Weird But True

Weird but true

Even the replacement refs wouldn’t make a call this dumb.

Arizona anti-alcohol cops pounced on a dad at a Cardinals NFL preseason game after he had his 15-year-old son hold his beer for a moment while pop took pics.

The officers booted the family out of the stadium, and state liquor officials said that if they had been stricter, the pop could have gotten two years in jail.

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If only there was someone in government he could turn to for help.

The mayor of a Jersey Shore community is selling his home because he can’t afford his town’s sky-high property taxes.

Egg Harbor Mayor James “Sonny” McCullough was hit with a $31,000 tax bill.

He says he may move to Florida, where taxes on comparable homes are one-tenth of his in Jersey.

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Want to find good music? First, turn off the sound.

A Harvard researcher has discovered that people are better able to guess the winners of classical-music competitions by watching silent videos of the performances than by listening to the musicians play.

“What this suggests is that there may be a way that visual information is prioritized,” said Chia-Jung Tsay, the study’s author.

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Here’s a good way to make sure your customers love their new hair color.

Officials in a Chicago suburb will let beauty salons serve booze to customers.

Homer Glen officials say they expect many of the town’s 13 salons to start providing libations.

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He may be the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

A Pennsylvania man who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease won an essay contest at an Allentown minor-league baseball game — and the prize was a free funeral.

Steve Paul won after describing his dream burial.

“I’m not a Yankee fan but I told them to just put a No. 4 on me,” he said in reference to Gehrig, the tragic Yankees great.