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Woman gets pregnant after 'acrobatic joyride' From: From correspondents in Hassloch, Germany September 12, 2005 FERTILITY scientists will be pricking up their ears at the news that a woman who had been barren for several years has conceived thanks to a ride on a particularly fierce rollercoaster. Nayade Elbing, 28, and her husband Arnold had been trying to have children for several years and had consulted doctors in the hope of scientific help in their quest. But according to their doctor, Thomas Gent, it was G-force, rather than hitting the G-spot, that made the difference. After making love at home,...

Drug dealing really may be rocket science. Two accused methamphetamine traffickers apparently rigged up their car so that if cops closed in, a small rocket carrying their stash would pop up from the trunk and launch itself far from the long arm of the law. For some reason, the rocket never achieved liftoff when Missouri State Highway Patrol (search) officers pulled over Michael Ray Sullivan, 41, and Joseph C. Seidl, 39, both of Kentucky, on June 24 in Kingdom City.

Men Can Also Offer Their Babies a Nipple Infants in the 'Sucking' Phase of Development Are Also Soothed by Father's Breast By SHANNON ROGAN and EMILY KAGAN Jun. 16, 2005 - It's Father's Day and daddy has taken the baby for a walk. A few steps from the house the baby starts to fuss, so daddy picks her up and offers her … his nipple? Strange as it may sound, an article published in the The Times of London suggests that when mom is not around, a man's nipple may be just as comforting to a crying baby.

Officers Sort Out Details Of Strange Events --- THORNTON, Colo. -- Thornton police are still trying to figure out the chain of events that led to the crash of a stolen van early Tuesday morning and the discovery of a naked woman driving it. Police were called to 160th Avenue and Washington Street at about 5:25 a.m. and found a company paint van upside down, with spilled paint everywhere. "The van is filled with paint and it’s all over the scene," said Matt Barnes, a Thornton police spokesman. Officers also found a naked 35-year-old woman with minor injuries from the...

<p>A 407-pound New York woman claims she is suffering severe pain because her obesity leaves her unable to get proper medical attention.</p> <p>Jennifer Walters, who is bed-ridden and cannot walk because of excessive weight, told the New York Post because she cannot fit into a magnetic resonance imaging machine, a doctor said she should go to the Bronx Zoo for an X-ray.</p>

TV GIRL SQUASHED MY BABY SQUIRREL - May 28 2005 A REPORTER sent to do a story about a baby squirrel stood on the fluffy creature by mistake and killed it. Inka Blumensaat wanted to tell how a pet cat had saved the orphaned squirrel by adopting it as her own. But the friendly rodent jumped on her leg as she filmed her report and she panicked and trampled it underfoot,breaking its neck. Heike Reher, whose cat adopted the squirrel in Lubeck, Germany, said: 'The reporter started leaping about like a mad woman. She squashed the squirrel completely. 'Everyone looked...

Posted 9:45 a.m. WILMINGTON (AP) — The man who walked into the New Hanover County Courthouse can't say he wasn't warned. Authorities said Jermelle Monte Canty, 20, entered the courthouse Wednesday afternoon with 14 bags of marijuana and 10 bags of heroin stuffed into his pockets, "He came around the corner, saw the security checkpoint and all of a sudden he had this big sign flashing on his face, 'I've got dope, I've got dope,'" McCarthy said. At first, Canty said the drugs weren't his and he didn't know how they got into his pockets. Then, he said they were...

A rock-throwing stranger throws a fit when arrested An unidentified man is in Wilson County jail after having been arrested Saturday night on Interstate 95 with a pile of rocks between his legs. Sheriff's Deputy J.W. Bissette found the man sitting cross-legged in the emergency lane of I-95 near the 114 mile-marker with a pile of rocks between his legs. Bissette was responding to the area after receiving a call about a man walking north on the interstate who appeared to be intoxicated. On his way, Bissette received another call that the man was throwing rocks at passing motorists. As...

Red Falls Out of Favor As Teacher's Choice By BEN FELLER April 3, 2005, 12:33 PM EDT WASHINGTON -- Of all the things that can make a person see red, school principal Gail Karwoski was not expecting parents to get huffy about, well, seeing red. At Daniels Farm Elementary School in Trumbull, Conn., Karwoski's teachers grade papers by giving examples of better answers for those students who make mistakes. But that approach meant the kids often found their work covered in red, the color that teachers long have used to grade work. Parents objected. Red writing, they said, was "stressful."...

Skinny Rapist Meets His Match Bakersfield Prostitute Strips Attacker, Takes Him To Police Dec 18, 2003 1:52 pm US/Central BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) A skinny rapist met his match in an angry, 275-pound prostitute, police said. Adrian Castillo Ramirez, 140 pounds, allegedly tried to sexually assault a 24-year-old Bakersfield prostitute who was nearly twice his weight. But she took his knife, stripped him naked and paraded him in front of other prostitutes, after asking how many of them had ever been forced into sex at knifepoint. Then she tried to take him -- still naked -- to the police station, reports...

Posted on Fri, May. 17, 2002 Divorce court grants visitation rights - for dog MADRID, Spain (AP) - A divorce court judge has granted visitation rights to a man who missed his dog.The judge in southeast Alicante province said the Spaniard gets the animal on weekends and his ex-wife has custody during the week.In the middle of their tug-of-war is a pint-sized pooch known as a griffon.The couple's name was not disclosed. They were described in newspapers as a middle-aged couple living in the town of El Campello.The verdict was handed down in March but only surfaced this week...

Posted on Sat, Apr. 20, 2002 Bikinis are off-limits here Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The fundamentalist Muslim government in a Malaysian state will ban women from wearing bikinis and from sharing swimming pools with men, a news report said Saturday.Hotels in the eastern state of Terengganu have been directed to build separate swimming pools for men and women, the Star newspaper quoted state tourism minister Wan Hassan Mohamad Ramli as saying."We decided, in the interest of Muslims, to separate the two sexes when it comes to swimming pools," the paper quoted Wan Hassan as saying.The Pan-Malaysian Islamic...

Due to many requests, we are posting the Daily Bizarre news thread again. The reason it was halted is because of the lack of participation by FReepers. Some threads didn't even make it past 50 posts. So we will do a trial run to see how things go. Now back to humor......

Posted on Thu, Apr. 04, 2002 Dead? Don't worry, you can still e-mailCharlotte Observer Timelessmail.com will send out e-mails for customers after they've been permanently deleted from among the living.For an annual fee ranging from $12 to $24, depending on the level of service, people can create up to 60 individual e-mails that can each go to as many as 25 recipients upon the client's death. The e-mails are filed away, waiting for the client to be called to the great beyond.Timelessmail.com's message seems to have struck a chord -- its Web site at www.timelessmail.com had 102,714 hits in...