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Noisy man fined for grunting
A grunting weightlifter has been fined £70 for making his neighbors' lives a misery – by exercising too loudly.
Giran Jobe's two-hour training sessions in his top-floor flat were so loud they reached 100 decibels – the same level as a rock concert.
'All I do is exercise and work out with my weights. I am trying to keep fit. I cannot believe I got taken to court for exercising.'
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Man believes dead wife is contacting him on cell phone
Frank Jones admits he believes wife Sadie is contacting him from beyond the grave ... by mobile phone.Mr Jones, who runs his own scrap metal business, said: "Just after Sadie died I came home and I felt like I didn't want to go in the house."I got a missed call on my mobile, but it didn't ring. The call was from my own home number, but there was nobody in the house." "Then when I went inside there was a smell like cigarettes which Sadie used to smoke and the smell of her perfume."Mr Jones said the family has also received strange text messages, which they believe to be from her. He added: "We buried her with her phone. There have been messages with words Sadie would say but there's no number."
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Cops call woman about car; she tries to buy crack
LAKE CHARLES, La. - Police in Louisiana are crediting "sheer luck and stupidity" for the arrests of two people on drug charges after officers made a routine phone call. It all started last week when two police officers pulled over a car for a traffic violation. The driver could not produce identification or a valid driver's license, so the officers suspected the car was stolen.
They called the registered owner and left a message. When the owner called back, officers say, she apparently thought the message was from a drug dealer.
She was busted for allegedly trying to buy crack cocaine.
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Man Robs Store Where He Frequently Did Business
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville man is in jail after police said he robbed a check-cashing store where he often did business. Investigators said 25-year-old Alvin Gist robbed the First American Check Cashing store in the 5500 block of New Cut Road Tuesday.
A clerk recognized him as a frequent customer, checked his address and notified police.
When officers went to Gist's home, they said they found the money and the clothes worn during the robbery.
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10-year-old Girl Tried To Rob Store
FRANKLIN, Tenn. - Police in Franklin said a 10-year-old girl tried to rob a Mapco Express late Monday night. Video: Police Say 10-Year-Old Tried To Rob Store The clerk said the main reason he called police was that he was worried about the girl being out so late and trying to rob a store.
He said he wasn’t sure what the girl wanted until she threw a rock that struck him in the chest. The rock was all she was armed with. The clerk said he was so stunned that the girl had to ask the clerk three times for the money.
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Baby Born in Texas Middle School Bathroom Dies in Flush Attempt
BAYTOWN, Texas — A 14-year-old Texas teenager on Wednesday gave birth in the bathroom of a middle school but the baby died when the mother allegedly tried to flush it.
Police said the student told counselors she had given birth and attempted to flush the baby inside a restroom at Cedar Bayou Jr. High School.
The teen was taken to the hospital and reported to be in stable condition.
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To save her Lab, Minneapolis woman bites pit bull on nose
Spare the woman-bites-dog jokes, Amy Rice say.
After futile attempts to pull a pit bull's jaws off her Labrador retriever's throat after it jumped a neighbor's fence Friday, Rice was forced to turn to animal instinct.
"I ended up biting the pit bull on the nose," said Rice, 38, whose dog, Ella, was attacked in her northeast Minneapolis yard. "I didn't plan it, that's what happened.
"I broke the skin and had pit bull blood in my mouth. I knew what happened, and I knew that it wasn't good."
Injuries to the pit bull were minor, but now Rice is dealing with a potential rabies scare as well as her 12-year-old dog's physical and emotional wounds.
The pit bull was quarantined Wednesday by Minneapolis Animal Control after Rice's doctor told her of a possible rabies threat.
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Burglar caught faking death at funeral parlor
A Spanish burglar who broke into a funeral home tried to fool police by playing dead, but two things gave him away. First, he breathed. Plus, he wore grungy clothes rather than the Sunday best of those settling in for eternal rest. Police and the Crespo Funeral Home said Wednesday they had no idea what the 23-year-old Spanish man was trying to steal in the March 17 break-in at Burjassot, a small town just outside Valencia.
Neighbors living nearby alerted police when they heard the front door of the business being forced open in the middle of the night. Police officers arrived with the owner, and eventually found the suspect lying on a table in a glassed-in chamber used for viewings of deceased people during wakes. "The custom here is for dead people to be dressed in suits, in nice clothes that look presentable. This guy was in everyday clothes that were wrinkled and dirty," the police official said. "He was trying to fake being dead, but he was breathing."
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Woman 'back from the dead'
A Peruvian woman declared clinically dead awoke as her surprised family prepared to put her body into a coffin. Lima daily La Republica reported that Felicita Guizabalo Viera, 33, suffered from cancer and was declared dead by a doctor on Saturday.
Two hours later, as her family prepared to hold her wake, she opened her eyes.
Guizabalo, whom her neighbors now call "the dead woman", says she remembers two men dressed in white carrying her through abysses and deserts, but that she begged God to let her return to her four children. The strange case occurred in Peru's northern La Libertad province.