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Today's Odd News News: Equal time: Women hold topless march in Maine Dubai jail sentence upheld for UK kissing couple Dog bumps car into neutral, causing fender-bender Cops: Drunk man steals ambulance, leads slow chase Police: Carjackers foiled by manual transmission Wanted: Investors to turn Saddam's villas into gold "Ned Kelly" painting sells for record Holy man resigns over sex scandal Robbers tunnel into bank Pharaonic false door to the afterlife found Errant text to police leads to 3 NY drug arrests "Termite gangs" tunnel into third French bank Turkish singer sets blind speed record in Ferrari Man rams car into parked plane in Nigeria News of the Weird: Texas' nondiscriminatory justice system: similar penalties for murder, rape and possession of small amounts of drugs Unpaid Spanish air hostesses strip in protest Woman, 82, crashes into salon, gets her hair done Robbers tunnel into Parisian bank Mom says her baby saved her family from house fire Want to see the iPad? So do Apple store employees Equal time: Women hold topless march in Maine Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:17 am PDT AP - About two dozen women drew a crowd of onlookers when they shed their shirts and marched downtown in Maine's largest city to promote what they call equal-opportunity public toplessness. Full Story Top Dubai jail sentence upheld for UK kissing couple Sun, 4 Apr 2010 03:19 pm PDT AP - A Dubai appeals court on Sunday upheld a one-month prison sentence for a British couple convicted of kissing in a restaurant. Full Story Top Dog bumps car into neutral, causing fender-bender Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:21 pm PDT AP - Wisconsin police said a dog caused a fender-bender in a parking lot when it knocked a parked car's gear shift into neutral. Middleton police said the car's owner had stopped for lunch Thursday and left his dog in the car. Full Story Top Cops: Drunk man steals ambulance, leads slow chase Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:21 pm PDT AP - San Diego police said a man just out of the hospital for intoxication stole an ambulance and fled from police before they stopped him with spike strips. Police said 52-year-old Paul John Sos was arrested Saturday on suspicion of auto theft, failure to yield to police and felony drunk driving. Full Story Top Police: Carjackers foiled by manual transmission Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:21 pm PDT AP - Police in eastern Pennsylvania said two men tried to rob and carjack a pizza delivery driver but were defeated by the vehicle's standard transmission. Fountain Hill police said the Domino's Pizza driver had stopped at a red light early Friday when a man ran up to the vehicle from the rear and grabbed her by the throat and shirt. He demanded money while a second man tried to open the passenger door. Full Story Top Wanted: Investors to turn Saddam's villas into gold Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:20 am PDT Reuters - Saddam Hussein made his palaces a desert paradise, but now his hometown is seeking foreign investors to turn the late dictator's playground into a tourist mecca. Full Story Top "Ned Kelly" painting sells for record Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:18 am PDT Reuters - Australia's most expensive painting, a Sidney Nolan "Ned Kelly" work, was given away on Wednesday only days after setting the nation's art record. Full Story Top Holy man resigns over sex scandal Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:14 am PDT Reuters - A Hindu holy man with thousands of followers across India resigned as head of a religious organization on Tuesday after police began investigating his role in a sex scandal, officials said. Full Story Top Robbers tunnel into bank Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:12 am PDT Reuters - Robbers tunneled their way into the vault of a Parisian bank at the weekend and cracked almost 200 private safes, police said. Full Story Top Pharaonic false door to the afterlife found Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:11 am PDT Reuters - Archaeologists in Luxor have uncovered a 3,500-year-old false door belonging to the tomb of a Pharaonic official, the Ministry of Culture said on Monday. Full Story Top Errant text to police leads to 3 NY drug arrests Sun, 4 Apr 2010 01:16 pm PDT AP - An errant text message is costing three New York drug-dealing suspects dearly. Full Story Top "Termite gangs" tunnel into third French bank Sun, 4 Apr 2010 06:37 am PDT Reuters - Would-be robbers armed with a pneumatic drill dug a tunnel from a Paris subway station into the basement of a bank in the early hours of Sunday but failed to seize any cash or valuables, police said. Full Story Top Turkish singer sets blind speed record in Ferrari Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:01 am PDT Reuters - Turkish pop-singer Metin Senturk became the world's fastest unaccompanied blind driver on Friday and said he felt he had danced with death. Full Story Top Man rams car into parked plane in Nigeria Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:03 am PDT Reuters - A man who claimed to have been sent by Jesus to punish sinners rammed his car into a parked plane at an airport in southeastern Nigeria , an aviation spokesman said Thursday. Full Story Top News of the Weird: Texas' nondiscriminatory justice system: similar penalties for murder, rape and possession of small amounts of drugs Sat, 3 Apr 2010 10:00 pm PDT News of the Weird - Texas' nondiscriminatory justice system: similar penalties for murder, rape and possession of small amounts of drugs Full Story Top Unpaid Spanish air hostesses strip in protest Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:28 pm PDT Reuters - Flight attendants owed up to nine months' wages by a grounded Spanish airline have posed nude for a calendar to draw attention to their plight, one of the cabin crew turned models said on Wednesday. Full Story Top Woman, 82, crashes into salon, gets her hair done Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:21 pm PDT AP - An 82-year-old woman who accidentally crashed her car through the front window of a southwest Michigan salon stuck around afterward for an appointment to get her hair done. Full Story Top Robbers tunnel into Parisian bank Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:09 am PDT Reuters - Robbers tunnelled their way into the vault of a Parisian bank at the weekend and cracked almost 200 private safes, police said. Full Story Top Mom says her baby saved her family from house fire Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:21 pm PDT AP - A mother said her newborn baby saved her family from a house fire by waking them up with its cries. Police told WKYT-TV they suspect a drunk neighbor burned down the home south of Hyden, in Leslie County, on Friday. Full Story Top Want to see the iPad? So do Apple store employees Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:12 am PDT Reuters - As Apple Inc gears up for the crush of customers expected for Saturday's iPad launch, employees who staff its retail stores are just as curious about the tablet as the fans who will line up outside. Full Story Top

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