As if the Gulf of Mexico oil spill weren’t expensive enough already.
A Pennsylvania alpaca farm is shearing the expensive wool off its fuzzy beasts for donation to efforts to sop up oil washing up on the Gulf shore.
A charity has been collecting human hair, wool, feathers and nylon stockings to help make floating booms to contain oil.
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Hallelujah!
Police in Georgia finally stopped a pair of gospel singers who allegedly had broken into several churches and stolen $100,000 worth of musical equipment.
In all, Deshawan Rico Thomas and Rico Pionegro Blackshear, both 28, are believed to have robbed nine churches.
Cops said that they found the hot musical equipment in both the men’s homes and cars.
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You might say the town of Spanish Springs has hit a bad spel. Uh, spell.
Officials in the Nevada town discovered two “Yeild” signs and a “Scool” crossing along a new extension of a roadway.
Red-faced road crews rushed out to fix the signs when alerted by a local TV news station.
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Love is in the air.
A distraught Russian man planning to commit suicide rushed to a bridge only to find an equally upset woman planning to do the same.
Naturally, they fell in love and are headed to the altar.
“Something in my heart snapped,” said Andriej Ivanov when he saw his beloved, Maria Petrova.
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This unit is going to have a ball — or not.
An Indian politician has suggested that the government put together a regiment of eunuchs to protect the country’s leaders.
“If eunuchs are engaged in policing or paramilitary forces, they would do a better service to the nation,” said official Tako Dabi.