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The "Harlem Shake" is happening everywhere -- in college dorms, libraries, on the street, and to the dismay of the Federal Aviation Administration, on a plane.

Students from Colorado College's Ultimate Frisbee team filmed a version of the popular dance video meme while on board a Frontier Airlines flight to San Diego. They even got the other passengers to participate in the fun, as shown in the video.

But it seems the FAA isn't enjoying the contribution to Internet humor. It's investigating the incident to make sure no rules were broken.

Only Michigan offers a 10-cent recycling refund for bottles and cans, as savvy soda sippers (and "Seinfeld" fans) can attest. But the refund is only supposed to apply to bottles and cans purchased within the state of Michigan.

At 10 cents each, the Great Lakes State offers about double what most others pay for empty bottles and cans. That's led some to bring their recyclables to Michigan so they can cash in on the extra money.

But some Michigan lawmakers have caught on, and they aren't too happy. On Tuesday, they introduced a bill that would crack down on out-of-state bottle returners.

The state of Georgia has a lawsuit to fend off, after denying a man's request for a personalized license plate saying "GAYGUY."

But legally speaking, did state officials infringe on Cyrus Gilbert's rights, or did they make an allowable judgment call pursuant to an established regulation?

Gilbert, an openly gay man, asserts that his rights were violated in his quest for a vanity license plate. After all, so many people have all sorts of personalized vanity license plates reflecting their affiliations and identities, right?

Apparently, homosexual identity doesn't make the cut in Georgia.

When Lazaro Sopena married Hahn Dinh, he took his wife's last name so that her family name would continue. His wife, you see, has no brothers to continue the line. What a great husband, right?

To make it official, he went through the appropriate process of changing his passport, Social Security card, and bank account information. Then he got a new driver's license. Or so he thought.

Lazaro Sopena -- now Lazaro Dinh -- received his license with his new last name. But a little more than a year later, his license was suspended.

You can petition the White House online about anything, and get an official response if you can gather enough signatures. But that doesn't mean silly ideas won't be rejected.

In 2011, President Obama's administration launched a website called "We the People" that allows citizens to send petitions directly to the White House. All you needed was 25,000 signatures in 30 days to get the president, or at least his staff, to consider your request.

At least, that's what you needed before. After several silly petitions, the number of signatures needed has been raised to 100,000, New York Magazine reports. How silly, you ask? Well, take a look at five weird White House petitions:

When Ashley Warden's toddler son was playing outside and needed to go to the bathroom, she was OK with him peeing in the front yard instead of wetting his pants. But a nearby cop wasn't, and slapped the 3-year-old offender's mom with a ticket, Oklahoma City's KWTV reports.

The officer issued a $2,500 ticket for Dillan's alleged public urination. It didn't matter to the cop that Dillan was on his grandmother's private property. The toddler was peeing outside, so he got a ticket.

But little Dillan doesn't have a job, so that $2,500 has to come from somewhere. It's his mom who's now on the hook.

Cultural performances get a tax exemption in New York, but in case you're wondering, that doesn't include lap dances.

An 'adult club' in Albany, New York thought they might be onto something when they filed a lawsuit over state sales tax. The club claimed that its admission fee and the cost of private dances should be exempt as a cultural endeavor.

The state's high court wasn't convinced that lap dances have the same cultural value as ballet.

But it wasn't a unanimous decision.

The Connecticut witch trials concluded almost 350 years ago but the victims never got their justice. Bernice Mable Graham Telian, the descendant of a woman who was hanged as a witch in 1663, is fighting to clear her ancestor's name.

Mary Barnes is Telian's seventh grandmother. She was convicted for 'familiarity with Satan' and hanged for practicing witchcraft in colonial Connecticut. The state executed 11 women for witchcraft between 1647 and 1663 .

Now Telian wants to exonerate her and she's not the only person fighting for it. But so far the state isn't cooperating.

YouTube user 'Bacon Moose' was annoyed by the traffic ticket he got in a town he called a 'money trap.' To show the police how he felt he went to pay his ticket in one dollar bills folded into origami pigs.

The traffic fine was for $137 which is a lot of little pigs. He packed them up in donut boxes to present to the police.

When he showed up to make his payment it didn't go as smoothly as planned. The clerk he ran into was not impressed.

There have probably been times when you wanted to moon your boss but Jason Selch actually did moon his superiors at Bank of America.

His reward for expressing his frustrations? Selch was initially given a warning but the company then did an about-face and fired him. That happened back in 2005 and he's been fighting them about it since then.

It's not that Selch loved his job so much after his company merged with Bank of America. But he was under the impression that he could keep his job so he sued for breach of contract.