November 6, 2007

Strange News

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Shake your booty in your boxers -- and possibly win five grand. Jockey is launching UnderWars. It's a dance contest for adults, who'll post videos of themselves boogeying in their briefs. Men and women are invited to participate and they're allowed to wear T-shorts or tops along with their skivvies. And Jockey says the undies may be of any brand. The Wisconsin-based underwear maker doesn't want the dancers to get too carried away, though. Jockey's Patty McIntosh says they want to keep it clean but fun. The daring dancers have until November 15th to strut their stuff and upload their videos.

SNAKES IN A TUB

DUBLIN, Texas (AP) - Jackie Bibby, the "Texas Snake Man," is at it again. Yesterday, he spent about 45 minutes in a see-through bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes. He shatters his own record by 12 snakes just in time for Guinness World Records Day. That's Thursday and a Guinness official was there to witness the recording-breaking slithering. Bibby says the snakes were crawling anywhere they wanted to, including between his legs and under his arms. He says he wasn't bitten, but did wear clothes during his dry snake bath. Today, Bibby says he'll try setting another record. That's holding 11 rattlesnakes by their tails in his mouth at once.

MAMMOTH TOOTH

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) - The tooth fairy is going to need some help if she stops at Kaleb Kidd's house. The 3-year-old has a mammoth molar. In fact it's a tooth from an extinct woolly mammoth. Gary Kidd says his grandson spotted an unusual rock and wanted to know what it was. It's actually a tooth that weighs two pounds and is six inches long. Experts at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse identified the tooth and say it could be 10,000 to 30,000 years old. The tooth is now on temporary display at an art gallery.

SALARY GIVEAWAY

KEENE, N.H. (AP) - Sounds like a pretty good campaign promise -- vote for me and I'll give you my paycheck. But the New Hampshire Attorney General's office has ordered a Kenne City Council candidate to stop making the promise. Julia Miranda had said she would give her salary to random voters if elected. But the A.G.'s office says a promise like that amounts to a bribe. Now, Miranda says she'll give 16 $500 checks to nonprofits. Miranda is a member of the Free State Project, a group encouraging libertarian-minded people to move to New Hampshire.

DIAMOND FOUND

MURFREESBORO, Ark. (AP) - Easy come. Easy go. That nearly describes Chad Johnson's latest diamond find. He says he almost tossed away a rock that actually is 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond. Johnson has found about 80 diamonds at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park. Johnson made his latest diamond dig Saturday. Good thing he took a second look at the discards yesterday before pitching the leftover rocks and dirt. Park officials report Johnson's diamond is the second-largest gem discovered there this year. The park is the world's only diamond-producing site open to the public.

CAMPUS CONDOMS

FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) - There won't be any free condoms in a campus paper at a Southern California college. Editors of the Daily Titan at Cal State, Fullerton, had planned to put 4,500 condoms in the November 14th edition. Dean of Students Bob Palmer says some students complained about the planned condom giveaway. Palmer says instead, the paper will print coupons for free condoms. But Daily Titan executive editor Ian Hamilton doubts the coupons will do much good. He says more students are likely to get pregnant or contract disease, because they're too embarrassed to get a condom.

by Jamie Friar