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Today's Odd News - Reuters News Headlines - Yahoo News: Seattle man goes to police after getting surprise pot shipments After K-Pop and shopping, drivers' licenses lure Chinese to Korea Connecticut blocks chimp-attack victim's bid to sue state 222 skydivers to try for world record in Arizona German landlord tries to collect rent with chainsaw Venezuela's 'skyscraper slum' provides haven for poor

Seattle man goes to police after getting surprise pot shipments  Wednesday, Apr 02, 2014 06:29 PM PDT A Seattle man who became concerned after receiving two surprise packages of marijuana in the mail within a month took the shipment of about half an ounce of plastic-wrapped pot to police, authorities said on Wednesday. When the first package arrived last month, the man threw it in the garbage, Seattle police spokeswoman Detective Renee Witt said. Washington and Colorado became the first U.S. states to legalize recreational pot in voter initiatives in 2012, and Washington law allows people to possess up to an ounce (28 grams) of marijuana. "Federally it (pot possession) is still considered a crime, so you absolutely cannot under any circumstance send marijuana through the mail," Witt said. Full Story	Top
After K-Pop and shopping, drivers' licenses lure Chinese to Korea  Wednesday, Apr 02, 2014 06:29 PM PDT Chinese shoppers already have a seemingly insatiable appetite for South Korean pop music, TV dramas, cosmetics and fashion. Now they're after another must-have item: a driver's license. In China, would-be drivers can wait up to a year for a license and pay double the $420 that one costs in South Korea. At a driving school in the suburbs of Seoul, a buzzing operation which sees some 200 Chinese applicants a month, half of the class listens to a Korean-speaking teacher while the Chinese visitors fix their eyes on a TV screen showing sample questions for written tests in Mandarin. Full Story	Top
Connecticut blocks chimp-attack victim's bid to sue state  Wednesday, Apr 02, 2014 02:48 PM PDT By Richard Weizel MILFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - A Connecticut woman whose face and hands were ripped off in an attack by a friend's pet chimpanzee in 2009, on Wednesday was denied a bid to sue the state for up to $150 million to cover her medical expenses. The state legislature's judiciary committee voted 35-3 against Charla Nash's request to sue the state to cover injuries she suffered when the 200-pound (90 kilogram) chimpanzee mauled her while she was visiting the home of her friend and employer, who owned the animal. State Attorney General George Jepsen had said that allowing the suit to proceed would "open the floodgates for unlimited lawsuits and liability that would bankrupt the state." Attorneys for Nash had argued that the state should have removed the animal from her friend's home, noting that the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection was aware of its presence and, in one report, had called it "an accident waiting to happen." Nash, 60, has undergone a face transplant, a failed double-hand transplant and many other surgeries since the attack. Full Story	Top
222 skydivers to try for world record in Arizona  Wednesday, Apr 02, 2014 10:10 AM PDT By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - A team of 222 veteran skydivers from around the world will step off a small squadron of airplanes in the Arizona skies this week and float down in formation to try to shatter a world record, organizers said on Wednesday. "The team is very optimistic that we can do this," said Gulcin Gilbert, a skydiver and spokeswoman for the group, World Team. "Everything seems to be going well so far." Skydivers representing 28 countries will take part in the event in Eloy, Arizona. Gilbert said the complex, record-breaking maneuver is most likely to take place on Thursday at SkyDive Arizona, a popular facility in the desert about 65 miles south of Phoenix. Full Story	Top
German landlord tries to collect rent with chainsaw  Wednesday, Apr 02, 2014 05:41 AM PDT A landlord demanding rent arrears threatened tenants and German police with a whirring chainsaw, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. The frightened tenants called police to the scene, and the 45-year-old man eventually dropped the chainsaw when the officers showed their guns. Full Story	Top
Venezuela's 'skyscraper slum' provides haven for poor  Wednesday, Apr 02, 2014 03:52 AM PDT By Andrew Cawthorne and Jorge Silva CARACAS (Reuters) - It boasts a helicopter landing pad, glorious views of the Avila mountain range, and large balconies for weekend barbecues. Yet this 45-storey skyscraper in the center of Venezuela's capital Caracas is no five-star hotel or swanky apartment block: it is a slum, probably the tallest in the world. Dubbed the "Tower of David", it was intended to be a shining new financial center but was abandoned around 1994 after the death of its developer - financier and horse-breeder David Brillembourg - and a massive run on Venezuela's banking sector. Squatters seized the huge concrete skeleton in 2007, then-President Hugo Chavez's socialist government turned a blind eye, and now about 3,000 people call the tower their home. Full Story	Top

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