Weird News

In just about any game, there’s a way to cheat — and consequences if you get caught. That’s something a young Scrabble player learned this week when he was kicked out of the game’s national tournament after a competitor noticed him doing something untoward.

Maybe you thought your thumbs were fast, and you could pop out text messages at remarkable speeds. Well, perhaps you should think again. A 16-year-old New Yorker was just awarded the top prize for the second year in a row at the LG US National Texting Competition.

Residents of Toad Suck, Arkansas have long had to explain their unusual town name. At least now they can add to the explanation that they have been recognized as having the “most unfortunate” town name in America.

Looks like some of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency employees will need to find another way to while away their downtime (do they really have that?) — officials have put the kibosh on using government computers to check out porn.

Picture this scenario: you are in grade school, having lunch in the cafeteria, and all of a sudden someone yells out “food fight!”

In case you didn’t notice, since barely anyone ventures to general stores these days, the oldest operating one in America closed just yesterday.

There are some students graduating college with pretty nontraditional degrees, especially those from individualized study programs, but the latest online offering from The University of Edinburgh is a little bit out-of-this-world.

A hug is usually a good thing, but when it comes from a stranger? Maybe not! In Missouri prosecutors are trying to decide to charge a guy for tricking women into hugging him. Yeah, strange right?

Let’s face it, when we get our picture taken, we want to look good, But how far is too far? With Facebook now a huge part of our lives, there is even more frequent primping for those profile pictures.

Lokesh Simon James hit Bliss Cabaret, a strip joint in Clearwater, back in March, spending three hours and $600. That’s a pretty steep bill and probably bought him a couple of lap dances and drinks, along with some tips. No big deal, right? Wrong. When he checked his credit card statement a few days later, he discovered a $50,000 charge from the strip club.

If your boy friend, spouse, significant other is into the great outdoors like hunting, fishing, trail riding, camping and the like, chances are he's got a lot of camo hanging the closet. But trying to keep up with him may be going a bit too far...

The United States Government believes that this is the perfect time, with vacations and stuff, to let you know that mermaids do NOT exist. They have even put up a webpage to explain.