Sandy Santa

Dec 20, 2007 - Dec 2007 Sandy Santa Posted by Marlow Harris under Weird Things On Christmas eve sand sculptor Sudarshan Patnaik created Santa in sand on the Puri beach in India. Measuring 100 feet by 30 feet and 15 feet high, it is the largest ever recorded image of Santa anywhere in the world. Sudarshan’s Santa is likely to claim a place in the Limca Book of World Records. - 2 Comments

Cakes and Ale

Nov 29, 2007 - Cakes and Ale Here is a true story someone found regarding exams at Cambridge University. It seems that during an examination one day a bright young student popped up and asked the proctor to bring him Cakes and Ale. The following dialog ensued: Proctor: I beg your pardon? - 4 Comments

Best to Use Tools When Loosening Lug Nut

Nov 28, 2007 - Nov 12, 4:08 PM (ET) SOUTHWORTH, Wash. (AP) - A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said. The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home northwest of Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear wheel by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said. - 1 Comment

For sale: Defunct Wisconsin bridge, $1

Nov 25, 2007 - Sun Nov 25, 7:19 PM ET SOLDIERS GROVE, Wis. - The Kickapoo River bridge is a big structure with a small price tag: one buck. Village officials fear the nearly century-old bridge, which hasn't hosted traffic in 31 years, will collapse into the river and want to get rid of it quickly. - 5 Comments

NYC toddler survives 20-foot fall

Nov 25, 2007 - Fri Nov 23, 12:25 PM ET NEW YORK - A toddler who crawled out a third-floor window during his family's Thanksgiving festivities and fell onto a store roof not only survived — he didn't even break a bone. Brandon Priebe said his 14-month-old son, Bradley, tumbled from a bedroom window in his aunt's Brooklyn apartment on Thursday. His relatives said they thought the window was closed. - 4 Comments

Woman's finger torn off during robbery

Nov 25, 2007 - Fri Nov 23, 12:39 PM ET LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - A man tore a woman's finger off during a drive-by purse snatching, police said. Caesare R. - 3 Comments

Charity Christmas card Scrooges revealed

Nov 25, 2007 - By Jennifer Hill Mon Nov 19, 12:18 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Well-meaning well-wishers could be donating far less to good causes than they think this Christmas, a survey by consumer group Which? shows. Some 84 percent of 1,060 people it surveyed think that more than 40 percent of the price of charity Christmas cards should be donated to good causes. - 2 Comments

Test shows Anne Frank tree strong?

Nov 25, 2007 - Tue Nov 20, 11:00 AM ET AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The chestnut tree that Anne Frank could see as she hid from the Nazis is still strong and safe and should not be axed, conservationists opposed to plans to cut it down said Monday. The tree, behind the Amsterdam warehouse annex where Anne Frank hid from the Nazis until 1944, is due to be cut down on Wednesday because the city council decided it was so diseased and damaged that the risk it could topple over was too great. City officials say that about three-quarters of the 27-tonne chestnut is unhealthy and the tree is at risk of falling down. - 5 Comments

Thousands protest over ant aphrodisiac scheme

Nov 25, 2007 - By Chris Buckley Wed Nov 21, 10:58 AM ET BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of people in northeastern China have protested on the streets and surrounded government offices demanding help recovering money from a get-rich-quick scheme to raise ants to make an aphrodisiac tonic. Hundreds of anti-riot troops and police in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, were deployed to stop protesters reaching the provincial government and Communist Party headquarters, residents said on Wednesday. The irate investors from across Liaoning, a rustbelt province striving to attract investment, have demonstrated in Shenyang since Monday and sporadic clashes with police have broken out, they said. - 0 Comments

Police Decontaminated After Flea Attack

Oct 27, 2007 - Police Decontaminated After Flea Attack Oct 19, 8:20 PM (ET) SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Four officers investigating a burglary were attacked, not by a fleeing burglar, but a swarm of fleas in a filth-ridden vacant house. The tiny, biting attackers were so overwhelming that the South Bend patrolmen had to be decontaminated and ended up being sent home early from their shifts. - 3 Comments