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Home --> Daily Snopes

Daily Snopes

4 September 2004
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  Police Officer Turns Bank Robber   (Reuters)
  • An Atlanta policeman has confessed to a string of armed bank robberies in the Southern U.S. city.


    •   Chinese Women Queue up to Test Orgasm Medication   (Agence France Presse)
  • Chinese women are queing up to test a new medicine that aims to help them achieve orgasm, in another example of the more open attitudes to sex being adopted in a traditionally conservative country.


    •   Bears Could Keep Kids from School   (Reuters)
  • Some 30 brown bears have been terrorising a Transylvanian mountain village and could delay the start of the school year.


    •   Teacher Lops Off Chunk of Student's Ear   (Associated Press)
  • A teacher enforcing school regulations on haircuts snipped one girl's locks to ear's length but ended up lopping off a chunk of her ear as well,


    •   Science Oddities Revealed   (Reuters)
  • One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show.


    •   Police Dog Tracking Gunman Bites Bystander   (Associated Press)
  • A dog that was tracking a gunman bit a resident of a senior citizen center who was watching the search, and the bite was caught on tape by a TV news crew.


    •   Park Closed as Thirsty Elephants See Red   (Reuters)
  • Sri Lanka has closed its biggest wildlife reserve because a severe drought has dried up watering holes and left wild elephants thirsty, angry and ready to charge.


    •   Taiwan Searches for Most-Wanted Litterbugs   (Associated Press)
  • Taiwan's capital has a new most-wanted list, but those being hunted aren't murderers, rapists or thieves. They're litterbugs.


    •   Crackdown on Sexually Suggestive Radio   (Reuters)
  • A radio station that tested the bounds of Singapore's censorship laws, and lost, has been fined $17,500 after its disc jockeys made sexually suggestive on-air comments about pornography and women's panties.


    •   Oklahoma Cop 'Bags' Two on Drug Charges   (Associated Press)
  • Policeman Jon Arnetts was just doing a good turn when he pulled over a car to alert the driver there was a black bag on top of the vehicle. Then he found out what was in the bag.


    •   Jailed Bomber Let Out for Coffee at Starbucks   (Reuters)
  • A Bali bomber serving a life term for his role in the nightclub blasts that killed 202 people was treated by police to an outing at an up-market shopping mall in the Indonesian capital.


    •   Prison Guards Find Basketball Full of Pot   (Associated Press)
  • Basketballs are usually puffed up with air, but somebody found a way of inflating one with a substance usually associated with puffing of another kind.


    •   Writing Better Than the Phone to Contact ET?   (Reuters)
  • Writing, rather than phoning, is probably the best way to contact extraterrestrials, American scientists said.


    •   Convention Mac and Cheese Lands on eBay   (Associated Press)
  • One of the most talked about freebies at this summer's political conventions — macaroni and cheese shaped like political mascots — has ended up on auction giant eBay.


    •   Repentant Thief Returns Laptop After Chaser Falls   (Reuters)
  • A repentant thief returned a laptop he had stolen from a computer shop after a salesman stumbled and broke his arm while chasing the bandit in the German town of Koblenz


    •   Montana Court Says Vomiting a Private Matter   (Associated Press)
  • Even if you're puking, the potty is private, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled.

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