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  • Cows To Move Antisocial Youth Bikers To Greener Pastures

    When Hampshire County Council found that they had a trouble with antisocial youths tearing through their fields on motorcycles, they came up with a bovine solution. They introduced cows to the fields to make them less convenient for riding....
  • Swedish Church Makes 1.8 Meter Lego Jesus

    Parishioners filled the Onsta Gryta church in Vasteras, Sweden to capacity on Easter Sunday for the unveiling of a 1.8 meter Lego statue of Jesus constructed from some 30,000 blocks....
  • Store Accepts Antique Gift Certificate

    Patty Meehan was pleasantly surprised, when cleaning up her late mothers home, by a $10 gift certificate from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board that had been given to her late father, Jack, by one of his friends....
  • Denver DMV Declares Tofu Unfit For Public Consumption

    Thirty-eight-year-old Kelly Coffman-Lee had her application for a customized numberplate reading “ILVTOFU” refused for being obscene....
  • German Woman Has Three Crashes In One Hour

    A 69-year-old German woman from Berlin was involved in three crashes in one hour, but only driving for two of them. Whilst leaving a supermarket car park on the Island of Usedom, she crashed into three cars. Next, she accidentally engaged the accelerator, causing her to crash into a...
  • Big Man’s Body Cut to Fit Casket

    When James Hines died in 2004, it was rumored that in order to fit 6-foot-7, 300-pound South Carolina man’s corpse into his coffin, the undertakers had taken the unusual measure of cutting off his legs. Earlier this week the body was exhumed and the rumors proved to be true,...
  • Angry Florida Resident Burns Down Own Stuff With Molotov Cocktail

    An Orange County man faces multiple charges including arson when dispute between neighbors turned ugly Tuesday night. The 51-year-old threw a Molotov cocktail at his neighbor’s home, however, the wind changed direction and caused his own trailer, two cars and a pickup to be burned. While details are scarce,...
  • Acne Highlighting Lamps Scare Teenagers Away

    A town that had trouble with teenagers drinking, selling drugs and intimidating passers by found a novel solution, pink lights. The pink lights were initially put up because teenage boys would find them “uncool,” but it was the fact that they highlighted acne that really sent them running. Local...
  • United Kingdom Car Parks To Smell Of Cut Grass, Roses and Baked Bread

    A survey of 2,000 customers of the parking firm NCP revealed that the worst part of the parking experience was the smell of the stairwells. Oddly enough, people didn’t respond well to the stench of urine and vomit that is common to car park stairwells in so many countries....