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10 August 2004

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  Feeling Hot? Have Some Dog Stew   (Reuters)
  • In South Korea's capital, sweating through the highest temperatures of the year, the hottest topic is whether to eat dogmeat stew or ginseng chicken soup.


  •   Clown Not Laughing Over Stolen Truck   (Associated Press)
  • A clown isn't finding much to smile about after someone stole his clown car.


  •   Court Approves Public Shaming of Mail Thief   (Reuters)
  • A man required to wear a signboard stating "I stole mail. This is my punishment," outside a San Francisco post office was reasonably sanctioned, a U.S. federal court said.


  •   Woman May Burn Sexually Explicit Library Book   (The Town Talk)
  • Jessica Christy scanned the shelves of the library and found a book on urban legends. The book was not something Tina Woodruff of Simms wanted Jessica, her 14-year-old granddaughter, getting off a library shelf.


  •   Udderly Suspicious — Another Doping Bust   (Reuters)
  • An unidentified farmer and his herd have been sent home in disgrace from an agricultural exhibition in tropical Queensland state for "suspicious acts" on the udder of one of the cows.


  •   Bus Waste Showers Boat Tourists   (Associated Press)
  • Chicago Police said they were investigating a foul-smelling gunk that showered tourists taking a boat tour of the city.


  •   Man Trips Over Woman; Her Family Eats Him?   (Reuters)
  • A Philippine man and his two sons have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a neighbor and then eating parts of his body after he tripped over a woman relative at a dance.


  •   Cat in Cockpit Forces Emergency Landing   (Associated Press)
  • A Belgian airliner made an emergency landing after an agitated passenger — a cat — got into the cockpit and attacked the co-pilot


  •   Sharpshooters Hobble Swashbuckling Thief   (Reuters)
  • German police marksmen shot a cornered burglar twice after he initially eluded capture by brandishing a decorative sword.


  •   Towering Twins Snatch Guinness Record   (Associated Press)
  • Sixteen-year-old twins Ann and Claire Recht of Canby, Oregon, have snatched the Guinness Book of World Records title for tallest recorded female twins.


  •   Prisoner Makes Bedsheet Breakout   (Reuters)
  • A convicted kidnapper has escaped from a Macau prison in traditional fashion, using a bedsheet and other cloth and abseiling down to the ground.


  •   Drunk Driver Asks Police to Arrest Him   (Associated Press)
  • It's not too often that the police get pulled over by a drunk driver. But that's what happened recently to Police Chief Ian McCollin.


  •   Romeo and Juliet, Olympics-Style   (Reuters)
  • A lovers' tiff prompted Greek Olympic judoka Eleni Ioannou to jump off the balcony of the flat she shared with her boyfriend six days before the Games' opening ceremony.


  •   Thousands of Chickens Block Swedish Road   (Associated Press)
  • A truck carrying 8,000 live chickens flipped over on a Swedish highway, sending a sea of fluttering poultry onto the road and shutting it down for more than nine hours.


  •   U.S. Olympic Team Eats Burgers to Win   (Reuters)
  • Fuelled by a diet that includes cheeseburgers and chocolate chip cookies, the United States team will eat their way to victory at the Olympics if their chief caterer is to be believed.


  •   Giggling Drunk Lawyer Delays Hearing   (Associated Press)
  • A visibly drunk prosecutor who was giggling uncontrollably prompted a halt in a sentence hearing and later posed for journalists outside the courthouse as Auguste Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker."


  •   Nazi Reference on T-Shirt Angers IOC Member   (Reuters)
  • A German International Olympic Committee member has called on the IOC's athletes' commission to check athletes' T-shirts after spotting one with a reference to a Nazi war tactic.


  •   Bomb Squad Detonates Typewriter   (Associated Press)
  • Bomb squad members called to a Home Depot store because of a suspicious object detonated what they later discovered was just a typewriter.


  •   No Nudes Please, We're Chinese   (Reuters)
  • Chinese eager to bare all in public will have to wait to disrobe after local outrage shelved the opening of the country's first nudist colony.


  •   Oregon Boy Raises 72 Birds   (Associated Press)
  • Eighth-grader Jon Calhoun got his start raising pigeons, then turned his attention to more exotic birds. Now he's got 72 birds in his collection.


  •   Missing Briton No Trivial Matter   (Reuters)
  • The hit board game Trivial Pursuit has been pulled from shelves in Australia's Northern Territory because of a question about the mystery outback disappearance of British tourist Peter Falconio.


  •   Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Virginia's Restrictions for Teen Nudist Camps   (Associated Press)
  • A federal judge said that a new Virginia law requiring parental supervision at a nudist camp for kids does not violate parents' rights to raise their children as they see fit.


  •   Monkeys Escape Cages at Research Center   (Associated Press)
  • A group of monkeys escaped from their cages at a New Iberia, Louisiana, research center.


  •   Michigan Woman Wins Claim Against Landlord That She Needs Dog to Fight Depression   (Associated Press)
  • A judge has upheld an order blocking an apartment complex from evicting a woman who says she needs to keep her late mother's dog because it helps her fight depression over the mother's death.


  •   Country Proposes More Flogging, Less Jail   (Reuters)
  • Botswana wants to extend the use of corporal punishment so criminals can be beaten instead of going to jail.


  •   Trio Dreams Up Idea to Keep Kegs Cold   (Associated Press)
  • A trio of college fraternity buddies hopes to make it big with an idea that might appeal to a party host who winds up with a half-keg of warm, leftover beer and no ice.
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