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6 The Top 100 Weird Stories of 2008 6 The Top 100 Weird Stories of 2008 The Top 100 Weird Islands is considered an illegal activity. 57. Nine Women Arrested After Oral The Top 100 Weird Stories of 2008 64. Teen Hacker May Get 38 Years in Sex Competition Stories of 2008 In July, nine British women were arrested for Continued from Page 4 Jail for Changing His Grades participating in an oral sex contest on the Greek Continued from Page 4 An 18-year-old from Orange County, Calif., is island of Zakynthos. Each was charged with facing 38 years in prison after being arrested for prostitution, and the male parts of the equation 70. Woman Has Full-Sized Wedding hacking into his school's computer system and were hit with encouraging obscene behavior. " Cake of Herself changing his failing grades to As. It is alleged Instead of just getting one of those generic Omar Khan broke into the school using a master 56. Formerly Rude Customer Leaves bride-and-groom cake toppers, Chidi Ogbuta key, and then installed spyware on the school's Waitress $50K and a Buick went all out and had her entire wedding cake hard drives, allowing him to change his grades Waitress Melina Salazar served Walter "Buck" molded into her image -- and her image alone. from home. Swords, despite his curses and unreasonable Our advice to the groom-to-be? Run. Run hard, demands, over the course of seven years. When and run fast. And when your muscles ache, and 63. Man with Suicide Victim's Heart the cantankerous old man died at 89, he the burn of your lungs becomes unbearable ... Takes Own Life surprised everybody by leaving Salazer run some more. In April, a man who 12 years earlier received a $50,000 and his Buick. It's like the sappy, heart transplant from a suicide victim -- and made-for-TV version of "As Good as It Gets." 69. Boy Fed Zoo Reptiles to Crocodile then married the dead man's wife -- also died of A seven-year-old boy scaled a fence at the Alice a self-inflected gunshot wound. According to 55. Fake Seat Belt Fools Police, Fails Springs Reptile Centre in Australia and then Zlorp, "Anyone thinking the heart has anything to Cheat Death proceeded to kill thirteen exotic animals -- to do with it is clearly overlooking the fact that mostly by throwing them into an enclosure the wife is the likely culprit here." A New Zealand man who had been ticketed 32 housing a hungry crocodile. The smirking boy's times for not wearing his seat belt finally had 30-minute reptile massacre was captured on 62. Dozens of High School Girls Make enough and designed a homemade fake seat belt security cameras, prompting outrage in Pact to get Pregnant to throw off the fuzz. Then he died when he was Australia. thrown into his steering wheel during a low- Last summer it was discovered that 17 girls at impact collision. 68. Teen Delivers LSD Cookies to Gloucester High School were expecting babies - - more than four times the number of Police Departments pregnancies the school of 1,200 students had the 54. Fake Cop Arrested After Pulling It's usually just the stuff of urban legends, but, year before. What sprung this story into national Over Real Cop according to authorities, 18-year-old Christian prominence was a rumor that many of the girls A Connecticut man impersonating a police Phillips dosed a basket of cookies with LSD for had entered into some sort of pregnancy pact. officer got the shock of his life when he real, and then delivered it to his local police attempted to pull over a real police officer. department! Phillips may have even gotten 61. Portland High School Students Try Israel Gomez went all out in his deception, away with playing Timothy Leary to the to Fool Parents using a siren and loudspeaker to coax Lt. unknowing law enforcement set if he hadn't Ronald Bair off the road. Gomez was charged returned with another tripped out basket a few High school students in Portland, Ore., used with impersonating a police officer, reckless days later. Phillips denies there was any LSD in official school letterhead and stationery to mail driving and improper use of a red flashing light. the cookies, but admits his friends may have a note to parents asking them to consider It is further proof that we can all make our own baked some pot in as "a joke." opening up their homes for post-prom parties as bad luck. "a safe, secure place for students to have fun," 67. Woman to Harvest Virginity of Pro adding if adults "provide the alcohol, you can 53. Man Stole Buses, Drove Routes, have peace of mind knowing that (teenagers) Net Neutrality Nerds did not acquire it illegally." No word if any Returned Them at Night Tanya Devereaux, who gained notoriety last parents fell for it, but this is one of the better An 18-year-old allegedly stole Miami-Dade year by running for the Belgian senate on a senior pranks we've come across that didn't Transit buses on three occasions, and then platform of giving voters oral sex, is now involve cows. drove their routes. James Harris wore a proper offering to deflower any virgin who supports bus driver uniform during his crime, and net neutrality. Devereaux insists condoms must 60. Smart Kids Are More Likely to returned the buses and the fares to the depot be worn, and the act can't last more than 30 Become Drunks each night. The Grantman knows how the minutes (like that's likely.) authorities finally put the kibosh on Harris's Public health experts from the University of bizarre idea of a good time: "They caught him 66. Man Steals from Billboard Glasgow were able to obtain the childhood because he stood out like a sore thumb. He was mental ability scores of over 8,000 men and polite, friendly and on time." Operator, Bad Idea women in their 30s, and found -- much to their A New Zealander stealing lighting from a surprise --the higher the IQ, the higher the billboard managed to get photographed in the likelihood of developing a drinking problem. 52. Identical Twins Marry, Give Birth act by a friend of the man to whom the We suspect a lot of boozers are hoping these to Identical Twins equipment belonged. Billboard company findings hold up, as their perceived intellects proprietor Mark Venter then printed the image would be a great reason to party. Identical twins Diane and Darlene Nettemeier of the thief on four of his other billboards with met identical twins Craig and Mark Sanders ten the inscription: Who Is This Thief? Reward 59. Snorting a Brain Chemical Could years ago, and soon they were a pair of married $500 couples, with matching houses built next to Replace Sleep each other. Now, despite the million-to-one 65. Chuck Norris Sues, Says His Tears Move over, coffee. In the future we may be able odds, Diane and Craig have had identical twins to snort a brain chemical that not only keeps us of their own. No Cancer Cure awake, but doesn't cause the edginess of other Chuck Norris sued publisher Penguin over a stimulants. In fact, it could replace sleep 51. Teen Plots to Kill Jesus book based on a satirical Internet list of altogether. In April, police arrested an 18-year-old South "mythical facts" about him that the actor Carolina high school senior for threatening to claimed unfairly exploits his name. The lawsuit 58. Toys 'R Us Sells a Tramp Stamp for blow up his school. Ryan Schallenberger told alleges "some of the 'facts' in the book are racist, Kids authorities he wanted to die, go to heaven, and lewd or portray Mr. Norris as engaged in illegal kill Jesus. activities." Meaning if the suit goes to trial, we Toys 'R Us is now selling a removable lower- will finally find out if devirginizing the Virgin back tattoo for the littlest wannabe Britney. Continued on Page 7