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• Low flying pelican and cell phone vs million dollar car: car loses

  
  Gadling — Authority: 694
  Filed under: United States , Transportation , News Earlier this week, a pig on an airport runway in Zimbabwe wrecked a plane and panicked passengers as the plane was taking off. On Wednesday, it wasnt a pig that created a travel brouhaha. It was a low flying pelican--plus a cell phone. Evidently, as the ...
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• The Daily Habit: Cars

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 140
  Who Wrecked the Bugatti? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lagoon_bugatti  
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• Urn with veterans ashes stolen from van in DC

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  An urn containing the ashes of a decorated Korean War veteran has been stolen from a van the soldiers family rented to attend his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
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• Cats demise prompts rumors of Thatchers death

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  When Canadas transport minister decided to name his cat Thatcher, he likely never thought it would cause quite the stir it did during a gala dinner earlier this week. During a tribute to Canadas military in Toronto, some 1,700 luminaries, including Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, were in the middle of dinner ...
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• The Chavez Diet: Venezuelans urged to lose weight

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Call it the Bolivarian battle of the bulge.
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• Trista Joy Lathern Gives Charity a Bad Name

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 613
  Shame on you, Trista Joy Lathern Trista Joy Lathern: one bad apple. Image from openphoto.net. People have all kinds of excuses for not donating to charity. Most of the people I know and I dont hand out money to people asking for change on the streets because we all agree that unless we know what theyre going to ...
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• LA police arrest 74-year-old tagging suspect

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies have arrested a man they say is the oldest tagger theyve ever captured. Lt. Eric Ruble said 74-year-old John Scott was arrested Friday when deputies spotted him putting stickers on a stairwell at the downtown 7th and Metro Center subway station in Los Angeles. Ruble said the oldest ...
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• Man distracted by bird drives Bugatti into marsh

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. The accident happened about 3 p.m. Wednesday on the frontage road of Interstate 45 northbound in La Marque, about 35 miles southeast of Houston.
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• Police: Drunk man survives being run over by train

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Police said a highly intoxicated man who survived when multiple freight train cars rolled over him is "the luckiest guy alive." Police Major Kevin Lemke said Canadian National Railway employees reported they ran over someone lying between the tracks and did an emergency stop about 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
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• Bugatti Veyron lands in lagoon after driver is distracted by … a pelican?

  
  Auto Motion — Authority: 431
  As a car lover, this is something you just cringe at the thought of: A Bugatti Veyron, one of the world’s most expensive and fastest production cars, going out of control and landing in the thick muck of a lagoon.This was the sad case on Wednesday in Texas when such a car, valued at $2 [...]
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• Suspect returns to crime scene for cell phone

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Sioux Falls Police arrested a 20-year-old man on Wednesday when he returned to the scene of a crime to retrieve his cell phone. Police said they got a call Wednesday evening from a woman who saw a man inside her unlocked car. She and a neighbor shooed the man away - but she noticed later that her digital camera was ...
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• Praise Lord, then pass ammo at church gun class

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  The issue this week at a Chattanooga church isnt just sanctification, but safety - gun safety. Pastor Fred Smith at the East Chattanooga Church of God says about 40 people have been taking a safety course on firearms. "Were not a pistol-packing church, by any means," he said, "but many outdoorsmen have an interest, ...
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• Tanker overturns, spilling whiskey on Ky. road

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  It was a "bottoms up" of a different variety. Authorities in Scott County said a tanker truck carrying Canadian Club whiskey overturned Wednesday on U.S. 460 as it was being driven to the Jim Beam distillery in Frankfort. No other vehicles were involved and Scott County Emergency Management Agency director Jack ...
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• Ala. robbery suspect jailed minus part of his nose

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  A northwest Alabama man is in jail minus part of his nose, which police said was bitten off during a robbery attempt. Police said a 40-year-old man was in custody Friday after surrendering to authorities. He will be charged in what police said was a robbery attempt that occurred Monday in Tuscumbia.
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• Woman who mistook cop for Sonic car hop faces DUI

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  A woman who mistook a police officer for a car hop at a Sonic drive-in was charged with DUI and possession of drug paraphernalia. A caller to 911 Saturday reported the woman nearly struck several vehicles before pulling into the drive-in.
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• Man convicted of robbing mom over parking ticket

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  An Anchorage man has been convicted of robbing his mother at gunpoint because she didnt give him money to help pay a parking ticket. The Anchorage district attorney said Thursday that 27-year-old Cheng Saelee was also convicted of illegally contacting his mother from jail and trying to get her to drop the charges.
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• British gardeners told: go green, pee outdoors

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  A British heritage charity is encouraging employees to help the environment by eschewing indoor toilets and relieving themselves outdoors.
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• Woman accused of faking breast cancer for implants

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Authorities say a Texas woman lied about having breast cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit to have her breasts enlarged.
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• Thieves steal popular NC road sign _ again

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Want to know how far it is from the eastern end of Interstate 40 in North Carolina to the western end in California? Youll have to punch it into your GPS or try MapQuest.
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• Police: Drunken Pa. man drove tractor on beer run

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 839
  Pennsylvania State Police say a man was drunk when he hopped on a lawn tractor and drove it to buy more beer.
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