Lawrence Cobbold collects bird tchotchkes -- bird ornaments, bird thimbles, bird refrigerator magnets, bird mugs, bird pictures, bird jigsaw puzzles. He really, really digs birds. His collection of more than 20,000 bird-related items takes up his entire home near Plymouth, England. On average he spends two hours before work and two hours at night rearranging, tidying and cleaning.
Check out this 'oops' ad from the Minneapolis Craigslist
4 BURNER STANLESS STEEL GAS GRILL - ORIGIONALY LISTED WED NIGHT
PLEASE READ - A grill was listed last night for curb pick up AT 6867 Folkstone Road - American Outdoors Brand - someone got it with no problems - however someone also went arround our building looking for the grill after it was already gone and took our neighbors (at 6869
A Waterloo, Iowa, man was arrested Saturday after a 911 call. Officers were sent to the man's home around 8:30 PM. When they arrived, they found Harold Lee Patterson Jr., who appeared to have been drinking. He admitted to drinking beer and said he called 911 because a woman at his house was wearing lipstick.
Two Swedish women are struggling with the country's debt collection agency after their property was mistakenly confiscated in separate incidents. Aida Gazic said she traded storage spaces with a neighbor who moved away and agents from the Swedish Enforcement Administration soon forced their way into the locker and seized her possessions due to the former neighbor's debts. Inside, Gazic was storing kids scooters, Christmas decorations, an old computer and VCR and a kiddie pools.
... Also in Sweden Gun Persson said items including clothes, shoes, collectible model cars and other valuables were taken by debt collection agents who forced their way into the wrong storage locker. She said the agents were supposed to raid the locker belonging to her neighbor, who had been evicted.
A 22-year-old woman is jailed on a felony charge after allegedly battering her 74-year-old boyfriend during a confrontation at their Florida home. Both Sierra Chaffin and her boyfriend, Marcos Beita, told deputies that they "had a physical intimate relationship and are currently residing together," though Chaffin was moving her belongings out of their home yesterday when the pair got
A man from suburban Quebec is suing a restaurant for $6,000 after he says he nearly crunched down on an earwig that was crawling in his salad. The man (Alexandre Roy-Langlois) said he was about to eat his salad when he realized he was sharing his meal with the small parasitic pest. He filed a lawsuit for "moral damages," claiming he became "sick to the stomach" at the
A South Carolina man is in jail accused of working with two other people to defraud an insurance company by intentionally cutting a person's hand off and then filing an insurance claim. Prosecutors said Gerald B. Hardin and another person devised a plan to use a small chain saw attached to a pole to cut the third person's hand off. The three participants then submitted claims against a
When Betsy Stibler went to bed in a T-shirt from a recent 5K race she didn’t expect to run down a burglary suspect. The 41-year-old mother of three had been awakened by her youngest around 2 AM Thursday when she spotted a man going through her father’s car in North Naples, Florida. She threw on a pair of shorts, slipped on her flip flops and grabbed her cellphone. Stibler said she
A new UFO "cover" cloud video hit YouTube on Thursday, and it's the weirdest, spookiest, most incredible example ever filmed. Videotaped in the skies over an unidentified city in Russia, the circular cloud towers over the witnesses and induces awe in their voices. Even those who can't speak Russian get a sense of what they're saying. It has to be something like, "Wow!
Authorities are investigating what looks like an accidental stabbing at the Mardi Gras celebration in Dunedin, Florida, on Tuesday. A 56-year-old man dressed as a pirate was posing for pictures with a group of teens he did not know. Deputies say the man had a knife in a scabbard as part of his costume and one of the teens grabbed the knife and posed with it for the photo, pointing the knife at
A Cleveland newspaper employee staked out a vending machine following a series of thefts of the Sunday edition. On February 12, just before 7 AM, he saw a woman pay for one paper and take 12 copies. He got the license plate number of the suspect’s vehicle and called police. Petty theft charges have been filed against the 29-year-old female.
Jean Davis owes more to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey more unpaid tolls and fees than any other individual in New York and New Jersey, but it's not totally her fault. The Port Authority is ramping up toll collection enforcement efforts, nabbing five toll-avoiders on the George Washington Bridge Friday and releasing its "Wall of Shame," which lists the names of
A British radio station (Jazz FM) apologized to listeners after sounds some described as pornography were heard during a broadcast. The station said there was "unauthorized activity and behavior in the studio" about Saturday night and the pre-recorded Funcky Sensation with Mike Vitti show was interrupted by about 5 minutes of sounds many listeners likened to what might be heard on an
Eastern Europe has been under a Siberian spell for a week or so, prompting the owner of a Hummer H2 to test the six inches of ice on a lake in Hungary. What he apparently forgot was that a few days of 10-degree weather does not magically turn a lake into something you can drive on. He promptly crashed through the ice into three feet of icy water, but not before posting a photo to his Facebook
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