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N.C. Man Claims Close Encounter With Blond Bigfoot

By Lee Speigel

When a 10-foot-tall blond Bigfoot reportedly showed up on Tim Peeler's property, he claims he yelled at it and poked it with a stick.

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Armless Woman Never Needs a Hand
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Australia's 'Guardian Angel' Has Saved 160 Suicidal People -- Joe Peacock
It's Bananas: A Coat-Hanger King Kong! -- David Moye
NYC Vows to Use Science Against Subway Rats -- Lisa Flam
North Korea: Our Soccer Fans Are Real -- Lauren Frayer
Man Finds $58 in Dog Doo -- Joe Peacock
Goldman Sachs May Be Battling Bed Bugs -- Hugh Collins

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Man Returns iPad Because He Missed Being Bored

3 hours 27 minutes ago |AOL News

Paul Sakuma, AP

(June 16) -- Apple's much-ballyhooed iPad has found at least one dissatisfied customer. Peter Bregman, a New York-based management consultant, said he returned his iPad to the store within days becau ...

Report: Goldman Sachs May Be Battling Bedbugs

6 hours 12 minutes ago |AOL News

Mark Lennihan, AP

(June 16) -- Employees of investment bank Goldman Sachs are used to being called "fat cats," thanks to their massive bonuses and relentlessly successful business. But now the firm may be dealing with ...

Man Finds $58 in Dog Doo

6 hours 31 minutes ago |AOL News

DoodyCalls Pet Waste Removal, AP

(June 16) -- Pet waste removal is a dirty job -- so it's only fitting that Steve Wilson got compensated in dirty money. Wilson, a worker with the St. Louis firm DoodyCalls Pet Waste Removal, was clea ...

Diplomats: North Korean Soccer Fans Are Genuine

7 hours 30 minutes ago |AOL News

Tom Curley, AP

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (June 16) -- A North Korean diplomat told AOL News that despite rumors about North Korean soccer fans at the World Cup actually being Chinese ringers, his compatriots are inde ...

NYC Vows to Use Science Against Subway Rats

8 hours 31 minutes ago |AOL News

Frank Franklin II, AP

(June 16) -- Rats! They've plagued New York City for decades, and despite efforts to rid them from the subway system with traps and poison, subway riders still spot the unwelcome creatures on a regul ...

Australia's 'Guardian Angel' Has Saved 160 Suicidal People

9 hours 56 minutes ago |AOL News

AP Photo / Jeremy Piper

(June 16) -- It's good to see that among all the headlines of death, destruction, greed, oil spills, earthquakes and horrific crap, there's still folks out there who do good things, even if they get ...

Threading a Needle No Problem for China's Armless Wonder

13 hours 27 minutes ago |AOL News

Quirky China News / Rex / Rex USA

(June 16) -- A 65-year-old armless woman in China has been named the best embroiderer in her village. And while this seems like an unimaginable achievement, given her disability, it is not. Ren Jiem ...

Coat-Hanger King Kong Drives Art Lovers Bananas

14 hours 14 minutes ago |AOL News

Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images

(June 16) -- Art lovers in England are going bananas for a giant sculpture of an angry gorilla made from, of all things, coat hangers. The sculpture, called "Silver Streak," is by acclaimed artist Da ...

Bike Riders Strip Naked in Protest

1 day 5 hours ago |AOL News

Alfredo Estrella, AFP/Getty Images

(June 15) -- Some dream of the Tour de France. For others, it's the "Tour Sans Pants." Cyclists around the globe jumped out of their trousers and on to their bikes for the World Naked Bike Ride last ...

Woman Accused of Dumping Mayo on Library Books

1 day 7 hours ago |AOL News

Photo provided by Ada County Jail

(June 15) -- Idaho police believe they've nabbed Boise's messiest reader. Since May 2009, officials have been on the lookout for a person who has been smearing mustard, mayo and other barbecue staple ...

No Bull: Matador Arrested After Fleeing Ring

1 day 10 hours ago |AOL News

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(June 15) -- Matador Christian Hernandez found himself quite literally on the horns of a dilemma. He had been badly gored in the leg several months before, and here he was again face to face with a b ...

Newsweek Reveals Secret Zombie Apocalypse

1 day 12 hours ago |AOL News

Newsweek.com

(June 15) -- The zombies invaded over the weekend, and you didn't even know it. While most of us were content in our weekend routines of watching sports, cooking or tending to our yards, Newsweek too ...