Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

Offbeat

Lucifer, Full Stop baby names rejected

Naming your new bundle of joy Lucifer has been effectively banned by New Zealand's names registrar after three parents had the odd request knocked back.
July 19, 2011, 10:11 am
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Enraged Chihuahua attacks robbers

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies have released a video of a barking Chihuahua angrily chasing off robbers at an Altadena smoke shop.
July 19, 2011, 2:19 pm
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Teen cycles on 23m-deep lake

In an attempt to raise money for a flooded community, a British teenager has ridden his bike - on a lake.
July 18, 2011, 8:33 am
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Aphrodisiac lizards bad for health, say experts

The Philippines has warned against using gecko lizards to treat AIDS and impotence, saying the folkloric practice in parts of Asia may put patients at risk.
July 16, 2011, 7:25 am

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Running of the Lambs causes outrage

While certainly tamer than Spain's Running of the Bulls, New Zealand's planned Running of the Lambs has outraged animal lovers in central Hawke's Bay.
July 14, 2011, 2:08 pm

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Funeral make-up for the dead

A cosmetics company wants people to look their very best - even when they die.
July 12, 2011, 11:31 am

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Ghostly image of owl's window treatment

An owl that crashed into the window of a British home left a ghostly imprint of itself behind.
July 12, 2011, 8:05 am
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Drunk in charge of a lawnmower

Drunk while in charge of a motorised lawnmower
July 7, 2011, 7:30 am

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Planking teen's 'stupidity'

A magistrate in Britain has lashed out at a teenager who lay on one of the country's busiest railway tracks to be photographed planking.
July 6, 2011, 6:57 am

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Monkeys take over photoshoot

There was quite a lot of monkey business when a group of macaques got their hands on a digital camera and started snapping away.
July 5, 2011, 9:43 am

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Scientist 'transfixed' by dancing Snowball

If you have grand plans to turn your pooch or pussycat into the next Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, a scientist in the US has some bad news for you.
July 5, 2011, 9:22 am

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15 hours to cook world's biggest burger

When a forklift is used to carry a char-grilled hamburger patty to its bun you know this is one mega burger.
July 4, 2011, 1:35 pm

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Police probe cobra man's death

An investigation is under way into the death of an English snake breeder killed by one of his venomous reptiles.
July 1, 2011, 7:43 am
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'Heir has surgery to look like grandad'

Speculation abounds that the North Korean regime's heir apparent has had plastic surgery in an attempt to resemble his grandfather Kim Il-Sung.
June 29, 2011, 8:25 am
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'Humans will find aliens within 20 years'

A top Russian astronomer says humans will make contact with alien life in the next two decades - but "they may have different colour skin".
June 29, 2011, 7:42 am

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Teen falls 6m from escalator rail

A teenager admits he was drunk when he fell 6m off an escalator onto a concrete floor at a Massachusetts subway station.
June 29, 2011, 7:06 am

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Froth and bubble - for $184,000

As proof that having money doesn't necessarily endow a person with common sense, an American professional gambler and businessman has reportedly paid nearly $184,000 for a bottle of champagne at a London nightclub - and then sprayed it on the crowd.
June 28, 2011, 7:07 am
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Shark jumps over surfer

A surfer in Florida got the shock of his life when a shark jumped over the back of his surfboard.
June 27, 2011, 9:06 am
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Brian's Batmobile is turning heads

Retiree Brian Vann causes quite a stir when he heads to the local shop in this - a gopher transformed into the Batmobile.
June 27, 2011, 6:51 am

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UFO mothership visits London?

Believe it, or not. Unidentified flying objects have appeared among the clouds over a BBC building in West London, a video has shown.
June 27, 2011, 6:47 am

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