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Judge fines himself over phone in court

April 18, 2013
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A MICHIGAN judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $US25 ($24) for the infraction. Judge Raymond Voet has a posted policy stating that electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions will result in the owner being cited with contempt, the Sentinel-Standard of Ionia...
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PETA want to ban naked chickens in supermarkets

April 18, 2013
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ANIMAL welfare extremists want to ban the display of naked chickens in supermarkets. They also protest against pictures of raw chickens in ads. The American founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, president Ingrid Newkirk, criticised a newspaper for running a picture of a raw chicken. Other supporters expressed disgust at the...
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Anne Frank would have been a Belieber, hopes Bieber

April 16, 2013
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Justin Bieber performs at the Jingle Ball 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia in this Dec 12, 2012, file photo. Teen pop star Justin Bieber is taking heat on social media after the Anne Frank House reported he visited the Amsterdam museum and wrote in the guest book he hoped the young Holocaust victim would have...
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Man buys toy poodles, discovers they’re ferrets on steroids

April 9, 2013
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By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News Senior Media Reporter An Argentine man who thought he bought a pair of poodles at an outdoor market in Buenos Aires brought them home to the vet only to be told they were actually ferrets on steroids, reports the Daily Mail. The man, a retiree from Catamarca, purchased the animals...
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Burger Urge ad ‘promotes bestiality’

February 28, 2013
Burger Urge ad ‘promotes bestiality’

A Brisbane burger company’s advertising campaign has been accused of promoting bestiality. The Burger Urge ad, which shows a woman licking a cow, was described in the complaint as loathsome, sick, wrong and perverted, according to The Courier Mail. Australian Christian Lobby group officially registered the complaint via company director Wendy Francis, who said...
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Goldfish in a Zimmer Frame!

February 11, 2013
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THIS is the best story of pet ownership (a goldfish is a pet, right?) you’ll ever hear. Generally the butt of all flushing jokes in petland, goldish aren’t normally the subject of such good-luck stories. But one lucky goldfish has an owner so attentive she’s even been nursed through a disability. Instead of flushing...
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Binder Sales Surge, Bookstore Profits

October 19, 2012
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Article by Rebecca Kriegman October 18, 2012 at 3:11 am facebook me @RebzLax Bookstore employees are overwhelmed and perplexed today by a huge surge in binder sales at the university bookstore. Hundreds of students flooded the bookstore this afternoon, violently interrogating employees and knocking down sections of pens and notepads, all in search of...
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£40m for any man who can turn gay daughter straight

September 27, 2012
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By Mail Foreign Service PUBLISHED: 16:46 GMT, 26 September 2012 | UPDATED: 00:39 GMT, 27 September 2012 As a billionaire playboy who claims to have bedded 10,000 women, Cecil Chao has no doubts about his own sexuality. Now he is trying to dictate the sexuality of his children too. The 76-year-old property and shipping...
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Man charged with having sex with sofa

September 25, 2012
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By Chris Murphy PUBLISHED: 16:22 GMT, 24 September 2012 | UPDATED: 16:22 GMT, 24 September 2012 A hotel worker has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with a sofa The 46-year-old, from Waukesha, Wisconsin, was spotted by a police officer out for his daily run. The ‘sex sofa’ wasn’t even discreetly hidden away...
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1 million city residents urged to synchronize toilet flush

September 24, 2012
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By GILLIAN GOTORA | Associated Press – Sat, Sep 22, 2012 HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — City authorities in Zimbabwe’s second largest city said Saturday they were appealing to home owners to flush their toilets at a specified time as a way to unblock sewers after days of severe water rationing. Bulawayo City Council has asked its...
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