For three teens it seemed like the score of a lifetime – just enough to land them in jail.
The trio was busted after discovering an antique $1,000 bill in a safe belonging to one of their parents in Texas Township, Mich., and trying to exchange it for smaller bills at a bank.
Problem is that $1,000 bills haven’t been printed since 1945, so bank officials called police.
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Their bad luck turned good in a hurry.
A Danville, Calif., woman was stunned to find she’d won a $2 million home in a raffle just days after her husband lost his job.
“I got laid off Wednesday and the company went bankrupt on Firday,” said Silicon Valley exec Brad Wells. “It’s been a really rough ride for the last year.”
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This is the most disgusting computer “worm” ever.
A man from Somerset, England, who thought his computer contracted a “worm” virus that shut down the machine called a technician who discovered a real worm had been slithering inside.
“Needless to say, I hadn’t come across a problem like this before,” the tech said.
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Seriously folks, get a life!
Romanian officials are asking people who spotted a “UFO” on the Google Earth satellite-photo Web site to stop calling them.
Local authorities checked out the sighting near a farm outside of the town of Timisoara and determined the “alien projectile” is an abandoned water tower.
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They should sic these guys on the Somali pirates.
A flotilla of Brunei police speedboats caught a group of high-seas smugglers trying to sneak 58 cases of beer into the teetotaling Muslim country.
Customs officials said it was their biggest seizure of illegal booze this year.