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Damn! Associated Press: TOLEDO, Ohio — A security video from a McDonald’s in Ohio shows a woman punching two restaurant employees and smashing a drive-thru window because she couldn’t get Chicken McNuggets. The tantrum caught on tape in Toledo earlier this year shows the customer reaching through the drive-thru window, slugging one worker and...
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What would you expect to happen in such a sport? Russian finalist Vladimir Ladyzhensky and Finnish rival Timo Kaukonen were both taken to hospital after collapsing and Mr Ladyzhensky later died. The event, which has been running since 1999, requires participants to withstand 110C for as long as possible. (BBC) For us non-Celsius users,...
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“I am very excited that there’s no oil in the Gulf of Mexico,” Kent Wells, a senior vice president for BP, said about the flow during a teleconference on Thursday, “but we just started the test and I don’t want to create a false sense of excitement.” (NYT) I assume he, or the editor,...
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Paul “Yosemite Bear” Vasquez has become famous for a video posted to his YouTube Channel (Hungrybear9562), and is being dubbed by millions as “Double Rainbow Guy”. He’s the star of the Internet’s newest meme, a video in which Vazquez becomes ridiculously emotional while video-taping a double-rainbow outside his Yosemite, California home. From his ecstatic...
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In the last days of the legislative session, a flurry of activity takes place. It’s always a fun time to pay attention to the goings-on at the State Capitol. I’m signed up for a few different email update services, watch Gavel to Gavel, and follow the reporting of legislative activity. While scanning through the...
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The Legislature today passed a bill that would make the deceased eligible for Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend checks. I can’t count the number of times when I’ve been outside and had someone say, “You’re from Alaska? Is it true they pay you to live there?” The answer is a guarded yes; I’d talk about...
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The chief executive of Abercrombie & Fitch is being paid $4m (£2.6m) to curb his personal use of the company plane. (BBC) Geez, must be tough being the boss of Abercrombie & Fitch. All this time, I’ve been happy just to work at a place that has free coffee.
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It’s the year 2010, and today marks the 318th anniversary of the beginning of the Salem Witch trials. While — for the most part – the United States has moved passed superstition of such a degree, unfortunately the rest of the World hasn’t. Some countries on this planet still go on as if we...
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Poor Ady Gil. I recently started watching a few episodes of Whale Wars on Netflix. As far as entertainment, it’s not so bad. It’s got action, it’s a little sad, and it’s something completely new, as far as television goes. Essentially, it’s Japanese whalers versus conservationists, in Antarctic waters. The Japanese claim to be...
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Just in time to make the list of most hilarious and ridiculous criminal stories of the decade, this hilarious story comes across the pond from Essex, England. The Sun – VIRGINIA WHEELER — A DOZY robber was nicked while scoffing a chicken dinner at a restaurant he held up at gunpoint 20 minutes earlier....
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