There are some pretty cool ones here.
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Dollar Art
Sep 18
What sucks is the suspect is already out of jail….
A police officer kept chasing a suspect for his first arrest – despite getting a six-inch
branch stuck in his eye.
Pc John Nash slipped on mud and slid head first into a bush while pursuing the man in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, just six days into the job.
He only realised he was injured when he arrested the suspect, who told him he had “better get to hospital”.
Pc Nash, 25, underwent three hours of surgery, which saved his eye, and says he now just wants to return to work.
The officer was in an unmarked police vehicle following a car being driven erratically on an estate when it was abandoned in Walton Close.
Two men ran off and Pc Nash gave chase, in conditions described as “driving rain”, and cornered one in a dead end.
Blame it on Halo.
A judge
Monday rejected the defense that a teenage boy opened fire on his family because he was addicted to video games, convicting him of wounding his clergyman father and killing his mother after they fought over a game. Lawyers for Daniel Petric, 17, didn’t contest that the boy shot his parents in October 2007, but insisted his youth and video game addiction made him less responsible.
Common Pleas Judge James Burge disagreed and pointed to evidence the boy plotted the crime for weeks.
Petric was convicted of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and other charges. He faces a maximum possible penalty of life in prison without parole. The judge didn’t set a sentencing date.
Prosecutors said Petric planned to kill his parents because he was angry that his father would not allow him to play the video game “Halo 3,” in which players shoot alien monsters that have taken over the Earth.
He’ll sue because she didn’t provide a safe working environment.
A would-be thief received
more than he bargained for Saturday when a Donalds homeowner gave him an arrest and a trip to the emergency room.
The Abbeville County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a stabbing about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, and when officers arrived at the scene, they found a man staggering in the driveway, bleeding profusely from a wound to his left shoulder, according to police reports.
The man — identified as Locketus Jarvarus Marshall, 23, of 204 Haigler St., Abbeville — passed out, and while Emergency Medical Services took him to Self Regional Medical Center, officers got written statements from the homeowner and a witness, only to arrest Marshall.
According to the homeowner, she had spent the evening in Anderson and returned to see the home completely dark. When she entered, she heard someone moving inside the home and called out, detective Michael Belcher said Monday.
“At that point, (Marshall) grabbed the victim and pushed her up against the kitchen sink. She tried to call 911, but she couldn’t see the numbers, so she called her father, who she had on speed dial,” Belcher said.The homeowner then felt around in the sink, found a knife and struck Marshall with it in the left shoulder.
“Once she stabbed him, Mr. Marshall ran outside and called 911 to say he’d been stabbed,” Belcher said. “He made the comment he’d gotten a ride to a friend’s house because his car had caught on fire.”
Ball:1 Pigeon:0
Dec 19
I would say, what a pretty impressive shot. 20 bucks says he could not pull it off again.
Argentine soccer player Gaston Aguirre killed a pigeon
with a single shot — right off his foot. “I kicked the ball and, poor pigeon,” the San Lorenzo defender said. “Now I will be remembered as the pigeon killer.”
Aguirre hit the bird in the 2-1 victory against Tigre in a three-team round-robin for the Argentine league title. Surrounded by opponents, he kicked the ball toward the goal and in the direction of a group of pigeons on the grass near the corner.
A burst of feathers followed and the pigeons flew away — except one.
Several players surrounded the wounded bird as it tried to fly away but it collapsed. Referee Saul Laverni then scooped up the dead pigeon and placed it off the field.
You’d think that step 1 in performing an autopsy would be: Check for a pulse. You know — just in case.
A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.
“I woke up because the pain was unbearable,” Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.
His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband’s body only to find him moved into a corridor — and alive.
I hope he takes that medicine that keeps him from having to pee all of the time due to an enlarged prostate.
Mike Flynt was drinking beer and swapping stories with some old football buddies a few months ago when he brought up the biggest regret of his life: Getting kicked off the college team before his senior year.
One of his pals asked why he didn’t do something about it? So Flynt started a comeback — at age 59.
Flynt has returned to Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, 37 years after he left — and six years before he goes on Medicare. And, he’s has made the roster of the Division III Lobos and could be in action as soon as Sept. 1.
Flynt enrolled in graduate school so he can take advantage of his final semester of Division III eligibility.
Flynt is giving new meaning to being a college senior. After all, he’s a grandfather. He’s eight years older than his coach and has two kids older than any of his teammates. His youngest child just started at the University of Tennessee.
Flynt’s position is still being determined, but he used to play linebacker. Wherever he lines up, just getting into a game likely will make him the oldest player in college football history. Neither the NCAA or NAIA keeps such a statistic, but research hasn’t turned up anyone older than mid-40s.
And with around 200 pounds on a 5-10 frame, about the only visible difference from his playing days is a shaved head. He’s in tremendous shape for his age because he’s made a living out of working out.
Hey there buddy whats up?
Aug 17
When something like this happens, you swing a baseball bat at the gunman’s head, because he has suggested that his gun may not be loaded.
convenience store customer was struck on the head with a gun when he mistook a robber for a friend who he thought was playing a practical joke, police said.
The masked man entered Sandler’s Party Store about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, brandished a handgun and demanded money.
Patrick O’Brien, 21, walked up to the man, thinking he was a friend, and grabbed him in a playful way, police said. The gunman then hit O’Brien in the head with his gun.
He should have tried rubbing their bellies, it makes them sleepy.
CAPE York stockman David George has spent seven nights up a tree in a crocodile-infested swamp, bleeding and with little food – and lived to tell the tale.
The father-of-one and co-manager at Silver Plains cattle station yesterday told his remarkable tale of survival and rescue by chopper in rugged bushland near Coen, in the state’s remote far north.
“Every night I was stalked by two crocs who would sit at the bottom of the tree staring up at me,” Mr George recalled yesterday.
“All I could see was two sets of red eyes below me and all night I had to listen to a big bull croc bellowing a bit further out.
“I’d yell out at them, ‘I’m not falling out of this tree for you bastards’.”
Dazed and bleeding after a tumble from his horse earlier this month, the bushie had given the horse its head in the pre-dawn dark to get him home – only to find it had taken him more than a kilometre into the heart of a croc swamp.
“I had to get off the horse and fall on the long 8ft-high swamp grass to clear a path, when I fell straight into a crocodile nest,” he said.
Now if I 
can figure out how to keep the neighbors cat from killing the chipmonks and rabbits in my yard in the middle of the night…. Seriously though it is a no brainer. Cats are cold creatures. You think your cat loves you? Drop kitty off at uncle Mikes house for a week. After three days it will forget all about you so long as it has its kibble and something to keep its mind on.
Do that to a long time family dog and it would ball its eyes out. Possibly break ol’ yellers heart. I could go on and on for months about this subject but that alone should state my case. Dogs have feelings, cats have instincts only for the most part. Not to mention many breeds of K9 can be amazing protectors.
Nearly six-in-ten (57%) of all adults in this country own a pet or pets of one kind or another, with dog owners (39% of all adults) outnumbering cat owners (23%) – and owners of all other pets trailing far behind, the Pew survey finds.
More whites (64%) than blacks (30%) or Hispanics (39%) have a pet. There is also an income skew to pet ownership: nearly seven-in-ten (69%) adults with an annual family income of $100,000 or more has a pet, compared with fewer than half (45%) of adults with an income below $30,000. Also, rural residents (65%) are more likely than suburbanites (57%) or city folks (51%) to have a pet — though, as noted above, they’re a bit less likely to consider their dogs or cats a member of the family.
Dogs may be known as man’s best friend, but for most of their owners, even that lavish sobriquet appears to undershoot the mark. Fully 85% of dog owners say they consider their pet to be a member of their family, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
And most cat owners (78%) feel the same way.
The pets-as-four-legged-family-member phenomenon helps explain everything from the heart-tugging scenes during Hurricane Katrina last fall, when some Gulf Coast residents risked staying home because they did not want to abandon their pets, to the explosive recent growth of the pet care industry. Americans spent an estimated $35.9 billion on their pets last year, up from $17 billon in 1994, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association. Some of that money went for pet cosmetic surgery, pet insurance, pet strollers, pet waterbeds and, yes, pet spas and hotels. (The “Presidential Suite” at the Ritzy Canine Carriage House in Manhattan is available for $175 a night, breakfast included.)
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