http://www.miamiherald.com/577/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/577/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Weird News 60 Tue, 13 May 2008 11:49:34 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/531410.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/531410.html Tue, 13 May 2008 11:48 EDT Police in Massachusetts say churchgoers in a Cape Cod town tackled a would-be robber who tried to steal a collection box during a service. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/531176.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/531176.html Tue, 13 May 2008 08:33 EDT A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/530872.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/530872.html Tue, 13 May 2008 00:43 EDT A suburban Chicago man has reclaimed the Guinness world record for time spent on a stationary bicycle. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/530420.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/530420.html Mon, 12 May 2008 21:14 EDT Police say a tuxedo-clad western New York man was drunk when he took a riding lawn mower out for an early morning spin. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/530175.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/530175.html Mon, 12 May 2008 21:14 EDT A college student whose friend was being questioned in a hit and run found himself charged with assaulting an officer with a curious choice of weapons: M&Ms. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/530204.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/530204.html Mon, 12 May 2008 15:49 EDT A Southwest Airlines passenger who refused to get off his cell phone during a flight found Dallas police waiting for him Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/530211.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/530211.html Mon, 12 May 2008 14:46 EDT Tom McLelland was both proud papa and happy grad during commencement at an Ohio law school. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/529546.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/529546.html Sun, 11 May 2008 23:03 EDT Dozens of students from the University of Chicago returned Sunday from a four-day multistate trek dubbed the world's largest scavenger hunt after trying to find Barack Obama's haircut and a car horn that plays "La Cucaracha," among other things. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/529504.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/529504.html Sun, 11 May 2008 22:26 EDT A 46-year-old combat medic and a 29-year-old man will be serving together in the same National Guard unit in Iraq. Nothing unusual - except they're mother and son. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/528992.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/528992.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:48 EDT Police in this Upper Peninsula town had forgotten about the $1 parking ticket written on Sept. 1, 1976. But the woman who had found it on her windshield hadn't. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/528701.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/528701.html Sat, 10 May 2008 21:08 EDT A Michigan school has a million thanks to give to a fourth-grader. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/528185.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/528185.html Sat, 10 May 2008 03:35 EDT The U.S. Forest Service is looking for the "SpongeBob fanatics" who painted the cartoon character on the chimney of a historic building. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527887.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527887.html Fri, 09 May 2008 21:35 EDT The 55-year-old Omaha man who performed a tracheotomy on himself with a steak knife says he did the same thing to himself two years ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527419.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527419.html Fri, 09 May 2008 17:31 EDT One moment, Justin Hill was turning into his driveway. Minutes later he was being flown to a hospital as his home went up in flames. Then he got a traffic ticket. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527602.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527602.html Fri, 09 May 2008 16:35 EDT A 78-year-old legally blind man nicknamed "The Hammer" has bowled a perfect game. Dale Davis of Alta, Iowa, nailed 12 consecutive strikes and reached 300 on Saturday night during league play. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527437.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527437.html Fri, 09 May 2008 15:10 EDT Three men say they drove to 48 states in less than five days, ending their journey in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah. The Four Corners destination allowed them to quickly hit four states - Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/526890.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/526890.html Fri, 09 May 2008 15:06 EDT Twenty-two years after graduating from high school, Angie Collins is now her former English teacher's favorite student. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527433.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527433.html Fri, 09 May 2008 15:05 EDT A trio of packaged pythons has caused a scare at a German post office. Police in Darmstadt say the snakes were stuffed into a parcel that was handed in for mailing to eastern Germany. It contained two tiger pythons and an albino tiger python of more than 3 feet in length. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527305.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527305.html Fri, 09 May 2008 14:56 EDT Sandy Baumberger says she never expected to see her wallet again when it was stolen 35 years ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527335.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527335.html Fri, 09 May 2008 14:05 EDT A burglar who authorities say used the obituary pages to select his targets was convicted of 10 counts Friday.