Dom's Weird News
News of the weird and strange from around the world
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
InstaKilt
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The workforce at a south west Scotland souvenir firm is set for a cash windfall after the company's latest release proved a massive summ...
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Eau la la !
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A 26-year-old plumber from Merseyside has been nominated as the best apprentice plumber in France. Oliver Watson, from Southport, will recei...
Countdown to Russia's sex day
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A Russian region best known as the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin has found a novel way to fight the nation’s birthrate crisis: It has declare...
Geoff the Fossa
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A Cornish zoo is celebrating after an endangered male fossa cub was born there for the first time. The tiny cub, Geoff, was born at Newquay ...
Assault with a cocktail sausage
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A 12-year-old boy apparently got into an argument with an elderly neighbour, the youngster retaliated by throwing a cocktail sausage, which ...
Record number of Brits quit Britain
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The number of people migrating from the UK has reached record levels, official Government figures show. The Office for National Statistics (...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Insuring against Nessie
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Organisers of a duathlon in Scotland have taken out a £1million insurance policy against attack by or sighting of the fabled Loch Ness monst...
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Wrestling game withdrawn
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A Japanese arm wrestling game is being withdrawn from arcades across the country after three players broke their arms, company officials sai...
Bench faces wrong way
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Residents who waited more than a year for a bench next to a bus stop found one placed facing away from the road. The park bench was placed i...
Blind pilots aerobatics
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A blind pilot has fulfilled a personal dream by flying a fighter jet over Gloucestershire. Miles Hilton Barber, 58, of Duffield in Derbyshir...
UnFare dismissal
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A Railway guard has been sacked for protecting passengers from a violent thug. Paul Yarwood, 44, reacted after a drunken fare-dodger jumped ...
Rich git forgets car
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A hedge fund tycoon who ran up thousands of pounds of motoring fines abandoned his £80,000 supercar in a pound for three months - because he...
RAF tail Ruskies
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Two RAF Typhoon jets were sent to intercept a Russian bomber last week, it was revealed tonight. The ministry provided few details about whe...
Monday, August 20, 2007
Grade F for School name
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The Ogden School District needs a big eraser. After naming a new school "James A. Madison Elementary School" in May, a history tea...
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Teddy strop
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A prisoner who needed lifesaving surgery refused to go to hospital without his favourite teddy. Barry Piper, an inmate at Wakefield high sec...
Amazingly everyone survived
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A TAIWANESE airliner burst into fire today moments after landing in southern Japan but all 165 passengers and crew made a dramatic escape fr...
16 miles on 3 wheels
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A 23-year-old Australian man who managed to drive his car on three wheels for more than 25km has been charged with various traffic offences....
Breakfast on a stick
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois - Mix one egg with other ingredients of choice. Put results on a stick. That's about all the recipe requirements i...
The Empire strikes bucks
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A rare stormtrooper helmet from the original 1977 Star Wars film has sold at auction for £20,000. And another sci-fi fan paid £25,600 for a ...
For him the bells toll
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A Dutch priest has been fined £3,400 (€5,000) for ringing his church bells too loudly in the morning. The Catholic priest began his early mo...
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