Associated Press

I'm leaning, on a jet plane A member of the Air Force One flight crew makes an odd sight as he inspects one of the jet's engines after landing July 16 in Tampa, Fla.

• Kids in Florida like to dangle by meat hooks
  Police in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime -- young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar.
• And don't forget the pretzels
  The party's over for four inmates accused of going on a beer run after the jail's doors were accidentally left unlocked. The men were charged with escape and bringing alcohol into a jail.
• Rental agency finds 88 bags of heroin left in car
  A man who returned a rental car allegedly forgot to take along 88 bags of heroin he had left in the car. Employees of an Enterprise Rent-A-Car agency called police and reported finding the drugs hidden under a layer of napkins in the car's console, authorities said.
• Abandoned on pins and needles
  A German acupuncture patient was left pierced with needles in a clinic after a therapist forgot about her, locked up his practice and went home, police in Hanover said on Thursday.
• Do-it-yourself holdup doesn't hold up
  A German supermarket check-out worker stashed the day's takings into her shoes and hit herself over the head, pretending she had been held up and attacked by a robber, Bavarian police said on Thursday.
• WW I bomb kills man in his yard
  A 70-year-old Italian died Saturday when a World War One bomb, part of his collection of military memorabilia, exploded while he was showing it to a friend in his garden.
• Man charged with swinging gator at girlfriend
• S. Korea won't take 'Roh' for an answer
• Egyptian blazes star 'balls of fire' rumors
• Taxi driver discovers he's dead
• British museum considers poop power
• Jugglers converge for international convention
• Schwarzenegger to take a licking
• Pig bait sacrifice cook's woman's bacon
• Garden thief caught red-pawed
• Divers play underwater music in Florida Keys
• Cheney's f-word lives on T-shirts
• N.Y. firm offers 20-minute naps downtown
• Woman allegedly spiked smoothie with antifreeze
• Do as Romans do - don't call me 'nobody'

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