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In Taiwan, where compa- nies are required to give newlyweds eight days of paid leave, an unnamed bank employee in Taipei used a loophole in the law to claim 32 days of leave over 37 days last year, reported Agence France-Presse on April 21.
Play The Newlywed Game For Extra Days Off
The man and his wife got married four times and di- vorced three times, claiming eight days of leave for each wedding in order to maximize the length of their honey- moon. The bank complained to the city labor department, which sided with the em- ployee and fined the bank about $670 for violating the regulation, sparking public criticism.
A Witch Who Makes Money Disappear
ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GALACGAC
over his head and face, and then opened them to reveal one filled with blood, one with needles and a third with worms, according to the re- port. She instructed the man to bring her all the money he had so she could bless it
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Caron McBride, 52, ap- plied to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles to change her name on her driver’s li- cense after getting married in November, and was told to call the Cleveland Coun- ty District Attorney’s of- fice in Oklahoma, where she learned she was wanted there on a charge of felony embezzlement for failing to return a VHS tape of Sabrina the Teenage Witch to a video store in Norman in1999.
John Hinkle, 39, a two- time NCAA bowling cham- pion for Western Illinois University, shot a perfect 300 game on April 12 at Land- mark Lanes in Peoria, using a ball containing his father’s ashes. Because he bowls with two hands, Hinkle said he is allowed only two holes in his bowling ball, so he had the thumb hole filled with some of his father’s ashes after the elder Hinkle, who introduced him to the sport, died in 2016, United Press International re- ported.
A Tale Of The Tape
with at the time must have gotten it for his two young daughters. On April 23, pros- ecuters in Norman said they would drop the charge and expunge McBride’s record.
Canine Chronicles
Newsweek reported a dog lover in Hobbs, New Mexi- co, who identifies himself as @girthbrooks1994 on Tik- Tok, couldn’t figure out why the English bulldog he’d been given didn’t respond to any of the commands he gave it until he tried something different — Spanish. Now named Se- nor Snax, the dog is shown on posted videos readily obeying commands such as “dame la mano” and “sientate” (“give me your hand” and “sit down”).
Bowling For Dad
The labor department later revoked the fine “to recognize a mistake and improve,” it said.
and multiply it at her temple in Fort Myers, promising to return it the next day, police said, but Rosalia hasn’t been seen since.
“I thought, this is insane,” McBride said, but prosecu- tors accused her of “willful- ly, unlawfully and feloniously embezzle(ing)” the tape, val- ued at $58.59, according to court documents.
“I had tears in my eyes in the 11th and 12th frames. I couldn’t tell you where that last ball went,” Hinkle said. “He was there.”
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reported McBride had no memory of renting the tape, but guessed the man she lived
“He’s a bien boy and very spoiled,” says the proud own- er.
Send your weird news items to weirdnewstips@ amuniversal.com.
‘Witch’Way Did She Go?
Police have identified more victims in the course of their ongoing investigation.
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Police in Naples, Flori- da, are looking for a woman identified only as “Rosalia,” a self-described witch who is suspected of swindling more than $100,000 from at least 10 victims.
Authorities were first alert- ed to the scam on March 14 when a man called to report that Rosalia had disappeared with $29,500 of his money, according to a police report. The man said he had respond- ed to a flier advertising Ro- salia’s “witchcraft services,” WBBH-TV reported.
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She allegedly told the man she saw something “dark” in his future and gave him three eggs to put under his bed as he slept. When he brought them back the next day, she waved the eggs
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