A 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl won $25,000 after typing "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" on her cell phone in less time than 200 other competitors in a text-messaging competition. Morgan Pozgar typed the Disney classic's "biggest word I ever heard" in only 15 seconds, beating out the former national text-messaging champ, 21-year-old Eli Tirosh of Los Angeles. Morgan, who estimated she sends more than 8,000 text messages every month, described her phone as "pretty worn in," according to UPI.

A couple seeking a comfortable ride for their cats and cabbie in the pursuit of good memories have come along for a 2,400 mile ride across several states to reach Arizona. After their retirement Betty and Bob Matas had decided to move to Arizona, but like many New Yorkers the couple do not drive causing them to worry about the comfortable transportation of their beloved cats. The couple, however, found the solution to their problem several weeks ago during a round of shopping trip when they jokingly asked the cabbie they hailed whether he will be interested in making the long trip.

Thirty-nine-year-old Debbie Bird claims she is allergic to modern living and says mobile phones, microwaves and cars are banned from her house. Bird said she is sensitive to electromagnetic fields (emf) or "smog" created by computers, microwave ovens, mobile phones and some cars, and that she develops skin rashes and her eyelids swell to three times their normal size if she gets exposed to them.

Scavenger hunters in Mexican wrestling masks will descend on downtown Montreal in the first-ever Faceless Invasion competition on March 31. Doing away with normal scavenger hunt items like "bus ticket", "chewed gum" and "airplane jet engine," the Faceless contest plans to take the tradition to a level it has never been before.

A man apparently sleeping in a trash bin woke up screaming to the pressure of a trash compacter. The incident happened early Thursday, when a Kansas City waste-truck worker, unaware of the sleeping man, lifted over the trash bin from a shopping center on U. S. 40, and routinely emptied into the truck and started the compacter. According to the Kansas City Fire Department, the driver stopped the compacter as soon as he heard somebody screaming. The driver jumped in to help the man out but couldn't.