| October 29, 2007 | - A Scottish man was placed on a sex offenders registry for raping a bicycle.
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The Telegraph
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| October 23, 2007 | - A Scottish man was sentenced to five years in jail for smothering his 76-year-old mother with a pillow not long after she told him he was a failure who could not even kill himself properly. “I woke up,” the man told police, “and just decided to do it.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 8, 2007 | -
Scottish
physicists reversed the Casimir force to make objects levitate.
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TelegraphUK
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| July 2, 2007 | - Police found a pair of Mercedes-Benz sedans filled with gasoline and nails parked in the center of London, and two men crashed a Jeep Cherokee into the glass doors of Terminal One at Glasgow Airport. The vehicle failed to penetrate the doors, but the driver poured gasoline over himself and the Jeep, and the Jeep blazed. The throng of travelers in the terminal stampeded away from the inferno, and the flaming driver staggered out of the Jeep, threw punches, and shouted, “Allah, Allah.” The crowd of travelers in the terminal stampeded away from the fireball. Stephen Clarkson, a bystander, pounced on the burning man. “I managed to knock the fellow to the ground,” said Clarkson. “His clothes had partially burned from his body. His hair was on fire. His whole body was on fire.” Police arrested the charred driver and the unscathed passenger. The discovery of a suspicious device on the driver’s person resulted in the evacuation of the hospital where his burns were being treated, and authorities blew up a suspicious car in the hospital parking lot. Detectives blamed an eight-person Al Qaeda cell controlled by someone they called “Mr. Big” and commenced raids. Three suspected collaborators of the would-be suicide bombers, including a 27-year-old woman, were apprehended.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| June 29, 2007 | -
Scottish jurists cast doubt on the conviction of a Libyan intelligence official jailed for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
| Source 1:
KUNA
Source 2:
MSNBC
Source 3:
LA Times
Source 4:
USA Today
Source 5:
Toronto Star
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| June 28, 2007 | - Elsewhere in Scotland, a buzzard assailed a jogger, puncturing the man’s scalp with its talons. “I don’t know why the bird went haywire like that,” said Kevin Barclay, a psychiatric nurse. “I think it was nesting and must have been intimidated by me.”
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Scotsman
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| September 3, 2006 | - Police broke up a ring of badger-baiting gangs in Scotland.
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Sundaymail.co.uk
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| August 13, 2006 | -
Scotland banned the sale of swords, with religious swords exempted.
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BBC News
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| July 29, 2006 | -
President George W. Bush apologized to British Prime Minister Tony Blair for improperly shipping bombs to Israel via Scotland.
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BBC
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| May 17, 2006 | -
Scottish scientist Klaus Zuberbuhler found that Nigerian putty-nosed male monkeys say "pyow" to warn of leopards and "hack" to warn of eagles. "Pyow," said a monkey. "Hack hack pyow hack hack."
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MSNBC
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| February 23, 2006 | - In Scotland a man was sentenced to nine years in jail for raping his 14-year-old stepdaughter while she lay unconscious and near death after falling down the stairs; the girl died soon after.
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BBC News
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| February 22, 2006 | - Scottish police said there were 6,000 sex slaves in Scotland.
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DailyRecord.co.uk
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| November 21, 2005 | - The community council of Perthshire, Scotland, forced a developer to change the layout of his housing development so that it would not disturb fairies.
| Source:
Times Online
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| October 6, 2005 | - The Catholic Church of Scotland published a guide to the Bible stating that the account of creation in the book of Genesis is “symbolic.” The virgin birth of Jesus, however, is still considered to be fact.
| Source:
The Scotsman
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| August 21, 2005 | - In Edinburgh, Scotland, 10,000 bagpipers piped against cancer.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 2, 2005 | - A surprising number of dogs were jumping to their deaths from a bridge in Milton, Scotland, but no one knew why. "Everything dogs do is for a reason," said a perplexed animal behaviorist. "They're not stupid like we are."
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Tallahassee Democrat
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| July 6, 2005 | - Visiting Scotland for the G8 summit, President George W. Bush fell off his bicycle after running into a policeman. Bush was hurt, but not badly. The policeman hurt his ankle. “I should act my age,” said Bush.
| Source 1:
AP
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IOL.co.za
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| June 16, 2005 | -
Scotland's Cottle and Austin Circus fired Todd the Human Cannonball because he was afraid of flying and replaced him with Diego the Human Rocket.
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The Times
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| April 6, 2005 | - Tom DeLay was accused of paying his wife and daughter $500,000 from funds controlled by his political-action committee. He was also accused of taking lobbyist-funded trips to Russia, Saipan, and Scotland.
| Source 1:
ABC News
Source 2:
New York Times
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| February 23, 2005 | - In Edinburgh, Scotland, a blind man bit his guide dog.
| Source:
The Scotsman
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| February 4, 2005 | - Frozen urine dropped from the sky in Scotland.
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The Daily Record
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| July 16, 2003 | - Vertebrae of a plesiosaur, a long-necked sea reptile that lived 150 million years ago, were found at Loch Ness, in Scotland.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph
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| April 15, 2003 | -
Dolly the sheep was stuffed and put on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
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| June 4, 2002 | -
Researchers in Scotland have determined that women are better liars than men.
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Harry Potter fans looted a theatre after the movie premiered in Scotland.
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| May 8, 2001 | - Maggie, Matthew, Melissa, Emily, and Eva, five sheep in Scotland whose owner had barricaded them in her home to protect them from the foot-and-mouth cull, were killed by lethal injection after authorities managed to get inside the house.
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| February 27, 2001 | - A postcard mailed in Australia on January 4, 1889, finally made it to Aberdeen, Scotland.
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