Country superstar George Jones — one of the most-imitated singers in country music — died Friday at the age of 81.

Jones's signature sound was in his haunting melodies and heartbreaking lyrics over a 50-year career. His No. 1 singles included White Lightning, She Thinks I Still Care and He Stopped Loving Her Today.

Jones was also notorious for his hard-living lifestyle, which included battles with substance abuse, alcoholism and four marriages, including one to fellow country star Tammy Wynette.

Here are performances of some of Jones's best-known hit songs.

Rest in peace, Ol’ Possum.

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The teen was driving 175 km/hr to return the car before his family realized it was missing.There's nothing quite love and a Cadillac to make a teen lose his head.

Police in Abbotsford, B.C. witnessed that last week when they stopped a 15-year-old speeding down the highway in his parents' Cadillac, returning from a visit with a girl he'd met recently, according to the Abbostford Times.

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He was driving 175 km/hr to return the car before his family realized it was missing. You see, the teen had neither permission to take the car, nor a license to drive it.

But officer, I just had to see her again!

Blame it on a sense of adventure or on commercials about getting girls and driving fast cars but somehow this teen decided the reward was worth the risk. Police have fined him $759, the Times reported.

Time for his parents to buy a Honda Civic.

What's worse? The girl decided she only wanted to be friends, RCMP Cpl. Robert McDonald told the local newspaper.

In the end, he was unlucky in love and bad at crime.

A similar incident took

If “Druid priest” appears on your shortlist of past lives, have we got the job opportunity for you.

Stonehenge, the impenetrably mysterious prehistoric rock formation in Wiltshire, England, is primed for a new general manager and English Heritage is willing to pay someone nearly $100,000 per year for the privilege.

Duties will include coordinating a team of 180 staff and volunteers, making sure the million or so tourists who mill through the standing stone ring are having a proper good time and also solving a puzzle that has perplexed history’s brightest minds for thousands of years.

OK, so maybe not the last bit, but just imagine the Christmas bonus opportunities if you succeed.

“Stonehenge is one of the wonders of the world, a monument of the same iconic status as the Pyramids, the Taj Mahal and the Eiffel Tower,” Tim Reeve, English Heritage’s Historic Properties Director, wrote in a statement.

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“We are looking for a dynamic and

This rare blue diamond set a record price per carat (Photo courtesy Bonhams)It's the kind of ring you'd prefer to lock in a case than display at a party.

A rare blue diamond has sold at auction for more than $9.7 million dollars (Canadian) in London, England, breaking the world record for price spent per carat on a diamond, according to Agence France-Presse.

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The cost breakdown on the gem works out to $more than 1.8 million per carat. Diamonds: absurdly expensive but rarely priceless.

The 5.3-carat blue diamond is set in a ring with even more diamonds, naturally, and the news wire reported that bids came to the Bonhams Fine Jewelry auction in from all over the world.

In the end, Graff Diamonds, based in London, bought the diamond, according to Bonhams.

Don't be too disappointed; maybe the next one will be your birthday present.

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A video filmed by the company shows bidders quickly raising the offers, with some on the phone who

Scott Napper, a biochemistry professor at the University of Saskatchewan, is proposing a research experiment in which subjects would pick their noses and then eat it.A Saskatoon professor trying to promote science among students is starting to get snotty about the whole thing.

Scott Napper, a biochemistry professor at the University of Saskatchewan, is proposing a research experiment in which subjects would pick their noses and then eat it, according to the Canadian Press.

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He says this type of experiment, that's funny and enlightening, is a great way to make people curious about science.

Funny for the guy who's not picking his snot.

Napper also seeks to find out if children's occasional habit of eating boogers might be helpful, in a sense, because it could teach their bodies to better fight off the germs they consume.

He told the Canadian Press he would choose one type of molecule to place in subject's noses and then divide them into two groups: nose pickers who eat it and those who don't.

Volunteering before the groups are assigned would require a certain special kind

Bongy, the mascot of The Bong Warehouse in Esquimalt, B.C. (Facebook)Bongy the blue-headed mascot may soon walk the streets of Esquimalt, B.C. for the last time, because his his hazy grin and weed-loving attitude does not have authorities craving a salty snack.

Far from it, since a councillor in this town west of Victoria wants the mascot, designed as a marketing strategy for a new paraphernalia store named The Bong Warehouse, banned outright, according to the Times-Colonist.

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That's because Bongy, along with all he represents, is not very family-friendly.

At least according to Tim Morrison, the councillor who brought up the idea of bylaw restrictions on mascots. He said he'd heard fewer complaints about sewage than he did about the pipe mascot, the Times-Colonist reported.

The store owner, Ryan Place, told Metro the councillor was "obviously born 300 years ago."

Immortal town councillors aside, Place and other business owners would have to apply for a permit to use mascots if the proposed

The closest documented proof we have to the existence of zombies on earth may lie underneath a pair of golden arches.

We can thank David Whipple for this discovery. The Utah man purchased a pair of McDonald’s burgers in 1999 and, as an experiment in biological decay, decided to keep one of the burgers out for 30 days.

Fourteen years later it remains in the exact same condition, a meat-and-bun version of the living dead. McZombie’s.

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“"I was showing some people how enzymes work and I thought a hamburger would be a good idea,” he said on a recent episode of The Doctors (via Daily Mail). “And I used it for a month and then I forgot about it. It ended up in a paper sack with the receipt in my coat pocket tossed in the back of my truck and it sat there for, I don't know, two or three months."

“My wife didn’t discover it until at least a year or two after that. And we pulled it out and said ‘oh my gosh. I can’t believe it looks

Footage of a whirlpoool in Latvia has mesmerized viewers watching the swirling vortex suck up earth, debris and boulders.

The video has been viewed more than 1.2 million times since it was uploaded on April 21, with some commenters urging, or perhaps joking, that Latvians should "run for the hills."

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The whirlpool appears to operate like a watery vacuum cleaner, sucking up everything in its path.

The whirlpool is in a Latvian river that has flooded its banks, according to the Daily Mail.

Divers regularly upload videos of fascinating vortexes, including YouTube user whirlpoolhitman, who dedicates his channel to videos of whirlpools underwater, including this one called 'Ocean Whirlpool', taken at an unidentified location.

The phenomenon at the Latvian river hasn't yet resulted in anything as terrifying as an incident in 2009 when a scuba diver from New Brunswick was sucked into the largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere,