Weird but true
A pig-wrestling competition at the county fair in Great Falls, Mont., has been canceled — because the porkers eluded capture.
Fair managers usually have no problem nabbing at least 30 wild pigs. But this year, they were only able to locate only a single boar.
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Cops in a St. Louis suburb went ape looking for a baboon on the loose.
Problem was, it was all a hoax.
A 14-year-old girl reported taking a picture of the primate on the loose, but it turned out to be an image she took off the Internet.
A school went into lockdown and Florissant, Mo., cops had to call in six extra officers for the needless search.
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Here comes the bride, all dressed in jail garb — almost.
A 31-year-old bride leaving her bachelorette party was arrested for DUI hours before her wedding. Washington state troopers processed the woman and let her take a cab home to make her early-afternoon wedding.
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A Virginia couple sawed a car in half in a fit of repo rage against a surely now-former friend.
Raymond Reeder, 39, and his girlfriend lent $2,000 to her childhood pal to buy a 1998 Saturn station wagon.
When the loan wasn’t repaid, Reeder and his gal pal — who held title on the Saturn — hired a repo man to take the car, and chopped it in half to make a point.
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Go fast enough to see a ghost, and you might become one.
Drivers in Australia are trying to hit 111 mph to see the ghost of a dead motorcyclist in their rear-view mirrors.
Legend has it that the ghost biker appears along Lemon Tree Passage Road between Newcastle and Sydney.
And drivers are endangering their lives to see if it’s true.


