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Cow chases bear away from her favorite apple tree

Residents of a rural Colorado town say a cow named Apple chased off a bear that had climbed into her favorite apple tree. Jack McDonald of Hygiene, about 30 miles northwest of Denver, said the bear had climbed out of the tree when the cow approached it Sunday afternoon.

McDonald says the animals touched noses and hung out together for a bit before Apple chased the bear off.

Robot

Satire: Pentagon's Unmanned Spokesdrone Completes First Press Conference Mission


Pentagon's Unmanned Spokesdrone Completes First Press Conference Mission

Hourglass

Vinyl records make a return

Music on discs, the big, old-time kind, is popular again. Baby boomers and even kids seek it out. The industry responds.

When the doorbell rings at Monti Olson's Glendale home in the middle of the night, it can mean only one thing: Jeff Bowers, his partner in Original Recordings Group, has brought new album artwork for him to inspect. "I'll come out in my pajamas and look it over," Olson said. "He drives home, and I'll go back to bed."

Bulb

Moustache protector, anyone? Weird inventions on show in London

LONDON -- A grenade that puts out fires, a self-pouring teapot, periscope spectacles, a peach peeler and a moustache protector are among oddball inventions on show at the British Library.

The Weird and Wonderful Inventions display, which opened Thursday and runs until November 10 at the national library in central London, is showing off a wealth of eccentric contraptions and ingenious gadgets.

The eye-catching devices are from the collection of Maurice Collins, a man with a passion for crazy inventions dating from 1851 to 1951.

"I've got more than 1,200 items and it's anything that I find a bit peculiar rather than something that would have been successful or other people would collect. I don't collect sewing machines or typewriters," he told AFP.

"It's things that perhaps nobody else would be bothered with, but in some way helped normal people with their lives, like the self-pouring teapot or the dynamo torch."

Meteor

Satire...or is it? Perseid Meteor Shower Triggers Mountain Landslide

The Perseid Meteor shower was so intense on the night of August 11th that it triggered a landslide along Interstate 74 in North Carolina.

Meteorites fell on a top of a mountain that overlooks the four lane interstate highway between Murphy and Andrews in western North Carolina. Rocks and boulders rained down on the road and authorities stated that traffic has been re-routed through the small town of Marble. The detour takes drivers along a scenic two lane road that runs parallel to I-74.

One report states that police officers were observed filling the trunks of their patrol cars with the precious meteorites that can fetch up to six figures on cyber auctions. The police officers would not let locals get near the site of the meteorite fall and reporters were also barred from entering the area.

Pumpkin

Dog Cloning Woman May Be Involved In Yet Another Bizarre Crime



Joyce McKinney
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Joyce Bernann McKinney (left) is the author of her own misfortune. And what a strange misfortune it is. We first told you about her last week when she made world headlines by having her dog cloned in South Korea.

Her picture was splashed across media around the planet, as she hugged the latest incarnation of her beloved pooch.

But her decision to make such a spectacle of herself may yet come back to haunt her. It first surfaced that she was the same woman accused of handcuffing a Mormon missionary to a bed and forcing him to become her 'sex slave.' She jumped bail in England on that crime and never stood trial.

Bizarro Earth

Belgian man loses wife in woods playing 'nude' hide-and-seek

A Belgian man reported his wife missing to police in Mechelen, south Belgium, after she got lost while the pair were playing "nude" hide-and-seek in local woods, national media reported on Friday.

The naked woman, who turned up a short while after her husband had filed the missing person report, told police that she become disorientated after wandering too far into the undergrowth as she tried to find a place to hide.

Crusader

Colorado: Silverthorne Police Chief Called 'Enemy Of Jesus Christ'

A mountain town is trying to pass a law that would ban a preacher from its streets.

The man known as "Brother Nathaniel" likes to spread his religious message from a median right in the middle of traffic where Interstate 70 meets Highway 9.

Brother Nathaiel
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Brother Nataniel

Bizarro Earth

UK: Telegraph solves the mystery of the travelling Gnome

The Daily Telegraph solved the mystery by discovering the identity of the man who decided to make the gnome his traveling companion, and took him to meet the owners.

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Simon Randles who 'borrowed' a gnome from a Gloucester garden and took it on his round the world travels. Pictured returning it to its owners Eve and Derrick Stuart-Kelso

Simon Randles, 22, a law graduate from Reading University, who is taking a year out before joining the Royal Marines in February, shook hands and spoke at length with Derrick Stuart-Kelso and his wife, Eve, who were intrigued by his story.

"Thanks for coming round," Mrs Stuart-Kelso told him. "It is a lovely story and you have cheered me up on a miserable day."

Mr Randles, who lives in Gloucester, and traveled alone with the gnome, said the idea of taking a gnome had come up in discussion with friends at university. "It is incredibly hard to find a gnome," he said. "I was on a bus and saw this gnome in the garden. I think it was fate. I mentally tagged it and went back the night before I left and liberated it sometime before midnight.

Smiley

Those Damn Kids! - McCain pwnd?

On Tuesday night, TNA writer Lonnie Affrime spotted the Straight Talk Express in the parking lot of an Embassy Suites in Boca Raton, FL. He noticed an unusual decal on the back of Sen. John McCain's whip and, as any good American would do, took a few pictures.

It is unknown as of now who placed the bumper sticker on the Straight Talk Express. We must not rule out the possibility that McCain slapped the decal on, himself, rather than pollute his famed bus's maverick image with one of his own utterly uninspiring bumper stickers. The only other option is that there are Obama supporters in Boca - and that just sounds ridiculous.

Comment: Sums it up quite nicely concerning any real choice in the U.S. election. You can vote for a Democan or a Republicrat. It's all the same in the end.