Police: Chicago Bulls' Mascot Attacked Cop
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,05
A Chicago Bulls mascot dressed in a bright red costume was charged with attacking an off-duty officer after driving a mini-motorcycle through an outdoor festival.
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Today In History - July 5, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,05
Today is Wednesday, July fifth, the 186th day of 2006. There are 179 days left in the year
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Hot Ice Cream Comes With A Warning
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
This ice cream comes with an unusual stipulation customers must sign a waiver before tasting it because it's so hot.
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Tahoe Bear Swills Booze With Pizza Snack
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
A bear cub drew a crowd of spectators at a Lake Tahoe neighborhood as it munched on barbecue-chicken-and-jalapeno pizza in the back seat of a vintage red Buick convertible.
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Japan's hot dog hot shot prefers tofu
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
A Japanese man who devoured more than 53 hot dogs in 12 minutes to break his own world record says he really prefers tofu.
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Man Eats 53 3/4 Hot Dogs In 12 Minutes
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
A 160-pound wonder from Japan set a new record by devouring 53 3/4 frankfurters in 12 minutes to win the annual Independence Day hot dog eating competition on Coney Island.
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Stroke Victim Left With Jamaican Accent
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
A Geordie stroke victim woke from a coma speaking like a Jamaican islander.Lynda Walker spent all 60 years of her life with a thick Geordie accent - but she now suffers from "foreign accent syndrome".
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Upside Down Reading Riddle Solved
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
A girl who has had a different perspective on the world most of her life has been cured of her problem - that she could only read upside down.Gemma Williams' curious condition left her family and teachers stumped - until she discovered that the colour orange held the key.
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Today In History - July 4, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
Today is Tuesday, July fourth, the 185th day of 2006. There are 180 days left in the year. This is Independence Day.
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Hospital Has 6 Sets Of Twins In 32 Hours
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
It all began with Chastity Keeler, who delivered twin boys. Keeler gave birth at 9:05 a.m. and 9:06 a.m. Tuesday. Over the next 32 hours, five more mothers gave birth to twins at Lansing's Sparrow Hospital.
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Bionic future may be closer to reality
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
Bionic men or 'cyborgs' have long been the subject of science fiction, starring in movies like the Terminator.
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Indian Superman sings, dances way to box office bonanza
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
Bollywood's first superhero has brought super profits to India's prolific film industry.
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Asteroid Zips Harmlessly Past Earth
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jul,03
A large asteroid hurtled harmlessly past the Earth at a distance of about 269,000 miles slightly farther away than the moon.
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Man prefers jail to being at home with grandfather
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jul,03
An Italian man escaped from house arrest and begged police to put him in jail because he could not bear living with his grandfather, according to his his lawyer.
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Putin quizzed on sex, drugs, 'giant octopus'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jul,03
Forget politics, oligarchs and Chechnya: What Russians really want to ask their leader is when he lost his virginity, when he will legalise marijuana and when a giant fictional octopus sleeping at the bottom of the ocean will awaken.
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China Restricts Internet Cafe Access
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jul,03
China has launched a campaign to enforce curfews at Internet cafes before schools let students out on summer vacation, a news report said Monday.
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Monkey On The Run In Virginia
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jul,03
A Japanese monkey aptly named Oops bolted from the Roanoke city zoo, sparking a park-wide shutdown as staff searched the surrounding forest where they could hear her in the trees.
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Docs Remove 119 Nails From Woman's Stomach
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jul,03
Physicians removed 119 nails many of them rusty from a woman's stomach months after she apparently swallowed them, a doctor said.
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Bigfoot shares human roots: environmentalist
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jul,03
Mysterious "Bigfoot" creatures said to be roaming Malaysian jungles probably descended from humankind's ancient African ancestor homo erectus, an environmentalist says.
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Door still rolling after 50 years
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jul,03
The roll-up garage door, part of the homes of millions of Australians, is celebrating its 50th birthday.
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Today In History - July 3, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jul,03
Today is Monday, July third, the 184th day of 2006. There are 181 days left in the year.
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U.S. Pins Wiener-Eating Hopes On Chestnut
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Jul,02
The biggest challenge of his life awaits Joey Chestnut on the Fourth of July and he doesn't want to choke. It's a legitimate worry. Chestnut aims to inhale more than four dozen frankfurters in 12 minutes at the annual Coney Island hot dog eating competition. And there's the pressure of going jaw-to-jaw with the world's foremost competitive eater, five-time defending champion Takeru Kobayashi of Japan.
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Woman Fights For Breast-Feeding Rights
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Jul,02
A woman offended when Victoria's Secret staff gave her only the option of an employee restroom in which to nurse her baby organized a nursing protest in front of the store.
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Today In History - July 2, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Jul,02
Today is Sunday, July second, the 183rd day of 2006. There are 182 days left in the year
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Non-English Speaker Acquitted In Flight Disruption
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Jul,02
An Spanish-speaking man who defense attorneys said was misunderstood by fellow passengers on a flight to Hawaii was found not guilty of interfering with a flight crew.
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Estonians reign at wife-carrying championships
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Jul,01
Finishing upside down clinging to a man's back may not be the most graceful way of winning gold, but it has helped Sandra Kullas and Margo Uusorg to the world wife-carrying crown.
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Today In History - July 1, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Jul,01
Today is Saturday, July first, the 182nd day of 2006. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day.
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Austin Landlord Accused Of Voyeurism In Custody
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Jul,01
A property owner from Austin who was accused by tenants of placing a camera in their bathroom was taken into custody by authorities late Friday.
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'Shop for the elderly' opens in Japan
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Jul,01
A convenience store chain in Japan has opened outlets tailored for the elderly, featuring wider aisles, larger price labels and a chill out space.
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Koizumi, Bush's diplomatic duet over
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has sang and danced his way around Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion to end his diplomatic duet with his closest foreign ally, US President George W Bush.
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Safe sex gets cheaper in Britain
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
It will be cheaper to make love in Britain from today thanks to a reduction in sales tax on condoms announced by the Treasury.
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Man Accused Of Abusing Dog With Leaf Blower, Oven
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
A Murray, Utah man accused of beating a dog and placing it in an oven now faces charges.
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German Postal Carrier Caught Hording Mail At Home
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
A German letter carrier hoarded nearly 2,000 letters at her apartment, refusing to deliver them because she felt physically overwhelmed by her job, police said Friday. Some of the letters were delivered to their addressees, but most had to be returned to their senders.
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Indonesian Playboy Editor, Model Could Be Jailed
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
A Playboy magazine editor and a centerfold model who appeared in the first edition in Indonesia have been named by police as suspects in an indecency case, a move praised by religious hard-liners in the predominantly Muslim country.
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Court Won't Supervise Love-Crazed MySpace Teen
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
Prosecutors on Thursday agreed to withdraw a petition calling for court supervision for a 17-year-old who flew to the Middle East to be with a man she met on MySpace.com.
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119 Rusty Nails Found In Woman's Gut
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
Doctors have removed 119 rusty nails from a mentally ill woman's stomach.The 43-year-old turned up at a hospital in Vietnam complaining of chronic stomach ache.
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Bite With Buffett Goes For $620,100
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
A lunch date with billionaire investor Warren Buffett is getting pricier. Someone paid $620,100 in an online charity auction to dine with the Oracle of Omaha in New York. In last year's auction, the winning bid was $351,100.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
Today is Friday, June 30th, the 181st day of 2006. There are 184 days left in the year.
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Big birds get NASA in a flap
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
In a bid to make conditions safer for Sunday morning's scheduled launch of the space shuttle, Discovery, officials are going to extraordinary lengths.
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King Tut's Mom Not In Tomb
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
Archaeologists hoped the first tomb discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 80 years would hold the mummy of King Tut's mother. They opened the last of eight sarcophagi, revealing no mummies but finding something almost as valuable: embalming materials and ancient woven flowers.
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Anti-Australia World Cup rant reborn as ring tone
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
A Chinese commentator's brain explosion at the end of Australia's heart-breaking World Cup loss to Italy has been released as a mobile phone ring tone.
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Pig Who Posed As Wilbur Gets Reprieve
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
The message of "Charlotte's Web" has softened the heart of a farmer who has decided a piggy who posed as Wilbur won't be going to market after all.
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Boater Rescued Twice In The Same Spot
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
For Barry Glinton, apparently lightning does strike twice in the same place. Glinton and three fishing buddies were rescued Wednesday evening after his 20-foot powerboat started taking on water about a mile off Boynton Beach, authorities said.
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Cleveland Police Find Skeleton In Bed
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
Officers who went to a home to serve a search warrant found a skeleton in the bed where an 80-year-old woman said her mother was sleeping.
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Drive-Thru Pot Smoke Gives Pair Away
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
A pair of pot smokers picked the wrong day to use the drive-thru window at a KFC restaurant in Buffalo. Two men in their 20s pulled up to the restaurant's window and asked for the Wednesday special.
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Bush And Koizumi Sing Diplomatic Duet
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,30
It's not every day that two world leaders croon to each other, "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You." But clearly President Bush has special feelings for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, and he put them on full display from morning until night Thursday at the White House.
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Would-be burglars call in police
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jun,29
Western Australian detectives are piecing together the details of a bizarre confrontation in which it appears two burglars called police for assistance during an attempted break-in.
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Bush gives Koizumi Elvis-heavy jukebox
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jun,29
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi knew immediately what he wanted to hear first on the jukebox he received from US President George W Bush: Elvis Presley.
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Thieves snatch 15,000 litres of petrol
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jun,29
An investigation has begun into the theft of 15,000 litres of petrol from a service station at Croydon in Sydney's inner-west.
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Giant beanie marks starts of Alice festival
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jun,29
A four-metre tall woollen beanie will be raised in Alice Springs tonight as the central Australian town's 10th annual Beanie Festival gets under way.
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