Archive for February, 2007
Kansas State condemns chicken toss
The chicken toss has been declared off limits at Kansas State. For years, Kansas State students have smuggled live chickens into basketball games against Kansas, then thrown them onto the court and behind the opposing bench before tip-off — mocking their rival’s Jayhawk mascot.
But an animal [...]
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UFO science key to halting climate change
Posted by Nick on February 28, 2007 · 4 Comments
A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday.
“I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of [...]
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Alleged robber discovers he was robbed
A man charged with robbing a bank, for the second time since 2005, tried to show police the loot, but discovered he had been robbed, Fayetteville police said.
Joseph Thomas Mulkerin, 46, was arrested at a Bragg Boulevard motel Tuesday and charged with common law robbery of $2,179 from the Wachovia branch [...]
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Dodgers pitcher could be a billionaire
Matt White, a journeyman pitcher trying to make the Los Angeles Dodgers, could become baseball’s first billionaire player.
It has nothing to do with his arm. He owns a rock quarry in western Massachusetts.
White, who has appeared in seven big league games in nine professional seasons, paid $50,000 [...]
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Tiger, orangutan babies playmates at zoo
Call them the odd couples. A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia’s tropical rainforests.
The friendship between 5-month-old female baby primates Nia and Irma, and [...]
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Seniors steaming about bingo shutdown
Violet Fojut, 88, isn’t happy that the bingo games she and fellow senior citizens have participated in at the Cream City Cafeteria in the Southridge Mall won’t be held any more.
“It was always packed. Every table was always packed,” he said Tuesday after learning that police had [...]
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Alleged burglar gets shot by grandfather
A man was shot in the hand by his own grandfather when he broke into the older man’s home to steal beer and liquor, police said.
Darin D’Marcus Thompson, 18, of Camp Hill, was charged Wednesday with breaking into the home early Tuesday morning. Police said the grandfather, Herbert Miller, [...]
Filed in: Lifestyle & Relationships
Man tries to cash $50K check from God
Posted by Nick on February 28, 2007 · 2 Comments
Kevin Russell found out it’s not easy trying to cash a check from God. The 21-year-old man was arrested Monday after he tried to cash a check for $50,000 at the Chase Bank in Hobart that was signed “King Savior, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Servant,” Hobart police Detective Jeff White [...]
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Indiana gas station dispenses water
Jeffrey Crane got something unexpected when he stopped to gas up his pickup truck — a tank full of water. Crane, who filled up at a Marathon Station in Hobart on Saturday, had his pickup towed to a repair shop when it failed to start Monday. He was surprised to discover what the problem was. “I [...]
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Man blows whistle on pigeon-shooters
A city worker was awarded $660,000 over claims he was unfairly punished after reporting that fellow employees were shooting pigeons for fun on department grounds.
William M. Lakes, 46, who worked for the Department of Public Works, reported the pigeon shooting to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration [...]
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German rules force man to urinate in bottle in exam
Exam supervisors at a German university stuck to rules so rigidly that a man with a bladder dysfunction had to urinate in a bottle in front of 120 fellow students because they would not let him go to the toilet.
Overseers at the University of Freiburg in southwestern Germany told the 27-year-old, whose [...]
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Theatregoers mimic Keanu Reeves in spoof play
In a small downtown Manhattan theatre far removed from the formalities of Broadway, director Jamie Hook is searching for the next Keanu Reeves for the night’s performance.
The laughing audience filled with beer-swilling young men, uncommon among the slick revivals and more formal productions on [...]
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Who was that mysterious briefer on Cheney’s plane?
The senior Bush administration official who briefed anonymously on Vice President Dick Cheney’s visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan sounded suspiciously like, well, Cheney himself.
The White House transcript of the Tuesday briefing left little room for doubt as to the official’s identity, [...]
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Ohio wants special car plates for sex offenders
Lawmakers in Ohio said on Wednesday they want to force convicted sex offenders to use a fluorescent-green licence plate on their cars so they can be easily identified.
A Republican and a Democrat in the state legislature in Columbus have joined forces to propose the law, which echoes measures in several [...]
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Granny finds grenade in groceries
A 74-year-old Italian grandmother who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a live grenade among the spuds.
“I found a bomb in the potatoes,” Olga Mauriello said in a telephone interview with Reuters.
“I went to the market to buy some potatoes and that’s where [...]
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