http://enews.earthlink.net/channel/news/str Strange News Supplied by AP en-us (c) 2009 EarthLink Networks Inc. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:48:17 PST Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:53:56 PST 5 http://enews.earthlink.net/article/str?guid=20091124/4b0b7660_3ca6_1552620091124-1069853299 ATLANTA - Celebrity chef Paula Deen got an unexpected serving of ham - across her face. The Food Network star was helping unload 25,000 pounds of donated meat for an Atlanta food bank on Monday when someone threw one of the hams like a football and accidentally smacked her. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:48:17 PST 20091124/4b0b7660_3ca6_1552620091124-1069853299 Associated Press http://enews.earthlink.net/article/str?guid=20091124/4b0b7660_3421_13345200911241711301332 CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:58:11 PST 20091124/4b0b7660_3421_13345200911241711301332 By COURTNEY BROOKS (Associated Press Writer) Associated Press http://enews.earthlink.net/article/str?guid=20091124/4b0b7660_3421_13345200911242091702878 GIBSON, La. - A real estate agent showing a house got to the basement and found about 100 human bones in a corner. James Kenny, a forensic investigator with the Terrebonne Parish Coroner's Office, says the bones found Saturday were so old that dirt had saturated the marrow inside them. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:57:41 PST 20091124/4b0b7660_3421_13345200911242091702878 Associated Press http://enews.earthlink.net/article/str?guid=20091124/4b0b7660_3421_1334520091124-1331590518 BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Sparkly reindeer-dung necklaces are going on sale at an Illinois zoo that hopes to attract the same holiday shoppers who swept up its dung Christmas ornaments last year. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:50:16 PST 20091124/4b0b7660_3421_1334520091124-1331590518 Associated Press http://enews.earthlink.net/article/str?guid=20091123/4b0a24e0_3ca6_1552620091123956066352 CARROLLTON, Ill. - A cat went from meow to ow when officials say it accidentally made contact with a substation's fuse, causing an outage to about 1,500 homes and businesses in southwestern Illinois. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:38:14 PST 20091123/4b0a24e0_3ca6_1552620091123956066352 Associated Press