Fraudster protests jail term up 22-metre pole
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
A German father of five sentenced to jail for online fraud is protesting against his conviction by occupying the top of a 22-metre pole.
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Alleged Ind. Soda Thief Jailed For 17 months
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
Officials are at a loss to explain how they allowed a homeless, mentally ill man accused of stealing a soda to languish in jail for 17 months.
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Calif. Car Salesman Beats Down Would-Be Thief
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
Police in Livermore, Calif., say a car salesman skilled in martial arts subdued a man who claimed he had a gun and attempted to steal a luxury convertible.
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Expert: A Sexless Marriage Is Not A Marriage
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
Society is preoccupied with sex, but the reality is many people who ought to be enjoying it the most often are actually doing it the least, according to experts.
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Pa. Family Rudely Awakened By Smashing Icy Debris
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
A Pennsylvania family was abruptly awakened after a large piece of icy debris crashed through the roof of their home, reports CBS station KYW-TV. Police were called to the family's home in Northampton Township after a large chunk of ice came hurtling through the roof just after midnight Friday.
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Humane Society: Some 'Faux Fur' Is Just Dog Hair
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
That fur trim on your jacket that you think is fake? It might be dog hair. An animal advocacy group says its investigation has turned up coats - some with designer labels, some at higher-end retailers - with fur from man's best friend.
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On Video: Rats Invade NYC Fast Food Restaurant
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
A Kentucky Fried Chicken/Taco Bell in New York's Greenwich Village drew a crowd early Friday morning. Cameras CBS station WCBS-TV cameras were rolling as rats invaded the eatery, scurrying around the restaurant which had not yet opened for business.
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Man bungles heist next to police site
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
A would-be thief in Canada has proven himself lacking in key skills such as reconnaissance and driving, when he tried to pull a heist beside a police-dog training site and then got stuck in the snow trying to flee.
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Today In History - Feb. 23, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
Today is Friday, February 23, the 54th day of 2007. There are 311 days left in the year.
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New York Home Turned Into House Of Human Waste
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
A Long Island, N.Y., woman found living in squalor with her three children was under investigation Thursday after a neighbor made a call to the children's father last week, worried about the children's well-being.
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Chimps Using Spears To Hunt Bushbabies
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
Researchers have witnessed a chimpanzee skewering a lemur-like creature for supper, but it's unclear whether the spectacle was a bit of luck or an indication that chimps have a more advanced ability to hunt than was thought.
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U.S. Senior Strangles Mugger In Costa Rica
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,23
A tour bus of U.S. senior citizens defended themselves against a group of alleged muggers, sending two of them fleeing and killing a third in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said on Thursday.
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Man Does 40 Squat Thrusts On Back Of Elephant
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
New Yorker Ashrita Furman looked around for a record he could break, and settled on doing the most squat thrusts in one minute. Then he decided on a place -- the back of an elephant in northern Thailand.
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Lawmaker Comes Down On Plastic Gonads
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
Fake bull testicles and other anatomically explicit vehicle decorations would be banned from Maryland roads under a bill pending in the state legislature.
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Dog Store Name Offends Seattle Residents
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
A newly opened store catering to very pampered dogs, especially female dogs, is getting more than questioning looks for its name, High Maintenance Bitch.
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Christian Bookstore Manager Foils Robber
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
The night manager of a Christian bookstore foiled an armed robbery by slamming the man's hand in the cash register drawer, then wrestling with him before he fled, police said. "I didn't want to hurt him, but if I would've gotten a hold of him, I would've sent him straight to the Lord," said manager Daniel Stanton, a 58-year-old retired aerospace engineer who served two tours in Vietnam.
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Police Warn Men About 'Hugging Bandit'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
She's a 200-pound-plus hugging machine, but her affection comes with a price. Police are warning men about the "Hugging Bandit," who heartily embraces men coming out of downtown bars and leaves them wallet-less. Dozens of men say they have been victims. Police say others are too embarrassed to admit it.
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Teens Allegedly Keep Stolen Car 2 Weeks
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
Three teenage boys stole a car and used it for their wheels for nearly two weeks, putting gas in it and digging it out after last week's snowstorm, police said.
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Brawling surgeons leave patient in the lurch
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
A routine appendix operation in Belgrade went badly wrong when two surgeons started fighting and stormed from the operating theatre to settle their dispute outside, a newspaper reports.
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Man Sentenced, Married By Judge Within Minutes
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
After sentencing David Kite to five years in prison for stealing a lawnmower, Judge John Baricevic obliged the 23-year-old man's request and married him to girlfriend Victoria Smith in the same courtroom.
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Lunch Lady Suspended After Throwing Out Oranges
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
A Philadelphia school lunch-lady was suspended after tossing out hundreds of oranges she believed to be contaminated. While the school believes she was just a frustrated employee, she told CBS station KYW-TV in Philadelphia she was looking out for the best interest of the children.
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Feds Won't Charge Couple For Gas Tank Pot Stash
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
No federal charges will be filed against a Washington state couple who were found in St. Paul with more than 150 pounds of marijuana in the gas tank of their pickup.
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10-Year-Old Suing School Over Jesus Costume
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
A 10-year-old boy who said he was not allowed to wear a Jesus costume during his school's Halloween activities sued the district, alleging that his religious and free-speech rights were violated.
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Customers Get Billion-Dollar Power Bills
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
Perhaps his $24 billion electric bill will teach Richard Redden not to leave the heat running. Thanks to a printing error, Redden and more than 1,300 Weatherford utility customers this week received billion-dollar electric bills marked as late notices.
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'Bullies' Team Name Draws Protests
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
Anti-bullying advocates are beating up on the name chosen for the new professional basketball team in Syracuse, N.Y. The Syracuse Bullies will play in the American Basketball Association beginning this fall.
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Real Sea Monster Caught In Antarctica
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
A New Zealand fishing crew has reportedly caught an adult colossal squid, a sea creature with eyes as big as dinner plates and razor-sharp hooks on its tentacles. One squid expert said If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires.
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Drought forces mud racers to head north
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
The drought in Victoria has forced a national sporting event to be moved to Darwin.
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NZ fishermen haul in '450kg' squid
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
New Zealand fishermen may have caught the largest colossal squid ever found, weighing around 450 kilograms and with rings the size of tyres.
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Today In History _ Feb. 22, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
Today is Thursday, February 22, the 53rd day of 2007. There are 312 days left in the year.
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Man Falls 16 Stories And Lives To Tell About It
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,22
A Wisconsin man has a new lease on life since he fell 16 stories from a hotel window and lived to tell about it.
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Would-Be Bank Robber Sees Red
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
A Broward man stops at a bank to get some cash before heading to the track. No story here, except, it wasnt his money.
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Woman, Ziti Survive Chimney Collapse In Boston
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
A six-foot chimney fell several stories off a building in Boston Wednesday morning.
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Would-be thief nabbed beside police dog training site
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
A would-be Canadian thief proved himself lacking in key skills like reconnaissance and driving after he tried to pull a heist beside a police dog training site and then got stuck in the snow trying to flee.
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Los Angeles 'Live Fire' Drill Creates Quite A Show
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
Huge flames and smoke could be seen for miles as the Los Angeles Fire Department conducted 'live fire' training at L.A. International Airport early Wednesday morning.
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Woman Gets Probation For 'McMissile' Launch
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
A 25-year-old mother of three from North Carolina received probation for an incident of road rage that has become known as the "McMissile" case. Jessica Hall could have received two years in prison for launching a "missile" a McDonald's cup full of ice at another car.
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Mechanics Find 150 Lbs. Of Pot In Truck's Gas Tank
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
When a couple brought their pickup truck into a Midas service center in St. Paul, little did mechanics know they would find a $150,000, highly illegal problem.
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Armed Man Who Mistook Porn Sounds For Rape Charged
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
A man says he broke into an apartment with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman being raped, but the sound actually was from a pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching.
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Woman Faces Up To 2 Years In 'McMissile' Case
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
A 25-year-old mother of three from North Carolina faces up to two years in prison for an incident of road rage that has become known as the "McMissile" case.
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'Mass Extinction' Theory: Life On Earth Threatened
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
While global warming continues to gain widespread public awareness, a potentially more devastating environmental threat is only beginning to get noticed.
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Man Falls 16 Stories, Can't Remember Plunge
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
Just a month after his 16-story fall and merciful landing onto a hotel overhang, Joshua Hanson is off crutches from a broken leg, mostly healed from his other injuries and thankful he has no memory of the plunge.
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USC Goalie Moons BYU Hockey Crowd
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
A University of Southern California hockey goalie put on a show, but it had nothing to do with stopping shots.
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Escaped Cow Walks 5 Miles, Slams Into Cruiser
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
Massachusetts police received quite a shock early Sunday morning when a 2,000 pound Scottish cow was spotted strolling along Route 140, reports WBZ, the CBS station in Boston.
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Woman In Iron Lung Celebrates Birthday
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
A Jackson woman who contracted polio 57 years ago and continues to rely on an iron lung to breathe recently celebrated her 60th birthday, defying doctors' expectations that she could live so long and so fully.
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Maytag Holds Casting Call For Ol' Lonely Repairman
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
What do a bus driver, police officer, stockbroker and a professional football player all have in common? They all want to be the next Maytag Repairman.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
Today is Ash Wednesday, February 21, the 52nd day of 2007. There are 313 days left in the year.
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Man charged over stolen steaks
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
A Darwin man has been arrested for the theft of 50 kilograms worth of scotch fillet steak on Australia Day.
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Archaeologists Unveil New Tombs In Egypt
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
Archaeologists unveiled the tombs Tuesday of a pharaonic butler and a scribe that have been buried for more than 3,000 years -- proof that Egypt's sands still have secrets to reveal.
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Envoy seeks to dispel 'Borat' image
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
Kazakhstan's envoy to the United States today defended his country against "misconceptions" caused by the hit comedy film Borat and its misogynistic, anti-Semitic, fictional Kazakh TV reporter.
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Man stole 39 payphones in 8 months, police say
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Feb,21
A 45-year-old man has been charged over the theft of 39 payphones in Darwin during the past eight months.
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New Orleans Celebrates 'Fat Tuesday'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Feb,20
Thousands of hurricane-weary residents joined with rowdy visitors for Fat Tuesday, taking a break from rebuilding New Orleans to put on wild costumes and celebrate the second Mardi Gras since Katrina.
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