Along with the picture was a story about how much Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka looks like Michael Jackson. I didn't even associate MJ with WW until this article came out, and now I can't get the thought out of my head. Thanks alot Yahoo. You suck!
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A young Russian man who dressed in women's clothes to take an exam for his sister was caught after his oversize bust gave him away, Interfax news agency reported Monday.
The youth's "unusually prominent female features," and heavy make-up drew security guards' attention and they stopped him from taking the test, Yasen Zasursky, dean of Moscow State University's journalism faculty, told the agency.
CANAL WINCHESTER, Ohio - A baseball team of 11- and 12-year-olds kicked out of a league in this Columbus suburb is fielding offers from all over to play.
The Columbus Stars were removed from their league last month because they were too good. In some of their last games, the Stars beat the Red Sox 18-0, World Harvest 13-0, Sugar Grove II 24-0 and Sugar Grove I 10-2.
Other teams began complaining — and canceling.
Michael Mirones, board chairman for the Canal Winchester Joint Recreation District, pulled the Stars from the league and returned their $150 entry fee. He suggested the Stars play in a travel league against better teams.
Now the Stars have received offers from teams all over central Ohio and in other states.
Clay Branch, a parent in a youth league in Atlanta, said he offered to arrange for the team to play in Georgia.
"I'd never heard of anything like that, and it blew my mind," he said. "I wish we were closer."
The Stars already have a couple of games coming up against teams in central Ohio. They also plan on playing in two tournaments next month.
Georgian Heights, a team from the Columbus area, defeated the Stars 5-4 last week to give them their first loss this season. The Stars had defeated Georgian Heights in two earlier meetings this year.
Stars pitcher Josh Dameron, 12, said the team learned from the loss.
"The mood of our team is the same," he said. "We don't care about the loss. The next time we play them, we hope we win."
Auditions for the new Old Navy commercial were held today in New York. Among the people auditioning for the spot included Joan Van Der Cleef, seen here in this photo. Van Der Cleef, who bears a striking resemblance to an older version of Carrie Donovan, former Old Navy spokeswoman, was rumored to be in the top 10 contenders for the spot.
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NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - Arthur Richardson thought he'd pull a prank and pretend to swallow a friend's truck key. Unfortunately, Wednesday's prank backfired when Richardson plopped the key in his mouth and gravity took over.
Richardson went to a doctor Thursday, who X-rayed his stomach and got a clear picture of the key. The doctor said the key posed no danger, but Richardson's friend needed to use his truck.
So Richardson and his friend took the X-rays to a locksmith, who used the pictures to fashion a new key. And it worked in the truck.
John Somers, owner of Al's Lock and Safe, said he'd never made a key before from the image of an X-ray.
"I have done all sorts of lock work, I've done all sorts of safe work," Somers said. "This is truly a first in my career."
Somers said he didn't have any immediate plans to set price rates for X-ray keys, but it's something he might consider.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A woman shoplifter in Germany abandoned her three-month-old baby after being caught stealing from a supermarket, authorities said on Friday.
"When the security man told the woman to enter his office so he could check her identification, the perpetrator took off, leaving behind the baby and the pram," police in the town of Offenbach just south of Frankfurt said in a statement.
Police managed to track down the 36-year-old Bulgarian after she left her identification in the pram, German media said. She was reunited with her baby and released pending her trial.
GERMANTOWN, Wis. - A 22-year-old man was wrestled to the ground in the Germantown Police Department Friday afternoon after threatening a dispatcher with a glass bong and a shotgun, police said.
The man walked into the department and handed a threatening note to the dispatcher at a her window around 5 p.m., police said.
As she read the note, he threw a glass bong at the bulletproof glass, police said. The bong shattered, but the window did not. He then pulled out a shotgun, but three officers using a taser and pepper spray were able to subdue him, police said.
"He did have his finger on the trigger but they were able to control him," said Germantown Police Chief Peter Hoell.
The man had been arrested several times in the past on burglary, disorderly conduct and drug charges, but the motive for Friday's attack was unclear, Hoell said.
FREMONT, Calif. - What's the best way to catch a thief? Call him back for a job interview. That's what Fremont police tried when they learned that two job applicants were suspected of swiping an office worker's wallet.
Timothy Wash, 22, and his pal Andrew Gonzalez, 18, used the victim's credit card to buy boxers and gift cards at Target, and topped off the shopping spree with frappuccinos at Starbucks, according to investigators.
Police suggested the firm that reported the theft call the pair back for a second job interview. Gonzalez and Wash showed up at the office Wednesday and found detectives waiting for them.
The two confessed and police recovered the missing property at Wash's home, detectives said.
Police charged the pair with conspiracy, burglary, forgery and identify theft. Wash was arraigned in Fremont Friday and is being held at the Alameda County jail. Gonzalez' status could not be immediately ascertained.
LONDON - Monkey business proved to be lucrative Monday when paintings by Congo the chimpanzee sold at auction for more than $25,000.
The three abstract, tempera paintings were auctioned at Bonhams in London alongside works by impressionist master Renoir and pop art provocateur Andy Warhol.
But while Warhol's and Renoir's work didn't sell, bidders lavished attention on Congo's paintings.
An American bidder named Howard Hong, who described himself as an "enthusiast of modern and contemporary painting," purchased the lot of paintings for $26,352, including a buyer's premium.
The sale price surpassed predictions that priced the paintings between $1,000-$1,500.
"We had no idea what these things were worth," said Howard Rutkowski, director of modern and contemporary art at Bonhams. "We just put them in for our own amusement."
Congo, born in 1954, produced about 400 drawings and paintings between ages 2 and 4. He died in 1964 of tuberculosis.
His artwork provoked reactions ranging from scorn to skepticism among critics of the time, but Pablo Picasso is reported to have hung a Congo painting on his studio wall after receiving it as a gift.
"There's no precedent for things like this having been sold before," Rutkowski said.
Two women were horrified to find that their heads had sprouted immense flowers. Dr Quack, a local doctor stated that the condition, called largafloraonadaheada although extremely rare, was not unheard of, and does not pose an immediate threat to the women's health. One woman joked around, asking if she should use shampoo or Miracle Gro on her hair. The doctor could not answer her question, but instead referred her to a local botanist for further studies. The other woman seemed a little more concerned about her condition, stating, "I like the flower. It is very pretty, and I always smell nice. But I don't know what to do about the bees."
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Cumberland County authorities arrested a man who they say found a fertile spot to grow some illicit herbs — his grandmother's garden.
Cornelius Shaw, 30, is charged with manufacturing marijuana that he allegedly grew in his grandmother's back yard, the sheriff's department said Sunday. He was arrested at her house Friday and was freed on $3,000 bond.
An off-duty sheriff's deputy discovered the weed patch when he was at a yard sale. Tom Zilg glanced into the yard next door and spotted what investigators later established was 25 marijuana plants with a street value of $25,000, according to a department news release.
Investigators said Shaw told his grandmother he was growing tomatoes, and she had no idea what he was really up to.
PINE BLUFF, Ark. - A vehicle went airborne Sunday morning after running off Highway 65 and plowed through a house, landing on top of a Pine Bluff man who was asleep in his bed, police said.
"It hit the outside bedroom wall, continued through the bedroom, over the bed and partially exited through the side wall," Pine Bluff Lt. Bob Rawlinson said. "The guy was pinned under the car and rolled up in the mattress."
Devlon Chandler, 34, of Pine Bluff and his wife Arninitra were traveling home from a casino in Greenville, Miss., when he fell asleep at the wheel, police said. The couple's car left the road, traveled over a grassy area, clipped a telephone pole, ruptured a gas main and went airborne before coming to rest in the bedroom of Ricky May, 42, of Pine Bluff.
The bed and other furniture were crushed under the car, Rawlinson said.
"The car was totally inside the house and a little bit sticking out through the other side," Rawlinson said. Two walls were destroyed, he said.
Rescuers were able to free May and he was taken to the Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff, where he was listed in serious but stable condition on Sunday, police said.
May suffered an eye injury and burns from where the vehicle landed on him, authorities said, and he may have to have his right-hand ring finger amputated. The Chandlers also were taken to the hospital, but their injuries were not serious and they were treated and released.
Rawlinson said the Chandlers' vehicle traveled 500 feet from the spot it left Highway 65 until it came to rest in May's bedroom. Devlon Chandler was ticketed for failing to maintain control of a motor vehicle, driving on a suspended license and not having proof of insurance, police said.
The vehicle also ruptured a gas line at May's home, but police said they were able to turn it off. The other gas line break, at the intersection of Highway 65 and Grider Field Road, could not be cut off and authorities said it would require extensive repair work.
"You could hear that gas main roaring hundreds of feet away," Rawlinson said. "It completely tore it out of the ground."
Police said the area is unstable and should be avoided until the gas main is shut off, however no evacuations were ordered.
Rawlinson said alcohol was not a factor in the accident and said that there have been several fatal accidents within the last year at same spot because of a long curve in the highway.
NEWTON, Mass. - Murphy is awaiting his day in court. The question is whether court is ready for him.
Murphy is a 3-year-old golden retriever who received a summons last week to appear in Newton District Court to answer a complaint that he was walked without a leash — at least twice — and was not up to date on his dog license.
Actually, it wasn't Murphy but his owner, Steven Dean, who was supposed to get the summons.
"He can't read, so I signed it on his behalf, requesting a hearing," Dean told The MetroWest Daily News of Framingham. "I don't even know if they'll let him into the courthouse."
Newton police fined Murphy $25 for not having a leash, and $25 for not being licensed when Animal Control Officer John O'Connell stopped Murphy and his master June 3.
Court Magistrate Henry Shultz said in his 35 years at the Newton District Court, he has never heard of a dog receiving a ticket.
"I think Murphy's the first offender," he said Monday. "We've had people bring their dogs into the courthouse, but not like this."
"What are we going to do if Murphy appeals to a higher court?" he added.
China's first "All-Chocolate" Fashion Show debuted in June 2005. The fashions were made entirely out of chocolate. At first, the show seemed to be a wild success. However, the show ended in chaos after the chocolate began to melt under the heat of the lights. The models, hungered by the smell of the chocolate, began to eat their "clothes" and soon, all the models were naked and covered in gooey melted chocolate. When questioned by press after the show, the designer, Gim Me Sum Sweets, said he would not use chocolate to design his fashions in the future. He, instead, will look to other candies, including licorice, jelly beans, and other "unmeltable" sweets.
OLATHE, Kan. - A high school student who vomited on his Spanish teacher has been charged with battery against a school official. The misdemeanor charge was filed Monday against the Olathe Northwest High School student.
The 17-year-old boy was charged as a juvenile and his name was not released.
Rick Guinn, an assistant district attorney, said witnesses can corroborate that the boy intentionally vomited on teacher David Young.
If convicted, the boy likely would face probation, Guinn said. Prosecutors also are seeking an apology.
"I think a message is being sent by both the school district and the district attorney that this behavior will not be tolerated," Young said.
The student's father said his son told him he did not mean to throw up on the teacher but had been made uncontrollably ill by the stress of final exams.
The father said the district expelled his son and recommended he enroll in an alternative school in the fall.
TIBURON, Calif. - Protesters are locking horns with police in pacifist-packed Marin County for fining drivers who honk for peace. Officers have been pulling over motorists who honk as they drive by a weekly peace demonstration. Protesters say police are squelching freedom of expression.
"We have been picketing for a long time. All of a sudden the police are out there trying to stop the honks," said peacenik Melvin Fiske, a corporal in the Marines during World War II. "We assume honking is as American as (apple) pie. If people want to applaud our actions it is their right to do that."
Tiburon police Capt. Dave Hutton said excessive honking is an "unlawful use of horn" and officers are simply doing their job.
So far, officers have issued three citations and nine warnings.
Five to 10 protesters typically participate in the hourlong Friday peace vigils.
Protester William Rothman said about four weeks ago police began "lying in wait" for motorists. As soon as a driver honked, police pulled the car over.
One neighbor who lives near the protest site said the honking "annoys the hell out of me."
**I would have to agree with the last guy...I hate it when people honk for sh*t like that. What's honking got to do with peace anyway? Honking is usually something you do when you are mad at another driver. Honking for peace doesn't really make sense if you stop to think about it.
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LONDON - Hundreds of naked cyclists rode past Big Ben and the U.S. Embassy in London on Saturday to protest the West's dependence on gas-guzzling cars — and to push for more use of bicycles.
The organizers of World Naked Bike Ride 2005 said protests were expected in a number of countries, including Australia, Canada, the United States, Ireland, Italy, Latvia and Israel.
In London, crowds watched about 100 cyclists leave Hyde Park Corner on a journey that took them past some of the capital's most famous landmarks.
Most of the riders stripped naked for the six-mile ride past Piccadilly Circus, Big Ben, Covent Garden, Oxford Street and the U.S. Embassy.
Some bikes carried banners reading, "Oil is not a bare necessity but a crude obsession" and "Support the trade justice movement."
"It's a protest against oil dependency and car culture and the overuse of cars for unnecessary reasons," said one of the organizers, Chad Neilson, 24, from north London.
"There is too much pollution. It stinks in London, and we use too much fossil fuel."
In the Spanish capital, Madrid, dozens of nude cyclists pedaled along major thoroughfares past famous landmarks, drawing surprised looks.
Most were men, naked except for shoes and helmets, or caps to fend off the hot Spanish sun.
"What we clearly want to show is that we feel naked against the traffic," said one organizer who gave only his first name, Javier. "Every day we have to put up with the traffic, the aggression of the drivers, their speed and bad manners."
MADRID (AFP) - Naked save for their regulation crash helmets, a group of militant cyclists held anti-car protests in several Spanish cities, calling for "more human and liveable cities," less pollution and more room for pedestrians and bicycles.
The initiative, launched by a group calling itself the Aragon cyclonudists, took place in the capital Madrid and in Zaragoza, Pamplona, Barcelona and Huesca.
Slogans included "Naked against the traffic: This city is mine."
"We propose a type of city in which residents retake possession of their own outdoor spaces, where less travel is needed and in which the emphasis is on pedestrians and less polluting forms of transport," the organizers said in a statement.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - An ice cream man felt the heat from law enforcement after he was arrested on charges of selling drugs along with his other frosty fare.
Authorities said Marshall Gene Beasley, 27, could be facing more chilling bars — those of prison — after he repeatedly sold undercover officers marijuana over the past two months while selling ice cream. He was arrested Wednesday.
"This is a guy going down neighborhood streets who's around and near children," said David McGriff, drug task force director. "I'm not saying he sold to children, but we bought marijuana from him while he was operating the ice cream truck."
The company Beasley worked for will get back the truck and its stock because there's no evidence the business knew of his activities.
PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. - A snake in the grass is to blame for a teenager shooting himself in the leg, police said. A 16-year-old boy was mowing his lawn Tuesday when he saw a snake slithering toward his dogs, which were chained in the front yard, police said.
Worried about the canines, the boy ran inside and grabbed a .22-caliber pistol, said Port Wentworth police Sgt. Loren Scholes.
The boy came back outside and when he saw the snake at his feet, he hastily aimed and fired. The bullet entered his right calf and exited near his heel, Scholes said.
The boy was taken to an area hospital. Police said the wound was not life-threatening.
Scholes said he did not know what kind of snake it was, but "from what he described, it sounded as big as a freight train." The sergeant added that the reptile apparently escaped unscathed.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman living with 43 goats was evicted from her rented house after the animals left "knee-high" piles of droppings around the garden and laid waste to the building's interior, authorities said Tuesday.
A court in the southwestern town of Saarburg said the woman had been forced out because she was behind on her rent and had allowed the condition of the house to deteriorate to such an extent that it may have to be torn down.
"The goats' droppings were basically piled up knee-high around the garden, and inside the house everything was chewed up. And it stank," said court spokesman Manfred Grueter.
"It was total chaos," he added. "It's pretty doubtful as to whether the place can still be lived in."
The woman, a freelance artist in her early forties, had resisted eviction on the grounds her life with the goats had been used to create a "social sculpture" inspired by the German sculptor Joseph Beuys.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian woman was found to be carrying 51 live tropical fish after custom officials were alerted by "flipping" noises coming from beneath her skirt as she arrived at Melbourne airport.
On closer inspection, officers discovered the woman had strapped on an apron of plastic water-filled bags containing the fish, the Australian Customs Service said in a statement on Tuesday.
"During the search, customs officers became suspicious after hearing 'flipping' noises coming from the vicinity of her waist," said the statement.
The 43-year-old woman arrived in Melbourne on a flight from Singapore last Friday. Customs are still trying to determine what type of fish she brought into the country and have not yet charged her with an offence.
She could face charges for breaking quarantine and customs laws for bringing in the fish without giving a declaration.
A search of the woman's home in Melbourne found another five fish.
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DURHAM, N.C. - A man smelled of alcohol and stumbled when he appeared in traffic court to answer allegations that he didn't comply with penalties arising from a drunken driving case, court officials said.
So court officials performed a blood alcohol test on Johnnie Patt Ndogo, 55, who registered a concentration of 0.23 percent, nearly three times the state's impairment standard of 0.08 percent and more than double the 0.10 he registered at the time of his driving-while-impaired arrest.
Durham County District Court Judge Marcia Morey promptly found Ndogo in contempt of court Friday and jailed him for three days.
Assistant District Attorney Jim Dornfried said he saw Ndogo stumble in the courtroom.
"He clearly was appreciably impaired, although he did not appear to be what I would call falling-down drunk," Dornfried added.
Ndogo told court officials he had consumed the alcohol a day earlier, and that a friend drove him to court Friday morning.
THOMASVILLE, Ga. - A man serving time for burglary at Thomas County Prison is in a new jam. Authorities say Curtis Hall tried to sneak illegal drugs in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Prison officials said Friday that Hall brought the sandwich back to the prison from work detail. About 3 grams of marijuana were found wrapped in plastic between the peanut butter and jelly.
"They're not supposed to return with anything," said Peggy Chapman, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections.
Hall, 43, was charged with possession of marijuana across a guardline. He will be transferred to a different prison, Chapman said.
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