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Man found in WI basement covered in BBQ sauce

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:27:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: lol

APPLETON, Wisc. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A couple telephoned police in the middle of the night after finding a man in their basement covered head to toe in barbecue sauce.

Tags: bbq, odd news, bizarre, offbeat

Deranged Man Takes Out Eye Of Girl He Mistook as Frog

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:38:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: how could you mistake A person for a frog come on!

Clip Source: bulletins.myspace.com

An allegedly deranged man was arrested by authorities after he removed the eye of a three-year-old girl he reportedly mistook for a frog in Taguig, near the Philippine capital of Manila.

Tags: bizarre, egg, philippine, odd news

Designer of Pringles can is buried in his invention

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:49:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: kool

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) -- The man who designed the Pringles potato chip packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans.

Tags: pringles, bizarre, odd news, chips

teacher lets kids vot out autism kid

Tue, 27 May 2008 18:23:28 GMT

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Clip Source: digg.com

tcpalm.com — After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn't like about Barton's 5-year-old son, Alex, his Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy Portillo said they were going to take a vote. By a 14 to 2 margin, the students voted Alex — who is in the process of being diagnosed with autism — out of the class.More… (Odd Stuff)

Tags: autism, gerneral news

3 accused of using corpse head to smoke pot

Sat, 10 May 2008 21:26:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: nasty

Clip Source: www.chron.com

The Kingwood teenager's story of decapitating a corpse and using the head to smoke marijuana was so outlandish that at first Houston Police Department senior police officer Jim Adkins did not believe it.

Tags: pot, weed, drugs, bizarre, odd news, marijuana, corpse

woman had a gigantic skin-fat

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:40:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: just madness

Clip Source: english.pravda.ru

When Natalya M. was rushed to a hospital in Voronezh, Russia, the doctors didn’t believe their eyes – the woman had a gigantic skin-fat growth on her belly that didn’t let her walk normally. It was 36 inches long and weighed 125 pounds.

Tags: obese, russian woman, odd news, bizarre

Florida woman survives gunshot between the eyes

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:30:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: she had a angel

Clip Source: today.msnbc.msn.com

Emergency room doctors apologized to the 42-year-old woman who had come in for treatment for staring at her in disbelief. It wasn’t every day — in fact, it was never — that they saw somebody with a large-caliber gunshot wound between the eyes who not only was alive, but wasn’t even unconscious or seriously injured.

Tags: guns, gunshot, car jack, general news, odd news, offeat

Weird things Auctioned

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:10:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: just plane weird.

Clip Source: www.webupon.com

You’ve heard the stories of weird and wacky things sold on the internet, everyone has. Here are the top 10 weirdest things sold on the internet ever.

Tags: odd news, weird, bizarre, auction

Balloon lost in the sky with diamond ring

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:58:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: idiot

Clip Source: digg.com

telegraph.co.uk — It had seemed a romantic and highly original way to propose to the love of your life with a £6,000 diamond ring. Lefkos Hajji, 28, wanted to make his engagement one his girlfriend would never forget, only to have his dreams cruelly snatched from his grasp by a gust of windMore… (Odd Stuff)

Tags: balloon, odd news, weird

Man leaves dead mother in armchair for two years

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:16:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: people are just f*cucked in the head these days.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German left his dead mother seated in her favorite armchair at their shared home for two years because he could not face organizing a funeral, police in the southern town of Fuerstenfeldbruck said Friday.

Tags: man, dead, mother, armchair, death, odd news, bizarre

Man sues McDonald's for 13 cents

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:53:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: give me a break

Clip Source: www.oddnews.org

A lawyer reportedly has sued McDonald's in China after he was given receipts that were printed mostly in English.
The state-run newspaper Beijing Youth Daily said the lawyer claims the use of English instead of Chinese "violates the consumers' right to know."

Youth Daily said the lawyer wants an apology and compensation of about 13 cents. It did not give details on any court case.