Robotic Goat Eats Losing Tickets Posted: 2 years ago by mitzuzake
An animatronic Rocky Mountain goat installed at a Japanese boat-racing enterprise eats 500 losing tickets a day on average, preventing customers from throwing tickets on the floor and creating less of a mess to clean up.
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$35,000 In Lottery Tickets Used To Create Hummer H3 Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
This Hummer H3 is built from $35,000 in losing lottery tickets. No sheet metal here, folks. The piece is by Brooklyn-based artists Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was and it's entitled Ghost of a Dream. The tickets came from local bodegas, where they were discarded by unlucky patrons.
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Cubs Fan Hang Dead Goat To Ward Away Curse Posted: 8 months ago by suebe
In a repeat of a similar incident two years ago, a dead goat was found at Wrigley field. Presumably the goat was a reference to the Billy Goat curse, put on the Cubs in 1945 by Billy Goat tavern owner William Sianis after the team refused to allow his pet goat, Murphy, inside Wrigley Field for Game 4 of the World Series. The Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908.
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Mountain lion eats goat at kids camp Posted: 2 years ago by Hoosker
"It entered a camp and took a goat among 200 sleeping kids"
This happened up in the mountains where I live... thought I would share.
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Paternal dog Billy takes on an unusual kid Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A paternal dog has adopted an abandoned baby goat as his surrogate child. Billy the boxer has become the constant companion of the 12-day old kid called Lilly. He sleeps with the goat, licks her clean, and protects her from any dangers at Pennywell Farm wildlife centre at Buckfastleigh, near Totnes, Devon.
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Dog Sex with a Goat? Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
Strange looking goat born with a bulldog's face (or maybe it's just a really ugly goat).
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Goat Meets Electric Fence Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
A stupid goat continues to lick an electric fence.
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Pen pals: Giraffe and goat form unlikely friendship when kept in same enclosure Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
They'll always have a very different outlook on life.
But even though Gerald the giraffe is rather lofty and Eddie the goat is more down to earth, they are the perfect pairing.
They have formed an unlikely bond after Eddie was placed with 15ft Gerald as a short-term solution to keep the giraffe company at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm in Bristol.
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Man died after being jailed for parking tickets and missing chemo Posted: 11 months ago by suebe
Unpaid parking tickets proved fatal for a terminally ill New York man who died after callous cops locked him up for four days for a minor traffic offense, a lawsuit claims.
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Goat takes ride on TriMet bus Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A goat somehow hitched a ride on a Portland bus Monday night, surprising TriMet officials and her owner, who was baffled about how she got there. Video
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Darren The Waving Goat Posted: 6 months ago by pocksucket
Darren is a goat. Who waves. Video in the comments.
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Goat keeps sneaking onto school bus Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
The school administration has taken this whole situation in stride, even joking they wanted to make the goat an official student through open enrollment.
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Daily News readers have offered their World Series tickets to Injured Soldier. Posted: 1 month ago by suebe
After the Daily News wrote about a disabled veteran's dream of seeing the Yanks in the World Series, two dozen readers offered him either tickets or cash toward buying one.
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Map of New York City parking tickets Posted: 1 year ago by bernardblack
New York City agencies issued 9,955,441 parking tickets from July 2007 to June 2008. Here is an interactive map of them.
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Swedish straw goat burnt in violent Christmas tradition ...again! Posted: 11 months ago by Bornbad
Each year the people of Gavle build a 43-foot-tall straw goat, a traditional Scandinavian symbol of Christmas. But since the yuletide tradition began in the central Swedish city of Gavle in 1966, it has also drawn vandals, who have torched the animal 23 times since it was first set up to mark the holiday season.
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Accused says he was just milking goat Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A man accused of having sex with a goat is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday on a animal cruelty charge. Charging papers say a witness saw 63-year-old Arthur Lawton having sex with a goat May 8th in a barn at Eatonville's Pioneer Farm Museum where he worked.
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Goat 'condoms' save Kenyan herds Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Maasai herdsmen in Kenya have turned to an age-old contraceptive device, the "olor", to protect their precious goat herds from an ongoing drought.
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Long-Time Preacher Killed By Goat Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
A Clarksville preacher was killed by a goat Tuesday that he was attempting to return to a fenced-in area.
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Excuse Me, But I Have A Goat In My Trunk Posted: 3 months ago by suebe
A woman really got the goat of auto repairman James Prusci. She went to Tires Plus, wanting a belt replaced on her Chevy Malibu. While he was doing paperwork, she said she had a goat in her trunk. "A what?" he asked. She told him she planned to butcher it.
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Get free theater tickets -- if you're a virgin Posted: 2 years ago by Nicky666
The producers of an off-Broadway show are giving away free tickets to anyone who can demonstrate his or her chastity.
Hmmm, maybe "sex" isn't the best category for this story :P
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Used car dealer offering prostitutes one-way bus tickets out of town Posted: 7 months ago by kakana
A Brunswick used car dealer is offering to send prostitutes who walk along his street bus tickets to Vegas in hopes they'll stay, too.
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