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http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/weird_news/15868018.htm

brutal 45 min rainstorm in karachi

whoa

Karaoke singer attacked after starting song

It could have been the Coldplay song "Yellow" that upset the patron of a Wallingford neighborhood bar. Or perhaps it was the karaoke singer who belted it out.

Employees at Changes, on North 45th Street, said they don't know, but the ensuing melee just past 1 a.m. Thursday was one unlike anything seen at the bar before.

As soon as the man on stage started singing about the stars in his best Chris Martin impersonation, the woman reportedly said: "Oh, no, not that song. I can't stand that song!"

Witnesses said her distaste for Coldplay quickly took a violent turn, and she leaped at the would-be crooner, shouting expletives and telling him that his singing "sucked," while expressing the same opinion of the song, according to a Seattle police report.

She pushed the man and punched him, all in an effort to stop his singing.

Musharraf's pet dealt vigilante justice at the hands of lawyers (of all people)

The Hawaii Superferry!

Strong storm takes aim at Pacific Northwest

A strong area of low pressure that has energy from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lingling is expected to strengthen again and push toward the Pacific Northwest.

big or small?

!!!

whoa here i cum ;)

http://honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080117/BREAKING/80117001/1314

http://www.nbc4.com/news/13859930/detail.html

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no wai

two more people on to the highway:

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Jan/30/br/br8597203164.html

i drove past the last one on the other side of the median u_u

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Australian PM says sorry to indigenous Australians. 98% of Australia rejoices, 2% are bigoted fucks.

ya really.
My co-worker's bf was in the office before and he showed me this sms that said something like "I'll say sorry when they say sorry for the 1 million cars they've stolen"

I bet the person who sent that has suffered no social prejudice or poverty.

like 50% of all cars and trucks in our metropolitan area are in some form of wreck right now I think

hooray ice. hooray me not owning a car

they were just showing sidewalk footage on the news of people slipping around all over the place downtown

there's a pileup on basically every exit ramp and every bridge leading in and out of the city

Most important story here:

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1368/picture3gc7.png

lik my ballz

Seattle Police arrested a 35-year-old man for indecent exposure at Green Lake Park on Monday afternoon after a woman caught the man beating off in the bushes.

According to the police report, the woman hid behind a tree and called police while she watched the man masturbate. While on the phone, the woman told police she “thought that [the man] had some kind of flesh-colored realistic-looking phony penis strapped to his genitals.”

The woman also told police she recognized the man who, according a police report, had masturbated in front of the woman and her daughter near the Green Lake Community Center three days earlier.

Officers arrived and contacted the man, who produced a dildo from his pants told police that he only had it “to make it look like he did have a large real penis through his tight fitting pants.”

Police arrested the man and confiscated his dildo. The report says the man has a prior conviction for indecent exposure.

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Bill would rename D.C. streetWashington Business Journal - by Jonathan O'Connell Staff Reporter

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U2 famously sang about a place where the streets have no names.

The Irish rockers apparently don’t know how it works in D.C.

A bill before the D.C. Council would rename a portion of South Capitol Street SE as “Taxation Without Representation Street.” And you thought it was hard finding your way around when it was South Capitol. Try sticking “Taxation Without Representation Street” into Google Maps or your GPS.

It’s unclear what portion would be renamed. Our guess: The stretch near Nationals Park, ensuring plenty of out-of-towners are introduced to D.C.’s fight for a vote in Congress.

The defacto D.C. slogan is already on the city’s license plates. The city approved adding the slogan to the official city flag, though no new design has been introduced or approved. Officials tried — and failed, thanks to the feds — to have it imprinted on the District’s quarter.

Council members Kwame Brown, Carol Schwartz, Harry “Tommy” Thomas and Tommy Wells sponsored the bill, which was referred to the Committee of the Whole.

Seattle Police have arrested a man who allegedly robbed Capitol Hill's favorite dildo emporium, Babeland, last Thursday night.

Yesterday, police arrested Charmarke Abdi-Issa, 28, for investigation of robbery. Police believe Abdi-Issa has robbed seven small businesses and one cab driver since October 28th.

According to Babeland staff, Abdi-Issa came in to their store around 9pm on November 13th and told an employee he was looking for a Fleshlight. When an employee opened the cash register to ring him up, Abdi-Issa allegedly pulled a gun and told the staff member to go to the back of the store.

Babeland's Assistant Manager, Status Causey, says Abdi-Issa left with about $175 and the Fleshlight.

quite a pull

Ohio 'underwear researcher' admits molesting kids
Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:57 PM

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CINCINNATI -- An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to charges he fooled parents into letting him be alone with their children so he could sexually touch them while pretending to be an underwear market researcher.

Forty-four-year-old Ben Hawkins, of Springfield Township in suburban Cincinnati, could receive a maximum of 44 years in prison at his Jan. 29 sentencing.

Hamilton County prosecutors say Hawkins looked for boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 16. They say he arranged to meet parents and children at schools, hospitals or at their homes and told parents he needed to measure underwear for research.

Hawkins pleaded guilty yesterday to nine charges of importuning and three counts of gross sexual imposition.

???

there is this guy who rammed a petroleum delivery truck into the original local hell's angels motherbrain. he has no regrets at all , we are all baby panda baout him

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=82520

Woman Injured In Sex Toy Mishap

LEXINGTON PARK, Md. (WUSA) - A Southern Maryland woman was seriously injured in a mishap involving a sex toy over the weekend. The case was first reported on TheBayNet.com, and Saint Mary's county public safety sources confirmed the information to 9NEWS NOW.

The accident was reported to local fire and rescue personnel about 1:30 a.m. on March 7, from an address on Rogers Drive. The man who made the 911 call said he had placed a sex toy over a saber saw blade, and then used the power tool on his partner, but the blade cut through the plastic and injured the woman.

The victim, a 27-year-old woman, was reportedly injured and bleeding. She was later flown to Prince George's hospital center by Maryland State Police helicopter.

On Wednesday, Saint Mary's County Sheriffs released an update on their investigation. Detectives conducted an investigation which determined the injury was a result of a consensual act between two parties and no crime was committed.

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Written by Bill Starks
9NEWS NOW & wusa9.com

Ow!

>:O

oh fuck

http://www.tool-net.co.uk/data/tools/sasagsa900e.jpg

Chemistry TA fired

Melissa Stredney allegedly gave undeserved grades, encouraged students to cheat
Gina Ferrentino
Issue date: 3/12/09 Section: Campus

LAKELAND. Fla. — It’s a practiced art among most middle-school boys: passing gas and blaming it on someone nearby.

It has been going on for years, maybe decades — heck, maybe since the dawn of mankind. It’s always, well, usually funny. But beware of laughing out loud at farts. It could land you and your sense of humor in the toilet.

Just ask Jonathan Locke Jr., a Polk County eighth-grader who got blamed for farting on a school bus this week and ended up being banned from the bus for three days. It wasn’t the farting that resulted in his ouster; it was the disruption that followed, school officials said.

“I guess it was just because I was laughing so hard,” he said Thursday. “I don’t know.”

The 15-year-old attends the Bill Duncan Excel Center, an alternative school in Lakeland. Jonathan denied making the sound on the bus Monday. He said a friend was making fart sounds with his mouth.

That cracked him up, he said. Then came a rank odor, which made the situation hysterical, he said. “I just thought it was funny.”

A day later, when Jonathan walked on the bus to go home, he was handed a note telling him he had been barred from the bus for three days.

“Jonathan passes gas on the bus to make the other children laugh and it is so stink that you can’t breathe after he does it,” the bus driver wrote in a disciplinary note levying the three-day suspension.

Jonathan’s father, Jonathan Locke Sr., said the school went a bit too far in the flatulence fracas. He said the ordeal has disrupted his son’s education.

“I don’t know how they can do it, but apparently they can,” Locke Sr. said. “They say it’s disrupting the bus and they can do whatever they want to if it comes to disrupting the children on the bus.”

Polk County School District officials either declined to talk about the matter or didn’t respond to messages Thursday.

oh oops i didn't notice that is not a local news story but i found it from local news site sry :(
that makes it even better though like why am i supposed to care about some kid in florida farting on the bus, but i do care i really do

we are all jonathan locke jr

http://www.malaspina.com/jpg/locke.jpg

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wtf

this is a link, click it

ha ok well the parser is saying it wasn't funny i guess

Dogs Helping Children Learn To Read

http://wbns.com/wwwexportcontent/sites/10tv/local/stories/2009/04/06/images/dog03.jpg

Prof called me a 'gay leprechaun'

Nasty bickering between William Meezan, dean of the College of Social Work, and professor Rudolph Alexander has been going on for four years, and there's no end in sight. Meezan alleged in a May 2008 deposition that Alexander referred to him as a "gay leprechaun" to one of his classes and falsely accused him of having AIDS.

The community Easter Party Saturday afternoon at Douglass Park was interrupted by a gun scare. No one was injured, and no arrests were made.

At about 5:10 p.m., an announcement was made warning partygoers that someone in the park was carrying a gun. Families were advised to find their children and leave the park immediately.

Columbia Police Department Sgt. Dan Beckman said officers were called to an incident near the basketball courts at the park. When they arrived, Beckman said, the disturbance had apparently ended.

About a half hour later, Margaret Hickem, one of the event's organizers, said an incident involving 10 men had occurred in the park some distance away from the celebration.

i was at the park playing bball

City police seize dozens of tiny turtles from vendors

Two men arrested for selling animals as pets

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25858290-3102,00.html

<3

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2009/07/31/103455_gold-coast-top-story.html

http://wbal.com/apps/news/templates/story.aspx?articleid=33918&zoneid=24&utm_source=rss

http://www.phinneywood.com/2009/09/01/cougar-sighted-in-magnolia-and-possibly-greenwood/

Police: 'Chunky' escorts rip off intoxicated men

Mountlake Terrace police are on the lookout for a trio of escorts who are alleged to have stolen about $440 from four customers who had invited them over for a weekend party. The cops have their work cut out for them since they're relying on four victims who were "incredibly" intoxicated and provided only the barest of descriptions.

The suspects were all described as being about 5-feet-8, white and "chunky," in their late 20s, possibly from Tacoma.

While trying to describe the suspects to police, the men decided to rate the women on a scale of 1 to 10. Three said the women all rated a "2." But the man described by police as the most intoxicated disagreed and claimed they rated a "4."

Man shocked with 100,000 volts of electricity after chasing rabbit into power station, police say.

A man who was listed as a missing person in Greenville County walked into the emergency room of Greer Memorial Hospital naked and covered with electrical burns on 90 percent of his body, authorities said.
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The man said he chased a rabbit into a power station and suffered several electrical shocks, according to a Greer Police incident report.

http://www.wyff4.com/news/21251063/detail.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/19/u.s.espionage.charge.israel/

pretend i live in south dakota

Man who listed 'robbery' as occupation sentenced

The Associated Press

RAPID CITY, S.D. - A 60-year-old Rapid City man has been sentenced to four years in prison for robbing a bank in the city. Police said Lonnie Pannell walked into the downtown Dakotah Bank on Feb. 5 without a weapon and demanded money. He got away with about $2,800.

Pannell was arrested less than 24 hours later when his car ran out of gas near Chadron, Neb. Court documents said that when Pannell was booked into jail, he named "robbery" as his occupation.

Pannell, who also goes by the last name King, pleaded guilty in July.

also http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/102109_naked_man_arrested_after_making_coffee_update

almost posted that yesterday

Wally
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woah that is awesome

http://wjz.com/local/bra.inmate.wash.2.1307686.html

http://www.thepeoplesentinel.com/news/hauling-heavy-superload-shipment-makes-its-way-slowly-through-region
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http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20091130/NEWS01/91130006/Protesters-arrested-in-Greenville-at-Duke-Power-generator

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http://cmsimg.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=BS&Date=20091130&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=91130006&Ref=AR&Profile=1004&MaxW=550&MaxH=650&title=0

Totally thought dude on the left was this happy Juggalo:

http://media.modbee.com/smedia/2009/04/23/20/755-LIVE_p0424_24b1ferrell.standalone.prod_affiliate.11.jpg

http://www.thepeoplesentinel.com/news/hauling-heavy-superload-shipment-makes-its-way-slowly-through-region

I am loling @ this story

"I'm anxious to see that turn onto Clinton Street - that's a tight turn. There's a lot of jackknife turns," Riley said.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bal-plane-stolen1228,0,98027.story

FREDERICK - Authorities say a homeless man tried to leave town in a stolen plane but crashed the single-engine aircraft on a Frederick Municipal Airport runway before he ever left the ground.

Calvin Cox, 51, remained in custody Monday after a District Court commissioner set his bail at $10,000 on felony charges including theft, burglary and trespassing.

Lt. Clark Pennington said a Frederick County Sheriff's Office canine team found Cox unhurt in woods near the runway after an airport worker reported the crash of the Piper Super Cub at about 2:15 a.m. Monday.

Pennington said Cox is familiar with airplanes but not proficient in their operation. The plane, owned by the Mid-Atlantic Soaring Association, sustained damage to the fuselage and propeller, according to Pennington.

He is a terrorist who should be tried as Al-Quaida. Look at his pic. He looks like Taliban.

ChrisM929 (12/28/2009, 4:23 PM )

Pennington said Cox is familiar with airplanes but not proficient in their operation.

this is a weird sentence because it could mean anything from "he saw a plane in the sky one time and thought it was a pterosaur" to "he's a pilot but not a very good one."

he looks like a drowsy Aristotle.

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20100105/ARTICLES/100109906/1083/ARTICLES?Title=GSP-concourse-cleared-after-threat-suspected-near-plane

A concourse at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport was evacuated for a short time this morning after a TSA employee discovered an open, unattended door, an airport official said.

GSP spokeswoman Rosylin Weston said the employee made the discovery at about 10:30 a.m., and officials evacuated Concourse B and a Delta plane, which only had crew on board. The Delta plane was the only one on the tarmac at the time.

A bomb-sniffing dog was brought in and smelled something on the plane's front wheel. A bomb squad was called in, but later found nothing. The scene was cleared just before noon.

About 50 passengers were sent back through security and are on their way.

http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=77595

Richland County (WLTX) -- Deputies in Richland County say they've arrested the final suspect who they say robbed a cell phone store on Sparkleberry Lane.

One of the suspects, however, died shortly after the crime took place.

Investigators with the Richland County Sheriff's Department say 24-year-old Thomas James spray-painted his face to conceal his identity during the crime.

Deputies say the man began having trouble breathing shortly after the crime, then died. The exact cause of his death has not been released.

http://www.thestate.com/breaking/story/1122710.html

News - Breaking News
Friday, Jan. 22, 2010

Eat chicken with a deputy

Looking for something to do today at lunch?
The Chick-fil-A at 2600 Decker Blvd. is inviting area residents to eat with a Richland County sheriff’s deputy, part of "Sheriff’s Appreciation Day."
The event, which will include games and other activities, runs from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sheriff Leon Lott will be on hand from 11 a.m.-noon.

Sheriff's Appreciation Day was this story printed in the old west?

Newville man was driving on I-81 with pants down, police say
By CHRIS A. COUROGEN, The Patriot-News
January 22, 2010, 3:01PM

When state police questioned David F. Line about a report from a truck driver who allegedly saw Line driving on Interstate 81 in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, with his pants around his ankles and without both hands on the steering wheel, Line had an explanation.

According to court documents, Line, 49, of Doubling Gap Road in Newville, told police he had been eating a cream-filled doughnut and some of the filling had fallen on his pants. He pulled them down so he could clean himself, Line said, according to court documents. The truck driver saw his private parts because he was wearing loose-fitting underwear, Line said, according to court documents.

Nonetheless, state police charged Line with open lewdness and disorderly conduct. Line will receive a summons to appear in court to answer those charges. No hearing date has been set.

David F. Line, 49, of Doubling Gap Road in Newville, is a terrible liar.

http://thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=4&art_id=83499&sid=24232911&con_type=1&d_str=20090616&fc=2

The Consumer Council has warned shoppers that what may look like a toilet paper bargain at their local supermarket may in fact be a tissue of lies.

is this local 4 anyone

Authorities believe Wash. man electrocuted by urinating on downed power line after car crash

By Associated Press

3:53 p.m. EST, March 1, 2010

MONTESANO, Wash. (AP) — Authorities believe a Washington man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a car crash.

Grays Harbor County sheriff's Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM'-en-tel) said Monday 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday and called a relative to pull his car from a ditch.

However, family members found Messenger electrocuted when they arrived.

Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside ditch but didn't see the live wire. The urine stream likely served as a conductor, allowing the electricity to reach his body.

Pimentel says there will be an autopsy but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through Messenger's body.

LOL totally misread dude's name and thought http://www.roydmercer.com/ had died a death by flaming genitals. I was pretty pumped to tell my dad.

Today is a good day for Brighton, UK:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/5048949.Window_cleaner_killed_himself_with_giant_pencil/

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/5047984.If_you_can_t_find_a_pregnant_woman__find_a_big__fat_man/

Mr Craze! It's like a new Roger Hargreaves

"His only psychotic episode..."

sheesh

Haha, I hadn't actually noticed 'Mr Craze' before. That is an awesome name.

I hadn't realized that "Mr." is not punctuated in the UK

too bad punning opportunities are sadly limited because there is only one word in the English language which starts with "mr"

http://horiwood.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/jasonmraztriesharder.jpg

http://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/1225608/?type=display

)o_O(

"Martin added that Mrs Norton’s business idea had inspired his band who will be playing at the Rat & Trumpet in Dyke Road, Brighton, on Friday."

lol akira xp

whoa there's a road called that in brighton, talk about not playing up to stereotypes

lovely article tho

Fat Craig David lookalike on the run

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/eveningstar/news/story.aspx?brand=ESTOnline&category=News&tBrand=ESTOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED07%20Mar%202010%2015:30:24:510

http://kstp.com/news/stories/s1457528.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06dcExPgno

this isn't really a local story, but scott rothstein's sentence might be eased because he cooperated with federal agents to set-up a mobster. it happened after rothstein returned from morocco to face fraud charges in his absurd ponzi scheme.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20100318_Inquiry_into_racist_announcement_at_Glouco_Wal-Mart.html

Victoria Arter was stunned by the loudspeaker announcement.

"Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers," she recalled hearing the calm male voice begin. "Will all the black people please leave the store. Thank you."

I have been to this wal-mart

RIP Cankles

John Gormley, Green Party Minister and my boss, has asked people to turn off all of their electrical items for an hour at 8.30pm tomorrow.

He's giving a televised speech about it for Earth Hour. Televised. At 8.30pm tomorrow.

grrrroooosssss

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/06/fish-winter-kill/

Not my locality, but this has been the lead story on their website for over a week:

http://www.kiowacountysignal.com/features/x1031038020/Brisk-start-to-ticket-sales-for-Jones-concert

Brisk start to ticket sales for Jones concert

Featured Business » By Mark Anderson, Editor
Kiowa County Signal
Posted Apr 01, 2010 @ 02:57 PM
Greensburg, KS —

Tickets to the May 1 George Jones concert went on sale this morning at local outlets Mackie Shae Boutique, BTI (Greensburg, Pratt, Bucklin) and Boot Hill Casino. Promoter Landon Laughban told The Signal he'd sold more than 100 tickets between 7:30 a.m. and noon Thursday over the phone.

"My phone started ringing this morning at 7:30 and it's been ringing off the hook since," promoter Landon Laughban told the Signal shortly after noon Thursday, five hours after advance ticket sales for the May 1 George Jones concert got underway.

"It's gotten off to an even better start than I expected," Laughban continued. "None of the tickets I've sold yet (over the phone) have even been from Greensburg folks. They've been orders from people in Hays, Garden City, Liberal, Wichita and Kansas City." Laughban, in fact, said a Jones fan from Florida called him shortly after news of the concert went up on Jones' website last month to ask inform him she would fly in to Wichita to attend the event set for four weeks from Saturday.

The concert will be held on the grassy fields of Greensburg’s Municipal Airport on the east edge of town just three days short of the May 4, 2007 tornado that leveled the county seat of formerly 1,400 people. Proceeds of the concert will go to aid the rebuilding of the historic Twilight Theatre, which will serve as a cinema and live performance theatre/auditorium for the new school set to open its doors next August. The theatre is currently at least $1.5 million short of the funds needed for completion.

Gates to the event will open at 5 p.m. on May 1 with three bands—Mike Benish, Retroactive and Jason Savory—set to precede Jones’ scheduled 9 p.m. appearance on stage. Jones is slated for a 75 to 90 minute performance. While Laughban is hesitant to predict how many he expects to show up for the event, he did acknowledge first day sales is a typically good indicator of an event’s popularity. The airport site is expected to handle a maximum of 5,000 fans.

Those unable to pick up tickets at any of the five outlets—Mackie Shae Boutique in Greensburg, Boot Hill Casino in Dodge, BTI in Greensburg, Bucklin and Pratt—can order tickets in advance over the phone at 580 273 8044.

I couldn't find it but a coworker told me he saw a news story on the tee-vee about an 11 month old baby in Eagan who, autopsies showed, had been given cold medicine and his mothers' prescription pills, and was left alone with the family dog, "Dealer" (who had been starved for days), and was eaten!

BUT, googling this found a number similar stories across the country, including multiple stories about dogs eating babies' genitalia!!!

'Night y'all I'm gonna have sweet dreams.

My favorite front-page headline from the local paper was "Mountain lion preys on pet poodle."

http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/8116189.Dog_injures_nose/

not 2 be missed
Surgeons extricate hot-sauce bottle from state inmate
Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:55 AM
By Alan Johnson
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

An inmate in a state prison was hospitalized and needed emergency surgery to remove a hot-sauce bottle he apparently had used as a sex device.

Taxpayers will end up paying the prisoner's medical bills, expected to run into the thousands of dollars.

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction won't release the name of the inmate, citing federal regulations regarding the privacy of medical records.

However, a report by the State Highway Patrol, which initially investigated the incident as a rape case, said an inmate at the Noble Correctional Facility in Caldwell was taken to Marietta General Hospital on Sunday evening after saying he had been sexually assaulted in the shower by another prisoner.

The injured inmate later acknowledged that he had not been assaulted, but on his own had inserted the hot-sauce bottle anally, sources said.

"At this point, we don't believe there was a perpetrator involved in the incident," said prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn.

However, sources said, surgery was required to remove the bottle. The inmate was hospitalized and was treated in the intensive-care unit.

Walburn said the state won't know the total cost until all medical bills are submitted.

State officials frequently point out that the state is required by law to provide medical care for prisoners - even those who harm themselves. The state is self-insured and pays its own bills.

it really says NOT 2 BE MISSED on top, i didn't write that. it just pasted in lowercase for some reason.

OMG, I wish I lived in Kiowa, Kansas! Here's an update to the George Jones story that I posted 2 weeks ago:

http://www.kiowacountysignal.com/features/x57965003/Gallagher-doing-show-same-night-as-Jones

Greensburg, KS — Acting on a tip from a reader The Signal discovered Wednesday morning the May 1 George Jones concert will have some regional competition. Nationally known pop comedian Gallagher will be performing that same night at 8 p.m. at Dodge City’s Civic Center. Jones is slated to take the stage at 9 p.m.

“I didn’t know that,” was Spirit of Greensburg Committee member Steve Kirk’s response when informed of the Gallagher event later Wednesday. “It’s hard to say what effect that will have on our concert here, but you hope it’s minimal.” He also said an attempt had been made to “see if there were any conflicts on that date. Looks like we missed that one.”

While advance tickets to the Jones event are $23 and $25 at the gate those to Gallagher are $20.50 in advance for general admission and $30.50 for VIP seating ($5 more for tickets at the door.)

Like Jones, Gallagher is still performing past his prime, the 63-year-old’s act reaching its zenith in the 80’s, when he was one of the most popular and recognizable American comedians. He produced at least one special a year from 1981 to 1987, all of which aired on the Showtime cable network. As of last year he’d done 16 television specials in all.

Relying heavily on physical prop comedy, Gallagher is best known for his “Sledge-O-Matic” sketch, in which he uses a large wooden mallet to smash a variety of objects including computer keyboards, tubes of toothpaste and watermelons. Audience members in the first several rows often wear raincoats as a precaution against the mess of that particular act, which is a parody of mid 60’s to 70’s television ads for the Ronco Veg-O-Matic kitchen appliance used to slice and dice vegetables.

Jones’ ticket sales moderate to date…

Jones concert promoter Landon Laughban was asked Wednesday evening by The Signal how advance ticket sales were progressing. “Great, we’re almost to our goal,” Laubhan said. Asked want that goal might be, Laubhan said such information would have to be released by Spirit of Greensburg members.

While not citing a specific number Thursday morning following a long meeting the night before between Spirit of Greensburg and Laubhan, committee member and treasurer Steve Kirk told The Signal he estimates sales of 1,250 tickets would allow the event to break even, due to funds proceeding from sponsorships. Asked if that goal had yet been reached, Kirk said “no.” Asked if the total from outlets and phone orders were “within striking distance” Kirk said, “You could say that.”

Copyright 2010 Kiowa County Signal. Some rights reserved

http://www.kiowacountysignal.com/archive/x43868471/g12c00000000000000045ca486eb3666a513c98ab3b4e6a3a770661fd92.jpg

Sorry to like, bomb this thread with stories from small news markets other than my own, but this story from a Fox affiliate in Sacremento is pretty rad:

SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento woman has 700-roaches in her home -- not only did she bring them in, now she can't get rid of them.

The insects are called Dubai Roaches. People buy them on places like Craigslist to feed there reptiles. But if the lizards or animals don't like them, the owner is stuck with the bugs and that's exactly what happen.

"There too big that's the only reason he wont eat them"...that's what Jade the bug owner told FOX40 when talking about her pet lizard.

She says she bought a few hundred of the bugs a 2 months ago and now they turned into 700. The Dubia roaches are originally from South America. The males have wings and the females carry around huge sacks full of babies..which means - you guessed it they multiply a lot.

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But Jade the bug owner doesn't want, so not the roaches are back on the market..."I'm asking $100, but I dropped that from $300".

The state requires bug breeders to get a permit, still if the roaches like this get loose they could cause a few problems.

Dr. Lynn Kimsey "The Bug Lady" at UC Davis told FOX40..."they might establish...that's how we get big pest in houses sometimes they get into agricultural area's".

Still Jade the bug owner is hoping her guests will be gone soon and if she can't get cash for them, she might consider giving them away.

SO...DO YOU WANT THEM????

This is close to "how is babby formed" levels of illiteracy.

http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2009/08/28/1225766/926029-cockroach.jpg

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=93528&sid=26788922&con_type=1

Sex 'Superman' caged

Colleen Lee

Friday, January 22, 2010

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Heavenly powers that Au Yeung Kwok- fu is said to possess were not enough to prevent him crashing to Earth yesterday after he was jailed for duping a 19-year- old model into having sex with him.
She believed that sex sessions were part of a ritual that would improve her luck and career prospects.

But there was no luck for anyone as the self-styled Taoist master, 55, who works as a truck driver when not involved in spiritual matters, was jailed for six years and nine months by District Court Judge Stanley Chan Kwong-chi.

That was after the judge was handed more than 20 mitigation letters - some from celebrities and businessmen - praising Au Yeung for his kindness. Seven of his admirers even said they were impressed by his "super power."

Rejecting such arguments, the judge remarked: "I hope this case will alert those who are very superstitious."

He also hoped people would understand the attitude reflected in a Zen master's saying: "Flowers blossom in spring; the moon shines in autumn; the breeze blows in summer; snow falls in winter. It will be the best season of all times if no trivial matters linger in your mind."

Seeking to ensure that Au Yeung also gets the message, Chan ordered that he receive psychiatric treatment and psychological counseling in prison.

Au Yeung, who bills himself as a Mao Shan master, was found guilty earlier this month of nine counts of having sexual intercourse under false pretences between April and December 2007 with the teen model.

As he passed sentence, the judge slammed Au Yeung for showing no remorse and for abusing the girl's superstitious beliefs to fulfill a personal lust.

"It is not a crime for the female victim to be superstitious or ignorant, but the defendant abused her trust and duped her into having sex with him," he said.

"He is a few decades older than her and she had no affection for him.

"In order to impose a deterrent effect, the court has to heavily punish those who harm ignorant girls and the underprivileged."

The judge also called Au Yeung "shameless" for claiming he had no control of his body when having sex with the girl. That was in response to Au Yeung having testified that his sigung - his master's master - possessed him.

The judge said too that Au Yeung had posed a health risk to the victim as he had assured her he would not make her pregnant, so no precautions were taken. But the girl became pregnant and aborted the fetus on January 21, 2008.

Chan also raised a point made in a report from two psychologists that Au Yeung did not have much self-esteem and liked to control others.

The psychologists said Au Yeung abused trust to satisfy his lust, the judge noted, and there was a moderate to high risk he could repeat the offenses.

Au Yeung's barrister, Christopher Wong, said his client did not agree with the remarks, insisting there will not be any repeat act. Au Yeung just wanted to help the girl, he added.

The girl has now left the modeling industry, the court heard.

Jones doesn't play possum

Though hitting the lower notes was a hit and miss proposition for the 78-year-old Jones, he did take the stage shortly after 9 p.m. and performed until 10:30.

By Mark Anderson, Editor
Kiowa County Signal
Posted May 03, 2010 @ 12:35 PM
Greensburg, KS —

Country music legend George Jones performed for nearly 90 minutes before a crowd of approximately 1,200 fans Saturday night at Greensburg’s Airport. Though the hair and voice have thinned since Jones’ first hit song more than five decades ago, he retains a loyal following, with dozens of women near the foot of the stage yelling “We love you George!” throughout the concert.
Spirit of Greensburg Treasurer Steve Kirk told The Signal Monday morning he didn’t yet have preliminary numbers on total tickets sold or whether the event made money for the Twilight Theatre, and wasn’t sure how much information he’d later be able to disclose on the event’s outcome. Kirk had told the Signal two weeks ago that around 1,250 tickets would need to be sold for the event to break even. Any proceeds that might remain after expenses are paid is earmarked for the rebuilding of the Twilight Theatre.

Laubhan pays band with hot check

By Mark Anderson, Editor
Kiowa County Signal
Posted May 18, 2010 @ 04:30 PM
Greensburg, KS —

The Signal was able to confirm late Tuesday afternoon the validity of a rumor that concert promoter Landon Laubhan paid country performer Jason Savory with a hot check not long after Savory and his band had finished performing as the warm up act for George Jones the night of May 1 in Greensburg.

Savory told The Signal by phone Tuesday during a break from a recording session in Tulsa that Laubhan had agreed to pay Savory and his band $1,000 for their appearance, and that when he asked Laubhan for payment after having packed to return to Oklahoma (Savory calls Ripley, OK home, near Stillwater) Laubhan repeatedly put him off.

“He told me he needed two separate signatures on the check and he kept going back to a trailer near the front gate,” Savory said. “Finally, after about 45 minutes he told me, ‘I can’t find one of the other guys, so I’ll write you a (personal) check myself. They can pay me back later.’”

Even at that, Laubhan wrote the check for only $850, deducting $150 for six tickets that he said should have been charged for Savory’s parents (from Ripley), his in-laws and aunt and uncle. When Savory balked at the deduction, Laubhan said, “My hands are tied. That’s their (Savory understood “they” to be the Spirit of Greensburg Committee) decision.”

“Now that I think about it, I think he just said that so he could knock $150 off what was owed me,” Savory said.

After learning last Friday from his bank that Laubhan’s check had bounced, Savory sent the promoter an email, notifying him of the default. He was finally able to talk to Laubhan Monday afternoon.

“He (Laubhan) told me Monday that he was sorry the check bounced, and that he had a meeting with them (Spirit of Greensburg) Wednesday night and that they still owed him money, and once they paid him he could make good on the bad check," Savory said.

Savory also said he’d spoken to Mayor Bob Dixson Monday about the matter, Dixson telling him he wasn’t aware of the Spirit of Greensburg owing anyone connected with the concert any money. Dixson did tell The Signal Monday that while his committee was responsible to make sure George Jones was properly compensated for his appearance, it was up to Laubhan to take care of Savory and his band.

Savory, meanwhile, had to take money out of his own pocket—a total of $800—to pay each of his four band members $200 apiece for the trip to Greensburg. “I went in the hole on this deal, believe me,” he said Tuesday afternoon.

Savory said he plans on calling Laubhan again Thursday morning to ask about getting his $850 wired to him following the promoter’s Wednesday meeting with the Spirit of Greensburg Committee.

Asked what his next move might be if Laubhan doesn’t make good on the bad check soon, Savory quickly responded, “I’ll probably just whup his ass. I’m not very big, but I’m bigger than he is.”

Shortly before 8:30 p.m., Hamington Luis Ravanales Orozco, was outside a home in the 10100 block of Georgia Avenue with a group of people when he was shot. A call came into police that "a very small man or a dwarf" could be responsible, said Lucille Baur, a police spokeswoman.

That led police to quickly issue three different lookouts, Baur said: "Hispanic midget," "possible Hispanic dwarf," and "possible Hispanic adult midget."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/04/AR2010060404826.html

Porn film role 'will not hurt hurler's career'

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone.

http://www.showbiz.ie/photos/2009-03anyaate.jpg

No, thank you.

kkvgz's local news story-

"Local man proclaimed world class liar"

Mukilteo ferry checks in on seaplane after emergency landing

http://www.heraldnet.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=DH&Date=20100606&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=100609907&Ref=AR&MaxW=328&MaxH=235

Anyway, I don't know if it's the same guy, but...

Maryland State Police say a Pennsylvania man attacked a fellow driver who was trapped in his car after they crashed in Ocean City.

Police say 29-year-old Jason Mackulin of Spring Grove, Pa., was driving one of two cars that crashed at Route 611 and Sunset Avenue at about 4:30 a.m. Monday.

While the other driver, 66-year-old Hubert Burchette of Pittsville, was trapped in his car, police say Mackulin punched his face and head, and was still attacking Burchette when police arrived.

Mackulin is charged with first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and driving under the influence.

Police say Burchette was treated for minor bruises at Atlantic General Hospital and released.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/carscarscars.jpg

"Racing Racing"

Hahahahaha is a pretty good book

Lemurs bold escape derailed by a fruit salad

Man, everything in the world should be that cute. Holy shit.

http://www.thecomet.net/news/surprise_tits_for_letchworth_smokers_1_420114

surprise tits!!

amongst the best kind

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0618/breaking44.html

bizarre murder cold case, or at least the facts ar laid out there seem strange. just decided to beat husband/future father in law to death for the hell of it, and went about it systematically and methodically.

ok

top this one, ilx

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/woman-in-sumo-wrestler-suit-assaulted-her-exgirlfriend-in-gay-pub-2231315.html

choice quote

The accused was escorted out and had to be asked to partially deflate her costume so she could get out the door.

really, clicking the link and reading the story would just ruin it tbh

The row developed as the victim tried to wave at a man dressed as a Snickers bar

Lol

Nobody posted this one?
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Lord-Mayor-s-trousers-fall-children-s-event/article-2360982-detail/article.html

Tiger 'Hussein' Woods
http://i50.tinypic.com/160wwhv.jpg

http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=249110&format=html

The wife called 911 while the husband got a snow shovel from behind the house and made sure the back sliding glass door was locked, according to records. Wagaman came to the back of the house and banged on the door, then walked to a dining room window and smashed it with her head, records show.

Mental health case, so apply the lol/sad ratio of your choosing here. Keep in mind that this was during the second blizzard of 2010.

Arrest after dog injured by firework - A man is jailed for alleged animal cruelty after his neighbor's dog was euthanized when a firework exploded in its mouth.

on same page:

Is whale facing orca attacks?

surreal shit to read all in one page when u are druuuuunk

the dog story :(((((((

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-cheech-chong-pot-20100723,0,143669.story

In a space usually reserved for defining arcane legal verse, Harrell took pains to describe Cheech & Chong, noting the popular series of movies that began with "Up in Smoke" in 1978 and "portrayed recreational drug use in non-threatening situations."

Greene countered with the more up-to-date South Park reference, penning that in the "immortal words of Mr. Mackey, 'Drugs are bad.'"

He used his footnote to put the quote into full context, and it's most likely the first time an opinion from the state's highest court has included the phrase, "It's a bad thing to do drugs, so don't be bad by doing drugs, m'kay, that'd be bad."

Man Charged In Semen Attacks In Md. Stores

http://wjz.com/local/Man.charged.semen.2.1842083.html

"Oh, that's nasty. Oh, that's really not good. That's disgusting," said a resident.

a resident otm

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/juxtaposition.jpg

So I've been quoted in our local newspaper after I wrote to them to let them know they'd got the venue of one of the gigs I'm helping to run wrong.

http://www.thecomet.net/news/business/restrictions_and_licences_killing_music_scene_promoter_says_1_578007

Ended up in a short email conversation about why the mentioned venue had closed recently and I said I assumed it was to do with the recession, the smoking ban etc not making people want to come to gigs. Now he's quoted my email and put it on the second fucking page of the local paper underneath a story about local people being killed in Afghanistan or something.

I wouldn't be too annoyed, but not only did they bugger up my promotion and confuse my audience by getting the venue wrong, but now they've gone and had me slagging off the council and supporting smoking in one fell swoop, which isn't going to help me promote anything at all really.

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/656302.the_trolley_found_far_from_its_shop/

Okay, that's great.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7q0gbklKR1qzyx8yo1_500.jpg
"CHIPPS AND DIPS!
America's Got Talent and Jersey's got Chipps Cooney!"

http://wjz.com/local/cumberland.stabbing.2.1857672.html

Twenty-five-year-old Jeremy Wigger

http://llnw.image.cbslocal.com/29/2008/07/31/320x240/stabbing.jpg

Forks, is that from the weird low-quality central jersey magazine with all the strip club ads?

i've never read it so not too sure on strip club ads. The cover caught my eye when I was getting sushi with the girl and i immediately thought of this thread.

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/34/wb_drclawcuffed_2010_08_27_bk.html

Just read the first line of the news story and then click on dudes myspace:

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/for/2010/09/21-41/Man-gets-4-years-in-drug-fueled-assault.html
http://www.myspace.com/450862317

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/5/l_c30fbf11408b4afc9e7833ad3d0967e5.jpg

Judge orders man to climb local mountain

courtesy of nakchivan a couple days ago iirc, in the local papers today though.

Ha. In Mayo now, so friends have sent the bbc version a couple of times.

he's the right man is our seamus imo

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2010/09/howard_county_cops_seek_preppy.html

armed bank robbery -- with hostages taken -- around the corner from my home in coral gables.

just ended, apparently (doesn't sound like anyone was hurt).

Hitler finally apologizes
http://nyti.ms/djbGMA

http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13209288

Authorities say Denney was going to transfer the drugs by giving his 29-year-old son, who has the same first name, a mouth-to-mouth kiss during a visit.

"I felt so disgusted and would never imagine taking something out of my butt and putting it in my mouth in the first place, but to kiss my own child -- it wouldn't happen," neighbor Mike V. said.

Go Lakeside!

Oh yeah, didn't you live in Santee or something? Lakeside (Lindo Lakes, specifically) is where some guys (presumably Lakesidians) attempted to lure my sister into their van at a cross-country meet. In the middle of the race.

Yeeesh...I used to live in San Diego, but I dated a girl from Lakeside once. Briefly.

not local to me but a local news story

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/las-vegas-hotel-pool-sunlight-swimming-tourists/story?id=11739234

http://www.exploreharford.com/news/6476/bleach-thrown-girls-faces-edgewood-students-charged/

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1019/breaking17.html?via=mr

that happens in new jersey CONSTANTLY

That story was in the Metro this morning featuring this bizarre snippet

"The marsupial - easy to hire in Ireland - was let loose among more than 150 revellers..."

well, yeah?

one coming to clean my windows at 11 o'clock actually

Time was you could hump a wallaby in the street.

not legally, strictly speaking. but yeah they'd often turn a blind eye to it.

Handy pets though, plenty of storage. Like a jumping handbag.

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=104015&sid=29976769&con_type=1

The Lophophora williamsii cactus, pictured, is not on Hong Kong's dangerous drugs list but has for centuries been linked with transcendence practices and psychedelic psychotherapy. It is commonly known as peyote.

Police arrest diaper-wearing man in Ocean City
Florida man arrested for shouting profanities while trick-of-treating, police say

Maryland State Police say a drunken 47-year-old Florida man wearing a diaper was arrested for shouting profanities while trick-or-treating.

State Police say Joseph David DiVanna of Sarasota, Fla., was arrested about 9:15 p.m. Sunday and charged with disorderly conduct.

State Police say witnesses reported DiVanna cursed at adults and children in the Fox Chapel neighborhood of West Ocean City as he tried to get them to give him candy.

http://is1.myvideo.de/de/movie2/c8/thumbs/1787901_1.jpg

http://sharing.newsnet5.com/sharekshb//photo/2010/11/02/Joseph_D.__DiVanna_20101102053038_640_480.JPEG

http://www.wsmv.com/politics/25609669/detail.html

Cement mixer falls on train

Partygoer attacked by a Smurf

Google Street View helps capture drug-ring suspects
hi dere, 2 blocks from my old apartment!

I'm not going to link to it, because it's pretty insubstantial, but:

Fire Destroys Bel-Air Townhouse, But Rescuers Save Kitten!!!

No one was home at the time of the fire, Gardiner said, but for one kitten, which the firefighters were able to save.

this new weekly 'mugshot' newspaper has been gaining huge amounts of hype in columbus

http://www.waxxtv.com/wp-content/uploads/Slammer2.jpg

^^^ faces of mirth

what did momus do?

It's pretty frightening how many people commit crimes -and those are just the ones who got caught!

Judi Spiers said sorry after the ‘distasteful’ gaffe on her BBC Radio Devon morning show.

She made the comment while discussing a book about Casper the cat, a pet which became famous after regularly making a 17km (11-mile) bus trip from his home in Plymouth.

During her show the veteran presenter said of the book: '10,500 copies have been sold, and the book has been translated into six different languages - Dutch, German, Portuguese, Italian and two dialects of Chinese. I don't know whether they'll enjoy that; don't they eat cats?'

The slip-up was quickly noticed and 10 minutes later she returned to the air, saying: ‘I would like to apologise if you found the comment distasteful. Obviously, I did not mean to offend.’

haha jesus

the local neighbourhood of britishland

we roll classy & sensitive here iirc

http://imgur.com/JEiTo.jpg

2nd from r: everyone's favourite East Riding-based ilxor

that will probably offend him, yeah

didn't have him down as an integral part of the joeks-brave scene but tbh he's almost certainly got something to do with the formation of the blackout crew

they're from bolton u tard

everything north of watford gap is one unitary mass of simian antagonists to u

No, Blackout Crew, no, don't put a donk on it. - The Student Room
No, Blackout Crew, no, don't put a donk on it. Music. ... ahh yes the eloquent productions of blackout crew, a fine group of young whipper snappers whom ...
www.thestudentroom.co.uk › ... › Entertainment › Music

just saying it's his kinda art-terrorism

lol thestudentroom, zing shipped

not "most important," i guess, but i find this story about an injury referral service in the miami area equally sad and compelling.

http://www.nbc15.com/state/headlines/Wis_Postal_Worker_Delivers_Mail_in_the_Buff_111856389.html

two scummy guys are friends; make a hobby of get celebrities to sign their bodies and then turning the autographs into tattoos; have falling out:

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2010/12/21/for_years_they_called_themselves_the_signature_boys_but_not_anymore/?page=1

www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/bs-md-ho-pot-arrest-20101223,0,243824.story

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/bs-md-ho-pot-arrest-20101223,0,243824.story

Ok, I thought that story was awesome way back when it was just the guy crashing his BMW into the house and setting it on fire.

So this tinfoilism started in Beebe AR which is 50 miles south o' me

Dead birds falling from sky still mystify experts

just in beebe ar

:D

bs-md-ho-pot-arrest

Authorities in Calvert Co. warn residents about emu on loose

HUNTINGTOWN — Authorities say an emu is on the loose in Southern Maryland.

The Calvert County Sheriff's Office Animal Control Unit said the bird has been spotted in the Huntingtown area. Authorities have been fielding calls about the bird since November, when it was spotted in Dunkirk.

The owner of the emu has not been identified.

Emus can stand up more than 6 feet tall and run at up to 30 miles per hour. Authorities said residents should not approach the bird because it uses its legs to defend itself, and it has knife-like toenails.

HUNTINGTOWN, Md. - A bizarre story about an emu running loose in Calvert County has a sad ending.
A farmer shot and killed the emu after finding the bird off Chaneyville Road in the northern part of the county on Thursday.

"The farmer believed this animal was a threat to his safety and to the safety of his own animals, so he shot and killed the animal," Calvert County Sheriff's Office Lt. Dave McDowell says.

The farmer will not face charges since he did not violate any environmental or wild animal gaming laws, McDowell says.

It's still unknown where the emu came from and how it ended up loose in the county.

"We really don't know. It's a mystery," McDowell says.

Police had been fielding calls about the bird since November, when it was spotted in Dunkirk.

Police has warned people against approaching the bird because emus use their knife-like toenails and powerful legs to defend themselves.

An emu is similar to an ostrich, standing over six feet tall and having the ability to run at speeds up to 30 mph.

: (

was gonna say, how long before someone shoots it

A 19-year-old Hawaii woman who served as the model for the bare-breasted mermaids in the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie got more exposure than she bargained for when a national gossip magazine linked her with film star Johnny Depp.

Baltimore police are seeking a man who they say dressed as a woman and pretended to be an officer.

Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police spokesman, said a man driving a blue or green Oldsmobile Alero with a blue light on the dash pulled over a female driver just after 5 p.m. Sunday in North Baltimore and asked for her identification.

She handed it to him and he left with it. Police said the woman was not harmed.

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The suspect is described as white, in his 40s, 5 feet 8 inches tall, with blue eyes and a thin build. He was last seen wearing a shoulder-length black wig, a dark jacket with a brown patch on the shoulder and knee-high boots with heels.

The man also had an identification card hanging from a lanyard with the words "Baltimore Police" on it, and Silbert said he had on dark makeup and "a lot of wrinkles."

oh oops delete that thing about the app, the world does not need to know

Get the new Baltimore Football app for complete Ravens coverage -- iPhone and Android versions available now!

xp lol

Defense: woman who killed peacock with baseball bat planned to eat it for dinner

that headline got a guffaw outta me

The Trentonian (NJ) once ran a cover about a 'murdered' pet goose with the headline (of course) "Murder Most Fowl." I mean this was the full cover, NY Post style.

800 block Key Hwy., Monday, Jan. 10, 9:45 a.m.: Two men stole two bronze sculptures from the front of the American Visionary Art Museum. Witnesses chased them, and the suspects dropped the sculptures and ran.

omg at the Peacock beating/eating lady

http://planetwebdesign.com/americacries1agc.jpg

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-bald-eagle-killed-20110204,0,4720897.story

James Fogle, whose book "'Drugstore Cowboy" told the story of drug users who robbed pharmacies to feed their addiction, pleaded guilty in Seattle on Wednesday to a familiar crime: a pharmacy robbery.

Prosecutors will seek a 16-year prison term for Fogle, now in his 70s.

Fogle became famous beyond police lineups by writing a novel about longtime drug users who robbed pharmacies. Filmmaker Gus Van Sant turned the unpublished novel into a movie by the same name, "Drugstore Cowboy," in 1989, and Fogle's book hit shelves the following year.

Fogle also has spent significant stretches of his adult life in prison, sometimes for committing the sort of crimes he described in his novel.

Police say on May 25, 2010, Fogle and another man were trying to steal prescription drugs from Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy, at 15840 Redmond Way. It's about a half mile from the Redmond police headquarters.

Police say minutes after the pharmacy's 9 p.m. closing Tuesday, Fogle and his alleged accomplice -- who in 1986 was convicted of a sex crime -- pushed their way into the pharmacy through a back exit door after Fogle flashed a gun in his waistband.

In addition to a pink bandanna, Fogle had a hood over his head and yellow latex gloves, according to court documents. Police say the accomplice wore a dark ski mask and a dark hooded sweatshirt.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8343172/Police-called-to-settle-extraordinary-village-tank-row.html

The huge green tanklike crane, designed to carry out battlefield repairs, has been sitting in a lay-by since new owner Nicholas Kravchenko drove it there last week.

Residents living in the normally tranquil area of Wolvercote, near Oxford, Oxon, have branded the machine an ''eyesore''.

Police have now been called in to settle the "neighbourhood dispute" amid claims the £10,000 tank was intimidating locals.

The enthusiast bought the former Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) armoured vehicle second-hand to drive it for his own pleasure to display it at shows and charity events.

Mr Kravchenko, a retired army engineer, is now refusing to move the four-tonne camouflaged vehicle, which came complete with caterpillar tracks and take up three-and-a-half normal parking spaces.

"I can go out and drive it any time I like. There's no law to stop anyone having 10 tanks," he said.

CHESTER, Md. (AP) — A deer spent 90 minutes inside an Eastern Shore home before it was herded out the front door.

Maryland Natural Resources Police Officer Robert Ford asked everyone to stay away from the open front door, and after a few minutes the deer found its way out of the Chester home Saturday afternoon. The male deer was one of three seen in the area earlier in the day by Audrey Thomas, who later noticed her neighbor's kitchen window was broken.

Inside, the deer overturned kitchen chairs and a cabinet before becoming entangled in drapes near glass doors in an adjoining office. The buck then went into a bedroom, where a hole was found in the wall, and into a bathroom, where bloody nose marks were found on a mirror.

Cops find naked man 'growling like dog' and claiming to be devil

By SCOTT SUNDE
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

Police officers never know what they're going to get when they respond to a call.

This week, North Precinct officers got a naked man, growling like a dog and claiming to be the devil.

He was high on drugs.

hahaha

DURGS

claiming to be devil

http://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/8953181.Crowd_gather_at_town_bridge/

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Over thirty people have commented on the story – with some even claiming the object is a ‘turd.’

feel like ronan and other elite comment-bombers would bring something to that page

http://www.tbd.com/articles/2011/04/md-man-glued-to-walmart-toilet-seat-58014.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/20/BAD21J40G9.DTL

They're more dangerous than they look. Take the stairs, if available.

sheeesh. my subway stop at work (like six flights of steps down) has closed the down escalator and now they're down to one up escalator and stairs so the stairs on the way home are CRAZY jammed and for the past two weeks I've been going six flights down the up escalator
kinda afraid i'm going to die an amazingly stupid death now.

"We don't know if he suffered a medical emergency."

I think dying generally falls under the medical emergency classification.

Woman cries over arrival of In-N-Out Burger to Dallas; ws anyway

(watch video)
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/cityofate/2011/05/in-n-out_burger_is_so_good_you.php

Council members Kwame Brown

???

ws anyway

LATEBLOOMER, CONTROL YOUR DAM SWIMMERS

Can you identify this bank robber?

Cops are lucky when they have a face to put to a bank robber. But Baltimore County police are asking a lot if they expect to make a bust based on this surveillance picture.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/bankrob1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYh31FMicMw

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/for/2011/07/07-22/Peeping-Tom-sentenced-to-10-years.html

An obsession

During a police interview shortly after his arrest, Novak said he had a sickness that had gotten worse, Rogers said.

He said his obsession started with looking into windows of homes as he walked down the street. It progressed to walking up to the homes and getting a close look through the blinds, and eventually to filming women in their homes. In at least two cases, Novak broke into homes to film women undressing.

Over five weeks, three detectives investigated Novak's apparent obsession.

They searched Novak's home and seized several minicameras the size of a thumb, binocular cameras, lock-picking equipment and a computer, Rogers said.

They also found more than 2,280 video clips of women undressing - amounting to hours of filming - and a baggie of 27 ladies' undergarments stolen from homes.

Prosecutors said Novak had filmed more than 240 women since 2005. In at least three incidents, which he pleaded guilty to, Novak broke into the women's homes.

In February 2008, Novak went into a neighbor's home and stood over a 17-year-old girl as she slept in bed.

AAAAAAHHHH!!

He also filmed more than an hour of footage of the teen undressing and stole some of her underwear, Rogers said.

In one video clip, Novak's reflection could be seen in the teen's mirror as he filmed her.

GAHHHHHH!

Changed her life
Last September, Novak filmed 10 clips of a woman in her home on Crofton Parkway. One clip was filmed from a sun room adjacent to the kitchen. The woman told police Novak must have been in her home to film at that angle.

AAAAAAAHHH!

In court yesterday, the pregnant woman told Circuit Court Judge Paul A. Hackner that the invasion of privacy has changed her life.

"He has turned my home into a prison," she said.

She now keeps blinds and curtains closed at all times and doors locked. She doesn't allow her husband to attend work meetings after dark.

She said she was newly pregnant with her second child when police notified her of the footage. She has been angry, embarrassed and fearful at a time when she should have been filled with joy and excitement, she said.

Novak "knew my routine, he knew when my husband wasn't home," she said.

In the third break-in, Novak broke through the deadbolt of a front door on Fallowfield Court in Crofton, Rogers said.

At first, it appeared nothing had been stolen. But after police left, Novak showed up at the doorway. Police later linked two bras and a pair of underwear found in Novak's home to the house on Fallowfield Court.

The undergarments had been in a dirty clothes pile in the laundry room next to the front door.

Rogers called the crimes "mind-boggling" and said the hours of videotape were only the tip of the iceberg.

The amount of videotape doesn't reflect the many hours Novak spent standing outside the homes learning the women's routines, she said.

In one case, Rogers said, Novak stood on a roof to film a woman undressing in a second-floor bedroom.

A PERVERT ON YOUR FUCKING ROOF!

In court yesterday, that woman told Hackner she felt violated and powerless.

"I kept the blinds down … but it wasn't good enough," she said, explaining how Novak filmed her through the tiniest crack.

She told The Capital she has trouble sleeping and feels sick when she hears Novak's name.

Other cameras
Novak didn't just film women through windows.

Rogers said Novak, who worked as a butcher at the Giant Food supermarket in Crofton, had a camera attached to his uniform at work and would film customers' chests as they bent over to pick up meat.

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

He set up a camera at a party and filmed people as they used the bathroom, Rogers said. He also hid a video camera in his mother's bathroom and filmed her on the toilet.

GUH! OH GOD.

Novak apologized to the court and to the victims. He said he hopes the victims can "get over this" and promised to never film women again without their permission.

He was sentenced to 47 years in prison - the maximum - with all but 10 years suspended.

not local to me but EGADS!

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&id=8245890

"not gonna fuck it all up like that bobbit girl did."

http://i.imgur.com/eIPG6.jpg
In this Saturday, July 9, 2011 photo provided and shot by Rocco Piganelli, Piper Piganelli, Marley Meyer, and Maddie Meyer, lower left, pose for a photo Piganelli says was taken moments before a man, in the spray at right, fell to his apparent death in a blow hole at Nakalele Point in Maui, Hawaii. Piganelli, of La Jolla, Calif., told The Associated Press that he watched the man spiral down the blowhole, pop up briefly before disappearing when the next wave hit. The 44-year-old man, identified as David Potts of San Anselmo, Calif., has not been found since Saturday afternoon. (AP Photo/Rocco Piganelli)

http://www.argus-press.com/news/national/image_ecf9a7e0-8af9-59f7-b15d-3699e0eb6994.html

Do we have a thread for this, yet?

One young child repeatedly asked his mother, who had come to pick him up: “Did they find him yet? Did they find him yet?” He was still asking the question as they disappeared behind the school buses.

Pulled aside, the woman, who said that her name was Rachel R. and that her children were 7, 8 and 9, was asked if she planned to answer her son’s question.

“Should I tell them the truth? No!” she said, her eyes widening. “A child that age couldn’t accept it. Some form of the truth, but not all of the truth. I want them to be normal one day, normal adults.”

Yeah, a child that age could accept that. Sure, it would be a process, but better than sticking your fingers in his goddamned ears.

Sad as hell though. Goddamn, you agonize as a parent over whether your child is ready for this, whatever this is - walking home alone, crossing the street without holding your hand, learning to drive - and the ultimate consequence of this action could be death. Jesus...

I guess I don't understand the logistics of this thing. It's just a big hole in the ground that the ocean shoots through from below? How wide is it and how deep? Wikipedia wouldn't tell me.

Yeah, that article needs work. It looks like blowholes are typically connected to Sea Caves (or Littoral Caves). The Wiki P on Sea Caves mostly shows places that people could conceivably walk around in, although there is one underwater photo. Some hiking guides describe the Nakalele Point blowhole as connected to an underwater sea cave. An article on another underwater sea cave describes it as such:

The cave is considered the biggest marine cave in the Mediterranean Sea. With the many entrances, arches and tunnels, it is possible to make dives from 0 to 35 m, through long and large tunnels, air chambers and different ways. The walls are covered with red coral and yellow leptosamnia.

I guess guy just got sucked into an inaccessible watery tunnel.

I could easily think of worse ways to die.

i would imagine it would be like dying via human sized garbage disposal

With whirring blades chopping you into pieces?

I'm not trying to be cute. I see it like falling into a deep hole, probably getting knocked out within seconds.

maybe. or drowning to death as sharp coral/rocks sliced your skin from every angle \(o_O)/

God that sounds terrifying. Getting unexpectedly intimate with the geology.

yeah dying is probably not going to be a good time in any case

Police: Mississippi woman shot at pit bull, killed husband

Animal control officers took the dog, named "Cocaine."

!!

http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/550/assets/I5BK_shooting_stock.jpg

Garbage truck damages Arkansas skywalk

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Authorities say a downtown Little Rock skywalk was damaged as a garbage truck driver drove underneath it.

The Arkansas State Police reports that the accident occurred about 4:45 a.m. Tuesday as the truck was traveling on Spring Street under the skywalk between Regions Bank and Simmons First National Bank.

According to a police report, the driver told authorities he had just picked up a trash bin from a location when a spider crawled into his truck. The driver says he was distracted and drove away, forgetting about the bin.

Police say as he headed for his next location, he drove under the walkway and heard a loud noise. He stopped to see what happened and saw the bin on the ground and damage to the skywalk.

The driver wasn't hurt.

irl lols

Gas Leak Outside Hayward Taco Bell Briefly Shuts Streets Near I-580

http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jay-leno.jpg

GRAVETTE, Ark. (AP) - A high school running back in Arkansas wants to slither through defenses, not have a snake slither inside his helmet.

Gravette High School senior Darrick Strzelecki (struh-LEH'-kee) felt something odd in his helmet during practice Tuesday, but said he thought it was sweat beading up or a tangled lock of hair.

During a break, Strzelecki took off his helmet, looked inside and found what he thought was a rubber snake - until it tried to slide away. After someone killed the snake, he checked every corner of his helmet to make sure there was nothing else inside.

An assistant coach said the snake did not appear venomous, and school maintenance workers made sure Wednesday there were no other critters in the locker room and equipment.

After someone killed the snake

Why, exactly?

Snakes need killin', duh.

http://www.hastingsstargazette.com/event/article/id/25658/

hastings! everything i hear about it makes it sound so magical!!

+1

<3 metro

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/293312_10150269315640882_500305881_8250711_1556183_n.jpg

LOL this old one:
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/5048949.Window_cleaner_killed_himself_with_giant_pencil/

N1ck just commented "maybe he was just drawing blood".

:D

not local to me but

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mcdonalds-toxic-fumes,0,7254210.story

jesus fuck

Our thoughts and prayers remain with the families who have been impacted

strange choice of word

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - A man who says two men burst into his Fort Smith apartment in the middle of the night says his pet macaw bit one of them and chased off the intruders.

Fort Smith television station KFSM reports (http://bit.ly/rrXjXL ) that Jack Dukes told police that two men entered his apartment early Monday morning. He says one of the men hit him and knocked him across a table.

That riled the macaw, a large parrot-like bird with a powerful beak.

Dukes says the bird took a chunk of flesh out of an arm of one of the robbers. They burst in demanding drugs, but fled after the bite.

Police are investigating.

When the bird, named Charlie, isn't attacking robbers, Dukes says he likes to eat banana pudding and fried chicken.

Bird who likes to eat fried chicken. Sounds like a bad ass to me.

Police are investigating.

man who shot himself in the head outside the emergency room in North Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital on Thursday left a note indicating he chose that locale because he wanted to donate his organs to medicine, according to law enforcement source.

Baltimore police reported that the 29-year-old man was severely injured and later transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was in critical condition Thursday night. Officials declined to discuss other details about the note or the motivation, other than to say that homicide detectives are investigating the incident.

...

About an hour after the incident, George Hummel was serving hot dogs and chips to hospital workers at a stand on the corner.

He said he arrived around noon to relieve a woman who had been working that morning. It was her first day working at the stand, and the shooting shook her up, according to Hummel.

"First day, so of course she's gonna be scared," he said.

Hendrix College students were witness to a man fleeing from a "werewolf" when the subject's path led him through a campus dorm hall and a nearby apartment.

According to a Conway Police Department incident report, the subject kicked open the front door of a student's residence at Carrington Apartments on Cleveland Avenue, ran through the apartment and exited by jumping from the two-story balcony.

Students called police to report what they thought was a residential burglary in process, but the subject was gone upon officers' arrival.

The report stated that the school's public safety officers contacted police moments later to inform them that students were advising that a male subject who claimed to be running from a werewolf was in Galloway Hall.

When police made contact with the subject, age 27, he advised that he was in Walmart earlier in the night when he "noticed a strange red light."

The subject said that the red light "caused his body to start smoking," and he ran to the alley near Coin Laundry, where he had been sleeping.

The subject stated that a "large beast," which was covered in "gorilla fur," began to talk to him and told him to "get rid of the odor."

"The only thing (the subject) could think of is that he needed to disguise his own odor. (The subject) went to Carrington Apartments and took off all his clothes, threw them in the dryer with someone else's clothes, and then poured a gallon of bleach in the dryer. (The subject) then put on some more clothes and decided to scare the "werewolf" off. (The subject) attempted to light the bleach and clothes on fire but was unsuccessful," the report stated.

The subject stated that he became scared and kicked in the door of the nearby apartment when the "werewolf" threatened to kill him if he did not.

According to the report, the subject became convinced that one of the officers was the "werewolf" but was calmed when another officer advised that the subject's handcuffs were made of silver and would protect him from any werewolf.

"This seemed to make sense to (the subject) and he calmed down enough for me to take him to Unit 2," the report stated.

The subject was cited with three misdemeanors and held for Counseling Associates.

clever cop there

FAA: We'll be ready for Arkansas turkey drop

YELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) - No one in the northern Arkansas town of Yellville will say if they expect wild turkeys to fall from planes for this year's Turkey Trot Festival. But the Federal Aviation Administration says it will be watching.

Organizers of the festival long ago disavowed the tradition of letting wild turkeys fall from low-flying airplanes as spectators watched them glide to the ground.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has called the event cruel and offered a $5,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest. And the FAA has tried to crack down on pilots who participate.

But someone continues to drop the turkeys. FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/riRPHL ) that no one in town will say who's responsible.

"Everybody says, 'We have no idea who it is,' but everybody knows who it is," Lunsford said in an article published Thursday.

The Turkey Trot pays homage to one of the state's biggest exports. Arkansas was the third-largest turkey producer of any state in 2010. Tyson Foods Inc. is headquartered in Springdale, in northwest Arkansas.

First held in 1946, the festival is also an attraction in the 1,200-person town. It includes a turkey-calling contest, a turkey dinner, and beauty pageants. And it once included a sanctioned "turkey drop" from the top of the local courthouse.

Now, the turkey drop is conducted by private citizens, Yellville Chamber of Commerce President Travis Doshier said.

"They keep themselves pretty well secluded," Doshier told the newspaper. He said he didn't know if they were planning another drop this year.

The FAA has tried to crack down before, Lunsford said. Officials have spoken to event organizers and at least one pilot who flew turkeys in the past.

The agency will dispatch a team this year to watch for planes. Lunsford said pilots who participate risk losing their licenses.

"If a plane flies over and a turkey comes out of it, we're going to be talking to somebody," he said.

Fans of the drop say it doesn't hurt the turkeys because they can use their wings to slow their descent. Doshier said the turkeys "just spread those big old wings they've got and glide" to the ground.

"We know that they can get up in the air because they get on trees and roofs," he said.

But Lunsford says he's seen video of a turkey falling straight down and bouncing off the roof of a building.

Roger Vickers, the sheriff in Marion County, told the newspaper that some turkeys do get hurt, "but that's going to happen with anything."

"It depends on what they fly into," he said.

The event starts Friday afternoon and runs through midnight Saturday.

several excellent quotes in there but my favorite is some turkeys do get hurt, "but that's going to happen with anything" (that you drop out of an airplane)

that story is perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FXSnoy71Q4

"If a plane flies over and a turkey comes out of it, we're going to be talking to somebody"

Just an update:

No turkeys fall on Arkansas festival this year

YELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Turns out turkeys don't fly.

The Baxter Bulletin (http://bit.ly/oaNN9V ) reports that attendees at the Turkey Trot festival in Yellville were disappointed when no turkeys were dropped from planes on Friday or Saturday.

The turkey drop is a mainstay of the event, though organizers don't sanction it. Supporters say the turkeys can fly just enough to descend safely, but animal-rights advocates call it cruel.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals posted a $5,000 bounty for any information leading to an arrest. And the Federal Aviation Administration said any pilots dropping turkeys could lose their licenses.

People at the festival wore "I am the Phantom Pilot" T-shirts, and at least one sign offered a $10,000 reward for the arrest of the PETA employee who came up with the $5,000 bounty.

I'll offer $20,000 for the arrest of the man holding the sign offering a $10,000 reward for the arrest of the PETA employee who came up with the $5,000 bounty, ad infinitum.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/topless-bingles--half-naked-woman--seen-driving-erratically-20111111-1nasw.html

http://www.paisleydailyexpress.co.uk/renfrewshire-news/local-news-in-renfrewshire/paisley-news/2011/11/10/fight-broke-out-at-party-after-man-urinated-on-another-guest-87085-29748334/

http://www.people.co.uk/2012/01/08/dad-so-drunk-he-lost-his-baby-on-way-home-102039-23687638/

Joel Ginger.

http://www.cityofmadison.com/incidentreports/incidentDetail.cfm?id=12963

um, wtf

http://www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2012/01/20/422458-the-end-of-little-chef/

not local to me exactly, but very important

Two Cases Of Mad-Cow Disease, One Already Fatal, Reported In Marin

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/veteran-kvoa-anchor-abruptly-resigns-following-alleged-shoplifting-incident_b39181

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/top/2012/02/22-29/Police-Route-3-road-rage-began-as-game.html

not usually how it ends http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Police-Men-in-double-killing-may-have-shot-each-3365287.php

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/blog/bal-seal-visits-bmore-area-20120309,0,5992602.story

When he first spotted it, Warner said, "we thought it was a some kind of log or something..."

Oh, that is nuts! Hope the little guy finds his way.

Swear to God, they're going to name the airport Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport.

So come down to visit me and sunny and have fun flying into Billary.

http://bellehaven.patch.com/articles/safeway-employees-to-protest-outside-belle-view-store

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bal-batman-pulled-over-by-montgomery-county-police-20120323,0,4078383.story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/motorists-scoop-up-armored-car-cash/2012/03/23/gIQAn6Y9VS_blog.html

LAKE VILLAGE, AR - Two Louisiana men are dead after being hit by an eighteen wheeler.

Arkansas State Police investigators say 22-year-old Robert Christopher and 16-year-old Joshua Brooks both of Oak Grove, Louisiana, were fighting in the roadway, on Highway 82 in Chicot County around 1:30am on March 25, when they were struck by a truck heading eastbound.

Police say the driver of the truck, 42-year-old Donald Ray of Celeste, Texas, was not injured.

No word yet on the relationship between the two victims or what they were fighting about.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/26/war-on-words-nyc-dept-of-education-wants-50-forbidden-words-removed-from-standardized-tests/
"Fearing that certain words and topics can make students feel unpleasant, officials are requesting 50 or so words be removed from city-issued tests. The word “dinosaur” made the hit list because dinosaurs suggest evolution which creationists might not like, WCBS 880′s Marla Diamond reported. “Halloween” is targeted because it suggests paganism; a “birthday” might not be happy to all because it isn’t celebrated by Jehovah’s Witnesses."

Who the fuck cares about Jehovah's Witnesses?

Mississippi Legislature Attempts to Nudge State into 20th Century; Governor May Prefer 19th

Bill For Stronger Beer Headed To Miss. Governor
Alcohol Limit Could Be Raised To 8 Percent

JACKSON, Miss. -- A bill headed to the Mississippi governor would allow the sale of stronger beer in the state, including some craft beers that have been unavailable because of current regulations.

Senate Bill 2878 would permit the amount of alcohol by weight in beer to be raised from 5 percent to 8 percent.

The bill passed the House on Tuesday with no debate. It had passed the Senate on March 12.

Bryant's spokesman said the governor will study the bill once it hits his desk.

Democratic Sen. John Horhn, of Jackson, said Mississippi's current beer regulations are the strictest in the nation. He said some people are driving out of state to buy stronger brews, and that's causing Mississippi to lose some tax revenue.

http://gothamist.com/2012/03/29/what_the_heck_was_hanging_in_front.php

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7225/6882435486_2f92983986.jpg

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/03/29/bear-saves-hiker-from-cougar-in-butte-county/

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/30/man-sentenced-after-accidentally-shooting-womans-mohawk-mistook-for-bird/

You live in Grand Junction? My wife and I passed through there on our honeymoon.

I know that Grand Junction is in the United States

local planet.

everything is locally sourced

http://www.thecourier.com.au/news/local/news/general/magpie-supporter-punches-wall-smashes-family-photo-in-anger-at-loss/2510972.aspx

Police prosecutor Sergeant Bob Anderson told the court that Dittmann had consumed a moderate amount of alcohol at home while watching the match in October.

But in the aftermath of the Magpie loss to Geelong, Dittmann struck his fist through a plaster wall in anger and smashed a family photo, which he was the owner of.

This is seriously currently on the front fucking page of the Age website. WTF.

Pornographic images force closure of Lynnwood espresso stand

Phil Bryant signed the beer law, raising the max ABW for brewing and sale in MS from 5% to 8%.

Great! Can't wait to get drunk faster on warm beer next time I'm in Oxford.

Man dies after swan attack
http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-man-dies-in-swan-attack-apr16,0,3647240.story

Police say a man from Villa Park drowned after being attacked by a swan.

Anthony Hensley worked for a company that uses swans to chase away unwanted geese.

Just found out that we have a Superfund cleanup site in our town!

Handy site for finding out how many leaking underground storage tanks you have near you: http://www.homefacts.com/index.php

That site gave me fewer sex offenders than there actually are, made the police station seem 3 miles further away than it was, but inflated crime data by using the larger town next to mine instead.

also inflated our tornado score by using a town that's an hour away.

John Arden one time angry young man writer died the week before Easter and was cremated in Dublin.

SEARCY, Ark. (AP) - A White County judge candidate is in the hospital after suffering a snake bite.

Bill Haynie is challenging incumbent Michael Lincoln in the Republican primary for White County judge. Haynie's wife says her husband was driving from his office Sunday when he noticed one of his campaign signs had fallen down.

Judy Haynie tells The Daily Citizen that her husband reached into a grassy area and was bitten by the snake.

Judy Haynie says her husband's hand and arm were swollen up to his elbow, and two puncture marks were visible. She says her husband is in pain but is alert and expected to make a full recovery. She says he'll likely be discharged in a few days.

It is not known what type of snake bit Haynie.

check out this awesome letter to the editor from my hometown!

ON RACISM

Dear Editor,

OK, I admit it. I am a racist. I am bigoted. I am prejudiced. I admit this after much introspection and thought. I truly believe that my race is the best race in the entire world. I understand that many people believe it is wrong to be so self-centered. However, it is easy to claim you are the very best when it is true and provable! After all, I am a member of the American race! We are distinctly known around the world and have become our own race.

In a little over two centuries of existence, our race has made more progress than any other race in history. We are the leaders of the world in most aspects. The rest of the world looks to us for assistance whenever a natural disaster occurs or when their governments fail. We are the first to arrive with aid when people are suffering.

We of the American race have become strong due to our individual freedoms and self determination. We are achievers and doers. We have excelled when others have not. I am proud to be a member of the American Race.

How does one become a member of this God blessed group? You need to be here legally, to honor our flag, to honor our Constitution, and to speak our language (or learning to do so). While it is OK to retain much of one’s former culture, it is also important to assimilate into ours.

If we differ in color, backgrounds, experiences, ethnicities, or beliefs we can still stand beside each other in respect and help protect each other’s freedoms. As history shows, our differences can make us stronger rather than weaken us.
I tire of those who would apologize for our racial supremacy. We should do all possible to retain that excellence. I do not understand those who wish to make race a matter of something as trivial as color. We have earned racial pride as a nation- a result of all of us working together.

I am angry also at those who do not appreciate the sacrifice of our military personnel. While I am not a veteran my brother and father - along with countless others - risked their lives to protect our nation. A true member of the American race will honor and shake the hand of those very heroes.

It is time to regain the American pride that I knew as a child. In the above respect, it is OK to be a racist!

Read more: http://www.dailyjournalonline.com/news/opinion/mailbag/on-racism/article_6134d16c-8b63-11e1-bbf6-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz1ssvtXcnH

But…. that's not a race.

"Sure I hate! I hate hate!"

"Do I believe in White Power? Sure I do! As long as you've got Red and Blue Power along side it too!"

We are the leaders of the world in most aspects.

looooooooooooooooooool learn to read a chart

While it is OK to retain much of one’s former culture, it is also important to assimilate into ours.

check out this awesome letter to the editor from my hometown!

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, April 23, 2012 1:19 PM

haha. btw i found out the other day that a guy that went to my h.s. briefly is now "leader of the American National Socialist Workers' Party"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_White_(neo-Nazi)

But…. that's not a race.

― pplains, Monday, April 23, 2012 1:32 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't you watch American Dad? Huh?

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0506/breaking16.html?via=mr

hunt continues for runaway tortoise

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/tucson-man-shoots-gunman-who-won-t-stop-firing-weapon/article_da2d1894-9eab-11e1-91a1-001a4bcf887a.html

sounds like it may be getting a little ridiculous there.

yeah.

Coat Hanger Abortions Are Fine, Says Mississippi Lawmaker, Because ‘Hey, You Have To Have Moral Values’

Remember this guy?

SEARCY, Ark. (AP) - A White County judge candidate who was bitten on the hand by a snake last month is recovering from a spider bite to the same hand.

The Daily Citizen reported in Wednesday's editions that Bill Haynie was adjusting a water valve at his home near Searcy last week when he was bitten by what doctors believe was a black widow spider.

Haynie suffered chest pain, stomach cramps and facial swelling and was taken to White County Medical Center before being transferred to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock Saturday.

Haynie was still at the hospital Wednesday. He says he anticipates being released later this week.

He's challenging incumbent Michael Lincoln in the May 22 Republican primary for county judge, which is the county's chief executive.

Same county where the blackbirds keep falling out of the sky, btw.

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/Half-naked-woman-in-hot-pink-duct-tape-attacks-3572421.php

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/05/24/boxford-police-bovine-brewski-lovers-crash-party-leave-trail-evidence-you-wouldn-want-step/aFo4jrLUgLb6swzCZMr8PJ/story.html

You need to be here legally, to honor our flag, to honor our Constitution, and to speak our language (or learning to do so)

WAIT america has a language?

also im here legally, i say bye bye to 20ish% of my income in tax and im not allowed to vote . does taxation without representation ring a liberty bell american race??

hey look im racist too!

tbh, you did sign the petition for that screwy casino proposal.

hey i got to get that tax back somehow

SPOKANE, Wash. -

The suspect arrested for the murder of Warren Flinn said an argument over cigarettes led to his shooting.

Shane Smith, identified by his friends in court documents as "Psycho Shane", was arrested Tuesday and booked into the Spokane County Jail on a sole count of 2nd Degree Murder.

After his arrest, Smith admitted he shot Flinn twice in the back of the head. Smith reportedly has a habit of pulling guns on his acquaintances and accusing them of things they didn't do.

HUBER HEIGHTS, Ohio - An irate customer showed his displeasure in a big way Tuesday morning at the Taco Bell in southwest Ohio.

Police said that the man became angry when he ordered a $.99 taco at the drive-up window, and later saw that it wasn't in his bag when he looked.

Officers said that the man went back to the restaurant and started yelling at the cashier, ONN's affiliate WHIO reported.
After the argument, police said that's when the man rammed his truck into some glass at the side of the building.

According to officers, the man left the scene, but left a trail of automotive fluid. Police said that they followed the fluid trail back to the man's residence, where he was arrested.

http://www.onntv.com/content/stories/2012/05/29/story-car-into-taco-bell.html

No Taco Makes Man Ram Car Into Taco Bell

the man didn't even have a choice - the no taco made him

He had to make his tacowant known.

automotive fuiud

Not local to me but could easily have happened in Texas. Gotta love this “I looked on the shelf and where Rascal Flatts was supposed to be, that scruffy looking man had put Flatt & Smugs or something like that… "
http://www.countrycalifornia.com/local-man-arrested-for-merchandise-tampering-at-area-walmart/

(it's a hoax/satire page,fyi.)

The children and driver evacuated the van while two employees from the business extinguished flames coming from the engine, Minden said.

"It could have been tragic," Minden said at the scene. "Luckily this time nobody was hurt and it's just property damage."

No injuries were reported.

The van was reportedly carrying children who attend the Bright Future Learning Academy.

http://www.blog4logos.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/fire%20flames.jpg

lol

the irony... so delicious...

The story itself is truly horrible. This AP headline says it all.

Friend: Ark. boy hated sister he shot

http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/weird/stabbing-at-robina-after-alleged-fight/story-e6frep26-1226388091969

Man found with fake genitalia in car charged with indecent exposure

Between Feb.16 and Feb. 22, the police and the college's public safety officers received several complaints of a man who had exposed himself, while in his car, to several women on the college's main campus in Arnold. The women provided police with a description of the car, which police located Friday on a campus parking lot. The man inside the Honda Accord was acting suspiciously, police said, and had fake genitalia in his possession.

After interviewing the suspect, officers learned he had simulated indecent exposure with a display of fake genitalia to women on several occasions on the campus.

'simulated indecent exposure' haha wow

http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2012/06/barrington-recr.html

BREAKING NEWS
Barrington recreation director destroys 7-year-old's sandcastle

June 12, 2012 9:22 am By Donita Naylor
BARRINGTON, R.I. -- A chiropractor who lives in Barrington and practices in North Providence says the town recreation director destroyed his seven-year-old daughter's sandcastle Saturday.
The recreation director says the dispute was over possible injury.
Michael LeRoux said by phone that he and his daughter, Mia, spent part of their Saturday afternoon building a sandcastle at the town beach, about knee-high and 3 feet wide.
Recreation Director John Taylor told NBC 10 WJAR that the sandcastle was about 3 feet high and had boards sticking out of it. He said that after the castle was destroyed, nails were found in the boards.
The town does not have a policy against sandcastles, according to the beach rules posted on the town website.

Arkansas vet seeks home for goose named 50 Cent

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (AP) - The goose 50 Cent is on the mend.

Named for the rapper who survived nine gunshot wounds, 50 Cent the waterfowl now needs a new home. The goose was brought into a northern Arkansas animal hospital with a damaged wing.

Veterinarian Rob Conner says an X-ray revealed the goose had been shot seven times with a pellet gun. Conner operated on the bird's wing, inserting a metal rod and plastic tube to help the bird heal.

Conner tells The Baxter Bulletin that workers initially wanted to name the goose Tupac, after the late rapper, but that they settled on 50 Cent because he recovered from his shooting.

Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. Conner says he's hopeful someone will adopt the animal.

needs a blingee

AUTHORITIES DON'T KNOW WHO SHOT THE 50 CENT THE GOOSE.

So many different ways to punctuate that sentence.

That sandcastle one, lol wtf.

EVERY NIPPLE HELPS: Nude woman strolls into Tesco

Clown arrested in west Ark. on child porn charge

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - Authorities in western Arkansas have arrested a clown on a child porn charge.

Fort Smith police say they arrested 47-year-old Thomas Harold Morgan, who also goes by "Sondance the Clown" on Wednesday.

Police spokesman Cpl. Steven Dooly says investigators found someone downloading child pornography over a file-sharing network and tracked the Internet Service Provider account to Morgan.

Authorities and seized a number of digital items from Morgan's address and a preliminary check indicated there was illegal child porn.

Dooly says Morgan was not dressed like a clown when he was arrested.

A formal charge hasn't been filed yet and it wasn't clear whether Morgan has an attorney.

Morgan didn't respond to a phone or email message. Morgan's website says his educational background is in childhood development.

jesus

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/362/sondance3.jpg

Anyone can walk into a costume shop and buy a few jars of greasepaint. Anyone can visit a local thrift store and buy some strange-looking clothes. Many people can take those items and put them together to make a believable character. Maybe they can even learn to twist a few baloon animals and paint simple face designs. But a clown is something more - something deep inside.

I have spent over twenty years perfecting my craft. Not only makeup and costuming, but character development, stage presence, and other essential skills. My educational background is in childhood development, so I know how to interact with kids (and I'm pretty good with adults, too).

Copyright 2011, Sondance the Clown
All rights reserved. And a few lefts too.

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7964/screenshot20120620at502.png

Should keep an eye on this guy too.

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/7964/screenshot20120620at502.png

oh man, there was a clown lived on my block named CHOO CHOO THE CLOWN who molested like five kids in the area and went to jail

CHOO CHOO!

I'm not even gonna ask if he molested all five at the same time because

they were all in a tiny car together

Really starting to not like this at all anymore.

http://citywirelive.tcwmediallc.netdna-cdn.com/sites/default/files/HERITAGE%20FEST%204.jpg

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1099682.1340277592!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_200/image.jpg

In front of Plaza Towers apartment moments ago, reportedly there is a black male "with no arms or legs" causing a disturbance and threatening to fight people.

When this call was dispatched the patrolman queried the dispatcher: "He's threatening to fight?"

http://www.fox16.com/media/lib/9/d/e/1/de18791e-d8a7-42e7-8e16-73d52f36af54/Story.jpg

HOT SPRINGS, AR - Hot Springs police have cancelled a Silver Alert for an 86-year-old woman who they say was missing and armed with a shotgun.

Police say Lillian E. Bruckner has been found, and was shopping for shotgun shells.

phew

SILVER ALERT

Plus, 10 states have missing persons alert systems with broader criteria than conventional Silver Alert programs. These missing person alerts apply to larger categories of endangered persons, or apply to all missing people, regardless of age or impairment:

Arizona, Endangered Persons Alert[40]
...

5 states have Silver Alert legislation pending:

California[50]
Hawaii[51]
Iowa[52]
Michigan[53]
Oregon[54]
Wisconsin[55]

I love how AZ has taken a step to avoid offending somebody about something for once.

lol

okay, this silver alert shit is getting a bit too broad for my tastes:

MONTOGOMERY SHERIFF, Ark. (KTHV) - A Silver Alert is activated for a missing man out of Black Springs.

Deputies say 44-year-old Lewis B. Caton Jr., has been missing since Thursday night around 8:15 p.m. He is 5' 9" and weights 181 lbs. He has brown hair and brown eyes.

Caton is possibly traveling with a black Labrador in a silver Honda Ridgeline pickup with license number WMY71S (New Jersey.)

Caton was reportedly released from Jersey Shore Medical in mid-June where he was diagnosed with narcissism personality disorder.

http://www.todaysthv.com/images/640/360/2/assetpool/images/120629091636_caton.jpg

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/animated-siren-gif.gif SILVER ALERT http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/animated-siren-gif.gif

https://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6bvi49d0X1qkej80o1_500.png

Stronger beer starting Monday: http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120630/BIZ/206300317/Trucks-loading-up-runs-into-Miss-

http://www.paisleydailyexpress.co.uk/renfrewshire-news/local-news-in-renfrewshire/paisley-news/2012/07/02/foul-mouthed-teenager-who-left-policeman-stunned-is-ordered-to-spend-20-months-behind-bars-87085-31289444/

"He told the officer on duty that he wished to provide information on a man who was armed with a knife.

When asked who that individual was, he replied 'me' and then produced a knife and brandished it.

He was once more swiftly overpowered and disarmed."

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Feds-Insurance-salesman-stole-2M-faked-own-3686886.php

Currently jailed, Aaron Travis Beaird is alleged to have attempted to fake his own death after he was confronted about the year-long fraud. A suicide note left at Deception Pass apparently didn’t dissuade federal investigators, who arrested Beaird on Tuesday.

Fargo II

An Enumclaw

unguent

...and that's the end of the Pig.

aw man. i used to love piggly wiggly. some of my first memories are of tagging along with my mom as she shopped there, and of the little stickers that you could save up to buy things.

i was the pig on a few occasions.
by which i mean i wore the suit and waved at passersby who would throw empties at my pink oversized head.

i don't live in SF, but

http://sfist.com/2012/07/26/volume_of_excrement_in_the_wheels_b.php

It seems that, in the middle of the city's white-hot mid-Market area, residence-free denizens have been pooping en masse at the bottom of the stairwells at the BART Civic Center station after it closes. And it's now an even bigger issue.

All those biological excretions can gum up the wheels and gears of BART's escalators, shutting them down for long periods of extended repairs, increasing station cleaning costs and creating an unpleasant aroma for morning commuters.
Five of the nine escalators that weren't working at BART stations on Wednesday were in downtown San Francisco, said Jim Allison, a BART spokesman. While there are many reasons a BART escalator can break down, the beating they take at night is among the most acute.

From my parents' neck of the woods.

Suspicious package in Columbia turns out to be an accordion

Howard County authorities spent Friday morning investigating a suspicious package on Cradlerock Way in Columbia, but it was later determined to be a harmless accordion.

Police and fire personnel had found the instrument inside an abandoned suitcase near the Owen Brown Interfaith Center, which houses a day care center in the 7246 Cradlerock Way, according to a fire department statement.

The state fire marshal bomb squad had been notified.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/bs-md-ho-suspicious-package-20120803,0,7541265.story

no such thing as a harmless accordion.

accordion to you

Somebody's been going around posting the same comments about a millionaire Cuban exile offering Galway a statue of Lindsay Lohan to several different news sites. This was supposedly in response to the statue of Che Guevara being talked about going up in Salthill.
Seems that Che Guevara's family on one side came from Connemara which is the Atlantic coastal rural area above Galway. Story on the millionaire was that he'd offered a statue of Lindsay Lohan cos her dad had come from this area. Whereas it was a couple of generations earlier on the Guevara family tree. & the millionaire didn't want one of the revolutionary party to be commemorated.
But looks like it was a misfiring hoax.
I was just reading about it earlier.

Crazier story is that there is a U.S. congresswoman who is doing her best to scupper the plans to make the Che statue. This despite all moneys for it supposedly coming from Argentinian/Cuban embassies.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Police in Ann Arbor say they took a call from a man who was upset that the price he agreed to pay for prostitution services had increased unexpectedly.

AnnArbor.com reports police were called to a home late Wednesday on a report of a robbery. Police say the 45-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman he had contacted online agreed on a price, but the man claimed that she upped the cost after taking his money.

Police say the woman was arrested and the man wasn't taken into custody.

http://annapolis.patch.com/articles/person-falls-out-of-hospital-window-in-annapolis

Update (7:21 p.m.)—Chad Dillard, executive director of marketing at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC), said a 40-year-old male patient used a piece of medical equipment to break a window and escape from arrest.

There was a fire in the newborns wing a couple weeks ago. Mothers and newborn babies and expectant mothers all got evacuated. Some teenage kid set another fire in an elevator back in June.

"newborns wing" = maternity ward

not mine but
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Signed_sealed_undelivered

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/local/woman-burns-pie-1-60732

(we're not still doing holocaust pie jokes, are we?)

those jokes were on 77.

whoops, just dropped a tiny little clue about what happens on the other side of the wall.

ok nobody reads my mn headlines thread so

http://www.startribune.com/local/170277436.html?refer=y

Edina woman accused of making her nephew ride in trunk of Lexus

Article by: NICOLE NORFLEET , Star Tribune
Updated: September 18, 2012 - 9:16 PM

An Edina woman has been charged with child endangerment after she allegedly had her 11-year-old nephew ride in the trunk of her Lexus so he wouldn't drip water on its leather seats.

According to the criminal complaint, Susan Marie McCarty, 38, was charged after she admitted that she had her nephew get into the trunk because he was damp from going on a water ride at Valleyfair.

On the afternoon of Aug. 23, witnesses in a parking lot at the Shakopee amusement park reported seeing a boy climb into the trunk while two women watched. Witnesses gave police the license number of the car, and after being stopped by officers, McCarty told them the back seat console had been folded down so the boy could get some air.

When he said he was getting hot, she said, air vents were aimed at the hole, which was about the size of a piece of paper. Temperatures that day were in the mid 80s.

bump

Well goole, do you know how hard it is to fix water-damaged leather? Makes the whole car smell like beef jerky.

Local candle factory burns down: http://djournal.com/view/full_story/20188758/article-Wicks-n-More-consumed-in-fire?

two sides to every story, true

xp

Okla. woman rescued after 5 days in Ark. woods

ST. JOE, Ark. (AP) - An Oklahoma woman was rescued after being lost in the woods of northern Arkansas for five days.

Searcy County Sheriff Kenny Cassell said Thursday that 53-year-old Linda Kay Arteaga of Blackwell, Okla., was in overall good condition after the ordeal.

Cassell told the Harrison Daily Times (http://is.gd/BATi2e ) that Arteaga had cuts and bruises and was taken to a hospital for observation.

The sheriff says a searcher on an all-terrain vehicle found Arteaga.

Cassell says Arteaga was visiting relatives in the St. Joe area when her brother took her into the woods to teach her survival skills during a short hike. The pair became separated and Arteaga became lost.

More than 100 people joined the search.

Arteaga told the sheriff that she ate watercress plants and nuts while she was lost.

survival skills paying off there

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2012/10/01/wash-attorney-i-have-physically-traveled-in-time/

I, too, believe in Project Pegasus. There are literally hundreds of facts.

It was hard for KOMO News to confirm any of Basiago’s claims

But they didn't not confirm his claims either.

To the Tune of Tupac, Third Point Fund Pressures Murphy Oil to Spin Off Retail

Big Brother in your big yellow bin?
By TIM PRUDENTE, Staff Writer | Posted: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:00 am

About 50,000 radio tracking devices have been distributed to homes in Anne Arundel County.

Most residents don’t know.

And Candy Morrison is trying to change that.

The Pasadena woman is working to inform neighbors that their new 65-gallon recycling bins come with radio-frequency identification chips, which can be activated to transmit data to a computer tracking system.

County trucks came to Morrison’s Bay Street home about three weeks ago to deliver bright yellow bins. When they arrived, she stood on the curb and told the workers to take hers away.

She doesn’t want one.

Not after she learned the chips, known as RFIDs, can be used to transmit information about recyclables from each address.

“Under what conceivable reason would I want anyone looking at my trash that closely?” she asked. “I don’t like the idea of our government monitoring us like this. You can’t have freedom without privacy.”

The small chips were imbedded in every bin, which are larger than the old model and come on wheels. But the chips have not been activated, said Matt Diehl, spokesman for the county Department of Public Works.

The chips could be used, in the future, to determine how many pounds of recyclables are coming from specific homes. That information would help officials reach residents who choose not to participate in the recycling program, Diehl said.

To activate the chips, the county must purchase a computer system to collect and store the data. Also “readers” must be installed on collection trucks to identify the cans.

Diehl said the county has no plans at this time to activate the chips.

“Right now, they’re useless,” he said. “It’s just another part of the container, no more invasive than the handle or the wheel.”

Morrison, though, isn’t satisfied.

She’s organizing with neighbors to inform the public that their recyclables could be watched. She’s taken particular issue with the fact that county residents were not told of the chips.

“If this is really such a good idea, why weren’t we told?” she asked.

Diehl said he is unsure why residents weren’t told.

He said the county has no plans at this time to activate the chips, but that residents would have the opportunity to opt out if the chips are activated.

The county has distributed about 50,000 bins so far and officials plan to deliver another 25,000 by June of next year. The county purchased the bins about two years ago. Each cost $42.50 and the RFID chip could be included for an additional cost of $1. They also come with bar code labels so the county can keep track of where it has delivered the bins as it rolls them out across the county.

At that price, Diehl said, it made sense to buy the chips.

“This way we already have the chips in place,” he said. “We won’t have to retrofit the bins.”

Similar programs have been launched throughout the state. Thousands of chips were included in recycling cans in Howard and Frederick counties. Officials with those counties reassured residents by saying the chips would only be used if bins were lost or stolen.
Elsewhere, though, chips have caused public outcry.

Opposition was vocal when the City of Cleveland launched a program about two years ago. And residents protested in Gastonia, N.C., convincing officials there to cancel the tracking effort.

“People should be notified if the county is going to put chips in the bins,” said Meredith Curtis, spokeswoman for the Maryland chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “It’s about transparency. People need to know what’s being done with their information.”

i wish our waste management would monitor people's garbage and recycle bins. bring it.

Ark. man, 83, killed by falling tree limb

LOCUST GROVE, Ark. (AP) - Officials say the death of an 83-year-old Independence County man has been ruled accidental.

Independence County Deputy Darin Brewer says Jerry Nanney of Locust Grove was found dead in his front yard on Tuesday afternoon. Brewer tells the Batesville Daily Guard that Nanney was apparently using his lawn mower to pull down a large tree limb that was hanging and about to fall.

Brewer says Nanney was found lying on the ground next to the lawn mower and the tree limb. Brewer says the tree limb apparently struck Nanney on top of his head, killing him.

Coroner Wesley Gay says the death was ruled accidental.

http://todayilearned.co.uk/2011/08/13/man-posts-letters-into-a-dog-poo-disposal-box-for-two-years/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJvpFMRiVcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrt39KX0PG0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0AxvOMVUVk

this youtube page is amazing.

good lord, i remember this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWWy2mt1mys

this is a fucking treasure trove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70HrWY_s69M

i can't even
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2oIgvKYFcs

dying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSlvCIu2uLc

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcnx6y9tEC1qz867mo1_500.gif

John Kerry, living large.

haha

That's the rebellious child of Kerry and Sarah Jessica Parker.

What I'm saying is, Sarah Jessica Parker's face has been noted as horse-like