http://expressmilwaukee.com/articles.sec-16-1-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 CDT en hourly 1 http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-21077-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  Caribou Baby, a Brooklyn, N.Y., "eco-friendly maternity, baby and lifestyle store," has recently been hosting gatherings at which parents exchange tips on "elimination communication"—the weaning of infants without benefit

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-21045-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  In March, twin sisters Louise and Martine Fokkens, 70, announced their joint retirement after more than 50 years each on the job—as Amsterdam prostitutes. (In February, the minimum age for prostitutes in the Netherlands was

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To counter the now-well-publicized culture of rape in India, three engineers in Chennai recently said that they are about to market women's anti-rape lingerie, which will provide both a stun gun-sized blast of electricity against

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20935-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  In some jurisdictions, a driver can be presumed impaired with a blood alcohol reading as low as .07 (and suggestively impaired at a reading below that), but according to a WMAQ-TV investigation in February

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20894-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  Wait…what? A startup company in Austin, Texas, also serving San Francisco, promises to take its customers' incoming U.S. mail three times a week, photograph it and deliver it back to the customers

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20845-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  In March, Microsoft was fined 561 million euros (about $725 million) by the European Commission after, apparently, a programmer carelessly left out just one line of code in Microsoft's Service Pack 1 of the European

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20810-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  One of the many decisions greeting Pope Francis, as salon.com pointed out, is whether to officially recognize a Patron Saint of Handgunners—as urged by a U.S. organization of activists for more than 20 years. According to

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Leaders of the ice-fishing community, aiming for official Olympics recognition as a sport, have begun the process by asking the World Anti-Doping Agency to randomly test its "athletes" for performance-enhancing drugs

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20738-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  One of Britain's most famous "madams" announced in January that she was coming out of retirement to set up a brothel exclusively catering to disabled people and the terminally ill. An ordinary brothel would be

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20705-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html An Arizona appeals court ruled in February that someone can be guilty of driving under the influence of marijuana even when its psychoactive ingredient has long ago left his/her system. Since tests of marijuana measure both

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20625-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  An estimated 3.2 million kids under 13 take mixed-martial arts classes, training to administer beat-downs modeled after the adults' Ultimate Fighting Championships, according to a January report in ESPN

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20560-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  California activist Jonathan Frieman finally got his day in court in January, but a Marin County judge quickly rejected his argument that he is entitled to use the state's carpool lanes accompanied only by a sheaf of corporate

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20528-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20505-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20462-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20429-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  Updating "The Smell of Napalm in the Morning": A cosmetics company in the Gaza Strip recently began selling a fragrance dedicated to victory over Israel and named after the signature M-75 missile that Hamas has been

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20404-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  Update: Gary Medrow, 68, has periodically surfaced in News of the Weird since 1991 for his unique behavior of using a false identity to persuade Milwaukee-area strangers over the phone to lift other strangers off the ground

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20371-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  The head of the Perse School in Cambridge, England, recently instituted a "10-Second Rule" for minor disciplinary infractions: Students could avoid punishment if they quickly produced a clever explanation

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20357-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html Plastic surgeons in Turkey and France told CNN in November that mustache implants have suddenly surged in popularity as Middle Eastern men use their increased lip bushiness to convey power and prestige

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20329-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  If an asteroid is ever on a collision course with Earth, it is feasible that the planet could be saved by firing paintballs at it, according to an MIT graduate student whose detailed plan won the 2012 Move an Asteroid

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20194-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20138-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  "Coming Up Next! The Resurrection! Live!" "If the Messiah descends from the Mount of Olives as foretold in the Bible," wrote the Los Angeles Times in an October dispatch from Jerusalem, the two largest Christian television

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20111-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  Equestrian show jumping has long been an Olympic sport. For the last 10 years, however, equestrians have been performing in "horseless" show jumping, in which human “riders” run through the courses on foot. According

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-20012-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html China, Japan and Taiwan each claim ownership of the uninhabited South China Sea islands of Senkaku (as they are known in Japan), or Diaoyu (as China calls them)...]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-19995-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  Dakoda Garren, 19, was arrested in Vancouver, Wash., in September on suspicion of stealing an antique coin collection in May that was estimated to be worth $100,000. Garren and his girlfriend were identified...

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-19949-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  In June, the two aspiring criminals arrested for trying to rob Zhen Yang's convenience store in Gatineau, Quebec, were immortalized by the store's surveillance video. As Yang resisted the masked, knife-wielding men...

]]> http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-19921-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-19872-chuck-shepherds-news-of-the-weird.html  In July, Lowell Turpin, 40, was arrested in Anderson County, Tenn., after he became jealous of a stranger's photo on his live-in girlfriend's Facebook page and, demanding to know the identity of the man...

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