A woman at an Upstate McDonald’s thought she was getting an iPad at a bargain price, but instead she got a very expensive piece of wood.Ashley McDowell, 22, said she was getting food at about 10 p.m. Monday when two men approached her in the parking lot. The men showed McDowell a new iPad, and told her that they had bought several of them in bulk at a good price and had them in FedEx boxes in the trunk of their car.The men offered to sell McDowell one of the iPads for $300. She told them that she only had $180, and they agreed to sell her one for that amount.The men gave McDowell a FedEx box. Once at home, she opened it and found a piece of wood painted black with an Apple logo on it.

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A motley crew of B-list actors, famous exes, celebrity progeny – and cable pundit Nancy Grace – will take to the parquet for the 13th season of “Dancing With the Stars.” Along with Grace, the newest cast of the hit ABC show will include Chaz Bono, Courteney Cox’s ex David Arquette, and soccer star Hope Solo. Joining them will be talk show host Ricki Lake, Rob Kardashian of the Kardashian family, and Mamas and Papas offspring Chynna Phillips. Also dancing will be NBA player Ron Artest, George Clooney’s ex Elisabetta Canalis, reality TV stars Kristin Cavallari and Carson Kressley, and actor J.R. Martinez, ABC said Monday night. Bono, who transitioned from a woman to a man last year, will have a female partner. The 13th season of “Dancing With the Stars” will have its premiere on ABC Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. NY Daily News

Lady Gaga has once again been accused of copycat antics following last night’s performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. The 25-year-old pop star sang her track You And I as her male alter-ego, whom she has named Joe Calderone. She shocked the crowd, including Katy Perry and Justin Bieber, as she stepped out onto the dark, empty stage wearing a loose black suit and T-shirt with slicked-back dark hair with a lit cigarette. But many viewers, including Kelly Osbourne, felt the routine was all too familiar, accusing her of plagiarising Annie Lennox’s performance of Sweet Dreams at the Grammy Awards in 1984.

Rihanna’s father has been hospitalised after contracting a deadly tropical virus.57-year-old Ronald Fenty is now recovering at home after being struck down with dengue fever, a virus which kills thousands of people every year. The disease is transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks and while it is harmless for most people, some need to be treated intravenously for dehydration. Ronald fell ill just days after his superstar daughter came to visit the family in their native Barbados. The pair were estranged for a time over Ronald’s well-documented crack addiction but have now reconciled. And when the father of six was rushed to hospital he was treated in a ward where a doctor, who is a friend of Rihanna, insisted he call the 23-year-old singer. ‘I called her and she was worried,’ he said in a statement. ‘She said: “Daddy, what’s wrong with you?” I told her I’d be fine. I’m better now, the doctors just told me to take it easy for a few days and rest.’

A driver got herself arrested when a cop asked her for ID and she accidentally handed him a bag of marijuana along with her driver’s license. It led cops to find a whole trove of controlled medical drugs, including 57 oxycodone pills, seven methadone pills as well as smaller amounts of sedatives Valium and clonazepam. Danielle Rae Shockey, 27, was sitting in a car in the parking lot of a motel in Clearwater, Florida, at 3am when a police officer deemed it suspicious and decided to approach it. She told the cop she was talking to her boyfriend and considering renting a hotel room, according to the arrest report. But she did not help her case when she was asked for ID and made the crucial mistake. Shockey even tried to conceal the bag, according to the officer, but it was too late. The car was searched and she was arrested on marijuana possession and multiple felony counts of possession of a controlled substance. Shockey told the officer she smokes marijuana for medicinal reasons and the pills weren’t hers. Yeah..That’s what they all say!

Michele Bachmann has claimed that Hurricane Irene and last week’s earthquake in the eastern United States were messages from God to lawmakers in Washington. The Republican presidential candidate used the hurricane, which has killed at least 32 people and caused billions of pounds of damage, and the 5.8 earthquake, as signs of God’s anger at government policies. Speaking on Saturday, just as Irene was beginning its raking course up the East Coast, Mrs Bachmann told senior citizens in Poinciana, Florida: ‘Washington, DC, you’d think by now they’d get the message. An earthquake, a hurricane. Are you listening?