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Oddball occurences | The Editors

Illustration by Krieg Barrie

Dances with rabbits

If you're trying to run an insurance scam, try to avoid dancing in public with a life-sized bunny. A court in Sweden convicted a supposed wheelchair-bound Swedish man and his family for perpetuating a disability fraud that cost the government more than $420,000 over three years. The man had convinced doctors and Sweden's Social Insurance Agency that he needed help eating, moving about, and even turning over in bed. But a neighbor wise to the man's scheme tipped off local authorities who searched the man's house and found smoking-gun proof against his claim: pictures of the not-so-disabled fraudster dancing with another person in a rabbit costume.

A snowball's chance

Some people save love letters. Others save pictures. Prena Thomas of Lakeland, Fla., has spent more than three decades preserving a snowball in her freezer. Thomas says she keeps the 33-year-old ice chunk—just as white as the day it was rolled into a snowball in 1977—in a bread bag and occasionally shows it off to friends. "It's just like a little pet," she said. A pet that stayed alive only because Thomas has never had a significant power outage.

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February 13, 2010, Vol. 25, No. 3

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