School officials in San Francisco have been barging into kindergarten classes and searching kids’ lunchboxes – in a hunt for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
That’s because the Valle Verde Elementary School has banned peanut products out of concern for one allergic child.
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Police in Paris have busted a ring of fake dentists who used cafes and grocery stores to drill and fill patients.
Armed with battery-operated equipment, the 23 unlicensed dentists served a mainly immigrant clientele that didn’t have health insurance. They were busted when a client left in agony after botched treatment and called the cops.
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Wisconsin funeral director Sam Sanfillippo prepares human bodies by day – and stuffs animals and dresses them in weird costumes by night.
The 83-year-old Madison resident has even opened a museum in the basement of his funeral home – featuring squirrels and chipmunks in hula skirts, basketball uniforms and cowboy outfits. Some are even motorized.
“The kids, they lose Grandma or Grandpa, I bring them down here, they start to laugh, it relieves them a bit,” Sanfillippo said.
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An Iowa shopping mall is really going to pot – electricians working there discovered a marijuana farm on the roof.
Police believe the recently harvested crop at the Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville was grown for sale, not personal use.
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Saudi Arabia’s religious police have declared Barbie dolls a threat to morality, complaining that the revealing clothes of the “Jewish” toy – already banned in the kingdom – are offensive to Islam.
The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, as the religious police are officially known, lists the dolls on a section of its Web site devoted to items deemed offensive to the conservative Saudi interpretation of Islam.
“Jewish Barbie dolls, with their revealing clothes and shameful postures, accessories and tools are a symbol of decadence to the perverted West. Let us beware of her dangers and be careful,” said a message posted on the site. (s, lcf)
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A woman who complained that the new tires she wanted were too expensive was allegedly offered a deal: They’d be free if she slept with the salesman.
Cops say Gregory Wade Mulligan, 42, an employee of Tires Plus in Athens, Ga., told the 25-year-old customer he’d give her the tires if she met him at a local motel for sex.
She called the cops instead, and now Mulligan is charged with solicitation of prostitution. (m)