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She wasn’t loving this. A North Carolina woman who cut line at a McDonald’s drive-through was shot with a stun gun by cops after a 20-minute standoff. Evangeline Marrero Lucca, 37, had her 3-year-old daughter in the car when she drove directly to the pick-up window and tried...

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Sat, 02/04/2012 - 03:20
These are some real hardcore gamers. After a video game player dropped dead of a heart attack at an Internet cafe in Taiwan, nine hours passed before any of the other gamers in the joint noticed. Chen Rong-yu had been playing for 23 hours before he collapsed on his keyboard...

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Fri, 02/03/2012 - 01:37
She couldn’t have picked a worse getaway vehicle.A Seattle woman tried to flee cops in a huge stolen truck — with an extendable cherry picker.The chase ended when she crashed into a power pole, where the cherry picker, at least, might have been useful. ***When a Tennessee man...

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Thu, 02/02/2012 - 04:32
He’s not going to skate on these charges. A Minnesota man has been busted for driving drunk — on a Zamboni. It happened in front of dozens of coaches and parents waiting for a kids’ hockey game in Apple Valley. The driver “was off the mark by quite a ways...

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Wed, 02/01/2012 - 02:47
It sounds like a stoners’ paradise — a waterbed in every room and an unlimited supply of grass. Only two problems: It’s in Ohio. And it’s only for cows. Dairy farmers Richard and David Conrad of Pittsfield bought waterbeds for their 240 cows — which have been producing better-quality milk...

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Tue, 01/31/2012 - 01:38
This won’t help them score any points with their wives. A new survey shows 15 percent of American adults — presumably men — would miss their child’s birth for the Super Bowl. The poll also revealed 21 percent would duck an important work assignment for the game; 20 percent would...

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Mon, 01/30/2012 - 05:16
A Florida man got out of jail, only to come home and find a burglar in his house. Shellie Leonard, 43, picked the wrong day to break into her neighbor’s pad in Holiday, cops said. They didn’t immediately identify the victim or the crime that had landed him...