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underworld

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:44:00 -0400

a man who crawled into an abandoned house to steal the copper wiring inside was caught when a woman saw him appear from underneath the house.

from WALB News

a very thin contortionist in spain has been caught zipping himself into suitcases in order to hide in the bay of airport buses, where he would steal from the luggage around him.

from CBS News

animal humor

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:30:00 -0400

a gang of wild dogs in washington is terrorizing a town, seemingly for fun. (kxly)

a canadian town has enlisted a woman and her dog to scare off the herds of deer that were once the town’s pride and joy, but have turned violent out of boredom. (vancouver sun)

power

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:27:00 -0400

Many years ago, a young boy in Iowa stood on a driveway to watch a tornado in the distance. He said it looked like an elephant’s trunk dipping in and out of the clouds, touching the ground. (from The Tuscaloosa News)

This year, a traveling circus camped in a Missouri town where a deadly tornado had blown through. The circus master had an idea of how to help: he had his elephants clear the ground. (from The Toronto Star)

Danger

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:13:00 -0400

Visitors at the atlanta zoo didn’t know a tiger rattlesnake had escaped from its cage and was moving among them as they ate and laughed and the kids ran around. (From the SF Examiner)

Two convicted killers from Arizona escaped into Yellowstone National Park. One was caught; the other is still hidden, and campers deep in the forest can’t be warned. (From The AP Wire)

growth

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:01:00 -0400

A farmer in Idaho accidentally nurtured half a million dollars worth of marijuana planted secretly in his corn field by drug dealers. The crop would have been just about ready for harvest, the farmer said, scratching his head. (from the AP Wire)

An old man in Massachusetts almost died from lack of oxygen. The doctors thought it was cancer until they excised something from his lung and saw a tiny pea plant. The next day he was breathing again, almost like normal. (from TIME)

ESCAPE!

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:36:00 -0400

Two Argentinean convicts escaped jail by disguising themselves as sheep. They stole the hides from a nearby ranch and are hiding among the flock to the consternation of the 300 local policemen who keep looking. (from the Irish Emigrant)

A truck carrying over 100 pigs was only yards from the slaughterhouse when it crashed and all of the pigs tumbled out! They started to run, but were caught and taken anyway. (from the Telegraph)

SPACE

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:33:00 -0400

A small Wisconsin town hit hard by the recession started booming after a fireball shot across the sky. People rushed in to claim the fallen meteorites. (from Channel 3000)

Jordanian townspeople ran through the desert in fear that aliens had landed, after the local newspaper reported an invasion. Even the mayor tried to evacuate. Once they’d scattered like ants, the truth came out: it was an April Fools cover story. April Fools! (from USA Today)

Who is this blog by?

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:01:00 -0400

Hello. The stories are adapted by Mallika Rao & illustrated by Miryam Prodanovic.

EXORCISM

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:30:00 -0400

A young Guyanese girl complained of feeling unwell so her family took her to church to exorcise the evil from her. They prayed and sang and clapped over her dying body for the devil to leave, and now they are charged with killing her. (From Caribbean Life News)

In America, a serious-minded exorcist whose life story is soon to become a major Hollywood movie says demon-infested patients are easy to spot. They start to look and sound like reptiles. (from the Mercury News)

RESURRECTION

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:22:00 -0400

A church in Venezuela that was submerged under water 25 years ago by the construction of a dam has appeared like a building of Atlantis, the tons of water above it evaporated by severe drought. (from National Geographic)

A young German boy who drowned came back to life three hours later, after his great-grandmother in heaven urged him to return to Earth quickly. (from Fox News)

CRIME

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:40:00 -0400

An old woman and her husband ate pudding all day and filled the empty cups with salt and sand before selling them back to the grocery stores in Long Island. Police say it wasn’t their fault - the woman is disturbed. (from the NY Post)

A young woman and her husband worked for the post office and stored garbage bags of undelivered mail in their Alabama house. The woman says it wasn’t their fault - it was too much to deliver. (from al.com)

SECURITY

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:58:00 -0400

A boy disguised as a telephone repairman snuck into a Louisiana senator’s office to dig up some dirt. (from Zimbio)

A real telephone repairman tried to enter the Pakistani Assembly building, but couldn’t; his toolbox looked suspicious. (from the Daily Times)

BONES

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:54:00 -0400

Someone found the skull of a 300-million-year-old meat-eating lizard at the Pittsburgh airport. (from Fox News)

In Chicago, airport officials plan to pull the bodies from a cemetery to make place for a new runway. (from the Daily Herald)

WATER

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:25:00 -0400

Scientists said water on the moon comes in three different flavors. (from Fox News)

Ban Ki-moon said unclean water on earth kills more people than war. (from the Arab News)