ROME — A Sicilian man stole sweets and a packet of chewing gum so he could get arrested and spend New Year’s Eve in a jail cell rather than be with his wife and relatives, Italian media reported. The 35-year old Sicilian first showed up at a police station asking to be arrested because he [...]
December 25, 2009
VAIL, Colo. – A living nativity scene in near the Colorado ski resort of Vail almost had to go without two crucial actors when two donkeys escaped. The nativity scene is an annual tradition for Eagle River Presbyterian Church in the Vail Valley. Pastor Rob Wilson says two borrowed donkeys were being held in a [...]
December 18, 2009
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND- A billboard sponsored by a local Anglican church that shows Joseph and Mary in bed has set tongues wagging in New Zealand, with the Catholic Church condemning it as others found it funny. The controversial billboard, erected by St Matthew-in-the-City Church in Auckland, shows a dejected-looking Joseph under bedcovers beside a sad [...]
December 15, 2009
ST. LOUIS — The North Face Apparel Corp. is suing parody company called The South Butt and the teenager who started it. The lawsuit filed last week in federal court in St. Louis seeks unspecified damages and asks the court to prohibit The South Butt from marketing and selling its parody product line. The North [...]
December 7, 2009
A Tennessee man’s homeowners insurance apparently doesn’t cover “acts of cow.” Jerry Lynn Davis called the Hawkins County Sheriff’s office on Thursday, complaining that a neighbor’s cows had been licking his house. In the process, Davis says the curious bovines did about $100 in damage by ripping off a screen window, cracking the glass and [...]
December 3, 2009
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Court officials say a Birmingham woman who changed her name to Jesus Christ didn’t live up to it when she reported for jury duty this week. The woman, previously named Dorothy Lola Killingworth, was sent to Judge Clyde Jones’s courtroom for a criminal case Monday. Court officials told The Birmingham News Tuesday [...]
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