http://www.tenteges.com Independent thoughts...for independent thinkers! Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:22:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en AP - The one that didn't get away held an unlikely surprise for a Texas man. The blue-stoned class ring of Joe Richardson, engraved with his name, turned up inside an 8-pound bass 21 years after he lost it while fishing on Lake Sam Rayburn. http://www.tenteges.com/uncategorized/the-one-that-didnt-get-away-yields-long-lost-ring-ap AP - A northern Ohio artist known for envelope-pushing holiday displays is back ? with Santa Claus in a wheelchair being pushed down stairs by a crazed tree. http://www.tenteges.com/uncategorized/ohio-artist-offers-legless-santa-and-crazed-tree-ap AP - Things got a little spookier than expected during a ghost tour when a driver lost control of her car and plowed into the group. The Charleston Post and Courier reported two people suffered minor injuries in the Tuesday night accident near Charleston's famous Four Corners of Law at ... http://www.tenteges.com/uncategorized/ghost-tour-spooked-after-car-plows-into-group-ap AP - It may have seemed like a mirage: Two camels nibbling on a pine tree along a street in this desert metropolis on the Texas border. Police tried lassoing the animals, which lunged at the officers with snapping teeth as onlookers chuckled. http://www.tenteges.com/uncategorized/camels-found-wandering-in-mexican-border-city-ap AP - Authorities in southwest Florida say an intoxicated man had his 9-year-old son take him on a beer run. Cape Coral police arrested the 27-year-old man last week, after seeing a pickup truck drive onto a median. http://www.tenteges.com/uncategorized/fla-man-accused-of-making-boy-drive-on-beer-run-ap AP - A man using a candy cane lawn ornament fended off a knife-wielding neighbor who had been attacking holiday guests at a Sacramento home. Police spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong saID the man used the two-foot-tall plastic ornament to subdue the attacker until officers arrived. http://www.tenteges.com/uncategorized/man-uses-candy-cane-to-subdue-attacker-with-knife-ap AP - A lady lobster with four claws was pulled from the deep this week in the waters off Newport. With a large crusher claw and three pincher claws ? instead of the usual one ? the crustacean was unlike anything 39-year-old lobsterman Patrick Marks had ever seen in his ... http://www.tenteges.com/uncategorized/ri-man-bags-mutant-4-clawed-lady-lobster-ap AP - Usually when a charity wants a donor to return, the agency is seeking another contribution. Helping Hands in Bentonville wants the person who left what's apparently a funerary urn to come back and get it. http://www.tenteges.com/uncategorized/urn-left-at-helping-hands-charity-in-arkansas-ap Reuters - "The Sound of Music" has faded in the Austrian city of Salzburg, which has blocked plans to turn the original von Trapp family villa portrayed in the Hollywood favourite into a hotel, says the company behind the idea. http://www.tenteges.com/uncategorized/austrias-salzburg-resists-sound-of-music-hotel-reuters Reuters - Police have arrested a man in southeastern Nigeria who said in a television documentary he had killed 110 children he believed to be possessed by evil spirits, officials said on Wednesday. http://www.tenteges.com/uncategorized/nigeria-witchdoctor-held-over-child-killing-claim-reuters