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The Weird Week in Review

Jesus Christ Dismissed from Jury Duty A woman named Jesus Christ was called for jury duty in Birmingham, Alabama this week, but was dismissed for disruptive behavior. Her name was Dorothy Lola Killingworth before she legally changed it. Court officials told The Birmingham News Tuesday that the 59-year-old was excused because she was disruptive and kept asking questions instead of answering them. Efforts to reach Christ for comment were unsuccessful. Elf Arrested Over Dynamite... READ ON

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A Letter From The Man Who Married A Video Game

By now, you have probably already heard about the Japanese man who married his virtual girlfriend from the Nintendo DS game Love Plus at a Make: Japan meetup. Because he is such an active member of the Nico Nico Douga community, he had the ceremony broadcast online, where it was picked up by Boing Boing. The man has now responded to the coverage by sending a letter and some photos from his honeymoon to the popular blog. A short bit of the letter is below, but the photos and full letter on the site are... READ ON

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Lost Man Drives 400 Miles to Get Newspaper Eighty-one-year-old Eric Steward of Yass, New South Wales, Australia went out to get a morning paper on Wednesday. He took a wrong turn onto a highway and drove for nine hours before stopping to ask for directions! Steward ended up in Geelong, Victoria, 400 miles from home. A policeman called Steward's wife, and sent him in the right direction for home. "I just went out on the road to have a drive, a nice peaceful drive," he told reporters, adding he did not... READ ON

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2,000fps Slo-Mo Video of Water Drops

So it turns out that when a drop of water falls into a pool of water, some very weird things happen. Rather than merging directly with the pool of water beneath, the drop very briefly becomes a sphere resting atop the pool, with an air layer between. When the sphere touches the water below (because of gravity, it forces the air layer away), most of the drop joins the water below and a second sphere is created, which again "floats" briefly on the pool. The cycle continues until eventually the water drop... READ ON
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The Weird Week in Review

Alfie the Canine Arsonist A hungry dog in Llanfairfechan, Wales set fire to a home and caused £6,000 in damage. Paul Gregson, his wife, and two sons escaped the burning house just after midnight Tuesday. Alfie apparently was looking for something to eat when he jumped on the stove and turned on a burner. A chip fryer on top heated up and started the fire. Smoke alarms woke the family up and they were able to evacuate the home. Three-year-old Alfie is a flat-coated retriever, a breed Gregson says is... READ ON

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Woman Reports Herself Driving Drunk Mary Strey called police in Clark County, Wisconsin to report a drunk driver. What made this call so unusual was that she was reporting on herself! She told the dispatcher that someone was driving drunk on Granton Road. When asked if she was following that person, she admitted it was herself. Strey pulled over and waited for the responding officer, who gave her a Breathalyzer test which showed her blood alcohol level was .19. Strey is due in court over the matter in... READ ON

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Lost Luggage Dave Carroll of the band Sons of Maxwell who wrote the popular internet song United Breaks Guitars has become a spokesman of a sort for beleaguered airline passengers. Carroll flew United Airlines again on Sunday on his way to speak to a group of customer service executives. Then he spent an hour at the baggage claim because United lost his luggage! Carroll was told by a United employee that he had to stay in baggage claim, and a customs official told him he had to leave. The bag didn't... READ ON

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Man in  La-Z-Boy Charged with Drunk Driving 61-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson of Proctor, Minnesota pleaded guilty to leaving a bar and crashing his vehicle. The vehicle was a converted La-Z-Boy recliner with a lawn mower engine, decked out with cup holders and a stereo, which he drove into another vehicle in the parking lot. Anderson's blood-alcohol level was measured at .29 percent at the time of the crash. Anderson's lisence had been revoked due to an earlier drunk driving charge. The La-Z-Boy was... READ ON

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Fugitive Busted After Making Cop His Facebook Friend Max Sopo was a fugitive from Seattle wanted on fraud charges. He was missing for several months when a Secret Service agent found he had a Facebook page! The page was private, but the investigation found that Sopo had a Facebook friend listed who was a former Justice Department official. The official didn't know Sopo's background, but was able to help agents access the account and trace him to Cancun, Mexico. Sopo was arrested and is awaiting... READ ON

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Stop-Motion Art Project in an Abandoned Space

So it's Tuesday afternoon, you're wondering what to watch in your cubicle as you slowly recover from a stupendous food coma caused by terrible decisions at lunch. Well, I've got a fix for you. In the video below, artists Blu and David Ellis create a stop-motion animation in an abandoned building in Italy by painting and modifying the building, while photographing each step. It's frankly a bit mind-blowing how much work goes into this, as you watch them paint animation all over the building and... READ ON

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