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Hotel Replaces Bibles With ... 50 Shades

'Grey' replaces Gideon Bibles in all 40 rooms

(Newser) - That Bible in your hotel dresser drawer not doing it for you? Check in to England’s Damson Dene Hotel, where the religious texts in all 40 rooms have all been replaced with … soft-core porn. That’s right, instead of the Gideon Bible, you’ll find Fifty Shades of ...

Plane Towing Marriage Proposal Banner Crashes

But the pilot is OK

(Newser) - A Rhode Island marriage proposal went terribly wrong yesterday, when a pilot was forced to ditch a small plane that was towing a banner with the big question. The Coast Guard says the pilot was found about 4pm by a good Samaritan; he was not seriously injured. Boats had been...

Senate Candidate's Pink Website Is Totes Serious

NY Senate candidate Mindy Meyer inspired by 'Legally Blonde.' Really

(Newser) - Mindy Meyer is 22 years old and she is serious about being elected to the New York state Senate. Don't believe it? Just take a look at her campaign website , because nothing says "serious" like a bright pink background, a flashing bling-y banner that reads, "I'm...

Gruesome Find in Russian Forest: 248 Fetuses

They were preserved in formaldehyde

(Newser) - Villagers in Russia's south Urals have stumbled upon a gruesome discovery—four barrels containing 248 human fetuses left in a forest. Police in the Sverdlovsk region said today the fetuses, preserved in formaldehyde, were kept in barrels with tags containing surnames and numbers. Police suspects that one of the...

Navy: Worker Set $400M Sub Fire to Get Out of Work

Casey James Fury admits to setting 2 fires

(Newser) - That fire on the USS Miami that caused $400 million in damage in May? Turns out it may not have been caused by a vacuum after all. Navy investigators say civilian laborer Casey James Fury actually set the fire ... because he wanted to leave work early. Fury now faces two...

Bizarre 'Goat Man' Turns Out to Be Hunter

Utah authorities relieved after baa-d feeling

(Newser) - Authorities got a baa-d feeling about a worrisome "goat man" spotted wearing a white fur and scrambling along on his hands and knees trailing the wild goats on a Utah mountain. But the unidentified beastie has contacted a wildlife worker to explain that he's merely preparing for a...

'Virgin Mary Tree' Sparks Knotty Problems

NJ cops quell disputes, protect 'miracle' as throngs flock to see 'Virgin'

(Newser) - A knot in a tree said to resemble the Virgin Mary is sparking a holy mess in a New Jersey town. Throngs are coming to pray and weep before the "miracle" spotted earlier this month by a woman riding to her job in a perfume factory. Others come to...

Cop Kills Son, Mistaking Him for Intruder

Off-duty officer Michael Leach was staying in motel

(Newser) - An off-duty New York police officer shot dead his own son, believing he was an intruder, he told investigators. Michael Leach, 59, was staying in an upstate motel over the weekend when he opened fire on his 37-year-old son, Matthew, of Rochester. Leach used his department-issued .45-caliber Glock in the...

Olympic Torch Bearer Gets Unfortunate Tattoo
Olympic Torch Bearer Gets Unfortunate Tattoo
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Jul 22, 2012 8:53 AM CDT

Olympic Torch Bearer Gets Unfortunate Tattoo

Jerri Peterson will always remember the 'Oylmpics'

(Newser) - For the rest of her life, Jerri Peterson will remember the role she played in the 2012 Oylmpic Games. That little typo comes courtesy of a tattoo artist who permanently inked it on Peterson's ankle. The 54-year-old Atlanta woman was selected as a torch bearer, so she wanted to...

Wrong Baby Buried at Houston Funeral

Funeral home: 'Occasionally mistakes happen'

(Newser) - A Houston couple got a shocking call after last Saturday's memorial service for their stillborn child: Their baby was still in the funeral home, its directors said. The wrong child had been buried, KTRK-TV reports . "I'm still in shock," says mom Mercedez Uscanga. "I didn'...

600-Year-Old Bra Blows Hole in History of Lingerie

Bras were commonly thought to have been worn for just a century

(Newser) - The history of lingerie has long gone something like this: Corsets came first, then bras made their way onto the scene about 100 years ago. But a few scraps of linen found in an Austrian castle is turning that long-held story on its head. The AP reports that among 2,...

Cops: Mom Hacked School Computer, Changed Grades

Catherine Venusto used passwords obtained as district employee

(Newser) - Well, that's one way to get them into college: A Pennsylvania woman allegedly changed her children's grades after logging into a school computer system using passwords obtained when she worked for the district. Investigators say Catherine Venusto used the Northwestern Lehigh School District superintendent's password to change...

Thieves Can't Keep Hands Off Giant Hoff Cutouts

96.5% of David Hasselhoff ads have gone missing from convenience stores

(Newser) - Admit it: If you saw a life-size cutout of a dreamy, tank-top-clad David Hasselhoff hawking iced coffee, you'd be so overcome by desire you'd just have to have it, right? That, or something like that, is apparently going on with Hasselhoff fans in New England and Florida, because...

New Craze: $2.50 NYC Tap Water

East Village boutique hopes to spark 'water connoisseurs'

(Newser) - For anyone who has ever watched a cowpie float down a stream in Upstate New York, this idea is either long overdue or just the latest stab at capitalizing on New York City's thirst for clean drinking water: A couple of East Village entrepreneurs are now hawking none other...

No More Cowbell: Austria Court Bans Noisy Clangers

Judge sympathizes with neighbors losing sleep

(Newser) - More cowbell is no longer an option in a small Austrian town. A judge has ordered a farmer near the small town of Stallhofen to remove the noisy apparatuses from his cattle because neighbors were losing sleep, reports Der Spiegel . The farmer had refused their pleas, claiming the bells...

&#39;Serial Foot Licker&#39; Busted
 'Serial Foot Licker' Busted 
Jul 18, 2012 2:30 PM CDT

'Serial Foot Licker' Busted

Anthony Perri faces sex abuse charges

(Newser) - Gross Crime of the Day: A man was arrested yesterday after allegedly fondling and licking the feet of two children in an upstate New York library. Anthony S. Perri faces sex abuse and other charges; he is accused of taking off the children's shoes and then pressing their feet...

'Cyborg' Chucked Out of Paris McDonald's

Workers objected to Canadian professor's digital glasses

(Newser) - The Canadian known as the "father of wearable computing" found that cyborgs are not welcome at a McDonald's in Paris. Steve Mann, a university professor who has spent more than 30 years wearing the "EyeTap Digital Glass" computer vision glasses he invented, says workers tried to rip...

Triathlete Attacked by Crazed ... Otter

Minnesota woman bitten 25 times

(Newser) - Triathletes face some serious challenges—but bloodthirsty otters aren't usually among them. While preparing for her second Ironman Triathlon, a Minnesota woman was attacked by just such a creature, which bit her 25 times before she was rescued. Leah Prudhomme was in the midst of a half-mile swim in...

Guy 'Fesses Up to Everything in Own Obituary

Seems Val Patterson had a lot to get off his chest

(Newser) - Val Patterson died last week after a bout with throat cancer that gave him time to write a doozy of an obituary, in which the 59-year-old Utahan came clean about pretty much everything. "Now that I have gone to my reward," Patterson wrote with all the honesty of...

NZ Prostitutes Destroying Street Signs...

With pole dances

(Newser) - It seems that New Zealand's working girls have taken to attracting new customers in a rather creative way: by performing pole dances in the street, using traffic signs as the poles. The result? More than 40 bent, buckled, or otherwise busted street signs near Auckland in the past year...

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