Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The invention of Silly String was a complete accident that nearly didn't happen. In 1972, inventor Leonard A. Fish and chemist ...

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Hollywood Halloween revelers beware: those celebrating the haunted holiday with silly string are in danger of being fined. Thanks to a Los Angeles Municipal Code ordinance, anyone possessing, using or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Silly String prohibition sign in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. (David McNew/AFP via Getty Images) To hear police ...

Talk about an irresistible human interest story: a soldier stationed in Iraq tells his mother back in New Jersey that Silly String, the spray-can party favor of his childhood, can detect invisible ...

Worried that Silly String could damage the paint on cars, the town board in Huntington, N.Y., passed a law restricting sales of Silly String on parade days. Well, maybe nobody is using maps anymore, ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30 - Silly String has been blacklisted in Hollywood. For this, thanks goes largely to Tom LaBonge, a city councilman who sponsored an ordinance last year making it illegal to ...

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In a decade or so, the strange, sad, and slightly humorous saga of how 80,000 cans of silly string made their way to Iraq will be a poignant reminder of the U.S. military's sometimes Quixotic battle ...

Some of humanity’s greatest inventions were created by accident. Corn Flakes were originally meant to be a dough made from boiled wheat, Silly Putty was supposed to be an artificial rubber, and Silly ...

LOS ANGELES — To hear police and locals tell it, Halloween in Hollywood two decades ago was out of control, with revelers routinely spraying and damaging property with a product deemed such a menace ...

MASON COUNTY, MI - A Silly String incident at a Walmart store has resulted in retail fraud charges against a couple who made a mess with the canned string. The Muskegon couple entered the store ...