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DeadBrain: Offbeat News
6th January
Last updated 3 hours, 47 minutes ago
n Los Angeles A man who pretended to be a CEO complaining about his fast-food order in a taco scam was sentenced to 30 days in jail after authorities saw the prank in an online video.
A Spanish police officer points at a fake painting shown at an exhibition of 103 fake paintings of artists, like Picasso, Andy Warhol, Goya, Salvador Dali, in Madrid. Four Americans, two Italians and a Spaniard have been arrested and charged with selling five million dollars' worth of counterfeit fine art prints all over the world, US and Spanish law enforcement officials said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)Reuters - Take a second look at that signed Picasso print you bought on eBay.
The grand final of Afghanistan's hit pop music talent show, Afghan Star, takes place in Kabul.
Police in three western Pennsylvania towns are looking for a man who pretends to be a basketball coach and scams McDonald's restaurants out of food and money using bad checks.
AP - A bevy of officers chased a doughnut delivery van at speeds up to 100 mph before arresting the driver at gunpoint, authorities said.
Police in three western Pennsylvania towns are looking for a man who pretends to be a basketball coach and scams McDonald's restaurants ...
It's an intriguing and provocative name that translates to Web hits, phone calls and tour tickets: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic ...
Radio talk-show host Don Imus speaks with Rev. Al Sharpton (not pictured) during Sharpton's radio show, in New York, April 9, 2007, where Imus apologized for insensitive remarks he made about the Rutgers women's basketball team. (Chip East/Reuters)Reuters - "Nappy-headed hos," the phrase that cost radio shock jock Don Imus his job and triggered a debate on how far free speech can go, was named on Thursday as the most egregious politically incorrect turn of phrase in 2007.
Police say a 64-year-old Pennsylvaniay woman was naked and driving on the wrong side of the roadwhen she hit another vehicle.
A company supervisor decided to confront the issue of workmen's lengthy bathroom breaks, but it's not sitting well with union officials.
A rare Soviet propaganda vase and an unusually large jeweled Faberge elephant are among the Russian works of art going on the auction block at Christie's in New York next month.
Something didn't smell right when a pile of cash was discovered at a sewage purification plant in northern Israel.
World News IN BRIEF *JERUSALEM Sewage workers were shocked to find a pile of banknotes among the effluent at a plant in northern Israel yesterday.
A Los Angeles man is getting his stolen Mustang back -- 38 years after it was stolen. The vehicle has an extra 300,000 miles and a different paint job, but Eugene Brakke's 1965 Mustang is evidently running just fine. Brakke reported the car stolen to Burbank police in May 1970.
A Los Angeles man is getting his stolen Mustang back -- 38 years after it was stolen
Three zebras from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus briefly escaped from their downtown venue on Thursday but were quickly corralled by their trainer and two handlers.
Three zebras from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus briefly escaped
A US judge orders Starbucks to repay its California baristas more than $100m in tips that were paid to shift supervisors.
AP - Health officials in Thailand have launched a national campaign against rats — starting with their own offices.
AP - An Australian man's complaint of an break-in at his home went to pot Friday when police arrested him for growing marijuana.


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