Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed

R.I. Police Arrest Man With Record .491 Blood Alcohol Level
State police say they arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent — the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn't dead.
Stanley Kobierowski was taken to a hospital, put in the detoxification unit and sedated, said Maj. Steven O'Donnell. He was arraigned Tuesday on charges of driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest.
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The bridge that took 55 years to build
Driving along India's eastern National Highway 31 got easier last week when a bridge was opened across the Torsha river near the Ghoksadanga-Pundibari area. There were celebrations at its inauguration in the state of West Bengal.
But not many people were aware that it had taken 55 years for the 454-meter long bridge project to be realized. The delay has been blamed on red tape, litigation and natural disasters.
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Shoplifter left daughter behind
A German shoplifter who ran off with expensive cosmetics was caught after leaving her six-year-old daugher behind.
Birgit Mahler, 33, stuffed the cosmetics worth £80 in her handbag and left the shop in the German city of Sonthofen without paying.
But a security tag set off an alarm, and as soon as she heard it Mahler ran off down the road before staff could react, unfortunately she forgot about her six-year-old daughter who was left standing alone wondering where her mother had gone.
Store staff called police and they collected the child together with a social worker.
The spokesman added: "The girl's father turned up to report the child missing and seemed genuinely surprised to hear how his daughter had been lost.
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Van crashes into Coffee House, injuring two
Kenneth Mack Anderson had just finished dinner on Wednesday and was reading the newspaper at the Coffee House on Oakwoods Road when a van blasted through the wall, knocking him out of his booth and pinning him against the counter. "I'm really sore, but other than that I'm OK," Anderson said.
Video-surveillance footage from inside the restaurant shows him sitting there at 8:16 p.m. in a booth in the smoking section. Suddenly glass and debris start flying, and Anderson is propelled eight feet sideways.
Trapped against the counter, he looks around, reaches down for his hat and puts it back on his head.

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Man With No Arms, Legs Takes Part In Triathlon
Pittsburgh Triathlon, there were a lot of individual competitors and teams with competitors for each event. One team, however, stood out. That team contained three friends: Jim on the Bike, Ned doing the running, and Craig Dietz doing the swimming. However, Dietz was born with no arms or legs.
"It felt great when I first decided to do it," said Dietz. "I was a little unsure and even leading up to it I was a little unsure. You can swim 100 miles in the pool and it's not going to prepare you for swimming in that river." In the end, he finished 275th out of 308 participants.
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Animal Shelter Will House 2 Dogs Trained to Have Sex With Women
The nation's largest animal sanctuary has agreed to accept two dogs that authorities say were trained to have sex with women.
A mixed breed and a Labrador, formerly owned by Diane Sue Whalen of Tulsa County, have been accepted by the Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, Utah, said Barbara Williamson, spokeswoman for the animal sanctuary.
The dogs — named Lucky and Buddy — will be taken to the no-kill sanctuary next month.
Whalen, 54, and Donald Roy Seigfried, 55, were charged with felony crimes against nature after Whalen's adult son found more than 150 tapes of his mother performing sex acts with her dogs and a blue heeler owned by Seigfried. Seigfried was accused of filming the acts.
A deputy who investigated the case had recommended that the dogs be euthanized and wrote in court affidavits that the dogs had been trained to rape.

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