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The last few months have been riddled with worldwide rallies and protests, with unruly crowds singing, shouting, and acting out in defiance of oppressive governments and backward legislation. And then, in Nashville, the mimes got involved. The Nashville Comedy Theater rallied outside the Rutherford County Courthouse, evidently standing up...
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To quote somebody without a good answer, “The Lord works in mysterious ways.” Now a Virginia family believes they have been given a sign – in the shape of tree rings. The Norton family had branches trimmed from a tree; a few weeks later, the rings in one of...
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When Monique Smith visited her family’s apartment last June to find that her hamster had died, she found herself beset with grief. But instead of getting angry, she got even – with her brother, whom she accused of being responsible for the rodent’s death. In what can be only...
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We’ve all heard that beetles and cockroaches can be “mind controlled” by attaching electrodes to their antennae, evoking the reflex which causes them to turn left and right. But now you can do it yourself. If you’re completely devoid of empathy, the RoboRoach Kit is right for you. All...
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In what could be called a “reverse prison break” thieves managed to infiltrate a prison’s administration building and make off with a 50-inch plasma screen TV in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Police were only alerted to the theft after firefighters were called to fight a blaze in the administration...
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A man in Stamford, Connecticut is behind bars after slashing another man in the back with a pair of scissors during a haircut. David Davis’ mugshot tells all: As a friend was giving him a haircut in his Stamford apartment, the victim evidently approached Davis in what was called...
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On March 3, 2008, 54-year-old Roger Kreutz was ordering coffee at Starbucks when 19-year-old thief Aaron Poisson snatched the tip jar and took off. Instead of fully evaluating the situation – for example, the odds that a senior citizen could chase down a teenager, or whether such a chase...
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Evidently unable to obtain a child in a more traditional fashion, an 18-year-old girl in Maricopa, AZ is now behind bars for attempted first-degree murder, burglary and arson in the fallout of a botched plan to kill her nine-month pregnant friend and claim the baby as her own. Kassandra...
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If you gave a dollar to the Wishing Well Foundation USA, you’ll be extremely displeased to know that only five cents went to treating terminally-ill children, while nearly twice that much went to the charity’s president. The non-profit watchdog Charity Navigator gave the Wishing Well Foundation from Metarie, Louisiana...