Offbeat

An Olympic Reporter was kissed by a over-zealous soccer fan. She just came out of nowhere planted a kiss on the reporter and left the scene. The weird part is the reporter is a Muslim who was reporting for Sky News, he was also observing fasting when he will have to refrain from all food and drink, as well as ... Read More »

A city bus driver says he was thinking of his own young daughter when he rushed to catch a 7-year-old girl plunging three stories from a New York building Monday – an action caught on video. “Please let me catch her, please let me catch her,” Stephen St. Bernard, 52, recalled thinking. “That’s all I could say. Let me catch ... Read More »

Mermaid body found? That was the theme of a science fiction program that aired on Animal Planet, which is part of the Discovery Channel family of programming. Mermaids: The Body Found was a fictional account detailing the discovery of a mermaid body that was filmed documentary style, much like The Blair Witch Project. Unfortunately, many people misunderstood the film’s intent ... Read More »

Bob Russell could not be blamed for losing hope that he would reunite with his 1967 Austin-Healey. Stolen outside his Philadelphia apartment 42 years ago, the British roadster seemed a lost cause. But thanks to the Internet and some creative police work, Russell has his pride and joy back. When Russell, then a graduate student at Temple University, returned home ... Read More »

A Tacoma man needed emergency surgery after accidentally eating a steel bristle from a grill brush he used during a barbeque. KING 5 reports that (http://is.gd/J7Tivj ) Adam Wojtanowicz (woh-TAN-oh-witz) went to the hospital Sunday complaining of abdominal pain that wouldn’t go away despite his taking medication. Doctors found a metal bristle on a CT scan and performed surgery to ... Read More »

The highly-trained hawk used to scare pigeons away from the pristine grass courts of Wimbledon was returned to its owners after being stolen during the first week of the tennis tournament. Rufus, a Harris Hawk, was off-duty in his cage when he was snatched by thieves late Thursday but is now home after being handed into offices of The Royal ... Read More »

Lebanese are really fed-up with all the constant protests in the street, they were so fed-up that they actually protested against the protests! Now that is how protests should be handled, with just another protest. Dozens of Lebanese, exasperated by rampant tire-burning protests across the country, rolled out tires and stopped traffic in the capital Beirut on Thursday. Police armed ... Read More »