BOISE, Idaho – A Montana man who mimicked a female voice is exchanging his ill-gotten Tempur-Pedic mattress for a cot in a federal prison.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Idaho says 60-year-old Ricky Vaughn Barry of Hamilton, Mont., was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison for impersonating his ex-wife when speaking to company representatives.

The calls to open a line of credit and order a $4,000 bed and sheets were recorded.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Mitchell in Boise said the case against the former Coeur d’Alene resident developed after his ex-wife pulled her credit report and found accounts used to purchase the bed and a laptop.

The federal charges did not include the laptop purchase, but both items were sold to help pay just over $7,700 in restitution

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South Dakota: In hotels in Sioux Falls, every room is required to have twin beds. And the beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it’s illegal to make love on the floor between the beds!

Tennessee: It is illegal for a woman to call a man for a date.

Rhode Island: Exercising any labor, business, or work, or using any game, sport, play, or recreation, or causing any of the above to be done to or by your children, servants, or apprentices on the first day of the week (Sunday) results in a penalty of $5 for the first offense and $10 for the second.

New Mexico: Females are strictly forbidden to appear unshaven in public.

It is a well known and oft told tale.  St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, becoming the country’s patron saint.  Well, Robert Hughes of Richton Park, Illinois is no St. Patrick.  He was attempting to drive the squirrels out of a wall of his home.  The man decided to use a smoke bomb, which he placed in the rain gutter near a hole the animals used for entry.  In the ensuing fire both Hughes’s home and the home of the next door neighbor were damaged.  Both houses are now boarded up but on the bright side, Hughes says the squirrels are gone.

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An Israeli model doing a photo shoot with a large boa constrictor made a mistake in how she handled the reptile. While trying for sexy pictures she allowed the snake too much free movement and paid a price. The snake bit her left breast and into her silicone implant. The snake paid a bigger price, while the model has a bite wound and required a tetanus shot, the snake died from silicone poisoning.

Normally I would have posted the video here, but it’s just too plain sad; so you will just have to Google it, sorry!

An Egyptian man in his early twenties has named his newborn daughter ‘Facebook’ following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution which was almost solely organized on the social-networking site Facebook. The father, Gamal Ibrahim, told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram that he gave his child the name to “express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth.”

The protests, which were largely organized on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, began on January 25 and led to the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year reign as president of Egypt.

The Al-Ahram report stated that, “The girl’s family, friends, and neighbors in the Ibrahimya region gathered around the new-born to express their continuing support for the revolution that started on Facebook. ‘Facebook’ received many gifts from the youth who were overjoyed by her arrival and the new name. A name that shocked the entire world.”

The Egyptian spelling of ‘Facebook’ is فيس بوك.

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From: Weird Asia News

Founded in February of 2001, Ordos, whose name translates from the Mongolian into “palaces,” is an enigmatic riddle. It is an empty city although it is inhabited and it is richer by far than the nation’s capitol, Beijiing.

Explanations are in order. The city’s 1,548,000 could hardly classify it as a ghost town as far as population numbers go, but much of its futuristic infrastructure is over-developed, unused and under-designed. The growth of Ordos is positively absurd; its density remains 17.8 people per square kilometer. By comparison, New York City has 157.91 habitants per square kilometer.

It took five years to build this ghost town with funds created by a $585 billion stimulus package meant to bolster China’s economy despite its painful recession. The Inner Mongolian city was meant to accommodate some one million residents and yet it remains empty. Filled with office towers, administrative centers, government buildings, museums, theaters, sports fields and acres of subdivisions bursting with residential space, there remains only one small problem. No one lives there! Ordos’s low population is oddly matched by its high income, which is due to its nearby coal mines and other rich natural resources which include: textile (wool), petrochemicals, electricity generation and production of building materials. As far as the rest of China is concerned, Ordos retains the second highest per capita income, after Shanghai. Construction management companies insist that all units have been sold (purchased by investors), but for whatever reason, no one is moving in! If Ordos ever takes off the way it was originally planned, there is little doubt that the result will be a great return on the original investment.

One can only surmise that old saying about “build it and they will come” doesn’t always work. Cities are more successful when their expansion correlates with the needs of its population.

From: Nerdshit.com:

In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.

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On August 16, 1951, the inhabitants were suddenly racked with frightful hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire.

One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: “I am a plane”, before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in strait jackets.

Telegraph.Co.Uk

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From News Of The Weird:

Alex Good, 15, practicing tee shots with his high school golf team on a rainy day underneath a golf course awning, had one of his drives hit the metal pole holding the awning up, causing the ball to ricochet into his eye, resulting in likely permanent damage. Despite the fact that the pole was directly in front of the tee, inches away, Good nonetheless charged the Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club (Hillsboro, Ore.) with negligence and filed a $3 million lawsuit in January. [KATU-TV (Portland, Ore.), 1-21-2011]

Photo from: KATU.com