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(15 July 1999, Bangkok) A circus dwarf met a disastrous demise, when he was swallowed by a hippopotamus in a freak accident in northern Thailand.

Od the Dwarf had just astounded the audience with a trapeze performance, when he dismounted onto a trampoline at a bad angle. He was launched sideways into the mouth of a yawning hippopotamus waiting to appear in the next act. Hilda the Hippo gagged and instinctively swallowed the small man while spectators continued to applaud, not realizing their tragic mistake.

Horrified circus members rushed to save the dwarf, but were unable to extract him from the traumatized beast. Veterinarians defended Hilda by pointing out that she was a vegetarian, and had never before digested a circus performer.

The trampoline is being subjected to forensic analysis.

The circus is now hiring.
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Breaking News
Oops, wrong address: Stolen phones sent to FBI
MONROE, La. – If you're going to buy something with a forged cashier's check, don't misspell "cashier's" or use an FBI office as your shipping address.

Police in Monroe, La., say they arrested a 44-year-old man from Memphis, Tenn., after he did both. He was held Friday on two counts of forgery and as a fugitive from justice in Georgia, where he is accused of a similar scheme.

The FBI called police Thursday after a Minnesota cell phone distributor called the bureau.

The company had sent 50 phones to the address for the FBI office Monroe, only to discover its $2,359.45 payment was a "cahier's check".

FBI agents saw the suspect wave down a delivery truck driver outside the bureau later Thursday, stopped the transaction and waited for police.
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Breaking News
Duck gets early Mother's Day gift in NH
MANCHESTER, N.H. – Just in time for Mother's Day, a mother duck has been reunited with two of her babies who fell into a storm drain in Manchester, N.H.

The mother was crossing the street with 11 ducklings parading behind her Thursday when two of the little ones tumbled through a grate. Workers at a nearby hair salon called police, who sent a crew from the city water works department. While salon workers corralled the upset mother duck and other ducklings in a box, the city workers opened the grate, climbed into the drain and rescued the two ducklings.

The salon owner told the New Hampshire Sunday News that when all 12 were taken to the Merrimack River, they were met by a male duck who led the family into the water.

The mother, of course, couldn't hide her emotion when joining her kids back. "Quack", she argued.
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Breaking News
Man Says Snake Head Found in Broccoli
CLIFTON PARK, New York (May 7) - A diner at a restaurant in upstate New York says he got a little something extra with his broccoli — a severed snake head.
Jack Pendleton told The Times Union of Albany that he was at the T.G.I. Friday's restaurant in the town of Clifton Park on Sunday when he spotted something gray mixed in with his vegetables. He realized it was a snake head the size of his thumb, with part of the spine still attached.

[Images not shown for respect to broccoli]

"I could see these black, rotted eye sockets on the top," he added. He said the head had part of spine attached.
"I stopped eating," he said in The Times Union. "I told my girlfriend, 'I think this is a head.'"
Pendleton says he snapped a photo with his cell phone camera and called the waiter over. He says he has no plans to sue.
A spokeswoman for the Carrollton, Texas, chain says it's investigating. It wasn't immediately known what kind of snake it was.

Pendleton and his girlfriend weren't charged for their meals.
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Breaking News
Indian dad avoids washing for 35 years: report [Click here!]
An Indian man who fathered seven daughters has not washed for 35 years in an apparent attempt to ensure his next child is a boy, newspapers reported.

Kailash "Kalau" Singh replaces bathing and brushing his teeth with a "fire bath" every evening when he stands on one leg beside a bonfire, smokes marijuana and says prayers to Lord Shiva, according to the Hindustan Times.

"It's just like using water to take a bath," Kalau was reported as saying. "A fire bath helps kill germs and infection in the body."

Kalau, 63, from a village outside the holy city of Varanasi, outraged his family by refusing to take a ritual dip in the river Ganges even after his brother died five years ago.

"I still don't remember how it all began," he said in Saturday's edition of the paper. "I just know it started about 35 years ago."

Kalau's hygiene regime has taken its toll on his professional life.

The grocery store that he used to own closed when customers stopped shopping there due to his "unhealthy personality" and he now tills fields near Varanasi airport.

Kalau, who wears two pullovers all through the Indian summer, said his pledge not to wash was a commitment to the "national interest."

"I'll end this vow only when all problems confronting the nation end," he said.

But his neighbours in the village of Chatav said there was another reason for Kalau's washing boycott.

"A seer once told Kalau that if he does not take a bath, he would be blessed with a male child," a man called Madhusudan told the paper.

Most Indians prefer sons, who are typically regarded as breadwinners, while girls are seen as a burden because of the matrimonial dowry demanded by a groom's family and the fact that their earnings go to their husband's family.
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[Vitamin C]

Honey, you're sick!!
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Gosh! Puppet & Me might be likely to have twins...

Breaking News
Triplet Gives Birth To Her Own Three Babies
A woman from Michigan who is a triplet has given birth to her own set of three babies.

Amber Ali, 23, gave birth to three little boys last week at Sinai-Grace hospital in Detroit.

Amber said naming them proved a nightmare but eventually settled on Amir, Armann and Amari Whitaker.

Amir was 4lb 5oz at birth, Amari was 4lb 3oz and Armann was 3lb 12oz.

The babies will remain in hospital until their strength is built up but Amber said she was looking forward to having them at home.

"It's going to be fun," she told local newspaper The Detroit News.

The young mother said while she was pregnant "it felt like 10 in there".

The babies' father Andre Whitaker was said to be ecstatic with his new sons.

Amir and Armann are identical and Amari looks exactly like his mother, according to his dad.

The doctor who delivered the babies, Andrea Coleman said it wasn't the easiest of labours.

"It's a bit of a production when you're talking multiples but it's a nice one," she said.

Like Armann, mother Amber was the middle triplet and the smallest and said as a child she and her siblings slept in dresser drawers.

However for the new triplets Amber and Andre have bought bassinettes, nameplates and top-of-the-range strollers.
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