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Peculiar Postings from MSNBC

Brazilian men swapped at birth work, live together –

Two years back, Dimas Aliprandi and Elton Plaster didn't know of each other's existence. Then they learned they had been accidentally switched at birth more than 20 years ago.

'What gall!' Inmate sues his crime victims – A Florida inmate has filed a lawsuit seeking $500,000 in damages from 3 men who caught him red-handed with a stolen bicycle, claiming they roughed him up, a newspaper said.
Texas man's stolen gun returned after 2 decades –

A rural east Texas man has been reunited with his long-lost gun more than two decades after it was stolen.

Man listed as Tokyo's oldest had been dead decades – A man listed as the oldest living male in Tokyo in fact died some 30 years ago, city officials said after his body was found mummified in his bed.
Md. man sentenced for stealing library's tarantula – A Maryland man has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for stealing a spider from a public library. Carroll County Circuit Judge J. Barry Hughes sentenced 27-year-old Randy Humple of Westminster Monday.
Bear crashes in runaway car – A black bear attracted by the smell of a peanut butter sandwich managed to open the door of a car, climb in and got stuck, knocking the gear stick into neutral and sending the car rolling down a slope into trees.
Fake shark takes bite out of surfer statue –

Predawn pranksters have surrounded a roadside surfer statue with a papier mache model of a great white shark that appeared to be swallowing it whole.

Police: Man robs bank in clown pants, fake breasts – Authorities say a Pittsburgh-area man robbed a bank wearing a woman's blond wig, fake breasts under a sweater and clown pants.

Offbeat News from CNN

Gamers prove their metal as rock stars – Jess Hu is a child care provider from Brooklyn, New York, but for 20 hours a week, she's a rock star. That's how much she estimates she plays the video game "Rock Band."