Boy seems to attract metal objects

An 11-year-old boy in Brazil's northeastern city of Mossoro is drawing attention with his purportedly magnet-like qualities.

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Paulo David Amorim demonstrating how forks, knives, scissors, cooking pans, cameras and other metal objects seem drawn to his body and remain stuck on his chest, stomach and back.

The boy's father tells that he decided to test his son after learning of a boy in Croatia with a similar ability. Junior Amorim says he was surprised to find "a fork and knife stuck to his body."

The youth says classmates call him "magnet boy."

Dr. Dix-Sept Rosado Sobrinho tells Globo it is the first time in his 30-year career that he has seen a case like this.

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Ape with an Ak-47

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Picture Day

Hairless Rat

All Aboard

Distresses Cows

There go and trim the grass 

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Use It Not Abuse It - Woman faked her own kidnapping

Authorities in Horry County say a woman who called 911 from the trunk of her car to say she was kidnapped made up the story.

Investigators say the 24-year-old woman called for help around noon, telling police she was pulled out of her car by a man while stopped at a traffic light in Conway.

The woman told police the man held a knife to her throat, put her in her trunk and drove off.

It took officers about 30 minutes to find the woman using the signal from her cell phone.

Police say the woman is in custody, but no charges have been filed. They did not say why she claimed she was kidnapped.

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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed

"Ohhh, when I get out of jail you two are SO GROUNDED!"

Authorities say a Utah man was arrested after his two children called police to report that he had marijuana in the house.

The man was charged with two third-degree felony charges of child endangerment and one class B misdemeanor accusing him of possession of a controlled substance.

The man's name wasn't reported.

The newspaper says the man was found to have 23.9 grams, or almost an ounce, of marijuana in his Salt Lake City home.

Authorities say his children, ages 13 and 12, found the drug and called police.

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GI Little Jim arrested with blowup doll

A Woodbridge man has been charged with burglary and destruction of property after he was arrested in the closet of an adult video store with a blow-up doll. William County say the man, 28-year-old Justin Dale Little Jim, is an officer in the U.S. Army.

Authorities in Prince

Police responded to a burglary at the MVC Late Night adult store in Woodbridge and found the glass front door shattered and unlocked. A police dog was sent in and led officers to a closet.

Prosecutors told that Little Jim was attempting to have sexual relations with the doll.

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Woman lay dead in house for eight years

The skeletal remains of a woman whose death went unnoticed for eight years were found.

Police discovered the corpse of the elderly woman, who died in 2003, after a call from her only known relative — a sister-in-law from whom she was estranged.

The woman, Natalie Wood, who would have been aged 86, was still receiving a pension but the house’s electricity had long been disconnected. Her remains were found on the upstairs bedroom floor of her terrace home

Police said they were contacted by Ms Wood’s dead brother’s sister who had tried to make contact with her to pass on some family information. Family relations were “fractious” and the women had not been in contact since 2003.

“Something occurred within the family that I can’t go into that forced her to make contact,” acting superintendent, Zoran Dzevlan said. There are no other relatives alive except the sister-in-law

The unassuming white two-storey terrace was furnished but did not appear to have been entered for years.

Neighbors said Ms Wood had not seen for 20 years and they believed the house was abandoned.

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Eating fish can be bad for you

A couple endured a health nightmare after tiny worms with teeth began eating through their bodies. It is the first time humans have been infected by the parasite in Australia.

Alfred hospital infectious disease physician Andrew Fuller said that when the couple ate the fish, believed to be a black bream, they also ingested the gnathostomiasis larvae.

"The worms are 1-3mm long and have got these sharp little teeth and they can go anywhere they like in the body," Dr Fuller said.

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The worm works its way around the human body until it dies or is killed by the immune system.

"They move under the skin and cause itchy lumps that can make you feel sick - and it can be very hard to diagnose."

The infected couple suffered muscle pain, fevers, vomiting and their skin began to look like orange peel.

They were given antibiotics and have recovered.

The worms can stay in a human for 15 years, leaving people chronically ill. They can make their way into the brain, other organs and the spinal cord. "They eat your tissues," Dr Fuller said.

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Freakazoids

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I shot my thang

Meet Otis Lockett, whose penis cops received permission to peruse photographically.

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Lockett, who was shot in the groin, told police that he was fired upon “by an unidentified person behind him,” according to a Circuit Court filing, which notes that the 27-year-old was treated at Froedtert Hospital “for a single gunshot wound to his penis.”

Since hospital workers reported that the bullet’s trajectory was a “downward 45-degree angle,” cops suspected that Lockett accidentally shot himself. This means that the convicted felon who is on probation was illegally in possession of a handgun.

So, Detective Gena Malanche filed for a search warrant seeking permission to have medical personnel to remove bandages in the area of Lockett’s groin to facilitate photography of the area.” The resulting photos, Malanche added, would help investigators establish that Lockett is a felon in possession of a firearm. 

The warrant was approved by Court Commissioner Barry Phillips, who authorized cops to “photograph the penis of Otis Lockett for analysis by the proper authorities.”

Lockett’s penis was, in fact, photographed, though court records do not identify the name of the shutterbug. A Milwaukee Police Department property inventory notes that a CD of “photos taken of Lockett’s injuries pursuant to warrant” had been logged. 

What you see is what you get

America's first transparent car – billed as a vision of the future more than 60 years ago – is expected to fetch up to UK£ 300 000 = 479 460 U.S. dollars at auction.

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The 1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six was built using a special type of perspex by General Motors and chemical company Rohm and Haas at a cost of £15,000.

Dubbed the ‘Ghost Car’ it has clocked up just 140km (86 miles) in its lifetime and is thought to be a visionary in design principles.

‘This motor still turns heads as much as it ever did,’ said a spokesman for RM Auctions which is selling the vehicle in Michigan on July 30.

'The car is in a remarkable state of preservation. It's a testament to the longevity of Plexiglas in an era when automotive plastics tended to self-destruct within a few years.

'Although it has acquired a few chips and cracks, it is structurally sound and cosmetically clear, showing off the Ghost Car's innards as it did in 1939.

'It is not, obviously, suited for touring but as a unique artifact from automotive and cultural history.'

The car made its public debut at the New York World Fair in 1939-40 and is just one of two ever made. The model which comes with a three-speed manual gearbox is thought to be the last of its kind.

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Driver drives – 60mph - in REVERSE on wrong way on the wrong side

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