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It's game over for the Buick LaCrosse in Canada. A General Motors executive yesterday admitted that the future Buick model — which is set to debut late next year — will be re-named in Canada after GM learned LaCrosse is a Quebec slang term for masturbation.
When people walk into the Suber-Shively Funeral Home, they may soon get a history lesson. The home's operators, Bart and Roxanne Shively, plan to open a museum at the funeral home they bought two years ago.
Hunter York was afraid of snakes, but he couldn't resist the two-headed reptile he found. Hunter, 10, said he picked up the black king snake with a stick, then noticed it grabbed the stick with both heads.
A couple have been charged with operating a prostitution ring from an auto junkyard, where police said some women waited before being sent out when customers called.
Urban legend suggests Aurora Heights was built over an old grave yard and, as a result, is haunted by a restless spirit. The ghost in residence is said to be a young child, probably a girl.
Shocked by reports of the alleged filming of the rape and murder of a Johannesburg woman, many South Africans are asking: are snuff movies real or merely an urban legend?
This one smelled a lot like an urban legend. A woman in Texas (aren't they always from Texas?) crashed her car on a rainy night. She told a highway patrolman that her car simply hydroplaned off the highway with no warning.
A supermarket rat that had dodged a number of poison traps got its comeuppance when an 80-year-old shopper knocked it unconscious after it tried to steal her cheese.
