
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Move over, King Kong – Snowzilla is here.
The 16-foot-tall creature, based on Godzilla, was made of snow and ice over four weeks by Billy Ray Powers and his kids and neighbors in Anchorage, Alaska. Now, it’s become a red-hot tourist attraction.
Because he’s too big to have buttons for eyes, Snowzilla gazes over his admirers from beer bottles.
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Eric Smith is being hailed as one of San Francisco’s greatest newspapermen – even though he hasn’t written a single story.
Smith, 65, a delivery “boy” for the San Francisco Chronicle, has never missed a day of work, and is estimated to have winged more than 10 million papers onto subscribers’ lawns over the past 28 years.
The job has also given him a terrific pitching arm. “I can throw 360 degrees,” Smith boasted.
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Adrienne Ross is suddenly a whole lot lighter on her feet – not surprising, considering that she gave birth to a baby girl weighing in at a whopping 14 pounds, 3 ounces.
Lillian Elizabeth Ross is so big that she’s already wearing clothes made for babies 6 to 9 months old.
“The nursery had to go to pediatrics to get diapers for her because they didn’t have any that would fit. [And] we’ve already had to start buying her new clothes. None of the stuff we bought will fit either,” said Adrienne, of McAlester, Okla.
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A man was cleared of raping a woman three times – after a jury ruled that he was sleepwalking during the attacks.
James Bilton, 22, of Scarborough, England, admitted that he must have had sex with the 22-year-old woman, but claimed he could not remember anything that had happened.
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A tourist made a tragic mistake when she re-enacted a scene from the movie “Titanic.”
Pals say Emma Blackwell, 31, who’d been boozing for hours on a ferry off the coast of France, struck the famous outstretched-arms pose of actress Kate Winslet on the ship’s bow, lost her balance and then plunged from the ninth deck and drowned.


