Shirtless man ticketed

Bizzare and Offbeat, Halirious, sad, strange - No Comments » - Posted on June, 12 at 6:01 pm

EASTON, Md. - For only the third time in five years, Easton police have ticketed someone for going topless in public. Sean Cephus, 18, was cited June 4 when police say he was spotted without a shirt on South Street near Hanson Street. He was also cited for failing to obey a lawful order to [...]

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Cedar Rapids Floods

Bizzare and Offbeat, sad, strange - 1 Comment » - Posted on June, 12 at 5:59 pm

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Cedar River poured over its banks here Thursday, forcing the evacuation of nearly 4,000 homes, causing a railroad bridge to collapse and leaving cars underwater on downtown streets.
Officials estimated that 100 blocks were underwater in Cedar Rapids, where several days of preparation could not hold back the rain-swollen river. Rescuers [...]

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Mayors ask Congress for help with U.S. infastructure

Bizzare and Offbeat, sad - No Comments » - Posted on June, 12 at 5:55 pm

Big-city mayors told Congress on Thursday that they are overwhelmed by the infrastructure needs of their regions and cannot maintain well-functioning water systems, roads and rail networks without more federal help.

On July 19, 2007, an underground steam pipe exploded in New York, sending residents running for cover.

“We’re having a quiet collapse of prosperity,” said [...]

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City of Dearborn Bans Ice Cream Trucks

Bizzare and Offbeat, Halirious, sad, strange - No Comments » - Posted on June, 10 at 5:05 pm

City officials in Dearborn Heights, Mich., say they may ban ice cream truck drivers from playing music because residents think it’s too loud.
The city council is preparing to pass an ordinance Tuesday, permitting drivers to sound bells only as they are making an ice cream sale, The Detroit News reported.
Drivers say the ordinance is unreasonable [...]

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Drunk Baby Born Fives Times Over the Limit

Bizzare and Offbeat, IDIOT, sad, strange - No Comments » - Posted on June, 10 at 3:36 pm

A mother who was intoxicated during her labor at a Polish hospital gave birth to a baby girl who was almost 15 times over the country’s adult drunk-driving limit, Agence France-Presse is reporting.
The baby girl, born Monday, had a blood alcohol level of 0.29 percent. Poland’s drunk driving limit is 0.02 percent, according to [...]

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Passenger plane crashes in Sudan

Bizzare and Offbeat, sad - No Comments » - Posted on June, 10 at 3:03 pm

A plane with up to 180 people aboard crashed Tuesday while attempting to land at a Khartoum, Sudan, airport, according to Sudanese television.

Video from the scene showed wreckage engulfed in flames. It was reportedly flying from Amman, Jordan.
Airport officials told CNN it overshot the runway in bad weather, and that many people are believed killed [...]

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Americans Fear Gas Shortage

Bizzare and Offbeat, Halirious, sad, strange - No Comments » - Posted on June, 10 at 2:53 pm

As much as Americans fret over the rising price of gas, one thing worries them more: the possibility of having to wait in long lines to buy rationed gas.
A CNN/Opinion Research poll released Tuesday shows that 55% of those surveyed are more worried about long lines at gas stations and rationing than about the high [...]

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Child shoots self in Sams Club

Bizzare and Offbeat, sad - No Comments » - Posted on June, 9 at 8:14 pm

Authorities say a four-year-old girl from Salley is recovering after she grabbed a gun out of her grandmother’s purse and shot herself in the Harbison Blvd. Sam’s Club Monday.
The child underwent emergency surgery Monday afternoon at Palmetto Health Richland Memorial Hospital.
Lewis says no major organs were hit by the bullet, and the child is out of surgery and in [...]

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Scottish Girl starved by parents

Bizzare and Offbeat, sad - No Comments » - Posted on June, 8 at 11:34 pm

A 12-YEAR-OLD girl in Scotland brought up by her parents on a strict vegan diet has been admitted to hospital with a degenerative bone condition said to have left her with the spine of an 80-year-old woman.
Doctors are under pressure to report the couple to police and social workers amid concerns that her health and [...]

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Virgina to execute crazy man

Bizzare and Offbeat, IDIOT, sad, strange - No Comments » - Posted on June, 8 at 11:28 pm

RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia man who whose execution has been pushed back three times because of questions about his mental capacity is scheduled to die Tuesday unless the governor or courts step in again.
Percy Walton, 29, was sent to death row for robbing and killing three neighbors in Danville in 1996. He is set [...]

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