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Pet deer runs amok through restaurant
Witnesses eating lunch Sunday at TJ's Deli in Winston-Salem were startled when they said a woman walking a pet deer on a leash lost control of the animal, causing it to break through a window and run amok through the restaurant's dining room."I thought maybe a customer had fallen over," employee Richard Fogg said of the loud crash the deer made when it broke through the window. "I looked up and a deer had come through the window."Witnesses in the parking lot said a woman had the deer on a leash, when a crowd that gathered to look spooked the animal, causing it run toward the building.

Testicle-Tearing Ex Jailed
A British woman who ripped off her ex-boyfriend's testicle with her bare hands and tried to swallow it has been jailed.
Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage when Geoffrey Jones, 37, rejected her advances at the end of a house party, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
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Cops Finds Pot After Driver Toss Bottle
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Police said they found a half-pound of marijuana in a man's car after they pulled him over for throwing bottles at a truck on Interstate 84 in East Hartford.
Trucker Francis Lescher of New Jersey, called police around 2 a.m., saying a driver would not let him pass, then started slowing down and throwing bottles at his truck.
Police pulled over Arthur Rivet Jr., 30, of Waterbury near Exit 50 in Hartford. They noticed a strong smell of marijuana and found a half-pound of it in two plastic baggies.
Rivet was charged with marijuana possession and throwing objects at a motor vehicle and is being held on $50,000 bond.

Drunk man drove lawnmower to buy wine
Authorities say a man ran through two bottles of wine, then cut through a snowstorm on his lawnmower, riding down the centre of the street to reach the liquor store. Adrian police say they found 49-year-old Frank Kozumplik homeward bound on a John Deere tractor Saturday night, toting four bottles of wine in a paper bag. He told officers his wife had taken their car to work, and the mower was the only way he could reach the store two miles from his southern Michigan home. Police said Kozumplik's blood alcohol level was 2 1/2 times Michigan's legal limit of 0.08 percent. They arrested him on a drunken driving charge and confiscated the mower.

Las Vegas Car Dealer Fights Order to Lower American Flag
LAS VEGAS — A lawyer he'll keep fighting a city order to lower the height of big American flag flapping over a Las Vegas auto dealership.
Attorney David Chesnoff says the fight for Towbin Hummer's flag is about patriotism, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong.
Clark County District Court Judge Michael Villani ruled Friday that City Council was within its rights to deny permits for Towbin to keep the super-sized Stars and Stripes on a 109-foot pole.
City officials have accused Towbin of using the oversized flag as a marketing gimmick more than a patriotic symbol.
Neighbors have complained that it flaps too loudly in stiff winds.
Towbin's isn't the only oversized flag in the city. A regional gasoline and convenience store chain has several American flags around town measuring 30 feet by 50 feet on poles 100 feet tall.
City regulations limit poles to 40 feet, but the council can grant exceptions on a case-by-case basis.

Couple Cops Stealing $8 Million in Armored Car Robbery
CLEVELAND — A couple admitted to stealing millions of dollars from an armored car company to escape financial hardships and find a better life, according to documents read in federal court Monday.
Couple Cops to Stealing $8 Million in Armored Car Robbery