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Pre-Chewing Baby's Food Looks to Be A-OK

Alicia Silverstone's practice offers benefits similar to breastfeeding

(Newser) - Alicia Silverstone's video of herself chewing her baby's food last week prompted disgusted comments, but she may actually be doing little Bear Blu a favor. Our ancestors did the same, and plenty of non-Western cultures still do it, Life's Little Mysteries notes. Like breast-feeding, "pre-mastication" offers...

Man Tries to Board Plane With Knife in Mayo

But it wasn't a great hiding spot: the TSA considers mayonnaise a gel

(Newser) - Score one for the TSA: Security screeners at New York's Kennedy Airport caught a man trying to smuggle a knife onto a flight ... by sticking it in a full tub of mayonnaise. A TSA rep says screeners stopped the man today as he arrived for a trip to Mexico...

Man Busted for Peeing on Co-Workers' Chairs

Raymond Charles Foley urinated on those belonging to 'attractive females'

(Newser) - If your office chair seems a little damp ... well, you might want to find another one. A 59-year-old Des Moines man was charged with criminal mischief yesterday after turning himself in for peeing on the chairs of his Farm Bureau colleagues. Security cameras installed after mysterious stains began appearing on...

Priest Flashes Gay Porn During Communion Talk

He has no idea how it got on memory stick

(Newser) - A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland insists he has no idea how gay porn ended up on a memory stick he was using for a Powerpoint presentation to families before their children's First Communion. After he clicked on a folder and explicit images filled the screen, the "visibly...

Unruly Patron Bites Off Bartender's Pinky: Cops

Said patron had just been caught having sex at said bar

(Newser) - Crazy things happen at bars, and then crazeeee things happen at bars ... a tale of the latter, out of New York: Glens Falls police report that Ernest Vannier was caught having sex with a woman around 4am yesterday in the smoking room of a bar called the Daily Double. It...

DUI Suspect Sings &#39;Bohemian Rhapsody&#39;
 DUI Suspect Sings 
 'Bohemian Rhapsody' 
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Apr 1, 2012 7:00 PM CDT

DUI Suspect Sings 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

Canada's Robert Wilkinson belts it out a cappella in cop car

(Newser) - Instant classic. A YouTube video of 29-year-old Robert Wilkinson of Alberta, Canada, singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the back of a police cruiser easily qualifies. Wilkinson had just been pulled over on suspicion of drunken driving, reports the Smoking Gun . Police gave Wilkinson the video as part of his still-pending...

And the Oddest Book Title of the Year Is ...

Other contenders included books about chicken sexing, office chairs

(Newser) - There were plenty of odd book titles last year, such as Estonian Sock Patterns All Over the World and A Taxonomy of Office Chairs. But the winner of the Diagram prize for strangest book title of the year is Cooking with Poo, reports the Guardian . Actually, Cooking with Poo is...

Body Part Found in Flier's Luggage

Chinese passenger busted at Bucharest airport

(Newser) - A Chinese airline passenger en route to Italy was busted in Bucharest after a body part was found in his luggage, apparently tucked away amid the underwear and shirts. A portion of a "human lower limb" was discovered during a security check, reports the Telegraph . "The fragment of...

Bigfoot Search Requires Permit: Park Rangers

31 Sasquatch seekers stopped in Arkansas

(Newser) - The National Parks Service doesn't allow just anyone to conduct a search for Bigfoot. A man conducting a group mission to track down Sasquatch was halted by park rangers who told him he needed a permit, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. That's because the leader of the search around...

Man Killed Wife After Dog Pooped in House: Cops

Michael Stephen Stolz shot their two dogs, too

(Newser) - Yikes: A Texas man is charged with shooting and killing his wife after one of their dogs pooped in the house. Michael Stephen Stolz, 76, told police that he first shot the defecating dog—a German Shepherd mix—after the incident Saturday. Then he shot the couple's other dog,...

'Cinnamon Challenge' Landing Teens in Hospital

YouTube dare riskier than it seems, poison centers warn

(Newser) - Kids these days aren't smoking nutmeg, they're swallowing cinnamon—or trying to, the nation's poison centers warn. More and more teens appear to be attempting the "cinnamon challenge"—in which you try to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon without choking—and poison centers have...

The Weird Fight Over Oswald's Tombstone

How it wound up at a small auto museum in Illinois

(Newser) - The Historic Auto Attractions museum in Roscoe, Illinois, is home to a Lincoln once owned by Elvis, an Andy Griffith Show squad car, three Batmobiles, and... Lee Harvey Oswald's tombstone? It's not quite as weird as it sounds—the tiny museum has an array of non-vehicular esoterica, including...

Guy Busted for Trying to Swipe ID of Microsoft&#39;s Allen
Man Steals Identity of ...
One of World's Richest Men
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Mar 27, 2012 9:59 AM CDT

Man Steals Identity of ... One of World's Richest Men

It just seems obvious that this was going to end really badly

(Newser) - Ways to land in trouble:
  1. Go AWOL.
  2. Fund your AWOL lifestyle via identity theft.
  3. Snatch the identity of one of the world's richest men.
So goes the case against Brandon Lee Price, who now faces bank fraud charges for allegedly swiping the identity of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, reports...

Actual 'Hamburglar' Raids McDonald's Drive-Thru

But restaurant won't press charges

(Newser) - A real-life "Hamburglar" hit a drive-thru in Maine on Sunday night, the Kennebec Journal reports. The unidentified male, thought to be a teenager, ran between the Augusta McDonald's drive-thru window and a waiting car, snatching a bag of food just as an employee handed it outside. A nearby...

Church Staged Teen Kidnap to Teach Persecution

Authorities investigating after bruised girl, 14, files complaint

(Newser) - County prosecutors are investigating mock "abductions" orchestrated by a Pennsylvania church that left one 14-year-old girl bruised, battered, and terrified, according to authorities. The horrifying ordeal was intended to teach the unsuspecting teens at the Glad Tidings Assembly of God in Middletown about persecution of Christian missionaries, reports the...

Woman, 83, Sues Apple After Walking Into Glass Door

Evelyn Paswall wants $1M

(Newser) - "Apple wants to be cool and modern" with its nifty glass front doors, says the indignant lawyer for an 83-year-old woman who was foiled by those very doors, "but they have to realize that the elderly generation are their customers, too." Evelyn Paswall, the octogenarian in question,...

Banned From NYC Tests: Dinosaurs, Aliens, Birthdays

Officials ban 50 subjects from city-wide assessment tests

(Newser) - New York City test-makers are going to have a hard time coming up with acceptable questions to place on students' tests, after officials decided to ban 50 subjects including dinosaurs and birthdays. Why? Because those topics have been deemed potentially controversial, and could make kids upset: Dinosaurs, for example, could...

Medical Pot Delivery Guy: 2 Ninjas Robbed Me

West Covina police are on the hunt

(Newser) - Police in California are on the hunt for two men dressed as ninjas who allegedly robbed a medical marijuana delivery man on Friday, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports. The man says he was set upon by the ninjas-slash-robbers while walking back to his car after making a delivery, and,...

Eggs-treme Parents Force Easter Hunt Cancellation

Too-aggressive mom, dad hopped to help their kids

(Newser) - How aggressive were the parents at last year's Colorado Springs Easter egg hunt (which, yes, is a hunt designed for their kids)? Well, the event has been canceled this year. The scene last April: Parents jumped a rope early to nudge their children toward plastic eggs filled with candy....

NH Woman Plants Flowers, Gets Sued

 NH Woman 
 Plants Flowers, 
 Gets Sued 
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Mar 24, 2012 7:48 PM CDT

NH Woman Plants Flowers, Gets Sued

Kimberly Bois battles her condo board

(Newser) - The grounds around Kimberly Bois' condo are filled with daisies, bearded irises, lavender, and hydrangeas … a piece of floral serenity that's getting Bois sued. The Atlantic Pointe condo association wants her to pull up the perennials, and since Oct. 24 has been fining her first $25 per day...

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