Peculiar Stories of the Week

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Posted: 12/11/06 at 11:46am

The one thing I find most entertaining about msn.com is that they have a section of "Peculiar Postings". I enjoy reading these funny wacky stories each week, so I thought I'd share a few.

Guinness-guzzling camel crashes Irish party

Christmas comes early for ‘Gus’ after he chomped his way through beer cans


DUBLIN - Staff at an Irish riding school were forced to postpone festivities after Gus the camel chomped his way through 200 mince pies and several cans of Guinness intended for their Christmas party.

Gus, starring in the riding school’s Santa’s Magical Animal Kingdom show, helped himself to the feast while staff were getting changed for the party.

“Gus found his way out of his pen and helped himself,” Robert Fagan, owner of the Mullingar Equestrian Centre in central Ireland, told Reuters.

To read more... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16072761/

Bargains roasting on an open fire ...

Holiday shoppers in Ohio keep buying despite electrical blaze in store

MENTOR, Ohio - An electrical fire that filled a department store with thick smoke didn't deter holiday shoppers, and firefighters had to block the doors to keep customers from coming in, authorities said.

No one was injured in the fire at Dillards South at Great Lakes Mall on Wednesday, but some bargain hunters were inconvenienced.

"It was amazing," said Mentor fire Battalion Chief Joe Busher. "Even though there was heavy smoke in there, they all wanted to stay and shop. We even had to put people at the door to keep people from coming in."

To read more....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16098546/

Hot lead for warm beer

St. Louis woman shoots husband dead for giving her tepid brew, cops say

ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis woman shot her husband to death after he gave her a can of warm beer, police said.

The shooting happened Sunday. Names have not been released. The woman was taken into custody.

The wife allegedly admitted shooting her husband, who was about 70 years old, in the kitchen of their home. The man was shot four or five times in the chest after giving his wife a can of warm Stag beer.

To read more...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16065183/



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