| Here are a collection of some of the
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| | dogs and a helicopter with a thermal
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| bizarre and strange stories over recent
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| | imaging camera were also used, according
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| times.
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| | to the BBC.
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| Good Samaritan arrested for drunk driving
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| | Police had been concerned after finding a
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| A German man was arrested for drunk
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| | jacket and enough food for four days
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| driving after he mistook a police spot
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| | inside the tent. When they were traced on
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| check for a breakdown and stopped to
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| | Saturday, the men confessed to driving
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| help. Officers inspecting a car by the
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| | away in a panic after hearing the noise.
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| roadside suspected the 37-year-old
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| | The abandoned campsite equipment has now
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| passing motorist was under the influence
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| | been returned to the men, who do not wish
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| of alcohol when he lurched from his
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| | to be named.
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| vehicle to offer assistance, reports
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| | Santa vs shoplifters
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| Reuters.
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| | A German Santa turned crimefighter when
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| "Obviously his optical assessment of the
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| | he leapt into action to chase two
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| situation as he drove past was that this
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| | shoplifters. Santa Claus Dieter Thurn,
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| was a vehicle breakdown," the police said
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| | 52, was in his grotto in a department
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| in a statement. The man was arrested and
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| | store in Bremen when he saw the crooks
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| banned from driving.
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| | filling their rucksacks with expensive
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| Shanghai goes the extra smile
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| | cosmetics, reports
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| Eager to put on its best face for foreign
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| | Thurn flew after the pair and managed to
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| guests ahead of the 2010 World Expo,
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| | hold them down until the police arrived.
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| Shanghai is sending teams of "smiling
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| | Daniel Ingeborg, six, who was visiting
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| volunteers" onto the streets to teach
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| | the store with his mother, told local
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| stony-faced citizens to beam at
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| | press: "Santa's so cool. He gives
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| strangers. Forty university students have
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| | presents and fights crime. He's like
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| signed up to smile at people in public
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| | Superman but better."
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| places, after a survey showed that only 2
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| | Raffled lobster wins freedom
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| percent of Chinese people smile at
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| | A giant lobster has been saved from the
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| strangers, reports Reuters.
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| | cooking pot after persistent lobbying
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| Team-leader Xu Xiaohong said: "We ask all
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| | from restaurant diners. The Miami Herald
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| the members to practise smiling at home.
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| | reports that 50 year old monstroa is 37
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| "We smile at the mirror to determine
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| | inches long, and has 15-inch-long claws.
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| whether our smiles are acceptable. We not
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| | He had been living in the lobster tank at
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| only smile with our mouths but also with
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| | a Massachusetts restaurant, and while
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| our eyes."
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| | half the customers wanted to eat him; the
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| Attempts to generate warmth among
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| | other half felt sorry for him.
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| strangers in China have had mixed
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| | Restaurant owner Fred Cunha decided to
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| success. In October, volunteers offering
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| | raffle at $1 a ticket to reach Monstroas
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| "free hugs" to people in a busy shopping
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| | retail price of $150, and let the winner
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| street in Beijing were detained by police
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| | decide his fate. Winner Claire Lupton
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| for questioning.
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| | returned Monstro to the ocean, saying
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| Giant mirror takes village out of
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| | that a lobster that big and old shouldn't
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| darkness
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| | end up on a dinner plate.
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| A village in the shadow of the Italian
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| | Armed robber foiled in Lego heist
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| Alps has installed a giant mirror on a
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| | Police in Florida are looking for a
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| mountainside to reflect sunshine into its
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| | little girl who pulled a knife on a shop
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| main square. Viganella, in the narrow
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| | assistant as she tried to steal two boxes
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| Antrona valley, north of Turin, saw no
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| | of Lego on Tuesday night. The girl, aged
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| sun for three months of the year before
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| | about seven or eight, hid the toys under
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| the project, reports CBC News.
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| | her coat and tried to walk out the door.
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| The 48 sq metre steel sheet is controlled
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| | A store employee was watching and
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| by computers to follow the path of the
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| | approached the child, asking her to turn
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| sun and reflect its rays down into the
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| | over the Lego blocks. Police say the
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| village square for at least six hours a
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| | little girl then opened her jacket and
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| day. Viganella, with a population of only
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| | displayed a ten-inch carving knife.
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| 197, formerly suffered from a complete
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| | The employee talked the girl into putting
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| lack of direct sun from November 11 to
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| | down the knife and the toys. The girl
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| February 2. Mayor Pierfranco Midali
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| | then rode away on her bicycle.
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| presented the project for approval in
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| | Thief leaves police vital tip-off
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| January of this year to help lift his
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| | Criminal stupidity appears to be on the
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| community out of darkness, and the 70,000
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| | rise.Germany provides another example of
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| pound cost was met by local government
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| | illegal imbecility.
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| and a private bank.
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| | A careless burglar provided police with a
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| 999 'for emergencies only' say police
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| | crucial clue at a break-in when he sliced
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| Devon and Cornwall Police have recently
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| | off the end of a finger on a broken
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| revealed some of the time-wasting 999
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| | window, Reuters reports. Police wasted no
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| calls they have received. A woman dialled
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| | time in matching the piece of finger with
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| 999 when she realised her trousers didn't
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| | existing prints of a 15-year-old from the
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| fit. Another woman rang the emergency
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| | town of Hildesheim. The youth initially
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| services to report a pigeon in her
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| | denied breaking and entering, but
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| garden, while another caller asked for a
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| | confessed when police produced the
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| pizza to be delivered. Other calls
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| | digital remnant.
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| included complaints of a phone battery
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| | "We usually find fingerprints at the
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| running out, builders making too much
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| | crime scene, but it's not every day that
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| noise and a report of a large owl sitting
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| | thieves leave the original there too,"
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| on a telegraph pole.
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| | said a police spokesman. "I don't know if
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| According to the Sun, Chief Inspector
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| | the fellow asked for it back afterwards."
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| Nick Jarrold said: "There is a funny
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| | South African court fines 'pregnant' man
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| side, but I don't know what goes through
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| | A South African man has been fined $140
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| their heads when they dial 999 to ask
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| | for taking a week off work, telling his
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| about changing their trousers. "An
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| | employers he was pregnant. Charles
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| emergency call is when it is a
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| | Sibindana, 27, stole a certificate from a
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| life-or-death situation, people are
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| | clinic during his pregnant girlfriend's
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| injured or the baddies are still at the
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| | checkup, the BBC reports. He then added
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| scene."
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| | his own details to the note, submitted it
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| NE manhunt sparked by 'scary noise'
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| | to his employers and took seven days off
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| Two men who sparked a manhunt when their
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| | work, seemingly unaware that only women
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| tent was found empty have admitted
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| | consult gynaecologists.
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| abandoning their camp after hearing a
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| | His employers became suspicious and
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| "scary" noise. About 50 volunteers joined
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| | investigated the matter. On passing
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| the search when the empty tent was found
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| | sentence Magistrate Bruno Van Eeden
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| in remote Harwood Forest, near Rothbury,
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| | warned Mr Sibindana "not to walk around
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| Northumberland, on 5 December. Sniffer
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| | faking sick letters from gynaecologists.
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