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The Week in Weird (Vampire Roommates Edition)

Welcome back to our weekly roundup of the weirdest, most exquisitely bizarre news items of the last seven days. Here before you are some of the strangest stories in circulation. This week's theme is "mismatch" and it stays right on track. We have luxury hotels for chickens, pole dancing for Jesus, vampire roommates and the...

The Ultimate Roommate Calculator: How a Math Geek Splits the Rent

Living with roommates raises plenty of questions. Who left the dishes in the sink? Where's your share of the cable bill? What happened to my leftover pizza? Thankfully, a graduate student at Harvard University has used math to help roommates find an easy answer to the most difficult of domestic questions. Jonathan...

Scout's Dishonor: Florida Mom Arrested in Fight Over Girl Scout Cookies

Sell the most Girl Scout Cookies and you might get a merit badge. Attack someone in an argument over Girl Scout Cookies and you'll see a police badge. Police in Florida say a Collier County mom earned a demerit when she assaulted her roommate in a dispute over Thin Mint cookies. Hersha Howard, 31, is accusing of waking...

Police: Man Bit Off Roommate's Nose

(Aug. 3) -- This roommate nose no bounds. Police believe John Olele, 30, bit off his housemate's nose after a heated argument Sunday night. According to KVAL, police in Boise, Idaho, responded to a 911 call about a fight at 9:49 p.m. and reportedly spotted "an adult male with most of his nose missing."...

Background on roommate

A roommate is a person who shares a living facility such as an apartment or dormitory. Similar terms include suitemate, housemate, flatmate ("flat": the usual term in British English for an apartment), or sharemate (shared living spaces are often called sharehomes in Australia,).

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