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NY comics seek record with 50 hours of stand-up

Comedian Marina Franklin would normally be offended if somebody fell asleep during her stand-up routine, but 13 hours into a 50-hour comedy marathon she's willing to cut the crowd some slack.

Franklin was one of around 100 comedians trying to set a Guinness world record for the longest non-stop stand-up comedy show this week at a New York comedy club.

Smiley

Missing Cape Cod lighthouse located in California

WELLFLEET, Mass. - Local historians for decades thought the 30-foot tall lighthouse that once overlooked Wellfleet Harbor had been taken down and destroyed in 1925.

Turns out, it had just been moved to the California coast.

lighthouse at Point Montara
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A lighthouse at Point Montara is shown in Montara, Calif., Wednesday, June 4, 2008. According to lighthouse researchers, this lighthouse was first erected in 1881 overlooking Wellfleet Harbor in Wellfleet, Mass. and had been moved by the Coast Guard from Wellfleet to Yerba Buena, Calif., and eventually to Point Montara.

Pistol

Brazil inmate had $173K, guns, TV, fridge in cell

SAO PAULO - The luxurious lifestyle of a convict in northeastern Brazil has come to an abrupt end after police confiscated a plasma TV set, gym equipment, two pistols and cash worth $173,000 from his cell, officials said Tuesday.

Einstein

Police: Woman arrested for non-emergency 911 calls

BENTON, Illinois - Police in Benton say Tabitha Artis was persistent in dialing up the county's 911 system, and they're calling it a crime. The 27-year-old woman was arrested for disorderly conduct for allegedly making several 911 calls police didn't consider emergencies.

Bandaid

Dutch man injures posterior in mooning accident

UTRECHT, Netherlands - Utrecht police say a 21-year-old Dutch man is recovering after a "mooning" that went horribly wrong.

A police statement says the man and two others had run down a street in Utrecht with their pants pulled down in the back "for a joke."

Wine

Man unearths box of Depression-era cash

Milwaukee - Dan Deming had heard the rumours about the buried treasure on his central Wisconsin farm.

At first he made some halfhearted attempts to find it, and then searched in earnest for two or three years after receiving a metal detector for his birthday.

"I don't know what I thought, if I thought it was really there or not," he said.

The mystery ended recently while Deming was tearing down a 100-year-old shed on his property. A rusted box tumbled from the rubble and wads of currency dating back to the Depression spilled on the ground.

HAL9000

Spell-checker changes names in Pennsylvania yearbook

Middletown, Pennsylvania - A computer spell-checker run amok christened several Pennsylvania high school students with new - and in some cases unflattering - last names.

Middletown Area High School's yearbook listed Max Zupanovic as "Max Supernova," Kathy Carbaugh as "Kathy Airbag" and Alessandra Ippolito as "Alexandria Impolite," just to name a few.

Magic Wand

Tornado oddities: Toilet paper unwinds and rewinds

HUGO, Minnesota - As residents in Hugo begin to move on from last week's tornado, some say they noticed a few bizarre things amid all the damage. Jason Akins said the twister unwound a roll of toilet paper in his bathroom - draped it across the countertop, then rewound it in the sink. The toilet paper didn't even rip.

UFO

Alien invasion? Proposal triggers UFO alert

Quirky bid to pop the question with flying lanterns spooks German villagers

A creative marriage proposal triggered a UFO scare, German police said on Thursday.

Several people alerted authorities after spotting unusual lights drifting across the sky above the sleepy Bavarian town of Plattling on Wednesday night.

Bizarro Earth

US: Ticketed driver pays Wisconsin fine, 21 years later

Someone in Texas apparently had a guilty conscience, paying up on a parking ticket handed out 21 years before.

The Kenosha Police Department says officers found a $6 payment for the ticket, issued Jan. 20, 1987, in a drop box.