Headline of the Day

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My sweetie, the news junkie, occasionally sends me the oddest headlines. I thought it might make for a fun game thread.

This one made me grin:

Clinically Depressed Poodle Mauls Ex-French President
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481426,00.html


If you come across a strange/ funny/ news headline post it!

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Qantas jet grounded after dog chews through electrical wiring, interior panels

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/...014090,00.html

Just to keep with the canine theme.

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Different animals:

Pierced 'Gothic Kittens' Seized

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wor...00812315187322

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Heard this on NPR this morning...

Chicago Boy Poses As Police Officer

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=99861662


A 14-year-old boy in Chicago is charged with impersonating a police officer. The teenager wore a uniform into a police station and got assigned to a patrol car.


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He's got guts, this kid...

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More animals:

Whistling parrot halts soccer game

http://uk.mg41.mail.yahoo.com/dc/lau...=794adbtrgh8ft

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A new direction:

Toilet poems can save paper - research

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574...-23109,00.html

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Toilet poems can save paper - research[/B]

Free or not free, I do not scrimp.

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'Villages' Retirement Home Is Widower's Sex Paradise
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482785,00.html

Umm... Hooray for them?

[Fencergrl]

Reviving this thread with a little Canadian news... http://www.canadaka.net/forums/atlan...ed-t10766.html

This is on Native land, and the local men feel that it represents them favourably and would like to leave the statue the way it is.

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Giant sausage stolen from Toowoomba butcher, ransom demanded

BUTCHER Mark Nolan says he has little information which could lead to the kidnappers of a 40kg fibreglass sausage from the roof of his Toowoomba shop.

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Perhaps this is how we can solve sabre:

Safety Sue says 'sshhhhhh!' and nearly starts a riot


http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/...237738869.html

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Police hunt radioactive man

http://www.theage.com.au/world/polic...0228-8krj.html

What about Fallout Boy?

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wtf....

Los Angeles proclaims: No cussing

http://m.suntimes.com/suntimes/db_99...&detailindex=4

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Six floor Barbie shop opens - with a bar

WITH sales plunging deeper than the neckline of her designer dresses, Barbie is fighting back in Shanghai with a six-storey concept store that her makers hope will begin a new era in her 50-year history.

The store opens tomorrow, throwing pink at a grey retail climate by inviting girls of all ages to design dolls, indulge in mother-daughter facials and dine at a restaurant run by Australian-born celebrity chef David Laris.

The restaurant is complete with a Barbie bar that stays open until 2am.

[Fencergrl]

I think I would rather lose the bet.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNew...4156-bang.html

[Tazz]

Well this wasn't exactly a headline.. but I read an article today titled:

Bugs and Worms Fart Laughing Gas

(A scientific article.. not a joke)

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This is an emergency. I want my McNuggets

FORT PIERCE, Florida - An American woman who paid for a 10-piece meal of McDonald's Chicken McNuggets became irate after she was told the store was out of them. So she called 911.

Three times.

"This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one," Latreasa Goodman told police. "This is an emergency."

The McNugget meltdown happened last week and ended with Goodman, 27, getting a notice to appear in court on a charge of misusing 911, according to a recently released police report.

Goodman told investigators she tried to get a refund for the 10-piece McNuggets but the cashier told her all sales are final.

"I called 911 because I couldn't get a refund, and I wanted my McNuggets," Goodman told police.

The cashier told police she offered Goodman a larger portion of food for the same price to make up for it, but said Goodman got "irate", the report states.

Goodman reportedly yelled, "I don't want a McDouble and small fry," the cashier told investigators.

Dispatchers for 911 told police Goodman called the emergency number three times and on each occasion was told an officer was en route.

"Goodman maintained the attitude 'This is an emergency, my McNuggets are an emergency'," the report states.

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Happy women's day::

Washing machine has done more to liberate women than the Pill, says the Vatican



* Washing machine liberated women - Vatican
* May have done more than contraceptive Pill
* Has helped produce 'smiling super women'

THE washing machine has had a greater liberating role for women than the Pill, the official Vatican daily said in an International Women's Day commentary.

"The washing machine and the emancipation of women: put in the powder, close the lid and relax," said the headline on the article in Osservatore Romano yesterday.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574...81-401,00.html

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Coffee taster's tongue worth £10m

The tongue of the chief coffee taster for a worldwide chain of coffee shops has been insured for £10m ($13.95m).

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7932090.stm

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Pink dolphin appears in US lake

The world's only pink Bottlenose dolphin which was discovered in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, has become such an attraction that conservationists have warned tourists to leave it alone.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...n-US-lake.html

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Religion Fills Vacancies Left By Retail Closures

Washington Post (print edition only)