04/02/12 The Raw Offbeat News Feed

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• Bizarre Foods Host Andrew Zimmern Teams Up With General Mills For... _{2013-04-02, 09:06 am}
  General Mills is honoring 20 categories of the best food experiences America has to offer - from the best food city, to the best food truck, to the best chef - by calling on the public to award the most deserving with the 2013 Munchies: People's Choice Food Awards .
• Dead man found dangling from California high rise _{2013-04-02, 08:59 am}
  An apparent graffiti tagger was found dead in a rope harness on the side of an 18-story office tower near the California Capitol on Monday morning, Sacramento police said.
• More _{2013-04-02, 08:46 am}
  General Mills is honoring 20 categories of the best food experiences America has to offer - from the best food city, to the best food truck, to the best chef - by calling on the public to award the most deserving with the 2013 Munchies: People's Choice Food Awards .
• Motorcycling Easter Bunny Unmasked _{2013-04-02, 08:44 am}
  The biker dressed as a giant, white Easter bunny and pulled over this past weekend in southern California has been unmasked.
• Insanity Trial To Begin For Dad Who Killed 3 Girls _{2013-04-02, 08:41 am}
  Opening statements are expected to begin in the insanity trial of a man who admitted last week that he killed his three daughters in their River Falls home.
• Woman, 86, Due In Court Tuesday In Voter Fraud Case _{2013-04-02, 08:41 am}
  TV caught up with Schneider last month. She says she simply forgot she voted absentee when she filled out another ballot later.
• Sequestration to delay opening of some Corp parks in Oklahoma _{2013-04-02, 08:10 am}
  The effects of sequestration are beginning to be felt in Oklahoma this time, it's outdoor recreation that will feel the pinch.
• Mayo Looks For Jumpstart In Minn. House Committee _{2013-04-02, 07:43 am}
  The bill to assist the Mayo Clinic in a major expansion is back before a Minnesota House committee where it hit turbulence last month.
• 10 Most Baffling and Bizarre Moments in Soccer History _{2013-04-02, 07:35 am}
  Football has produced some of the greatest sporting moments we have ever seen; it has also produced some of the most baffling in equal amounts.
• Unusual But Useful: 5 Startups You Didn't Know About _{2013-04-02, 07:21 am}
  At any given moment, there are probably millions of people vying to be the next great startup success, A la Nick D'Aloiso's Summly app .
• Marriage ruling could set strange precedent _{2013-04-02, 07:13 am}
  It is fitting that the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the same-sex marriage cases the week before Easter .
• Watch terrifying moment drunk man hangs from power cables after climbing 30ft electricity pole _{2013-04-02, 07:02 am}
  The man clung to the high-tension wires for 15 minutes as he tried to move slowly along the cables while dangling above a nine-metre drop This is the heart-stopping moment a drunk man was found hanging from power cables after scaling a 30ft electricity pole in China.
• Computers Made Out of DNA, Slime and Other Strange Stuff _{2013-04-02, 05:30 am}
  Everybody knows a computer is a machine made of metal and plastic, with microchip cores turning streams of electrons into digital reality.
• haim on new single falling and debut album _{2013-04-02, 06:11 am}
  The LA sisters, winners of this year's BBC Sound of 2013 poll in January, have been drip-feeding us some brilliant songs ahead of releasing their debut album, due this summer.
• Dare to bare: Lily Aldridge's bizarre wicker dress _{2013-04-02, 05:48 am}
  As a Victoria's Secret Angel, Lily Aldridge is no stranger to showing off her body, but surely this takes the cake.
• 20 Bizarre Quirks of American Politics _{2013-04-02, 05:48 am}
  2) We give out condoms in high schools, our entertainment on TV is DRENCHED in sex while porn and strip clubs are ever present throughout most of the country.
• China: Drunk Man Dangles From Power Cables _{2013-04-02, 05:09 am}
  A drunk man found himself dangling nine metres above the ground from high-tension cables after climbing up a utility pole in China.
• He's having a lava: Daredevil kayaker braves red-hot temperatures to explore molten lava flows _{2013-04-02, 05:05 am}
  Fearless Pedro Oliva paddled within feet of the red-hot liquid flows pouring down from Kilauea volcano, on the island of Hawaii.
• Taggart fan's tattoo of TV detective Mark McManus hailed... _{2013-04-02, 03:01 am}
  JOHN CUTHBERT, 34, saw off rivals with images of Braveheart and a Tunnock's caramel wafer to win the award at the Scottish Tattoo Convention in Edinburgh.
• Video: Dozens Shimmy, Shake to Protest Wash. Dance Tax _{2013-04-02, 03:00 am}
  Dozens of people protesting a decades-old state tax on dance venues swayed, kicked and twirled to the rhythm of music Monday in support of a repeal being considered by lawmakers in Washington state.