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Here are today's Redneck Headlines:

#1 - THE MONA LISA DIET
#2 - TWO STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUCH!
#3 - NOT EGG-ZACTLY A GOOD EGG


THE MONA LISA DIET

Yes, some of today's women have body image issues, but so do some gals who've been dead for 500 years.

An Italian artist has found a way to slim down some long-passed ladies in classic Renaissance paintings, via a computer program that's similar to Photoshop. Anna Utopia Giordano has tweaked images from dozens of famed paintings, turning the chubby figures of the women depicted into hard bodies you'd see in a modern day gym.

She says her point was to show the hypocrisy of modern fashion magazines, which use similar methods to alter photos of models.

Source: UPI


TWO STRIKES
AND YOU'RE OUCH!

A Pennsylvania man gave new meaning to the adage "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" by trying to pull a heist - after being shot in the leg just minutes earlier during a different robbery attempt.

Clinton Edwards was winged in the arm and leg by a homeowner who wrestled him to the ground during a break-in, but managed to flee the scene before cops arrived. He made it about 25 miles to a second home where a woman awoke to find him rummaging through her dresser leading him to high-tail it yet again, this time without eating hot lead.

Her description led to Edwards' arrest early the next morning.

SourceYork Dispatch


NOT
EGG-ZACTLY  A GOOD EGG

An off-duty Illinois cop is in a hurry to call a lawyer after trying to rush a pregnant woman through a Wal-Mart checkout -- by pulling a gun and threatening to shoot her.

Craig French was trying to protect the sanctity of the self check-out by picking a fight with the nine-months-pregnant woman, whose husband had gotten out of line to get some eggs that he had forgotten to add to the cart. Another customer saw French pull out his gun when the argument escalated and called for help.

French was not charged for the gun play, but the husband was hauled off to jail for defending his wife by shoving the cop.

Source: MyFoxChicago


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