By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Wire Services
May 30, 2008
Take me out to the graveyard, stick me into the ground.
A minor-league affiliate of the Cleveland Indians is offering a free funeral as a giveaway.
All that interested fans of the Lake County Captains need to do is fill out an entry form before a drawing later this summer.
The prize - which can be redeemed at any time - is worth about $6,000.
Appearance is worth everything - or at least $150,000 - to the Houston police.
City officials say that's how much they're willing to spend to defend against a lawsuit challenging the department's ban on beards.
Four officers filed a federal lawsuit after the department passed the rule, calling it discriminatory against people who develop skin irritation from shaving.
Residents in a small town in Germany flooded the local police station with reports of a UFO sighting when a man used 50 glowing paper lanterns to propose to his would-be bride on a nearby hill.
The lanterns gave the appearance of lights floating in the hills. The woman said yes, police said.
Clearly this guy won't win the animal-rights vote.
Residents of a small Romanian town were deeply offended when a man running for mayor turned packs of stray dogs into billboards for his campaign by hanging posters on their backs.
Radu Nicolau defended the effort as "the best way to get my message across."
Japanese scientists used cutting-edge technology to create a ramen-noodle bowl so small that it can only be seen through a microscope.
The experiment was to test the use of microscopic nano-tubes that are one-ten-thousandth the thickness of a human hair but stronger than steel.
