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Guests aboard a Princess Cruise Lines ship were shocked to find a dead 70-foot whale wedged on top of the bow upon disembarking in Vancouver, Canada, reported The Vancouver Sun.

The adult fin whale has apparently been hit by the ship somewhere near Vancouver Island, where the whales usually congregate during this time of year.

Cruise line officials said they were shocked by the incident, considering they take very strict precautions to avoid contact between their ships and marine wildlife. Princess said it will fully cooperate with any investigation into the incident.

With all of the cruise deals being thrown about, it is legitimate to be worried that you may miss the best offers. Most of these deals are being offered online, and if you don’t know where or when to check, you may not see them.

A number of cruise deal aggregators are looking to solve that problem by offering visitors text message updates to their cellphones.

Using that feature, any time a new cruise deal comes online that matches your preferred criteria, you will receive a text message informing you to go to the website for further information and to book.

Police in a small town in France found a local grave robber dead next to a tombstone from which he was stealing religious objects.

ABC News reports the death was called in by a resident of the town of Valeuil, who found the man dead next to his hammer, chisel and small ladder.

After examining the scene, police determined the man had died of a heart attack brought on by the summer heat and the strenuous physical labor he was doing.

Whatever the reason, that is just ironic justice at its best.

Renaissance Hotels has two new New York properties, the Renaissance New York Hotel Times Square and the Renaissance New York Hotel 57, and is looking to get some visitors to them.

Both hotels are stunning and luxurious and should attract plenty of visitors on their own, if these were normal economic times. But they aren’t. So Renaissance is launching a special package that allows visitors to stay at the hotel of their choice and offers a number of small extras like free cocktails and a personal appointment manager.

Both hotels are conveniently located in Manhattan, near just about every attraction one could want to visit. The only choice left to make is which style you prefer best.

A US Army colonel kept his promise and opened a 40-year-old C-ration of pound cake at his retirement ceremony and dug in.

Col. Henry Moak had put away the pound cake in 1973 as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. He vowed never to eat it until the day of his retirement.

Guests at his retirement ceremony at the Pentagon were a little grossed out as he took a bite, but Moak said the cake still tasted pretty good.

An old general friend also tried the cake and said it tasted as it always had.

Army officials later clarified that they discourage anyone from eating out of old ration cans.

The popular Cocomangas Nightclub at Byron Bay in Australia has installed a fancy new ID scanner that is all but guaranteed to keep undesirable patrons out, reports the Byron Shire News.

The $10,000 idEye will scan the ID of anyone entering the club. It will then compare the scanned ID to a database to determine if the would-be patron has ever been in trouble at any other bar or hotel, anywhere. Oh, and if the ID is fake, the idEye will know right away.

In a lot of countries, ID scanners like these are being called an invasion of privacy. But for most regular patrons, keeping out troublemakers is a very welcomed endeavor.

He looks nothing like him, and is 40 years younger, but that doesn’t stop people from regularly mistaking suburban Cincinnati resident Neil Armstrong for the first man to walk on the moon.

The Associated Press reported that Neil Allen Armstrong, 38, constantly receives calls and packages from autograph seekers, reporters and groups that want him to come speak at their events. He has to politely tell them he is not the man they want, but not everyone always believes him.

The man they are looking for, Neil Alden Armstrong, lives nearby, leading many to believe that the Neil Armstrong they are contacting is the right man.