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Post by Xalazi on Jul 16, 2007 15:00:48 GMT -5
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Post by Sukkubus on Aug 5, 2007 3:15:50 GMT -5
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 15, 2007 8:32:34 GMT -5
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) - Laughter might be unexpected in a liquor store where a robbery just occurred. But that's how employees responded to the "Duct Tape Bandit" who hit Shamrock Liquors in Ashland and fled nearly empty handed.
A man who had his head wrapped in duct tape to conceal his identity walked into the store last Friday, police said.
Store manager Bill Steele had some duct tape of his own, but his was wrapped around a wooden club that sent the robber fleeing, according to a report by WSAZ-TV in Huntington, W.Va.
Store employee Craig Miller said he chased the man to the parking lot, tackled him and held him in a choke position until police arrived, the station reported. An unidentified customer also helped, police said.
Kasey G. Kazee, 24, was charged with first-degree robbery. Kazee, in an interview with the TV station, denied he was bandit who robbed the store of two rolls of change.
Kazee pleaded not guilty Monday in Boyd County District Court and was ordered held under a $250,000 cash bond.
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 15, 2007 8:33:30 GMT -5
SEATTLE (AP) - A woman attacked a karaoke singer belting out Coldplay on Thursday night, telling him he "sucked" before she pushed and punched him to get him to stop singing, bar staff said. The man was singing "Yellow" when it happened.
"It took three or four of us to hold her down," bartender Robert Willmette said.
When she was escorted outside, the 21-year-old woman "went crazy," Willmette said, throwing punches at him and others, including an off-duty police officer.
Patrol officers and detectives then arrived at the neighborhood bar and blocked off the street, which inflamed the woman's rage even more, a police report said. Before police could handcuff the woman, she headbutted the off-duty officer at least twice.
The off-duty officer was treated for cuts, scrapes and bruises.
After treatment for injuries, the woman was booked into the King County jail for investigation of assault. She was also held on a warrant issued for a previous theft charge.
According to bartender notes, she had only a single shot of Jagermeister.
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 15, 2007 8:34:24 GMT -5
MONESSEN, Pa. (AP) - A high school art teacher who went on a date with a porn star after winning a satellite radio contest has resigned.
Jaison Biagini traveled to St. Petersburg, Fla., last month after winning the date on the Sirius satellite radio show "Bubba the Love Sponge."
The school board voted Tuesday to accept his resignation.
Biagini, who taught art for 14 years at Monessen High School, said he entered the contest because he wanted to win the free trip and visit the Salvador Dali museum in St. Petersburg. He described the date as being "all fake and staged."
Biagini, who uses a wheelchair, was interviewed on the radio show after returning home, and told the Valley Independent in Monessen that he was ridiculed for his disability.
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 15, 2007 8:34:47 GMT -5
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Mr., Mrs. or Ms.? Thailand may soon let people who have had a sex change officially alter their title, too.
A proposal which would allow transgender men or women to choose how they are addressed is being considered by the country's National Legislative Assembly to support an anti-discrimination provision in the draft constitution, Thai newspapers reported.
Wiroon Tangcharoen, an assembly member who is also rector of Srinakharinwirot University, said he supported the move and did not believe it would affect room assignments in university dormitories, where students are segregated by sex, The Nation newspaper said.
Students wishing to live with members of their adopted gender would have to produce medical certificates proving they had undergone sex-change operations, he said.
"The university has nothing against male transsexual students staying in female dormitories on the campus," he was quoted as saying.
Even though Thailand is widely tolerant of gays, transvestites and transsexuals, many face family pressure, social prejudice and domestic violence.
Three years ago, a college in the northern province of Chiang Mai designated a bathroom for the exclusive use of the school's 15 cross-dressing students. The transvestites - who had to wear male attire at school but were allowed to sport feminine hairdos - had annoyed female students when using the women's bathrooms, and faced harassment in the men's facilities.
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 15, 2007 19:02:28 GMT -5
POTTSTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Cremated human remains were found Tuesday inside a package placed in a mail collection box, police said. "In my 19 years of police work, never has something like this occurred," Pottstown police Capt. F. Richard Drumheller said.
The letter carrier found the package wrapped haphazardly in a plastic bag, with no mailing address or return address, and notified police. A police dog did not detect any explosives, so officers opened it and found a box with a metal plate with the deceased person's name on it and the years "1957-2000."
Police asked that the person's name not be released until relatives are found.
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Post by Xalazi on Aug 17, 2007 23:15:05 GMT -5
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Post by Xalazi on Aug 21, 2007 20:51:13 GMT -5
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Post by Sukkubus on Aug 23, 2007 4:57:54 GMT -5
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 23, 2007 7:36:16 GMT -5
^^ lol
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 23, 2007 7:47:54 GMT -5
(CBS) SALEM, Mass. A woman claiming to be a Salem witch and her housemate have been charged with mutilating a dead raccoon and leaving the remains on the doorsteps of two businesses.
Self-proclaimed high-priestess Sharon Graham, 46, and her roommate, Fredrick Purtz, 22, both of Salem, were arrested Monday in connection with the May 27 incident.
They both pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning in Salem District Court on littering and malicious destruction of property charges.
Police told the paper Graham and Purtz had a disagreement with the owners of the two businesses - Goddess Treasure Chest and Angelica of the Angels - who are also active in the witch community.
Prosecutors say more animal remains were found in Graham's home and she could face more charges.
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Post by Fated to Pretend on Aug 26, 2007 9:03:58 GMT -5
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 28, 2007 16:25:17 GMT -5
Doctor And Sister Mistaken For Bioterrorists
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 26, 2007 - Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.
The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.
New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow, 36, and his sister, Dorothee, 31, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were both charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony.
The siblings set off the scare while organizing a run for a local chapter of the Hash House Harriers, a worldwide group that bills itself as a "drinking club with a running problem."
"Hares" are given the task of marking a trail to direct runners, throwing in some dead ends and forks as challenges. On Thursday, the Salchows decided to route runners through the massive IKEA parking lot.
Police fielded a call just before 5 p.m. that someone was sprinkling powder on the ground. The store was evacuated and remained closed the rest of the night. The incident prompted a massive response from police in New Haven and surrounding towns.
Daniel Salchow biked back to IKEA when he heard there was a problem and told officers the powder was just harmless flour, which he said he and his sister have sprinkled everywhere from New York to California without incident.
"Not in my wildest dreams did I ever anticipate anything like that," he said.
Mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said the city plans to seek restitution from the Salchows, who are due in court Sept. 14.
"You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know," she said. "It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious. We're thankful it wasn't, but there were a lot of resources that went into figuring that out."
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Post by Modern Method. on Aug 28, 2007 16:25:47 GMT -5
BEIJING, August 16, 2007 - A Chinese couple seeking a distinctive name for their child settled on the e-mail 'at' symbol - annoying government officials grappling with an influx of unorthodox names. Related Links
The unidentified couple were cited Thursday by a government official as an example of citizens bringing bizarre names into the Chinese language.
Written Chinese does not use an alphabet but is comprised of characters, sometimes making it difficult to develop words for new or foreign objects and ideas. As of last year, only 129 names accounted for 87 percent of all surnames in China, Li said.
The letters 'a' and 't' can be pronounced in a way that sounds like the phrase "love him" in Chinese.
The father "said 'the whole world uses it to write e-mails and, translated into Chinese, it means 'love him,"' Li Yuming, vice director of the State Language Commission, said at a news conference.
Li did not say if police, who are the arbiters of names because they issue identity cards, rejected baby 'at.'
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Post by Ass Turkey on Aug 31, 2007 4:58:15 GMT -5
Wow the name @ How hard up do people have to be?
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Post by Xalazi on Sept 2, 2007 21:40:05 GMT -5
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Post by tetherednchained on Sept 6, 2007 15:25:15 GMT -5
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Post by Sukkubus on Sept 7, 2007 4:41:38 GMT -5
^^That's sick and shows how lazy they both are.
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Post by Xalazi on Sept 11, 2007 19:26:21 GMT -5
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