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Another week, another dose of all the news that’s not fit for print. It’s the Not News of the Week.

There are lots of ways to piss off your dealer but making him look like an idiot is probably the worst way of doing it. A man in Wichita, Kansas, bought a couple hundred dollars worth of cocaine from his dealer with Monopoly money. It took the dealer a couple of weeks to realize that he had been duped in the worst possible way. The dealer invited his client over and his posse laid a beatdown. The man got away but ran into the cops to whom he told his story. Now, it looks like everyone involved in this escapade will be arrested because the police say that the unusual circumstances doesn’t make it a get out of jail free card. Continue reading →

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Not News of the Week

It’s time for a special treat for your Monday. It’s all the weirdest and wackiest stories from around the world. It’s the Not News of the Week.

Eat your heart out James Bond. A highly trained group of thieves in New Jersey were able to break into a Best Buy and make off with 20 Apple laptops without setting off an alarm. They climbed to the roof of the store using a 3-inch wide pipe that ran from the ground to the roof. Once there, they cut a hole in the roof in a part of the store that was obscured from security camera view. They lowered themselves down on ropes without touching the ground because that would have set off the alarm. Then, they made their way back up with the computers and left without anyone noticing until employees came in the next morning. Next stop: Hollywood… To steal any scripts that George Lucas may be working on for Indiana Jones 5. Continue reading →

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Another week brings you another dose of all the news that’s not fit for print. It’s the Not News of the Week.

No matter how your Valentine’s Day went, it had to have been better than this guy. A Bentley University student was sent to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a threesome gone wrong. The man was trying to arrange a threesome with two (less-than-attractive) women and was willing to pay to make it happen. However, there was a disagreement over money to be exchanged so the women attacked the man and took his money without rendering any services. In terms of hookup failures, I’d have to say that this is probably the worst case scenario. Continue reading →

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Not News of the Week

A day late and a dollar short but it’s still the weirdest and wackiest stories from around the world. It’s the Not News of the Week.

Let’s lead off with the “Only in America” story of the week. A middle school student in New York City was led out of class in handcuffs after drawing on a desk with a marker. She wrote “Lex was here 2/1/10” and “I love my friends Abby and Faith.” That was enough to earn the 12-year-old girl a several hour trip to a police station complete with a ride in a squad car. The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit last month over at least 20 similar arrests by school safety officers. Despite the ridiculous nature of the arrest, the girl will have to complete eight hours of community service, a book report and an essay on what she learned from this experience. Continue reading →

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Not News of the Week

A reminder for your Monday: If it’s not worth talking about, then it’s definitely the Not News of the Week.

The first rule of fight club: Don’t talk about fight club. Second rule of fight club: Don’t get caught. Well, I don’t think that rule was in the movie but the University of Manitoba’s fight club should have adopted it. Five students were banned from the U of M’s gym facilities after they were discovered organizing bare knuckle fights in the gym’s squash courts. They were snitched on by a gym member who saw someone with a bloody nose leaving the squash courts. That person informed gym staff who then found a Facebook group setup to promote the fight club. Well, I guess they didn’t quite talk about fight club but they sure didn’t keep it secret. Continue reading →

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Another week, another dose of all the news not fit for print. It’s time for the Not News of the Week.

Life lesson: Caveat emptor applies to literally everything. A man in New Hampshire learned this the hard way when he complained to police about a deal gone sour with a prostitute. The man said that he paid a prostitute $150 for her services but she never held up to her end of the deal. Police weren’t without sympathy for the man’s plight. They ended up arresting him on charges of soliciting prostitution. But he didn’t get entirely hosed. The prostitute was also arrested. Continue reading →

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It’s that time of week again. It’s all the news that’s not fit for print. It’s the Not News of the Week. Today’s NN actually has a theme. It’s all about strange crime.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Kids are growing up faster these days. That’s especially true in Cincinnati. Two teenage girls are believed to be the perpetrators of a bank robbery last week. A 14-year-old and 12-year-old girl were captured by security cameras in the holdup. They didn’t appear to have any weapons but that didn’t stop them from threatening staff. Interestingly, the regional FBI office says that this is the first time that a minor has robbed a bank, let alone a girl. Meanwhile, Cincinnati police are stumped as to where the girls are. In other words, two teenagers are better bank robber than most of the professionals. Like I said, kids are growing up faster these days. Continue reading →

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If it’s not worth talking about, then it must be time again for the Not News of the Week.

Rage Against The Machine took home its second major honour in as many weeks last week. After taking the Christmas Number One single in Britain, lead singer Zach de la Rocha took home an award for the 2009 Beard of the Year. Britain’s Beard Liberation Front hands out the award annual for the best beard on a well-known person across the globe. Previous honourees include Tom Jones and Robert Plant. They also handed out the award for beard of the decade which went to Glastonbury music festival founder Michael Eavis (narrowly beating Fidel Castro). Continue reading →

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It’s that time of the week again. It’s all the weird, wacky, and wonderful stories that make up our Not News of the Week.

The economic recession that has swept the globe has put a bit of a financial crunch on everyone. It turns out that the effects were far more widespread than we first imagined. Santa Claus walked into Nashville bank and was carrying more than presents. Santa had a gun which he used to fill his bag full of presents (cash) for himself. The FBI has asked for help in tracking down the suspect who they describe as six-feet tall with white hair and beard and wearing a red “Santa suit.” If I were them, I’d start in the North Pole and work my way south. Continue reading →

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Another week, another dose of all the news that’s not fit for print. It’s time for the Not News of the Week.

Downtown Toronto had an unexpected visitor last week. A female deer was found lounging in some shrubs around University and Dundas in the heart of the downtown of Canada’s most populous city. The deer wasn’t too keen on leaving her adopted home near City Hall and had to be both tranquilized and tazed to be captured and removed by animal control. No one is really sure how the deer got to downtown but it had been spotted before it was captured at Union Station which is about 1.5 km south of University and Dundas. However, I am pretty sure that the deer is at least as smart as the average denizen of Toronto. Continue reading →