Archive for the 'Odd News' Category
A Wisconsin woman was saved by her dog after her cat started a house fire.
Sunday night Jamie Hanson’s cat knocked a candle onto a chair starting the fire. Hanson’s dog, a specially trained aid dog, brought her a phone allowing for a call for help.
Tragically both the cat and dog were killed in the [...]
October 16th, 2006 | Posted in Odd News | No Comments
The parent of a 3-year-old child looked away while the kids was near her computer. In that time the boy went to eBay and bid on a Pink Nissan that was up for auction.
Fortunately for his mother, Rachel Neal, the seller, David Jones, found the humor in the situation and is not holding little [...]
September 27th, 2006 | Posted in Odd News | No Comments
A teddy bear caused the death of 2,500 trout at a hatchery in New Hampshire. The bear was dropped in a pool and found its way to a pipe that blocked air getting to the fish. Hatchery workers do not know who dropped the bear.
The deaths prompted a new sign - “RELEASE OF [...]
September 26th, 2006 | Posted in Odd News | No Comments
Ok, this is pretty cool. Maxim Magazine printed a 75×110 foot mesh windscreen version of their cover and laid it flat on the Nevada dessert. Not so passing motorists could see it but so passing satellites could. They want Google Maps to pick up the image.
And just in case, there are several [...]
April 12th, 2006 | Posted in Odd News, Pictures | No Comments
It’s the 15th Great Easter Bunny Hunt. And no, they’re not looking for eggs. 400+ hunters are converging in a small town in New Zealand to help curb the rabbit population. It seems that rabbits are a pest in that part of NZ.
Last year over 500 hunters killed over 21,000 rabbits during [...]
April 11th, 2006 | Posted in Odd News | No Comments
Don’t deny it parents. You treat your pretty kid better than your ugly kid. Research says so.
Technorati Tags: ugly
March 20th, 2006 | Posted in General Stupidity, Odd News | 2 Comments
As part of a foreclosure settlement, William Lewis Jr. was ordered to pay $80,000. He paid with 80,000 $1 bills. Says Lewis, “I wanted to bring it in pennies, but I couldn’t find them in time. That would have been three armored cars.” Lewis is fighting foreclosure on a property that [...]
March 16th, 2006 | Posted in Odd News | 6 Comments
Mitsubishi Motors sponsored a poll at http://www.TheCarConnection.com to find the 10 wackiest street names in America. According to the poll, all the street names were verified, but some were difficult to find.
10 - Tater Peeler Road in Lebanon, Tenn.
9 - The intersection of Count and Basie in Richmond, Va.
8 - Shades of Death [...]
February 27th, 2006 | Posted in Odd News | 1 Comment
Two and a half years after her death, the mummified body of Johannas Pope was found sitting in front of her television set.
Pope died in August 2003 at the age of 61. She had told her live-in caregiver that she did not want to be buried and ‘planned on returning’.
Now, [...]
January 10th, 2006 | Posted in Odd News | No Comments
Yup, you read that right. Tu Jin-Sheng, also known as Iron Crotch, attached a rental truck to his penis and pulled the truck across a parking lot - twice.
December 3rd, 2005 | Posted in Odd News | No Comments