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Ore. smokejumpers skydive into illegal pot garden |
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05/09/2013 at 19:20:05 |
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MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing season.
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'Raining Blooderator' pays tribute to late Slayer guitarist |
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05/09/2013 at 22:43:43 |
Hanneman honored with site-splattering bloody web app
In a tribute to recently deceased guitarist Jeff Hanneman of the heavy metal band Slayer, a Minneapolis, Minnesota–based ad agency has released a web app that can rain simulated blood onto any webpage.…
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Cops mistake man's tomato garden for marijuana farm |
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05/09/2013 at 17:21:13 |
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You say “tomato”, I say, “illegal pot farm on a Brooklyn rooftop.” A resident in a Brooklyn apartment building got an unexpected, and unmerited, visit from the police after his superintendent called the cops to report an illegal pot growing operation on the building’s roof. There was just one small problem … the plant growing [...]
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Landlord mistakes tenant's tomato plants for pot, calls cops |
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05/09/2013 at 17:21:13 |
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You say “tomato”, I say, “illegal pot farm on a Brooklyn rooftop.” A resident in a Brooklyn apartment building got an unexpected, and unmerited, visit from the police after his superintendent called the cops to report an illegal pot-growing operation on the building’s roof. There was just one small problem?the plants growing on the building’s [...]
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Your Prius does not impress them. Workers commute via excavators |
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05/09/2013 at 17:06:10 |
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Think your commute is fraught with peril? Check out what these workers in Siberia go through to get to their jobs. This video is a few months old, but it's getting renewed interest thanks to a segment on "Today." In the clip, bridge builders take turns climbing into the scooper of an excavator and taking [...]
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Animated graphic illustrates impact of meteorites on earth |
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05/09/2013 at 16:45:47 |
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Meteroites -– debris from space that fall to earth, usually in a fiery blaze, are few and far between. And they’re especially rare to witness. But over the millennia, they add up. A cool animated visualization by Carlo Zapponi called Bolides, tracks the meteorites that have collided with earth, focusing on ones that were seen [...]
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16-year-old girl, born without legs and one arm, is now a swimming champ |
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05/09/2013 at 15:07:17 |
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Kayla Wheeler was born with three congenital amputations: missing both legs and one arm. Her doctor recommended swimming as a form of physical therapy. And now, at age 16, Wheeler is literally breaking world records. Massachusetts CNN affiliate KCPQ reports that Wheeler already has competed in Brazil, Mexico and the Netherlands and has her sights [...]
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Woman accused of slapping deputy so she'd go to jail and quit smoking |
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05/09/2013 at 12:45:06 |
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File this one under "B" for "Bad Ideas." A woman allegedly slapped a Sacramento County deputy in order to get arrested. Why? So she would go to jail and be forced to give up smoking cigarettes. CBS-Sacramento reports that Deputy Matt Campoy was leaving his shift when he felt a slap across his face. "It [...]
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Mass. panel: No profanity on rapper's headstone |
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05/09/2013 at 09:24:22 |
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LYNN, Mass. (AP) — Commissioners at a Massachusetts cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones.
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China probes reports of film director Zhang Yimou's seven children |
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05/08/2013 at 22:48:22 |
 BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have begun investigating reports that Zhang Yimou, one of China's best-known movie directors, has seven children in violation of strict family planning rules, which could result in a fine of 160 million yuan ($26.05 million), state media said on Thursday. Online reports have surfaced that Zhang, who dazzled the world in 2008 with his Beijing Olympic ceremonies, "has at least seven children and will face a 160 million yuan fine," said the website of the People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece. ...
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John McAfee talks of sex, drugs, and bad coding |
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05/08/2013 at 20:03:52 |
Disavows software that bears his name
Tech mogul turned fugitive blogger John McAfee has been taking questions in a Slashdot Q&A that reveal a claimed life of drug smuggling, political corruption, and living with a hammered testicle.…
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Vietnamese madam cuffed after advertising girls on Facebook |
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04/25/2013 at 14:19:21 |
Art museum nudies NO! But prostitutes, sure
Police in Vietnam have swooped on a prostitution ring after spotting one enterprising lady-of-the-night using Facebook to advertise her girls’ wares to potential punters.…
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Pyongyang Photoshop tomfoolery shows wet Norks, skirts blown up |
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03/28/2013 at 11:18:12 |
Virtual hover armada storms beach in propaganda pic
North Korea's official press agency has been caught with its hands in the Photoshop copy-and-paste jar, in a hopelessly bodged attempt to big up the amphibious-landing capability of the country's hovercraft.…
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Strategic SIEGE ROBOTS defeated by 'heavily intoxicated' man, 62 |
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02/28/2013 at 06:03:10 |
Epic battle in Ohio: Fall of the Machines™
In yet another sign of the continued supremacy - for the moment at least - of humanity over its machines, reports are coming in that a duo of powerful police robots has been bested in combat by an elderly American man who was "heavily intoxicated" at the time after the "strategic" enforcement machines attempted to storm his dwelling.…
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