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Posted 11/6/09 by InsayneJayne
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Posted 11/6/09 by bajaboy
A wanted man taunted the authorities by sending in a picture of himself posing by a police van.
Matthew Maynard, 23, texted the picture to a local newspaper from his mobile phone, commenting that he didn't like the photo issued by the police.
The suspected criminal is being hunted following a burglary in Swansea in September.
Mr Maynard was among eight people who were pictured in local. . .
Posted 11/6/09 by bajaboy
Beijing’s burgeoning art district has a new symbol for its growing influence in the global art world -a giant farting bull.
Created by sculptor Chen Wenling, the 20-foot statue depicts, well, a big fiberglass bull that rams a devil figure with its horns while making whoopie so hard the devil crashes into a wall.
Entitled ‘What You See Might Not Be Real’, Wenling’s flatuous virtuosity has b. . .
Posted 11/6/09 by bajaboy
A BRAZILIAN man reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family when he showed up alive at his funeral.
Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified the bricklayer as the victim of a car crash in Parana state, in southern Brazil, AP reports.
But Goncalves had not died. He had spent the night chatting with friends at a truck stop.
Goncalves did not learn about his. . .
Posted 11/6/09 by bajaboy
SEOUL, South Korea – A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time.
The aspiring driver spent more than 5 million won ($4,200) in application fees, but until now had failed to score the minimum 60 out of a possible 100 points needed to get behind the wheel for a driving test.
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Posted 11/6/09 by bajaboy
SPOKANE, Wash. — A Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Washington state has been found in a shipping container at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport.
Customs agents found the 1965 van on Oct. 19 when they opened a shipping container bound for The Netherlands, The Spokesman-Review newspaper reported. They ran the vehicle identification number and discovered it was listed as stolen.
Law of. . .
Posted 11/6/09 by bajaboy
One in 20 British schoolchildren thinks Adolf Hitler was a German football manager, according to a new survey.
One in six youngsters believed Auschwitz was a theme park - and one in 12 thought the Blitz was a European clean-up operation following World War II.
The embarrassing findings are contained in a poll for the veterans' charity Erskine, which asked 2,000 kids aged nine to 11 about t. . .
Posted 11/6/09 by InsayneJayne
APPLETON, WI — The suspect in a drive-by shooting failed to open his own car window before he shot, with the broken window ultimately leading to his arrest.
Andrew J. Burwitz, 20, 45 Diane Lane, Appleton, was charged Wednesday in Outagamie County Court with four counts of first- degree reckless endangerment, four counts of endangering safety by reckless use of a firearm, disorderly conduct an. . .
