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Oops, was that against the law?
Texas State Rep. Joe Driver, an 18-year House veteran whose website notes his opposition to "big spending habits of liberals in government," was revealed this summer to have been routinely double-billing the government for travel expenses and to have been genuinely surprised to learn that voters and colleagues might find that improper.
'Ironing' is a major failure
In several regions of the African nation of Cameroon, parents try to keep maturing daughters off the market by "ironing" their breasts - pressing them with heated stones and leaves to make them flatter and the girls thus less desirable for sex.
He's the real victim, after all
Oklahoma City bomber-helper Terry Nichols, serving a life sentence at the "Super Max" federal prison in Colorado, recently ended what he said was his third hunger strike of 2010 to protest food quality.
Irony can be pretty ironic
Cosmetic surgery-obsessive Sheyla Hershey of Houston has endured more than 30 operations, including breast augmentations in increasingly large sizes - in her quest to have the world's largest pair.
These aren't farmers
Americans continue to agonize over government "giveaways," but as News of the Weird has noted several times, somehow federal farm subsidies continue unabated - even though much of the money no longer goes to "family farms" but to rich urban industrialists who hardly know a plow from a sow.
He should have added his address
Face tattoos are still a handicap for criminals. Royce Spottedbird Jr., 23, apparently once thought it cool to have his name tattooed on his neck. However, when he was pulled over in a routine traffic stop in Butte, Mont., and feared a warrant might be out on him, he gave the officer a bogus name. When he could not explain what "Royce Spottedbird Jr." was doing on his neck, he was detained for obstruction of ...
None of them should be driving
Driver Bryan Parslow, 19, injured himself and three passengers when he crashed into a tree near Wheatland, N.Y.
Nothing seems odd with this deal
Gail Posner - the widow of legendary hostile-takeover executive Victor Posner - died in March in south Florida but left a will that endowed her beloved Chihuahua, Conchita, and two other, less-loved dogs, a $3 million trust fund plus the run of her $8.3 million mansion for their remaining dog years.
It's in the eye of the beholder
Iconic female beauty in Mauritania - and in a few other African societies, as News of the Weird has reported - regards "rolling layers of fat" as the height of sexiness, according to a dispatch by Marie Claire magazine.
Wow, Sherlock, what was the first clue?
After surveying 374 waitresses, professor Michael Lynn, who teaches marketing and tourism at Cornell University, concluded that customers left larger tips to those with certain physical characteristics such as being slender, being blond or having big breasts.
Write it down, for crying out loud
Four NYPD officers, acting on department intelligence, went to the home of Walter and Rose Martin in Brooklyn, N.Y., looking for a suspect, and broke a window as they worked their way inside.
Guess who pays the bill?
It is common knowledge that American corporations avoid taxes by running U.S. profits through off shore "tax havens" like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, but a recent Bloomberg Business Week investigation traced the specific steps that the pharmaceutical company Forest Labs takes to short the U.S. Treasury.
You'd think they would know better
A Treasury Department inspector general reported this summer that, out of 2.6 million applicants for federal mortgage relief, 14,000 "home buyers" wrongly received tax credits and that in fact, 1,300 of them were living in prison at the time of filing, including 241 serving life sentences. Sixty-seven of the 14,000 received tax credits for the same house, and 87 more potentially fraudulent tax-credit applications were filed by Internal Revenue Service employees.
Hitler really wouldn't approve
A recent surge of neo-Nazism in several countries - including, improbably, Israel, and Mongolia (where some dark-skinned natives are rabidly anti-Chinese) - has generally been denounced, but Corinna Burt credited it with rescuing her from a life of acting in pornographic videos.
He was (expletive) stupid
Scot Davis, 52, was charged with robbing the All in the Family bar in Des Moines, Iowa. Davis, a contractor who is friends with bartender Gladys York, had spent the evening at the bar passing out business cards before leaving. Said York, when Davis re-appeared carrying a .22-caliber rifle and demanding money: "Scot, What the (expletive)?" Said an officer, "This is not the hardest case our detectives have ever had to investigate." Hey, Mickey played ...
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