Topic: STRANGE - on June 1, 2007 at 2:48:00 PM CEST
N.Y. taxi license hits record price: $600,000
Medallion Financial Corporation said it had financed the purchase of two medallions -- the license to operate a yellow cab in New York -- for a total of $1.2 million by a large corporate fleet operator.
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Topic: STRANGE - on June 1, 2007 at 2:39:00 PM CEST
Whale rescue hotline hacked
Even a pair of stranded whales and the legions of people dedicated to saving them aren't safe from trolls, it seems.
A telephone hotline established to allow individuals to leave comments about the two whales, which were stranded in California's Sacramento River, was breached by unknown trouble makers, who left an outgoing message falsely claiming authorities exterminated the humpback whale and her calf.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 21, 2007 at 12:29:00 PM CEST
Robert De Niro being sued for fraud
An insurance company has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court against Robert De Niro, alleging the actor's fraudulent actions cost them millions.
Fireman's Fund insurance group filed its suit this week against De Niro, accusing him of misrepresenting his prostate cancer to it before shooting on the film "Hide and Seek" began, The New York Post said Saturday.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 15, 2007 at 12:03:00 PM CEST
Workers rescued from giant vat of fish feces
This nasty rescue is no fish tale.
Rescuers cut through a filtration tank of dense fish feces to reach four workers who fell into the sludgy dung Friday while cleaning the 18-foot tank at a western Massachusetts farm.
The workers became trapped for 45 minutes after a bracket holding a plastic filtration pad collapsed as workers stood on it to clean the fiberglass tank at the Australis Aquaculture fish farm, said Turners Falls Fire Capt. David Dion and the fish farm's manager, Josh Goldman.
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Topic: STRANGE - on April 23, 2007 at 8:17:00 PM CEST
Mass. man gets 5,000 calls after posting number on YouTube, offering a sympathetic ear
Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands.
So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call. After posting a video with his cell phone number on YouTube on Friday, the 20-year-old told The Boston Globe he has received more than 5,000 calls and text messages.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 30, 2007 at 10:35:00 AM CEST
Conspiracy theorists: Feds, web hosts conspire against us
When Alan Watt's website Cutting Through the Matrix went offline in February, he knew it was because someone "at the top" decided he was getting too close to the truth.
Watt is one of several "esoteric researchers" (call them conspiracy theorists) who believe Big Brother is telling Yahoo!, Google, and other companies which websites get to stay up, and which come down.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 28, 2007 at 2:49:00 PM CEST
Toilet Snorkel
What exactly is this man doing? Communicating with his neighbors using his new Toilet Phone? Blowing up his Inflatable Toilet? Or is he simple blowing bubbles? Well the correct answer is None of the Above. This guy is using the new breath easy, Toilet Snorkel, formulated to provide a fresh air source during fires in high rise buildings.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 23, 2007 at 10:41:00 AM CET
Sex with dead deer is illegal, US man finds
The 20-year-old Wisconsin man last year charged with having sex with a dead deer has been sentenced to probation and evaluation as a sex offender, Yahoo! reports.
Bryan James Hathaway was cuffed on a "a misdemeanour charge of sexual gratification with an animal". The court case raised some interesting legal issues, since according to the defence, the relevant "crimes against sexual morality" statute prohibits sex with animals, but fails to mention carcasses
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 21, 2007 at 5:57:00 PM CET
First visitors step onto canyon skywalk
The Grand Canyon Skywalk has just received its first visitors. It will be open to the public on March 28, 2007.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 17, 2007 at 11:31:00 PM CET
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 15, 2007 at 12:22:00 PM CET
Suicide squirrels driving utilities nuts
Every year, Neil Engelman carefully collects his data, stands before his company's board of directors and is asked the same question: What caused more outages? The lightning or the squirrels?
Four of the past five years, the answer has been the squirrels, says Engelman, vice president of operations for the Lincoln Electric System in Nebraska. Nebraska is not alone. Many states are grappling with a big increase in the number of power outages caused by squirrel electrocutions.
Squirrels that fry themselves on power lines and transformers cause tens of thousands of blackouts every year.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 12, 2007 at 12:51:00 PM CET
Home becomes an 'island' in building row
As far as planning disputes go, it is a far cry from letters of complaint to the council over an unsightly conservatory.
After a row with developers, this family's home has been left perched 12m (40ft) up on its own concrete island.
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