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USPS letter carrier was delivering more than mail Posted: 7 months ago by kakana
A 43-year-old U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was arrested while on her rounds Thursday, then charged with possessing and selling drugs. Agents found 7.57 grams of meth packaged for sale, prescription drugs, documentation of sales, packaging material and a glass smoking pipe in her vehicle. Any room left for the mail?
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 382 [+].
Landing on an aircraft carrier Posted: 3 years ago by Phildo
Neat video of a jet landing on an aircraft carrier. At first I thought the landing angle was wrong and then said, "Duh", I guess they know what they are doing!
Comments: 10 Score: [-] 135 [+].
Sell Alitalia for one euro, says Italian minister Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Italy should hand loss-making national carrier Alitalia to anyone willing to take it off Rome's hands for one euro, or allow the airline to go bankrupt, Italy's infrastructure minister said.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 52 [+].
Mail carrier attacked by squirrel Posted: 3 years ago by Alton
"It was a freak thing. It was traumatic," Dougherty told The Derrick in Oil City. "I saw it there on the porch, put the mail in the box and turned to walk away and it jumped on me."
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 63 [+].
Airline says no sex on the new A380 Posted: 2 years ago by Proverb
The carrier said it would ask passengers on the A380 to refrain from sex while ensconced in one of its 12 first-class suites, which boast the world's first airborne double beds.
Comments: 16 Score: [-] 220 [+].
The Babykeeper : 3-in-1 Hip Carrier Posted: 2 years ago by wildminou
This thing is quite clever, especially for shopping parents. (I do not have kids, maybe it's why i'm impress by it)
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 140 [+].
PBS: Carrier Posted: 2 years ago by DerAlt
ONE SAILOR calmly tells the camera that America went to war for oil. Another, while slurring drunk and again when stone sober, is shown making racist comments. Yet another naval serviceman, who counsels crew members about sexually appropriate behavior, is caught having sex with a shipmate of a lower rank.
Not exactly the message the Navy wanted to broadcast
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 326 [+].
Mail carrier threatened for using Sidewalks Posted: 9 months ago by tragluk
The carrier, whom the union did not name, was issued a “warning letter” Tuesday, telling him he could be suspended from duty if he continues using sidewalks rather than walking across lawns.
Comments: 18 Score: [-] 562 [+].
Delta will be first airline to offer WiFi on all US flights Posted: 1 year ago by MeMe
As the dire finances of the airline industry force carriers to find ways of charging for what once were free services, in-flight WiFi offers an appealing alternative: charge for something new that didn't have a precedent of being free.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 82 [+].
Ancient sling comes back into fashion Posted: 3 years ago by gammerus
cool, comfortable, and versatile!
Comments: 10 Score: [-] 60 [+].
USS Enterprise to join USS Nimitz Posted: 2 years ago by Bandit
Science Fiction fans rejoice!
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 46 [+].
They might be Bird Brains, but they know art Posted: 5 months ago by meggysue
First they ferried mail, now they are art critics. Pidgeons can be trained to discriminate between good art and bad. If it were only as easy for humans.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 136 [+].
Place dog in bag Posted: 3 years ago by suebe
Dogs as fashion accessory. Designers jump on the bandwagon.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 7 [+].
LRO snaps first pictures of Apollo Moon landing sites Posted: 4 months ago by equinox
The pictures show the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules' locations evident. Also visible are the tracks left by the wheelbarrow like carrier used on Apollo 14
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 414 [+].
LEGO Aircraft Carrier Posted: 2 years ago by suckersklub
100% hook-up potential. Not.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 13 [+].
Mailman to the rescue Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
A mail carrier saved an elderly woman from being dragged down the street by her van.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 246 [+].
New Tourist Spacecraft Unveiled Posted: 2 years ago by willster09
The creator of SpaceShipOne, the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space, traveled to New York to show detailed models of the bigger SpaceShipTwo and its carrier airplane, WhiteKnightTwo.
Comments: 6 Score: [-] 286 [+].
Ryanair may charge for toilet use on planes Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Irish carrier Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, might start charging passengers for using the toilet while flying, chief executive Michael O'Leary said on Friday.
Comments: 6 Score: [-] 300 [+].
Woman pinned by dead husband's body Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
Newspaper carrier Bruce Pitts knew the elderly couple only by the prayers the wife made for him while he was working at night and in bad weather, but he felt something was wrong when the papers piled up outside their home.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 402 [+].
Airlines reduce size of spoons to save fuel during recession Posted: 4 months ago by Bingo
Northwest Airlines has excluded spoons from its cutlery pack if the in-flight meal does not require one.
Another carrier, JAL of Japan shaved a fraction of a centimetre off all its cutlery to cut weight.
Other carriers have come up with all sorts of ingenious initiatives to shift the flab off their aircraft.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 214 [+].
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