More Than 5,000 Chinese Children Have Been given the birth name, ‘Olympic Games’ Or, in Chinese, “Aoyun.” A states spokesperson has been quoeted as saying, “It is not uncommon for Chinese children to be given names of common events and popular slogans—such as Defend China, Get Rich, Stay Healthy, Strong Nation and Space Travel. I […]
Entries Tagged as 'Crazy People'
My Name is: “Freedom from Oppression”
June 11th, 2008 · No Comments
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Multi-Year Treasure Hunt Ends
June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Dan Deming had heard the rumours about the buried treasure on his central Wisconsin farm for years and at first he made some halfhearted attempts to find it, and then searched in earnest for the next 5 years after receiving a metal detector for his birthday.
“I dreamed of finding 100’s of bars of gold or […]
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Baby For Sale on Ebay - Baby For Sale?!
May 25th, 2008 · No Comments
German police confirm that they today have taken a seven month baby away from a couple in Bavaria and local child welfare investigators are looking into them after the couple put the child up for sale on Internet auction site Ebay. The description read, “Male baby almost 8 months old, sleeps well through the night […]
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Mafia Supports the Girl Guides?
May 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
A Girl Scout sold over 17,000 of the group’s signature cookies this year, shattering her troop’s old mark and probably setting a national record. But how did she do it, that is the question. Her father Fabio Gunazzenti is a local mafia don and it is thought that his reputation might have had something to […]
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1,840 Crazy Nude Folks Walk into a Staduim
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it is the most recent work by New York photographer Spencer Tunick which attracted over 1,800 people, wearing their birthday suits in Austria’s Happel Stadium on Sunday. The stadium will host seven of the Euro 2008 soccer championship matches being staged by Austria and Switzerland, including the June 29 […]
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Drop Dead Sexy
April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Sexy lingerie has reportedly become a hit among Malaysia’s ethnic Chinese, they buy them to offer to their dead relatives on the Qingming Festival this Friday. To mark the day, Chinese traditionally tend the graves of their departed loved ones and often burn paper money, model houses, cars, mobile phones and other goods as offerings […]
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Crazy, Sick Crime
March 24th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Living in the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a child-like mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor. Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator upstairs, where housemates used her for target practice with […]
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4 Hairs for $17,000!
March 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
It probably is not even really George Washington’s hair - but it still sold for $17,000. Four strands reportedly clipped from the first president were sold at auction Friday night to a Richmond man who declined to give his name. Colorado resident Christa Allen said her father, a Philadelphia lawyer, had given her the hair, […]
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Tattoo or Gun-Fight?
January 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Getting a tattoo turned into a very, very painful experience, but usually it’s just the needle you have to worry about. Two men trying to trace a loaded .357-caliber Magnum as a pattern for a tattoo accidentally shot themselves. Robert Glasser and Joey Acosta, both 22, were treated at a hospital in El Paso, Texas, […]
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God made me do IT?
December 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments
A former U.S. navy chaplain plans to plead guilty to allegations that include forcible sodomy and failing to tell a sex partner he was HIV-positive, his lawyer said.
Lt.-Cmdr. John Thomas Matthew Lee will enter the plea Thursday at his court martial at Marine Corps Base Quantico in northern Virginia, his lawyer, David Sheldon, said. He […]
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