Dom's Weird News
News of the weird and strange from around the world
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Clone
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MIAMI — A Boca Raton couple got a new dog, and it's just like their old dog. Not just the same breed and gender, but the same DNA. Nin...
Time to quit?
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A lit cigarette burned a home to the ground while its occupants were attending a meeting to help them quit smoking. Officials have ruled tha...
Octuplets !
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A California woman has shocked doctors by giving birth to octuplets, believed to be only the second set of eight babies born in the United S...
Girl marries dog
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A young girl has been married to a stray dog to ward off an evil spirit in India's eastern Jharkhand. The locals at Munda Dhanda village...
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Human weights
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A British gym is trying to add human interest to otherwise dreary workouts by replacing traditional dumbbell weights with human ones. The Gy...
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Impersonating a stripper
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A police force has been criticised after spending £170,000 to arrest a stripper 22 times for impersonating an officer.Stuart Kennedy, a 25-y...
Car trouble
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PORT HURON TOWNSHIP, Mich.—A man driven to find his lost dog also lost his car after he drove onto the frozen Black River in St. Clair Count...
Underwater ironing record
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128 scuba divers braved the freezing winter temperatures on the 10 January 2009, to attempt to break the world record, currently held by the...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Stone me!
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The largest kidney stones most doctors ever get to see is the size of a golf ball. So surgeons in Hungary were taken aback when they removed...
Shoplifter Run Over by Her Own Getaway Car — Twice
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Authorities are looking for a shoplifter who was run over twice by her getaway car after stealing $1,200 worth of desig...
Man gives judge the finger
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A Portuguese businessman said he cut off one of his fingers in court with a butcher's knife in an "act of despair" after a jud...
Longer than an Obama speech?
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Frenchman Lluis Colet broke the world record for the longest speech after rambling nonstop for 124 hours about Spanish painter Salvador Dali...
Spray painted
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Four teenagers say police in a northern Mexican town spray-painted their hair, shoes and buttocks to teach them not to paint graffiti on pub...
Wrong song
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Katy Perry won one of the big prizes at France's main music award ceremony - but it wasn't meant for her. The star claimed the gong ...
Couple jailed after bank error
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Police said a central Pennsylvania couple did not call the bank when a $1,772.50 deposit showed up in their account as $177,250. Authorities...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Court backs drunk workers
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Peru's top court has ruled that workers cannot be fired for being drunk on the job, a decision the government has criticised for setting...
Can we have our tractor back?
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A reward has been offered for the return of a stolen £53,000 gold-plated, diamond-encrusted model of a tractor. The model, which is one of o...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Flying SkyCar
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A team of British adventurers and their flying Parajet SkyCar are now set to take off in northern France at the start of their great expedit...
Transgender lavatories
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Transgender students have been given their own lavatory at a university union. The block is being trialled at Staffordshire University union...
British man runs 2557 miles across Australia... with a wheelbarrow
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A 112-day journey by a man pushing a wheelbarrow across Australia to raise money for Breast and Prostate Cancer Research has finally ended i...
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