Stupid News-EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust

OKLAHOMA CITY - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering a crackdown on farm dust, so senators have signed a letter addressing their concerns on the possible regulations. “We respect efforts for a clean and healthy environment, but not at the expense of common sense. These identified levels will be extremely burdensome for farmers and livestock producers to attain. Whether it’s livestock kicking up dust, soybeans being combined on a dry day in the fall, or driving a car down the gravel road, dust is a naturally occurring event.”---...More

Mail found near 60-year-old plane crash

DUNDEE, Scotland - A British geography student on a visit to the French Alps said she discovered a bag of mail from a November 1950 plane crash. Freya Cowan, 22, a Student at Scotland’s University of Dundee who was in the Alps researching global warming, said she found a mailbag from the Malabar Princess, an Air India Lockheed Constellation that took off from London in 1950 and crashed en route to Geneva. ---...More

Australia Witch:Your laws don’t apply to me

Australia - A self-proclaimed witch told a traffic cop she was not subject to earthly laws as she was “a being from another world”. “Your laws and penalties don’t apply to me. I’m not accepting them, I’m sorry, I must go, thank you,” Eilish De Avalon said, driving off with the officer’s arm caught in her driver’s side door. “De Avalon was a suspended driver and that is why she took off,” Leading Senior Constable Geoff Lamb said.---...More

Stupid News:Pub launches menu for dogs

UK - For dogs around the country, a walk to the pub has long been rewarded with only a dish of water and the odd tantalising tid-bit. But now they can tuck into a meal of their own as Butcher’s Pet Care, in partnership with gastropub chain Brakspear, offers a tasty range of pub lunches for dogs. Now dog owners can sit down to lunch happy in the knowledge their dog is enjoying their meal as much as they are....More

Police nab bandit who used underwear as mask (Reuters)

Reuters - An unemployed woman who said she was desperate for money has been arrested on charges she robbed an Oklahoma McDonald's with a white stretch girdle wrapped around her face as a makeshift mask....More

Store to sell ‘plus size’ clothes to three-year-olds

UK - Marks and Spencer has begun selling “plus-size” clothing for children as young as three in an attempt to dress a new generation with bulging waistlines. Health campaigners said the decision by the High Street giant demonstrated the scale of the obesity epidemic affecting Britain’s “overindulged” children, with one in four children now classed as obese or overweight by the time they start primary school. The retailer said it began a trial of the “plus fit” range last week, in an attempt to meet consumer demand. ---...More

Air France attendant held for robbing passengers (Reuters)

Reuters - French police have arrested an Air France stewardess on suspicion of stealing thousands of euros in cash, cards and jewelry as passengers slept on long haul flights, a newspaper reported on Tuesday....More

Bridge game fights "led man to murder wife" Reuters

Reuters - A British man murdered his wife after constant arguments about her ability to play bridge, a court heard Tuesday. Stephen Green, 52, is accused of stabbing his wife Carole to death in January, after fights about her card playing...More

Woman Rushed to Hospital With Ulcer Delivers Baby Boy

UK - Lisa Witchalls was told she would never be able to have children. So, it was quite a shock when she was rushed to the hospital with what she thought was an ulcer, and delivered a healthy baby boy just hours later, the London Evening Standard reported. The 25-year-old was admitted to Queen’s Hospital in Essex, England after experiencing intense stomach pains. Doctors checked her blood pressure and performed two pregnancy tests. Both were positive.---...More

China warns tourists on "forced shopping" in Hong Kong (Reuters)

Reuters - China's National Tourism Administration has issued an advisory on travel to Hong Kong after a video of mainland tourists being insulted and "forced to shop" by a Hong Kong tour guide sparked outrage on the Internet.---...More

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Woman, 75, crashes into store for 2nd time

Georgia - Police in Atlanta said a 75-year-old woman who drove her car through the front of a liquor store told officers it was the second time she had done so. Investigators said Constance Chapman, 75, drove her Mazda Miata through the front window of Green’s store at about 3:15 p.m., shattering 1,500 bottles of alcohol, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported....More

Corporate "firewalk" ends with burnt feet in Italy

Reuters - A "motivation day" organized by one of Italy's biggest real estate agencies ended in tears and scars when nine staff had to be treated in hospital after walking barefoot on a bed of hot coals.
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Holy War on Haircuts

Iran - It’s something like a holy war on haircuts. Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has issued a directive banning ‘decadent’ hairstyles for men, restricting barber shops to only certain kinds of cuts. The primary target: spiky, gelled hairdos associated with rebellious youths, corrupted by Western influence. It’s a style that was commonly seen on the front line of last year’s post-election protests. ---...More

Does Scientology Force Abortions On Its Pregnant Members?

Scientologists just can't catch a break. People were angry when John Travolta dropped them off in Haiti to touch people. They are accused of covering up child rape. And now, former members are saying they were pressured into having abortions.---...More

Team berated for Hooters sponsorship deal

Reuters - An under-16 Australian Rules football team has come under fire for entering a sponsorship deal with a local Hooters franchise, with...more

Woman attacks husband for being bad in bed

Hudson, Texas - A woman has been accused of stabbing her husband with scissors because she was unhappy with his performance in bed. Michelle Thomas, 26, was arrested after police were called around 1am to the couple’s house. The man told police Ms Thomas became angry with him after a sex session left her unsatisfied...More

Girl, 3, vies for tattoo record

Most three-year-old girls are just getting to grips with felt pens, but Ruby Dickinson is taking her artistic tendencies a step further. The toddler is set to become the world's youngest tattoo art.---...More

Wild West-Arizona to allow concealed weapons without permit

PHOENIX, Arizona - Favoring the constitutional right to bear arms over others’ concerns about gun safety, Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a bill making Arizona the third state allowing people to carry a concealed weapon without requiring a permit. The measure takes effect 90 days after the current legislative session ends. Alaska and Vermont now do not require permits to carry concealed weapons.
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Food fight leads to cheese sandwich menu

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey - Officials with a New Jersey high school said students received a cheese sandwich menu for two days as punishment for a food fight. School superintendent Fredrick Nickles said cafeteria workers at Atlantic City High School prepared and served a cheese sandwich-only menu Wednesday and Thursday for the lunch period involved in Tuesday’s food fight.---...More

Woman seeks police help to detain 'spirit' of her dead brother

KUALA LUMPR: A woman has sought the help of police to detain the "spirit" of her dead brother, which she claimed has been disturbing her. Local media reports said the woman's brother had died ye...---...More

Beach-cleaning group reports latest finds

New Jersey - Dirty underpants, a mannequin wearing socks, an air conditioner and a still-working iPhone were among some of the stranger items of trash picked up from New Jersey’s beaches. Clean Ocean Action is marking its 25th year of beach sweeps in the Garden State. This afternoon, the coastal environmental group will release its full report on all the disgusting, dangerous and just flat-out weird trash that made its way onto the state’s beaches during the past quarter-century. ---...More

Georgia man arrested twice in day on drug charge

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) -- Albany authorities did a double take when they arrested a man twice on the same drug charge in one day. Authorities said a man, 26, was charged with possession of marijuana around noon on Friday after police pulled him over during a routine traffic stop. He was sent to the Dougherty County Jail and released on bond four hours later.---...More

Trooper pulls near squad car, sees passed out teen

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon State Police trooper pulled up next to a parked Marion County sheriff's patrol car late Saturday expecting to talk to the deputy. Instead he found an 18-year-old passed out over the steering wheel. State police said the Ford Mustang had been stolen from the deputy's home.---...More

Ohio boy, 8, takes family van for gas, crashes

BETHEL, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio man says his 8-year-old son was just trying to do him a favor and get gasoline when the boy drove the family's minivan and crashed it. James Crouch says he didn't even realize his son, Jordan, was out of the house Friday morning until a Clermont County sheriff's deputy came to the family's home in Bethel and woke him up to let him know what happenedMore

Typo costs prisoner 3 extra years in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A Thai man has been released from an Indonesian prison after spending three extra years behind bars because of a typo in his paperwork, a report said Friday..More