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<p>A British man decided to legally change his name to Bacon Double Cheeseburger as a show of his undying love of the sandwich.</p> <p>Sam Smith, 33, told the U.K.’s Standard that the, “Bacon Double Cheeseburger was pretty much the first thing that came up,” after a night of drinking with his buddies who convinced him to do go ahead with the stunt.</p>

CANANDAIGUA NY--An accused drunk driver probably didn't score any points with the judge at his Wednesday arraignment. Terry Monroe of Phelps showed up for his arraigment wearing a tee shirt with several beer logos. On the back it said "life is full of choices." Monroe is accused of felony DWI, assault and other charges after he collided head-on with a Seneca County Sheriff's Department patrol car, injuring two deputies. According to Seneca County Undersheriff Jim Larson, Deputies John Nesbitt and Michael Schell are out of the hospital but their injuries are such that doctors have not yet allowed them to...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: A woman 21 years old burned her house down, after she tried to prepare a potion from the book "Harry Potter." The woman, that boiled a mixture of water, oil, alcohol and toothpaste was injured lightly. She refused to tell the firefighters which of the potions appearing in the book she tried to make.

AUBURN NY- Getting drunk and calling a suicide hotline is one dramatic way to get attention. Getting drunk, calling a suicide hotline, and then shooting at responding deputies is another dramatic way to draw attention - and a two-year prison sentence. John Finizio, 46, formerly of Route 38, Throop, got Cayuga County Judge Peter Corning's attention Tuesday in Cayuga County Court. Corning sentenced Finizio to two to six years in state prison for his conviction on third-degree criminal possession of a weapon charges stemming from an Oct. 25 incident in which he shot twice at Cayuga County sheriff's deputies responding...

COVINGTON, La. -- A babysitter with five children in her car was arrested for drunken driving after she passed out at a rest stop and one of her charges, a seven-year-old girl, used a cellphone to call 911. Linda Hebert, 40, of Picayune, Miss., was found slumped over the steering wheel Sunday with the car still running, the St. Tammany Parish sheriff's office said. The children were unhurt. PEPPER SPRAY Hebert's blood-alcohol level registered 0.27 on a breath test, well over the 0.10 limit, the report said. Deputies said they had to use pepper spray when Hebert became "combative." She...

They apparently liked the movie so much, they just had to live it. Inspired by the hit Jackass: The Movie, three Milton men set up and videotaped a football player tackling a convenience store customer into a display rack. The trio were arrested as they ran out of the Mac's Milk store on Bronte Rd. around 1:10 a.m. Monday. The video was seized. Police said one man acted as an unsuspecting victim while another man in football gear tackled him into the rack. A third man ran the camera. Michael Hutchison, 22, of Woodward Ave., John McDougall, 20, of Fifth...

A Scarborough pediatrician pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a teenage patient for three years but said he believed at the time he was the messiah. "I believed I was the messiah and could cure cancer and AIDS ... I believed God was sending me messages through episodes of Star Trek," Dr. Jeffrey Seidman, 48, told an Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons disciplinary hearing. Seidman said the start of his sexual relationship with the 15-year-old patient in 1991 -- her identity shielded by a publication ban -- coincided with his delusions. Seidman said his mental health had deteriorated after he...

REGINA -- Nursing a beer can get you in trouble with the law, a man who had been ordered to stay away from alcohol has found out. Chynne Harley Kahnapace, 26, pleaded guilty to violating conditions of his parole after being caught pushing a baby stroller with a small keg of beer in it down the street. "Were you just taking it out for a walk?" asked provincial court Judge Dennis Fenwick. Kahnapace said the keg belonged to a friend. "I was hanging around with these people and they said they needed a hand," he said. Kahnapace was fined $150.

A former U of T employee apparently lost his head and stole four brains, one hand and a foot from the university, then sold them for $500 to an antique dealer, court heard yesterday. Sheepish organ pedlar Vinkent Pang pleaded guilty to a mischief charge in a "bizarre and horrific" case, which prosecutor Calvin Barry said is "like something right out of a movie. "I think it was spur-of-the-moment stupidity," Barry said of Pang's actions. Noting that there's no evidence he's behaved this way before, Justice Joseph Bovard said Pang's not a danger and imposed a conditional discharge and a...

WINNIPEG -- A women who nearly froze to death outside her home after a night of drinking is suing the city, emergency personnel and the taxi driver who dropped her off. Kim Simon has undergone several skin grafts, has lost one finger and has severe nerve damage in her right leg after spending seven hours in the cold last January, said her lawyer Samuel Wilder. Wilder said emergency personnel and the taxi driver should have made sure Simon was safely inside her house before leaving. Simon was 33 years old at the time. The stay-at-home mother of two, who holds...