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^ And now she has new alligator skin shoes and a purse to match.

Legally blind man teaches alleged intruder a lesson
Apr 24, 5:54 PM (ET)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A legally blind man beat up an intruder and held him at knifepoint until police arrived at the man's eastside home, authorities said. Allan Kieta, 49, told police he was at home Monday morning when his small dog began barking and he encountered the man

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Penguin's wetsuit puts him back in the swim of things
Apr 25, 2:46 AM (ET)
By MICHELLE LOCKE

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - What's black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it's quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.

Pierre, a venerable 25 years old, was going bald, which left him with an embarrassingly exposed, pale pink behind.

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Police: Carjacker stops to ask TV news crew for directions
Apr 24, 11:58 PM (ET)

CLEVELAND (AP) - A carjacking suspect stopped during the crime to ask a television news crew for directions, police said.

The 19-year-old was arraigned Thursday on a charge of aggravated robbery and ordered held on $50,000 bond.

WOIO-TV newswoman Shannon O'Brien and photographer Eric Walls were doing a sidewalk report Monday on bank problems when the passenger in a car asked for directions to a bank. The driver signaled that he was being held at gunpoint, O'Brien told police.

 

Dynamo your so funny:lol: I actually saw this on MSNBC tongiht the little devil was squirming and slithering all over the floor, and the Animal Control guy finally got it subdued:cardie: those ones you posted were quite bizzare!

BEARS BEGIN ANNUAL RAID OF TRASH CANS

Reno, NV. It wasn't an especialy long winter's nap, but black bears in western Nevada and the Sierra's are starting to wake up..and they're hungry:wtf: A bear that wildlife officials said probably has become accustomed to people was seen late Monday rummaging in a trash can in a southwestern Reno home. "It was eating garbage" said resident Shannon Aramini. "He wasn't scared at all, when he spotted me" So begins another year of bear encounters, "Thie is the time of year bears get sighted" said Chris Healey, Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman. "It all borders bear country, so it wouldn;t be a surprise if they show up periodcally. The number of "urban bears" encountering humans has risen steadily in the past decade, especially at Lake Tahoe/Reno area a marine biologist said!

Las Vegas Review Journal

 

^ I once was coming home from work about 10pm around 12 years ago and walking around to my door with a bag of tacos and burritos when I saw movement near a tree about 10 feet from the door. It was a black bear. I slowly backed up, went to my car and had some of my dinner, and when I came back it was gone. Must have gone down the alley. Sometimes they come out of the woods and go near a donut shop a few blocks away, probably attracted by the aroma.

 

400-POUND BEAR LIVES IN THE STATE PENITENTIARY

Louisiana..The way the warden sees it, the more than 400-pound black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security. "I love that bear being right where it is" said Warden Burl Cain, "it's like having another guard at no cost to the taxpayer". The bear was first seen by an inmate crossing a road in the prison on Friday. It was taking a stroll near the center of the state's only maximum security prison, which is about 115 miles northwest of New Orleans. Most of the roughly 28-sq. mile prison is run as a farm, but about 5 1/2 square miles is mostly untouched piney woods!

The Associated Press

 

SpongeBob SquarePants image painted on historic Colo. cabin
May 10, 3:33 AM (ET)

MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service is looking for the "SpongeBob fanatics" who painted the cartoon character on the chimney of a historic building.

The 10-foot tall painting of Nickelodeon character SpongeBob SquarePants is on a cabin in the Pike National Forest that used to be the Forest Service's tree nursery until it was abandoned in the 1930s. Forest Service law enforcement officer Tom Healy says the incident is part of an increase in vandalism in the area.

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Students claim police chief who shot himself was careless
May 6, 8:06 PM (ET)

RIVERDALE, Utah (AP) - The police chief who shot himself in the ankle was waving a loaded pistol and being careless, according to two students who were attending his class to qualify for a concealed-weapons permit. "We were told the gun is the chief's personal sidearm, but it looked to me like he didn't know anything about the gun," Lewis Walker said.

Bart Ulm, another student seeking certification to carry a concealed weapon, said he was surprised Chief Dave Hansen was using a loaded gun to show how it worked.

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Legally blind man, 78, bowls perfect game
May 9, 4:27 PM (ET)

ALTA, Iowa (AP) - A 78-year-old legally blind man nicknamed "The Hammer" has bowled a perfect game. Dale Davis of Alta, Iowa, nailed 12 consecutive strikes and reached 300 on Saturday night during league play.

"It's a great sport. It's something the young, the old and the handicapped can do," Davis said Thursday. "I guess I count as the old and handicapped."

Davis has suffered from macular degeneration, a chronic eye disease, for the past decade. He can't see out of his left eye and has limited peripheral vision in his right eye.

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Driver gets in wreck, sees his home catch fire, gets ticket
May 9, 5:27 PM (ET)

ROCK ISLAND, Tenn. (AP) - One moment, Justin Hill was turning into his driveway. Minutes later he was being flown to a hospital as his home went up in flames. Then he got a traffic ticket.

Hill, 42, got into a crash after turning into the path of an oncoming car Tuesday evening, said Tennessee Highway Patrol Officer Monte Terry. Hill's wife heard the crash and ran outside, leaving the kitchen stove, where she had been cooking, unattended.

Within minutes, their Rock Island trailer was on fire, and firefighters who had responded to the accident found themselves fighting the blaze.

The rural central Tennessee home had extensive damage. Hill was treated at the hospital and released, but he was cited in the accident for failure to yield.

 

SLOT MACHINE PLAYER HITS $21 MILLION PAYOFF Geez:wtf:

Las Vegas, NV. A 58-year old Texas state employee has won a $21 million slot jackpot. Connie Thiele, of Austin said she was playing a Megabucks slot machine at the Palms Casino Resort, when she decided to switch to the machine next to her. Thiele says she put in a $20 and won on the first pull! [this never happend to me when I lived there

DEAD INFANTS FOUND IN FREEZER:MOTHER HELD

Wenden, Germany. A 44-yr. old woman was arrested on suspicion of killing 3 of her babies after their bodies were discovered in the family freezer, by her other children looking for pizza, police said. They confirmed the grisly find on Sunday night in the town of Wenden, near Olpe the the northern Rhine-westphalia, after the woman turned herself in. The 3 infants are believed to have been born alive, but authorities were awaiting autopsy results to determine how they died, said a spokesman for the investigiating team!

Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA.

 

9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach
May 15, 7:58 AM (ET)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.

Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo about six centimeters (more than two inches) long.

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Michigan Girl Scout sells 17,328 boxes of cookies
May 15, 7:37 AM (ET)
By MARGARET HARDING

DETROIT (AP) - A Girl Scout sold 17,328 boxes of the group's signature cookies this year by setting up shop on a street corner, shattering her troop's old mark and probably setting a national record.

Jennifer Sharpe, a 15-year-old from Dearborn, plans to travel to Europe with her troop with the proceeds from her feat.

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Giant beetles seized at Pennsylvania post office
May 14, 6:38 PM (ET)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Customs agents seized more than two dozen giant beetles - some the size of a child's hand - from an overseas package after postal workers heard the insects making scratching noises.

The large bugs arrived last week from Taiwan at a post office in Mohnton, about 50 miles northwest of Philadelphia, in a box whose contents were labeled as toys, gifts and jellies, officials said Wednesday.

But the postmaster suspected the package contained live organisms and notified authorities, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. The package was sent to Philadelphia, where it was X-rayed and then opened.

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NYC cabbie is fined $1,000 for foul-mouthed tirade
May 14, 3:42 PM (ET)

NEW YORK (AP) - The days of the cursing cabbie may be over. A New York City cab driver has been fined $1,000 for launching a foul-mouthed tirade at another cabbie.

The confrontation occurred Oct. 8, 2007, on the West Side of Manhattan when neither driver had a passenger.

Driver Malik Rizwan honked at fellow cabbie Zbigniew Sobczak after Sobszak cut him off, prompting Sobszak to jump out of his cab and use a vulgarity repeatedly.

Rizwan called the police and accused Sobczak of assault.

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Mich. city spends $5.21 to mail 51-cent tax bill
May 14, 3:13 PM (ET)

BRIGHTON, Mich. (AP) - A Michigan doctor is getting a laugh out of a 51-cent property tax bill. It isn't just that Phil Kazanji's bill is so low. It's that it cost the city of Brighton $5.21 to send it to him by certified mail.

Kazanji says he first thought the amount was a mistake. Now he calls the whole thing "the most ridiculous thing a government agency would do."

City finance director Dave Gajda says Kazanji paid $158 on a bill for $158.48. The city penalized him 3 cents and sent him the new tab.

 

EWWW, the fetus found in the girls stomach, too bizzare:vulcan:

SWIMMER INJURED BY DIVING PELICAN

FLA. A swimmer is recovering after a pelican apparently diving for fish slammed into her face oof the coast of Florida. Debbie Shoemaker, of Toledo, Ohio, was in the water near St. Petersburg, when the pelican's beak opened a gash in her face. She needed 20 stiches. The bird died!

FARMWORKERS FOUND LIVING IN ORCHARD

Farm laborer organizers say they have discovered more than 100 migrant fruit pickers living in a Central Vallery cherry/chard orchard, where they have been sleeping outdoors and bathing in drainage ditches. United Farm Workers representatives say they found the men, women and children camping in the orchards west of Shafter. [Bakersfield] area. Union orgainzer Armanso Elenas says many of the workers traveled fro Washington state at the request of Wenatchee-a Washington based Growers. The company denies involvement, but public records show there a partner in this company!

The Press Enterprise

 

RUFFLING NO FEATHERS weird, wacky photos of our feathered friends, AND other bizzare photos!!!:bolian:

LINK

 

SQUIRREL ZAPS LAX AIR CONDITIONING

A squirrel wa zapped by a high-voltage line providing electricity to Los Angeles International Airport, causing air conditioning to fail at several terminals on Monday morning, officials said. The squirrel got not a power distribution center and made contact with the line around 7:30 am, causing a 10-second outage that affected the air conditioning. Dept. of water and Power spokesman Joe Ramaillo ssaid. Travelers waited in stuffy terminals for at least 3 hours as electricians rebooted equipment. Other airport operations were not affected by the outage!

BAD LIQUOR LEAVES AT LEAST 60 DEAD

New Delhi, India, Locally brewed liquor apparently tainted with lethal chemicals killed at least 60 people in southern India over the weekend, said police n Monday. Bootleggers began selling the deadly brew on Saturday after police shut down authorized liquor stores in parts of the Karnataka state because of voting for the state government, said Sri Kumar, the head of the state police. Since Sat., 60 people most of them poor laborers have died and 17 others in the hospital. The police weren't sure what was in the dadly brew as of yet to be determined, and were analyzing it!

Riverside Press Enterprise

 

Some weird/wacky/bizzare photos the first one is amazing, I'd nver have the patience to do this:wtf:

LOOKIE HERE

 

Every so often, there is a weird news story that deserves to be by itself. Just plain crazy. The type of story where you want to scream, "W... T... F... !!!" This is one of those items. From KOB.com (TV4), Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings
Updated at: 05/21/2008 09:57:41 AM

A group in Santa Fe says the city is discriminating against them because they say that they're allergic to the wireless Internet signal. And now they want Wi-Fi banned from public buildings. Arthur Firstenberg says he is highly sensitive to certain types of electric fields, including wireless Internet and cell phones.

"I get chest pain and it doesn't go away right away," he said.

Firstenberg and dozens of other electro-sensitive people in Santa Fe claim that putting up Wi-Fi in public places is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The city attorney is now checking to see if putting up Wi-Fi could be considered discrimination.

But City Councilor Ron Trujillo says the areas are already saturated with wireless Internet.

"It's not 1692, it's 2008. Santa Fe needs to embrace this technology, it's not going away," Trujillo said.

The city attorney hopes to have a legal recommendation by the end of the month.

 

That's insane, for sure, what's next?

 

You had to ask.

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- Authorities in southern Germany said Saturday that they have taken custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, the equivalent of $1.57.

Peter Hieber, a spokesman for police in the Bavarian town of Krumbach, said the baby was placed in the care of youth services in the southwestern Allgaeu region, although the child's 23-year-old mother insisted that the ad was only a joke.

Authorities have launched an investigation into possible child trafficking against the baby's mother and 24-year-old father, neither of whom was identified.

"Offering my nearly new baby for sale, as it has gotten too loud. It is a male baby, nearly 28 inches (70 cm) long and can be used either in a baby carrier or a stroller," police quoted the ad as reading.

No offers were made for the child in the two hours and 30 minutes the ad was posted on Tuesday. EBay later deleted the posting but assisted police in tracking down the parents.

Several people who saw the ad alerted police.

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Vets install pacemaker in search-and-rescue dog
May 23, 7:29 AM (ET)

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - After years of helping authorities look for murder victims and survivors of natural disasters, a search-and-rescue dog named Molly has been rescued herself.

Surgeons at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine on Thursday installed a pacemaker in the 5-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever's heart. She needed the surgery after being diagnosed with a complete electrical heart blockage.

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Lost parrot tells veterinarian his address
May 22, 11:36 AM (ET)

TOKYO (AP) - When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught - recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.

Police rescued the African grey parrot two weeks ago from a neighbor's roof in the city of Nagareyama, near Tokyo. After spending a night at the station, he was transferred to a nearby veterinary hospital while police searched for clues, local policeman Shinjiro Uemura said.

 

The lost parrot amazing, and so smart that's great:lol:

SCORPION STINGS YOUNG SHOPPER

Barboursville, W.V. One young shopper at a Wal-Mart had to watch out for more than falling prices. The 12-year old girl was picking up a seedless watermelon from a bin on Sunday and was stung by a scorpion, apparently a stowaway in a shipment from Mexico OUCH:wtf: Megan Templeton, the same city was taken to a hospital as a precaution but later released. Wal-Mart employees captrued the scorpion SCARY!

The Associated Press