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Extra, Extra: Get Mesmerized By The Best News Bloopers Of 2012
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Ben Yakas
Published Dec 27, 2012
Modified Dec 27, 2012
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Published Dec 27, 2012
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- You really can't go wrong watching this hilarious compilation of the best news bloopers of 2012.
- Not a joke: Kate Winslet got married in a secret ceremony to a man named Ned Rocknroll. Or maybe it's Ned Rock'nRoll? Or Ned Rock'n'Roll?
- A long, kinda boring interview with Wes Anderson is still an interview with Wes Anderson.
- A cop is suing the NYPD because its shooting targets are too close and a bullet (that he fired) ricocheted and hit him.
- Um, sharks escaped into a Chinese mall after their tank broke.
- The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West has been declared a ZOO, because of all the cats.
- Newspaper headline of the day: Let is snow, let is snow, let is snow.
- The White House petition to legally recognize the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group has a lot of supporters.
- A Brooklyn couple is offering free rent to the roommate who can help motivate them to work out.
- The MTA announcement has gotten a remix.
- And finally, it is time for the ultimate battle between a cat...and its tail:
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