WEIRD BUT TRUE
Sounds like Dean Wormer is running the University of Michigan.
That’s where some students are being paid $100 per semester to keep their dorm rooms presentable and available for tours by prospective students and their parents.
“We pick up if we know a group is coming, clean off the desks and get things off the floor,” said sophomore Aaron Bennick.
Where’s Bluto when you need him?
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Minneapolis resident Francine Corcoran is really getting to know her city – she’s walking all of its 1,071 miles of streets.
“No schedule. Just park the car in a new spot and start walking,” says Corcoran, 55, now in the third year of her unusual project.
“Day to day, I don’t know where I’ll end up.”
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A Florida prosecutor in Key West was busted after he ran naked and drunk across a parking lot and hopped into the wrong car.
Albert Tasker, 28, told cops he’d been boozing with pals and thought it would be funny to strip and run to a friend’s car.
But he hopped into the wrong vehicle, much to the distress of the woman in the vehicle.
She called her boyfriend, who phoned police.
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Some South Korean homeless are dressing in style after the government gave away thousands of fake designer garments confiscated by customs agents.
The Korea Customs Service distributed more than 3,500 fake pieces in the southern city of Pusan with the permission of the fashion houses whose designs had been pirated.
Customs agents removed the labels from the clothes before giving them to the agency.
One homeless man, who asked not to be identified, said he appreciated the fancy threads.
“These designs are quite trendy,” he said.
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Take my freedom – please!
A Latvian burglar who escaped a prison five years ago has returned begging to be locked up again.
The prisoner, identified only as Sergei M., said life on the outside was just too hard and he looked forward to jail comforts.


