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• Greek rural postmen beat nude mice, green Nazis to oddest book-title prize

• BASE jumper survives mountain crash with broken leg after problem with parachute

• Ga. police arrest woman they say starting mooning motorists after receiving jaywalking ticket

• Iowa police say alleged credit card thief signs his own name on receipts

• Alliance, Neb., man wounded in weekend shooting sues prosecutor get his prosthetic leg back

• Police say cross-dressing purse-snatcher left behind a strange clue: A condom filled with water

• Cat survives a 2 1/2-hour, 70-mile trip on a spare tire under owner's truck

• Body abandoned in Japan forest turns out to be life-size doll when unwrapped for autopsy

• Hungriest man eats 11.5 pounds of chili-spaghetti to win Ohio title, beats best-known eater

• Insurance scam unravels when 'dead man' keeps a doctor's appointment

• Michigan State grad a rising star with YouTube rap about high-level particle physics

• UK man banned from girlfriend's home because of noisy sex

• Ohio Burger King employee fired for bathing in restaurant sink, posting video on Web

• Scientists closer to developing material to render objects invisible

• Wash. letter carrier campaigns for kilts to be accepted as job attire by US Postal Service

• Ind. pastor breaks with convention, breaks his wrist by using dirt bike as prop during service

• Gun group tours Boise zoo in southwest Idaho while openly carrying handguns

• Dallas police find cocaine in car used by officers

• Mo. gov. cancels ceremony after honorees a no-show

• Colorado book borrower must spend time in prison

• Man robbed buying crack calls cops who arrest him

• Judge tells verbose lawyer to make it snappy

• Fake bouts showing men kissing draw suspicion

• Truck rams Concorde, knocks off its nose in NYC

• Ala. police nab Mercedes-climbing goat

• Man out-spits father, claims pit-spitting title

• Man accused of faking heart attacks to avoid bills

• Oregon lawn-chair pilot plans 300-mile flight