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Friday, August 27,2010
News Quirks

No Squatting at Ground Zero

By Roland Sweet
After attending a cultural awareness course run by a Muslim community activist in England, managers of a Rochdale shopping mall installed two squat toilets.
Friday, August 20,2010
News Quirks

Fear of Walking

By Roland Sweet
Hoping to help the growing number of pedestrians who stumble into stationary and moving objects while texting on their cell phones ...
Friday, July 30,2010
News Quirks

Face Jobs

By Roland Sweet
Chinese companies are hiring white people to pose as employees or business partners to impress clients and officials ...
Friday, July 23,2010
News Quirks

Counterfeit Bail

By Roland Sweet
After police arrested Ronald White, 35, for shoplifting in Cinnaminson, N.J., they discovered he had outstanding warrants that required posting $400 bail ...
Friday, July 16,2010
News Quirks

Dumb Criminals, Dumber Students

By Roland Sweet
Law schools at New York University, Georgetown and eight other universities have made their grading systems more lenient in the past two years, so their graduates will appeal to prospective employers ...
Friday, July 9,2010
News Quirks

Nuts to Charity

By Roland Sweet
When Joe Cooper, 24, agreed to undergo a bikini waxing at a charity fundraising event in Leicester, England, onlookers bid to pull off the strips ...
Friday, July 2,2010
News Quirks

Beeline to Disaster

By Roland Sweet
The latest suspect in the widespread disappearance of honeybees and the collapse of their hives throughout Europe and North America is radiation from wireless phones.
Friday, June 25,2010
News Quirks

Homeland Insecurity

By Roland Sweet
Firefighters responding to a fire in Jersey City, N.J., found no one at home in the apartment, where a pot on the stove had boiled dry and cloth inside had ignited.
Friday, June 18,2010
News Quirks

Ninjas Down Under

By Roland Sweet
Elvis robbed! Ninjas save a German in Australia! Man shoots himself in balls! And more ...
Friday, June 11,2010
News Quirks

The Devil Made Them Do It

By Roland Sweet
A woman in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., reported hearing a man outside her bedroom window telling someone on a cell phone, “I’m about to commit a crime” ...
 
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