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Monday, March 31, 2014

Town Hall peacock drives couple into therapy

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Town Hall peacock drives couple into therapy
A French couple driven into psychotherapy and insomnia by the screeches and squawks of city-owned peacock have won a €4,000 settlement from the city of Marseille.
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Glow in the dark trees and buildings set to light up the 'green' cities of the future
Report predicts spray-on light absorbing dust would give public buildings, roads and pathways a phosphorescent shine at night, helping to improve the safety of parks and alleyways
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Little Girl With Big Stink Takes Home Prize At Rotten Sneaker Contest
A 12-year-old girl from Las Cruces, N.M. proudly held up her duct tape-wrapped, soiled sneakers and was proclaimed winner Tuesday at the Odor-Eaters National Rotten Sneaker Contest at Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Times Square.
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Hoarders' home in Texas filled with more than 100 cats, waste
Officials have rescued more than 100 cats at the Texas home of 60-year-old twin sisters in what is being described as a “hoarding situation.”
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Off duty cop shoots man after catching him having sex in his swimming pool
A man is fighting for his life after he was shot by a police officer who caught him having sex with a woman in a swimming pool at a private housing complex.
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Japanese drinker wakes up missing his LEG on railway track after work night out
The unfortunate government worker from Karatsu was waiting for a train when he woke up SIX hours later missing a limb
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Man whose testicles swell to giant size will die without overseas treatment
His condition, scrotal lymphoedema, makes his scrotum swell, growing bigger than a watermelon and reaching his knees.
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Hoarder missing for two weeks found dead under rubbish
An extreme hoarder has been found dead under piles of rubbish in his home, two weeks after being reported missing.
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Bus driver forced child (6) to show teeth
A bus driver in northern Sweden has incurred the wrath of a mother by forcing her daughter to show her teeth, after accusing the parent of lying about her child's age in order to ride the bus for free
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Cinema calls cops on diabetic for bringing in strawberries
A New York cinema in a health-food-centric part of Brooklyn called the police on a diabetic customer — just because he was munching strawberries that were sold outside the movies.
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Man Cuts Porcupine From Its Dead Pregnant Mother
A Maine man has a prickly new addition to his family after an unlikely roadside C-section left him caring for a baby porcupine.
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Lovelorn parrot locked away for shouting name of owner's dead wife in front of new partner
Congo African Grey, Roy, is on Prozac for depression after being shut in a garage for three years - the trauma caused him to pluck out almost all his feathers
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Father builds guillotine and chops off his own hand
Father builds guillotine and chops off his own hand in bid to end years of agony after accident left him in pain but doctors did not help...and it still hurts
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Extreme Jenga: Whole building collapses after 'engineer took out the wrong brick'
An engineer was left staring at a house-shaped hole after an entire building collapsed seconds after he dislodged a few bricks from the exterior wall.
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