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January 30, 2005

UH SIR, YOU REALLY CAN'T GET AWAY: A man threw two Molotov cocktails - which failed to explode - at his ex-girlfriend's apartment building, and then fled the scene on a riding lawnmower.
After a brief, slow-speed chase with police in pursuit, he was arrested.

GOOD, CLEAN, WHOLESOME FUN: In what they said was a tribute to the Will Ferrell movie "Old School,'' some Duke University students filled a small inflatable pool with baby oil in the basement of their fraternity house, and brought in some bikini-clad babes to wrestle in it. Some 200 people showed up to watch.
Police were called when things got out of hand.

SOMETHING'S STARTING TO BOTHER ME: Surgeons in Taif, Saudi Arabia, removed a toothbrush from a 70-year-old man's stomach. He had swallowed it 22 years earlier, but had felt no ill effects until recently.

CONSIDER THIS YOUR 'BEST OFFER': Robbers in California have been answering classified ads for used cars, setting up test drives, then carjacking the vehicles at gunpoint.

THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: Radio stations held a Christmas contest offering free breast enlargements to women who wrote essays on why they want large breasts. Thousands and thousands of women entered the "Breast Christmas Ever'' contest. Feminists are said to be peeved.

 

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