http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Weird News 60 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:19:20 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/846149.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/846149.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:18 EST Employees at an Idaho pizzeria are using more than $115,000 earned from tips over the past 13 years to pay for a weeklong tropical vacation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/846134.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/846134.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:38 EST A new lease on life - at 140? That's what a Manhattan lobster got Friday, when the 20-pound crustacean named George was released from a swanky Park Avenue restaurant's tank. City Crab and Seafood agreed to a request from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to let the lobster return to the Atlantic Ocean. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/846127.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/846127.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:33 EST How do you haul a Christmas tree across New York City? The New York City Parks Department says this weekend's Christmas tree-recycling program has, in the past, attracted trees as high as 10 feet that were toted by car, towed by bicycles or carried in little red wagons. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/845917.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/845917.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:39 EST The activist animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has asked school officials to change the name of Spearfish High School to "Sea Kitten High School." The new name would "reflect the gentle nature of its current marine namesake," the organization said in a letter to Steve Morford, Spearfish High School principal. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/845882.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/845882.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:19 EST Salt Lake City police were in a three-hour standoff outside a shed behind a Salt Lake City home before finding out there was nobody inside. The standoff started Thursday after police got a report from a woman living inside the house that she thought she saw her roommate's estranged boyfriend enter the shed with a gun. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/845879.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/845879.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:14 EST A 40-year-old southwest Missouri woman is accused of trying to kill her husband by spiking his tea with a half bottle of Visine eye drops. Greene County deputies said the woman was jailed Thursday night on $100,000 bond on a first-degree assault charge. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/845812.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/845812.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:24 EST A man may have tipped his intentions when he stood in line at an Ohio bank wearing a ski mask before staging a holdup. Police in Stow near Akron say 24-year-old Feliks Goldshtein of Highland Heights was arrested minutes later on Thursday following a brief car chase. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/845291.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/845291.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:49 EST A bank's mistake caused a Tennessee congresswoman's home to enter foreclosure. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/844393.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/844393.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:54 EST A funeral home might be a place for eternal rest, but police say an Arkansas man saw an opportunity to build a methamphetamine lab undisturbed by the living. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/844314.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/844314.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:04 EST A man who would have been on probation for his drug conviction will now have to spend six months in jail - all because he fled before hearing a jury's sentencing verdict. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/843908.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/843908.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:54 EST Two Woonsocket High School boys did the right thing by trying to get to school on time. It was the way they got there that police had a problem with. Police told The Call of Woonsocket the boys ages 15 and 16 stole a car Tuesday morning in order to make it to school on time. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/843832.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/843832.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:24 EST Police in upstate New York say a man has been sprinkling roofing nails on the driveways of people he didn't like to cause flat tires for two years. Stony Point police Lt. Peter Quinn said Michael Delisio was arrested Tuesday after an officer staking out one victim's home saw nails being thrown from Delisio's car. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/843825.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/843825.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:19 EST Jackie the wily pooch is one New Yorker who just couldn't wait until opening day to see the Mets' new stadium. The stray dog was spotted sniffing around Citi Field for several days before animal control officers were sent Wednesday to rescue her. She led them on a run through the stadium, which is still under construction. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/843691.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/843691.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:54 EST A school bus driver made an unscheduled stop at a liquor store, then allegedly asked a student to help hide her purchases when police stopped her, the district superintendent said. It does not appear the driver had been drinking, Billings Public Schools Superintendent Jack Copps said. No charges had been filed but the driver quit her job this week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/842017.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/842017.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:23 EST Medford police said a man set a "No Smoking" sign on fire after being told he could not light up inside a nightclub. The man was charged with reckless burning and disorderly conduct. The Web site for the Jackson County Jail said the 44-year-old remains behind bars on $6,000 bail. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/841919.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/841919.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:33 EST A Pennsylvania man faces up to 37 years in prison now that he's been convicted of tearing open a neighbor's door with a chain saw in a fit of anger over parking. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/841917.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/841917.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:33 EST Police said a feud among neighbors escalated when a Memphis woman lobbed flaming bottles of gasoline onto a neighbor's house. The woman was being held on $5,000 bond on a charge of aggravated arson after her arrest Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/841916.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/841916.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:33 EST Sioux Falls police trying to arrest a Lincoln, Neb., woman on shoplifting and drug charges said she faked birth pains. Officers were called to The Empire Mall Monday for a report of a woman stealing a key chain. When they searched the 35-year-old woman's purse, they also found pain pills without a prescription. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/841914.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/841914.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:33 EST A 22-year-old Fairbanks man was arrested for allegedly urinating on a bouncer at a bar on Sunday morning. The bouncer at Kodiak Jack's told police that he was trying to remove another man from the bar for causing a disruption. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/841821.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/841821.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:48 EST A Long Island surgeon embroiled in a nearly four-year divorce proceeding wants his estranged wife to return the kidney he donated to her, although he says he'll settle for $1.5 million in compensation.