http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news Offbeat news and other odd events Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:26:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Based on a radiocarbon analysis, researchers estimate the half-rounded piece of fruit to be about 2,100 years old, said Shuji Yamazaki, a local official in the city of Moriyama. Melon seeds have been often found in archaeological digs around the country, but researchers rarely find the remains of melon flesh, ... http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/06/01/researchers-find-2100-year-old-melon/ The skeleton of the German doctor, known only as Siegfried B., was found Monday wrapped in a blanket, along with a bottle of schnapps and some farewell notes. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/31/body-of-german-doctor-found-in-his-own-garage-after-22-years/ On Tuesday (May 22, 2007), for the second time in 17 months, Green had a baby while en route to a hospital. Doctors had planned to induce labor Thursday, but baby Zaria had other plans. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/31/woman-gives-birth-in-car-for-second-time/ Police from Mission, Texas say elementary school students tipped them off to an ice cream truck driver who was apparently selling $5 and $10 bags of marijuana from the truck. Most customers were in the third, fourth, and fifth grades. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/31/ice-cream-truck-sold-pot/ Frieda Birnbaum, who conceived with the help of an in-vitro fertilization clinic in South Africa, delivered the boys, Josh and Jaret, at Hackensack University Medical Center. The hospital cited her as the oldest American woman to give birth to twins. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/31/60-year-old-new-jersey-woman-gave-birth-to-twins/ A former Wal-Mart cashier says he was fired for joking on his MySpace page that the average IQ would increase if a bomb were dropped on the company's stores. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/31/fred-for-bomb-joke/ The Oxford English Dictionary describes a McJob as "an unstimulating low-paid job with few prospects". McDonald's says that is out of date and insulting. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/31/mcdonalds-insulted-by-dictionary-definition-of-mcjob/ Victoria Hart, 18-year-old waitress and part-time jazz singer, whose day job involves working for tips at the little-known Naked Turtle restaurant in London, was flown to Cannes earlier this month after a friend of a friend put her name forward to sing at a charity event. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/31/multi-million-dollar-waitress/ A newspaper reports Chinese doctors took four hours to remove the more than one-inch-long, rusty, green bullet from the woman's skull earlier this month, who was shot by Japanese army troops 64 years ago. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/31/doctors-remove-bullet-after-64-years/ Baxter lost his right leg after being hit by a tractor-trailer in October. He was returning from getting a haircut when he discovered the man with a gun inside his house. Roger Baxter survived the Tuesday incident after a cell phone apparently slowed a bullet to his chest. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/31/cell-phone-saved-a-mans-life/ Two men robbed a U-Haul store around 3 p.m. Sunday, taking an unspecified amount of cash, according the store's owner. But instead of fleeing, one man lingered and tried to strike up a conversation with the woman he had just robbed. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/31/thief-asks-out-woman-after-robbery/ A small-caliber bullet struck the 37-year-old Altizer man in the head as he slept Sunday morning, but he didn't realize it until he awoke nearly four hours later and noticed blood coming from his head, said Cpl. R.H. McQuaid of the Cabell County Sheriff's Department. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/30/man-sleeps-through-gunshot-to-the-head/ A worker at Kominato Hotel Mikazuki in Kamogawa, south of Tokyo, notified police that the fancy tub was missing from the hotel's guest bathroom on the 10th floor, according to a local police official who only gave his surname, Ogawa. http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/30/thief-steals-1-million-gold-bathtub-from-hotel/ More than 1,500 pairs of girls shoes from the home and storage unit of a man arrested for breaking into a high school. The 26-year-old Kenosha man, identified as Erik D. Heinrich by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, worked for a cable company and collected keys to the schools as he responded ... http://www.latestcrime.com/weird-news/2007/05/30/man-stole-girls-shoes-to-sniff-them/