By JEREMY OLSHAN, Wire Services
Posted: 4:03 am
July 2, 2008
It pays to be a stool pigeon.
Desi Stewart saw pigeons being netted on an Upper East Side street, reported it and won a $2,500 award from an animal rights group
The organization speculated the birds were destined for a pigeon shoot in Pennsylvania, or a poultry market here.
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First he hit the sauce, then he hit his mother with the sausage.
Gregory Allen Praeger, 46, of Florida attacked his mother with the meat and was charged with assault, officials said.
Praeger told police he had been drinking.
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A 6-foot-long German catfish died while attempted to swallow a soccer ball, according to police.
"He tried to eat the ball and it got stuck," police spokesman Karl-Heinz Kuberlein said yesterday.
"Whether the fish was caught up in football fever in the aftermath of the European championship and hence snapped at the ball can unfortunately not be determined."
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A British student driver passed his road test despite crashing into another car.
Gareth Purslow, 20, crashed into a Ford Puma, and despite continuing on with a massive dent in his car, he was convinced he had failed.
"I couldn't believe it when I got the 'pass' slip back at the test center," he said.
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Speaking of British testing, students there apparently receive extra credit for expletives on their English tests.
Asked to describe the room in which he was sitting, one lad wrote: "F . . . off."
For this he earned 7.5 points, England's chief examiner said. He did, after all, spell the words correctly.
"It shows more skills than someone who doesn't write anything at all," the official said.
