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UPS Delivery Guy steals Ipad Mini Dropped by Fedex (VIDEO)

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Wednesday morning, Sandra and Al Alverson of Houston, Tex., received an email from FedEx with good news: Their new iPad Mini had been delivered, according to KHOU. Hooray for the holidays! Hooray for good cheer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Only one problem: It was nowhere to be found. Luckily, the Alversons have an elaborate DVR recording system set up for just such an occasion.</span><br />
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UPS Delivery Guy steals Ipad Mini Dropped by Fedex (VIDEO)

On Wednesday morning, Sandra and Al Alverson of Houston, Tex., received an email from FedEx with good news: Their new iPad Mini had been de...

Man on Kayak Dragged to the Sea while Battling Huge Cod

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dan Richards was fishing off the coast of Folkestone, Kent in a 12ft canoe when he caught the fish.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 38-year-old managed to haul the cod onto the bow of his kayak before paddling back to shore with the fish between his legs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was so large that it provided 32 separate fillets, which would be worth around £150 pounds if bought from a local fish and chip shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr Richards, a support worker for people with learning difficulties, turned down an offer of £50 from a local fishmonger and has been eating the fish with his wife Emma, 33, and daughters Jade, 14, and five-year-old Amber.</span><br />
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Man on Kayak Dragged to the Sea while Battling Huge Cod

Dan Richards was fishing off the coast of Folkestone, Kent in a 12ft canoe when he caught the fish. The 38-year-old managed to haul the co...

Britain's Biggest Christmas Sandwich contains 1 Kilo of Turkey!

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyone looking for an alternative Christmas dinner this year could opt for ‘Britain’s biggest’ festive sandwich, which reportedly contains a kilo of turkey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The massive butty has a healthy helping of all your Christmas lunch favorites  including potatoes, sprouts, six carrots, six parsnips and eight sausages wrapped in bacon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The monster treat, which was created by chef Richard Hollis, is served beside a container of cranberry sauce and a large helping of stuffing.</span><br />
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<a href="http://metro.co.uk/2012/12/21/britains-biggest-christmas-sandwich-contains-one-kilo-of-turkey-3326716/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read More...</span></a><br />

Britain's Biggest Christmas Sandwich contains 1 Kilo of Turkey!

Anyone looking for an alternative Christmas dinner this year could opt for ‘Britain’s biggest’ festive sandwich, which reportedly contains ...

Ancient Sea Monster Discovered!

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fossils belonging to an 84-million-year-old freshwater sea monster have been found in Hungary, according to a new study. (Explore a sea monster interactive in National Geographic magazine.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The recently unearthed creature belongs to a family of ancient aquatic reptiles known as mosasaurs, which looked like crosses between crocodiles and whales. Mosasaurs lacked the superlong necks found in plesiosaurs, which the legendary inhabitant of Loch Ness is alleged to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dubbed Pannoniasaurus, the creature is the first mosasaur thought to spend its entire life in freshwater.</span><br />
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Ancient Sea Monster Discovered!

Fossils belonging to an 84-million-year-old freshwater sea monster have been found in Hungary, according to a new study. (Explore a sea mon...

Doomsday "Hotspots" Flocked by believers

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">About 1,000 self-described shamans, seers, stargazers, crystal enthusiasts, yogis, sufis and swamis are gathering in a convention center in the city of Merida on the Yucatan peninsula about an hour and a half from the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza, convinced that it was a good start to the coming "New Era" supposed to begin around 5:00 a.m. local time Friday. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">According to one rumor, a rocky mountain in the French Pyrenees will be the sole place on earth to escape destruction. A giant UFO and aliens are said to be waiting under the mountain, ready to burst through and spirit those nearby to safety.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">For $1,500, a museum is offering salvation from the world's end in former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's underground bunker in central Moscow — with a 50 percent refund if nothing happens.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">Some Serbs are saying to forget that sacred mountain in the French Pyrenees. The place to go Friday will be Mount Rtanj, a pyramid-shaped peak in Serbia already drawing cultists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">A local legend has it that the mountain once swallowed an evil sorcerer who will be released on doomsday in a ball of fire that will hit the mountain top.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">Another spot said to be spared: Cisternino, in southern Italy, plans a big party Friday with hot-air balloons and music in the main piazza. "Nobody will want to sleep anyway as they await the end of the world," Mayor Donato Baccaro was quoted as saying in the newspaper La Stampa on Wednesday. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px;">A small Turkish village known for its wines, Sirince, has also been touted as the only place after Bugarach that would escape the world's end. But on Thursday there were more journalists and security officials present there than cultists — to the great disappointment of local restaurateurs and souvenir shop owners.</span></span></div>
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Doomsday "Hotspots" Flocked by believers

MEXICO About 1,000 self-described shamans, seers, stargazers, crystal enthusiasts, yogis, sufis and swamis are gathering in a conventi...

Owl Survives Head on Collision with Truck

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A miracle owl lived to fly another day after surviving a head-on collision with a moving Ford pickup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The brown feathered bird was left with its head lodged firmly in the grill of the truck following the accidental smash in Addison County, Vermont, on December 11.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘I received a call from the driver a little after five in the morning explaining that he had hit an owl,’ explained biologist David Sausville, of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department.</span><br />
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Owl Survives Head on Collision with Truck

A miracle owl lived to fly another day after surviving a head-on collision with a moving Ford pickup. The brown feathered bird was lef...

"End of the World" Fever on high in Mexico (Photos)

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thousands of mystics, hippies and spiritual wanderers will descend on the ruins of Maya cities on Friday to celebrate a new cycle in the Maya calendar, ignoring fears in some quarters that it might instead herald the end of the world.</span><br />
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 <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Brightly dressed indigenous Mexican dancers whooped and invoked a serpent god near the ruins of Chichen Itza late on Thursday, while meditating westerners hoped for the start of a "golden age" of humanity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I see it as a changing of an energy, the changing of a guard, the changing of universal consciousness," said Serg Miejylo, a 29-year-old gardener originally from Connecticut.</span><br />
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"End of the World" Fever on high in Mexico (Photos)

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Weird Creature Shot and Captured in Africa

<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Locals came across this strange creature while they were escorting a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">shooting party in Namibia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Witness's state that the creature was spotted </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">apparently foraging for food, one of the shooting party wounded it with </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">his rifle and it escaped into the thick brush. Check out the video and tell us what you think in the comments below.</span><br />
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Weird Creature Shot and Captured in Africa

Locals came across this strange creature while they were escorting a shooting party in Namibia. Witness's state that the creature w...

Hundreds of Black Widow Infest container in Norwich

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last couple of weeks, we have published that a <a href="http://weird-newsstories.blogspot.com/2012/12/black-widow-inside-whole-foods-grapes.html">black widow is found on grapes of Whole Foods</a>, now these </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">deadly black widow spiders gave workers a shock when they turned up in a shipping container – in Norfolk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hundreds of spiders are thought to have hatched inside a crate of tyres in Arizona before its 5,000-mile trip to the UK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pest control experts were called to the container firm in Norwich to kill them.</span><br />
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Hundreds of Black Widow Infest container in Norwich

Last couple of weeks, we have published that a black widow is found on grapes of Whole Foods , now these deadly black widow spiders gave...

Woman Fined For Naming Her Dog After her Neighbor

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hu Lin had fallen out with her neighbor  Wang Sun, after they butted heads over a building extension to his home six years ago, the Austrian Times reported.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It seems she was so angered she decided to call her pooch after him and whenever he was in the vicinity she allegedly started to curse at the pet loudly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">‘To get her own back she named her dog Wang and then whenever she saw me she would start swearing and insulting the dog using my name,’ Wang said during the proceedings at the courthouse in Gansu province, northern China.</span><br />
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Hu Lin had fallen out with her neighbor Wang Sun, after they butted heads over a building extension to his home six years ago, the Austria...

Husband Picks Iron instead of Telephone

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A hapless husband is still nursing a serious injury sustained when he lifted a hot iron to his face instead of the telephone that rang while he was pressing clothes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After Mrs Paczkowski said he wasn’t helping out around the house, he decided to do the ironing while she was at work to ‘prove a point’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘Women are always going on about multi-tasking, so I set up the iron, opened a beer and put the boxing on the telly,’ said Mr Paczkowski, 32, from Elbag, Poland.</span><br />
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Husband Picks Iron instead of Telephone

A hapless husband is still nursing a serious injury sustained when he lifted a hot iron to his face instead of the telephone that rang whil...

Video: Huge Asteroid Pass Flyby Earth

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A new video captures the giant asteroid 4179 Toutatis tumbling through space on its flyby of Earth earlier this week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The asteroid Toutatis video, which is about 40 seconds long, combines 64 radar images taken Wednesday and Thursday (Dec. 12 and 13) by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. On those days, Toutatis was about 4.3 million miles (7 million kilometers) from Earth, or about 18 times farther away than the moon is.</span><br />
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