Weird but True - Part II

[SleepyHead]

Researchers in Glasgow are developing a pill which contains a tiny
video camera which would be able to detect diseases as it traveled
through the body. The pill would also contain a microchip 10,000
times smaller than a human hair, and would be passed through the
digestive system.


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[SleepyHead]

Rio de Janeiro - A Brazilian truck driver rose from the grave recently.
A day after a gang shot Pedro da Silva Correa, 43, and threw him into
a tomb in a cemetery, he pushed the cement lid off and climbed out.
"He walked all the way to the hospital covered in blood," said a
hospital spokeswoman, Sandra Santos. "The whole incident has given
people quite a fright."


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[SleepyHead]

LOONY LAWS

An ordinance in Atwoodville, Connecticut prohibits people
from playing Scrabble while waiting for a politician to speak.

A Helena, Montana, law states that a woman cannot dance
on a saloon table unless her clothing weights more than three
pounds, two ounces.

In Idaho, a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen
a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.

In Los Angeles courts it is illegal to cry on the witness stand.

In Chicago it is illegal to take a French poodle to the opera,
and for women over 200 pounds to ride horses in shorts.

In Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their
husbands to wear false teeth.

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

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[SleepyHead]

STATS FROM THE STATES.....

Only 30% of us can flare our nostrils.
21% of us don't make our bed daily. 5% of us never do.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
13% of us admit to occasionally doing our kid's homework.
45% believe in ghosts.
13% (mostly men) have spent a night in jail.
58% have called into work sick when we weren't.
10% of us switch tags in the store to pay less for an item.
69% eat the cake before the frosting.
14% of us eat the watermelon seeds.
13% brush our teeth from side to side.
62% of us pop our zits (who does it for the other 38%??)


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[PaulsPrincess]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">Quote:</font><HR>Originally Posted By SleepyHead:
LOONY LAWS

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Funny I didn't know there were camels in Arizona... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/thinker.gif These are hysterical by the way, thanks for posting 'em! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/rolling3.gif

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"...and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make."

[SleepyHead]

El Paso - Two would-be thiefs decided to rob a pizza delivery driver.
They placed an order for a pizza delivery to a nearby address,
then laid in wait to confront the driver when he showed up. But,
when placing the order, these rocket scientists left their real
home phone number. A trace of the number lead to the men,
the cash, and the pizza.


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[SleepyHead]

A former employee walked into a Regina, Saskatchewan bar
one night and spent a number of counterfeit $100 bills. Inside
the bar, there are eight bartenders to buy drinks from. He went
around to each bartender buying one drink, paying $100 and
collecting the change. When the bank informed the bar that it
was short $800.00, the staff of the bar remembered exactly who
it was due to the extravance of spending one-hundred dollars
on each drink. They also knew who he was because he used
to work there.


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[SleepyHead]

After being released on bail for an armed robbery, a 35 year-old
Philadelphia man was anxious to get some cash for his drug habit.
He entered a bar with a gun and demanded the cash. The bartender
obliged
and gave him the receipts from the register. The defendant then fled
back upstairs to his residence. Ten minutes later, police arrived and
arrested him at the kitchen table, counting the money. Unfortunately
for
him, the bartender was his also landlord, who identified him at the
scene. (DUH!!)


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[SleepyHead]

A postal substation was robbed at gun point by a dumb crook.
His get away car? The only maroon Edsel registered in the State
of Nebraska! After checking with the DMV, Postal Inspectors
drove to the crook's residence. They arrested him less than two
hours after the robbery, with the evidence in plain sight on the
kitchen table.


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[**DONOTDELETE**]

Once, America issued a 5-cent bill.
***
These are actual peoples' names:
Ure A. Pigg
Ima Hogg
Serious Misconduct
General Error
Dr. Safety First
Pearl Harbor
Honor Roll
***
There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible ways to play the opening moves in a game of chess. (That's 170 septillion.)


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"Say you don't love him, my salamander"--
Paul McCartney, "Getting Closer"

[SleepyHead]

A Denton, Texas man was arrested for filing a false
police report after he called 911 to report his own
murder. The man told the operator he had been
"murdered, beaten, possibly kidnapped and thrown
down on a bed of spikes." Police found the man a
short time later, still on the convenience store pay-phone
he had used to make the call.


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[SleepyHead]

A pot farmer in Franklin, Tennessee was undone by his ego.
The man had some marijuana plants growing and he took
a few 35-millimeter shots to show to his friends. Unfortunately
for the suspect, one of the photo experts at the photo shop
recognized the plants in the pictures and made a call to police.


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[SleepyHead]

Two thieves caused several thousand dollars damage to a
funeral home in Arab, Alabama recently while trying to steal
gas from a van parked outside the building. The pair had used
a knife to cut a hole in the van's fuel tank and were draining the
gas into a container. The plan "blew apart" when one of the
thieves lit a cigarette lighter so they could see how much gas
they had gotten.


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[SleepyHead]

A group of drug smugglers hatched a plan to empty the tank
of a propane truck and use it to smuggle six thousand pounds
of marijuana across the border from Mexico into Texas. Though
clever the men were not too bright. They were caught because
they misspelled the name of the gas company they had painted
on the side of the truck.


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[SleepyHead]

A teenager is suing Chrysler Corp. after his friends put a hot
french fry down his shirt, causing him to jump in front of his car
and get run over by it. He can't win. Written in plain english on
the front of the car is "Dodge".

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[SleepyHead]

The LA City Council voted to virtually eliminate all outdoor
advertising for tobacco products. Oddly, outdoors is the only
place people are permitted to smoke anymore.


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[SleepyHead]

Recently revealed statistics indicate that Hyundai, Kia and
Yugo drivers are involved in the fewest accidents. Some of
the reasons are, they tend to drive slower, and the car is
usually in the shop.


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[SleepyHead]

In Arizona, a fence contractor accidentally put barbed wire
around a high school instead of a chain link fence. It was an
understandable mistake - he was from L.A.


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[SleepyHead]

A small bird flew into the cockpit of a United Airlines plane at
Dulles International, causing a three hour delay for a flight full
of London bound travelers. Oddly, their luggage arrived in
Tokyo on time.


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[SleepyHead]

HILARIOUS HEADLINES

After Detour to California Shuttle Returns to Earth
(crew had to stop at a Starbucks first, I guess!!)

Boy Declared Dead, Revives as Family Protests

Dead Coyote Found in Bronx Launches Search for its Mate

42% of All Murdered Women are Killed by the Same Man

National Hunting Group Targeting Women (oh, really??)

Fire Officials Grilled over Kerosene Heaters

Police Can't Stop Gambling

Youth Hit by Car Riding Bicycle

Hostage-Taker Kills self; Police Shoot Each Other

Check With Doctors Before Getting Sick

Police Kill Youth in Effort to Stop His Suicide Attempt


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[SleepyHead]

DO THEY MEAN WHAT THEY SAY???

A sign in a Maine restaurant.....
"Open seven days a week and weekends."

A sign on a restroom hand dryer at a Chicago airport.....
"Do not activate with wet hands." (Yeah, right.)

In a New York restaurant - "Customers who find our
waitresses rude ought to see the manager."

In downtown Boston - "Callahan Tunnel - NO END."

On a poster on a telephone pole in Oregon.....
"Are you an adult that cannot read? If so, we can help."

On a Tennessee highway......
"Take notice: when this sign is under water, this road is
impassable."

In the window of an Oregon general store.....
"Why go elsewhere to be cheated, when you can come here?"


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[SleepyHead]

In Ireland, wearing a Halloween costume could result
in up to one year in prison.


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[SleepyHead]

No children may attend school with their breath
smelling of "wild onions" in West Virginia.


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[SleepyHead]

You must pay a fine of $600 in Thailand if you're caught
throwing away chewed bubblegum on the sidewalk.
If you do not pay the fine, you are jailed.

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[SleepyHead]

In Fairbanks, Alaska, it is illegal to give alcoholic
beverages to a moose.

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[SleepyHead]

New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the
upcoming season..."I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards,
whichever comes first."


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[SleepyHead]

"You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle."
-- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach


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[SleepyHead]

Shaquille O'Neal, on his lack of championships: "I've won at
every level, except college and pro."


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[SleepyHead]

Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player, explaining
to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice:
"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to
be an uncle or an aunt."


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[SleepyHead]

Steve Spurrier, Florida football coach, telling Gator fans that a
fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books: "But the
real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet."


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[SleepyHead]

Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach,
John Jenkins: "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."


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[SleepyHead]

"I like Yorkshire terriers. They're good to wash your car
with. They fit right in the bucket." --Billiam Coronel

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[**DONOTDELETE**]

A phesent can live w/o eating for one whole month.

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"Say you don't love him, my salamander"--
Paul McCartney, "Getting Closer"

[**DONOTDELETE**]

In 1955, a book was returned to Cambridge University Library 288 years overdue.

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"Say you don't love him, my salamander"--
Paul McCartney, "Getting Closer"

[SleepyHead]

The Belle of the Blue beauty pageant in Georgetown, Ky.,
was marred when a Georgetown College official forcibly ejected a
contestant, freshman Keaton Lynch Brown, 18, during a rehearsal. It
started with "tension" over Brown's talent demonstration: a dancing
lasso routine where she roped a stuffed pig. "There was some
controversy over whether her talent was ladylike," sniffed another
contestant. Student activities director Kathy Wallace allegedly
dragged
Brown down some stairs during the rehearsal. She was put on paid
leave
by the school and charged with assault. Before the incident, pageant
contestants voted Brown "Miss Congeniality". (AP)

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[SleepyHead]

"We will be careful not to infringe on people's privacy,"
says
a spokesman for the Tokyo, Japan, police. The department has
installed
scores of surveillance cameras in the Kabukicho entertainment area,
notorious for its "red light district." Prostitution is illegal in
Japan. The number of cameras in the zone is said to be about 40 times
the average in the rest of the city. (Reuters)

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[SleepyHead]

Police in Madeira Beach, Fla., were
called to a fight between two fishermen. Pinellas County sheriff's
deputies say that Garth Spacek, 42, was beating Frank J. Ashmus, 46,
over the head with a beer bottle. Ashmus struck back by stabbing
Spacek
-- with the bill of a dead swordfish. He was reported in fair
condition
in a local hospital. Both men were arrested. "We don't see this kind
of
thing very often," a sheriff's spokeswoman said. (St. Petersburg
Times,
Reuters)

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[SleepyHead]

Assistant professor Rod Yellon at Canada's University of
Manitoba
got a ticket for running a stop sign, but he avoided a court
conviction
for four years by winning at least eight postponements to his trial.
Yellon argued stop signs were unconstitutional because the word
"stop"
is "vague". He also tried to argue that stop signs don't have
"standards and frequencies of calibration, performance and testing."
After missing a court appearance, he said that his mind had been
"sucked into a black hole," making him forget his court date. When he
recently tried for another delay, Judge Murray Howell refused the
motion. Yellon walked out on court proceedings and was convicted in
absentia on the testimony of the officers who had ticketed him.
Yellon
teaches foreign policy analysis and decision making. (Canadian Press)

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[SleepyHead]

"National Slacker
Day May Be Too Much Effort" -- Reuters headline


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[SleepyHead]

Retired Marine Corps Gen. Joseph J. Foss, 86, arrived
at
the airport in Phoenix, Ariz., to fly to the east coast, but was
stopped by airport security because he was carrying something the
security screeners apparently deemed suspicious: a Congressional
Medal
of Honor. "I kept explaining that it was the highest medal you can
receive from the military in this country, but nobody listened,"
Foss,
the former governor of South Dakota, says. "They just didn't know
what
it was but they acted like I shouldn't be carrying it." He got it in
1943 from President Franklin Roosevelt after shooting down 26 enemy
planes in the Pacific. "It states all that stuff on the back of the
medal." So why was he carrying the medal? "I had it with me this time
to show to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point" --
where
he was going to make a speech. (Washington Times)

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[SleepyHead]

U.S. Representative John Dingell, 75,
flies a lot, but came under special scrutiny when he tried to fly
home
from Washington, D.C., to Michigan, since he was wearing a knee
brace,
has surgically implanted pins in his ankles, and a metal hip.
Security
screeners forced the congressman to remove his shoes, socks, knee
brace, and pants, and ran a metal detector over his boxer shorts. "I
complied, but tried to do it with some small bit of dignity," he
said.
He never told the screener he was a congressman because " I don't
want
any special treatment." (Washington Post)

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[SleepyHead]

Edward Christopher was at his bank in
Stockton,
Calif., when two men came in and robbed it. As they tried to escape,
Christopher, 76, jumped the men and managed to rip open the bags they
were using to carry their loot, spilling most of it on the floor. The
men escaped with an undisclosed amount of money. A World War II
veteran
who experienced hand-to-hand combat, Christopher explained "I was
trained to kill and I've never been deprogrammed." (AP)

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[SleepyHead]

An unnamed 58-year-old woman in Fullerton, Calif., was getting
into
her car when a man demanded her keys. She could see a gun tucked into
his waistband. "Just a minute," the woman told the carjacker, "let me
take my stuff out of the trunk." When she opened the back, she pulled
out a cane "and started whomping on him," a police investigator said.
"She's a tough lady." The man fled without bothering to pull his gun.
(AP)

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[SleepyHead]

"Study: Alcohol May Prevent
Dementia" -- AP headline


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[SleepyHead]

The mountain community of Georgetown, Colo., is
reeling over a scandal involving mayor Koleen Brooks. Just as a
meeting
of the Board of Selectmen was to convene, Brooks was issued a
citation
charging her with disorderly conduct after allegedly exposing her
breasts at a bar in town. Brooks, 37 and a former stripper, concedes
that she has exposed herself in bars in the past, but says she has
not
done so since being elected. A lie, says assistant director of public
works Howard Kimbrel. "There is no doubt that she did," he told the
Board. "I saw them with my own eyes." (Denver Rocky Mountain News)


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[SleepyHead]

Andrew Whiston was upset when a billboard was
erected on the side of his apartment building, right over his window.
"I have left it there for over 12 months but enough was enough," said
the London, England, music video director, so he cut a window in the
advert so he could see out. " I had almost forgotten what the view
looked like," he said afterward. The billboard carried an ad for
Microsoft Windows. (London Telegraph)

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[SleepyHead]

A sheriff's deputy in Santa Cruz,
Calif., noticed a car weaving down the road and pulled it over. The
driver wasn't intoxicated, he was 12 years old. "He was weaving
because
he couldn't see over the dashboard," said Kim Allyn, the department's
spokesman, noting the boy "was no taller than 4 feet. The deputy
thought he had a drunk driver, but he ended up with a punk driver."
The
boy's reaction to being told he was under arrest? "Boy! My girlfriend
is going to be mad at me!" The car turned out to be stolen. "I think
he's going to be grounded for the rest of his natural life," Allyn
said, marveling at the kid's audacity. "This guy has already got a
girlfriend, he's got a car -- even though it's not his -- and he's
got
bleached hair. It's way beyond 12-year-old behavior." (San Francisco
Chronicle)

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[SleepyHead]

Tracy Vickers of St.
Petersburg, Fla., was sitting in his car at a gas station waiting for
the car in front of him to move. A man got out of that car and came
over to his window and asked the time. When he looked away to check,
"he reaches in the window, snags my chain and says, 'Gotcha',"
Vickers
said. "That made me mad." The gold chain is worth about $1,000. The
man
sped off with Vickers in hot pursuit. At one point the getaway car
took
a sharp turn and "was pretty much on two wheels," so Vickers "just
gave
him [a] nudge" which rolled the fleeing car over. Vickers bashed
through the driver's window and yanked the man out. "About the third
time I kneed him in the face, he threw the chain," said the 6-foot,
280-pound Vickers. Officers suggested that his actions were "not
recommended by police," but didn't charge him with any crime. (St.
Petersburg Times)

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[SleepyHead]

"You Can't Buy Love, but Euro
Brings
Cheaper Sex" -- Reuters headline


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[SleepyHead]

Russ and Sandy Asbury were alone at their home in
Whitewater, Wis., when they heard a toilet flush. "I didn't know if
we
had ghosts or what," Russ said. "I couldn't imagine who or what was
flushing the toilet." Sandy quickly figured it out: their cat, Boots,
was pulling the handle with its paw. Since then their other cat,
Bandit, has picked up the trick. "We have to shut the bathroom door
when we go to bed. Otherwise, one or the other of the cats are in
there
flushing away all night," Russ says, adding the water and sewer bills
are getting so high "the cats are going to have to get a job." (AP)

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[SleepyHead]

The rate of violent street crime in London, England,
is about double that of New York City, but it's not all that bad, say
British politicians. The public's fear of crime is really due, they
say, to signs the police put out asking for witnesses to come
forward.
They argue the yellow signs reading "Murder", "Rape" or "Armed
Robbery"
are so numerous they're scaring people. One town council "was so
concerned it asked local officers to stop using the signs and wanted
to
be consulted before any more were used," but police say the signs are
vital to getting information to help solve crimes. (Reuters)

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[SleepyHead]

An honor student is fighting the "zero tolerance"
weapons policy at his school. Taylor Hess, 16, who has never even
been
in detention before, was expelled for a year from L.D. Bell High
School
in Hurst, Texas, after a bread knife was found in the bed of his
parked
pickup truck. "At no point did I have any idea that knife was in my
truck," Hess says. The knife had apparently fallen out of a box he
had
delivered to a charity the night before. Not relevant, says the
school,
even though the local police refuse to press charges because Hess was
not in legal possession of the knife. Principal Jim Short agrees that
Hess has been "an exemplary student," but "zero tolerance makes you
feel you lose your judgment you might otherwise be able to afford."
(Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)

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[SleepyHead]

"Italian Plane Passengers See Flames, Vote to
Land"
-- Reuters headline


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[SleepyHead]

When Robert K. Sites III, 37, arrived at work at
Brentwood Middle School in Pensacola, Fla., school officials noticed
he
was "in an agitated and nervous state," had dilated pupils and
"rambling, unfocused" speech. School officials ordered a drug test,
which came back at 50 times the cutoff for a positive indication of
cocaine. He was fired, but he appealed to his union, which filed a
grievance. An arbitrator has ruled that the school district must
rehire
Sites at full pay and benefits. Then Sites must see a substance abuse
counselor, complete a rehabilitation program, and may return to work
if
he then tests negative for drugs. "We are expelling kids for taking
aspirin," complained school superintendent Jim Paul. "To think we
would
have to take someone back into a school...who has been proven to take
cocaine is an outrage." However, counters a union spokesman, "There
is
nowhere in board policy, law or contract where zero tolerance for
employees is referenced." (Pensacola News Journal)

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[SleepyHead]

The Town of Niagra, N.Y., has identified a significant fire
danger: one of its two fire departments. The entire squad of Niagara
Fire Company No. 1 was suspended by the town after an audit by an
independent expert determined the squad's practices present "an
imminent danger to themselves, the town's other fire company and town
residents." Town Supervisor Steven C. Richards said the board of
supervisors will allow the fire company to continue its training
efforts. (Buffalo News)

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[SleepyHead]

Dale Rooks, a crossing guard at Suter Elementary School in
Pensacola, Fla., made news when he tried to fool speeding motorists
into slowing down by wrapping an old hair dryer with black electrical
tape to make it look like a radar gun.
Inspired, a group of fifth-graders at the school set up a lemonade
stand and used the proceeds to buy Rooks a real radar gun. "It looks
just like a hair dryer," he said. (AP)

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[SleepyHead]

NXT in Cambridge, England, has introduced its first
product: $45 stereo speakers that are made out of cardboard, designed
for people who give parties and are afraid guests might ruin their
more
expensive loudspeakers. But that's not the company's ultimate dream.
They hope to be able to produce speakers so cheaply that companies
can
install them in their packaging. That way, manufacturers will be able
to play commercials from the packages to people walking down store
aisles. "Cornflake packets will come when we have the right
material,"
a company spokesman said. (AFP)

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[SleepyHead]

Ketchup
maker H.J. Heinz Company, which now sells its sauce in green and
purple
as well as the natural red, is looking for more things to pour
ketchup
on. It turned to its subsidiary, Ore-Ida, maker of Tater Tots and
frozen french fries. "We asked the kids what would make them want to
eat more french fries," said company spokesman John Carroll. The
result, coming soon to your grocer's freezer: "Cinna-Stiks" (fries
laced with cinnamon and sugar) and "Cocoa Crispers"
(chocolate-flavored
fries) "for kids with a sweet tooth." But don't worry: after testing,
extra-sugar fat-laden potatoes flavored like Froot Loops cereal were
rejected. (AP)

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[SleepyHead]

"You Can't Help Being a
Grumpy
Old Sourpuss, It's How Your Brain Is" -- London Observer headline


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[SleepyHead]

A 22-year-old Texas man, Kristopher Huie, wanted to go "wherever the
train takes me" was arrested when a stubborn brake stopped his efforts
to steal a freight train. He was able to board the train and start the
engines, but had trouble with releasing the brake, so he radioed the
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[SleepyHead]

Airlines have responded to terrorist attacks with
myriad new security measures. Australia's Qantaslink "cordoned off"
an
airliner after a passenger spotted white powder -- on a pastry
included
with his in-flight meal. Meanwhile, Northwest Airlines has announced
it
will no longer serve powdered coffee creamer or artificial sweeteners
with coffee to combat the fear of anthrax bioterrorism. "We did this
to
reduce the unnecessary delays and concern that false alarms relating
to
white powdery substances are causing our customers," claims airline
spokesman Kurt Ebenhoch. While passengers would still be allowed to
bring their own sugar substitutes, "we'd rather they didn't."
(Australian AP, New York Times)

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[SleepyHead]

"We all want to stick to our routines and not
give
into fear," announced Jane Amari, editor and publisher of the Arizona
Daily Star newspaper. However, she adds, the paper has decided it
would
be "prudent" to "reduce the volume of mail we receive in envelopes
and
boxes." And how might they do that? Effective immediately, the paper
will no longer accept letters to the editor through the mail. E-mails
and faxes are fine, but paper letters are only accepted if delivered
by
hand -- and only if they're not in an envelope. (Reuters)

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[SleepyHead]

Police in the Slovak Republic were worried
at
first -- a woman called to say she had received an unsolicited, thick
envelope in the mail. Then the calls started coming by the dozens.
"Many people called police and civil defense specialists, who had to
check the envelopes," a police spokesman said. Investigation found
that
an ad agency hired by Proctor & Gamble had sent 70,000 of the
envelopes
out with a free sample. "Who would guess immediately that there could
be something as innocent as a maxi-pad inside?" The campaign brought
similar results in the Czech Republic. (Reuters)

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[SleepyHead]

Health authorities all over the world are inundated
with
reports of "suspicious powder". The Times of India, noting hundreds
of
unfounded reports, headlined with the best advice: "Relax, it Could
Be
Just Talcum Powder". In Kansas, a woman called police to say anthrax
had been dropped on her car from an airplane -- it was bird
droppings.
The American Express office in Bahrain called for help when someone
found powder -- powdered milk. A mail center in England was evacuated
after powder was found there -- candy crushed by a sorting machine.
And
in Linwood, Ohio, a man called 911 after he found an envelope on his
desk was full of powder ...left by his only employee as a joke. The
employee was not only fired, but arrested: he faces 15 months in
prison
on felony charges of "inducing panic". (Various)

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[SleepyHead]

"Court Rules Against SHTHPNS [Auto License] Plate"

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[SleepyHead]

The Vatican
has announced plans to "rewrite" the Bible, adding information from
the
Dead Sea scrolls about the "life and times" of Jesus as a "political
activist". This won't cause consternation among believers around the
world, says one Biblical scholar. "There has never been a settled,
definitive version of the Bible," explains Dr. Martyn Percy of
England's Sheffield University. "Only fundamentalists think it came
in
a fax from heaven." (Manchester Guardian)

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[SleepyHead]

Kansas State Senator Kay
O'Connor admits she doesn't think women should have the right to
vote.
When asked by the Johnson County League of Women Voters to attend the
League's "Celebrate the Right to Vote" luncheon, she told the group
"You probably wouldn't want me there because of what I would have to
say." And what would that be? "I'm an old-fashioned woman," the nine-
year senator says. "Men should take care of women, and if men were
taking care of women we wouldn't have to vote." She told a reporter
that women should stay home and raise families, rather than being
"forced" to vote and serve in the legislature. Women have had the
right
to vote in the U.S. since 1920. (AP)

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[SleepyHead]

Oak Brook, Ill., Aramark
employee Nolan Lett, 57, was hurt trying to enter his office
building.
He tried to get in one door, but two Canada geese blocked his way. He
went to another door, and a third goose blocked him. "It started
acting
crazy," Lett said. "I tried to hurry in the building, but it flew at
my
face. It was very ferocious." As he turned to run, he fell and broke
his wrist. Aramark refused to pay his worker's compensation claim for
the injury, so he sued. However, his attorney couldn't find any
similar
cases on which to base their claim -- the closest case was a security
guard who was hit by a stray bullet in a bad neighborhood. When
attorney Steven Dyki argued that Lett's building "was a 'high-goose'
area, as opposed to a high-crime area," Aramark settled the case for
$17,767.54. (Chicago Sun-Times)

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[SleepyHead]

"Intelligence Seen As Essential Tool" -- AP headline

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[SleepyHead]

Detrick Washington, 25, was at his business partner's San
Francisco, Calif., home office when two men forced their way in. The
robbers got $3,000 from the safe, but figured there must be more and
beat and cut their victims to get them to talk. "I'll go and kill the
kids and that girl if you don't give me the rest of the money," one
of
the robbers said. While they ransacked the home, Washington saw his
chance: one robber put his gun down, and Washington grabbed it. When
the robber lunged at him, Washington shot him. He then handed the gun
to his partner to cover the other robber and went to call police.
"Stay
down! Don't move! Don't get up!" his friend told the second robber
after Washington left the room. Then Washington heard, "He's getting
up, he's getting up!" and a shot rang out -- the second robber was
killed too. "He took a chance. I believe we could call him a hero,"
police Inspector Armand Gordon said. Washington "basically saved five
people's lives, including his own" by grabbing the gun. Police ruled
the shooting justified, yet Washington is in jail: he is on parole
from
a previous drug conviction, and parole rules say parolees cannot
"possess" a firearm. Because Washington grabbed the robber's gun, he
was in "possession" of the weapon and violated his parole. (San
Francisco Chronicle) ...And here you thought "zero tolerance" was
only
for school kids.


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[SleepyHead]

Gunilla Gonon-Sabelstrom of Sweden knew what happened to
her
two 500-crown (US$47) bills: her dog Tassilla ate them. The hard part
was getting them back. Both ...um... appeared the next day. "They are
slightly yellow," Gonon-Sabelstrom says. "I think I'll iron them."
(Reuters)

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[SleepyHead]

Police in El Paso, Texas, arrested Dale Smith, 47, after he
became unruly in a bar. When a waitress refused to serve him any more
liquor, he allegedly burned her with his cigarette, then pulled out
an
air pistol and threatened her with it. The threat became a bit
hollow,
however, when his arm fell off -- it was a prosthetic and it
clattered
to the floor, the gun still clutched in its hand. (El Paso Times)


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[SleepyHead]

Police in Brechin, Ont., Canada, made a huge haul
of
marijuana, netting 20,000 plants -- 50 truckloads. Deciding it was
too
much to burn, they buried it at a landfill. Big mistake. "The first
night, there were 35 guys out there," said a head shop owner. Once
word
spread, "there were whole rows of guys with shovels digging it up all
night and hauling it away in trucks." Police finally wised up and
started arresting people at the dump, charging them with possession
of
marijuana and possession of stolen property. (Toronto Star)

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[SleepyHead]

When an unnamed man's friend was sentenced to jail in a
drunk driving case in Stockholm, Sweden, he volunteered to serve the
jail time for him. "I wanted to go to jail to stop myself from
drinking
for a few weeks," the 51-year-old man said. "My pal didn't think it
would work. He agreed to let me try. I borrowed his ID card and
identified myself as him at the prison." The ruse was discovered
after
two weeks. His friend has been ordered to report for his full jail
term, and the man has been convicted of perjury and impersonation.
(Reuters)

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[SleepyHead]

The City Council in Southampton, England, was going to chop
down a 60-year-old tree until local residents protested. After the
Council decided to save the tree, it announced the decision by
writing
a letter. To the tree. Posted to the tree's trunk, it started "Dear
The
Tree," and explained the tree has been issued a temporary
preservation
order. A Council spokesman said the letter was a "standard legalistic
device" and that "addressing the letter 'Dear The Tree' ensures that
a
preservation order covers it." The letter advised the tree that any
further comments or suggestions regarding its fate must be made in
writing. (London Mirror)

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[SleepyHead]

British ghost "expert" Tony Cornell says sightings
of
ghosts have declined in past years, and he thinks he knows why.
"Until
three years ago we'd receive reports of two new ghosts every week,"
Cornell says. "But with the introduction of mobile phones 15 years
ago,
ghost sightings began to decline to the point where now we are
receiving none." He says electronic fields from wireless phone calls
and text messages are killing the spirits. (Reuters)

Nah, probably just too busy on the phone to pay attention... like drivers...

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[**DONOTDELETE**]

Add the number of letters in each playing card:

Ace (3), One (3), Two (3), Three (5), Four (4), Five (5), Six (3), Seven (5), Eight (5),
Nine (4), Ten (3), Jack (4), Queen (5), and King (4).

You get 52, the exact amount of cards in the deck.

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[**DONOTDELETE**]

1 in every 8 working adults has worked at McDonalds.

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[SleepyHead]

The September 11 terrorist attacks present an
"opportunity" for churches to evangelize, says the Rev. Jerry
Falwell.
Addressing the Florida Baptist Pastors' Conference in Lakeland, Fla.,
he urged churches to "strike while the iron is hot. Whatever we can
do
to reach people that doesn't violate scripture, we do it." Falwell
also
said that even Osama bin Laden could be saved, if only he converted
to
Christianity. "I had a student ask me, 'Could the savior you believe
in
save Osama bin Laden?' Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ
can
save him," he told the group. And then what? "And then he must be
executed." (Lakeland Ledger)

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[SleepyHead]

On an overnight British Airways flight from Phoenix,
Ariz., to London, an American man and a British woman were disturbing
other passengers because they were too "noisy" while sharing a fully
reclining seat. After flight attendants asked them to "keep it down,"
the couple, who were believed to have not known each other before the
flight, went back to their own seats. "We certainly would not
encourage
this sort of behavior," said a British Airways spokesman, who
couldn't
help but add a marketing message to his statement: "They obviously
found our Club Class seats extremely comfortable." (PA)

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[SleepyHead]

Professor Brian Pronger of the
University of Toronto, Canada, has received a C$145,000 (US$110,000)
grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council to
catalogue and research a gigantic new collection donated to the
university -- a pornography collection: 500 books, 800 magazines,
2,000
videos, 300 computer CDs, plus academic studies and court
transcripts.
"The collection tells us a lot about our society now," says Pronger,
a
professor of Physical Education, "but think of its value to
researchers
50 or 100 years from now. It will be like going into the ruins of
Pompeii." The collection is quite varied, he says, with titles
ranging
from "Spank Your Buddy" to "Velvet" magazine. "Some of it is from
Italy
and goes back to the earliest days of filmmaking. There's one that
I'm
guessing is from 1910 or 1915 because it's very jerky." (Toronto
Star)

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[SleepyHead]

An unidentified man in Wichita, Kan.,
checked into an emergency room because he couldn't get the wire coat
hanger out of his throat. As best he could with a hanger stuck in his
throat, the man explained he had accidentally swallowed a cocaine-
filled balloon that "someone" had slipped into his drink, and he
straightened out a coat hanger to fish it out. He apparently got the
balloon out, but then couldn't remove the hanger. A friend took him
to
the hospital. Police say that if the cocaine is ever found, the man
could be charged with drug possession. (Wichita Eagle)

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[SleepyHead]

"Publication of Dead Sea Scrolls Completed" --
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[SleepyHead]

The ABC TV network accuses Fox of stealing their new idea.
"The
Chair" (ABC's show) and "The Chamber" (Fox's) are both quiz shows.
"Chair", hosted by former tennis champion John McEnroe, hooks a heart
monitor to contestants. If they fail to keep their pulse rate down,
they lose. On "Chamber", contestants are put into a booth and asked
questions while suffering from "environmental stimulants" -- loud
noises or shocking pictures -- and lose if their hearts race. ABC has
filed suit against Fox to stop "Chamber", and Fox has counter-sued.
(AP)

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[SleepyHead]

After 13 years, the industry group Phonographic
Performance Malaysia has announced it is changing its name to Public
Performance Malaysia. The licensing and royalty board says it has to
change its name because people don't know what a "phonograph" is
anymore and think the first word of the name is "Pornographic". PPM's
head, Tan Ngiap Foo, said he was tired of people asking why he ran
such
a "dirty" organization. "I have clients who purposely write PPM
checks
as 'Photographic Performance Malaysia' just to avoid phonographic,"
he
said. The organization's board of directors decided to change the
name
rather than continue to suggest critics needed to consult a
dictionary
before making accusations. (Malaysia Star)

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[SleepyHead]

The United Parcel Service is
threatening to sue California-based BeProud, a "leading retailer of
gay
products," over the retailer's newest addition to its "American
Heroes"
action figure line: the $49.95 "Billy Parcel Service" doll. "This
particular product is a very clear infringement on our trademark,"
complained a UPS spokesman. "It's not a generic policeman. It's not a
generic fireman. It's very explicitly a UPS delivery man and that's
an
unacceptable use of our brand." The courier's lawyer notes that the
product is advertised as "'anatomically complete' and ...is
grotesquely
so." BeProud says UPS "should be flattered." (National Post Canada)


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[SleepyHead]

David Ruppert, 21, stopped by the York County, Pa.,
Prison to visit Robert Haley, 18, who was being held on robbery
charges. Ruppert had thought he was in the clear, even though he was
also involved in the robbery, police say. "He probably went there to
find out if Haley was gonna rat on him," said West Manchester
Township
Police Detective Jeffrey Snell. Police looking for Ruppert were told
he
had gone to the prison to visit Haley. "As he was walking out, he was
taken down," Snell says. He is now being held there on $500,000 bail.
(York Dispatch)

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[SleepyHead]

Michael Anthone Jacobs, 18,
allegedly
committed a string of robberies in Mesa, Ariz. But things didn't go
particularly well, witnesses say. At the first, he dropped his gun --
and it broke. At the second, he had to pause during his getaway to
use
an asthma inhaler. On his third, he found his keys locked inside his
getaway car. Once he drove away, he was pulled over by the police
because he was driving at night without his headlights. He was
arrested
and charged with three robberies, and is a suspect in two others.
(AP)


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[SleepyHead]

Two University of Maine students charged with indecent
conduct for streaking near school defended themselves in court.
Kathryn
Mann, 21, and Debra Ballou, 20, argued before District Court Judge
Jesse Gunther in Bangor that the law specifies that violations are a
result of perpetrators who "knowingly expose their genitals in
public."
Ballou asked the arresting officer if he "saw my genitalia." Orono
Police officer John Ewing answered, "Not that I recall." Ballou
rested
her case. The female judge, noting that female genitalia are
"primarily
internal," dismissed the charges for lack of evidence. (Bangor Daily
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[SleepyHead]

The supervisors of the Township of Locust, Pa., have
unanimously passed a new ordinance banning public nudity in the town
limits, including "the showing of covered male genitals in a
discernible turgid state." Township attorney Todd Kerstetter promises
that the law would not apply to "normal occurrences." however. The
law
is simply "meant to go a little further to expand the definition of
nudity," he says. (Bloomsburg Press Enterprise)

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[SleepyHead]

Fifth-grader Paul Volz, 11, dealt
with his fear of terrorism through art, drawing the burning World
Trade
Center towers. He was proud of his work: he taped the picture up near
his study cubicle at school in High Ridge, Mo. "When I asked him why
he
did this, he just looked at me and smiled," said North Jefferson
Intermediate School principal Jeff Boyer. "This is totally
inappropriate and Paul's behavior has to change," he told the boy's
parents. Boyer suspended the boy for three days for smiling at the
drawing on grounds it was "disruptive physical conduct or speech" and
"communication of a threatening nature." The school district supports
the principal, noting "Some drawings can be therapeutic and others
can
be offensive." (St Louis Post-Dispatch) ..."We have met the enemy and
he is us." --Walt Kelly (1913-1973), American cartoonist and social
commentator.


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[SleepyHead]

Disneyland has taken away the guns used to "shoot"
a
rampaging hippo on the Jungle Cruise ride, park officials confirm, as
well as removed from sale toy guns in Frontierland and Adventureland,
"space-age" toy guns in Tomorrowland, and depictions of rifles from
Tom
Sawyer Island, citing the need to "keep up with today's
sensibilities."
The Jungle Cruise boat captains don't even call attention to the
charging hippo anymore. The move was applauded by People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals, with a spokeswoman noting that shooting
blanks at a mechanical hippopotamus is "really a form of animal
cruelty." (Los Angeles Times)

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[SleepyHead]

J.P. Parshall's landlord was going to cut down a tree in his
yard in Lacey, Wash. "I was sitting there one day and thinking, 'I
know
what I can make out of that'," Parshall said. "I told him to leave a
7-
or 8-foot section" and then carved the remains into a giant phallus.
He
says most passerby like the carving, but a few have complained to the
sheriff, who refuses to take action. "We don't have a county
ordinance
that I know of that says you can't carve your tree into a penis,"
says
Thurston County Sheriff Capt. Dan Kimball. Some people have stopped
to
salute the carving, since Parshall has mounted two American flags on
the top. But come rainy season, he says, the flags will be replaced
with a giant condom "to promote safe sex." (AP)

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[SleepyHead]

Several police officers in Denver, Colo., say
they
saw a city janitor argue with his boss -- and then watched as he left
carrying a steam cleaner and a vacuum cleaner out through the police
department's front door. Robert Martinez, 45, "told his supervisor
that
he was taking them next door to the city and county building," an
officer said, but when he came back and loaded up two computers and
carried them out, too, they decided to follow him. Martinez was
arrested two blocks from the station after he passed the turn to the
city and county building. (Denver Rocky Mountain News)

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[SleepyHead]

Lillie Clouse, 80, was
obviously tired of her Toledo, Ohio, neighbors playing music too
loud.
She demanded the man across the street turn down his radio. Police
say
that when he refused, she went home and got her shotgun and fired a
round from her porch. She managed to hit two children who were
standing
nearby, but because the shotgun shell was 42 years old, it had lost
its
power and the pellets didn't even pierce the kids' clothing. Clouse
was
arrested and jailed, charged with felonious assault. (Toledo Blade)

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[SleepyHead]

John Deraimo, 41, Kyle
Worthen,
22, and brothers Mark, 34, and Joe Sutherland, 22, were arrested
after
fighting with two other men. When police arrived -- finding several
of
the men duking it out in the water -- Worthern and the Sutherlands
tried to escape in a sport fishing boat, but hit a rock and sank.
"They
abandoned their boat and started swimming," says Block Island, R.I.,
Police Chief William McCombe. "When they arrived on shore, they were
met by the police." The men were fighting, he says, "over a $12
plastic
chair that didn't belong to any of them." (Providence Journal)


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[SleepyHead]

David Gamble was at work at the Hum Hardware and
General Store in North Little Rock, Ark., when clerk Shannon Hindman
came up to him to say, "There's somebody up front who's trying to
cash
your [income tax] refund check." Hindman said Waymon O'Neal, 55, had
presented the $300 check with Gamble's name on it to pay for a small
purchase. "Of course I recognized the name, so I found David and told
him." Several employees held O'Neal for the police. "It's obvious
this
guy didn't do his homework," a police spokesman said. (AP)

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[SleepyHead]

Joel Demmon, 6, of Bellingham, Wash., loves Santa
Claus. Not like most kids his age: this is the third year Joel has
dressed up as the Jolly Old Elf to give away hundreds of small
wrapped
presents, such as the toys he gets with fast food meals. This year,
he
headed for the local mall to spread holiday cheer to shoppers. Bug
off,
Bellis Fair mall's assistant marketing director Cara Buckingham told
him -- they already had a Santa and the boy was "competitive," she
told
his parents. "He cried on the way out of the mall," said his mother,
Tracey. "He doesn't understand why he can't give away presents."
(Bellingham Herald)

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[SleepyHead]

Mall security officers in Colma, Calif., called police
when they spotted two men trying to break into a locked car with a
coat
hanger. Investigating officers say they found that John Mack, 50, and
Charles Mitchell, 44, had been stealing from stores and came out to
their getaway car to find that they had locked their keys inside.
Police Chief Bruce Tognetti told reporters that the two were "being
stupid in public. It's almost like watching The Three Stooges. But
instead, there's just two of them." (San Mateo County Times)


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[SleepyHead]

An officer of the American State Bank in Lubbock, Texas,
caught on to a fraud scheme after he noticed a customer's company
name
was "Dewey, Cheatham and Howe" -- the comical name of a fictional law
firm from The Three Stooges movies. "It did seem just a bit unusual
for
a company name," said banker John Reed. "Evidently, he fooled a lot
of
people." Indeed, Patrick Michael Penker, 54, of Arkansas managed to
open more than 100 lines of credit and stole at least $1 million,
which
he was trying to launder through the bank. (Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal)


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[SleepyHead]

Alfalfa sprouts, common on salad bars,
contribute to health. Bad health, that is. "Sprouts can be a
hazardous
food," says Dr. Janet C. Mohle-Boetani of the California Department
of
Health's Division of Communicable Disease Control. "Seeds can be
contaminated before sprouting, and no method can eliminate all
[contamination] from seeds." After studying multiple outbreaks of
salmonellosis and one outbreak of E. coli O157 in California,
researchers found that alfalfa and clover sprouts were responsible
for
half, sickening nearly 23,000 people. Washing them doesn't help, they
warn, since "bacteria on the seed surface can become internalized
during sprouting." (Reuters)

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[SleepyHead]

Dropping water levels in the South Saskatchewan
River near Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, revealed a rock formation
that a local Indian group said could have "spiritual meaning" for
native cultures. But after photos of the formation were printed in
newspapers, Sara Burd came forward to refute the claims. "That's not
an
ancient Indian burial site," she said, her dad built it "because my
mother left him and he had a broken heart." Meanwhile, Sweden's
Bohuslan Museum's display of a "500-year-old stone labyrinth" was
revealed to be the work of two 11-year-old boys. Thomas Karlen showed
museum researcher Kersting Olson how he and a friend made the
labyrinth
in 1974 during a vacation to the island of Makholmen after being
inspired by a similar labyrinth in another museum. (Medicine Hat
News,
PA)

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[SleepyHead]

A gas station cashier in Raleigh, N.C., says Mark D. Fisher,
46, bought 49 cents' worth of gasoline, which he put into a plastic
bottle, and asked for a pack of matches. Then, police say, he walked
over to the parking garage at the building where he works, set fire
to
his girlfriend's brand new car, and jumped over a wall to escape the
flames. In his hurry, Fisher forgot that there was a two-storey drop
on
the other side of the wall. When he gets out of intensive care, he
faces numerous criminal charges. Fisher had argued with his
girlfriend
over what kind of car she should buy. (Raleigh News and Observer)


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[SleepyHead]

A boycott of the city of Cincinnati,
Ohio,
called by local Black religious leaders after a police shooting of an
unarmed Black man, has cost the city $10 million in lost revenues in
its first eight months, the city estimates. The cancellation of the
Progressive National Baptist Convention is the biggest blow so far,
but
many entertainers have also canceled their shows. Many local
businesses
have also been hurt by the boycott, including the Cincinnati Arts
Association. The arts group has thus filed suit against the
organizers
of the boycott, seeking $86,850 in actual damages and $500,000 in
punitive damages. (Cincinnati Post)

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[SleepyHead]

A survey of British companies finds that many businesses
can't afford to give employees raises, so they're giving them stuffy-
sounding job titles instead. A receptionist might be called the "Head
of Verbal Telecommunications", a restroom janitor "Technical
Sanitation
Assistant", and a window cleaner a "Optical Illuminator Enhancer". An
employment agency spokesman says such "up-titling" is helpful, since
"people view a grander title as recognition of their contribution to
the organization and feel more committed as a result." (Reuters)
...Sounds like the concept was invented
by a "Recto-Cranial-Inverted Manager" who
should be committed.


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[SleepyHead]

Bromwell Elementary School in Denver, Colo.,
wanted
to teach its students about the cycle of life on the prairie.
Teachers
planted a garden with 20 native grasses, and now, three years later,
want to demonstrate the importance of fire by burning the garden so
students can see it spring back to life. "Proper management of these
kinds of ecosystems demand this kind of approach," says principal
Frank
Bingham. But city officials say the school cannot burn the garden
because the smoke would pollute the air. Instead, it suggests busing
the 300 students to the Denver Botanical Garden to see its prairie
grass exhibit. The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division estimates
the garden burn would emit about 8 pounds of particulates into the
air.
It also calculated that school buses emit 13 pounds of particulates
per
bus per hour. (Denver Post) ...Showing the kids inane bureaucracy in
action is probably a better lesson anyway.


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[SleepyHead]

"British Helicopters Could Shoot Themselves
Down"
-- AFP headline


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[SleepyHead]

Christopher "Joe" Andrews, 19, in Aspen, Colo., for
spring break from school in Oregon, was only wearing socks and shoes
while "greeting vehicles" on a main street in town, police say. One
of
the cars he waved to stopped. A police car. "He was standing right in
front of our headlights and didn't realize what was going on until it
was time to get away," said officer Bill Linn. Asked what he was
doing
on the street, Andrews reportedly said he was "being stupid." Linn
chose not to cite Andrews for indecent exposure, preferring instead
the
lesser charge of disorderly conduct, which carries a $250 fine. Well,
that and "we teased him unmercifully, and that's probably his biggest
punishment." (Aspen Daily News) ...The most brutal being "we didn't
charge you for indecent exposure for lack of evidence."


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[SleepyHead]

When Natalie Elliott, 22, of Seaford, England, got
divorced, she didn't want to go back to her maiden name, Luffman. "I
got called all sorts of names at school, like bum fluff," she
remembers. "I decided there was no way I was going to call myself
Luffman again." So she changed her name legally to Natalie
Subaru-Impreza, after her favorite car. She doesn't own a Subaru,
however. First, she doesn't know how to drive and second, " I might
not
be able to afford one for a few years." (Brighton Evening Argus)
...So
meanwhile, just call her "Yugo".


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[SleepyHead]

Size matters, especially to men, says Federal Communications
Commission Chairman Michael Powell. "When I go to [the electronics
store], nobody is over there staring at the 13-inch black and white"
TVs, Powell said in a speech at the National Cable &
Telecommunications
Association annual conference. "They're all in the that little dark
room with the big ones, and if they're not buying it, they're wishing
they could. Every man in this room knows the TV envy thing. Sixty-two
inches, huh?" (Reuters)

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[SleepyHead]

Richard Ankrom, 46, an artist in Los Angeles, Calif.,
planned his latest masterpiece, a combination paint and performance
work, for two years: he altered a major road sign on the Harbor
Freeway
in downtown. He put up his work in broad daylight, but was unnoticed
because he was dressed as a road worker. The audience: 150,000
motorists per day. The payoff: no one noticed, not even state
transportation engineers. The plan was to announce the project a year
later, but a friend tipped off the press after 9 months. The
modification, done to exact Federal Highway Administration
specifications, helps motorists navigate a complicated transition
ahead. "The experts are saying that Mr. Ankrom did a fantastic job,"
said a Caltrans spokeswoman. "They thought it was an internal job."
The
agency plans to leave the modification in place, since it is in fact
helpful to motorists. Ankrom says helping out motorists "was the
whole
point." (Los Angeles Times) ...If You Want Something Done Right, Do
it
Yourself -- Industrial Division.


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[SleepyHead]

When an unnamed 8-year-old boy in Temple
Terrace, Fla., missed his school bus, he popped into his uncle's car
and drove himself to school through rush-hour traffic. The
18-year-old
uncle, who had been teaching the boy how to drive, was being
questioned
by police after police found the car was stolen. The boy was not
arrested, but he was suspended by Riverhills Elementary School for
endangering himself and others. Fellow students were wowed. "How
could
a second-grader know how to drive?" wondered a 10-year-old girl. "I
thought maybe he'd be like a third grader or something." (St.
Petersburg Times) ...It's not always the older men who are so
impressive, dear.


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