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Josefstadt: A young Austrian convict missed prison so much after his release that he tried to break back in. Detlef Federsohn, 23, was released from the Josefstadt prison in the Austrian capital Vienna after serving two years for theft.

But he was arrested last week when police were called out to a suspected prison break after he was spotted on the roof of the jail.

Federsohn said: “Life is so much easier on the inside. They feed you, do your washing and let you watch TV, which I can tell you is a lot more than my mum does.

You should read this new security warning from homeland security if you plan to fly in the near future.

Los Angeles: A woman is suing the J.C. Penney Co. after an alleged run-in with a store mannequin that she says left her with a cracked tooth, a bloodied head and recurring shoulder pain.

Diana Newton, 51, of Westminster sued the Texas-based retailer last month, claiming she was cracked in the head by a legless female dummy at its Westminster Mall store.

Hah! Check these out: The 10 Most Ridiculous Movie Premises ever

Ben Carrozza, Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Even discounting anything Tom Cruise has done in the past five years, absurdity and ridiculousness are just par for the course in Hollywood. How else can you explain J.A.G being on for 10 seasons or Pauly Shore’s career?

Then there’s Snakes on a Plane, with its confounding inanity about to rake in millions at the box office on Samuel L. Jackson’s will and savvy marketing alone.

In the spirit of all this absurdity, Dose.ca takes a look at 10 other ridiculous Hollywood premises and whether or not they suckered, er, won over the paying public.

Weekend at Bernie’s (1989)
Starring: Andrew McCarthy
Premise: Two chuckleheads are forced to cart around their freshly deceased boss’s corpse and pretend he’s still alive long enough to party, get the girls, avoid getting killed, party some more - oh, and solve his murder. Hilarity ensues.
Yeah, but did it actually work? We can sit here and tell you this movie is ridiculous, but the public demanded a sequel and that the original be shown on a TV station somewhere every minute of every day until mutant polar bear overlords wrest control of the planet at the apex of the next ice age.

Over the Top (1987)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone
Premise: Hawk, a struggling truck driver tries to reconnect with his estranged son after the death of his ex-wife. The boy’s grandfather has different ideas, claiming custody and kidnapping the kid, forcing Hawk to earn his son’s respect the only way he knows how - by winning a professional arm-wrestling competition.
Yeah, but did it actually work? This is the greatest trucker-father-and-estranged son-bonding-over-arm-wrestling-championship-movie of all time! As a result, it’s a terrible film for anyone not in that demographic.

Well, uncovered may be stretching it a bit.

Bloggers challenge Castro photos - Technology makes it easy to alter photos, but bloggers are quick to criticize pictures they find amiss

Fidel Castro is still alive — chatting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in a video shown this week. But that hasn’t stopped bloggers from speculating that earlier photos, the first released since Castro’s illness, were doctored.

While the debate might seem moot — since few are questioning the authenticity of the Chávez and Castro video — the frenzy over the Castro photos points to the ease with which digital photos can be manipulated and then widely disseminated over the Internet.

Written by JON SINGER
The strangest character in “Revenge of the Nerds” surely is Arnold Poindexter.

Weird hair. Crossed eyes. Absurdly quiet. Plays violin. Wears a suit all the time. “I thought there was a need for a quiet nerd,” says Timothy Busfield, the actor behind Poindexter. “Oh, yeah, and he was definitely damaged.”

The strange fearful nerd that Busfield portrayed was eerily similar to real-life weird kids. Busfield says the mystery behind what makes Poindexter so quiet is key to the role.

From the start, Busfield wanted to be a nerd.

“I just read the script and knew it was great,” he says.

Busfield originally tried out for Anthony Edwards’ role of Gilbert Lowell, a fellow nerd. But when he didn’t get the role, Busfield didn’t quit.

“I went to a thrift store for the clothes, found the glasses, did the hair and came back for the part of Lipshitz,” he says. “That was Poindexter’s original name in the script.”

Texas farmers about 75 miles from the Mexican border near Falfurrias have taken to installing ladders on their property to allow illegal immigrants to climb over their fences in the course of trespassing so they’ll stop making holes in the fences, which allow the farmers’ cattle to escape. According to a June Associated Press report, the ladders aren’t used very much, apparently because the border crossers assume there’s some catch.

source: AzStarNet