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A Brazilian priest’s stunt to raise money seems to have backfired and hopes for his safety are getting gloomier. Rev. Adelir Antonio di Carli rose high into the air in a chair suspended below hundreds of helium-filled balloons on Sunday. di Carli was attempting to set a record for time in the air supported by […]

I know I’ve heard a million jokes with punchlines involving untrustworthy politicians, but here’s a community “leader” who takes the cake. Try a mayor and his wife embezzling money from the town’s kids. That’s right. Jim Nehmens, the mayor of Adelanto, California and his wife stole $20,000 from the town’s Little League coffers. Nehmens was […]

In the digital age, it’s hard to imagine a time when mimes and ventriloquists were some of the most popular entertainers. I’ve never understood how a ventriloquist could be a radio star. Edgar Bergen and his pint-sized wooden friend Charlie McCarthy were HUGE stars, working in a medium where his audience couldn’t even tell if […]

I thought the sweet-tooth criminals who took a seven-week old infant with them when they robbed a candy store topped the list of inept burglars. That was until I saw this story about a man in Texas who had a six-foot long alligator in his car when he was pulled over after trying to steal […]

Who doesn’t love a theme when they decorate a room? It shows some style, some flash and, hopefully, some taste. OK, so maybe when you plan your bathroom design around pirates, taste isn’t part of the equation. Believe it or not, there are enough accessories out there to make Captain Jack Sparrow take note when […]

The real world and the fictional world collided in Russia. It’s a story line we’re all familiar with – the double used to replace a world leader fools even those who know him best. Mark Twain used that theme in “The Prince and the Pauper.” Hollywood recycled it in the movie “Dave” starring Kevin Kline. […]

There’s an iconic shot in the movie “American Beauty” in which one of the characters videotapes a plastic bag floating on the breeze and declares his belief that there is beauty in that moment. The folks in Modbury in Devon in the UK certainly disagree with his point of view. The town with a population […]

Whatever you do, please don’t hand me a sheet of bubble wrap. I’m not normally an OCD kind of person, but when I get my hands on that stuff I can’t stop until it’s all popped. Every last bubble of it. It seems I’m not the only one. The Japanese have become so obsessed with […]

I see those commercials on television all the time trying to entice me to attend a technical or trade school. They try to lure me into beginning a new career with a list of occupations scrolling across the screen like the text at the beginning of Star Wars talking about “a long time ago in […]

Don’t even talk to me if I haven’t had my first cup of joe yet. Like most in this hectic world, I need that caffeine kickstart to my day that only a steaming mug of black gold can provide. Now, I have an actual medical excuse for slugging back some coffee every morning. Researchers believe […]