A woman in Alabama was
hit by lightning while praying this past weeked.
…while she prayed, lightning suddenly exploded, blowing through the linoleum and leaving a blackened area on the concrete. Brown wound up on the floor, dazed and disoriented by the blast but otherwise uninjured.
She said ‘Amen’ and the room was engulfed in a [...]
On November 17th, 1978 - there was a disturbance in the force. Jedi at the time remember hearing the sound of a million voices screaming at once - and then 30 minutes later… silence (after the show ended)…
Lets just put it this way. Bea Arthur is in it - along with Jefferson Starship and [...]
I stumbled across this article the other day about a piracy raid in Europe somewhere. A guy was selling pirated games and videos out of an ice-cream truck. I guess that would make a crappy getaway car - what with the “Da de dump da de diddy diddy dum da diddy dump” playing at 120dB [...]
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Creighton University has started giving their applicants the option of hearing back from them via text message - instead of via mail. This gives them near instant feedback from the admissions department - usually within 24 hours. (This would have saved some Harvard MBA students a lot of trouble earlier)
Imagine the joy of your [...]
An Oregon man hurled both of his prosthetic legs at a police officer, striking him with one, after his son was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, police said today.
The dad got mad, and charged at the police officer several times. The officer knocked finally knocked him down to the ground, when - according to [...]
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The African grey parrot kept squawking
“I love you, Gary”
as his owner, Chris Taylor, sat with girlfriend Suzy Collins on the sofa of their shared flat in Leeds, northern England.
Given how Parrots take forever to pick up a new phrase - that would be a rather odd thing to hear. When the owner saw how embarassed [...]
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A man caught a mouse, and threw it in the fire to dispose of it. Problem solved, right? Not with this mouse. The mouse decided to return the favor to the man.
“I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire, and the mouse was on fire and ran back at [...]
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A Wal-Mart employee saved up money for a long time to buy her son a 5G iPod. On Christmas morning when he unwrapped it - he was extremely happy when he saw the box. Inside the box, however, was no iPod. It was a hunk of mystery meat.
Wal-Mart is going to replace the iPod [...]
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An Australian couple hired a Mitsubishi Lancer to travel across New Zealand recently, not realising its GPS was set to “*avoid all major roads” by the previous user. The couple were taken on a remarkable, and *extremely* dangerous route to their destination.
Does this seem like a lot of fun for anyone else, or is it [...]
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