Weird But True

Weird but true

A gun buyback in Seattle has taken some dangerous weapons off the street — including a missile launcher.

Cops are now trying to figure out the origin of the heavy weaponry — which is not protected by the Second Amendment. The person who turned it in bought it from someone outside the buyback location for $100.

Disturbingly, the launcher was inert — because the missile had already been launched.

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When a woman in Stoneham, Mass., used her remote car key, she expected her trunk to open. Instead, the car exploded.

Jackie Sugrue was leaving a discount store when she blew up her Honda Civic.

Cops determined that vapors from her plumber boyfriend’s leaky acetylene tank were ignited by a spark from the trunk sensor.

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These guys must have been planning the best Super Bowl party ever.

Two men in suburban Atlanta were busted for allegedly stealing $65,000 worth of chicken wings from a warehouse.

The wings, weighing 26,000 pounds, would have needed a tanker of hot sauce.

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You can move in, but you may not move out.

A house outside Berlin is being called “The House of Doom,” after nine people who lived there died mysterious, headline-making deaths in the past 15 years.

The unlucky home’s late residents include a brothel owner who was decapitated in a motorcycle wreck, a suicide pact between a journalist and his lover and a scientist who crashed in a police chase.

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She had a body to die for.

A Brazilian woman has been charged with attempted murder for putting a toxic chemical on her private parts in a bid to poison her husband during lovemaking.

The man wound up in a hospital after the noxious romp but survived.

The woman was caught when a test turned up the foul substance.