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`These goats climb the tree to get at the argo nuts used by moroccans to make oil.’

A bit too much petrol, I think. :)

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`A 23-year-old Albion man will have to avoid shopping at stores like Victoria’s Secret for the next six years, under a unique probation arrangement.

Nicolas R. Leathers, 23, who was released from Kennebec County Jail on Thursday after completing a sentence for burglary, is banned from using and possessing women’s underwear as a condition of his probation.

“It’s because of his offense history,” said Deputy District Attorney Alan Kelley. “In another case, he entered a residence in Albion and took women’s underwear.”
Court records show that, in 2004, Leathers was accused of taking a man’s thong, and admitted taking tampons and other items from a neighbor’s home in Albion.’

`The most damaging earthquake in Australia’s history was caused by humans, new research says.

The magnitude-5.6 quake that struck Newcastle, in New South Wales, on December 28, 1989, killed 13 people, injured 160, and caused 3.5 billion U.S. dollars worth of damage [..]

That quake was triggered by changes in tectonic forces caused by 200 years of underground coal mining, according to a study by Christian D. Klose of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.’

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`A U.S. Border Patrol entry Identification Team site was overrun Wednesday night along Arizona’s border with Mexico.

According to the Border Patrol, an unknown number of gunmen attacked the site in the state’s West Desert Region around 11 p.m. The site is manned by National Guardsmen. Those guardsmen were forced to retreat.
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The Border Patrol will not say whether shots were fired. [..]

The Border patrol says the attackers quickly retreated back into Mexico.’

`An hour after Adam Air Flight KI-574 took off on New Year’s Day with 102 passengers and crew for what should have been a short hop between islands, the pilot reported heavy winds. Then, the plane disappeared, seemingly into thin air.

Thousands of soldiers battled rugged jungle terrain, a fleet of aircraft took to the skies, and ships scoured the sea for a third day Thursday in a search of an area roughly the size of California.

By nightfall, there was still no trace of the missing Boeing 737, its six crew members and 96 passengers — including an Oregon man and his two daughters.

“It is kind of strange,” said Febrizal Lubis, a pilot for another Indonesian airline. “The plane was going along at 35,000 feet, and then with no mayday or distress signal, it disappeared like that.”‘

A guy goes into a porn shop and has a wank in one of those wanking booths. Then he feels guilty about it.

He has a strange way of making amends. :)

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`Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.

The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

It’s the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk.’

‘What a rough day this guy had. His engine fails to shut off sending his boat not only crashing into the land but also airborne into power lines.’

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A fun little flash game.

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`A 22-year-old Webster man accidentally shot himself yesterday as he dismantled his gun while driving down Loudon Road, the police said. In the process, Robert Drown also hit a minivan and toppled the sign at the 7-Eleven, according to a witness.

Drown was trying to place his gun in a safety mode when it went off, the police said. He was rushed to Concord Hospital with a serious gunshot wound to his thigh. He was listed in fair condition yesterday evening. The police said Drown was fortunate that he injured himself near a fire station and with an off-duty paramedic nearby.’

This is a video of that crazy Pat Robertson’s predictions for 2007.

Followup to Religious Broadcaster Pat Robertson Predicts Horrific Terrorist Attack on U.S. in 2007

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`For the second day in a row, officials at W. Tresper Clarke High School prevented a 14-year-old deaf student from bringing his assistance dog to class.

“I feel like they aren’t being fair,” ninth-grader John Cave of Westbury said Thursday of East Meadow School District officials, who don’t believe he needs the dog to attend class. “They act like they’re against me because of my dog.”

John’s parents, Nancy and John Sr., have battled district officials for more than a year over the right of their son to bring a service dog to school.

The Caves believe John and Simba must bond around the clock so that the dog can work most effectively as an assistance dog, trained to alert a deaf child to potential danger, such as fire or smoke alarms and cars.’

‘That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen! Patrick Stefan you should be embarrassed for what you just did. That does not belong in the National Hockey League!’

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‘Don’t call Channel 7 mate, they’ll go fucken crazy.’

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`Authorities in Danville, Pa., have decided to drop a disorderly conduct charge against a 12-year-old special education student who they accused of deliberately wetting her pants at school.

A school superintendent now says that it was a mistake to bring police into a case of school discipline.’

Followup to Young Girl Facing Charges After Wetting Pants

`Sacked former New South Wales Aboriginal affairs minister Milton Orkopoulos allegedly invited two high school captains to smoke cannabis with him in his office at state parliament.

Tim Carter, an electrician’s apprentice from Mr Orkopoulos’s then electorate of Swansea, said he was attending a meeting of school captains from across NSW in 2005 when the minister approached him and a female student.

“He took us away pretty much and said: ‘Do you want a joint?’. He said: ‘Do you really want to be at this meeting? You can come up to my office and get room service,” Mr Carter said yesterday.

Mr Orkopoulos then led the two students to his office and rolled a joint, which the minister and Mr Carter smoked. The three then ordered hot chocolate from the Parliament House room service, before Mr Orkopoulos left the students watching television and returned to work.’

‘Not because of this move.. or this one.. but this one..’

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`[..] here’s one on the Arizona fire chief who was arrested after being found in a compromising position with a neighbor’s lamb. Leroy Johnson, 52, pleaded guilty late last year to disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and was sentenced to 18 months probation by a Maricopa County judge. As part of a plea agreement (a copy of which you’ll find below), Johnson was barred from owning any animal during his probationary term, though he was “allowed to possess his dog ‘Major’ and two turtles presently at Defendant’s residence.”‘

Followup to Deputy fire chief faces indecency charge

This guy has built a fully automatic Lego factory that builds little Lego things.

Some people have too much time on their hands, but it’s cool none the less. :)

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‘These guys create a seal on a large garbage can and fill it with dry ice and water. Pretty decent explosion.’

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`Three penguins were stabbed and bashed before being killed with a single blow at a Melbourne beach colony.

The remains of two male and one female bird were discovered at the St Kilda breakwater Little Penguin colony just before Christmas.

One of the male penguins also had its left flipper slashed with a knife and one was hit so hard its back was broken.’

‘A calf with two faces, born last week at a farm in the US state of Virginia, has been drawing a crowd.

The calf breathes out of two noses and has two tongues, which move independently, according to farmer Kirk Heldreth.

There appears to be a single socket containing two eyes. There are two lower jaws, but only one mouth.

“It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,” Heldreth said.’

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`Canada’s wind power business could face a tough year in 2007, with increasing doubts about this green energy source promising to buffet the industry. [..]

There are two main controversies that have popped up to trouble the wind power business: local opposition to turbines from people who live nearby, and concerns over the reliability and efficiency of the electricity produced by wind farms. Increasingly, the two issues are being linked.’

‘A 130 pound guy unsuspectingly gets speared from behind by a 230 pound guy at full speed. Check out that whiplash, probably gonna be sore tomorrow. May even need a neck brace.’

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`Tampa police said a stun gun was used to subdue a 69-year-old man who tried to hit two officers with a metal cane.

Authorities said Nathaniel Youman swung the silver cane at another person before two officers came to his home Wednesday.

Reports say Youman was warned to drop the cane, but he refused. The officer asked again and warned Youman that he would be hit with a stun gun if he didn’t comply.

Police said Youman refused and tried to swing the cane at both officers. He was then hit by a stun gun and arrested.

Youman is charged with felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.’

‘A man doused himself in fuel and set himself alight Thursday outside Chile’s presidential palace to protest housing debt. He survived and was arrested. Television pictures showed the man in flames before he jumped into an ornamental pond in front of the La Moneda palace in the heart of the capital of Santiago. He was hospitalised with burns over 11 per cent of his body, local media reported.’

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