Sounds nasty but Chicken Charlie’s is a staple of fried rations at fairs across the country. It sold 400 to 600 orders of deep-fried Kool-Aid per day the first weekend of the San Diego County Fair. That’s about double the rate of previous debut items, Boghosian said. “That’s because it tastes so darn good,” Boghosian [...]

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Come here doggie, doggie… A very rich dog, which inherited $12 million from U.S. hotelier Leona Helmsley, has died, a spokeswoman for the deceased hotel mogul’s trust said Thursday. Helmsley, who owned the Helmsley hotel chain, left $12 million in her will to care for her beloved Maltese named Trouble when she died in 2007. [...]

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A woman robbed a Colorado bank by passing her official HIV status card from a local clinic and a note saying she would infect a teller with AIDS if the clerk didn’t hand over money, police said on Friday. Jeff Satur, spokesman for the Longmont, Colorado police department, said detectives are searching for a pale [...]

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One nutty woman now has an arm-y of Facebook friends… The social network fan has had all her online pals’ profile pics tattooed on her limb. She filmed herself getting the 152 prints and posted the clip on YouTube. The unnamed Dutch woman, who goes by the username susyj87, said: “Pretty amazing, right? I’m really [...]

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This kid must really hate his sister! A 16-year-old Ontario boy was given a stern warning by police for posting an online ad that offered two children for sale. Chatham-Kent police said the ad included photos and stated that the kids had to be gone in a week or they’d be put on the streets. [...]

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British spies hacked into an al-Qaida website to replace instructions on how to build a bomb with recipes for making cupcakes, newspapers reported on Friday. The cyber offensive took place last year when the English language magazine called Inspire, aimed at Muslims in the West, was launched by supporters of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula [...]

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A Malaysia man has agreed to tweet an apology 100 times over three days after slandering a publishing company on the social media service. Fahmi Fadzil (@fahmi_fadzil), who describes himself as a performer and writer on his Twitter bio, is doling out the contrite tweets at about one an hour. As of Thursday morning, he [...]

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I don’t shoplift but why take a chance?

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Zoo workers prepared tranquiler darts and a thermal imaging helicopter was dispatched amid reports of a white tiger on the loose near an England golf course. But there was just one problem — it turned out to be a stuffed animal. Police have launched an investigation into the potential hoax that sent golfers and cricket [...]

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For those times you get caught in the rain!

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