Salami Captures Thief

You should always remember to take your salami with you!

clipped from news.yahoo.com BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities were able to pin a burglary committed in April on a suspected serial thief after he left a half-eaten slice of salami carrying a sliver of his DNA at a crime scene, police said Thursday. The 37-year-old Romanian man is accused of breaking into a workshop office in the western city of Darmstadt, stealing cash and two locks and causing damage worth around 3,400 euros ($5,055), Suedhessen police spokesman Ferdinand Derigs said. "He didn't bring the salami with him -- it was just lying around in the office," Derigs said.

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Bird Poops in Reporter's Mouth

During a live report on bird infestation a bird dropped something into a reporter's mouth as he was looking up. A whole new meaning to the phrase "potty mouth!".

Bird Poops in Reporter's Mouth

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Father and Son Have Webbed Hands

A father and son in China were both born with webbed hands. They are looking to have surgery to correct it.

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Cheeta to Write Tell All Book

Actually, it will probably be better than some other Hollywood biographies.

clipped from www.ananova.com Cheeta the Chimp, who co-starred in a dozen Tarzan films, is to publish his memoirs. The chimpanzee is listed in the Guinness World Records as the oldest living non-human primate at 75. He has taken on a literary agent and is working with a ghostwriter on a "funny, moving and searingly honest" autobiography. Me Cheeta will be published in October. The publisher would not reveal the advance payment, but said the sum was "substantial - not bananas".

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Duck Prodigy

Obviously home schooled.

clipped from www.ananova.com A duck in China has become a celebrity for its singing, dancing and counting abilities. According to Dahe Daily, Bengbeng (Silly), follows its owner, Du Xinai of Xingxiang city, to the local agricultural market to buy vegetables every day, wearing a small red scarf and a pair of tiny shoes. "If you ask him to sing, he quacks rhythmically while shaking his head and body. He quite enjoys it." "If you put up one finger, he quacks once, then twice with two fingers, and so on." Du says Bengbeng has become quite a star. "Everywhere he goes, people welcome him like a super star."

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Public Space Flights Coming Soon

I wonder if you have to go through immigration when you return? Technically you would have left the country, but you hadn't landed in another. Let's hope they offer air miles!

Richard Branson has unveiled plans for commercial space flights - Virgin Galactic. Over 200 people have already signed up.

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Lost Cat Turns Up in Texas

Lucky the suitcase didn't get lost!

A missing cat was found 1300 miles away after it crawled into a suitcase.

clipped from news.yahoo.com PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - The last time cat-owner Kelly Levy saw her tiger-striped feline was before she took her husband to the airport. The 24-year-old came back to her house late Friday to find the bottom step, where Gracie Mae would usually be waiting, empty. "Hi, you're not going to believe this, but I am calling from Fort Worth, Texas, and I accidentally picked up your husband's luggage. And when I opened the luggage, a cat jumped out," Levy recalled the caller saying, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. Gracie Mae had crawled into Seth Levy's black suitcase undetected, been put through an X-ray machine, loaded onto an airplane, thrown onto a baggage claim conveyor belt and picked up by a stranger. Carter delivered Gracie Mae to Seth Levy and the tabby made the 1,300-mile trip home on an $80 plane ticket Sunday night.

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Another Reason Teenagers Hurt Their Wrists

If you can get hurt using a PC then something like the Wii could really hurt, especially if you're unfit.

British medical experts say that the Wii has caused thousands of injuries in the UK, especially among the middle-aged.

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Prince Charles In Two Places At Once

This could come in handy when playing golf!

clipped from www.ananova.com Prince Charles delivered a speech on the environment to the world's leaders as a hologram before vanishing into thin air. The Prince was reluctant to attend the summit in person because the flights for him and his entourage would have generated an estimated 20 tons of carbon waste. In comparison the hologram is thought to have left a carbon footprint equivalent to a lightbulb, reports the Daily Telegraph. It meant that the Prince could be seen in two places at the same time - in Abu Dhabi and visiting a former colliery in Ayrshire.

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Thief Calls a Cab

Well, perhaps he didn't want to run his mintutes up on his mobile phone.

A thief in Wales, called a cab after he had finished ransacking the victim's house.

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Olympic Ice Sculptures

An ice sculpture show with the theme of Olympic Songfest in Beijing.

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Amazon Fined for Viciously Offering Free Shipping

If I walked to a bookstore then I wouldn't be paying for shipping. Should I pay more for the book when I got there? A strange law.

clipped from technologyexpert.blogspot.com Amazon.com has run afoul of a French law that basically makes free shipping a crime. On Monday it said it will continue to ship books for free in France and take a €1000 (or nearly $1500 at the time of this writing) a day fine. The Lang Law (81-766 August 10, 1981) says that the selling price of books must be indicated by the editor on the cover, and that any retailer is required to sell the work at a price ranging between 95% and 100% of that price. This system is designed to prevent independent booksellers from being forced out of business by large discounters (just look at how many independent booksellers have gone out of business in the United States). Last month a union of French bookstores sued - and won - over the free shipping on orders over €20. The argument was the free shipping effectively lowered the price of books outside of the Lang Law limits. The union was awarded €100,000 and Amazon.com was ordered to start charging for shipping.

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Addicted to the Internet

I think more needs to be done to look into internet addiction.

A study in China showed that about 10% of young people are addicted to the internet.

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Army Rocket Hits House - Owner "Understanding"

Well at least they hit something.

clipped from news.yahoo.com MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military Thursday offered compensation to a homeowner after a small rocket veered off course and hit his country house outside Moscow. A defense ministry official told Reuters two rockets had gone astray during a military exercise near Moscow Wednesday afternoon. One hit the roof of an unoccupied house 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away. "The damage is estimated at 60,000 rubles ($2,466). It will be compensated for in two days," said Yevgeny Konashenkov, spokesman for Russian land troops. "The owner of the house treats the incident with understanding. He has no legal claims."

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Fat Bees Are Clever

That assumes that if there is more nectar the bees are fatter. But if they are more intelligent then they won't overeat. Which means they'll have too much nectar. Which they could sell to the dumb bees. Who don't have any money. But maybe they'll give the dumb bees a loan. Which would be pretty stupid. Oh wait - did I get mixed up with the sub-prime thing?

British researchers have found that more intelligent bees gather greater amounts of nectar.

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Urdu Is Now Easier to Learn - Official

Hey - I would have done much better in math if they'd dropped differential equations - what are they doing about that?

India has decided to made learning Urdu easier - by missing out the hard words.

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Man Arrested for Snake Walking

You can't even take your snake for a walk nowadays!

clipped from news.sky.com An afternoon stroll in Long Island has landed a man in the slammer, because he decided to take his 14-foot python with him. Curtis Dewberry was spotted by an officer for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals walking down a main road with the reptile wrapped round his body. Dewberry has been charged with animal cruelty and failure to protect the public against dangerous wildlife. The fate of the snake is not yet known.

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It's Official - Clowns Are Scary

So who does like clowns? Their mothers? Who else?

A study in Britain found that children aged 4-16 didn't like clowns. Every single one of the 250 interviewed expressed a dislike.

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Women-only Garage

I wonder what pictures they have on the calendars in the workshop.

A women-only garage has opened in France with the only male employee being the boss. This must have huge opportunity for sexist comments, so I shall take the high ground.

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Angela Merkel Voted Sexiest World Leader

Well, it was a close contest, but Angela Merkel just beat out Nicolas Sarcozy to be voted the sexiest G8 leader. Merkel, the German Chancellor had 28% and Sarcozy, the French President had 24% in our Odds Bodkins! poll.

They were both a long way ahead of third place Gordon Brown of the UK.

Full Results:

Angela Merkel 28%
Nicolas Sarcozy 24%
Gordon Brown 12%
Vladimir Putin 10%
George Bush 6%
Giorgio Napolitano 4%
Stephen Harper 1%

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Mask Festival

Maybe they don't have TVs in Bulgaria.

It was the fifth annual mask festival in Bulgaria with over 1500 people attending.

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Party Dispersed with Helicopter

Sometimes things go sooooo wrong...

An Australian teen is faced with a bill of $18,000 after police had to call in a helicopter to disperse the crowd that had turned up to the party he was having while his parents were away.

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Bilingual Dogs Invade Britain

The sad thing is that the dogs will probably become fluent in two languages, much better than humans

clipped from news.yahoo.com LONDON (AFP) - British police dog handlers are learning to give orders to their animals in German after bosses decided to import Alsatians because of a shortage of suitable animals here, media reports said Friday. A trial of the German dogs by Derbyshire Police in east central England has been deemed a success, prompting 16 other forces to recruit the canines at 2,000 pounds (2,600 euros, 3,900 dollars) each. Handlers have had to learn a series of orders in German, including "sitz" (sit), "platz" (down), "aus" (let go), "holen" (fetch) and "bissen" (bite). A Derbyshire Police spokeswoman told the Press Association news agency said they were attempting to get the dogs to respond to English. "We are repeating the German commands in English so they are becoming bilingual," she added.

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Snake Balls Snapped Up on eBay

People will buy the strangest things. Hey, if I swallow a couple of golf balls do you suppose?.....maybe not...

In a follow-up to the story of a snake eating golf balls (Snake Eats Balls), the balls have been sold on eBay for over $1000!

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Corpse tries to Cash Check

It's what he would have wanted...

clipped from www.ananova.com Two men have been arrested in New York for wheeling a dead friend through the streets in an office chair and trying to cash his cheque. David Dalaia and James O'Hare, were seen pushing Virgilio Cintron's body from their Manhattan apartment to a cheque-cashing store a block away. The men left Cintron's body outside the store, went inside and tried to cash his cheque, worth about £180. Cintron's body was taken to a hospital morgue. The medical examiner's office told police it appeared Cintron, 66, had died from natural causes.

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Granny Shoots Lion

Sometimes you gotta do, what you gotta do.

An 80 year old woman shot and killed a mountain lion after emergency services said there was no one to help her.

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Snow in Kabul

And I complain when we have a few inches...

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Man Pulls Plane With Teeth

The things people will do to get their plane to take off on time...

clipped from www.ananova.com A Chinese man has pulled a small aeroplane more than ten metres with his teeth. Zhang Shaoxiong, 42, nicknamed Dragon Boy, performed the stunt in Red Sun square in Xiangtan city. "It wasn't a big deal for me. I've pulled things that are even heavier," he told Changsha Evening News. Zhang says he was inspired to train himself to pull heavy objects with his teeth 20 years ago. Zhang says his super-strong teeth also come from his life-long habit of chewing betel nuts.

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Dog Drunk as a Dog

I've heard of "drunk as a skunk"...

A dog was hospitalized after being well over the alcohol limit, unable to stand properly and certainly unable to drive (except in Italy).

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Raining Cats, Dogs and...Lizards?

Hey, it's like an iguana popsicle!

clipped from news.yahoo.com MIAMI (AFP) - An unexpected cold snap this week sent thermometers plummeting in Florida and heat-hungry iguanas dropping from tree branches like autumn leaves, scientists and witnesses said. Passersby in Bill Baggs and Crandon parks in Key Biscayne, south of Miami, were seen picking up the seemingly lifeless lizards from the ground beneath trees and setting them in the sun, where after a brief warm-up, most revived and scampered off into the bushes. Iguanas are not native to Florida but were brought in by travelers from Mexico, Central and South America.

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Cat Spends Two Months Locked in Shed

Poor pussy. Then they showed how much they loved her by giving her away!

clipped from www.ananova.com A cat accidentally locked in a garden shed in Devon survived for two months by licking condensation off the windows. Emmy, imprisoned when she followed her owner into the garden shed in Toray which he locked up for the winter, left tongue marks on the glass. The family has since moved and given Emmy to the Blue Cross animal centre, reports the BBC. Centre manager Laura Valentine said the family had been upset at the accidental distress they caused the 10-year-old cat. "She is absolutely fine now and is a little fighter," she added.

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Man Stabs Barber

I have to admit, I don't like it when they talk too much - but this is going a bit too far!

A San Diego man was arrested after he stabbed his barber because he didn't like his haircut.

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Snake Eats Balls

Hey, it was probably dark in that chicken coop.

A carpet snake had to undergo surgery after it ate four golf balls by mistake.

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