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U.S. Airways Match Lighter Wanted for Identity Fraud
BOSTON – A man from Maine who struck a match on a U.S. Airways flight to Boston’s Logan International Airport is facing some heat — but not over matches. Massachusetts State Police detained 50-year-old Paul Prater of Sanford on Wednesday over an outstanding identity fraud warrant in Canton, [...]
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Motorist survives three accidents in an hour
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German woman was involved in three car accidents in less than an hour that left a total of seven vehicles damaged but she suffered only slight injuries from the series of mishaps, police said Tuesday.
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Fat People Entitled to 2 Airline Seats
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.
The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of a decision by the Canadian Transportation Agency that people who are “functionally [...]
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Woman in wheelchair takes highway shortcut
An 81-year-old German woman driving to a cemetery in her electric wheelchair decided to take a shortcut and drove the wrong way down a highway.
The wheelchair had been traveling at about four miles per hour. Vehicles on German motorways must clock at least 37 miles per hour, and there is no upper speed [...]
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87 Year Old Utah Man Hitchhiked To Pennsylvania
An 87-year-old Utah man was discovered 2,000 miles away Wednesday in Pennsylvania, less than 48 hours after he was reported missing, police said. How did Andrew Hentz do it?
“He mentioned he had hitchhiked,” Clinton police Detective Matt Fawbush said. “I wish I knew how he traveled [...]
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Astronaut Aldrin plans space travel lottery
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, announced plans on Tuesday for a lottery which would send its winner into space in a bid to spread the dream of extraterrestrial travel beyond the super-wealthy.
Aldrin, who followed U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong onto the moon in July 1969, said the lottery [...]
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American Airlines seeks more female flyers
American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, says it can boost revenue by $94 million (48 million pounds) a year by tailoring some of its services to the growing number of women travellers.
The airline, a unit of AMR, this week unveiled a version of its Web site for women (http://www.aa.com/women). [...]
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Diet triggers false drink test for Virgin pilot
Virgin Atlantic Airways has reinstated a pilot wrongly accused of drinking after an investigation revealed that a low-carbohydrate diet made the man smell of alcohol.
The 47-year-old male pilot was on the flight deck of an Airbus A340-600 plane preparing to leave Heathrow Airport for New York when police [...]
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U.S. flight cancelled after pilot’s foul language
Northwest Airlines cancelled a flight set to leave from Las Vegas to Detroit after the captain cursed on a cell phone in a bathroom, then swore at one of the 180 passengers on the plane, officials said on Saturday.
“He used what was described to me as rude language,” Ian Gregor, a spokesman [...]
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Off-duty Northwest employee charged
An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that the man had ejaculated on her. The FBI identified the man as Samuel Oscar Gonzalez, 20, of Lakewood, Wash. He was charged in federal court with simple assault, a misdemeanor.
According to an [...]
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Chinese province to fine hotels with no condoms
A Chinese province has taken the unusual step of fining hotels and bars more than $600 (307 pounds) if they do not provide condoms, part of efforts to fight the spread of AIDS, a newspaper said on Friday.
The booming eastern province of Zhejiang, with 1,859 recorded infections by the end of last year, [...]
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Tourists indulge in aphrodisiac at Chile song fest
Tourists visiting Chile’s picturesque port town of Valparaiso have cleaned the town out of a herbal aphrodisiac called palwen, an indigenous remedy also known as “Mapuche viagra,” according to local media.
The Internet news service Alfa Chile said tourists and performers visiting the [...]
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Angry tourists break mugger’s neck
A group of U.S. tourists, including a former Marine, killed a Costa Rican mugger by breaking his neck after he pulled a gun on them in a Caribbean port, a local police official said on Thursday.
The cruise ship passengers told police they jumped on Wagner Segura, 20, to defend themselves when he pointed [...]
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Men-free tourism island planned
Iran plans a female-only island to boost tourism in a northwest province, the Tehran-e Emrouz newspaper on Wednesday quoted a local official as saying.
It will be on the Urumiyeh lake in Western Azerbaijan province, a municipality official identified only as Aghai said.
Under Iran’s strict Islamic [...]
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Man returns from visit, trips on corpse
A Haight-Ashbury man returning home from an extended vacation tripped and fell on a corpse in his bedroom after finding his apartment had been ransacked, police said.
Authorities have not released the name of the resident or the victim, identified only as a white male, but are treating the death as suspicious, [...]
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