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HEADLINE: Connecticut Funeral Home Cremates Wrong Body
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581548,00.html?test=latestnews
CLIP:
PROSPECT, Conn. — A grieving family learned their 95-year-old great-grandmother had been cremated when they found a stranger's body in her casket, and a Connecticut funeral home is being investigated in the incident.
Relatives of Aurelie Tuccillo noticed the wrong body when they arrived at the Buckmiller Brothers Funeral Home in Prospect for calling hours Tuesday night.
Police said Wednesday that state and local officers found Tuccillo had "inadvertently been cremated."
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HEADLINE: Road Hogs: Escaped Pigs Close Motorway
SOURCE LINK: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Escaped-Pigs-Lead-To-M11-In-Essex-Being-Closed-At-Junction-8-For-Stansted-Airport/Article/200912415510447?lpos=Strange_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_7&lid=ARTICLE_15510447_Escaped_Pigs_Lead_To_M11_In_Essex_Being_Closed_At_Junction_8_For_Stansted_Airport
CLIP:
The southbound M11 towards London was shut after a lorry carrying a consignment of 82 pigs crashed.
Essex Fire and Rescue Service attended the scene of the collision at Junction 8 near Stansted Airport to discover about 12 animals had escaped from the lorry and were running free on the road.
A spokesman said the carriageway was closed at 5.21am while emergency crews tried to round up the animals and secure them in a makeshift pen.
An Essex Police spokesman said about 50 of the animals, which each weigh about 20st, were trapped in the wreckage which was blocking two lanes, while the runaway pigs were grazing on the embankment.
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HEADLINE: All hell breaks 'moose' at downtown bar
SOURCE LINK: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/all_hell_breaks_moose_at_downtown_7Y6RQqB214Tkipv3EzfzzL
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Ain't that a moose in the head!
A woman is suing a bar on the Lower East Side -- where she says she was struck by a stuffed moose head.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Raina Kumra says she was minding her own business at the White Slab Palace on Delancey Street in October when, at around 1 a.m., a moose head "dislodged and struck plaintiff on the head."
"The taxidermy moose head weighed approximately 150 pounds, with antlers spanning over three feet," the suit says.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/all_hell_breaks_moose_at_downtown_7Y6RQqB214Tkipv3EzfzzL#ixzz0bCnfYPEU
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HEADLINE: Once in a blue moon nearly here
SOURCE LINK: http://www.poststar.com/news/local/article_3d2eeb08-f4f8-11de-82b5-001cc4c03286.html
CLIP:
LOS ANGELES -- Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve.
Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. But don't expect it to be blue - the name has nothing to do with the color of our closest celestial neighbor.
A full moon occurred on Dec. 2. It will appear again on Thursday in time for the New Year's countdown.
"If you're in Times Square, you'll see the full moon right above you. It's going to be that brilliant," said Jack Horkheimer, director emeritus of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium and host of a weekly astronomy TV show.
The New Year's Eve blue moon will be visible in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Africa. For partygoers in Australia and Asia, the full moon does not show up until New Year's Day, making January a blue moon month for them.
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HEADLINE: Man dials 999 - because he was too afraid of the ice
SOURCE LINK: http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/4823382.Man_dials_999___because_he_was_too_afraid_of_the_ice/?ref=mr
CLIP:
A MAN contacted 999 to say he was stuck on a patch of ice in a street in Bolton... and was too scared to go forwards or backwards.
It was one of 1,377 999 calls made to the police over Christmas.
Another included a woman who dialled 999 to report her cat was playing with string and it was "doing her head in".
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HEADLINE: Florida Man Calls 911 for Ride to Bar, Arrested
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581461,00.html?test=latestnews
CLIP:
OLDSMAR, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida man who called 911 claiming he'd been beaten and shot at was hoping the tale would get him a ride to a bar.
Instead, 37-year-old Gregory J. Oras is facing charges of misusing the 911 system and battery of a law enforcement officer.
An arrest report says Oras called 911 three times before his arrest early Tuesday in Oldsmar, northwest of Tampa. He told the dispatcher he had a broken nose and bleeding ears, and claimed people were shooting at him.
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HEADLINE: Police: Man Drinks At Bar, Then Tries To Rob It
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/29/ap/strange/main6035610.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.10
CLIP:
HARRISBURG, Ore. - Police arrested a man accused of robbing the same Harrisburg bar in which he had been drinking. Sheriff Tim Mueller of Linn County said the man had been drinking at MacEnzi's Bar and Grill on Saturday. He left around 10 p.m., but came back about 25 minutes later with a beanie pulled over his face.
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HEADLINE: Funeral home offers drunk drivers a free burial
SOURCE LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/29/national/a122828S36.DTL&tsp=1
CLIP:
Planning to drink and drive this New Year's? A north Georgia funeral home has a deal for you. Between now and noon Thursday, drivers can visit McGuire, Jennings and Miller Funeral Home in Rome to sign a contract stating they plan to drink or take drugs and then drive on New Year's Eve. If they die in a wreck that day, the funeral home will give them a free burial.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/29/national/a122828S36.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0b7nZLhNE
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HEADLINE: Man threatens to kill over $3 pizza topping
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/national/man-threatens-to-kill-over-3-pizza-extra-topping-charge/story-e6frfkvr-1225814586180
CLIP:
A GEELONG man assaulted a pizza delivery driver and threatened to cut the pizzeria owner's ears off because he was charged $3 extra for toppings he hadn't ordered.
Angry and upset, Jimmy Barling decided to take it out on the delivery driver by giving him a thumping and demanding he be allowed to pay the usual $28 instead of $31.
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HEADLINE: Grow-your-own to replace false teeth
SOURCE LINK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/may/03/sciencenews.health
CLIP:
The British institution of dentures sitting in a glass of water beside the bed could be rendered obsolete by scientists who are confident that people will soon be able to replace lost teeth by growing new ones.
Instead of false teeth, a small ball of cells capable of growing into a new tooth will be implanted where the missing one used to be.
The procedure needs only a local anaesthetic and the new tooth should be fully formed within a few months of the cells being implanted.
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HEADLINE: Volunteers for anti-diarrhoea drug offered free holiday to Mexico
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6903115/Volunteers-for-anti-diarrhoea-drug-offered-free-holiday-to-Mexico.html
CLIP:
The 'Trek Study', sponsored by Intercell, a US vaccine manufacturer, will provide 1,800 volunteers aged 18 to 64, with three-star hotels.
They are allowed eat and drink what they choose, with the only catch being they do not go more than three hours' travelling time from one of the test centres where they will be required to attend for blood tests and provide stool samples should they become ill.
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