Wednesday March 10, 2010

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Crime doesn't pay much: Police say robber scored $6 from holding up 11 people at US market

THERMAL, Calif. - They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did - but not much....

posted: March 10,2010





Oddities

Calgary Zoo's newest male tiger shows signs of bonding with female tiger

CALGARY - The Calgary Zoo's new male tiger appears to like his new roommate....


Strange fruit: Dutch police discover half-ton of cocaine stashed in plastic pineapples

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - First it was drugs among the flowers. Now, drug traffickers have stuffed real drugs into fake fruit in an effort to smuggle cocaine into the Netherlands, authorities said Wednesday....


Odd odour leads police to 200 marijuana plants in California warehouse

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles police say all they needed to find marijuana growing in a Van Nuys warehouse was a sense of smell....


Purloined parrot recovered; Alberta birdnapper, bird safely behind bars

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - An alleged birdnapper and a purloined parrot are now both safely behind bars after an incident in Lethbridge, Alta....


Schools superintendent in rural Montana accidentally fires black powder gun during class

BILLINGS, Mon. - The superintendent of a rural school district in Montana says he was showing students his black powder muzzleloader gun when he accidentally fired the weapon into a classroom wall during a history lesson....


Forget about brandy and bourbon, ghosts are this year's must-have spirit

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The rare spirits that went under the gavel at a recent online auction in New Zealand weren't aged brandies or hard-to-find liqueurs....








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