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An autisic boy in Britain has been taught how to speak by his family's pet parrot,says the London Sun.Dylan Hargreaves,4, had never uttered a word before his mother was given Barney the parrot as a gift and trained it to talk."Every time I gave the bird something to say,Dylan started trying to say the same thing," says Michelle Hargreaves, 33.Soon Dylan was uttering whole,if single-syllables,words."Now when I put him to bed he says ,"Night,night,Mum.It means the world to me.
A Scotish funeral home is under fire for using the ashes of cremated bodies to grit the sidewalk in icy conditions,says the Glasgow Sunday Mail.Staff at Co-op Funeralcare in Dunfermline says that ashes were used to increase the traction on a wheelchair-access ramp. "I went into that line of work to help people in their grief, not to do things like that,' a former employee of the home told the newspaper."It's absolutely shocking. It's part of the reason I moved on.
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A Chinese city was brought to its knees last week by a stuffed black leopard.After the 3-foot-long animal was spotted crouching on a public footpath in Xiamen,dogs were scared and passerbys were running for their lives, according to a witness.Some of those fleeing the phony feline ran into busy streets causing a massive traffic jam.Only when police armed with tranquilizer guns arrived on the scene was the beast identified as a cuddly soft toy.
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An Indian man turned up so drunk for his own wedding that the bride married his younger brother instead.Not only was the original groom intoxicated,said local police officer Madho Singh,he had"misbehaved with guest," prompting the bride's family to chase him away and offer their teenage daughter to the groom's more sober younger brother.who immediately accepted. The original groom has since apologized,said Singh,but has been crying that the word will spread and he will never get a bride again.
A real estate agent showing a house to a Wisconsin couple had her hopes of a commission dashed when her clients found a dead body in one of the bedrooms.Linda Chabucos-Galow says she was waiting in the dining room while Justin and Colleen McKeen inspected the house.Suddenly,she heard Colleen scream.I thought, What's wrong? said the agent."Maybe it was a dead mouse or something," In fact,it was the body of homeowner Linda O'leary,55,whose cause of death has yet to be determined.
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Quentin Tarantino says he was a black slave in a previous life. The director says he was introduced to the Buddhist concept of reincarnation by his occasional muse,actress Uma Thurman,and has come to discover he has had at least three previous lives,one Chinese,one Japanese and one as " a black slave in America." Asked how he knows this,Tarantino says,"I've got nothing I could say that would not make me sound like a horse's butt,"adding,"It just a feeling.A Knowing."
Police in San Franicsco are celebrating the capture of the bank robber known as the "Boring Bandit" Michael Minahen,45, acquired the nickname during a previous trail in which prosecutors called attension to the "dull methodoiogy" and "unremarkable style" of Minahen's holdups,which rely heavily on the hackneyed technique of handing a note to the bank tell.Minahen was rearrested this week after he fell out of a first-floor motel window and injured himself."We knew who he was right away," said Inspector Dan Gardner.
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