Tuesday March 09, 2010

QUESTION OF THE WEEK



Oddities


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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....

posted: March 9,2010





Oddities

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....


Cold War artifact: Underground English nuclear bunker sold on eBay for $30,000

LONDON - An underground Cold War nuclear bunker set in the picturesque English countryside has been sold on the auction site eBay....


Woman believed to be oldest person in US dies at 114 years, 294 days

WESTMORELAND, N.H. - A woman certified as the oldest person living in the United States has died....


6th-generation Key West, Florida, resident wins island's conch shell blowing contest

KEY WEST, Fla. - A sixth-generation Key West resident, who first blew a conch shell as a child, played two shells simultaneously to take top honours Saturday in the island's 48th annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest....








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