The children of a Chinese butcher executed for murdering a waitress have appealed against his conviction after the “victim” turned up alive, the second such judicial blunder to be made public in recent weeks.

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A Chinese vegetable peddler has asked a Beijing court to overturn police fines totaling more than a year’s pay after he made the exact same illegal turn 105 times.

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Danish zookeepers slaughtered animals in their care, including more than 50 muskrats, and served the meat to unsuspecting friends and family until zoos changed their rules, newspaper Ekstra Bladet reported Friday.

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An 82-year-old man was badly burned after trying to siphon gas from his car with an electric vacuum cleaner while the engine was running.

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Nigerian police have arrested a cow that killed a bus driver who was urinating on a highway.

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*…and another DUI while riding a lawn mower story…*

A 19 year old man of Millcreek, PA was charged Saturday (6/4) morning after police saw him riding a mower down the street, according to Millcreek Township police. The mower had been taken from the home of a man who had just taken it out of his garage to lend to a friend, police said.

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*…Another DUI while riding a lawn mower…*

A man riding a lawn mower down the street at 3 a.m. in Delhi Township, OH has been charged with DUI, a Cincinnati TV stationreported. The man told police he got the munchies, so he started out toward Kroger. He was riding down the street in the dark when an officer stopped him.

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Thomas Benya rarely wears traditional ties, preferring the string bolo ties that he says reflect his American Indian roots, but when he wore a smaller bolo under his gown to his graduation from Maurice J. McDonough High School in Pomfret, school officials withheld his diploma. The tie, they said, violated the dress code for the ceremony.

There was a kid who took his pants off and threw them up at graduation. He got his diploma, but not the kid who wore the bolo tie.

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Culpeper Police charged a Rixeyville man with driving under the influence of alcohol on Main Street. The man was driving a riding mower.

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Peruvian officials saved some 4,000 endangered frogs from being whizzed into popular drinks after they were found hidden in an abattoir.

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It’s not everyday that you see a 40-foot-deep, 25-foot-wide sinkhole in the middle of the road.

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Wisconsin considers a proposal to declare cats unprotected species and open game for hunters. The idea comes from a bird-lover who watches feral felines do some of hunting of their own. Cat lovers, predictably, are furious. Minnesota Public Radio’s Erin Galbally reports.

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