.Sunday, October 18, 2009
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Bear capture self in a car
A couple in the Colorado Mountain Estates subdivision near Florissant thought someone was trying to steal their car early Wednesday when the car alarm started blaring.
When Teller County Sheriff's Deputies responded at about 2:30 a.m., they discovered a young bear in the car.
The bear was as surprised to see the deputies as the deputies were to see the bear, said Mikel Baker, spokesperson for the Sheriff's Office.
According to Baker and Teller County Sheriff Kevin Dougherty, this bear — like so many others — was very smart and had learned how to open car doors.
But as the bear rummaged around the car causing extensive damage, the door closed and it couldn't figure how to get out.
Baker said that bears are extremely hungry as they prepare for hibernation. No food should be left in a car, she said, as bruins, with their keen sense of smell, will detect the food and try to get inside.
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Mom Arrested for Washing Kid's Mouth with Soap
A Florida couple is behind bars for some old school discipline
A Palm Bay woman and her boyfriend were arrested Monday for child abuse after the couple went old school to punish their 8-year-old daughter for swearing.
They washed her mouth out with soap.
We don't know about you, but we would petition President Obama and Congress to make it mandatory for every parent to carry a bar of Irish Spring in their back pockets with all the profanity kids’ use today.
Police claim Adriyanna Herdener and Wilfredo Rivera went too far by placing a bar of soap in the girl's mouth and letting it stay for 10 minutes. Herdener did not intervene in the discipline.
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What nerve!
A Brooklyn killer waltzed into court on Friday wearing a T-shirt with his victim's picture and the words "R.I.P. Love You Forever."
Gregory Morency's choice of attire shocked prosecutors, relatives and even his lawyer - but didn't sway the judge, who gave him 18 years in prison.
And his bizarre statement, thanking slain girlfriend Claribel Hernandez's family for "supporting" him, didn't go over too well.
"How dare you come in here wearing my sister on your chest?" Ray Hernandez shouted at Morency during the sentencing.
"You are a punk, you took my sister....Not even hell would be good enough for you."
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What comes around goes around
Man tries to euthanize dog -- dog's owner tries to euthanize man
After running over a dog on a rural road in McClellanville on Thursday morning, the driver of a pickup truck tried to "put the dog out of its misery" by whacking the animal with a machete and a hammer, authorities said.
The dog's owner heard the dog's plaintive yelping and ran out of his house, grabbed the machete and hammer and started waling away with the hammer, attacking the man who had been attacking his dog.
The driver was hospitalized with a skull fracture. The dog's owner is in jail, accused of trying to kill the driver. The dog, whose name is "Dingo," was hanging on for his life Thursday night.
"There are humane ways to euthanize an injured dog," said
Dr. Sarah Boyd, a veterinarian at Charleston Animal Society. Using a hammer and machete is not among them, she said.
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A couple in the Colorado Mountain Estates subdivision near Florissant thought someone was trying to steal their car early Wednesday when the car alarm started blaring.
When Teller County Sheriff's Deputies responded at about 2:30 a.m., they discovered a young bear in the car.
The bear was as surprised to see the deputies as the deputies were to see the bear, said Mikel Baker, spokesperson for the Sheriff's Office.
According to Baker and Teller County Sheriff Kevin Dougherty, this bear — like so many others — was very smart and had learned how to open car doors.
But as the bear rummaged around the car causing extensive damage, the door closed and it couldn't figure how to get out.
Baker said that bears are extremely hungry as they prepare for hibernation. No food should be left in a car, she said, as bruins, with their keen sense of smell, will detect the food and try to get inside.
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Mom Arrested for Washing Kid's Mouth with Soap
A Florida couple is behind bars for some old school discipline
A Palm Bay woman and her boyfriend were arrested Monday for child abuse after the couple went old school to punish their 8-year-old daughter for swearing.
They washed her mouth out with soap.
We don't know about you, but we would petition President Obama and Congress to make it mandatory for every parent to carry a bar of Irish Spring in their back pockets with all the profanity kids’ use today.
Police claim Adriyanna Herdener and Wilfredo Rivera went too far by placing a bar of soap in the girl's mouth and letting it stay for 10 minutes. Herdener did not intervene in the discipline.
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What nerve!
A Brooklyn killer waltzed into court on Friday wearing a T-shirt with his victim's picture and the words "R.I.P. Love You Forever."
Gregory Morency's choice of attire shocked prosecutors, relatives and even his lawyer - but didn't sway the judge, who gave him 18 years in prison.
And his bizarre statement, thanking slain girlfriend Claribel Hernandez's family for "supporting" him, didn't go over too well.
"How dare you come in here wearing my sister on your chest?" Ray Hernandez shouted at Morency during the sentencing.
"You are a punk, you took my sister....Not even hell would be good enough for you."
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What comes around goes around
Man tries to euthanize dog -- dog's owner tries to euthanize man
After running over a dog on a rural road in McClellanville on Thursday morning, the driver of a pickup truck tried to "put the dog out of its misery" by whacking the animal with a machete and a hammer, authorities said.
The dog's owner heard the dog's plaintive yelping and ran out of his house, grabbed the machete and hammer and started waling away with the hammer, attacking the man who had been attacking his dog.
The driver was hospitalized with a skull fracture. The dog's owner is in jail, accused of trying to kill the driver. The dog, whose name is "Dingo," was hanging on for his life Thursday night.
"There are humane ways to euthanize an injured dog," said
Dr. Sarah Boyd, a veterinarian at Charleston Animal Society. Using a hammer and machete is not among them, she said.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Neighbors Thought Dead Man Was Halloween Display
Residents of a Southern California apartment complex say they saw a lifeless body slumped on a neighbor's patio, but didn't call police because they thought it was part of a Halloween display.
Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday.
The 75-year-old Zayed was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony of his apartment with a single gunshot wound to the eye.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department investigator says the case is an "apparent suicide."
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Prosecutors forced to drop criminal prosecution
The criminal case against five men accused of starting a bar brawl had to be dropped at Walsall Magistrates Court because the Crown Prosecution Service spent too long photocopying.
Six months after the charges were brought, the CPS had not completed the necessary paperwork because, it said, the person with photocopying responsibilities had been off work.
Magistrate Sue Arnold said the CPS' excuse that the person responsible was having an operation was "not acceptable".
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Funeral stopped for tests on body
Police in Essex stopped a hearse on the way to a crematorium so a pathologist could carry out tests on the corpse, it has been revealed.
Officers suspected Stuart Smith, 37, from Colchester, had been subjected to "excessive force" when he was arrested earlier this month.
A police spokesman said tests had not revealed evidence of assault and Mr. Stuart had died after a drug overdose.
One officer had been suspended while inquiries were carried out, he said.
As police were moving Mr. Smith's body from the hearse to a mortuary for tests his partner Nicola Lawson and their five children were waiting in Colchester Crematorium for the funeral service to start.
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Residents of a Southern California apartment complex say they saw a lifeless body slumped on a neighbor's patio, but didn't call police because they thought it was part of a Halloween display.
Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday.
The 75-year-old Zayed was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony of his apartment with a single gunshot wound to the eye.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department investigator says the case is an "apparent suicide."
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Prosecutors forced to drop criminal prosecution
The criminal case against five men accused of starting a bar brawl had to be dropped at Walsall Magistrates Court because the Crown Prosecution Service spent too long photocopying.
Six months after the charges were brought, the CPS had not completed the necessary paperwork because, it said, the person with photocopying responsibilities had been off work.
Magistrate Sue Arnold said the CPS' excuse that the person responsible was having an operation was "not acceptable".
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Funeral stopped for tests on body
Police in Essex stopped a hearse on the way to a crematorium so a pathologist could carry out tests on the corpse, it has been revealed.
Officers suspected Stuart Smith, 37, from Colchester, had been subjected to "excessive force" when he was arrested earlier this month.
A police spokesman said tests had not revealed evidence of assault and Mr. Stuart had died after a drug overdose.
One officer had been suspended while inquiries were carried out, he said.
As police were moving Mr. Smith's body from the hearse to a mortuary for tests his partner Nicola Lawson and their five children were waiting in Colchester Crematorium for the funeral service to start.
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Man 'wakes with penis tattoo'
A man from northern Sweden woke to discover a six-inch penis tattooed on his leg after drinking a full bottle of vodka the night before.
The last thing I remember is leaving my apartment. The 27-year-old named Joel was only told about how he gained the body art by his friends the next day.
On admiring a moustache tattoo on his friend's finger in a bar, the man was overheard by a tattoo artist who said that he would ink him on the condition that he had complete freedom over the design.
"I found out afterwards who it was. He works at a studio here. But I went along with it, he didn't exactly force me."
Earlier this year, a Belgian teenager admitted to lying about falling asleep before being tattooed with 56 stars across her face.
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Apartment Complex Bans Flying the American Flag
An Oregon apartment complex is banning its residents from flying American flags, not only from their dwellings but also their vehicles.
Residents' outrage started when Jim Clausen, whose son is in the military and on his way back to Iraq, was told he couldn't fly an American flag from the back of his motorcycle.
If he didn't take the flag down, he was told he'd face eviction, the station reported.
"It floored me," Clausen told the station. "I can't believe she was saying what she was saying. It [the flag] stands for the people that can no longer stand - who died in wars. That's why I fly the flag."
Sharron White, a long-time resident, was told by management to take down the flag she's flown on her car for eight years because "someone might get offended."
"I just said to her, 'They'll just have to get over it,'" White told the station.
The ban also applies to flag stickers on cars, as well as sports flags.
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Lottery Hoax Causes Riot at Ohio Coat Store
A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.
Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.
Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said. Brown walked to a cash register and loudly announced she had won the lottery and would pay for each person's merchandise up to $500, he said.
"Well, of course, people like to hear that," Deakins said. "Apparently they were in line calling relatives who were not at the store and told them to come."
People flooded the registers as cashiers began ringing up purchase after purchase, but Brown had not yet paid the bill, Deakins said. At least 500 people filled the aisles and another 1,000 were outside trying to get in, he said.
"She was telling people she won $1.5 million," Deakins said. "But it ends up she didn't win anything. She had no money to pay for anything."
About an hour later, Brown had the limousine driver take her to a bank to withdraw money, but she returned empty-handed, police Detective Steven Nace said. By then, store employees had called in two dozen police officers to handle the crowds.
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'Happy splashier' driver charged
A woman is facing charges of 'careless and inconsiderate driving' after deliberately driving through a puddle at high speed to soak a group of people waiting at a bus stop. The charge carries a fine of up to £2,500.
Police began to investigate after they received complaints about a clip of the incident, which was posted on YouTube.
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SEE THE YOUTUBE HAPPY SPLASHING VIDEO BELOW
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The clip, taken from inside the Kerry Callard's vehicle, is accompanied by her male passenger's commentary as the car travels along down Weston Hill in Plymouth.
"Here we go, ready to drench the kids..." the passenger begins.
"Puddle at the bottom of the hill coming up, kids at the bottom of the hill – come on!" he continues excitedly, as the car drives through the puddle, soaking the bystanders.
"That was brilliant! Awesome!" he shouts, laughing.
Police said 29-year-old Callard had contacted them voluntarily about the incident last Thursday and the evidence was now being reviewed.
"Although driving through standing water may be seen as a bit of fun, potentially it is very dangerous. Not only is it showing no consideration to the pedestrians who may get a soaking, but it could result in the driver losing control of the vehicle due to the force of the water snatching the wheel from the hands, or by the vehicle aquaplaning," the spokesman added.
Callard has claimed the children asked to be splashed and would not have done it otherwise.
"The fun factor is mostly gone from life these days but they were playing in puddles, like kids always have done. If the kids weren't saying 'Splash me, splash me', I certainly wouldn't have done it. I'm not a serial splasher."
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1 In 7 Girls Got Pregnant At Robeson High School
It is a Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common – something you might find disturbing.
All those young ladies are moms or moms-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It's not a school for young mothers, it's a neighborhood school. And all of the pregnancies have happened, despite prevention talk.
If you want to know why, the people closest to the situation say there's no simple explanation.
Chicago Public Schools says it does not track the overall number of teen moms in the district. But Robeson Principal Gerald Morrow knows the count at his school in Englewood: 115 young ladies who are either expecting or already have had children.
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Man busted with weed stuck to forehead
Police in Lebanon, Pennsylvania said they've nabbed a real pothead. They said an officer spotted 29-year-old Cesar Lopez inside a convenience store with a bag of marijuana stuck to his forehead. Investigators said Lopez was seen peering inside his baseball cap early Saturday morning in Lebanon, about 75 miles northwest of Philadelphia. When Lopez looked up, the officer noticed a small plastic bag appearing to contain marijuana stuck to his forehead.
Police said the officer peeled the bag off Lopez's forehead and placed him under arrest. He has been charged with drug possession. Police do not know whether Lopez has an attorney.
Authorities say the sweatband of a baseball cap is a frequent hiding place for drugs.
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For Ala. man, XXXXXXX marks spot for traffictickets
"Racer X's" vanity plate just does not compute in city computers - and it's helped him rack up about $19,000 in tickets in Birmingham, Ala.
Scottie Roberson bought a vanity plate with seven X's to pay homage to his racer nickname. But that causes a bit of a snafu when parking patrols put the plate into the system. Officials usually put seven X's in place of the number for cars without license plates.
Roberson said the mix-up has led him to get as many as 10 tickets in a day.
Birmingham Traffic Engineer Gregory Dawkins said the city may change the system to keep Roberson from receiving more tickets. He says "maybe we just need to leave that part blank altogether."
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Texas police find woman, 45, living with corpse
A 45-year-old Big Sandy, Texas woman has been committed for mental evaluation after authorities say she lived in an apartment for a week with her dead boyfriend's body. The Tyler Morning Telegraph reported Big Sandy police were flagged down by a man Friday who reported a stench coming from his sister's apartment.
Once inside, police found 50-year-old William Drake dead on a couch. From the condition of the corpse, police believe he had been dead about a week.
According to police Lt. Van Burr, the woman said Drake "didn't want to leave the apartment."
Burr said Drake died of natural causes and had recently stopped his dialysis treatments. He said Drake had lived for 10 years with the woman, who had been hospitalized for mental illness before. Burr declined to reveal her name.
Big Sandy is about 100 miles east of Dallas.
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A man from northern Sweden woke to discover a six-inch penis tattooed on his leg after drinking a full bottle of vodka the night before.
The last thing I remember is leaving my apartment. The 27-year-old named Joel was only told about how he gained the body art by his friends the next day.
On admiring a moustache tattoo on his friend's finger in a bar, the man was overheard by a tattoo artist who said that he would ink him on the condition that he had complete freedom over the design.
"I found out afterwards who it was. He works at a studio here. But I went along with it, he didn't exactly force me."
Earlier this year, a Belgian teenager admitted to lying about falling asleep before being tattooed with 56 stars across her face.
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Apartment Complex Bans Flying the American Flag
An Oregon apartment complex is banning its residents from flying American flags, not only from their dwellings but also their vehicles.
Residents' outrage started when Jim Clausen, whose son is in the military and on his way back to Iraq, was told he couldn't fly an American flag from the back of his motorcycle.
If he didn't take the flag down, he was told he'd face eviction, the station reported.
"It floored me," Clausen told the station. "I can't believe she was saying what she was saying. It [the flag] stands for the people that can no longer stand - who died in wars. That's why I fly the flag."
Sharron White, a long-time resident, was told by management to take down the flag she's flown on her car for eight years because "someone might get offended."
"I just said to her, 'They'll just have to get over it,'" White told the station.
The ban also applies to flag stickers on cars, as well as sports flags.
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Lottery Hoax Causes Riot at Ohio Coat Store
A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.
Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.
Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said. Brown walked to a cash register and loudly announced she had won the lottery and would pay for each person's merchandise up to $500, he said.
"Well, of course, people like to hear that," Deakins said. "Apparently they were in line calling relatives who were not at the store and told them to come."
People flooded the registers as cashiers began ringing up purchase after purchase, but Brown had not yet paid the bill, Deakins said. At least 500 people filled the aisles and another 1,000 were outside trying to get in, he said.
"She was telling people she won $1.5 million," Deakins said. "But it ends up she didn't win anything. She had no money to pay for anything."
About an hour later, Brown had the limousine driver take her to a bank to withdraw money, but she returned empty-handed, police Detective Steven Nace said. By then, store employees had called in two dozen police officers to handle the crowds.
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'Happy splashier' driver charged
A woman is facing charges of 'careless and inconsiderate driving' after deliberately driving through a puddle at high speed to soak a group of people waiting at a bus stop. The charge carries a fine of up to £2,500.
Police began to investigate after they received complaints about a clip of the incident, which was posted on YouTube.
.
SEE THE YOUTUBE HAPPY SPLASHING VIDEO BELOW
.
The clip, taken from inside the Kerry Callard's vehicle, is accompanied by her male passenger's commentary as the car travels along down Weston Hill in Plymouth.
"Here we go, ready to drench the kids..." the passenger begins.
"Puddle at the bottom of the hill coming up, kids at the bottom of the hill – come on!" he continues excitedly, as the car drives through the puddle, soaking the bystanders.
"That was brilliant! Awesome!" he shouts, laughing.
Police said 29-year-old Callard had contacted them voluntarily about the incident last Thursday and the evidence was now being reviewed.
"Although driving through standing water may be seen as a bit of fun, potentially it is very dangerous. Not only is it showing no consideration to the pedestrians who may get a soaking, but it could result in the driver losing control of the vehicle due to the force of the water snatching the wheel from the hands, or by the vehicle aquaplaning," the spokesman added.
Callard has claimed the children asked to be splashed and would not have done it otherwise.
"The fun factor is mostly gone from life these days but they were playing in puddles, like kids always have done. If the kids weren't saying 'Splash me, splash me', I certainly wouldn't have done it. I'm not a serial splasher."
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1 In 7 Girls Got Pregnant At Robeson High School
It is a Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common – something you might find disturbing.
All those young ladies are moms or moms-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It's not a school for young mothers, it's a neighborhood school. And all of the pregnancies have happened, despite prevention talk.
If you want to know why, the people closest to the situation say there's no simple explanation.
Chicago Public Schools says it does not track the overall number of teen moms in the district. But Robeson Principal Gerald Morrow knows the count at his school in Englewood: 115 young ladies who are either expecting or already have had children.
VIDEO
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Man busted with weed stuck to forehead
Police in Lebanon, Pennsylvania said they've nabbed a real pothead. They said an officer spotted 29-year-old Cesar Lopez inside a convenience store with a bag of marijuana stuck to his forehead. Investigators said Lopez was seen peering inside his baseball cap early Saturday morning in Lebanon, about 75 miles northwest of Philadelphia. When Lopez looked up, the officer noticed a small plastic bag appearing to contain marijuana stuck to his forehead.
Police said the officer peeled the bag off Lopez's forehead and placed him under arrest. He has been charged with drug possession. Police do not know whether Lopez has an attorney.
Authorities say the sweatband of a baseball cap is a frequent hiding place for drugs.
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For Ala. man, XXXXXXX marks spot for traffictickets
"Racer X's" vanity plate just does not compute in city computers - and it's helped him rack up about $19,000 in tickets in Birmingham, Ala.
Scottie Roberson bought a vanity plate with seven X's to pay homage to his racer nickname. But that causes a bit of a snafu when parking patrols put the plate into the system. Officials usually put seven X's in place of the number for cars without license plates.
Roberson said the mix-up has led him to get as many as 10 tickets in a day.
Birmingham Traffic Engineer Gregory Dawkins said the city may change the system to keep Roberson from receiving more tickets. He says "maybe we just need to leave that part blank altogether."
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Texas police find woman, 45, living with corpse
A 45-year-old Big Sandy, Texas woman has been committed for mental evaluation after authorities say she lived in an apartment for a week with her dead boyfriend's body. The Tyler Morning Telegraph reported Big Sandy police were flagged down by a man Friday who reported a stench coming from his sister's apartment.
Once inside, police found 50-year-old William Drake dead on a couch. From the condition of the corpse, police believe he had been dead about a week.
According to police Lt. Van Burr, the woman said Drake "didn't want to leave the apartment."
Burr said Drake died of natural causes and had recently stopped his dialysis treatments. He said Drake had lived for 10 years with the woman, who had been hospitalized for mental illness before. Burr declined to reveal her name.
Big Sandy is about 100 miles east of Dallas.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
MythBusters Duct Tape Hour
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The MythBusters are back with one of their most dangerous episodes ever: testing the limits of duct tape.Because, as you know, there are few limits to duct tape. So to find said limits must take tremendous courage, imagination, and hutzpah.
In the words of MythBuster Adam Savage, "We could have done 50 hours on duct tape, but we had to reel ourselves in."
A few clues though. The MythBusters take duct tape to the high seas, and also test its strength by lifting this car 5,000 feet in the air.
Check out some more fun photos from the MythBusters' special episode.
"Duct Tape Hour," airs Wednesday, October 14 at 9PM ET/PT on The Discovery Channel.
SLIDESHOW
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Blade-free fan
What, a fan with no blades? Yes, that's exactly what you're looking at, and what makes the Air Multiplier so hard for people to classify at first. This fan uses some innovative airflow engineering to pull air up through an energy-efficient brushless motor base and multiply it 15 times, expelling it through an airfoil-shaped ramp at a rate of 118 gallons a second, according to the press release.
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Repo man allegedly tries to get cops to do his job
Authorities said a car-dealership repo man was being held in the Kane County Jail for allegedly trying to trick police into doing his job for him. East Dundee Police Detective Michael Seyller said Monday that a 47-year-old man was arrested last week after he tried to dupe police into tracking down a vehicle he was trying to repossess.
Seyller said the suspect has been charged with filing a false police report, falsely reporting vehicle theft and phone harassment.
The man reportedly told police last week that a vehicle he had repossessed had been stolen, possibly by its owners.
A day later, a Carpentersville police officer spotted the vehicle and pulled it over. But after talking with the owner, police learned that the man had never repossessed the vehicle.
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Woman calls police to report theft of pot plants
There are limits to being a crime victim, as a woman who called Saginaw County sheriff's deputies to report the theft of marijuana found out. Detective Sgt. Randy F. Pfau said the 54-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday after reporting two men had broken into her home in Brant Township, 80 miles north-northwest of Detroit.
Pfau said the woman told deputies the men fled after one of them demanded her marijuana plants. He said the woman then was booked on charges of manufacturing and delivering marijuana.
The woman claimed the drug was for personal use but didn't possess a medical marijuana card.
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Canadian trucker fined for smoking on the job
A Canadian truck driver has been fined for smoking in his vehicle because it is considered his workplace, a police spokeswoman said on Friday.
A police officer saw the 48-year-old trucker driving on a highway in southwestern Ontario with a cigarette in his mouth on Wednesday, and gave him a C$305 ($290) ticket.
The Smoke-Free Ontario Act, adopted in 2006, prohibits smoking in an enclosed workplace or enclosed public area, and that extends to work vehicles, said Constable Shawna Coulter of the Ontario Provincial Police in Essex County.
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Authorities said a car-dealership repo man was being held in the Kane County Jail for allegedly trying to trick police into doing his job for him. East Dundee Police Detective Michael Seyller said Monday that a 47-year-old man was arrested last week after he tried to dupe police into tracking down a vehicle he was trying to repossess.
Seyller said the suspect has been charged with filing a false police report, falsely reporting vehicle theft and phone harassment.
The man reportedly told police last week that a vehicle he had repossessed had been stolen, possibly by its owners.
A day later, a Carpentersville police officer spotted the vehicle and pulled it over. But after talking with the owner, police learned that the man had never repossessed the vehicle.
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Woman calls police to report theft of pot plants
There are limits to being a crime victim, as a woman who called Saginaw County sheriff's deputies to report the theft of marijuana found out. Detective Sgt. Randy F. Pfau said the 54-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday after reporting two men had broken into her home in Brant Township, 80 miles north-northwest of Detroit.
Pfau said the woman told deputies the men fled after one of them demanded her marijuana plants. He said the woman then was booked on charges of manufacturing and delivering marijuana.
The woman claimed the drug was for personal use but didn't possess a medical marijuana card.
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Canadian trucker fined for smoking on the job
A Canadian truck driver has been fined for smoking in his vehicle because it is considered his workplace, a police spokeswoman said on Friday.
A police officer saw the 48-year-old trucker driving on a highway in southwestern Ontario with a cigarette in his mouth on Wednesday, and gave him a C$305 ($290) ticket.
The Smoke-Free Ontario Act, adopted in 2006, prohibits smoking in an enclosed workplace or enclosed public area, and that extends to work vehicles, said Constable Shawna Coulter of the Ontario Provincial Police in Essex County.
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