Weird but true
Mamma Mia!
A suspected mobster was busted by Italian police after he surfaced to visit his mom’s home for lunch.
Rosario Scognamillo, a 39-year-old accused of being a high-ranking member of the Mafia, went on the lam in May.
But he returned to his mother’s home in Naples, unable to resist the temptations of her home-cooked food.
Now he’ll have to get used to jail food.
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For a while, he was one of the few, one of the proud.
But now Jarhead the bear is adjusting to civilian life in the woods around Ocala, Fla.
The 6-month-old cub was rummaging through garbage when he got his head stuck in a jar.
It took rescuers 10 days to catch him so they could remove it.
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D’oh!
Colleagues of Mike Reiss, a writer for “The Simpsons,” gave him a special driver-navigation system that gives directions in Homer’s voice.
He used it on a trip to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.
Homer sent him more than two miles off course — to the city of Peabody.
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Getting a bill always stinks, but these have to be the worst.
The gas company in Puget Sound, Wash., sent scratch-and-sniff pamphlets to customers along with their bills.
Anyone who scratched got a whiff of something like rotten eggs.
The utility said it wanted to make sure its customers can sniff out natural-gas leaks.
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English teachers driving along this North Carolina road must have had a fit.
A contractor hired to paint the world “school” in giant letters across the two-lane road in Greensboro spelled it “shcool.”
They got it right on the second try.

