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Today's Odd News News: Cops: Woman makes threat to help boss make flight Woman, 77, says she was pressured into buying car Ohio man's private football party crashed by deer Wis. would-be robber arrives too late to rob bank Ariz. board sued over fish pedicure squabble Man robbed of $2 million bank withdrawal Using your plastic for plastic surgery.. Hitler's favorite car makes comeback? Cops on trail of "gingerbread town" vandals Judge blocks law allowing guns in bars Some kids still swallowing soda can safety tabs Bulgarians name brandy after PM after tax victory New EU president wins fans in Japan -- as a poet Houston, we have a baby Italy collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers Gold coin dropped in Pa. Salvation Army kettle Man uses hammer to destroy TVs at Target store New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles Man robs 2nd Philly bank after failing 1st attempt U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry Cops: Woman makes threat to help boss make flight Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:55 pm PST AP - A South Florida woman has been charged with calling in a bomb threat to keep her boss from missing a flight. An arrest report said a 31-year-old woman was charged Thursday with making a false report of planting a bomb. Miami International Airport officials received a call and an e-mail Wednesday claiming that a bomb was on an American Airlines plane. Police searched the specified aircraft but didn't find a bomb. Full Story Top Woman, 77, says she was pressured into buying car Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:55 pm PST AP - A woman filed a lawsuit claiming a Clive auto dealership pressured her to buy a new car while she was waiting for an oil change. The Polk County lawsuit said a Holmes Hyundai saleswoman pressured 77-year-old Audrey McKnight to buy the car while she waited for the service on her 2006 car. McKnight claims she was adamant she couldn't afford a new car but finally gave up after being pressured for hours. Full Story Top Ohio man's private football party crashed by deer Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:55 pm PST AP - A man in Ohio said he had to do some running of his own while watching football on TV when a deer came crashing in through a window. Jeff Berger said he managed to get out of the way when the animal charged at him Sunday evening inside his fiancee's house in Lima in northwest Ohio. The deer jumped on the living room sofa Berger had been lying on. Full Story Top Wis. would-be robber arrives too late to rob bank Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:55 pm PST AP - Maybe the bank robber needed the money to buy a watch. It would seem he needed one after arriving six minutes after the Guardian Credit Union in Waukesha closed. Police said a man wearing a ski mask entered the first set of doors at 5:36 p.m. Wednesday with a gun, apparently not realizing the bank was closed. Full Story Top Ariz. board sued over fish pedicure squabble Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:55 pm PST AP - A conservative watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against an Arizona agency on behalf of a salon owner who uses nibbling fish to remove dead skin from the feet of customers. Full Story Top Man robbed of $2 million bank withdrawal Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:16 pm PST Reuters - A man in Taiwan was robbed of more than $2 million in cash that he had just withdrawn from the bank, a police official said on Tuesday. Full Story Top Using your plastic for plastic surgery.. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:18 pm PST Reuters - Unfazed by a recession and rampant inflation, image-conscious Venezuelans show no signs of cutting back on the facelifts, liposuction, and breast augmentation that have become de rigueur beauty treatments. Full Story Top Hitler's favorite car makes comeback? Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:19 pm PST Reuters - A car expert says he has tracked down Hitler's favorite Mercedes to a garage near the town that helped the Austrian-born Fuehrer become a German citizen. Full Story Top Cops on trail of "gingerbread town" vandals Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:00 am PST Reuters - The people of Bergen rolled out the cookie dough Monday as local police tried to sniff out vandals who destroyed the Norwegian city's traditional Christmas decoration -- a town of gingerbread houses. Full Story Top Judge blocks law allowing guns in bars Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:00 am PST Reuters - A judge on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that allowed people to bring handguns into restaurants and bars. Full Story Top Some kids still swallowing soda can safety tabs Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:12 pm PST Reuters - Beverage can tops are still finding their way into the stomachs of some children, especially teens, despite being redesigned in the 1970s to keep people from swallowing them, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Full Story Top Bulgarians name brandy after PM after tax victory Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:25 am PST Reuters - Bulgarian villagers have named their home-made rakia brandy "Borisovka," playing on the name of Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to thank him for stopping parliament from raising taxes on alcohol. Full Story Top New EU president wins fans in Japan -- as a poet Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:12 am PST Reuters - Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union's new president, may not be very well known around the world but he's already winning fans in Japan -- as a poet rather than a politician. Full Story Top Houston, we have a baby Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:10 pm PST Reuters - Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik awoke early on Sunday to a much-anticipated call that his new daughter had been born. Full Story Top Italy collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:24 am PST Reuters - An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday. Full Story Top Gold coin dropped in Pa. Salvation Army kettle Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:49 pm PST AP - The Salvation Army says someone dropped a gold coin worth more than $1,000 in a collection kettle in south-central Pennsylvania. York Salvation Army Maj. Lurlene Mudge said the South African gold Krugerrand was wrapped in a $1 bill and later discovered in counting the collections. It was placed Friday in a kettle outside a Kmart store in Springettsbury Township, just outside York. Full Story Top Man uses hammer to destroy TVs at Target store Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:33 pm PST AP - A man used a hammer to leave a path of destruction at a Target store in Winona. Police said the 39-year-old man smashed big-screen televisions and destroyed other electronics Saturday evening before taking a swing at an officer. Full Story Top New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:52 am PST Reuters - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday. Full Story Top Man robs 2nd Philly bank after failing 1st attempt Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:35 pm PST AP - Philadelphia police and the FBI are looking for a man who robbed a bank less than two hours after a failed robbery attempt at another bank. Full Story Top U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:05 am PST Reuters - Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop. Full Story Top

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