Being Crazy and Stupid

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Man finds cockroach entombed in cough lozenge

Australian Glenn Franks got a nasty surprise when he tried to soothe his sore throat but found a cockroach in his Nestle cough sweet.

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It was a lucky escape for the 37-year-old who was almost left with a horrible taste to swallow after buying the sweets with a dead roach inside from a Sydney convenience store.

The dead pest was preserved like an ancient bug in amber, embedded in one of the Nestle Butter Menthol drops.

'I was about to put it into my mouth when I saw it,' said Mr. Franks.

'I went straight back into the store and showed the guy I bought if off just to make sure.'

The unlucky customer made a call to Nestle who asked him not to go to the media and offered a 'modest' amount of money.

A spokesperson for Nestle said that the food company was concerned about the discovery and wished to obtain the cough sweet for testing.

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Car thief asks cops for help

An Indiana man was arrested after he allegedly showed up at a North Dakota police station in a stolen car looking for help to buy gas.

West Fargo, N.D. Assistant Chief Mike Reitan tells that the 19-year-old man from Charlestown, Ind., showed up at the station Monday morning asking for a gas voucher. Police work with a local charity to provide such vouchers to people in emergencies.

Reitan says the man told police he was trying to get to Wisconsin to attend a funeral. When the car he was driving turned out to be registered to a Dickinson convenience store, West Fargo authorities checked and discovered the vehicle had been stolen.

Reitan says that put an end to the gas voucher discussion. Officers took the man to jail.

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Children suspected in theft of 2,500 rubber ducks

Two children are believed to have stolen and scattered 2,500 rubber ducks from the Citizens Police Academy in southwest suburban Yorkville.

The ducks are used for the annual Duck Pluck event, which is a major fundraiser for the academy. After the theft, the rubber ducks were scattered all over Kendall County, according to police.

The case has been referred to prosecutors for charges. If charges are filed, the suspects' names will not be released since they are both under 18.

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Police sniff out Billions buried in garlic fields

South Korean police have sniffed out a total of 11 billion won ($9.6 million) in cash buried in remote garlic fields and have confiscated the haul.

Plastic containers brimming with jaw-dropping wads of cash being excavated one after another in the south-western city of Gimje.

Media reports said two brothers who had made the money from an illegal Internet gambling operation asked their brother-in-law, surname Lee; to hide the cash as police began closing in on them.

Lee, 53, bought the garlic field and buried the cash at dusk or dawn, pretending to be working on the land.

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Victim was asked to buy back his own tools

Police say two people swiped tools from a central Pennsylvania home then unwittingly tried to sell them back to their owner at his place of employment.

West York Police say the victim was approached by two people at a service center trying to sell him some tools. The victim thought the toolbox looked familiar and went home to find he'd been robbed.

Police soon arrested 34-year-old Cody Lee Littrell, of Hanover, and 32-year-old Rebecca Erinn Dice, of Dillsburg. Both face charges including theft and receiving stolen property.

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Passengers tries to check dead cow onto flight

A couple tried to check a dead cow onto a transatlantic flight, Virgin Atlantic has revealed in a list of the most bizarre items passengers have attempted to bring onto flights.

The couple in question arrived at New York’s JFK airport with the carcass wrapped up on a trolley and attempted to board a flight from to Heathrow airport in London with the dead cow.

Unsurprisingly, staff refused to allow the pair to check in their bizarre luggage.

It’s not just dead cows airport staff have had to deal with, passengers have also tried to bring on items such as car engine, a tarantula and one woman even wanted to bring her own bath onto the plane – again at JFK airport.

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Squirrel wanted by Oklahoma County Sheriff

Robbers foiled by bullet-proof glass

Two would-be robbers brought a hammer and gun to break into a jewelry display at a Hawaii store - but ended up leaving empty-handed. Footage from a surveillance camera showed the men attempting to smash and shoot their way into the display cases.

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However their attempts were foiled by reinforced glass which refused to shatter despite their efforts. The men eventually fled, leaving the store without any loot.

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Bank robber with an unusual request

Waterloo Police have arrested a man they say robbed a downtown Waterloo bank. It happened at the US bank on Cedar Street around 10:00 Monday morning.
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28-year-old Kurtis Culbert of Waterloo has been arrested. He is charged with second degree robbery.

Police say Culbert passed a note to a teller, saying he had a gun and needed $80. He did get away with cash and without showing any weapon. Culbert was taken into custody in Cedar Rapids. He is being held in the Black Hawk County Jail.

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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed

Man glued to toilet seat at Wal-Mart

Elkton, Md. police say a man became stuck to a department store toilet seat after someone spread glue on it. It happened at the Wal-Mart in Elkton. Officials refused to say how long the man was stuck before he was able to get help.

Police say emergency workers removed the seat from the toilet and took the man out with seat still attached to him. The seat was removed at the emergency room at Union Hospital.

Police say the incident is a second-degree assault case that may have been a random prank.

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Man helps himself to beer at Walgreen’s

A man suspected of stealing beer from a Wichita store says there's a logical explanation.

The 25-year-old man was arrested late Saturday on his way out of a Walgreen’s in northwest Wichita. Since the store was already closed, the man tripped the burglar alarm -- and a police officer caught the suspect nearby with a case of light beer.

The man explained that he couldn't get any employees to sell him the beer while the store was still open. So he found a place to hide, and then waited for the store to close and the employees to leave before he helped himself.

There's no word on charges, and the man's name has not been released.

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Police arrest man who had been praying nude

Police Lincoln, Neb. says a man praying in the nude was arrested on a public street west of downtown Lincoln.

Capt. Jim Davidsaver said that a passer-by reported seeing the man early Sunday morning, kneeling and looking to the sky. When an officer asked the man why he was nude, the man said he didn't know.

He was arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure.

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Unknown woman accused of lifting 14 lobsters

Police in Rochester, N.H., would like to get their claws on a woman accused of shoplifting 14 live lobsters.

Authorities released a surveillance photo Monday that shows the woman pushing a shopping cart near the front of the Milton Road Market Basket grocery store.

Police said that the woman entered the store Friday afternoon and asked for a selection of lobster from the clerk in the seafood department.

Store employees say the woman received the lobsters and then left the store without paying. She left in a blue van with a partial license plate "222."

Police Capt. Paul Callaghan says the 14 lifted lobsters amounted to about 16 pounds of seafood.

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Iceland's penis museum gets human specimen

In life, Pall Arason was an attention-seeker. In death, the 95-year-old Icelander's pickled penis will be the main attraction at one of the world's most bizarre museums.

Sigurdur Hjartarson, who runs the Phallological Museum in the tiny Icelandic fishing town of Husavik, says Arason's organ will help complete his extensive collection of whale, seal, bear, and other mammalian members. The museum has been open since 1997 but Hjartarson has long waited for a human specimen to round out his display.

The museum now contains a collection of two hundred and nine penises and penile parts belonging to almost all the land and sea mammals that can be found in Iceland.

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Men in Heels

A few dozen men seeking to raise awareness for sexual assault violence against women tried to walk a mile in their shoes Friday — literally.

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Among the participants — some burly and others bearded — in the fourth annual "Walk a Mile in her Shoes" event at the University of Alaska Anchorage was the head of Alaska State Troopers, Col. Keith Mallard, who slipped out of one of his red suede peep-toe shoes during the walk.

"I had a blowout," Mallard said sheepishly. "It didn't hinder my progress any. I just had to pull to the side and get a tire change."

The men teetered precariously along the mile-long route, trying to raise money for a local nonprofit that supports sexual assault victims. Donations to Standing Together Against Rape will go toward banishing sexual assaults and other acts of violence against women.

The men were game, even if it meant nearly tripping over their own stilettos.

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Kung Fu master lifts weights from his eyelid

It's no optical illusion - Feng Hu really is clenching a steel nail with his eyelid and swinging weights from it. The eye has it: Feng Hu puts a steel nail at the corner of his eye, ties a rope to a bucket of water and lifts it

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Kung Fu master Feng - from Luoyang, Henan province, central China - began staging his shows after decades of studying pain control techniques as part of his kung fu training.

Feng who likes swinging a bucket of water from his eye, explained: 'I can redirect my chi to make parts of my body forget about their nerves and they no longer hurt or get damaged. 'People think it is magic but it is years of dedication and training.'

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Penis graffiti wins art prize in Russia

Voina, the radical art group behind that giant penis drawing on that drawbridge in Russia, have won a major prize for their efforts.

The group painted the 220ft-long phallus on St Petersburg's Liteiny Bridge in protest at heightened security in the city ahead of June's International Economic Forum.

As you can see in the video below, the idea is that the penis rises, erection-like, when the bridge is raised to let traffic through.

The drawbridge happens to be opposite the headquarters of the FSB security service - one of St Petersburg's tourist attractions.

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