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EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Firefighters had to tear though a wall to rescue a man who became stuck while trying to climb through a chimney into a home.

Alejandro Valencio said he was drunk when he climbed down the chimney about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday to see a woman who lived in the home. "Everyone do stupid things sometimes when they're drunk," he said.

The woman, Connie Deweese, said she had known Valencio for about seven or eight months but told him to stay away. She said she locked the door to her home, but "somehow he got to the roof."

"I've dated a lot of psychos in my life, but nobody like that," Deweese said.

Firefighters requested assistance from police officers after they arrived because they said Deweese was blocking the fireplace. She received misdemeanour citations for charges of disorderly conduct and interfering with a firefighter.

"I told them to leave him in the chimney and let him die," she said.

Valencio was taken to a hospital after he was removed. He later returned to the home, where a television crew captured Deweese hitting him with a garbage can and pelting him with bottles.

"Get off my porch, and don't you ever come back here," she yelled.

Valencio said he would help pay for the damages incurred from his rescue.

...From the Canadian press.

In 1994, Swedish country/eurodance megagroup Rednex stormed the world with their inspiring ballad “Cotton Eye Joe”.

The song skyrocketed to #25 on the Billboard Charts, and helped the group sell over 10 million albums worldwide.

To this day, one cannot dance through a wedding reception without hearing the techno-banjo of producers Janne Ericcson, Orjan Oberg, and Pat Reiniz.

Well believe it or not, the popularity of Rednex didn’t go very far beyond their smash single. There were your stereotypical follow-up albums and remixes, but previous successes could not be matched.

Sadly, the brains behind the group are starting to run out of ideas to keep this iconic group together.

And just like most failing business endeavors that once had something going for it, Rednex has been put on the selling block.

Seriously.

Go to ebay and type in 'Rednex'.

For $1.5 million US you can own Rednex, but you have to act soon! Bidding closes on September 19th.

If you are interested in owning your very own “classic party band” (as described on the ebay page), you won’t have much to compete with. Amazingly, no one has placed any bids. While it’s not clear how long the group has been for sale, there was an initial bidding process as far back as May 2007.

According to the groups website, you get control of all trademarks, contracts, personnel, and future opportunities.



In our opinion, you’d be an idiot NOT to buy the group.

A New Zealand couple is looking to call their newborn son Superman -- but only because their chosen name of 4Real has been rejected by the government registry.

Pat and Sheena Wheaton say they will get around the decision by the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages by officially naming their son Superman but referring to him as 4Real, the New Zealand Herald newspaper has reported.

The Wheatons decided on the name after seeing the baby for the first time in an ultrasound scan and realizing their baby was "for real."

They decided 4Real was the best way to write it, but the name was rejected because the registrar said a name had to be a sequence of characters.

Pat Wheaton said he was considering appealing the decision through the courts, but whatever happens he won't be budged on his choice.

"No matter what, it's going to stay 4Real," Wheaton told the Herald, "I'm certainly not a quitter."

A spokesman for the Department of Internal Affairs, which operates the registry, told the Herald discussions with the Wheatons about their son's name were continuing.

The baby is now 2 months old. The Wheatons first applied to register his name in June.

To offer further insight into this story, here’s a commentary from the Zany Zany World’s Lubomir Loebnovsky.

In a post modern world such as ours who's to say what's right or wrong. This child has been relegated to a set of values that will fail his social development long before his birth. This is new age alternative child abuse.

If parents want to validate their lives by creating life and then devalue another life with a trivializing moniker than we should all clap along tothe indisputable stupidity breeding in the motels and automobile trailers all over the world.

I would have probably named him “Yo Man!”

The results are in.

At 12:Am last night, the voting machine turned itself off and began processing the dozens upon dozens upon dozens of votes that poured in over the last 10 months.

Back in October, we here at The Zany Zany World asked you to tell us who you think has the weirdest name in the history of baseball.

You chose Buttercup Dickerson.

Buttercup was born October 11th, 1858 in Tyaskin, Maryland. He played seven seasons in the major leagues on eight different teams.

Cincinnati Reds 1878-1879
Troy Trojans 1880 (start)
Worcester Ruby Legs 1880 (end) - 1881
Pittsburg Alleghenys 1883
St. Louis Maroons 1884 (start)
Baltimore Orioles 1884 (middle)
Louisville Eclipse 1884 (end)
Buffalo Bisons 1885

I’ve only heard of two of those teams. But the Buffalo Bisons is pretty funny. That’s like naming a team the Yellowknife Bluespoons.

At any rate, his production hit a peak in 1884 while playing for the St. Louis Maroons.

Tragically, Buttercup died in Baltimore on July 23rd, 1920. While I could find no reference to how he died, I speculate that his brain spontaneously melted because his name is so awesome.

In 1979, Buttercup was enshrined in the National Italian American Sport Hall of Fame. I suppose that means Buttercup Dickerson was Italian. Weird.

So there you have it.

The ZZW would like to thank everyone who participated in the vote. Just so you know, Pussy Tebeau came in second place in the voting, followed by a fourway tie for third.

We personally felt that Dick Burns should have won, but hey, what can you do?

-RD