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Librarians in Kerry were stunned this week to have a book returned — 67 years late. The €1,200 fine on Ruby of a Thousand Dreams, an adventure romance by Roland Daniel, was waived as part of an amnesty.

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An 11-year-old boy led police on a wild car chase because he wanted to know what it would like to relive Grand Theft Auto in real life. Cops in Ontario, Canada responded to calls about a vehicle that was "all over the road" on a major highway north of Toronto, CBC News reports.

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A former judge has been indicted for allegedly offering to reduce a fine in exchange for a sexual favour. Authorities in upstate New York say judge Delmar House was charged with a felony count of bribe receiving and a second for receiving a reward for official misconduct.

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A police force has threatened to deliver harsh punishment to motorists caught drink-driving over the festive period – they will be made to listen to much-maligned Canadian rock band Nickelback. Officers in Kensington, on Prince Edward Island in Canada, have promised to break open the office’s se

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Lawyers in California are unhappy about a new ethics rule mooted by a state bar commission for the first time in 30 years – that attorneys who have sex with their clients could be disciplined. The sunshine state currently bars practitioners from taking sex as payment for legal services or coercing

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Breast implants are not an obstacle to becoming a police officer, a court in Germany has ruled after a three-year legal battle. An unnamed 32-year-old woman, currently working as a nurse, took legal action after her application to join the police in North Rhine-Westphalia was rejected in 2013.

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A judge in Israel rebuked welfare authorities over their treatment of a homeless man and gave him a 100 shekel bill out of his own pocket “so he’ll have something to eat”. The defendant was accused of stealing seven bottles of beer from a shop in Jersualem and attacking and threatening the sho

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A federal judge presiding at a citizenship swearing-in ceremony told US citizens that Donald Trump is "your president, and if you don't like that, you need to go to another country." Judge John Primono in San Antonio told KENS-TV his statement was not political and that he did not vote for President

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A man who nicked a company president's wallet during a job interview was tracked down using the address given on his CV. Shogo Takeda, 24, admitted stealing a wallet from the president of an elevator maintenance company in Japan earlier this month.

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A woman may have to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds after wrongly telling police and judges that her neighbour molested her pigs. Sharon Hamilton, 54, alleged that her neighbour, Anton Barkhuysen, 72, had done "unspeakable" things to her animals.

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Two American lawyers who crashed their car after drinking at a bar blamed the crash on a mysterious black man who offered to drive them home - but the police were quick to find he didn't exist. Heather Wilsey, 27, and Kenneth Lewis, 42, have been jailed and now face court sanctions on the initiative

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Police who pulled over a drunk driver found him spraying Lynx deodorant in his mouth when they reached his vehicle. Patrick David Butler, 45, was followed by police in South Carolina after they saw him jerk his vehicle to avoid hitting a curb, WBTV reports.

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A woman has filed a lawsuit against international clothes brand Zara after allegedly finding a dead mouse sewn into the hem of her dress. Cailey Fiesel, 24, has submitted photos to Manhattan Supreme Court showing the suspicious bulge in the hem of her brand new Zara dress - and "at least one of appe

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Police in Australia have announced the recovery of a loaded gun from a man's bottom. Queensland Police officers yesterday arrested a man linked to an outlaw biker gang called "The Rebels".

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An alleged burglar who police say claimed to be a lawyer standing in his own garden was arrested in Banbridge on Saturday morning. PSNI Banbridge used their Facebook page to share the story of a man who told cops: "I'm a lawyer. This is my house, I'm just clearing out my shed, and you may get out of

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