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The Best in Weird News

By Buck Wolf, About.com

Looking for a rundown of the best in weird news? Here you'll find the latest in bizarre trends, nude news, bizarre reports from around the world, and the strangest of the strange.

Naughty Nazi: New AIDS Ad Shows Hitler Having Sex

Meet the new face of AIDS: Adolf Hitler. A controversial new ad campaign links the notoriously evil dictator to the notoriously deadly disease.

Dumb Criminal Du Jour

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Here's your daily dishing of the day's most ridiculous crime of the day. Another day, another loser tries to break the law, and it's our right to laugh our ass off, as long as it comes at the perp's expense . . . and no one gets seriously injured.

Love, Sex and Marriage

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Imagine finding out on your wedding day that your bride-to-be was also your long-lost twin. What if you came to a wedding and found the groom was a cross-dresser and wearing a white gown? If you ever doubted that love is blind, deaf and dumb, here's evidence to the contrary.

Morbid Pleasures

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Death is not the end, especially for the widow who takes her husband's ashes to football games. An obsession with death and dying can yield many curious results.

Hysterical Prudishness

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Feeling a tad uptight? Take a look at how America protects itself . . . from itself.

Mod Modification

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Be honest. Isn't there part of you that you would like to change? While some men are getting breast reduction, a record amount are now getting pectoral implants.

Idiodic Moves

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Why do so many people stash firearms and fireworks in their oven? The result: Always predictable.

Very Kinky

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What do you say when you meet your wife at a brothel? What do you say to the guy accused of stealing sex dolls?

That's Disgusting!

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Grit your teeth, and get ready to be grossed out. And maybe you should ask yourself, "Why, why, why do people like me read news like this?"

Tales From the Drunk Side

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Meet the man charged with "Lawnmower DWI" . . . and the police chief fired for stealing beer.

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