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WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS:

This couple won't have to argue about how to spend their lottery winnings. That's because the Mount Horeb, Wisconsin husband and wife each won their own 350-thousand-dollar jackpots in this weekend's SuperCash state lottery. Lottery officials said Verlyn Adamson bought his winning ticket at a gas station and his wife Judith bought hers from a convenience store. Verlyn Adamson is an accountant who says he's a big fan of math puzzles. He claims he developed a secret formula that has helped him make money in the lottery over the last 20 years, although he says his winnings have been small compared to this jackpot. He said his wife, who is his boss at work, had asked if she could play the same numbers he played. --Originally reported by The Associated Press

Ocean City, Maryland police say a street performer dressed as "Patrick the Starfish" -- a character from the SpongeBob cartoons -- has been arrested for allegedly fondling a teenager. According to police, a 16-year-old girl told officers that the costumed man fondled her buttocks on the Boardwalk last Friday when she posed with him for a picture. Police say 21-year-old Andrii Mokrishcev of the Ukraine and a man dressed as "SpongeBob" routinely pose for pictures with tourists in exchange for donations. Mokrishcev was charged with second-degree assault.--Originally reported by The Baltimore Sun

Anthony Franz had started to eat healthy, but the salmon salad he ordered for lunch from Chicago's Shaw's Crab House in August 2006 wasn't the best choice, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. Franz says he became violently ill for several days after eating that salad and later "passed a nine-foot tapeworm." A pathologist determined the giant tapeworm only has one source -- "undercooked fish, such as salmon," according to court papers. Franz wants more than a refund. He's seeking 100-thousand dollars for his pain, suffering, lost time from work and "lost enjoyment of life."--Originally reported by The Chicago Sun-Times

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BROOKS & DUNN PARTY PIC:

Yes, they're that tall, and I'm that short! Good to see them again. And what a show!

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WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS:

A premature baby who was pronounced dead "came back to life" Sunday after five hours in a Jerusalem hospital. The baby girl, who was in a cooler at the hospital, suddenly showed signs of life and was being treated in the premature baby unit. Doctors estimated that the cooler brought the fetus "back to life." The mother, 26, was in the fifth month of her pregnancy when she underwent a series of tests, during which it was discovered that she was suffering from internal bleeding and that the fetus had ceased to show signs of life. The woman underwent an abortion and the baby -- weighing one pound, five and a half ounces (or 610 grams) -- was extracted from her womb without a pulse, hospital officials said. A senior doctor pronounced the baby dead and she was transferred to the cooler. Five hours later, the woman's husband came to the hospital to take what he thought was his dead baby girl for burial. When the baby was taken out of the cooler, she began to breathe. The premature baby was then taken to the intensive care ward.--Originally reported by The Jerusalem Post

A plea for lovelorn female "ugly ducklings" to move to a remote Australian mining town to reverse a shortage of eligible women has landed the local mayor in hot water. Mount Isa Mayor John Molony has refused to apologize for angering local women with a suggestion that "with five blokes to every girl, may I suggest that beauty-disadvantaged women should proceed to Mount Isa," in north-west Queensland state. "Quite often you will see walking down the street a lass who is not so attractive with a wide smile on her face. Whether it is recollection of something previous or anticipation for the next evening, there is a degree of happiness," Molony told the Townsville Bulletin newspaper last week. The mayor said he was "telling it like it is" in a testosterone-laden town more famous for cowboys and mining lead, silver, copper and zinc than for match-making, sitting atop one of the world's biggest underground mines. --Originally reported by Reuters

Wichita, Kansas police say a woman returned to her home after an errand Friday night to find clothes strewn all over the basement laundry room and bleach poured on them. She went upstairs to call her husband. While she was on the phone, a man wearing only blue boxer shorts came up from the basement, grabbed her purse and ran out the door, police said. The woman chased the man and pulled the purse away from him. On further inspection, the woman found the man's jeans and belt in her washing machine. Police said he entered the house by climbing through a window in the basement. Evidence at the scene indicated the man decided he needed to wash his clothes, and he broke into the house to do laundry thinking no one was home. -Originally reported by The Wichita Eagle.

Two weeks ago, the Butler County, Kentucky sheriff and a deputy hopped into their cruiser and drove to California and back -- more than 41-hundred miles -- to bring a man to Kentucky for failing to appear in court on the minor felony charge of fleeing from police and drunken driving, a misdemeanor. On the way there, they stopped to sightsee at Buck Owens' Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, California. On the way back, they bought T-shirts at a souvenir shop. Only when they got back to Western Kentucky and turned their prisoner over to the jail did anyone confirm through fingerprints and mug shots what their prisoner, 27-year-old Joe Oros the Third, had been saying all along -- they had the wrong man. Embarrassed by the mistake, the county swiftly put Oros on a plane back to California. But the cross-country jaunt may prove to cost the county a little more than the expense of a plane ticket. As he was being freed, Oros ran into a helpful Kentucky lawyer who agreed to sue Butler County and the State of California, if necessary, to try to get extra compensation for the two-thousand miles he rode in shackles. --Originally reported by The Louisville Courier-Journal

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A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States. The board of the small rural Harrold Independent School District unanimously approved the plan and parents have not objected, said the district's superintendent, David Thweatt. School experts backed Thweatt's claim that Harrold, a system of about 110 students 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth, may be the first to let teachers bring guns to the classroom. Thweatt claims it is a matter of safety, saying, "We have a lock-down situation, we have cameras, but the question we had to answer is, 'What if somebody gets in? What are we going to do? It's just common sense." Teachers who wish to bring guns will have to be certified to carry a concealed handgun in Texas and get crisis training and permission from school officials.--Originally reported by Reuter

A Poulsbo, Washington woman was jailed after being accused of beating up her fiance at their prenuptial party. Kitsap County sheriff's deputies say 31-year-old Amber Barnes' 12-year-old son told her he saw her fiance kissing one of her women friends. Deputies say Barnes gave her friends the boot, told her fiance to leave, too, and then started hitting him in the face. When he left the house, they say, she tackled him football-style, punched him some more, threw his watch into the bushes and broke his glasses. Responding to a 9-1-1 call from her son, deputies arrested Barnes for investigation of fourth-degree assault.--Originally reported by The Seattle Times 

A Texas mother was in jail after police said she made her 12-year-old daughter drive her to a bar. Jennifer Lynn Rosenburg was arrested Wednesday and accused of child endangerment. Police stopped a minivan that had turned into a driveway without using a turn signal and then ran into the home at a low speed. The driver was Rosenburg's 12-year-old daughter, who said she had just dropped off her mother at a bar, police said. Police found Rosenburg, 35, at the bar, and she admitted having her daughter drive her there, according to a police report. Child Protective Services is investigating.--Originally reported by The Longview News-Journal.

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WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS:

A Minnesota teenager who received a heart transplant in 2004 was arrested this week for plotting to kill a neighbor and cut out his heart. Andrew Busskohl, who told family members he dreamed of being a surgeon, was busted after he threw a rock through the neighbor's patio window. In the wake of that incident, one of his friends told authorities the boy "had come up with a plan on how to murder someone" and spilled all the details. -- orginally reported by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune

A woman is being evicted from her apartment in a Welsh housing project because of her overactive flushing finger. Mynwen Jones angered neighbors with her odd bathroom habits -- including flushing the toilet twice after each use and using the facility at what were described as "anti-social hours." Jones was described as "irrational" and as a "nuisance neighbor" who would never change her ways in the court order evicting her. -- originally reported by The Telegraph [U.K

Law enforcement official arrested a murder suspect in Montana after he tried to give them a false name -- forgetting that he had his real name tattooed on the side of his head! Sterling Wolfname was taken into custody at a men's shelter in Billings, where he'd gone to get a free meal. He presented a fake I-D, but cops weren't swayed and busted him. He's being held on one-million dollars bond.-- originally reported by The Missoulian [MT

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Eating rats is the best way for rich and poor people to solve the global crisis of rising food prices, an Indian official said yesterday, as he unveiled his plan to put rodents on menus. Regular rat snacks would translate into fewer rodents eating precious grain stocks -- 50-percent of which are lost in the northeastern state of Bihar every year to the animals, said Vijay Prakash, secretary of the state's welfare department. Prakash's plan promotes consumption of rat meat in homes, street stalls, restaurants and even international five-star hotels. He said he was also holding talks with prestigious hotels outside India to encourage them to put rat meat on their menus, but admitted his scheme had to overcome public prejudice. Members of the Mushar community and some other impoverished groups have traditionally eaten rats in India.--Originally reported by Agence France-Presse

Colorado's purported porn inspector has been popped by police. Andrew Libby, 33, was arrested for allegedly impersonating a detective and demanding X-rated films from an adult video emporium. On several occasions last month, Libby went to the video store, where he flashed a badge and claimed to be a Longmont Police Department detective assigned to its "age verification unit." Libby even left a business card from the police unit, which, of course, does not really exist. He demanded copies of porn tapes to determine whether the film's stars were old enough to appear in X-rated productions, according to police. Libby, rebuffed by clerks each time he appeared at the video store, was apprehended a day after cops released surveillance photos showing him inside the video store. He was arrested at his Longmont home, where a police search turned up a "metal security officer badge," a small amount of marijuana and a handgun. Libby, a convicted felon, was booked into the Boulder County jail on a variety of charges, including impersonating a police officer, weapons possession and pot possession.--Originally reported by The Smoking Gun.

A former part-time Pennsylvania police officer has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for pulling over a woman while he was off duty -- just to give her his phone number. Steven Klinger, 32, was charged with official oppression, or acting outside his authority as an officer. Police said he used red and blue lights mounted on the dashboard of his pickup truck to pull over a woman in eastern Pennsylvania in April 2007. The woman became suspicious when he began asking her if she was married or had a boyfriend, police said. Klinger, who last worked for the Dallas Police Department in northeastern Pennsylvania, is currently unemployed.--Originally reported by The Bloomsburg Press Enterprise

An Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by putting a photograph of his lover's underpants up for sale on E-Bay. In the listing the woman says she is selling a picture of a pair of lacy black knickers and an empty condom wrapper "size small" found in her bed after her husband had an affair with another woman. The seller provides a rather unflattering description of the panties, writing, "They are so huge I thought they may make someone a nice shawl or, even better, something for Halloween perhaps." The E-Bay listing, entitled "Empty condom packet and a photo of 'The Tart's' knickers," also includes a detailed account of the events leading up to the discovery. The woman says she returned from work after receiving a romantic text message from her husband of 22 years that was clearly misdirected.--Originally reported by The Brisbane Courier Mail