The Minneapolis city attorney's office has decided to pay seven zombies and their attorney $165,000.

The payout, approved by the City Council on Friday, settles a federal lawsuit the seven filed after they were arrested and jailed for two days for dressing up like zombies in downtown Minneapolis on July 22, 2006, to protest "mindless" consumerism.

When arrested at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and 6th Street N., most of them had thick white powder and fake blood on their faces and dark makeup around their eyes. They were walking in a stiff, lurching fashion and carrying four bags of sound equipment to amplify music from an iPod when they were arrested by police who said they were carrying equipment that simulated "weapons of mass destruction."

However, they were never charged with any crime.

Although U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen had dismissed the zombies' lawsuit, it was resurrected in February by a three-judge panel of the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, read more...

HAHA NICE! ~WTF

A flight attendant ran out of patience on a plane that just landed at JFK on Monday afternoon, so he allegedly cursed a blue streak over the p.a. system, grabbed some beers, pulled the emergency chute, slid down and ran from the plane, sources said.

Jet Blue employee Steven Slater, 38, of Belle Harbor, Queens is due to make a first appearance in court today.

He was working on Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh to Kennedy Airport, which landed at around 12 p.m., when he got into a verbal altercation with a passenger, law-enforcement sources said.

Following a heated exchange, the flight attendant told off the entire plane on the public address system, activated an emergency chute near the back of the plane and jumped down the evacuation slide and ran for it.

The argument began when one of the 100 passengers on the flight, got up early to get her luggage from an overhead compartment, according to sources. Slater told the passenger to sit back down -- but, as he read more...

...or allowed internet access......everybody in this video especially. ~WTF

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Midwest City, Okla. - Midwest City police say they have arrested the so-called "underwear bandit" - a woman who wore a girdle to cover her face while robbing a McDonald's restaurant.

Police Chief Brandon Clabes says Sharon Lain was taken into custody Wednesday on burglary and drug complaints.

Surveillance video showed someone reach through a drive-through window at the restaurant and take money from an unattended cash register early Tuesday. The woman had underwear on over her face that was attached with yellow paper clips.

Clabes says when officers arrested Lain at her residence, which had been condemned, they found drugs, a girdle, yellow paper clips and dark clothing that matched what the burglar was wearing in the video.

He says Lain told police she had a gambling problem and stole the money to spend at Remington Park. read more...

SWISSVALE, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities say a Pittsburgh-area man robbed a bank wearing a woman's blond wig, fake breasts under a sweater and clown pants.

Swissvale police say 48-year-old Dennis Hawkins of North Braddock was sitting in a parked car covered in red dye from an exploding packet in a bag of money when he was arrested Saturday.

Police Chief Greg Geppert says Hawkins robbed the bank at gunpoint, using a toy BB gun he had shoplifted from a store.

Geppert says Hawkins then entered a woman's car. She got out, took her keys and alerted police. Hawkins was found sitting in the car.

He is being held on $230,000 bail. It's not clear whether he has an attorney. read more...

I guess times are tough for the evil empire even? ~WTF

SETAUKET, N.Y. - Be on the lookout for Darth Vader, with a gun.

That's what police in Long Island are saying after a man robbed a Setauket bank Thursday morning dressed as the Star Wars character.

While the suspect did wear a full Vader helmet and mask for his 11:30 a.m. hit, the rest of his costume was off the mark. Investigators report he was sporting a blue cape and camouflage pants.

The man, who's described as 6 feet, 2 inches tall, was last seen fleeing through a nearby parking lot with an undisclosed amount of cash.

The Star Wars-themed bank job is the latest in a series of odd robberies in the New York area.

On Monday, New York City police arrested a man who robbed a bank with a bouquet of flowers in hand. And investigators are still searching for a woman who's recently robbed retail stores while wearing a cat mask. read more...

CADDO MILLS, Texas -- It was raining marijuana in a rural area of East Texas.

Hunt County Undersheriff Joe Knight said homeowners near Greenville reported hearing duffel bags filled with what appeared to be marijuana thud onto their roofs early Monday.

Knight said his department was advised about 5:30 a.m. Monday to watch for a low-flying aircraft. A single-engine plane was found abandoned in a field beside a runway at Caddo Mills Municipal Airport about two hours later.

No injuries or damage were reported. Knight said the public has turned in four black nylon duffel bags filled with what appeared to be high-grade, hydroponic marijuana. Deputies found two other bags of pot in the plane.

A man is in custody for questioning, but no charges have been filed in the case.

Caddo Mills is about 35 miles northeast of Dallas. read more...

Four young men living in Cerro Gordo county, near the Minnesota line, purchased and drank a keg of Eastern-brewed beer some days ago, and as a result three of them have died and the fourth is now in terrible agony, and is reported to be on the point of death.

The day was warm and the beer was consumed hurriedly by the friends, who little realized that they were sipping a death-dealing draught. They were all taken sick immediately, and although a physician was soon summoned, the taking off of three of the young bibbers could not be prevented.

To ascertain, if possible, the strange cause of the sickness, the keg was broken into and the decomposed remains of a genuine rattlesnake was found. Improbable as the story sounds, it is true; and is rendered plausible by the fact that empty kegs are often left lying around for weeks before being shipped back to the breweries. It is thus easy for reptiles and insects to crawl into the kegs as cool resorts.

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WHAT THE EFFF IS THAT???

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Wow......I know a couple of "dudes" that'll be getting furry pink cases for their new iphones...~WTF

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WTF??

It all started one day in yoga class...

Cute tight little yoga pants, front row, right by the big mirrors for the whole class to check out my yoga poses, and something else...the dreaded..."cameltoe." That's where the idea for Camelflage was conceived. I looked at department stores, on-line for a solution for this problem. There was nothing. There were blogs and YouTube videos posted of women complaining about the same problem "cameltoe," and how embarrassing it was for them. They were needing a solution too. So, I designed a patent pending women's panty that has a built in flexible, breathable, insert to smooth out her "Labia Majora" AKA "cameltoe." Covering the insert is a Sportek wicking fabric that pulls moisture away from your body and keeps you dry.

I've decided to keep all manufacturing in the United States. The panty is made in Los Angeles while the inserts are cut in Northglenn, Colorado. When you pur read more...

LEWISTON, N.Y.- Police in western New York say two Hamilton men attended a church festival and wound up in the woods drunk, naked and covered in mud.

State police say troopers found a 22-year-old man from Hamilton, Ontario sitting along a road in the town of Lewiston, just outside Niagara Falls, around 5:45 a.m. Sunday.

Troopers say he was caked in mud. After questioning him, troopers found a 23-year-old man from Hamilton covered in mud and passed out in a ditch nearby.

Police say both men were highly intoxicated.

State police at Niagara and the Lewiston police, after rescuing both men and taking them to the hospital, learned that they apparently had gone to the St. John de LaSalle Carnival in Niagara Falls and afterwards decided to dance naked in the woods.

“It’s definitely an anomaly to come across two individuals highly intoxicated, naked and covered in mud,” Trooper William Persinger of the State Police at Niagara said. “They took the St. John’s Fest and made it a W read more...

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I have a bunch of old underwear I could sell some people then ~WTF

Talk about a ripoff. A cotton T-shirt covered with dozens of holes and tears is taking high-end fashion to a whole new level - with a tidy $1,625 price tag.

French designer Christophe Decarnin is the mastermind behind the expensive olive-green number from haute couture brand Balmain.

It has been described as "stylishly disheveled cool" by luxury fashion retailer net-a-porter.com, but has economy-conscious New Yorkers thinking otherwise.

"I don't have the money for that," said Bronx beautician Milli Rosario, 47, who gasped when she heard the price of the item.

"My rent, credit cards, all my bills for one month only come to $2,000.

"For a T-shirt, the most I will pay is $12."

"Even if I had the money, I don't like it," she added.

The "slashed Army T-shirt" has several small and large holes on the front and back, and is read more...

Uhhhhhh what??

DALLAS - A new scent claims to accurately capture the "the vaginal scent of a beautiful woman."

Vulva Original bills itself not as a perfume, but an erotic feminine scent designed to offer pleasure and arousal by smelling it.

It is not clear what compromises the concoction but it is advertised as being a "slightly yellow, desirable substance" that contains "more organic content."

Users are urged to apply it to certain areas of the body via a roll-on applicator.

The product, apparently available only online via its official Web site, sells for about $33.

The site is peppered with provocative photos and opens with a video depicting a woman working out on a stationary exercise bike. read more...

Freaky ~WTF

A 6-year-old boy from China, who was born with 5 extra fingers and 6 extra toes, has undergone an operation to remove his extra digits, the Daily Mail reported. If you do the math – that’s 31 fingers and toes.

The unnamed child suffered from a condition known as polydactyly, in which a person has more than five fingers per hand and five toes per foot. This condition can occur on its own without any other symptoms or underlying disease, according to the National Institutes of Health, or may be inherited.

In this case, the boy appeared to have central polydactyly, where an extra digit of a long or ring finger is concealed in a web between the adjoining normal fingers.

The boy’s mother said he has been ridiculed all his life because of the malformation, but thanks to a six hour surgery at a hospital in Shenyang, China, doctors were able to remove the extra toes and fingers. read more...

Female homicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies have reportedly discovered.

The shocking new Al Qaeda tactic involves radical doctors inserting the explosives in women's breasts during plastic surgery — making them "virtually impossible to detect by the usual airport scanning machines."

It is believed the doctors have been trained at some of Britain's leading teaching hospitals before returning to their own countries to perform the surgical procedures.

MI5 has also discovered that extremists are inserting the explosives into the buttocks of some male bombers.

"Women suicide bombers recruited by Al Qaeda are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery," Terrorist expert Joseph Farah claims.


The lethal explosives called PETN are inserted inside plastic shapes during the operation, before the breast is then sewn up.

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