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Updated: 7:15 p.m. ET Sept. 3, 2007

A serial crank caller using a donated cell phone has plagued 911 with nearly 2,000 fake emergency calls over the past six months, tying up dispatchers and sending police and firefighters on wild goose chases, authorities said. Full story

Farmer sued for abnormal agricultural sound

Man loses pants, luckily not his shirt

'Stache bash is one hairy contest

Ninja ‘affront’ angers kung fu monks

Burglar returns stolen goods, apologizes

Beijing to fix menus that are lost in translation

Elementary school bans tag

Cars smash man's home for 10th time

$100 million is a lot of bones for skull artwork

Second round of triplets born to Ohio couple

High schooler pulls off ultimate prank vs. rivals

12 fingers, 12 toes on newborn boy

Sprawling spider web blankets Texas trail

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Gonzales to spend more time eavesdropping on family

McCain puts his campaign bus on eBay

Bush proposes sending Transformers™ to Iraq

Illegal immigrants seek Scooter’s deal

Cheney declares himself a national monument

Ralph Nader’s ego enters 2008 race

Congress hires illegals to write immigration bill

TB guy tops Bush in new poll

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Who wins — a ninja or a bunch of Shaolin monks?

Should town pay for Army’s explosive mistake?

Should boar tusk gag dentist get reimbursed?

Was school right to ban girl’s virginity ring?

Do the markings on the rock look like Elvis to you?

Should cop who made pot brownies be charged?

Does $65 million suit over pants have a leg to stand on?

Does chocolate Jesus sculpture offend you?

Would you buy doggie beer for your pooch?

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Hey! You there! We skipped a couple of weeks of Most Peculiar! votes because the Peculiaritymeister was on vacation and too lazy to organize the votes in his absence. Well, he's back and guiltily making up for lost time. So vote on the strangest story in the latest week's batch, the stories from the week before that and the stories from the week before that! And if you're really good, you'll prove wrong his detractors who say there's no way he'll get any votes on the past weeks. In the interest of cheating, so he can say nyaah-nyaah at said detractors, voting on all three weeks will run through Tuesday, instead of the usual niggling Monday-only timetable. Vote early and often! Please!

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Mom lets 5-year-old drive
Aug. 31: An Indiana mother is arrested for letting her 5-year-old son drive because she was too intoxicated to take the wheel. WTHR's Chris Proffitt reports.

Man eats only SPAM for month

Snakes in a pageant

Naked hula for a beer

Chocolate-covered worms

Cops: Man lassoes another man during fight

Shoplifter leaves child behind

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The naked hula robber
Aug. 30: In Missouri, two men went into a liquor store. While one guy stole a beer, the other took off his clothes and did a hula dance to distract the clerk.

Aug. 29: Tomato festival

Aug. 28: Port-a-potty fire

Aug. 27: Naked sign language news

Aug. 24: Fish jumps into a boat

Aug. 23: Bolivia government fights

Aug. 22: Three horned cow

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