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Night of 1000 Pumpkins Has Pixies, Fairies, Jimi Hendrix, Lucy and Ricki
Offbeat  (tags: Halloween, funny, humor, interesting, news )

Sally
- 7 days ago - newsblaze.com
Shannon Cheyne, Sutter Street Merchants manager, said We thought this would be a great event for families ... as you can see from the number of people ... it is a huge success.
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Weird America
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, humor, bizarre, unusual, humans, culture, funny, news )

Cal
- 8 days ago - cityguides.msn.com
12 strange landmarks and attractions in cities and towns across the country that might have you doing a double take
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USS New York: Navy's New Ship, Made With World Trade Center Steel, to Dock in City on Monday
Offbeat  (tags: navy, ship new york, will dock in ny, interesting, news )

Lone
- 10 days ago - nydailynews.com
Norfolk, Va. - It's the pride of the Navy - and it's finally heading our way. The New York, made with 7.5 tons of steel from the wrecked World Trade Center, is leaving its home port of Norfolk Naval Station
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Giant Gull Descends on Australian News Broadcast; Hilarity Ensues
Offbeat  (tags: animals, gulls, news, environment, birds )

Cher
- 10 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
We feel fortunate to be involved in news reporting behind the camera rather than in front of it -- and we've never felt more fortunate about that fact than we did when we saw this video, taken from a recent Australian news broadcast.
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Toronto Woman ID'd as Victim in Coyote Attack
Offbeat  (tags: news, animals, women, coyote, died )

Sigrid
- 10 days ago - thechronicleherald.ca
A woman attacked by coyotes in the Cape Breton Highlands has died. RCMP Sgt. Brigdit Leger announced this morning that the woman had sustained serious injuries and died overnight.
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Unflappable Newsreader Ignores Giant Seagull
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, funny, seagull, news )

Neall
- 15 days ago - uk.news.yahoo.com
Australian newsreader Peter Hitchiner has been upstaged by a special guest during a bulletin - a giant seagull.
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Soupy Sales, Famed Comedian From the Golden Age of Television, Dead at 83
Offbeat  (tags: comedian, childhood, died from cancer, news )

Lone
- 16 days ago - nydailynews.com
Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced, pie-in the-puss comic beloved by the Baby Boomer generation, died Thursday night. He was 83
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Derailment Expected to Delay Evening Metra Trains
Offbeat  (tags: train derailment, rush hour, news, Hazardous Waste )

Lone
- 17 days ago - chicagobreakingnews.com
Evening rush-hour delays are expected on Metra's Southwest trains because of a freight train that derailed south of Union Station this morning
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Mohawk Tribe Promises No Questions Asked at Gun Buyback
Offbeat  (tags: Native Americans, guns, news, police, buy back )

Lone
- 17 days ago - standard-freeholder.com
CORNWALL - The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe is offering, for the first time, a no-questions-asked gun amnesty aimed at promoting public safety and discouraging violent crime in Akwesasne.
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'Cat-Girl' Illness Baffles Doctors
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, news, girl, health )

Sigrid
- 17 days ago - thesun.co.uk
A SIX-YEAR-OLD dubbed "cat-girl" has baffled doctors after thick grey hair started growing uncontrollably all over her body.
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AMAZING - 9 YEAR OLD BOY MAKES INCREDIBLE SHOT-WATCH VIDEO   video
Offbeat  (tags: children, news, sports, unusual )

Sigrid
- 17 days ago - youtube.com
Oliver Wahlstrom is rising rapidly becoming the latest star to be on Youtube. The 9-year-old boy who plays hockey for the Portland Junior Pirates in the US hit the professional - and the goalkeeper - with a phenomenal goal
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Sheriff: Criminal Charges to Be Filed in 'Balloon Boy' Case
Offbeat  (tags: hoax, crime, police, bizarre, unusual, odd, news )

Lone
- 21 days ago - argusleader.com
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - A Colorado sheriff says criminal charges will be filed in the saga of a boy who was believed to be in balloon sailing across the high plains on Thursday, the Associated Press is reporting at this hour.
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Cops Want to Interview 'Balloon Boy' Falcon Heene and Family Amid 'Raised Suspicions' Story Is Hoax
Offbeat  (tags: hoax?, news, odd, performance, bizarre, crime )

Lone
- 22 days ago - nydailynews.com
The Colorado dad whose 6-year-old son riveted the nation with a runaway balloon drama had been trying to launch a reality show starring his family
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Ohio Boy Tackled By Deer While Playing Football
Offbeat  (tags: animals, bizarre, culture, interesting, odd, humans, humor, performance, safety, society, unusual, news, ethics, environment, funny, off-beat, pictures, children )

Suzybell
- 24 days ago - kdka.com
A boy in Ohio was playing football with friends over the weekend and was tackled by a deer.The incident happened Saturday when Brandon Hiles, 7, went to retrieve a ball that had rolled into the woods in Wintersville, Ohio."The deer started charging at me
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