What Is Your Hobby

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What is your hobby? What do you do in your spare time? Collect movie posters? Maybe paint with watercolors? My hobby has been news for as long as I can remember. As soon as I started reading and even before I would always watch news shows for hours each day and of course read the local newspaper. In 2005 I found I was frustrated with the kind of news in the paper and on TV, it was all so depressing. I gave up on regular news and started reading only odd news stories; anything weird, strange or otherwise unusual became fodder for my hobby.

Here are some of the top weird headlines of 2008.

$10 lunch turns out to be worth $6,000

Last January I read about George Brock, he and his wife went to a local seafood restaurant in Florida and halfway through an order of steamed clams when he bit down on something hard, he discovered it was a rare, iridescent purple pearl thought to be valued at $6,000 US or more. Now that is a sweet deal from a $10 meal! 4 Hairs worth $17,000 Four strands reportedly clipped from the first president, George Washington were sold at auction to a Richmond man who declined to give ...
... his name.

Baby for Sale on EBay

German police confirm that they today have taken a seven month baby away from a couple in Bavaria and local child welfare investigators are looking into them after the couple put the child up for sale on Internet auction site EBay.

Gimmie one of the $175 burgers!

A Manhattan restaurant is offering a hamburger that costs $175 and is topped with gold flakes.
82 Year Old Man Tasered in Hospital Bed Frank Lasser, 82, was subdued in his hospital bed, with a taser because he was not willing to relinquish a small pocket knife he was holding. He had just came out of heart bypass surgery recently and when unable to breathe properly becomes delusional.

Hooters Girl Suing for Prize Fraud

Former Hooter's girl believed she was going to win a Toyota car in a 6-month long beer selling contest. Much to her surprise she did win but it was not a Toyota car but a toy yoda doll from the Star Wars collection. If like me you find these types of news stories uplifting and humorous then join the revolution and stop reading about murders, robbery, war and rape - instead turn to alternative news sources that give you a healthy dose of the giggles instead of the needs to drown the sorrows of this depressing maniacal world.
Jay Granofsky is a writer and SEO expert from Toronto, Canada that writes content for dozens of blogs across the web. His favorite strange news sources are weird news stories.