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arresting a man after stunning him with a Taser gun.” ( Independent Record , Helena, Montana)
    “A high school student convicted of battery for vomiting on his Spanish teacher has been ordered to spend the next four months cleaning up after people who throw up in police cars.” (MSNBC)
    “The chairman of the publicly funded Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has resigned after remarks about bestiality and ruminations about defecation, Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda said on Tuesday.” (Reuters)
    “Anti-drug campaigners today attacked the makers of a soft drink who have called their product ‘Cocaine.’” ( Daily Mail , London, England)
    “Police are investigating a ‘bizarre’ incident in which a man claiming he was performing a religious ritual kissed a woman’s feet Monday afternoon at the Perry Wal-Mart.” ( Macon Telegraph , Macon, Georgia)
    Keep looking: Only one in 10,000 clovers has four leaves.

WEIRD INDIA
    This country was once considered very exotic, but it’s one of the most quickly modernizing countries in the world. That includes the silly stuff, too.
    I T COSTS AN ARM AND A LEG
    In July 2006, India’s Medical Association started investigating three doctors who had appeared in television advertisements to promote voluntary amputation surgery to beggars. In India, street beggars can earn more money by eliciting sympathy for missing appendages. The more missing appendages, the more they earn. The doctors charged fees of about $200 for the “investment” of removing a leg below the knee.
THE NITTY GRITTY
    Ram Rati, 80, of Chinar, attributes her longevity and good health to eating sand. Rati estimates she eats about four pounds every day, splitting it among breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea. “When young, I tried it for fun once. Now, I am used to it. My relatives pestered me to quit it, but it was all in vain.”
LOVE HURTS
    A man needed to ask his wife to agree to a divorce—he wanted to marry his mistress. The wife consented to end the marriage, but on one condition: that she could beat him up in public. The man agreed and a few days later his wife administered the beating in the middle of town. Satisfied, she signed the divorce papers.
DOGGERCISE
    Hritik, a three-year-old German Shepherd from Ranchi, gets plenty of exercise. He doesn’t chase Frisbees or go for walks—he does yoga. Under the supervision of his trainer, Nanda Dulal, he has learned several different yoga positions and exercises. “He was weak when he was born,” says Dulal. “But we took special care of him and he gradually became strong after his yoga lessons.” (According to Dulal, Hritik has also voluntarily become a vegetarian.)
    The tall wigs worn by British judges are called perukes .

HEY, I RECOGNIZE
THAT BUTT CRACK!
    Well, I do. What do you want me to say?
    I n November, 1997, Minneapolis native Tom Tipton, 63, got the thrill of his life when he was invited to sing the national anthem before a Minnesota Vikings football game. Across town, an off-duty sheriff was watching the pregame show—and recognized Tipton’s name. Tipton, it turned out, was wanted on two warrants in Minneapolis. He was arrested during the game.
    • In 2006 a man in Mill Valley, California, was arrested after he called a bomb threat into a Walgreen’s pharmacy. The clerk who answered the phone recognized his voice: The man had just been at the counter to get a prescription filled, and had called in the threat because he thought it was taking too long.
    • In 2001 Chicago police arrested 19-year-old Marque Love on bank robbery charges. Love had once worked at the bank, and a teller recognized him—by his distinctive blue suede shoes.
    • In 2006 Robert Russel Moore of Prince Frederick, Maryland, was arrested and charged with the robbery of an Arby’s restaurant where he was recently employed. At the subsequent trial, four of his former fellow employees testified that, although he was wearing a mask, they recognized Moore in surveillance