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Old 09-17-2010, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Pocono Mts.
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Cop Blinds Himself With Pepper Spray, Gets Tasered by Police.

(Sept. 10) -- A police officer blinds himself with pepper spray, then another cop zaps him with a Taser on Friday the 13th. No, it's not a pitch for a new "Keystone Kops" film -- it's a crime story from England that proves that criminals aren't a police officer's only foe.

After Blinding Himself With Pepper Spray, Cop Gets Tasered by Police

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Did he say, "Don't tase me, I'm a bro!"
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Old 09-17-2010, 04:03 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Car thief foiled by wrong gas.

RAMSGATE, England, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A British court heard an automobile thief was arrested after he put gasoline into a stolen diesel-powered car.

Police said Daniel Boxall, 27, of Ramsgate, England, was arrested June 12 along with passenger Richard Lloyd after the $20,000 Audi A4 broke down at the side of a road, This is Kent reported Monday.

Car thief foiled by wrong gas - UPI.com
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Old 09-21-2010, 03:51 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Sleeping driver receives horrifying wake-up call.

NEAR DEER LODGE, MT - A Washington man received quite the wake-up call after falling asleep at the wheel on Interstate 90 near Deer Lodge.

Adam Dangerfield, 21, of Pullman, WA was on his way to college in Idaho on the morning of September 2 when he nodded off and impaled a guardrail along the right shoulder of the road.

Sleeping driver receives horrifying wake-up call | KTVQ.com | Q2 | Billings, Montana
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Old 09-25-2010, 02:31 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Prison holds beauty pageant

BOGOTA, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- A former paramilitary leader was crowned a beauty queen at the close of an annual pageant at Colombia's Good Shepherd prison.

Diana Layton, 21, who joined a right-wing paramilitary group at the age of 12 and acted as commander of a death squad, won the tiara and gift bag following the pageant at the Bogota prison, the Toronto (Canada) Globe and Mail reported Friday.


Prison holds beauty pageant - UPI.com

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Man smokes 292,000 ciggies
.. lives to 100!

A CHAIN smoking pensioner has celebrated his 100th birthday despite puffing on nearly 300,000 cigarettes — and glugging a glass of whisky a day.
Old soldier Arthur Langran - who survived being blown up by a grenade in the Second World War - claims the key to his longevity is doing what everyone tells him not to.

Man smokes 292,000 ciggies .. lives to 100! | The Sun |News

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Old 09-27-2010, 03:07 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Police: Elmo wins fight after 'unprovoked' attack at Winter Park guitar shop

Police in Winter Park said a man dressed as Elmo was attacked at a local music store on Saturday afternoon by a man who believed the Sesame Street character was a threat to him.

http://media.trb.com/media/photo/2010-09/56363053.jpg (broken link)

Man attacks Elmo: Police say Elmo wins fight after 'unprovoked' attack at Winter Park guitar shop - OrlandoSentinel.com
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Old 09-27-2010, 09:23 AM
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Elmo wins! Yeah!
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Old 09-27-2010, 09:26 AM
 
Location: Orlando, Florida
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....and people think I'm kidding when I say many people in Orlando are weird.
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Old 09-27-2010, 01:42 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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OAP ATTACKS HELL'S ANGEL: RACE JIBE LED TO ASSAULT

A PENSIONER who attacked a “fearsome” Hell’s Angel with his walking stick after being racially abused has been jailed for 18 months.


Frail Keith Degroot smashed 6ft 3in biker Stephen Hall across the head after he knocked the 66-year-old’s glasses off and called him a “f**king Jew” in a pub.

Daily Star: Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: News :: OAP attacks Hell's Angel: Race jibe led to assault
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Old 09-28-2010, 02:12 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Urinating clubber short-circuits club.

Clubber Guenther Hart’s urinary actions short-circuited the electrics at Munich’s crowded Americanos club, forcing the club to throw all the clubgoers out and close down for the night.

Urinating clubber short-circuits club | Metro.co.uk
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Old 09-28-2010, 02:30 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Minor Iowa Arrest Makes Headlines.

The Iowa man, 48, was arrested Thursday night by Davenport cops on a warrant for failing to appear in court to answer a misdemeanor charge of operating a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent, according to a jail booking sheet.

But enough about Winkelman’s criminal entanglements, it’s his forehead tattoo that is worth further discussion.



Minor Iowa Arrest Makes Headlines | The Smoking Gun
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