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For Sale in Colorado: Rights to 'Frozen Dead Guy' Fest

Cryogenics put these residents in the party mood

(Newser) - The small Colorado community of Nederland is looking to sell the rights to its annual Frozen Dead Guy Days festival, ideally to an event company that will retain all the morbid splendor that comes with … throwing a party in honor of a frozen dead man. The trademarked three-day fest...

7.8M-Gallon Reservoir Drained After Guy Pees in It

Little mishap will cost Portland water bureau $36K

(Newser) - You pee in one little reservoir, and the next thing you know, 7.8 million gallons of drinking water are being drained. Yesterday’s incident, in which a 21-year-old man was caught urinating in one of Portland’s uncovered reservoirs by a surveillance camera, will end up costing the Portland...

Franco's Latest Bizarre Project: Invisible Art

Who wouldn't want to spend $100 on an imaginary sculpture?

(Newser) - James Franco’s latest project is arguably his weirdest yet— and that’s saying something . The multi-hyphenate recently teamed up with conceptual art duo Praxis to create the Museum of Non-Visible Art (MONA), the Huffington Post reports. On the project’s Kickstarter site , MONA is described as being "composed...

Snake-Infested Home Like 'Living in a Horror Movie'

Home was most likely built on a winter snake sanctuary, says biologist

(Newser) - Ben and Amber Sessions thought they’d scored a major bargain when they found a five-bedroom house in the rural Idaho countryside for less than $180,000. But the dream house they purchased in 2009 turned out to be infested with hundreds upon hundreds of garter snakes, reports the AP....

340-Ton Rock Embarking on Epic Journey

Boulder will travel 60 miles in nine days

(Newser) - When does it take nine days to travel 60 miles? When you’re towing a 21-foot-tall, 340-ton boulder. The solid piece of granite—known in Riverside, Calif., simply as “the rock”—is making the 60-mile journey from a quarry to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the...

Playboy Model Sues After Trampoline Photo Shoot

Denise Underhill wants more than $25K for injury that required surgery

(Newser) - Sexy: a model jumping on a trampoline. Definitely not sexy: tearing the meniscus in your right knee. But the latter is what Denise Underhill claims happened to her in a new lawsuit filed against Playboy. Underhill’s suit says she was asked "to jump on a trampoline ... in order...

Wife: Hubby's Ex Tried to Assault Me With Peanut Butter

Peanut butter-smeared letter could lead to charges

(Newser) - Anyone might find a letter smeared with peanut butter a bit odd, but one woman considered it … assault. The woman says her husband’s ex-wife sent him the letter, and since she’s highly allergic to peanuts, she believes it was actually an attempt to harm her. She found...

30-Minute Brawl Breaks Out at 30K Feet

12 British vacationers involved in "vicious" fight

(Newser) - Apparently, there's a Mile-High Fight Club, too. A half-hour brawl broke out among as many as 12 British vacationers aboard a Virgin flight from England to Barbados, reports the Daily Mail . The passengers—dressed for "a special occasion" and believed to have been intoxicated—had to be separated...

Man Demands Town Reveal Zombie Invasion Plans

City council has yet to respond to Freedom of Information Act request

(Newser) - A man in Leicester, England, has submitted a vital Freedom of Information Act request to the city council. “Can you please let us know what provisions you have in place in the event of a zombie invasion?” Robert Ainsley asked, according to the Telegraph . “Having watched several films...

Australian Towns Impose Curfews — on Cats

Deputy mayor's son becomes possums' hero

(Newser) - After attacks on native wildlife, the Sydney area is putting its cats on a leash: Under a new rule, they’ll have to be inside from dusk to dawn, Reuters reports. The decision came after a deputy mayor’s son saved a parent and baby possum from a cat. In...

Fly Ties: Fish Bait Goes High Fashion

Fly fishermen reeling as women snap up rooster feathers

(Newser) - For every trendy lady you see running around with long feather extensions in her hair, a fly fisherman somewhere sadly goes without a lure. Hackles—the long, skinny rooster feathers fishermen use to make lures for bait—have been selling out nationwide. Hairdressers have gotten desperate to follow the craze...

Embarrassing Dad Waves at Son's Bus in 170 Costumes

His boy asked him not to, so ...

(Newser) - If embarrassing your teenage son was an Olympic sport, Utah dad Dale Price would win the gold medal. After learning that his 16-year-old son Rain's school bus route would pass the family home, Price decided to come out and wave at the bus every day—wearing a different costume...

Woman's New Tattoo: 152 Facebook Friends

She posts video of the process

(Newser) - She’s become her own personal social network. A woman has posted a YouTube video of herself getting a tattoo of 152 of her Facebook pals. "After months of work I want to show you all my social Tattoo. Pretty amazing right ?" says YouTube user Suzyj87 of the...

NJ Casinos Hope to Boost Gambling— With Bustiers

But only the 'nice-looking' need apply

(Newser) - Soon it might be more difficult to concentrate on the cards at one Atlantic City casino. The Tropicana Casino and Resort is creating a new "party pit" near its Rumba Lounge nightclub where female blackjack and roulette dealers will wear bustiers and stockings, reports the AP . The casino is...

Guy on 'Mission From God' Attempts Liberty Island Swim

Needless to say, he didn't quite make it to the statue

(Newser) - Why would a 29-year-old man dive into the frigid New York Harbor and attempt a three-quarter mile swim to the Statue of Liberty? Clearly, he was on a mission from God—or so he told rescuers. "He said God told him to swim to Liberty Island," an officer...

Historian Fights to Save Baum's Yellow Brick Road

John Curran is convinced New York road inspired Baum

(Newser) - The famous yellow brick road of Oz legend is now being used as a parking lot, if one historian is to be believed. John Curran has been fighting for nearly a decade to preserve the golden bricks in Peekskill, New York, that he believes inspired L. Frank Baum. Baum was...

School Application Asks: C-Section or Vaginal Birth?

Apparently school has a vested interest in how students were born

(Newser) - If you want your child to attend elementary school in California’s Dry Creek School District, you’ll have to get personal—really personal. The enrollment application asks some very detailed medical questions, but parents are in an uproar over one in particular: Was your child birthed through “vaginal...

Jersey Drunken Driver Gets to Sue the Bar That Served Him
 Jersey Drunken Driver 
 Can Sue His Bar 
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Jun 4, 2011 6:56 AM CDT

Jersey Drunken Driver Can Sue His Bar

State's top court sides with motorcyclist who drank too much

(Newser) - Bartenders, beware: The New Jersey Supreme Court has given a drunken driver the right to sue the bar that served him, reports the Asbury Park Press . When Frederick Voss crashed his motorcycle in 2006, his blood-alcohol level was .196%—almost two and a half times the legal limit. Voss pleaded...

Russian Buries Himself Alive
 Russian Buries Himself Alive 
Jun 2, 2011 2:20 AM CDT

Russian Buries Himself Alive

He ends up dead after grave mistake

(Newser) - A Russian man who decided to spend a night buried alive for "good luck" didn't make it out of the ground alive. The 35-year-old villager dug a hole in a garden and climbed into an improvised coffin with holes for air pipes, bringing a phone and a bottle...

Unabomber's Hoodie Pricier Than Scrawled Manifesto

And in other weird auction news...

(Newser) - Get out your checkbooks, kids: There is a slew of famous and infamous items up for auction. The US Marshal's office's online auction of the Unabomber's personal effects ends tomorrow, and Aol's Weird News astutely observes that Ted Kaczynski's 35,000-word handwritten manifesto ($17,525)...

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