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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-30-2005, 10:37 PM:

Don't ya just love this one..... "Woman torches house trying to kill spiders" I guess there are actually people like this out there..... [Eek!]

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MSNBC.com's Most Peculiar stories of 2005
You picked 'em! Find out what stories you chose as the year's wackiest

MSNBC
Updated: 6:35 p.m. ET Dec. 23, 2005

One of the most popular features of MSNBC.com are those wacky, strange stories from around the world that have readers saying "Gee whiz" — and e-mailing them to friends and family.

We call them our Peculiar Postings, and earlier this year we decided to find out which ones readers thought were the Most Peculiar in a weekly poll.

But which ones are — drum roll, please — the Most Peculiar of the Year? Well, the tally is in, and here are the Top Five Most Peculiar Stories of 2005, as voted on by our users.

Full disclosure: Since this feature only started in August, the title should strictly read The Most Peculiar of the Last Five Months of 2005. So, in case you're wondering about the wackiest tales of the first seven months of the year, we have also offered a selection from January through July. We call them our Fabulous Forty.

THE TOP 5 MOST PECULIAR STORIES OF 2005

The envelope, please:

1: And the winner is, with a 77 percent vote:
Woman torches house trying to kill spiders

2: Coming in second, with a 70 percent score:
Corpse mistaken for Halloween decoration

3: Third, with 56 percent, is this seasonal gem:
Ho, ho - oh, no! Air force flyover kills reindeer

4: Fourth, at 55 percent, is a cautionary tale:
Woman calls cops over unreliable hit man

5: And fifth, at a round 50 percent, another cautionary saga.
Gator-gobbling python comes to messy end

What did you think of 2005?
For yourself? For the U.S.? For the world? Vote!

THE FABULOUS FORTY

Credit cards lost at sea return 39 years later
Hooked fish gets revenge, lures angler to death
3 wives greet man after triple bypass surgery
Teen vomits on teacher, told to clean police cars
Plumber takes a leak instead of fixing one
Seattle man dies after sex with horse
Brazilian bandits pull off big boob job
Sleepwalker rescued from top of giant crane
No beer? Then lunch is off, Belgian official says
Attempt at popsicle record turns into disaster on a stick
Statue of hero to gays draws monumental flak
Kittens use fax as toilet, spark house fire
German man makes $37,000 potty stop
Woman charged with smuggling fish in skirt
Man in trunk was bound to enjoy it
Man leaps from speeding car in pursuit of puff
Drinking wrong beer costs man his job
Jesus Christ in legal battle for driver’s license
Bum wrap: School mistakes huge burrito for weapon, goes into lockdown
Standing room only at new cemetery
Doctors pull 50 maggots from elderly man’s ears
Driver ‘executes’ balky automobile
Gnome gone wild — partying with Paris Hilton?
911 dispatcher offers to shoot unruly kid for caller
Leech worms way into hiker’s nose
Uptight Englishmen blamed for erotic fest’s flop
Monster swine ‘Hogzilla’ was real, experts say
Satan’s face seen on turtle that survived inferno
Cowabunga! Giant surfboard breaks record
Iranian woman seeks divorce from smelly man
Blind Scotsman accused of biting guide dog
Birds recover after drunken bash
4-year-old takes mom’s car for a midnight spin
Good to his word, bad to his testicles
Late-night cookie gift costs teens $900
Police officer robs bank, returns to solve case
Bush salute a Satan sign? Norwegians think so
Tennessee case draws the ‘jury pool from hell’
U.S. military nixed gay aphrodisiac weapon
Preacher’s last words in pulpit: ‘And when I go to heaven ...’

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-30-2005, 11:14 PM:

What about the woman who married a dolphin?

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-31-2005, 03:16 AM:

Thats a good one... but leep in mind that some of us have been married to at least several projectors at once...... [Eek!]

Mark

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 12-31-2005, 08:54 PM:

quote: Joe Redifer
What about the woman who married a dolphin?

Lots of NFL football players are married. [Big Grin]

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-01-2006, 07:05 AM:

The teenagers who tried to recreate a Star wars 'light sabre' battle using flourescent light tubes filled with petrol gets my nomination - story here.

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 01-01-2006, 09:50 AM:

quote: Mark Gulbrandsen
4: Fourth, at 55 percent, is a cautionary tale:
Woman calls cops over unreliable hit man

Too good to be true. But apparently it is.

Posted by Robert Burtcher (Member # 3227) on 01-23-2006, 11:20 PM:

My favorite was "Driver 'executes' balky automobile".

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 01-24-2006, 01:48 AM:

Why is it illegal to shoot one's own car? I mean, provided the gun is owned legally.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-24-2006, 05:55 AM:

Basil Fawlty tried something like that 30 years ago!