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Effciency, after an official from Canada's Royal Ontario Museum, who was seeking a rare sheleton of the 80-foot-long Barasaurus, found one without the help of paleontogists--in fact without even leaving the building.The museam had acquired just such a skeleton in 1962, but forgot about it and put it in storage.
The Matrix, after Dutch police charged a teenager with stealing $5,000 worth of virtual furniture from a virtual hotel in an online game. The teen allegedly hacked into the accounts of other players in the Habbo Hotel game, took virtual furniture thay had paid for in real currency, and put it into his own virtual hotel room.
Hot pursuit, after a man named Warren Whitelighting stole a Krispy Kreme doughnut truck and led several police cars on an 80-mph chase, leaving a trail of hundreds of donuts rolling down the street of Madison, Wis. Whitelighting was charged with drunkin driving, ramming a police car, and host of other crimes.
The foulmouthed,,after a Pennaylvania judge acquited a woman of disorderly conduct for swearing at her malfuctioning toilet. Her neighbor, a policeman, charged Dawn Herb,33, with a crime after he heard her repeatedly using the F-word through her bathroom window. The language Herb used "may be considered by some to be offensive, vulger, and imprudent," the judge ruled, but she was entilted to use it under the First Amendment.
GO LOGAN..The anti-Christ is among us
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Religious instruction,after the pastor of the Relevant Church in Ybor City, Florida, issued a "30-day sex challenge" for married congregants to fool around--with their spouses--every day for a month, in an effort to reduce the divorce rate.
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Fat Guys,after the Florida Marlins held tryouts for a new cheerleading squad called the Manatees, which will consist entirely of overweight--but limber--men.
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Getting out of a tight spot, after Serena Kozakura, a Japanese swimsuit model, was acquitted of breaking into her ex-boyfriend's house through a hole in the wall by demonstrating to the court that her breast were too big to fit through it.
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Being high on Mount Sinai,after an Israeli researcher concluded that Moses was probably on hallucinogenic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments. Mind-altering substances played an intergral role in the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, said Hegrew University psychologist Benny Shanon.
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Mean Girls after a study found that high school students who savage their peers by spreading rumors and excluding them from cliques are viewed by other kids as popular and well-liked.