http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Centredaily.com en-us Copyright 2008 Centredaily.com Weird News 60 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:22 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive Workbench support@centredaily.com http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/764951.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/764951.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:21 EDT Charleston police said a man tried to rob a movie rental store with an unusual weapon - an empty cheesecake box. Earlier this week, the suspect placed the box on the counter of the Movie Gallery with a note saying it contained a bomb. He told the clerk the bomb would be detonated remotely if he wasn't given cash. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/765053.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/765053.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:21 EDT A Burrillville town councilor got more than he bargained for when he bought a used police cruiser at auction. Kevin Blais bought the 2004 Ford Crown Victoria in an online auction from the Hartford, Conn., police. He was cleaning it last week when he noticed a cracked area on the one-piece molded seat assembly. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763614.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763614.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:51 EDT Police say there's been an alarming rise in urine-filled plastic containers found along a three-mile stretch of Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/764202.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/764202.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:46 EDT New Jersey's fat cat has a home. A family in southern New Jersey will get the 44-pound "Prince Chunk" next week, according to the Camden County Animal Shelter. The shelter won't disclose the family's identity. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/764930.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/764930.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:11 EDT All it takes is one vote to win. Just ask a Tennessee woman who was elected constable by voting for herself. Angela Tuttle, 32, said her father encouraged her to run as a write-in candidate because no one else was vying for one of the positions in Hancock County, which is in northeastern Tennessee. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763705.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763705.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:51 EDT Authorities say a Pennsylvania man rammed his house with a semitrailer during a fight with his roommate and tried to run down police called to the scene. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763438.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763438.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:31 EDT The catwalk really was a catwalk Thursday. Show cats dressed in everything from an Elvis costume to a sequined satin dress strutted their stuff at New York's Algonquin Hotel. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763745.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763745.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:46 EDT An Iraq war veteran says a youth football league in central Pennsylvania is using inappropriate prizes in a raffle fundraiser: rifles. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763743.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763743.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:41 EDT A Chicago police officer has been suspended for 15 months for demanding free coffee and baked goods from six different Starbucks. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/762970.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/762970.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:46 EDT Police say a 55-year-old man tossed a computer monitor through a glass door after being refused a cash refund at a Casper movie theater. The man faces charges of felony property damage and disturbing the peace. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763577.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/763577.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:01 EDT St. Paul police followed a trail of Cheetos in order to nab three teenagers suspected of burglarizing a vending machine. Officers were called to the Arlington Recreation Center on July 29, where they found a vending machine's glass had been broken with a chair. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/762891.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/762891.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:01 EDT A man and a woman found a new use for a barbecue pit - one that landed them in jail. An argument over whether a third guest should stay in the house got so heated that the woman picked up the barbecue pit and hit the man over the head with it, police said. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/762940.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/762940.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:01 EDT Authorities say a grandmother was arrested for driving around the parking lot of a Marathon grocery store with her 3-year-old child sitting on the roof of the car. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/762959.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/762959.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:47 EDT A woman who allegedly was driving while intoxicated in the Sturgis area picked the wrong house to stop at. Meade County Sheriff Ron Merwin said a 37-year-old woman got lost about 4 a.m. Tuesday and stopped at a home to get directions. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/760855.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/760855.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:47 EDT Golfing for just the third time, 11-year-old Allan Saylor was whacking the ball around with a friend, not even keeping score. A hole-in-one? No big deal. The sixth-grader fired the ace Wednesday on the 150-yard, par-3 sixth hole at the neighboring Mandan Municipal Golf Course, using a driver borrowed from his buddy. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/760140.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/760140.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:02 EDT A Mexican woman says she fought a 500-pound lion with a machete near the resort city of Acapulco and scared him away. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/761169.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/761169.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:07 EDT A 6-foot-tall, 250-pound letter carrier is campaigning for the right to take off his pants. Dean Peterson wants the U.S. Postal Service to add kilts as a uniform option for men. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/760096.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/760096.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:12 EDT How many cheerleaders can cram into an elevator? http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/758070.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/758070.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:45 EDT Officials say an indigenous New Zealand reptile regarded as one of the last living remnants of the dinosaurs will become a father for the first time in decades at the age of 111. http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/760151.html http://www.centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/760151.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:40 EDT An 11-year-old boy who wanted to get his girlfriend's attention without waking her parents got a lesson in the strength of a window pane. A pebble fired from a slingshot has more velocity than a pebble tossed by hand.