 | Man with 700 snakes arrested at airport (News) 15 discussions Customs officers at Cairo's airport have detained a man bound for Saudi Arabia who was trying to smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane, airport authorities said. Tags: Offbeat Saudi Arabia Cairo (Egypt) |
 | Will it run? Tulsa to dig up car buried for 50 years (News) 8 discussions Organizers of a coming-out party for a buried 1957 Plymouth Belvedere could use some help. Tags: Offbeat Sharon King Oklahoma |
 | Baby 'Bubba' gets a gun permit (News) 8 discussions "Bubba" Ludwig can't walk, talk or open the refrigerator door -- but he does have his very own Illinois gun permit. Tags: Offbeat Illinois Domestic Violence Chicago (Illinois) |
 | 'Let's All Hate Toronto' (News) 7 discussions The dislike of Canada's biggest city, Toronto, in the rest of the country runs so deep that a filmmaker has made a documentary about it. Tags: Offbeat Toronto (Ontario) Canada Vancouver (British Columbia) Documentaries London Montreal (Quebec) Newfoundland (Canada) New York |
 | New York City pays $29,000 for arresting topless woman (News) 5 discussions A woman arrested for exposing her breasts has accepted a $29,000 settlement from the city, her lawyer said. Tags: Offbeat Justice Rights Civil Rights Judiciary (system justice) New York Manhattan (New York) Lawsuits Crime, Law Justice |
 | Workers rescued from giant vat of fish feces (News) 3 discussions This nasty rescue is no fish tale. Tags: Offbeat Josh Goldman Massachusetts |
 | Baby born a whopper in Mexico (News) 2 discussions He is called "Super Tonio," and at a whopping birth weight of 14.5 pounds, the little fellow is causing a sensation in the Mexican resort of Cancun. Tags: Offbeat Mexico Cancun (Mexico) Parenting Italy Brazil |
 | Chicago Bears fan begins painful name change (News) 2 discussions Scott Wiese is a man of his word. But soon his friends will be saying that about Peyton Manning. Tags: Offbeat Peyton Manning Staples Incorporated Indiana Chicago (Illinois) |
 | Stowaway squirrel grounds jet (News) 2 discussions An American Airlines flight made an unscheduled landing after pilots heard something skittering about in the wire-laden space over the cockpit. Tags: Offbeat Tokyo (Japan) Dallas (Texas) Air Transportation , Boeing Company Honolulu (Hawaii) Texas New York Airlines |
 | What a catch! Giant 90-year-old fish reeled in off Alaska (News) 2 discussions A commercial fishing boat hauled in what may have been one of the oldest creatures in Alaska -- a giant rockfish estimated to be about a century old. Tags: Offbeat Alaska Seattle (Washington) Fishing Industry National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration |
 | 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' wins $25,000 (News) 2 discussions OMG! Tags: Offbeat Manhattan (New York) Pennsylvania Los Angeles (California) California |
 | Three-thousand bees force evacuation of fundraiser (News) 2 discussions A swarm of honeybees temporarily disrupted a charity fundraising event, but no one reported being stung. Tags: Offbeat |
 | Will it run? Tulsa to dig up car buried for 50 years (News) 1 discussions Organizers of a coming-out party for a buried 1957 Plymouth Belvedere could use some help. Tags: Offbeat Sharon King Oklahoma |
 | Will it run? Tulsa to dig up car buried for 50 years (News) 1 discussions Organizers of a coming-out party for a buried 1957 Plymouth Belvedere could use some help. Tags: Offbeat Sharon King Oklahoma |
 | Re: Book written in txt msg (News) 1 discussions A novel whose narrative consists entirely of mobile phone text messages has been published in Finland. Tags: Offbeat Finland Media India Europe Telecommunications Equipment |
 | 'Buzz Donut' offers sweet caffeine fix (News) 1 discussions Dr. Robert Bohannon wants you in his world. It's fast, upbeat, jovial and driven by caffeine -- lots of it. Tags: Offbeat Vitamin C Health Science Technology Financial Business Services Applied Sciences Starbucks Corporation University Colorado Baylor College Medicine Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Incorporated University North Carolina at Chape |
 | Latest food-fad -- 'space potatoes' (News) 1 discussions Having boldly gone where no spud has before, Chinese space potatoes are now the latest culinary fad to hit the country's ultra-trendy commercial hub of Shanghai. Tags: Offbeat Shanghai (China) China |
 | Bear outside window startles woman -- and vice versa (News) 1 discussions The last thing Lorraine Grossman expected to see as she gazed out the kitchen window of her daughter's home was a 211-pound bear. Tags: Offbeat Bear |
 | Invention will let you scale walls like a superhero (News) 1 discussions A 23-year-old inventor has come up with a tool to give mere mortals the powers of a superhero: the ability to zoom up a rope as fast as 10 feet per second and scale the side of a building. Tags: Offbeat Technology (general) Oregon Newport (Rhode Island) Massachusetts Schools |
 | It's payback time for some peep show owners (News) 1 discussions Romeo, Romeo, where are your clothes, Romeo? Tags: Offbeat Amsterdam (Netherlands) Judiciary (system justice) |
 | Environmentalists want Easter kiwi hopping down trail (News) 1 discussions A New Zealand environmental body is targeting the Easter bunny in a renewed war against one of the country's worst natural pests. Tags: Offbeat New Zealand Bioterrorism Germany Rabbit |
 | Antwerp Zoo asks visitors not to stare at the chimps (News) 1 discussions We all know not to feed the animals when visiting the zoo. Now the Antwerp Zoo has urged visitors to, please, stop staring at the chimpanzees. Tags: Offbeat Europe Animals |
 | Antwerp Zoo asks visitors not to stare at the chimps (News) 1 discussions We all know not to feed the animals when visiting the zoo. Now the Antwerp Zoo has urged visitors to, please, stop staring at the chimpanzees. Tags: Offbeat Europe Animals |
 | Horse leaves 'deposit' in German bank (News) 1 discussions An early-morning German bank customer had a bit of a shock when he found a horse in line at the automatic teller machine in front of him. Tags: Offbeat Germany Berlin (Germany) |
 | Schools say iPods becoming tool for cheaters (News) 1 discussions Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious -- students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each.. Tags: Offbeat Technology (general) Wireless Phones Seattle (Washington) North Carolina Washington Duke University Canada United States Ontario (Canada) California Schools |