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Karin
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The past few weeks seem to be filled with so much doom and gloom…so to take our minds off of them for even a few minutes here are a few offbeat news stories:
Toothless man has been arrested for stealing toothbrushes.
According to O Dia newspaper Ednor Rodrigues, 32, was filmed on CCTV taking 7 toothbrushes from a supermarket in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil.
When he was approached by the police he tried to deny the robbery even showing the officers his toothless mouth.
He finally admitted to the robbery, he said: "I don’t know why I did it.
“I know it is a stupid thing to do, I have no teeth, what was I thinking?”
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1480175.html
Woman gets $74,000 water bill
MASCOUTAH, Illinois (AP) – It has been a hot, dry summer in this St. Louis suburb, but Rose Mary Cook knew there was no way she could have used $74,000 worth of water.
cnn.com/2005/US/07/14/hot.summer.ap/index.html
Three-year search for denture ends with bizarre X-ray
A Taiwanese man is breathing easier after a surgeon removed a missing set of dentures from one of his bronchial tubes – three years after he lost them in a fall
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/bizarre/080105_APstrange_dentures.html
Toothless man has been arrested for stealing toothbrushes.
According to O Dia newspaper Ednor Rodrigues, 32, was filmed on CCTV taking 7 toothbrushes from a supermarket in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil.
When he was approached by the police he tried to deny the robbery even showing the officers his toothless mouth.
He finally admitted to the robbery, he said: "I don’t know why I did it.
“I know it is a stupid thing to do, I have no teeth, what was I thinking?”
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1480175.html
Woman gets $74,000 water bill
MASCOUTAH, Illinois (AP) – It has been a hot, dry summer in this St. Louis suburb, but Rose Mary Cook knew there was no way she could have used $74,000 worth of water.
cnn.com/2005/US/07/14/hot.summer.ap/index.html
Three-year search for denture ends with bizarre X-ray
A Taiwanese man is breathing easier after a surgeon removed a missing set of dentures from one of his bronchial tubes – three years after he lost them in a fall
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/bizarre/080105_APstrange_dentures.html