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Shunde, China (AHN) — Two newly-wed Chinese hope to land in the record books as the world’s shortest couple.

After postponing their marriage for three years, Li Tangyong, 3 feet 6 inches, of Shunde City, finally married Chen Guilan, 2 feet 3 inches, Oct. 1 joining 30 other couples in a group wedding at a park in the city.

“We had to postpone the marriage for three years because both our families objected,” Li said.

The two are still awaiting confirmation from the Guinness Book of Records.

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Somerset, England (AHN) — An amorous peacock had an aristocrat fuming mad after it caused a $8,100 damage to his employee’s blue Lexus car - by trying to have sex with it.

According to a local paper, Baronet Sir Benjamin Slade has put in a claim to insurers to cover the damage to his employee’s car.

According to Sir Benjamin, the incident only proves the bird is gay because peahens are brown and only males are blue, surmising that the male damaged the car because it looked like “another peacock boy.”

“He attacked the panels so hard that the car needs a total re-spray,” he said.

“The insurers, Lloyd’s of London, are not very happy about it. They’ve had claims for all sorts of things like lions biting people, he added.

“But never have they heard of a peacock sexually attacking a car before.”

The Baronet added that he had ordered a ban on peacock blue Lexus cars from the car park.

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BOSTON –A man was sentenced Thursday to more than five years in prison for his role in a multistate insurance fraud scheme in which federal prosecutors said he and his wife intentionally ate glass fragments and collected more than $200,000 in compensation.Ronald Evano, 49, also was ordered to repay $340,000 for his role in defrauding restaurants, grocery stores, insurers, hospitals and doctors in the scheme in which he and his wife claimed that there was glass in the food they ate.

Prosecutors say Evano and his wife, Mary, who remains a fugitive, filed fraudulent insurance claims worth more than $200,000 and incurred more than $100,000 in unpaid medical bills in several states between 1997 and 2005.

In August, Evano pleaded guilty in federal court to 20 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, identity theft, making false statements on health care matters and Social Security fraud. Prosecutors dropped four counts of identity fraud and health care fraud in the plea agreement.

An arrest warrant was issued last year for Mary Evano on the same charges as her husband.

The couple claimed that the glass was in food they had eaten at restaurants and grocery stores in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland and Washington D.C.

Prosecutors said the two were treated at hospitals for glass ingestions at least a dozen times. They allegedly collected payments from insurance companies but never paid their hospital bills.

Evano asked the judge for mercy, saying in court that he and his wife are members of the minority Roma community, and needed the money to pay for dowries and other costs associated with the marriages of his sons under cultural practices.

Source: MiamiHerald

(AP) Security guards refused to allow a woman into a federal courthouse until she removed a bra that triggered a metal detector.

Lori Plato said she and her husband, Owen Plato, were stunned when U.S. Marshals Service employees asked her to remove her bra after the underwire supports set off the alarm.

“I asked if I could go into the bathroom because they didn’t have a privacy screen and no women security officers were available,” Plato said Wednesday. “They said, ‘No.’

“I wasn’t carrying a shank in my bra. If it’s so dangerous, why did they give it back and let me put it on?”

Patrick McDonald, the U.S. Marshal in Boise, said appropriate security protocols were followed in the Sept. 20 matter, and guards suggested she simply remove the bra in her car outside, or find a restaurant bathroom.

“She’s inflating it,” McDonald said. “All of a sudden she just took it off. It wasn’t anything we wanted to happen and it wasn’t anything we asked for her to do. She did it so fast.”

Plato, of Bonners Ferry, said she was parked on a busy street and wasn’t familiar with downtown Coeur d’Alene businesses. So her husband held up his coat to shield her from the rest of the people in the courthouse lobby while she removed her bra underneath her shirt.

Generally, McDonald said, undergarments aren’t considered a danger to security.

“I don’t think they’re considered a weapon, really, the last time I looked,” he said.

He declined to discuss other ways the federal courthouse guards could have screened Plato for weapons.

Plato wants the Marshals Service to apologize and stop forcing women to disrobe.

“It was very humiliating,” her husband, Owen Plato, said. “They could have handled it with a much more professional attitude.”

Source: CBS News

MIAMI (Reuters) - A man whose amputated, embalmed leg was sold at a North Carolina auction will get the limb back over the objections of the buyer, who wanted to include it in a macabre, money-making Halloween display, police said on Thursday.

The dispute over the leg John Wood lost in an airplane crash three years ago was apparently resolved when police decided the buyer, Shannon Whisnant, had given up ownership by calling authorities and asking them to take it away.

“The simple fact is that he said he didn’t want it,” said Capt. Tracy Ledford of the Maiden Police Department, who chuckled his way through an interview about the case that has made for lively gossip in the small North Carolina town.

“The guy don’t have a leg to stand on,” Ledford said. “He’s not getting the leg back.”

Wood, 42, kept the embalmed leg because he wanted it to be cremated with him when he dies. He stored it in a small barbecue smoker in a Maiden storage unit, but failed to keep up the unit’s rent, police said.

The storage company auctioned the smoker on September 25 and Whisnant was the buyer.

When he found the leg, he called police and said he “wanted to get rid of it,” but later decided to make some money from it, Ledford said.

“He wanted to show this thing at Halloween and charge money to see it,” he said.

Whisnant told local media he was willing to go to court to keep the leg and planned to charge admission to see it — $3 for adults and $1 for children.

“It’s a hell of a conversation piece,” he told the Greenville News. “I bought it. It’s mine.”

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(AP) E-mail scams seek to separate people from their money by promising a share of unclaimed lottery riches, bounty from a dead fugitive, work-at-home schemes and other enticements.

But an Ocean County man recently got an e-mail with a stereotypical Jersey twist: Gimme your money, and I’ll cancel the contract someone put out to kill you.

Harry E. Whitworth, 72, of the Whiting section of Manchester Township, opened his e-mail Tuesday to find a curious screed from a man named Eddy.

“I know that this may sound very surprising to you but it’s the situation,” the e-mail began. “I have been paid some ransom in advance to terminate you with some reasons listed to me by my employer.”

The price to call off the hit: $8,000 _ half of which is to be paid up front as a sign of good faith. Sort of.

The e-mail also warned him not to tell friends or relatives, since they might be part of the plot to kill, too.

“I kind of knew it was a scam,” said Whitworth, a retired accountant who lives with his wife in a senior citizen development. “The prosecutor’s office came over to see me and asked if I had been involved in anything in the past that might have caused this to happen.”

Whitworth did some Internet research of his own, and found that someone has been running a similar scam in Arizona, with nearly identical e-mails full of typographical errors and misspellings.

The e-mailer promises to send the recipient a videotape of “his employer” putting out the contract on the recipient’s life.

But there were no instructions on how to comply with the demand for cash, and no timetable on when it had to be paid in order to avoid sleeping with the fishes.

Capt. Michael Mohel, a spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, said the case remains under investigation but declined further comment.

The FBI received 115 complaints of similar e-mails reaching people across the country in less than a month last winter, according to its Web site. The e-mails vary only in the amount of money demanded, ranging as high as $80,000.

Some even incorporate personal information about the recipient that is widely available from online databases, the FBI said.

Source: CBS News

(AP) As drug mules, bugs don’t carry much. And they didn’t get by customs in the Netherlands. A customs officer who took a close look at a consignment of more than 100 large, dead bugs sent from Peru to the Netherlands discovered cocaine had been stashed in their backs.

“We see a lot of things, but this was a first for us,” customs spokesman Kees Nanninga said Thursday.

“It looked like they were cut open, the drugs hidden in their backs and then they were glued back together again,” he said.

The insects held only about 10 ounces of cocaine, worth about $11,000, Nanninga said.

The discovery was made this summer in a routine check at a postal sorting office, but was made public Thursday. Nanninga said he did not know if anyone was prosecuted as a result of the find.

Source: CBS News

Sheriff’s deputies who mistook an exploding cigarette lighter for gunfire dived to the ground and called in reinforcements, shutting down a neighborhood for hours.

“We have a lot of unusual things happen in our business, and we expected the unexpected. It’s better to be safe than sorry,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Robert Craton said.

The lighter belonged to one of two people stopped midday Wednesday for loitering and drinking alcohol in Zapopan Park. During questioning, “a lighter was placed on the hood of a radio car,” sheriff’s Capt. Richard Shaw said.

“The Bic lighter exploded, and shrapnel went everywhere,” Shaw said. “Two deputies and the suspects went down to the ground. They all believed they were being fired on.”

Reinforcements were called in and the neighborhood was locked down for two hours. Deputies clutching shotguns and pistols leaned on squad cars and a command post went up at a nearby Wal-Mart Supercenter parking lot.

Paramedics and dozens of deputies were on hand as helicopters buzzed the area. Two hours later, a special enforcement officer discovered the culprit - the Bic lighter.

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(AP) An Arkansas company is offering $100 to a Utah woman who found a severed mouse head in a can of green beans if she pledges not to take legal action, but she’s not biting. The letter from Allens Inc. of Siloam Springs, Ark., describes it as a “gesture of goodwill.” Marianne Watson isn’t interested.

“I won’t sign it under any circumstances,” she said.

Watson, 49, said she never wanted to take legal action.

She said she wants to “put enough media attention on them that they either withdraw those cans or do something other than what they’re trying to do, which is shut me up.”

Watson was cooking lunch for two sons Sunday when she said she found a severed mouse head in a can of Allens Cut Green Beans, which had been purchased at a Wal-Mart store in American Fork. Nothing was eaten.

Allens spokesman James Phillips said the mouse probably was picked up during the harvest and did not originate in the canning factory. He called it an isolated incident.

“We apologize as much as we can, but we also do everything known from a technology standpoint and personnel standpoint to prevent it from happening,” he said. “But inevitably, occasionally, things like this occur.”

A recall is not necessary, Phillips said Thursday.

“This would not reach the level of exposing people to illness because the product is rendered commercially sterile,” he said in a phone interview. “Every can is cooked to a predetermined temperature and time.”

Watson said she may have the mouse remnants and green beans tested. She has refused to return them to the company.

“I was thankful I had a little soup earlier because I couldn’t eat after seeing that,” she said.

Source: CBS News

(AP) The FBI checked out a report of an atomic bomb in Tacoma and found it had turned into a pumpkin. The Port of Tacoma called the FBI after the deputy director received a phone message Sept. 21 from a port commission candidate, Bill Casper. He said he knew how to make an atomic bomb that could elude security devices.

An FBI spokeswoman in Seattle, Robbie Burroughs, says four agents went to Casper’s office Sept. 26 to question him. He says he spent an hour with the agents showing them a pumpkin and another squash similar in size to pieces of the Hiroshima bomb. Burroughs says the agents left satisfied it wasn’t dangerous.

Casper’s top issue as a candidate is preventing atomic material from being smuggled into the port, and he says he expected his research would trigger scrutiny.

Source: CBS News