A pair of fake Craigslist ads led to a Jacksonville man being stripped of almost all of his belongings. The ads claimed that the homeowner's possessions were all free for the taking, as he had allegedly been forced to suddenly leave the area. Robert Salisbury said that the two ads announced that all his possessions were free to anyone who wanted them - an invitation that resulted in a flurry of people coming to his home and taking his material things.

A Canadian baby is born every minute and 29 seconds, while a Canadian passes away every two minutes and 29 seconds. Given this trend of birth and deaths, Canada's population is expected to hit 33. 3 million by July 2008. For the Action Democratique du Quebec, the country's natural birth rate is not growing fast enough to spare the province from becoming a gray one. ACT believes a faster pace of economic growth can be achieved by Quebec if their women have more babies. ACT is suggesting at least two children per Quebec woman.

A police officer didn't believe the story of two men who were seen walking behind a local restaurant that had recently been burglarized in Appleton, Wisconsin. The officer approached the suspects, who claimed they were at the restaurant after hours to fix a toilet. However, the would-be plumbers were carrying tools of a different sort; channel-lock pilers, a screw driver and a flashlight, among other things.

A toy manufacturer is hoping their news set of toys, versions of versions of microbes including gonorrhea and syphilis, will be a hit for Christmas. Giant Microbes, a toy manufacturer based in Connecticut has turned microscopic images of viruses and bugs, which also include malaria, mad cow disease, salmonella, Ebola, acne, rabies, black death and the good old influenza virus into 5-to-7 inch dolls.

Firemen took more than a hour in freeing a three-year-old Harry Potter fanatic from a traffic cone he had place on his head so he could look like idol, a local paper reported Monday. According to the report, Charlie Thomas was playing with his sisters when he suddenly placed the cone on his head in his effort to impress his family thinking the traffic cone would make him look like Harry Potter under a wizard hat.