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Bigfoot in my backyard Posted: 2 weeks ago by dollyllama
Well, not really, but close. But I almost did buy a house on the road mentioned. Plus bigfoot sounds playful and friendly. I hope he does come to my backyard.
This is big news around these parts!
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Tape shows woman dying on waiting room floor Posted: 3 weeks ago by dollyllama
The surveillance camera video shows the woman rolling off a waiting room chair, landing face-down on the floor and convulsing. Her collapse came at 5:32 a.m. June 19, the NYCLU said, and she stopped moving at 6:07 a.m. During that time, the organization said, workers at the hospital ignored her.
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World's Oldest Profession offers "stimulus" of its own Posted: 3 weeks ago by dollyllama
In response to a 5 percent drop in business, the Shady Lady Ranch along U.S. 95 about 150 miles north of Las Vegas plans to offer $50 gas cards to clients who spend $300 and $100 gas cards to those who spend $500.
The brothel also offers special monthly discounts, including an offer of 45 minutes of services for $175 instead of the usual rate of $200.
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Crocodile visits bar, poses for snaps Posted: 3 weeks ago by dollyllama
It sounds like the setup to a joke: A crocodile walks into a bar...
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Children fed 'silly pills,' forced to perform sex shows Posted: 4 weeks ago by dollyllama
In the windowless front rooms of a former day care center in a tiny Texas community, children as young as 5 were fed powerful painkillers they knew as "silly pills" and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of adults.
*Absolutely appalling.
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Man Brandishing Palm Frond, Flip Flops Tries To Rob Store Posted: 4 weeks ago by dollyllama
Police said it ranks near the top as one of the oddest things they've ever seen. But the palm frond wasn't the robber's only weapon. He was also brandishing a pair of flip-flops.
*video linked in article...oh and guess where this happened.
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Bear Gunned Down By Police Posted: 4 weeks ago by dollyllama
"The bear wasn't charging anybody. If he did, I could see putting the bear down, but the bear was running towards the woods. It was trying to get away from everybody," said Rick Zeigler.
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Call Roto Rooter, that's the name... Posted: 4 weeks ago by dollyllama
A kitten was rescued from a drainage pipe where she'd been meowing for days.
Very happy ending!
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Dog Plucks Boy From Platte Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
A Labrador retriever lived up to its name Friday when he plucked his 12-year-old owner out of the Platte River, near North Bend.
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1780 British Warship Found In Lake Ontario Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
A 22-gun British warship that sank during the American Revolution and has long been regarded as one of the "Holy Grail" shipwrecks in the Great Lakes has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario, astonishingly well-preserved in the cold, deep water, explorers announced Friday.
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Teen Shot, Killed In Hunting Accident Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
According to the Lavaca County Sheriff's Office, Taylor Michalec's grandfather said he was walking behind the teen when the trigger on his AK-47 assault rifle snagged a branch and discharged, striking the teen in the back.
*Why do you need an AK47 to hunt???
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Duct Taped To Chair, Mom Hops For Help Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
Police are investigating a home invasion in which a woman was taped and handcuffed to a chair in her upscale Decatur home. The woman was able to escape in the chair and flag down a motorist for help. Now police are looking for her attackers.
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2 Marines disciplined over puppy-tossing video Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
The U.S. Marine Corps has disciplined two Marines over a videotape that showed a Marine throwing a puppy over a cliff, the military said Wednesday.
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For About $500 A Season, You Can Have Own Farmer Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
Members buy a share of a farmer's crop, usually for $500 to $600, and receive a box of vegetables and fruits each week during the summer and fall. A box typically feeds three or four people for a week, although many farms offer half-shares for individuals or couples.
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4-year-old out of surgery after shooting self at Sam's Club Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
Investigators tell WIS News 10's Stewart Moore they believe the child was sitting in her grandmother's shopping cart when she pulled a small-caliber handgun out of her grandmother's shopping cart and accidentally shot herself in the chest.
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Bella the dog found her own lunch, bad move. Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
Bella the dog's lunch takes a toxic turn after an encounter with Spew the toad.
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Caribbean Monk Seal Declared Extinct Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
Kyle Baker, a biologist for NOAA's Fisheries Service southeast region, said the species is the only seal to become extinct from human causes.
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8-Year-Old Blues Guitarist's Booking Agent Gets Death Threat Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
All he wants to do is play for people, but the child prodigy may be getting too good too soon because he's already making some mysterious -- and possibly dangerous -- enemies.
*video of him playing in comments
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Junk dealer's $100,000 gold cup found under bed Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
Englishman John Webber thought nothing of the small, shiny cup, passed down from his junk dealer grandfather and stashed under a bed for years, until appraisers said it was an ancient Persian artifact.
*I only have ancient dust rhinos under my bed.
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Lesbian kisses at game ignite Seattle debate Posted: 1 month ago by dollyllama
As the Mariners played the Boston Red Sox on May 26, Sirbrina Guerrero and her date were approached in the third inning by an usher who told them their kissing was inappropriate, Guerrero said.
*I always thought of Seattle as more progressive.
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An Epidemic of Abandoned Horses Posted: 2 months ago by dollyllama
The global food and fuel crisis is resulting in more than just people going hungry. Rising grain and gas prices, as well as the closure of American slaughterhouses, have contributed to a virtual stampede of horses being abandoned — some starving — and turned loose into the deserts and plains of the West to die cruel and lonesome deaths.
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Crane collapse in New York kills at least 1 Posted: 2 months ago by dollyllama
One person was killed Friday when a construction crane fell more than 20 stories from the top of a Manhattan building, according to Scott Stringer, the borough president of Manhattan.
*I know this is headline news but this is the second time within 3 months in NY and at least the 5th time (in the same amount of time) in the country.
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Feds Probe Possible Oil Price Manipulation Posted: 2 months ago by dollyllama
A Senate subcommittee investigation last year found that hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC, which collapsed in 2006 after losing more than $6 billion in natural-gas trades, had shifted its activities to ICE from the regulated Nymex to avoid trading limits, and that the "excessive speculation" raised homeowners' heating bills.
*About time.
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Vet Faces Lawsuit For Flying American Flag Posted: 2 months ago by dollyllama
Watkins and his wife, Ria, received a final notices from the Sussex homeowners' association in Clermont that they must remove the flag or else face legal action.
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California Tourist Drugged; Killed By Train In Rome Posted: 2 months ago by dollyllama
An American tourist from California was killed by a train as he walked on the tracks in a daze after he drank a cappuccino laced with drugs and then was robbed, railway police said Monday.
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