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Mankind has created spectacular works of art, engineered incredibly tall buildings, designed impressive supercomputers, lived in outerspace, discovered cures for nasty diseases. As a whole, nothing can compare to human intelligence, but sometimes humans, well, you know...
Mexican worker sews his lips to demand promotion
Mar 3 2009 - AP
VERACRUZ, Mexico – A Mexican state water company worker has sewn his lips together to draw attention to his five-year fight to get a promotion. The man used a needle and thread to put five stitches through his lips in front of the water company...
Anti-kidnap expert kidnapped in Mexico
Dec 15 2008 - AFP
A top US anti-kidnapping expert was kidnapped in northeast Mexico last week, reports said Monday, in an audacious move amid a wave of drug-related violence and kidnappings.
Security advisor Felix Batista, 55, was abducted on December 10 in...
Birmingham's green! But is that Alabama?
Aug 14 2008 - Reuters
Council chiefs in Birmingham were left red-faced when they mistakenly used a picture of their U.S. namesake in Alabama on thousands of official leaflets.
Pamphlets about recycling in the West Midlands bore an image showing the skyline of the...
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It was Katie and Darren's wedding day and they were in the clouds — strapped to the top of biplanes reciting vows 1,000 feet above the earth. Katie Hodgson, 23, took to the skies Tuesday in a full bridal gown on the top wing of red-and-white...
British couple wed strapped to wings of airplanes
Aug 6 2008 - AP
It was Katie and Darren's wedding day and they were in the clouds — strapped to the top of biplanes reciting vows 1,000 feet above the earth. Katie Hodgson, 23, took to the skies Tuesday in a full bridal gown on the top wing of red-and-white...
Milk mail causes stink
Jul 10 2008 - Reuters
EU workers are struggling with thousands of liters of sour milk from burst cartons clogging up a central mail registry after German farmers posted them to Brussels to protest against low dairy prices, officials say.
Since late June, about...
Teen love caught hanging in the balance
Mar 18 2008 - AP
Two teenagers, one dangling from a rope tied to an interstate bridge and holding a can of spray paint, did not see Sheriff's Deputy Melissa Myers when she drove up. They never got a chance to express their love with graffiti.
"I don't...
Sheriff: Woman sat on toilet for 2 years
Mar 12 2008 - AP
Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the man finally called police.
It appeared the 35-year-old...
Man stiffs cabbie, is hit by oncoming car
Mar 10 2008 - The Salt Lake Tribune
A man was in critical condition after he tried to flee a cab without paying his fare and stepped in the path of an oncoming car Saturday in Salt Lake City.
The man, 31, was belligerent and apparently drunk during a ride in a City...
Wilson Yazzie Benally is one of the Salt Lake Police Department's most frequently arrested persons. In March 2008, he had compiled a record that included more than 450 arrests.
Mar 7 2008 - KUTV2.com
A transient was arrested for the 452nd time this week after allegedly trying to steal a bottle of mouthwash from a drug store.
Wilson Yazzie Benally has a long history with Salt Lake City Police and remains one of the department's most-arrested...
Burglars done in by doughnuts
Mar 5 2008 - AP
When two guys in cowboy garb offered the sheriff's deputies doughnuts, and then the deputies investigated a burglary involving doughnuts and the prints of cowboy boots, it didn't take Sherlock Holmes to crack the case.
"The officers...
Police dog sniffs out man in dog house
Mar 4 2008 - AP
A 19-year-old Pasco man is in jail after a police dog sniffed him out of a dog house. When a man called police early Tuesday to report that his car had been stolen, officers around the city began searching for it. They spotted it once and tried...
Roger that. It's a man on a lawn mower
Feb 27 2008 - AP
A man led police on a very slow-speed chase, refusing to stop while riding a lawn mower at about 3 mph across a busy street and steering it toward an officer before he was grabbed and arrested, a police report says.
Now, authorities say, the...
Internet sex auction sparks paternity row
Feb 13 2008 - Reuters
A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has won a court battle to force the Web site that hosted the sale to reveal the names of the winners, so she can find out who's the father.
Six different men won Internet...
Body lay in UK apartment for 8 years
Feb 8 2008 - AP
Workers responding to neighbors' complaints of a bad smell coming from an apartment in western England discovered a body that lay decomposing on a couch for years while another resident lived there, officials said Friday.
The British Broadcasting...