New York man arrested for posing as dead mother
A New York man was arrested after allegedly dressing in drag as his dead mother for six years to collect her benefit checks. Prosecutors say Thomas Prusik-Parkin, 49, collected thousands in Social Security and rent-assistance checks since the death of his mother, Irene, in 2003, dressing as an elderly woman whenever officials came to check on her. Assistant district attorney Michael Vecchione said Prusik-Parkin hid his Adam’s apple with a scarf, but that this trick didn’t hide other clues. “He had rather large hands,” Vecchione said.
Angelina Jolie's chats with Billy Bob Thornton
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Angelina Jolie has taken to having long, intimate phone conversations with former husband Billy Bob Thornton to punish Brad Pitt for his frequent contact with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, says The National Enquirer. After Pitt had a series of chummy chats with Aniston, says a source, a seething Jolie is now “giving Brad a dose of his own medicine.” Jolie and Thornton now talk regularly on the phone, with Jolie reminiscing loudly about their great sex life and telling Thornton “how bored she is with Brad’s mind games.”
Two baby flamingos fear the color pink
Two baby flamingos at Britain’s London Zoo have developed a phobia of the color pink. The month-old chicks, named Little and Large, both have the pale gray plumage flamingos are born with. In an attempt to feed them, zookeepers used a pink sock-puppet of an adult flamingo, but it only terrified the chicks. Their resulting phobia of anything pink has worrying implications for their future mental health. “We’ll just have to hope they get used to the color,” said keeper Alison Brown.
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Pennsylvania man shoots at wedding ring, and morefeature A Pennsylvania man nearly lost his finger when he tried to remove his wedding ring by shooting it off.
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A Pennsylvania man confesses, and more
feature A Pennsylvania man turned himself in after reading a newspaper story about a robbery and realizing that his “other personality” had committed the crime.
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The best alibi, and more
feature A Texas man serving a life sentence for armed robbery has had his conviction overturned, after he remembered that he was in jail at the time of the crime.
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Not mine, says Florida man of cocaine found in buttocks, and more
feature A Florida man arrested with a bag of cocaine in his buttocks has denied that the drugs are his.
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Man arrested for baggie of pot stuck to forehead, and more
feature A Pennsylvania man has been arrested for allegedly having a plastic bag of marijuana stuck to his forehead.
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Sneezing fetish leads to arrest, and more
feature A Texas man with a sneezing fetish has been arrested for blowing white pepper into a woman’s face.
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Pigeon jailed for drug smuggling, Four-eared cat is Internet hit, Spaghetti trail leads to arrest
feature A Bosnian pigeon has been jailed on charges of drug smuggling.