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this is a fairly standard school uniform story, but what an excellent photo/headline combination

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napolis police are asking residents to call 9-1-1 if they spot a clown in an unusual place.

The request came Monday night after multiple children reported seeing a person or persons wearing a clown costume and face paint in Annapolis, the police department said in a statement.

Over the summer, reports of unsettling clown sightings by children in South Carolina and elsewhere made national news.

Children in Greenville County, South Carolina, told police clowns had tried to lure them into the woods, even offering them money to follow, according to a report by The New York Times.

Annapolis police, in their statement Monday, said media attention of those incidents have may have led to the reports in Annapolis.

Police said more than one child on Monday reported seeing a person or persons dressed as a clown in several Annapolis neighborhoods as far back as Thursday.

Incidents were reported in the 700 block of Newtowne Drive, Bens Drive near Victor Parkway and the 1400 block of Tyler Avenue.

The most recent sighting reportedly occurred around 8:30 a.m. Monday on Bens Drive.

Only children have reported seeing the clown or clowns, police said.

Anyone with information on the incidents is asked to call Annapolis detectives at 410-260-3439.

sorry that's ANnapolis, not napolis

I don't live anywhere near Northampton but anyway:
'A man entered the store and allegedly concealed a Venetian blind down one trouser leg and up the back of his jacket. He then left the store making no attempt to pay for the item.'

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UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- The infamous New York City woman known as The Spitting Lady of 77th Street was arrested for previously spitting on a 7-year-old child.

Hilda Delvalle Barrion Neuvo, who is homeless, was arrested on East 78th Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side Thursday morning.

She was charged with stalking and endangering the welfare of a child.

Her son, 44-year-old Gabriel Uno, was charged with menacing, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon.

He was charged with throwing a table at a pedestrian on March 18.

Weird.

So, how did she get the nickname?

Stork builds nest on the biggest cross at my local cemetery! Woooo! http://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20170410_02826550/ooievaar-bouwt-nest-op-begraafplaats

I had just taken a picture myself (without bird) when I found out it was in the news already

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Next week:

"He has flown!"

"Um, I think you mean 'He has risen.'"

"No! Look!"

It's confusing but She was home today

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Dozens of snakes dumped in Arkansas Walmart parking lot

Cops Reel Off Banger Selfies For Absolutely Ratshit Bloke After Putting Him To Bed

Astoria delivers again

Weird organisms show up off the Oregon Coast in droves

Man shocked after giant human walks blue dog on quiet Dennistoun street

(update: that stork has left the nest, no young)

Meanwhile, breaking news! The local zoo's Alpaca's have had their annual shave!

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https://www.facebook.com/Planckendael/photos/pcb.1642156125826618/1642055209170043/?type=3&theater

looking sharp

https://www.wcbi.com/video-high-off-hot-shot-latest-drug-trend-monroe-county/

“They take wasp spray and spray it on a screen wire. They hook it up to a battery charger and get it hot, which it crystallizes the wasp spray, and then they melt that down and then they shoot it into their veins,” says Cantrell.

Thanks for the description of the method, Cecil.

good lord

Bid to save Greyfriars Bobby from ‘lucky’ nose rub gains support

TOUR guides have stepped in to help the campaign to save Greyfriars Bobby from damage by warning tourists not to rub the beloved statue.

The moves comes after a Facebook campaign was launched in a bid to stop the spread of the recent habit of tourists rubbing Bobby in the belief it will bring them luck.

The trend has led to the coating of the famous statue being rubbed away, exposing the underlying brass metal on Bobby’s entire muzzle and parts of his chest.

Reel Edinburgh Tours has posted a public service announcement on its website in the hope of discouraging the practice.

“Bobby shouldn’t be rubbed under any circumstances,” the message states. “You see his little nose? It’s getting really shiny.

“Visitors to Edinburgh think it’s a tradition to rub the nose and it will bring good luck – it isn’t, so don’t! Do not rub Bobby!”

Karsten Moerman of City of the Dead Tours has been trying for several years to stop it. He said: “We’ve even put signs on Bobby asking people not to rub the nose, but someone always takes them down.”

Mercat Tours also said they discourage tourists from touching any of the city’s statues.

And local Steph Tees, 35 who regularly passes the statue, said: “I think he’s lovely but it’s a shame he is being ruined by this stupid tradition of touching his nose. It’s literally been in the last four or five years that it all of a sudden started – it got fixed and the next morning somebody had rubbed it off again and it’s upsetting and its a waste of money to keep fixing it and folk to keep doing that.

“Why would it bring you luck to rub it? I don’t know where these traditions come from.”

Passing by yesterday, actor John Conboy, who featured in the 2005 film Greyfriars Bobby, got behind the campaign by helping to hang a sign around Bobby’s neck.

Edinburgh broadcaster Grant Stott has spent years drawing the public’s attention to wee Bobby’s plight.

He said: “This all started for me two years ago, when I first started doing it for Radio Forth. I did it as a public service announcement to discourage people from touching Bobby at the weekend, or any other time.

“I have lived in Edinburgh all my life and I have certainly never touched Bobby in all my years here.

“It’s very much a tourist thing. Something as treasured as Greyfriars Bobby you want to be preserved and you don’t want his nose wearing away.

“We might have to enlist the help of the tour guides to spread the word – any local will tell you it’s never been something that will give you luck.”

Edinburgh council, who took charge of repairing the statue in 2013, supports the campaign to try and stop damage to Bobby’s nose.

A spokeswoman said: “We always request the city’s statues and monuments are treated respectfully, and it’s great so many local people agree.”

go and rub david hume's toe instead

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So have you all heard about the Danish space rocket maker who took a Swedish journalist on to his private submarine, killed her (allegedly), definitely carved up her body and threw the headless torso into the ocean, and sunk the sub? That's most of what everyones talking about, and I've seen write-ups in WaPo and other places as well. Absolutely fucked up.

that story is really insane. i thought all those Scando murder novels were a little OTT but apparently not.

Headline news over here tho god knows why

And here. Not quite the local news the thread was designed for tbh.

can't believe I didn't post these a month earlier, the birth of two new Manitowoc legends:

http://www.htrnews.com/story/news/2017/07/18/man-set-fire-manitowoc-police-had-chest-beard-hair-singed/489902001/

The 32-year-old Manitowoc man arrested Friday for standing naked in the street was relatively unharmed after being accidentally set on fire during his arrest, Manitowoc police said.

At a press conference Tuesday, police said a Taser shot by officers had connected to a lighter Travis L. Tingler was holding during his arrest, and the Taser's contact on the lighter likely caused a burst of fire that singed the hair on Tingler's chest and beard.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/20/manitowoc-alderman-mike-howe-tries-climb-cow-arrested-owi/497335001/

MANITOWOC - Manitowoc Common Council Alderman Michael Howe was arrested in the early morning hours of July 4 after being seen with a group of individuals trying to mount "Bernice," the giant cow statue in front of Cedar Crest Dairy on South 10th Street.

lived in this city for 15 years, never knew her name was Bernice

LOL I just found this one on the ABC news website. I lived in this st a couple years ago.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-29/tree-down-in-brunswick/8756546

Very to the point journalism right there.

lol

Gonorrhea in Anne Arundel County up 69 percent

nice

Sheriff's Office: Man with 'Undercover Detective' on T-shirt Who Pulled woman Over Not an Arkansas Deputy

... or is he?

perfect disguise imo

Federal Breast Inspector.

well tbf if we don't inspect the federal breasts on a regular basis they could get out of hand

this isn't super important, but earlier this year a northwestern professor was involved in a grisly sex murder and now this guy with a doctorate in neuroscience from the same school is going to be tried for pushing a random stranger onto the train tracks and preventing him from getting up. and his neighbor said he seemed "normal" (aside from the incident where he said "fuck you" to her for no apparent reason)

agggghhhhhhhh

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20171011/downtown/chad-estep-ben-benedict-cta-tracks-stranger-attack-third-rail-cubs-game-august-free-on-bond

https://sf.eater.com/2017/11/8/16625202/oakland-bar-owner-small-wonder-uptown-sexual-abuse-charges-allegations

There's municipal elections today, the left is doing okay. The new Green left party has been involved in a scandal regarding their election night party, and where they planned to have it. It led to the spokesman saying these immortal words:

"All I'm saying is that there's no fuckswing. The plan from the board of directors has always been that there should not be a fuckswing at this arrangement"

(my translation)

i love the dialogue in this one

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – A man was rushed to the hospital Thursday morning after he was hit by a train in downtown San Diego and severed his right forearm.

The incident was reported at about 3:25 a.m. on the heavy freight rails running parallel to Harbor Drive in front of the San Diego Convention Center's Hall C, 10News learned.

10News cameras were there as the pedestrian, believed to be in his 30s, said of his injury: "My hand … Oh my God, my hand!"

Throughout the ordeal, the man remained conscious while medics attended to him and placed him into an ambulance to transport him to UC San Diego Medical Center.

Medics told officers, "Hey gentlemen … if we could find that arm that would be really helpful."

According to authorities, the forearm was recovered hundreds of feet from where the injured man was found.

Details on what led to the incident remain unclear.

Lol

Gonna say right out that that's not lol

remember the lmao otm about the lol

losing my arm ouch

that’s me in the corner

Dateline Woking, England: Woman rode motorbike naked, had sex in the street and punched a blind man. Also racially abused one of the police officers who arrested her. Her defence barrister claimed in court that she was 'addicted to inhaling butane gas'.

Lady Godiva she ain’t

Lad y go diva

hey, the mall I went to growing up is in the news!

Body unnoticed in Atlanta area mall for weeks

hey, the mall I went to growing up is in the news!

Body unnoticed in Atlanta area mall for weeks🕸