Dog DNA, Human Tattoo, Fox Urine
and the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Monday
Man's best friend comes through again: One's implanted chip helps ID the owner, who was wandering around town disoriented, and another's DNA was found on caca on the rapist's shirt, helping to convict the guy. North Bay (Ontario) Nugget /// KDFW-TV (Dallas-Fort Worth)
Mom with her two kids (on the run from Philadelphia child-welfare people who had ordered 'em taken away) hid them out for two weeks in a hollowed section of a plastic playground set in a Fort Lauderdale park that she had tunneled up into (and actually laid low while neighborhood children played on it). Miami Herald via McClatchy News
Fine Point of Australian law: illegal just to watch . . not just child porn . . but child-abuse "cruelty." Sydney Morning Herald
Minnesota Readers' Choice: (1) "Darnell Lewis," under St. Paul, Minn., police questioning, didn't have any ID cards on him but he did have "Frazier" tattooed on his neck, and "Darnell Frazier"'s got outstanding warrants. (2) A Willmar, Minn., victim of house-toilet-papering struck back against the teen vandals, with a SuperSoaker containing fox urine and water (and that might have been going too far, legally). Star Tribune /// West Central Tribune (Willmar)
Complicated: Lawrenceville, Ga., police said they were looking for a man dressed as a woman as the person who had knocked off several local banks, but the culprit was finally ID'd as a teenage girl, they guess, dressed up to resemble what a man dressing as a woman would look like. WSB-TV (Atlanta)
Inadvertent British cheap shot: A London disk jockey said the failing economy would force him to sell off his trademark gold crowns to his fans and worried that "I don't know if I'll be noticed [if I have] white teeth." BBC News
Hooters is doing OK overseas, with 67 franchised, tight-topped, orange-shortsed hot spots in 26 countries, including Jim Li's five in China, where they're called the, er, American Owl. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Fayette County, Tex., dog hoarder (42 English fox terriers in a 5x9 trailer) (with the usual flooring appointments of feces and urine) has blamed their condition on the UFO's constantly circling her home. Houston Chronicle
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
And speaking of UFO's, here's a nice compilation of all the smoking-gun photos of alien life forms (all dead, of course) recovered on Earth, along with the compelling explanations that they are in fact exactly what the UFO hunters say they are. Alien-UFO-Research.com
Today's Newsrangers: Ginger Katz, Sandy Pearlman, Stephen Taylor, Mindy Cohen, Jerry Whittle, and Tyler Hewitt, and a whole bunch of nice people on the Readers' Choice stories
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Man's best friend comes through again: One's implanted chip helps ID the owner, who was wandering around town disoriented, and another's DNA was found on caca on the rapist's shirt, helping to convict the guy. North Bay (Ontario) Nugget /// KDFW-TV (Dallas-Fort Worth)
Mom with her two kids (on the run from Philadelphia child-welfare people who had ordered 'em taken away) hid them out for two weeks in a hollowed section of a plastic playground set in a Fort Lauderdale park that she had tunneled up into (and actually laid low while neighborhood children played on it). Miami Herald via McClatchy News
Fine Point of Australian law: illegal just to watch . . not just child porn . . but child-abuse "cruelty." Sydney Morning Herald
Minnesota Readers' Choice: (1) "Darnell Lewis," under St. Paul, Minn., police questioning, didn't have any ID cards on him but he did have "Frazier" tattooed on his neck, and "Darnell Frazier"'s got outstanding warrants. (2) A Willmar, Minn., victim of house-toilet-papering struck back against the teen vandals, with a SuperSoaker containing fox urine and water (and that might have been going too far, legally). Star Tribune /// West Central Tribune (Willmar)
Complicated: Lawrenceville, Ga., police said they were looking for a man dressed as a woman as the person who had knocked off several local banks, but the culprit was finally ID'd as a teenage girl, they guess, dressed up to resemble what a man dressing as a woman would look like. WSB-TV (Atlanta)
Inadvertent British cheap shot: A London disk jockey said the failing economy would force him to sell off his trademark gold crowns to his fans and worried that "I don't know if I'll be noticed [if I have] white teeth." BBC News
Hooters is doing OK overseas, with 67 franchised, tight-topped, orange-shortsed hot spots in 26 countries, including Jim Li's five in China, where they're called the, er, American Owl. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Fayette County, Tex., dog hoarder (42 English fox terriers in a 5x9 trailer) (with the usual flooring appointments of feces and urine) has blamed their condition on the UFO's constantly circling her home. Houston Chronicle
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
And speaking of UFO's, here's a nice compilation of all the smoking-gun photos of alien life forms (all dead, of course) recovered on Earth, along with the compelling explanations that they are in fact exactly what the UFO hunters say they are. Alien-UFO-Research.com
Today's Newsrangers: Ginger Katz, Sandy Pearlman, Stephen Taylor, Mindy Cohen, Jerry Whittle, and Tyler Hewitt, and a whole bunch of nice people on the Readers' Choice stories
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