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Japan Leech invasion makes residents see red
Long confined to the mountains, Japanese leeches are invading residential areas, causing swelling, itching and general discomfort with their blood-thirsty ways.
Yamabiru, or land leeches, have become a problem in 29 of Japan’s 47 prefectures, according to the Institute for Environmental Culture, [...]
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Drug Dealer calls cops after pot stash stolen
A marijuana dealer telephoned police after armed thieves stole his quarter-pound stash of pot. The 19-year-old Felton man told police that two men, one of them armed with a handgun, robbed him at gunpoint as he sat in his car on Tuesday night.
“It was unique to have people who were dealing drugs [...]
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Beheaded snake sends man to hospital
Turns out, even beheaded rattlesnakes can be dangerous. That’s what 53-year-old Danny Anderson learned as he was feeding his horses Monday night, when a 5-foot rattler slithered onto his central Washington property, about 50 miles southeast of Yakima.
Anderson and his 27-year-old son, Benjamin, [...]
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China seizes 18,000 fake Viagra pills in raids
Chinese police have seized more than a ton of fake drugs for impotence, bird flu and malaria, including at least 18,000 fake Viagra tablets, state media reported on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Public Security, which launched the national crackdown on counterfeit goods in 2005, announced 10 of its top [...]
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A Man’s stink feet started a police raid
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police broke into a darkened apartment fearing they would find a dead body, after neighbors complained of a nasty smell seeping out onto the staircase.
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The shutters of the apartment had been closed for more than a week and the mailbox was filled with uncollected [...]
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Woman: Bowel caused alleged shoplifting
Posted by Nick on April 17, 2007 · 2 Comments
A woman arrested for shoplifting has blamed the crime on irritable bowel syndrome, authorities said. Helen Gallo, 61, of Clearwater, was arrested Sunday after allegedly shoplifting from a Cape Coral grocery store, The Daily Breeze of Cape Coral reported. Gallo reportedly told authorities that she [...]
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Protesters burn effigies after Gere kisses Shilpa
Posted by Nick on April 17, 2007 · 2 Comments
Richard Gere’s repeated kisses on the cheeks of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty in an event to promote AIDS awareness sparked protests in India on Monday with demonstrators burning effigies of the actors.
Footage of the Hollywood star sweeping Shetty backwards in a dramatic embrace at the Sunday [...]
Why the long face? Obese treated like horses
Rio de Janeiro hospitals have been sending obese people to share medical test equipment with horses at the local race track, drawing complaints from activists who say the practice is humiliating.
“When people weigh more than the standard equipment can support they have to be directed to the Jockey [...]
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Dentist guilty of urinating in surgery sink
A dentist was found guilty on Thursday of urinating in his surgery sink and using dental tools meant for patients to clean his fingernails and ears.
A medical tribunal said it was satisfied the evidence showed 51-year-old Alan Hutchinson, who routinely did not wear gloves or wash his hands, had risked [...]
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VA patient has wrong testicle removed
An Air Force veteran has filed a federal claim after an operation at a Veterans Administration hospital in which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one.
Benjamin Houghton, 47, was to have had his left testicle removed June 14 at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center because [...]
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Scandal brews over China tea-for-urine samples
A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were — pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests.
The results: six out of 10 hospitals in Hangzhou, the capital of the rich coastal province of Zhejiang, visited by the reporters over a [...]
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Cops: Man buys extinguisher in drug fire
A man who started a small fire while cooking methamphetamine drove to a Wal-Mart to buy a fire extinguisher when he couldn’t put out the flames, sheriff’s deputies said.
Jonathan Zaletel, 19, was greeted by Maricopa County deputies when he returned to his condominium late Tuesday, Lt. Paul [...]
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Man burns genitals in ‘Jackass’ stunt
Attempts to do a movie stunt landed one man in the hospital with burned genitals and another facing criminal charges. The men were trying to do a stunt from one of the “Jackass” movies, in which a character lights his genitals on fire.
Jared W. Anderson, 20, suffered serious burns to his [...]
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Woman awakens after 6 years, slips back
A woman who went into a vegetative state in November of 2000 awoke this week for three days, spoke with her family and a local television station before slipping back on Wednesday. “I’m fine,” Christa Lilly told her mother on Sunday — her first words in eight months. She has [...]
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Obese Mexican outside for first time in five years
A Mexican man who once weighed half a tonne left his house for the first time in five years on Wednesday after losing 440 pounds (200 kg) through diet and exercise.
A crane lifted Manuel Uribe, 40, off the sidewalk and onto a lorry after friends and family heaved him from the house still sitting on his [...]
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