Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 11:53 AM CST [General]
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VACATION PICS: I love old movie theaters. Here's one I saw in downtown Carrolton, Texas last week. The theater is now used for weddings, dances, and other events. I know - the date is wrong on the photos. I can't figure out how to turn the date stamp off!! :(
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WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS:
Health officials said they are investigating employees of a Xenia, Ohio Burger King after a video posted online showed a worker taking a bath in a store sink. Greene County Health Commissioner Mark McDonnell said the four-minute video, posted on MySpace, showed a nude employee -- who identified himself in the video only as "Mister Unstable" -- taking a bubble bath in a large stainless steel sink while several of his fellow employees, including a store manager, looked on. McDonnell said health department staff sent to investigate the restaurant found Burger King managers had taken some steps to clean up after the incident, including sanitizing the sink twice and disposing of all utensils that had been in the bath with the man. Managers at the Burger King said all of the employees involved have been fired. --Originally reported by U-P-I.
An amateur veterinarian's failed attempt to neuter a friend's schnauzer became a police matter when the owner took the dog in for emergency treatment. Hung Doc Vu, 49, of Des Moines, Iowa, was issued a misdemeanor citation for improper care and treatment of animals. Police said Vu attempted the sterilization procedure August 2nd on Shelly Shannon's dog Pooper. It was reported to police two days later and animal control officers were brought in. They said one testicle had been removed with a razor blade during the home procedure but the other had not been. Vu admitted that he attempted to neuter the dog and had not used pain medication, officials said. Officials said Vu told them he had been taught the procedure by his father and grandfather. State Veterinarian David Schmitt said Iowa law allows home castration of livestock but not household pets. He said such reports are rare.--Originally reported by The Des Moines Register
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VACATION PICS: Look at these little fellows. Aren't they cute? We spotted these miniature donkeys along HWY 31 in eastern Oklahoma.
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WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS:
Applebee's is investigating a report of a dead but intact four-inch-long lizard found in a customer's salad during lunch at the Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar in Bloomington, Indiana. Bree Davis of the McLean County Health Department said a health department sanitarian went to Applebee's after receiving a complaint from the customer. She said the department's sanitarian did not see the lizard because it had been discarded by Applebee's staff. But management confirmed it did happen. Employees showed how they wash the lettuce, cut it, and then wash it again. They couldn't fathom how a lizard got through the processand they profusely apologized,Davis said.--Originally reported by The Bloomington Pantagraph
More than 100-thousand undelivered phone books have landed a Las Cruces, New Mexico woman in trouble with the law. Debra Gottrell, 55, is accused of stashing the books in storage units around town instead of delivering them as she was hired to do. Hugh Riddle, owner of Directory Plus, said the alleged scheme did not prevent anyone in Las Cruces from receiving a phone book, but he estimated his loss at half-a-million dollars. Gottrell was indicted on a charge of fraud, a third-degree felony. It's alleged that Gottrell, over a four-year period ending early this year, stashed the directories in at least three storage units in Las Cruces.--Originally reported by The Las Cruces Sun-News
Japan's Yokohama Ice Cream Expo attracted thousands of fans before it closed Sunday, according to organizer Manabu Matsumoto, who identified beef tongue ice cream as the most popular variety. Mastumoto says, "We have ice cream from all over Japan, but beef tongue has been the one that people keep coming back for." More than 125 varieties of ice cream were available in the two-week festival, including cheese, beer, octopus, prawn and a garlic variety called Dracula Premium Ice. Another favorite was flavored with very finely sliced pieces of pearl from the traditional pearl-growing region of Japan's inland sea.--Originally reported by The U-K Daily Telegraph
A 20-year-old Denville, New Jersey woman has been charged with multiple motor vehicle violations after crashing her car into a Boonton utility pole and then fleeing the scene -- leaving a car door and stack of personal papers behind. Deirdre Ruth was charged with driving while intoxicated, underage driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident, reckless and careless driving, and failure to report an accident. Police were called to Valley Road 4:30 a-m Sunday, where they found a utility pole had been split into three pieces after being struck by a car. The driver had fled, but Boonton police said they found the door of a 1996 Chevrolet Cavalier and a stack of papers bearing Ruth's name and address at the scene. Shortly afterward, Denville police reported a woman crashed a 1996 Chevy Cavalier with a missing door into a stone wall about two miles from the earlier crash. Ruth was taken to an area hospital and treated for minor injuries.--Originally reported by The (Newark) Star-Ledger
A goldfish in a British pub has spent the past four years swimming upside down. The fish, named Aussie floats, with its belly pointing up and its eyes staring down because of a problem with its swim bladder. Regulars at the Globe Inn, in Lympstone, near Exeter, joke that the fish must be drunk. Pubkeeper Liam Matthews, 53, bought the goldfish from a pet shop in 2004 but it began swimming upside down six months later. He says, "She seems happy enough -- as far as you can tell with a fish."--Originally reported by The London Daily Mail.
A West Side Chicago woman allegedly stabbed her elderly boyfriend to death because he was drinking her beer. Regina Williams, 55, is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Willie Anderson, 77. About six p-m, Wednesday, the two were sitting in Anderson's car outside his home when Williams became angry that he was drinking her beer, authorities said. They began to quarrel and Williams allegedly pulled a knife she carried for protection and began stabbing Anderson. Anderson yelled for help, but Williams continued to stab him, according to an assistant D-A.--Originally reported by The Chicago Tribune
A same-sex couple who were married in California's Fresno County on June 27th -- just 10 days after county clerks in California started issuing marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples -- has filed for divorce. Three days Theresa Ramirez and Adelita Guajardo were married, Ramirez filed for divorce, court records show. The court petition says there were "irreconcilable differences" between her and Guajardo. Norm Fletcher, a veteran Fresno family law attorney, said it's not uncommon for couples to file for divorce shortly after getting married.--Originally reported by The Fresno Bee.
The only thing riskier than asking a woman her age or weight is guessing it. Out loud. In front of everyone. Scott Purcell does it for a living. He's one of the guessers at the Wisconsin State Fair. You pay him three bucks and he tries to guess your age within two years or your weight within three pounds. If he can't, you get a prize. He says, "It's a dangerous business. The rule is no biting, hitting, slapping or scratching the guesser if I go higher. I have bruises. I got hit with a pocketbook yesterday. A little old lady, she was 82 but I guessed her at 86. I said, 'Sorry, honey, it's the miles, it's not the years.' Then she hit me."--Originally reported by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS:
An Iowa City man is in jail, accused of biting off another man's nose during an argument. Donroy R. Merrival Junior is accused of willful injury causing serious injury. Police say he got into an argument with another person late last Thursday when the other man hit him in the head with a shovel. Merrival then bit off the man's nose and part of his lip, according to the complaint filed in Johnson County District Court. The nose was not recovered, according to the complaint. Police did not release the victim's name, but said he will be permanently disfigured because of the incident.--Originally reported by The Cedar Rapids Gazette
A passenger traveling on a bus across Canada's vast Western plains stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him in an unexplained attack on Wednesday. The victim had been sleeping before he was repeatedly stabbed in the chest by a man with a large knife, witness Garnet Caton told the C-B-C. The other 35 passengers and driver were jolted by "blood-curdling screams" and fled. Caton said, "He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times." When Caton and two others returned to check on the victim, he said they saw the attacker "cutting the guy's head off and gutting him." He added, "While we were watching...he calmly walked up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stared at us and dropped the head right in front of us." Police then surrounded the bus and arrested the man, he said. --Originally reported by The C-B-C.
A Long Island, New York fisherman died following a freak accident in which a weighted lure hit him in the eye and lodged in his brain. Jaime Chicas, 21, was angling on some rocks at Jones Beach at about 8 p-m last Friday when his line snapped back and a three-ounce sinker recoiled violently, penetrating his eye socket and hitting his brain. Chicas' brother-in-law Jose Gonzalez was about 30 feet away when he heard Chicas groaning. Chicas was pronounced brain dead Tuesday at Nassau University Medical Center.--Originally reported by The New York Post
Yes, Michael Wax stank. He's the first to admit it. The 440-pound New York City man said he was playing poker in an Atlantic City casino for 17 hours Tuesday and didn't have time to clean up. He understands why grossed-out gamblers complained about his body odor, but said he didn't deserve stinky treatment from the casino that asked him to leave. The 54-year-old limousine company owner, who says he is a frequent gambler at the Borgata Casino, said a poker room manager followed him into the restroom and informed him that patrons at his table were complaining about his body odor. When the Brooklyn man tried to retake his seat at the table, he said a manager told him to leave. He said he asked for a free room to freshen up, and the casino refused. He promptly filed a complaint about his treatment with the Casino Control Commission. Wax said his instincts tell him to find a different casino to patronize, but he likes gambling at the Borgata. He said the casino was out of line to tell him he stinks in front of other patrons.--Originally reported by The Associated Press.
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WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS:
Delta flight attendants found the body of a 61-year-old woman in the restroom of a plane that landed in Atlanta early yesterday morning. The crew noticed the restroom was occupied on final approach. Flight 950 from Los Angeles landed at 5:51 a-m, and Delta officials have not said how long the woman may have been in the restroom. Atlanta police were notified and met the plane at the gate. Atlanta police stationed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport respond to calls about dead bodies on airplanes a couple of times a year, a police spokesman said. --Originally reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Regulars on the beaches in Saint Tropez have noticed fewer naked breasts this summer than ever before. A source on France's Cote d'Azur says, "It looks like going topless has gone out of fashion. Men are whining everywhere you turn that there are no more bare boobs on the beach." This is stunning news considering that topless sunbathing on public beaches got its start at La Voile Rouge beach club in Saint Tropez some 40 years ago. --Originally reported by The New York Post.
While Anthony Hopkins was leading a revival in a small church on the outskirts of Jackson, Alabama Monday night, the body of a woman, presumed to be his wife, was stuffed in a freezer at his house in Mobile, waiting to be discovered by police. Acting on a tip given by Hopkins' daughter, the eldest of eight children, police said they knew where to look and what they were likely to find when they searched the house. Clarke County Sheriff's deputies found Hopkins at the church a short time later, still preaching and ministering to people in the crowd, according to the pastor of the congregation hosting the revival. It could be the last sermon he preaches as a free man. Hopkins now sits in Mobile County Metro Jail, charged with murdering his wife, 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins. He could face life in prison if convicted. --Originally reported by The Mobile Press-Register
That's one way to fill 'er up. A man somehow got through the locked gates at Reid-HillviewAirport in East San Jose, California on Sunday night and started refueling his car at the self-serve pumps when San Jose police showed up. There were three problems. One, the driver was not authorized to use the pump or its 40-foot hose. Two, he was drunk, according to police who arrested him on suspicion of D-U-I and attempted theft. And three, he was filling his tank with fuel formulated for airplanes. Jim Meide, who works in operations at the county-run facility says, "We've had people try and steal gas here in the past. It's really stupid. Put aviation gas in your car and it's so heavily leaded that eventually you'll end up with some very expensive repairs." Police arrested Justin Rodebush, 20. --Originally reported by The San Jose Mercury News
