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Thieves made off with 144 Kegs of Beer
Thieves made off with the beer after stealing a tractor-trailer full of suds from a Truro business last weekend.
Colchester County RCMP recovered the empty Armour Transport truck Sunday on the Riversdale Road in Kemptown. The tractor-trailer was stolen from Armour’s facility on Crossley Avenue in Truro sometime after midnight on Saturday.
"We didn’t find out until Tuesday that the tractor-trailer had a full load and that the load was missing," Const. Addie MacCallum told the Truro Daily News Wednesday.
The vehicle’s ignition was damaged and the door to the trailer was forced open. Each keg weighs about 165 pounds and were of one specific brand of beer but police are not releasing that detail.
The value of the beer is anticipated to be in the tens of thousands of dollars.
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Bank Robbery Suspects' Getaway Car Runs Out Of Gas
Authorities say they've arrested two suspected bank robbers after their getaway vehicle ran out of gas.
Daytona Beach police say 38-year-old Randall Fredric Walker went into the Riverside National Bank Tuesday afternoon and demanded money from a teller. After leaving the bank with the money, authorities say Walker jumped into a Jeep Cherokee driven by 35-year-old Jason Warren Dietrich. The two didn't get far before the vehicle ran out of gas.
The men got out of the sport utility vehicle and left the area separately. But police found the abandoned SUV and traced it back to Dietrich, the registered owner.
Both men face bank robbery charges. They were being held on $50,000 bail.
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Man awarded $95,500 in suit against mom
A New Jersey man who cut off his pinky finger when his mother tapped him on the shoulder was awarded $95,500 plus nearly $20,000 in medical expenses by a jury.
Court papers state John Garrity was working with a miter saw in the Wayne garage belonging to his mother, Nancy, in 2006 when she tapped him on the shoulder. Garrity said in depositions that he was startled by the touch and turned around quickly, causing his finger to move into the path of the saw
The State Superior Court jury ruled Garrity and his mother were each 50 percent at fault for the incident, awarding Garrity half of the $191,000 award he had sought and half of the $37,000 he has paid in medical expenses.
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10-year-old girl battles "Breast Cancer"
Ten-year-old Hannah Powell-Auslam from Southern California shocked the world when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in April. But even after her first chemo treatment recently, the girl is upbeat and determined to beat the disease.
"I always try to look on the bright side with everything," Hannah---the fifth-grader at Escalona Elementary School-- said ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview that aired Wednesday.
Hannah, according to her family, is the youngest known girl to be diagnosed with breast cancer after complaining of an itch in her side in April. Her mother discovered a lump, and that led to a diagnosis of breast cancer.
Her family said she was diagnosed with invasive secretory carcinoma, a type discovered in children in the 1960s.
"You feel like you're sick all the time," Hannah said of the effects of her chemotherapy. "You just want to go lay in bed and be in your closed-off little box."
In a desperate attempt to save Hannah's life, doctors removed her left breast on May 7.
The show filmed Hannah at home getting her head shaved rather than waiting for chemotherapy to take its toll. Other family members--her father, grandfather and younger brother-- got buzz cuts, too, in solidarity.
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Woman Charged in Killing of Pregnant 21-Year-Old
A Washington County woman is accused of murdering a 21-year-old pregnant woman found in the crawlspace of a Cedar Hills home. The baby also died.
The Washington County sheriff's office says 27-year-old Korena Roberts is held without bail.
Deputies said Roberts pretended to have just given birth. She and a man called 9-1-1 Friday to say the baby was not breathing.
Rescuers sent the baby and Roberts to a hospital where it was determined she had not recently given birth. Deputies searched the house and found the 21-year-old victim, whose name has not been released.
The victim's boyfriend and father of the baby reported her missing and said she was in the third trimester of pregnancy.
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Excuse for sex in public ridiculous
A 39-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man were issued summonses on suspicion of public indecency and possessing an open container of alcohol after drivers near the intersection of 88th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard reported the pair having sex in the median. When an officer arrived, he found the woman lying on her back with her pants around her knees and the man on top of the woman, pulling up his pants. The officer asked what they were doing, to which the pair had no response. When the officer told them people had called saying they were having sex, the man said he was "checking her cyst for her." The woman then said, "It's true, he was looking at my cyst for me." When asked if the man was a doctor, he replied, "No." Sitting next to the pair was an open 24 oz can of beer. When asked if it belonged to them, the pair said it was there when they arrived. When the officer asked about an open backpack beside them that had the same beer in it, the couple said it was theirs. The officer said, regardless if they were having sex or "checking for cysts," they were in public view. The man said, "Yeah, we were doing stuff we shouldn't have been." After they signed their summonses, they were allowed to wait for the bus
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Teenager confesses to roasting kitten
A Bronx teenager is accused of burning a kitten to death in an oven, in what investigators believe was an act of revenge.
Humane Law Enforcement agents of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals say Cheyenne Cherry, 17, burned her ex-roommate's kitten to death in an oven. Following her arrest on Wednesday, ASPCA agents say Cherry brushed off the incident as a joke. "I hate cats," Cherry allegedly told investigators when asked about the heartless crime.
According to officials, Cherry and an unidentified juvenile allegedly broke into Valerie Hernandez's Tinton Avenue apartment on May 6 and trashed the place. They then tossed the woman's two month-old kitten, Tiger Lily, into the oven and cranked up the temperature, ASPCA assistant director Joe Pentangelo said.
Cherry told authorities that she and her accomplice "thought we would play a joke on Valerie and mess up her apartment." Pentangelo says the suspect and the accomplice left the apartment as the cat cried and scratched at the oven door. Firefighters found the female cat's remains smoldering in the oven after neighbors complained of smoke coming from Hernandez's apartment.
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INSANE Traffic Jam

Waiting for a traffic lights doesn’t seem so bad now.

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Thanks but I know how to do this part

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No more showing thongs in Yakima City

The Yakima City Council is cracking down on what an ordinance delicately refers to as "cleavage of the buttocks."
Responding to a proliferation of coffee stands with baristas wearing see-through clothing, thongs and other scanty apparel, the council this week approved minor changes to the city's indecent exposure law.
Mayor Dave Edler had wanted the changes under the city's adult business ordinance. But city legal staff warned that trying to place coffee stands under that law could lead to legal challenges.
The change approved by the council means that anyone in public wearing see-through apparel, a thong or a G-string — regardless of whether they are working at a coffee stand — could be prosecuted for a misdemeanor violation.

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We are the Champions

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PIZZA - PIZZA

McDonalds Pizza

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Fat Johnny's BBQ Cheeseburger Pizza

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McDonalds Worst Products

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The first problem with this burger was that men were turned off it (much like Diet Coke which lead to Coke Zero). The next problem was its taste. In the advert above you see that McDonald’s was marketing it as "low fat but tastes great" – but it didn’t. The fat that was removed was replaced with water – but to make the water stay in the meat, it was mixed with carrageenan – seaweed to you and me. The burger tasted awful, had a limited market, and failed dismally which is really no surprise.

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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed

Slaughtered pig traded for drugs
Detectives from the Syracuse Police Drug Unit spotted a unique drug transaction while conducting surveillance in the City of Syracuse Thursday night. Police were keeping watch along the 200 block of Merriman Avenue when, at approximately 7:40pm, a fifty dollar bag of cocaine was sold for $10 and half a slaughtered pig. Investigators say after the transaction was made, police moved in and arrested both the buyer and the seller. Police who were at the scene say a crowd gathered while the men were being handcuffed; when the detectives turned from the suspects, the slaughtered pig was gone.
The seller, Omar Veliz, 42, of Merriman Avenue was charged with criminal sale of controlled substance and criminal possession of controlled substance. He told police the pig was for a celebration he was planning for a relative who was being released from prison.The cocaine buyer, Angelo Colon, 45, of Honeyhill Road in Fulton, was charged with criminal possession of controlled substance. He told police this was not the first time he’d driven to Syracuse with a slaughtered pig in the back of his van to trade for drugs.
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NY Car Ticketed Repeatedly With Dead Body Inside
NYC Woman Believes Her Father Lay Dead Inside His Car For Weeks While Police Wrote Tickets Over And Over
Police made a gruesome discovery earlier this week while getting ready to tow a heavily-ticketed van – a decomposed body in the back seat.
It was that of a missing man, and now his family wants to know to how officers could ticket the vehicle numerous times -- and never notice what was inside.
The daughter of 58-year-old George Morales wants everyone to remember her handyman father in a different way, not as a decomposed body found in a van under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on Wednesday. He'd been dead a month, in a van with four parking tickets.
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Police 'arrest innocent youths for their DNA', officer claims
Hundreds of teenagers are having their DNA taken by police in case they commit crimes later in life, an officer has disclosed
Officers are targeting children as young as 10 with the aim of placing their DNA profiles on the national database to improve their chances of solving crimes, it is claimed.
The alleged practice is also described as part of a "long-term crime prevention strategy" to dissuade youths from committing offences in the future.
The claim comes amid widespread criticism of government proposals to store DNA profiles of innocent people, including some children, on the database for up to 12 years.
Civil liberty campaigners have condemned the tactic of as "diabolical" and said it showed contempt for children's freedom.
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Man charged in lawn mower beer run
A Vassalboro, Maine man has been charged with operating under the influence after he and a friend made a beer run on a riding lawn mower.
Police say 51-year-old Danforth Ross of Vassalboro was charged May 29.
Trooper Joe Chretien had been flagged down by several motorists warning of a wayward mower and made the arrest after Ross and his friend emerged from a variety store with two cases of beer.
Ross' driver's licence had been revoked, so the pair opted for the lawn mower.
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