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‘A 48-year-old man says Portland firefighters forced him to the floor and kicked him after he argued with them in the lobby of his apartment building early Thursday — an allegation backed up by surveillance tapes.

The tapes, recorded from cameras mounted in the lobby of the Fairfield Apartments, show that resident Terry DeGeorge didn’t appear to touch the firefighters before they forced him to the floor. While he was being held down by two firefighters and a paramedic, another firefighter kicked him three times, the video shows. A security guard restrained him with handcuffs.’

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This is quite an interesting old advertisement for a car dealer, somewhere around Baltimore by the sounds of things.

Don’t forget to bring your wife. 🙂

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`A naked construction worker fell about four stories to his death early yesterday at the work site for a new downtown museum, D.C. police and fire officials said.

Joseph Oliver, 23, of La Plata was discovered about 6 a.m. in the basement elevator shaft area of the Newseum, which is being built at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, officials said. Authorities said it was unclear why he was naked.

“It appears he may have fallen from the fourth floor because there were clothes and personal belongings on that level,” said Assistant Fire Chief Larry Schultz.’

`Dentists, doctors, lawyers and other professionals in the Pittsburgh area have been targeted by a “hit man” e-mail scheme, receiving messages that tell them to pay up to spare their lives, the FBI said.

The e-mail, which was sent to most recipients around Christmas, tells the reader that there is a contract out on his life, generally for $50,000.

It says that if the recipient sends the “hit man” more money than that — generally ranging from $80,000 to $150,000 — the hit man will leave him alone.’

Just driving around the subways, why not? 🙂

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As seen through the eyes of a PCP addict.

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`Danny Robert Villegas liked prison so much he staged a robbery just to get back in, police say. Officers were called to the Kennedy Space Center Federal Credit Union on Monday after Villegas allegedly walked inside, told the teller he was robbing her and said, “You might as well call the police now,” according to a police report.

Police Lt. Ron Wright said Villegas then sat on a couch in the bank lobby to wait for police.

“He said he wanted to rob a federal bank because he wanted to go back to a federal penitentiary,” Wright said. “Apparently he robbed a bank in Fresno, California, 10 years ago, was sentenced to 70 months in a federal penitentiary in Phoenix and he enjoyed his time there.”‘

‘Oh candy pants, lets climb the ladder of romance.. [..]

You’re such a honey dripper, I would forget all about your zipper..

Girl you smell so sweet, I wouldn’t even give you a chance to take off your pants..’

And he’s a minister of sobriety too.

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‘Male Camel Toe, or MCT, is an embarrassing spilttage of ball-matter into two lobes.’

The ballgonda is amusing. 🙂

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Apparently. babies born with tails are incarnations of Hindu gods.

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`A San Mateo woman is getting messages from God and painting them in five-foot-tall letters on the roof of her house.

The city wants her to stop doing it. Her neighbors want her to stop doing it. But Estrella Benavides says she can’t do that.

“I am going to keep going, because it is all I can do,” she said. “God chose me to be His servant. There is such a thing as freedom of speech.”

Benavides, a 48-year-old woman who lives alone in her yellow house on Cottage Grove Avenue, began painting the giant messages about a year ago, about the time her husband moved out and she lost custody of her son. Last month, she had two large pins inserted through her lips, to keep her from eating as part of a religious fast. God told her to do that, too.’

`A man who took a cannabis plant into a Brisbane court to use as “evidence” in his drugs case racked up more charges as a result. [..]

Mr Till says he will fight his drug charges as part of his long-running campaign to have marijuana legalised.

Security officers said they seized the 50cm cannabis plant at a screening machine in the Brisbane Magistrates Court’s foyer yesterday.

Mr Till said the plant was “evidence” for a court appearance.’

`Sweden’s northernmost town of Kiruna will move its centre a few kilometres away to save it from sinking into the ground due to underground cracks created by iron ore mining, officials said on Tuesday.

In order to continue to operate the lucrative mine, in the next few decades, the town centre will need to be moved, including all major buildings, the railroad, the railroad station, the terminal, the newly-built highway, homes, water and sewage systems and electrical systems.’

Sneaky.

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`Egg Cuber is the device to make eggs have bizarre cubic form. It will not make the chickens lay square eggs. It only make warm, peeled, hard boiled egg to square form.’

`A traditional circumcision ceremony in South Africa went awry over the weekend when a policeman had his nose bitten off.

The policeman had tried to put paid to an argument between a man and his family during the ceremony in the Eastern Cape province, when the man attacked him, biting off his nose.

The aggrieved policeman then shot the 30-year-old man in the chest, the SAPA news agency reported.’

`British police said Friday they were hunting a man who stole a urinal from a pub toilet.

The suspect walked into the Royal Oak pub in Southampton, on the English south coast, ordered half a pint of beer and then made several visits to the men’s toilet.

There he carefully removed a white urinal from the wall, stuffed it into a rucksack and was captured on closed circuit television walking out with the bulging sack on his back.

“He made a very, very expert job of dismantling it from the wall and turning the water off. A very professional job,” landlord Alan Dreja said in a video posted on the Southampton Daily Echo newspaper’s Web site.’

`Until recently, scholars thought only 8 or 10 of these important early telescopes _ made between 1608 and 1650 of tightly rolled paper and crudely ground lenses _ had survived to the present day.

Then two historians on a visit to a museum in Berlin last fall had an “aha!” moment. One of the oldest known surviving telescopes at the German museum gave them an idea of places to look for other, as yet undiscovered examples.

Their insight apparently was correct. According to Marvin Bolt of Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, he and his colleague found a previously unreported 1627 telescope in a Dresden museum storage room within 24 hours of their brainstorm. Less than a day later, they found a second, slightly earlier telescope that had lain unnoticed in the storage room of a museum in Kassel.’

`Juan Catlett claims that Gibson used scenes from his 1991 film, Return to Aztlan, in Apocalypto. The storylines basically cover the same ground, depicting the Mayan civilisation imploding in a time of great drought.

Catlett alleges that Gibson asked for a copy of his film while shooting Apocalypto and that scenes from Return to Aztlan ended up in Gibson’s film. Catlett has now started legal proceedings against Gibson.’

`An opera singer has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the Hilton Hotels Corp., complaining that bedbugs bit her over her arms, chest, neck and face when she stayed in one of its Phoenix hotels in November.

Soprano Alison Trainer says in court papers she had 150 bites all over her body, a “horrific” experience that left her afraid to sleep in a bed, caused her to lose weight and made her uncomfortable about her physical appearance.

Trainer’s lawyer, Kenneth J. Glassman, said that because of the bites his client suffered at Phoenix’s Hilton Suites between Nov. 20 and Nov. 26, “She looks like a piece of wood that has been attacked by termites.”‘

`A 23-year-old Albion man will have to avoid shopping at stores like Victoria’s Secret for the next six years, under a unique probation arrangement.

Nicolas R. Leathers, 23, who was released from Kennebec County Jail on Thursday after completing a sentence for burglary, is banned from using and possessing women’s underwear as a condition of his probation.

“It’s because of his offense history,” said Deputy District Attorney Alan Kelley. “In another case, he entered a residence in Albion and took women’s underwear.”
Court records show that, in 2004, Leathers was accused of taking a man’s thong, and admitted taking tampons and other items from a neighbor’s home in Albion.’

`A U.S. Border Patrol entry Identification Team site was overrun Wednesday night along Arizona’s border with Mexico.

According to the Border Patrol, an unknown number of gunmen attacked the site in the state’s West Desert Region around 11 p.m. The site is manned by National Guardsmen. Those guardsmen were forced to retreat.
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The Border Patrol will not say whether shots were fired. [..]

The Border patrol says the attackers quickly retreated back into Mexico.’

`For the second day in a row, officials at W. Tresper Clarke High School prevented a 14-year-old deaf student from bringing his assistance dog to class.

“I feel like they aren’t being fair,” ninth-grader John Cave of Westbury said Thursday of East Meadow School District officials, who don’t believe he needs the dog to attend class. “They act like they’re against me because of my dog.”

John’s parents, Nancy and John Sr., have battled district officials for more than a year over the right of their son to bring a service dog to school.

The Caves believe John and Simba must bond around the clock so that the dog can work most effectively as an assistance dog, trained to alert a deaf child to potential danger, such as fire or smoke alarms and cars.’

‘A calf with two faces, born last week at a farm in the US state of Virginia, has been drawing a crowd.

The calf breathes out of two noses and has two tongues, which move independently, according to farmer Kirk Heldreth.

There appears to be a single socket containing two eyes. There are two lower jaws, but only one mouth.

“It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,” Heldreth said.’

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I should learn to play the oboe with my nutsack. Ha. 🙂

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`Her name is Ashley X, and she is the little girl who will never grow up.

Until New Year’s Day, not even her first name was known. Ashley was a faceless case study, cited in a paper by two doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital as they outlined a treatment so radical that it brought with it allegations of “eugenics”, of creating a 21st-century Frankenstein’s monster, of maiming a child for the sake of convenience.

The reason for the controversy is this: three years ago, when Ashley began to display early signs of puberty, her parents instructed doctors to remove her uterus, appendix and still-forming breasts, then treat her with high doses of oestrogen to stunt her growth.

In other words, Ashley was sterilised and frozen in time, for ever to remain a child. She was only 6.’

Followup to: Young disabled girl ‘kept small’

From one of those poker television shows that seem to be on late at night a lot recently. The Australian seems to be a bit of a cockhead.

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`A man who has a history of smashing windows to indulge his fetish for female mannequins could draw a long prison term for his latest arrest. Ronald A. Dotson, 39, of Detroit faces up to life in prison if convicted of a charge of attempted breaking and entering at a cleaning-supply company in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale.

The potential life sentence is because prosecutors charged him as a habitual offender. Authorities say he has at least six convictions for breaking and entering and a stint in state prison over the last 13 years. [..]

Dotson was arrested Oct. 9 after police say he smashed a window at a cleaning-supply company to get at a female mannequin dressed in a black and white French maid’s uniform. He had been out of prison for less than a week.’