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• It’s Not Good To Be A British Patient
  
  Belinda Waite, 21, of Bampton, England had a rough 9 months leading up to February 6th of this year. She was in and out of the hospital with diagnoses of irritable bowel syndrome and gout. Finally, on the 6th of last month, doctors told her she was 3 months pregnant. They sent her home telling her to make an appointment for a prenatal check up. Just 3 hours later she was brought back to the hospital by her husband where she gave birth to an 8 pound 4 ounce baby girl, Louise. Can't get them all right I guess.
  http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/03/10/Its-pregnancy-not-gout-woman-shocked/UPI-64531268265526/
  
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• HEAD-lines
  Thomas Alan Heugel, 56, of Sparta, Michigan was running a business out of his home. Not usually a problem, but Mr. Heugel was passing himself off as Dr. Heugel and doing circumcisions. Yes, he was doing home circumcisions as well as peircings and massages. Jeff Foxworthy once remarked about there being some things you just shouldn't look for a bargain on I think this qualifies.
  http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2010/03/08/13151376-qmi.html
  
  In Sweden a couple of cops thought it would be funny to rub their penises on the steering wheel, gear shift, radio, and other surfaces in a cruiser that a female co-worker drives. Then an hour into her shift they called her and told her they did it. To be fair, this particular practical joke is apparently so popular over there that it has it's own name, ollning or 'bell ending'. They probably shouldn't have blogged about it though.
  http://www.thelocal.se/25436/20100309/
  
  And in California a 17 year old showed up at the hospital with a gun shot wound. He shot himself in the testicles, then got rid of the gun before going for help. He's not being cooperative with the police, but I guess he does have a reason to be in a bad mood.
  http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14519745?source=most_viewed
  
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• God Made Me Do It
  
  If this book is not pure catnip for us WU-vies, I'm not sure what is. Here's the product description from the link to the right:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Does God, in His infinite wisdom, convince people to get rid of their car insurance? Does He encourage cannibalism? Does the God of more than six billion people actually have time to root for the Minnesota Vikings?
  
  According to some, yes. How do they know? God told them. Luckily, God also told Marc Hartzman to write this book, a collection of the most shocking, absurd, and hilarious things people have ever claimed God asked them to do, and to present them for your pure reading enjoyment.
  
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  * The man that God told to perform surgery on himself
  * God's generous offer to miraculously fill his believer's gas tank
  * The fateful day God (assumedly feeling nostalgic for his teen years) asked a man to TP a police station
  * The woman God instructed to direct traffic?topless
  * And, sadly, many more

  
  
  
  
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• Window Cleaner Amuck
  
  
  Remember when Daffy Duck got erased by a giant pencil? I'm sure that's the real explanation of what happened to this fellow.
  
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• Chocolate Fuel
  
  Lola is visiting M.I.T. from the University of Warwick in the U.K. as an honored guest at M.I.T.'s energy conference. She's not there as a speaker but as an exhibit. That's because Lola is a specially designed formula 3 car. Her special design allows her to run on the waste from chocolate factories and other plant based oils. This isn't a slow little hybrid putting along either, with a top speed of 135 MPH Lola can go from 0 to 60 MPH in 2.5 seconds. Not bad, I wish I ran that good on chocolate too!
  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100309/od_nm/us_car_chocolate
  
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