Weird But True

Weird but true

She sure can hold a grudge.

A 68-year-old California woman spent six years in prison for shooting her neighbor in the leg. After she was released, she was promptly rearrested when she again attacked the man in rural Nevada County.

At least this time, she took it easy on the guy: She only hit him with a stick.

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Druggies have made a huge breakthrough in the science of miniaturization — the pocket meth lab.

A man in Tulsa, Okla., was busted with just such a modern miracle, when cops arrested him and found a soda bottle that he had turned into a methamphetamine cooker.

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Depending on your point of view, this was either the best or worst school-board meeting ever.

The Palm Beach County, Fla., school board last night discussed firing five employees, including a principal who stole furniture, a teacher who had sex with a student and a janitor who was caught naked in a storage room.

The board members also had to deal with expelling 11 students, including one who brought brass knuckles to class.

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A millionaire Hong Kong business owner just became a granddad for the sixth time — but it’s his employees who are jumping for joy.

Tycoon Lee Shau-kee was so happy over his son’s new baby that he gave everyone who works for him a $1,285 bonus.

That comes out to almost $2 million in gift money for his roughly 1,500 staff members.

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A Japanese rugby player has been banned from a major competition for using a performance-enhancing drug — mustache-growing cream.

The substance that Ryohei Yamanaka used to make himself appear older happened to have a forbidden steroid in it.

The embarrassed star tweeted that he was “sorry for causing such problems.”