWOL.
  2. Fund your AWOL lifestyle via identity theft.
  3. Snatch the identity of one of the world's richest men.
So goes the case against Brandon Lee Price, who now faces bank fraud charges for allegedly swiping the identity of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, reports...

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