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Extra, Extra: Frosty Immortality Can Be Yours For Just $28K
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Ben Yakas
Published Feb 13, 2014
Modified Feb 13, 2014
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Published Feb 13, 2014
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- A ten-year-old boy in Norway stole his parents' car and went on a joyride—when cops pulled him over, he told them that he was a dwarf who left his driver's license at home.
- Watch the most vanilla "school's closed" announcement in American history.
- A conservative columnist wants you to boycott the Girl Scouts because it promotes prostitution and lesbianism.
- You can get a free dilapidated house if you move to Detroit and agree to write there.
- A Jalopnik writer went in search of the best Halal Cart in NYC.
- Dr. Danielle Sheypuk became the first model in a wheelchair to be featured at NY Fashion Week.
- Jim Parsons will host Saturday Night Live on March 1st, with Beck as musical guest.
- Just $28K will get you frosty immortality with cryogenics.
- Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia has lost a lot of weight.
- The Standard High Line will be sold for a fortune and will no longer be part of the Standard hotel group.
- And finally, this Bernese mountain dog is pretty zen, considering how much the terrier is annoying him:
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