Weird but true
Call it “Fantasy Studio.”
A Phoenix business that claimed it was offering male clients a chance to appear in their own pornographic movie was actually a brothel, authorities said.
Cops raided “New Media Studios” Thursday and took into custody the 52-year-old proprietor and eight women, one wearing leopard-print pajamas.
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Tennessee officials are trying to dampen complaints over a state Department of Environment and Conservation official’s warning that complaints about water quality are a form of “terrorism.”
A meeting held to answer concerns of Mount Pleasant residents who said their children had become ill from tap water erupted after a deputy director of the state agency said unwarranted complaints “can be considered, under Homeland Security, an act of terrorism.”
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Every college student knows about reselling expensive old textbooks. But Christopher Bock, 44, figured out how to make real money, authorities said.
While Bock was a salesman at John Wiley & Sons in Hoboken, he diverted more than 16,000 free samples meant for college professors and then resold them — netting nearly $3 million, federal prosecutors allege.
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Ten customers in a Flagler County, Fla., bank stared in amazement as the branch was robbed by a diminutive superhero-costumed bandit.
He stood 5-foot-4 and was wearing an Iron Man mask, a tan jumpsuit, tan boots, gloves and a red and black backpack — and brandishing a gun.
He didn’t fly off but made his getaway in a compact car. No word on how much he took.
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Coming soon to a boutique near you — the Fightin’ Irish fragrances.
The Cloudbreak Group is developing a line of University of Notre Dame toiletries, including a $62-a-bottle Lady Irish Eau De Parfum, men’s after-shave balm and women’s shower gel.

