Bangladesh awards farmer who killed 83,000 rats

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Bangladesh on Wednesday awarded a farmer who killed more than 83,000 rats and launched a monthlong campaign nationwide to kill millions more, to protect crops and reduce the need for food imports....More

Beauty Queen Resigns After Credit Card Fraud

SINGAPORE - Singapore’s Miss World contestant has resigned after her conviction earlier this year for credit card fraud was revealed, a newspaper in the city-state reported. Local media last week reported she was sentenced to two years of probation for stealing credit cards and spending $5,642 on lingerie, cell phones and meals at fancy restaurants....More

Toyota to Issue Largest-Ever Recall -Killer floor mats

USA - Toyota says it will recall 3.8 million vehicles in the United States to address problems with a removable floor mat that could interfere with the vehicle?s accelerator and cause a crash. The company says it will be the largest recall in its history. Owners could learn about the safety campaign as early as next week. Toyota and the government warned owners of Toyota and Lexus vehicles about safety problems tied to the removable floor mats. They say the mats could interfere with the vehicle?s accelerator and cause a crash.---...More

Sheboygan teen accused of trying to eat marijuana

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) -- Sheboygan prosecutors have charged a young woman with trying to eat marijuana as police pulled over the car in which she was riding. Jamie L. Salonen, 18, was charged Friday with misdemeanor marijuana possession and felony bail jumping. The criminal complaint said a trooper stopped her car after seeing the occupants weren't wearing seatbelts. It said the trooper saw Salonen move around suspiciously.....More

‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ Inspiration Dies

London - Lucy Vodden, who provided the inspiration for the Beatles’ classic song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” has died after a long battle with lupus. She was 46. Her death was announced by St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, where she had been treated for the chronic disease for more than five years, and by her husband, Ross Vodden. Britain’s Press Association said she died last Tuesday.....More

Man arrested for punching goose statue

Rochester Minnesota - A man who is in Rochester for a wedding is in custody for allegedly getting mad at one of the city’s goose statues, “just because it was a goose.” Police Capt. Brian Winters said the 28-year-old man could be charged with a felony for kicking and hitting the goose statue in front of the library on Second Street Southeast. He had a blood-alcohol level of 0.24 percent, police said, and was taken to detox.....More

Stupid News:Airline hijacker unaware actions were illegal

Jamaica - The lawyer for a Jamaican man who held Canadians hostage last spring aboard a CanJet flight bound for Halifax told CBC News that his client didn’t feel he was doing anything wrong. George Thomas, speaking from Kingston, Jamaica, said he had expected the judge to find Stephen Fray not guilty because of mental illness....More

1,700 animals found in trunk of car

Bari, Italy - A motorist is to be questioned by police after 1,700 animals were found crammed in the trunk of his car in Bari, Italy. Police had pulled the car over for a routine inspection when they discovered 216 parakeets, 300 white mice, 150 hamsters, 30 Japanese squirrels, six chameleons, and more than 1,000 terrapins, a type of turtle. All the animals were confiscated and passed to nearby zoos.....More

Twitter Website Could Be Worth $1 Billion

California - Despite earning little revenue so far, more than half a dozen investors are ready to pump $99 million into the California dotcom darling, the Financial Times reports. The figure is nearly threes times the amount of funding secured in February, when the company bagged $35 million, quadrupling its value. The increased investment is an indication of the soaring popularity of Twitter, which now boasts 45 million regular monthly visitors.....More

Stupid News-Sleaze Detector iPhone App

BELLEVUE, Washington - A Washington state company has unveiled an iPhone application allowing users to run background checks and net worth calculations for prospective mates. The program’s Sleaze Detector checks criminal records for charges, including drug possession, assault and battery, drunken driving and sex crimes. Its Net Worth option searches information about property value and home ownership, as well as checking social networking sites for information on employment and education....More

Giant baby draws spectators to Indonesian hospital

KISARAN, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia's heaviest-ever newborn drew curious crowds Friday to an Indonesian hospital where the boy named Akbar - or the Great in Arabic - came into the world at a record 19.2 pounds (8.7 kilograms)....More

Funny Animal Pics

Stupid News-Dogfighting Ring at Child Day Care

CHICAGO RIDGE, Illinois - A home day care also was the site of a dogfighting ring, authorities said, and investigators who raided the house found a blood-spattered garage floor and battered and malnourished dogs not far from where the children played. Police said four people were arrested, and felony dogfighting charges are pending against several of them, including the day care operator’s husband. Nine battered dogs - four of which were puppies - were rescued, police said....More

Coffee Enemas-Your doctor may be a quack

Australia - Bogus doctors offering “quack” therapy will face jail and massive fines under new laws proposed by Health Minister John Hill. Mr Hill today announced the State Government would adopt the recommendations of a parliamentary committee examined therapies being offered by unregistered doctors. These included offering to cure cancer through the use of “organic coffee enemas” and another practitioner who claimed to be able to cure cancer through “vaginal blowing”....More

College Overrun By Bed Bugs

New York - Several areas of John Jay College of Criminal Justice are infested with bed bugs. Students at John Jay reacted sharply to the news bed bugs have invaded the first floor of the school’s North Hall complex. While bed bugs are more often associated with hotels and mattresses, experts said they are a growing problem in the city in offices and other commercial buildings, often spreading through light switches, and electrical outlets....More

Stupid News-Police seize crocodile from mafia boss

Naples, Italy - Italian police have seized a crocodile allegedly used by a suspected mafia boss to intimidate people into paying protection money, officials said. The reptile which was kept on a terrace equipped with a small pool, was discovered during a search at the man’s house near the southern town of Caserta. The crocodile was fed live rabbits, a spectacle neighbors could watch from surrounding terraces....More

Postal worker guilty of stealing 3,000 Netflix DVDs

Springfield, Massachusetts - A postal worker who stole more than 3000 DVDs mailed by Netflix to its customers pleaded guilty yesterday to federal theft charges. Myles Weathers, who worked at a mail processing and distribution center in Springfield, Massachusetts, was nabbed last year for the video heist after Netflix officials became suspicious about the frequency with which DVDs were being pinched. Weathers, 49, was subsequently arrested after surveillance footage showed him removing DVDs from Netflix envelopes and placing the discs into his backpack...More

City Law limits roosters to one per household

Los Angeles, California - The City Council passed an ordinance that - with few exceptions - allows only one rooster per property. It was spurred by complaints over noise and hygiene and concerns over illegal cockfighting. Janice Hahn, who authored the bill, says it will give residents of her district some peace and quiet. Neighborhoods from the harbor to the San Fernando Valley are sometimes annoyed by concerts from crowing roosters...More…

Stupid News-White Philly officer told to get rid of cornrows

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Police in Philadelphia say a white officer who came to work with cornrows was ordered by a black superior to get a haircut because the braids violated department standards. The Philadelphia Daily News reported Monday that Officer Thomas Strain was put on desk duty this month because of the braids, even though the paper reported dozens of black officers wear cornrows...More

Pair trying to catch fish net $87,000 in cash

SYDNEY (AP) -- Two Australian teenagers who found almost 100,000 Australian dollars ($87,000) in cash during a fishing trip have handed it over to police - after spending some time thinking about it. The pair discovered the money earlier this month near the New South Wales town of Nimbin - a center of hippie culture where members of numerous communes annually celebrate a festival to promote cannabis use...More

Miss. police use Taser, handcuffs on wayward emu

FOREST, Miss. (AP) -- Officers had to use a stun gun and handcuffs to capture an emu running loose on Interstate 20 in central Mississippi on Sunday. Police Officer Kiley Culpepper told WLBT-TV in Jackson that motorists had been calling 911 since Friday to report sightings of two emus on I-20 and nearby U.S. Highway 80...More

Catacombs closed to public due to vandalism

PARIS, France - Paris’ underground bone collection, the catacombs, has been closed to the public indefinitely after being vandalized. Ordinarily, the creepy collection of human remains - cleared from city cemeteries long ago - is orderly, with bones piled in stacks along underground tunnels. But a post-vandalism photo showed bones and skulls scattered along the walking paths....More

I Robbed to Pay Off My Mortgage

San Diego, California - ?I had to get us out of this,? the elderly man said from the other side of the glass at San Diego central jail. ?I?ve never done a bad thing in my life. But when you get desperate, I guess you throw all that sh? out the window.? Listening to how Michael Casey Wilson of Santee tells it, a 17 percent mortgage, the threat of homelessness and a terminal health condition will turn a man to crime. Wilson, 69, is accused of walking into the Bank of America branch in the 4100 block of El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights and handing a bank manager a demand note, saying he had a bomb. --...More

Child Brings Cocaine to Day Care

NEWARK, New Jersey - New Jersey police say a 4-year-old boy shared cocaine with his friends at day care because his father told him it was candy. Newark police say 25-year-old Shaheed Wright of East Orange put several baggies of cocaine inside his son?s jacket after police nearly caught him with it. The boy shared the drugs with three other 4-year-olds at his day care center. A teacher spotted a girl with a baggie in her mouth and called authorities after seeing the white powdery substance.---...More

Brave Lawn workers lift car off woman

BOYNTON BEACH, Florida - An 84-year-old Florida woman said a crew of lawn maintenance workers lifted her car when she became pinned underneath it. Yetta Cohen of Boynton Beach said she had just returned from shopping and exited her car when the vehicle began rolling on its own. The woman had been under her car for about 15 minutes when 14 members of a lawn maintenance crew walked around the corner and lifted the rear of the car......More

Roller Coaster Cable Snaps

BUENA PARK, California - An amusement park in Southern California says a cable snapped on a roller coaster, sending a 12-year-old boy and a man to hospitals with injuries. Knott’s Berry Farm spokeswoman Jennifer Blazey says the accident on the Xcelerator roller coaster happened shortly before 4 p.m. at the Orange County amusement park. Blazey says the cable caused a laceration to the boy’s leg and back pain in the man...More

News Anchor Drops The F-Bomb Video

A N.Y. News anchor has a nasty slip of the tongue.

The Most Expensive Hotel Rooms in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada - A 10,000-square-foot suite that includes a basketball halfcourt rents for $25,000 a night at Palms Casino Resort. At MGM Grand’s Skylofts, you’ll find a bathtub that fizzes with tiny champagne-like massage bubbles, TVs in the mirrors and airport pickup in a $400,000 car. There are suites with massage and film screening rooms, 24-hour butler service, pools that seem to hover above the ground, even see-through glass show showers....More

Man survives crash, is killed walking away

JEROMESVILLE, Ohio - Authorities in Ohio say a man survived crashing his car into a house but was killed walking away from the accident when he was struck by a pickup truck. The State Highway Patrol says 38-year-old Michael Bigley of Jeromesville ran his car off a road and into a living room in the north-central Ohio community. Troopers say Bigley was struck minutes later by the pickup while walking in a road...More

Stupid News-TSA thought bottle of cologne was a grenade

Tallahassee - The front lobby and ticket area at the Tallahassee Regional Airport were briefly evacuated this morning after airport officials found what they thought might be a grenade in luggage. However, emergency responders quickly determined that what appeared to be a grenade was actually hair clippers and a bottle of cologne....More

Attacker pulls sword out of neighbor’s garden

Utah - Police arrested a Salt Lake City man accused of trying to attack a group of people with a sword. Several people were at a house on the 1000 South block of Pueblo Street. A fight started about 12:30 p.m., when the 40-year-old man and his girlfriend were asked to leave because they were smoking methamphetamine. He left the house and grabbed a large, blunt sword from a neighbor’s garden. Swinging the sword, he allegedly confronted the group and threatened to kill them....More

SC teen bags 10-foot alligator with a crossbow

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A 16-year-old girl has bagged a 10-foot alligator in a South Carolina swamp.

In the middle of the night. With a crossbow.

The State newspaper in Columbia reported that Cammie Colin won one of 1,000 lottery slots for the state's annual public alligator harvest. Hunters are required to use a crossbow or a harpoon.

Cammie was the only person in her group authorized to shoot the 353-pound gator. The Lexington resident was with a guide, her father, an uncle and her brother in an 18-foot boat early Sunday in the headwaters of Lake Marion....More

Stupid News:Men taking to eyebrow-grooming

LONDON - British men are becoming increasingly interested in having their eyebrows professionally groomed. Men, it said, now make up 40 percent of the visitors to its brow bars, double the proportion of a year ago. They are going for a treatment called “threading,” an ancient method of hair removal which originated in India in which a thin twine of cotton thread is rolled over the offending area, plucking the hair from the follicle level....More

750,000 pedophiles prowling Internet

Some 750,000 sexual predators are constantly prowling the Internet in a bid to gain contact with children, a United Nations report warned. The number of sites devoted to child pornography worldwide is growing. The number of predators connected to the Internet at any one time is estimated to be 750,000. Unicef also estimates there are more than four million websites featuring minors, including those of children aged under two years.....More

Implanted tooth helps blind woman see

Florida - A 60-year-old US grandmother, blind for nearly a decade, has recovered her sight after surgeons implanted a tooth in her eye as a base to hold a tiny plastic lens, her doctors said. Sharron “Kay” Thornton, from the southern US state of Mississippi, lost her sight in 2000 when she came down with a case of Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare disease that scarred her cornea, according to the University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute....More

Stupid News Story-Chicken licker caught on video

UK - Police are probing a video of an ex-Asda worker caught on camera licking a chicken from one of the supermarket’s displays before replacing it. The scene comes at the end of a shocking video which shows Adeel Ayub running amok in Asda’s store in the Fulwood area of Preston. A spokesman for Asda said: ‘We are absolutely disgusted and appalled by the behaviour of this man....Stupid News Stories

Army Tells Dad His Soldier-Son Killed in War

BUFFALO, New York - An Army unit is reviewing how it delivers information to families after a call to a western New York couple led them to believe their son had been killed in combat. Ray Jasper of Niagara Falls said he, his wife, Robin, and their extended family spent four hours Sunday mourning their son, Sgt. Jesse Jasper, before learning from his girlfriend that he was alive. The 26-year-old soldier called his father from Afghanistan to prove it after hearing about the mix-up....More

Cop pretends to be his twin brother

ORANGE - The Orange police officer who was arrested last month for allegedly pretending to be his twin brother to dupe a woman into sex has resigned from the department. Probationary Officer Jared Rohrig, 25, who is charged with first-degree sexual assault and criminal impersonation, has been on paid administrative leave from the Orange Police Department since July. The woman said she realized the man she believed to be Joseph did not have a tattoo of a cowboy on his buttocks and was therefore Jared....More

Bernie Madoffs Penthouse Hits the Market Steal at $9,900,000

Bernie Madoff's New York City penthouse has finally gone up. The duplex penthouse with an elliptical staircase, living room with triple exposures and oh-so-much beige is listed at $9.9 million. The listing pics are a bit prettier than the other slideshows of the home we've seen recently but it still has a vacant, un-loved feel....More

Teens Sue Over ‘God Bless America’ Ejection

TRENTON, New Jersey - Three teenagers who say they were tossed from a New Jersey ballpark over their refusal to stand during the song “God Bless America” are suing the minor league Newark Bears. The boys argue that their constitutional rights were violated when they were asked to leave Newark’s Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium. The boys are Millburn High seniors Bryce Gadye and Nilkumar Patel, both 17, and junior Shaan Mohammad Khan, 16...More

Celeb News-Patrick Swayze dies at 57

Patrick Swayze has died after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Swayze’s publicist Annett Wolf says the 57-year-old “Dirty Dancing” actor died Monday with family at his side. He came forward about his illness last spring, but continued working as he underwent treatments. It was 1987 when Swayze became a star with his performance in “Dirty Dancing,” a coming-of-age story set in a Catskills resort. The 1990 film “Ghost” cemented his status as a screen favorite...More

Funny One-Liners

100,000 sperm and you were the fastest?
42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
A day without sunshine is like, night.
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.
A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
All men are idiots, and I married their King.
Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
Always try to be modest and be proud of it!
Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of.
Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.
Assassins do it from behind.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Auntie Em, Hate you, hate Kansas, taking the dog. Dorothy.
Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Beer: It's not just for breakfast anymore.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks
Borrow money from a pessimist, they don't expect it back.
Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo!
C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit.
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
Chocolate: the OTHER major food group.
Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!
Could you drive any better if I shoved that cell phone up your ass?
Criminal Lawyer is a redundancy.

Former IL Gov. Blagojevich's key adviser found dead

Christopher Kelly, a key figure in the federal corruption investigation of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, is dead, sources said. Kelly died of an apparent "aspirin overdose."

Believe It Or Not..?

Students Try to Steal Giant Pepper From Chili’s Rooftop

Bennington, Vermont - Triggered by an alarm, cops arrived at the Chili’s in Bennington, Vt., around 4:30 a.m. to find Asher Woodworth, 23, on the roof. He had been removing the bolts that held the red and green chili pepper in place with a hacksaw and a power drill. Police found 470 feet of extension cord running from a nearby Home Depot, across a highway and up to the roof to power the electric drill. Apparently, the heist’s mastermind failed to realize they make cordless drills....

Cops: Woman pummels clerk after feud over $20 bill

NEWPORT, Del. (AP) -- Delaware State Police said a woman punched a gas station clerk in the face and held scissors to his throat in a dispute over how much money she had given him. The clerk at the Country Farms on West Newport Pike told police that a 53-year-old woman asked for $20 of gas, but only gave him a $1 bill. The clerk said the woman, certain that she had given him a $20 bill, screamed at him when he refused to give her $20..

Odd News-Man prank calls 911 - Arrested for rape

MOBILE, Alabama - An 18-year-old man who police say made a prank phone call about a shooting has been arrested for statutory rape. Sheriff Huey “Hoss” Mack said Baldwin 911 operators received a report that someone had been shot. He said officers traced the call to a teenage girl’s cell phone and found her still in bed and McCarn hiding in a closet...More At Odd Daily News

Ugly People Are Funny

Ugly people pics are funny, probably not funny if you are ugly, but i suspect if you are ugly you probably don't know.

In fact if you are ugly, everyone you hang out with is probably ugly too.

Unless you are the insecure average looking guy that hangs out with ugly friends because it's the only chance he has picking up a girl at a bar because you lack social skills.

Pair accused of playing porn DVD at Ark. Wal-Mart

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) -- Two Oklahoma men have been arrested for allegedly playing a pornographic DVD on display televisions at a Fort Smith Wal-Mart. Sebastian County jail records show 20-year-olds Cody Allen Sexton and Kenny Dean Andrews were arrested on a felony obscenity complaint.