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Elvis Presley Hair Sells for $15,000

Missy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:49:36 +0000

This one is hard to believe! The “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” Elvis Presley passed away in 1977 at the young age of 42, and as you can well imagine, fans are still trying to get their hands on a piece of the legend?

At a Chicago auction house someone purchased what was believed to be a chunk of Elvis’ hair that was cut when he joined the Army in 1958.

The buyer paid a whopping $15,000 and an additional $3,300 in fees going to the Chicago auction house. There will absolutely never be proof that the hair belonged to Elvis…my hair is the same color!

If you weren’t interested in the black clump of hair, you could also pick up a Pez dispenser or an Elvis doll. There were even Christmas cards that he sent out.

The items were owned by Gary Pepper who passed away in 1980. Pepper ran a Elvis fan club and was said to be a personal friend of the King.

Check out the pile of hair in a photo below.

Miss Plastic Hungary 2009 Reka Urban (PHOTOS)

Andrea — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:17:13 +0000

22-year-old Reka Urban, selected as Miss Plastic Hungary 2009, has the distinction of being the first beauty queen requiring substantial plastic surgery in order to qualify.

Plastic surgery is frowned upon in Hungary, and pageant judge Marton Szipal says “it’s time for Hungarian women to care more about appearance. They are the most beautiful in Europe.”

According to pageant organizers, the goal of the pageant is to reward those who displayed “perfect harmony of their body and soul.”

Urban received a new apartment in Budabest for winning first prize. First runner-up Edina Kulcsar was given a new car and second runner-up Alexandra Horvath took home diamond jewelry worth 2 million forints ($10,800)

Surgeons who performed the surgeries on the winners were also awarded prizes.

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Mystery Creature Found in Panama (PHOTOS)

Andrea — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:45:35 +0000

A hairless mystery creature, found and beaten to death by a group of teenagers in Panama, is drawing comparisons to the Montauk monster, which washed up on a Long Island, New York, beach last year.

The four teens, ages 14 to 16, claim they were playing near a cave at Jet Blue Hill in Cerro Azul on Saturday, when the terrifying creature crawled out and came towards them. Fearing for their safety, they attacked the beast, beating it to death with sticks, and throwing the lifeless body into a pool of water.

They later returned to take pictures of the mystery creature’s body, which were then posted on the website of Central America’s Telemetro television station.

A hooked claw can be seen in one of the photos, suggesting it may be a sloth that lost its hair. Others speculate it was a creature from another planet. I suggest that like the Bigfoot found last year, it is just another hoax.

UPDATE: Apparently I was wrong to assume this is a hoax. Zoologists in Panama are trying to identify the creature, so I guess that means they have the body. More on this story in CNN video below.

More photos of the Panama mystery creature below:

Brett Favre Goat

Andrea — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:12:10 +0000

Brett Favre got your goat? A woman in Minnesota was certainly annoyed with the newly minted Vikings player. After painting a goat with the team’s purple and gold colors, and shaving Favre’s No. 4 on it’s side, the woman tied the animal’s feet together and stuffed it into the trunk of her car with plans to butcher it later.

En route to the goat’s slaughter, as Favre made his Vikings debut in a preseason game on Friday, the woman took the car to Tires Plus in Winona to have a belt replaced. While repairman James Prusci was doing the paperwork, the woman warned him about the goat in the trunk, telling him of her plans to butcher the animal.

Prusci heard the goat crying and opened the trunk to give it some air. While the woman waited outside with a man and a young boy, the mechanic alerted animal control. An animal control vehicle and two police cars awaited the woman as she walked to the parking lot about an hour later to pick up her car. The goat was taken to a local vet, where he was renamed Brett and placed in foster care.

The city attorney is reviewing the case for possible citations.

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Barefoot Baby Ousted from Burger King

Andrea — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:46:09 +0000

Jennifer Frederick and her six-month old baby Kaylin Frederich, were kicked out of a Burger King in St. Louis, because the baby was barefoot.

Jennifer Frederich, along with baby Kaylin, the baby’s grandmother, and a church youth group of about 25, stopped by the Burger King on their way back from a Christian rock concert.

Citing health concerns, the manager asked Frederick to leave the restaurant.

Jennifer was told by the manager, “You can order ‘to go’ but you’re going to have to leave is she doesn’t have shoes on. It’s against health code.”

“The guy was still saying, ‘That lady is still here with that baby without shoes’,” Frederich said. “I just looked at him and I said, ‘That’s my daughter. She doesn’t own shoes. She’s only 6 months old’… she doesn’t walk. She’s not touching the ground. So there’s no reason for her to have shoes on.”

In an effort to comply, Frederich put socks on the baby, but the manager threatened to call police if she didn’t leave.

Frederich posted her story on Facebook, and word about the incident quickly spread.

“People had to know about this…if you’re going to go to Burger King get some shoes on your baby or go somewhere else,” she said. “I think they [Burger King manageers] just need to understand, it’s a baby. They’re not going to be walking around in their dirty, nasty, feet. I feel like the policy was probably for grown adults who might walk in without shoes on. That’s understandable. But, baby’s don’t wear shoes.”

No shoes, no shirt, no service…indeed! Seriously?

View video below.

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Gran Caribe Real Hotel’s Beach Stolen

Andrea — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:46:12 +0000

Five people were detained for stealing sand from the sea floor and pumping it onto the beach in front of the Gran Caribe Hotel in Cancun, Mexico.

The powder-white sand beach in front of the hotel was closed and ringed by crime-scene tape, guarded by gun-toting sailors on Thursday.

“Today we made the decision to close this stretch of ill-gotten, illegally accumulated sand,” said Patricio Patron, Mexico’s attorney general for environmental protection. “This hotel was telling its tourists: ‘Come here, I have sand … the other hotels don’t, because I stole it.’”

$19 million has been spent by Mexico to replenish beaches eroded by Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Much of the sand pumped from the sea floor has since washed away, leading some property owners to take matters into their own hands, building breakwaters in an attempt to retain sand, which often just shifts sand loss to beaches below the breakwaters.

In addition to illegally pumping the sand from the sea floor onto the beach, the Gran Caribe Real Hotel is also accused of building a breakwater that prevented the flow of sand onto other hotels’ beaches.

No one at the hotel was available to comment on the sand stealing allegations.

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Man Dies in Chocolate

Andrea — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:34:19 +0000

Vincent Smith II died around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday after falling into a vat of melting chocolate at a New Jersey chocolate processing plant.

The 29-year-old man was dumping raw chocolate into the 8 feet deep, 14 feet long and 6 feet wide vat when he fell from a nine-foot platform.

The vat was churning a batch of chocolate for Hershey’s and Smith suffered a fatal blow to the head from a blade stirring the chocolate.

Three other people were on the platform at the time, but were unable to save Smith, who was trapped in the vat for nearly 10 minutes before being freed. One co-worker shut off the machine, while two others tried to pull him out.

The facility is owned by Cocoa Services Inc., and operated and managed by Lyons and Sons.

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iPhone 3.0 Update Released Today

Missy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:43:44 +0000

If you already have an iPhone, today is the day to download your free iPhone 3.0 update right from Apple’s website. With all of the new features that this update will give you, it is almost as good as getting a new toy!

Some exciting feature include cut, copy & paste, landscape keyboard, send MMS messages and include video, photos, audio and contact information, record voice memos and buy movies, TV shows and audiobooks. Spotlight search will allow you to search for anything on your phone from one place.

There is so much cool stuff you’d be a fool not to head over to apple.com and check it out. No word on a release time, we have seen sites that say noon but there hasn’t been any confirmation from Apple on when the software push will occur.

Hopefully their site won’t go down due to overload.

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Happy National Donut Day! FREEBIES

Missy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:21:44 +0000

Seriously, we never knew that there was such thing as National Donut Day, but today is the day to celebrate donuts. Thinking this might be something new, we were wrong. It all began back in 1938 as a fundraiser for the Salvation Army.

This is as great a reason as any to run to your local Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’ Donuts shops and indulge in a little bit of heaven.

Over at Dunkin’ Donuts you can get a free donut with a purchase of a beverage, while supplies last. So, what are you waiting for? Let the CELEBRATION begin.

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Lil Wayne: Diamond Teeth and Court Dates (Photo)

Missy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:49:56 +0000

Rapper Lil Wayne has filled his mouth with $150,000 worth of diamonds. The gems are permanent and have caused the celeb to become obsessed with brushing.

Afraid that his jewels will fall out, Lil Wayne is very cautious about what he eats and brushes after every meal. The diamonds can be removed at any time but it is a surgical procedure.

In other news, the rapper was found not guilty on drug charges that stemmed back from 2006, when his hotel room in Atlanta was searched and bottles of prescription pills and pot were found.

We wonder if he will continue to be so lucky when he faces a judge for drug charges in Arizona and another judge for weapons charges in New York.

View another photo of his bejeweled teeth below.

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