Post-Christmas!

The ultimate Christmas poll

These questions were asked by dNeero members. Enjoy!

Pigeon poop plunge wins New Yorker six million dollars

NEW YORK (AFP) - A former New York doorman who slipped on a pile of pigeon droppings on a subway station's stairs has been awarded six million dollars in compensation, according to a report on Monday.
Fifty-six-year-old Shelton Stewart slipped on the station steps in 1998, injuring his neck and back, despite saying he had noticed the pile of excrement on his way to work the same day, the New York Post reported.
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Suspected Car Thieves Offer Man $50 To Hide In His House

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A suspected car thief on the run from Orange County deputies paid a man $50 to hide in his home.
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'I went into a coma and woke up a mum'

Lisa Allinson fell into a coma and woke six weeks later to find she was a mum.
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Christmas honest poll!

Alabama church group finds pot in their pizza

An Alabama church group got the shock of their lives when they found marijuana in their pizza.

It happened at a youth outing in Florence the day before Thanksgiving, and police still aren't sure where the pot came from.

The pizza came from a Papa John's restaurant in Florence.
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Indian Eatery Boasts Graveyard Seating

AHMADABAD, India (AP) — In India, death is a part of life — and, at one restaurant in western India, a part of lunch. The bustling New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad is famous for its milky tea, its buttery rolls, and the graves between the tables.

It's a spot where old men page through newspapers and argue politics in the morning while young couples share candlelit meals and hold hands at night. That the candles sit atop graves only adds to the ambiance.
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Man Accused of Selling Fake Coca-Cola

DETROIT (AP) — Federal authorities say a Warren man hasn't been selling "the real thing" to area restaurants. Officials say Cecil Donald St. Pierre has been offering a generic syrup for use in fountain drink dispensers, but labeling it as Coca-Cola.
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Packaged Product Trends to Watch in 2008

Whazzat?!

Cops Find Gator, Suspects in Basement

PITTSBURGH (AP) - City police found an unlikely resident along with three robbery suspects while searching a house: a 6-foot alligator. Officers stumbled across the reptile in the basement of the property in the city's Homewood section Wednesday night. They also found an emaciated pit bull.

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Holiday Company Party -- Beware

Young Chimp Beats College Students

NEW YORK (AP) - Never mind that TV show that asks if you're smarter than a fifth-grader. Is your memory better than a young chimp's?

Maybe not.

Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in two tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.

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First a bank robbery, then a manicure?

SARASOTA -- The bank robber's getaway went smoothly for about half a block.

But as he ran north on Pineapple Avenue downtown, the loot exploded, shooting red dye everywhere.

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Cinema and TV poll

Driver Passes Test, Then Hits Building

HOUSTON (AP) - A student driver passed his test Monday, then crashed the car into the Texas Department of Public Safety building. No one was hurt.

The man was parking the car when the vehicle went over the curb and hit a wall of the brick building, creating a small hole, DPS spokesman Tom Vinger said.

The driving examiner was not in the car, Vinger said.

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Court Sends Summons to Mickey Mouse

ROME (AP) - Your honor, I thought I saw a pussycat! Tweety may finally air his signature complaint in front of a judge, after an Italian court ordered the animated canary along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy to take the witness stand in a counterfeiting case.

In what lawyers believe was a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a court in Naples sent a summons to the characters ordering them to appear Friday in a trial in the southern Italian city, officials said.

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Cat survives 19 days with jar on head

A cat has survived for 19 days with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head.

The Cain family of Bartlett, Tennessee, have fed the feral cat, which they call Wild Oats, for several years.
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Miscellaneous!

The dNeero team is just getting weirder and weirder!
They sent me this email
The dNeero research team did a quick scan of poll / survey questions that are available on the Internet ... none of them pay you for your time ... so, have it.

Happy survey taking!

The dNeero Team

I took the survey.
Their options on the same sex couples were incomplete and I had to choose an option as it was compulsory - otherwise I would have skipped it.

2-seater!

Man Stole Plane To Impress Girlfriend

LaPORTE, Ind. -- A man accused of stealing a twin-engine plane and driving it down the taxiway staged the stunt while he was drunk to impress his girlfriend, police said.

Michael Santos, 38, was charged Friday with theft, criminal mischief and operating a vehicle after his driving privileges had previously been forfeited for life.
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Grocery shopping

Would you ever buy grocery online?
This was the survey emailed to me. Enjoy it.... from dneero!