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        (02-02) 13:40 PST Nashua, N.H. (AP) --

A woman angered by her husband's refusal to give her money arranged for two men to break-in and rob him of more than $2,500 as he slept, police said.

Beth Ortiz, 35, had argued with her husband, Valente Ortiz, 28, about money last Friday and left their apartment, police said.

Before going to bed, Valente Ortiz left the apartment unlocked, expecting his wife's return, police said. Instead, he told police, he was awakened by two men who rifled through his pants, taking cash from his wallet and pocket. One of the men allegedly punched him, police said.

Raymond Alleyne, 22, and Anthony Perkins, 20, both of Nashua, were arrested after police found them with Beth Ortiz at another apartment. Beth Ortiz was charged with conspiracy, Alleyne with burglary, and Perkins with burglary and simple assault.

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        (01-04) 18:51 PST Rockville, Md. (AP) --

A Montgomery County judge ruled Tuesday that the act of mooning is not illegal in Maryland, clearing a man accused of indecent exposure after showing his buttocks to a neighbor during an argument.

Judge John W. Debelius III said the defendant, Raymond Hugh McNealy, 44, committed a "disgusting" and "demeaning" act when he allegedly exposed himself to his neighbor and her 8-year-old daughter June 7. But the judge overturned an earlier decision by a District Court judge against McNealy.

"If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty," Debelius said, according to a report Wednesday in The Washington Post.

McNealy's neighbor, Nanette Vonfeldt, accused him of yelling at her and threatening to "blow up my building" as she and her daughter walked out of their apartment. The two had a heated meeting the night before at the home owner's association, according to McNealy's attorneys, and McNealy wanted Vonfeldt off the board.

"Then, for whatever reason, in full view of my daughter, he mooned us," Vonfeldt wrote in court documents.

Montgomery District Court Judge Eugene Wolfe ruled against McNealy on the indecent exposure claim, a charge that is punishable by up to three years in prison and a $1,000 fine.

McNealy appealed, saying state law only covers display of a person's "private parts," which does not include the buttocks. His attorneys cited a 1983 case of a woman arrested in front of the U.S. Supreme Court with only a cardboard sign on the front of her body. An appeals court later ruled indecent exposure only relates to a person's genitals.

Prosecutors disagreed, saying Maryland law is ambiguous.

"This was not a bathing suit scenario," said Montgomery County prosecutor Dan Barnett. "This was a grown man exposing himself to an 8-year-old girl."

McNealy attorney James Maxwell said the Debelius ruling should "bring comfort to all beachgoers and plumbers" in the state.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34661">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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         (04-17) 15:14 PDT Longmont, Colo. (AP) --

A man who said he bought a device that let him change traffic lights from red to green has received a $50 ticket on suspicion of interfering with a traffic signal.

Jason Niccum of Longmont told the Daily Times-Call that the device, which he bought on eBay for $100, helped him cut his time driving to work.

"I guess in the two years I had it, that thing paid for itself," he told the newspaper Wednesday.

Niccum was cited March 29 after police said they found him using a strobe-like device to change traffic signals.

"I'm always running late," police quoted Niccum as saying in an incident report.

The device, called an Opticon, is similar to what firefighters use to change lights when they respond to emergencies. It emits an infrared pulse that receivers on the traffic lights pick up.

Niccum was cited after city traffic engineers who noticed repeated traffic-light disruptions on certain intersections spotted a white Ford pickup passing by whenever the light patterns were disrupted.

City traffic engineer Joe Olson said traffic engineers plan to update the city's Opticon system this year to block unauthorized light-changing signals.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/64920">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        (04-12) 19:15 PDT Gillette, Wyo. (AP) --

A teenage boy accidentally set himself on fire early Wednesday morning after allegedly trying to siphon gas from a firefighter's car.

Police first learned of the injury after a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy claimed that someone had thrown gasoline on the 17-year-old at the Common Cents service station and lit him on fire, said Lt. Rod Hauge.

The boy was taken to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns on his legs. Police were called to the hospital to investigate the incident and later learned that the 17-year-old spilled gas on his pants while siphoning gas. He then used a lighter to try to determine how wet his pants were and set himself of fire, Hague said.

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        (09-01) 10:32 PDT Los Angeles (AP) --

George Johnson, considered California's oldest living person at 112 and the state's last surviving World War I veteran, had experts shaking their heads over his junk food diet.

"He had terrible bad habits. He had a diet largely of sausages and waffles," Dr. L. Stephen Coles, founder of the Gerontology Research Group at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Friday.

The 5-foot-7, 140-pound Johnson died of pneumonia Wednesday at his Richmond home in Northern California.

"A lot of people think or imagine that your good habits and bad habits contribute to your longevity," Coles said. "But we often find it is in the genes rather than lifestyle."

Johnson, who was blind and living alone until his 110th birthday when a caregiver began helping him, built the Richmond house by hand in 1935. He got around using a walker in recent years.

Johnson was the only living Californian considered a "supercentenarian," a designation for those ages 110 or older, Coles said. His group is now in the process of validating a Los Angeles candidate who claims to be 112 years old.

Coles participated in an autopsy Thursday that was designed to study Johnson's health.

"All of his organs were extremely youthful. They could have been the organs of someone who was 50 or 60, not 112. Clearly his genes had some secrets," Coles said.

"Everything in his body that we looked at was clean as a whistle, except for his lungs with the pneumonia," Coles said. "He had no heart disease, he had no cancer, no diabetes and no Alzheimer's.

"This is a mysterious case that someone could be so healthy from a pathology point of view and that there is no obvious cause of death."

The family was in favor of an autopsy. Relatives said Johnson wanted them to allow it if it would help science.

Born May 1, 1894, Johnson's father managed the Baltimore and Ohio Railway station in Philadelphia.

Johnson was working in 1917 as a mail sorter for the U.S. Post Office when he was drafted into the Army. The war ended a year later, and he never served in combat.

Two years later, he and his wife moved to Northern California.

"It was a great adventure in those days. We were young and wanted the experience," Johnson said in a March interview with the Contra Costa Times.

The couple settled in Fresno and remained there until 1935, when they bought property in Richmond. They used lumber salvaged from dismantled buildings to build their house.

During World War II, Johnson worked at the Kaiser shipyard in Richmond and later managed the heating plant at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland.

He remained in good health and continued driving until he was 102, when his vision began to fail.

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The Postal Service recently, with great fanfare, issued a new set of stamps depicting motorcycles. Collectors who buy copies issued on the first day the stamps are available can get them with a special commemorative postmark. Unfortunately, the colorful postmark spells it "motorcyle."

Having discovered this, the post office announced Friday that new orders for first-day envelopes will have a corrected postmark.

Unless the buyer wants it spelled wrong. In that case they can still order the version with the incorrect postmark. Just include a note asking for the incorrect version.

Any collectors who already have misspelled versions can trade them for the corrected version by sending them to INFORMATION FULFILLMENT, DEPT 6270, US POSTAL SERVICE, PO BOX 219424, KANSAS CITY, MO, 64121-9424.

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        (09-07) 19:39 PDT Chicago (AP) --

A 79-year-old South Side woman bearing a toy gun and a visor that read "Princess" has been charged with trying to rob a downtown bank.

Melvena Cooke was charged Wednesday with attempted bank robbery. She is free on $4,500 bond and was released into her daughter's custody.

Cooke walked into the Bank of America branch Tuesday morning and told a teller that she'd just come from the dentist and could only speak quietly, according to an FBI affidavit.

As the teller leaned in, Cooke whispered a demand for $30,000 and brandished a gun that turned out to be a toy, the affidavit says. Instead of handing over any money, however, the teller triggered a silent alarm and walked away.

Cooke left empty-handed after several minutes and then ducked into a nearby store, where she was arrested.

Officials said Cooke was dressed for the attempted heist in a black trench coat, sunglasses and a white "Princess" visor.

She faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

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        (01-12) 13:35 PST MINNEAPOLIS, (AP) --

One gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota is giving a whole new meaning to the "dark side" of politics. A man who calls himself a satanic priest plans to run for governor on a 13-point platform that includes the public impaling of terrorists at the state Capitol building.

Jonathon Sharkey, also known as "The Impaler", plans to launch his gubernatorial campaign on — when else? — Friday the 13th. He'll make the announcement in Princeton.

"I'm going to be totally open and honest," said the 41-year-old leader of the "Vampyres, Witches and Pagans Party."

"Unlike other candidates, I'm not going to hide my evil side," he said.

In Minnesota, anyone who pays the $300 filing fee can get on the gubernatorial ballot and it seems that every year a few eccentric candidates make the rounds.

Sharkey raises the bar. For one thing, he told the Star Tribune in an e-mail that he drinks blood.

Including the impaling of terrorists, rapists, drug dealers and other criminals, Sharkey's platform includes emphasis on education, tax breaks for farmers and better benefits for veterans.

Sharkey said he worships Lucifer and, while he says he has nothing against Christians, he calls the "Christian God the Father" his "mortal enemy."

Sharkey said he was injured during a parachute jump with the Army in 1982 and receives veterans' disability benefits.

He has not yet registered as a gubernatorial candidate, but he has already filed as a candidate for the 2008 presidential election.









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        (01-05) 17:39 PST Rifle, Colo. (AP) --

A bit of online searching helped crack the case of the condom in the filbert nut. Police chief Daryl Meisner said it appeared no crime was committed when somebody put the condom-containing nut in a bin at a Wal-Mart Supercenter.

"This looks exactly like what I found on the Internet," Meisner said. "The condom was new and unused, so it probably wasn't anything malicious. I can't find where any law has been broken."

Dian Geist of Silt bought a bag of unshelled nuts from an open bin at the store. She said she and her husband, Brian, had a good laugh when the bright yellow condom popped out of the nut.

"I really don't want it, but my husband wants it back for some reason," she said.

The couple took the nut — and its contents — back to Wal-Mart, where an assistant manager photographed it before the Geists took it to the police.

"Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously," said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Karen Burk. "This is a food-tampering issue."

Meisner said someone had drilled a hole in the nut, emptied the shell and then plugged the hole with wood putty after the condom was inserted.

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        (01-06) 15:30 PST DALLAS (AP) --

A $20 bill mysteriously printed on top of an ordinary fruit sticker sold Friday for $25,300, an auction company official said.

The flawed note bears a red, green and yellow Del Monte sticker next to Andrew Jackson's portrait.

The buyer at the auction in Orlando, Fla., did not want to be identified, said Dustin Johnston, director of auctions for Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers of Dallas.

The 1996 bill originated at a U.S. Treasury Department printing facility in Fort Worth, but how the fruit tag found its way onto the paper of the greenback is unknown.

"I've collected for probably seven years now and nothing comes close to the way people react to it — their eyes pop out," said Daniel Wishnatsky, a Phoenix currency collector who bought the bill online in 2003 for $10,100.

Jason Bradford, president of PCGS Currency in Newport Beach, Calif., authenticated that the error was genuine and not faked outside the printing plant.

Currency goes through three printing stages, Bradford said: first the back is printed, then the face, and then the bill receives serial number and treasury seal stamps.

In the case of the Del Monte note, the seal and serial number are both printed on top of the sticker, meaning the fruit tag must have found its way onto the bill midway through the process, he said.

The note, in nearly perfect condition, has achieved celebrity status among currency collectors, appearing on the covers of the Bank Note Reporter and Numismatic News.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34660">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Jessica Sandy Booth, 18, was arrested in December in Memphis, Tenn., and charged with hiring a hit man to help her kill four people so she could steal a brick of what turned out to be queso fresco cheese. According to police, Booth had seen the large block of crumbly, white, Mexican-cuisine cheese on a table at an acquaintance's home, thought it was a big pile of cocaine, and devised an elaborate plot to return later, steal it, and kill anyone in the house old enough to testify against her. [Washington Post-AP, 12-6-05]<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34664">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (AP) - A retired nurse saved her brother's chicken, Boo Boo, by administering mouth-to-beak resuscitation last week after the fowl was found floating face down in the family's pond.

Marian Morris said she hadn't had any practice with cardiopulmonary resuscitation in years, but she was interested to see if she "still had it."

"I breathed into its beak, and its dad-gum eyes popped open," Morris said. "I breathed into its beak again, and its eyes popped open again. I said, 'I think this chicken's alive now. Keep it warm.' "

She said she did not know how to find a pulse on a chicken.

Boo Boo's owners, Jackie and Becky Calhoun, put her in a large cardboard box containing a grain feeder and water. They also placed a heater nearby.

The chicken is called Boo Boo because she is easily frightened. The Calhouns thought Boo Boo had been startled and flopped into the pond.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34665">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Worrying about thieves is nothing new for retail stores, but Outdoors Inc. thought its 6,000-pound, 30-foot-tall rock-climbing wall was safe. It wasn't.

Someone made off with the $30,000 wall used for rock-climber training.

"It's not like stealing a car or truck or something," said Lawrence Migliara, co-owner of the outdoor-equipment store. "It's going to be hard to conceal this thing."

The wall was snatched from a storage lot, apparently early Wednesday morning.

Outdoor Inc. rents the wall to organizers of outdoors events and festivals. The wall, painted gray to resemble rock, is dotted with raised handholds climbers hang on to.

Migliara said he spread the word about the missing wall to other outdoor equipment outlets and rock-climber groups. He got a phone tip that a truck carrying what might have been the wall was spotted on a highway near Little Rock, Ark.

"Someone's going to take it to Arkansas, put it in a barn and make it their own personal climbing wall," he said.

An employee with the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority had seen the wall near the airport earlier, but did not call police until he heard news it had been stolen.

"I thought it was kind of weird," David Sinclair said. "That's not something you see every day. But I didn't really think much about it until I learned it was stolen."

Migliara said Thursday that he had received a tip that the wall was spotted being towed on a highway near Little Rock, Ark., but it was unclear Friday if the wall ever made it outside Memphis.

The owner of an auto body shop near the airport also called police Friday.

"I think it's absolutely hilarious for somebody to steal that," Samuel Harston said. "My God, what were they going to do with it?"

Memphis police are investigating, but said they had no leads.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35225">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Shrunken Voodoo Head Confiscated</title>
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        FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Airport baggage screeners found a human head with teeth, hair and skin in the luggage of a woman who said she intended to ward off evil spirits with it, authorities said Friday.

Myrlene Severe, 30, a Haitian-born permanent U.S. resident, was charged Friday with smuggling a human head into the U.S. without proper documentation.

Customs and Border Protection officials found the head Thursday, after Severe arrived at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on a Lynx International Airlines flight from Cap Haitien, Haiti, said Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami.

"It still had teeth, hair and bits of skin and lots of dirt," Gonzalez said.

Severe told authorities she had obtained the package in Haiti for "use as a part of her voodoo beliefs," ICE Special Agent Erick Hernandez wrote in an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint.

"Severe also stated that the purpose of the package was to ward off evil spirits," Hernandez wrote.

Severe, who also was charged with failing to declare the head and transporting hazardous material in air commerce, faces a maximum of 15 years in prison if convicted of all charges, prosecutors said.

Severe remained held Friday in lieu of a $100,000 bond. She is due back in federal court March 2. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35227">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-12 11:13:34.595001+00:00</dc:date>
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        Feb 10, 2006. LONDON (AP) - He is reluctant to call himself a human fox, but several times a year John Whetton is chased through the British countryside by scarlet-coated huntsmen and their packs of hounds.

"I get caught very, very rarely," Whetton said Friday. "But, when I do, the worst that can happen is you get licked to death."

Whetton, a former Olympic middle-distance runner who ran in Tokyo and Mexico City in the 1964 and 1968 Games, is a volunteer for the Readyfield Bloodhounds hunt, a fox-less hunt held in central England.

The alternative event has gained popularity since Britain's Hunting Act came into force last February following a bitterly fought political battle over the sport.

All traditional fox hunting and other kinds of events in which dogs chase and kill prey were outlawed under the legislation. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35229">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-12 11:33:18.737893+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Spanish doctors cut 60-kilo tumor from woman</title>
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        MADRID (AFP) - Spanish doctors have removed a giant tumour weighing 60 kilograms (132 pounds) from a female patient at a hospital in the northern city of Cruces.

Surgeons had to remove a portion of the women's abdomen and perform reconstructive surgery in removing the tumour, the health officials in the northern region of Vizcaya said Thursday.

The patient, said to be clinically obese, was not identified.

Although weighing as much as a normal adult woman by itself, the tumour was less than half the size of the largest ever recorded to be removed intact.

In 1991, a surgeon at California's Stanford University Medical Center removed a multicystic ovarian mass weighing 302 pounds (138 kilograms), which Guinness World Records holds to be the biggest ever.

The woman survived and, according to Guinness World Records, she "left the operating theater on one stretcher and the cyst left on another."<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/41715">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-19 08:07:07.281341+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Town For Sale on Ebay. Again.</title>
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        BRIDGEVILLE, Calif. (AP) - The first town ever auctioned on eBay soon will be back up for sale on the online auction site.

Nearly two years after he bought the tiny town of Bridgeville, Orange County financial adviser Bruce Krall said Friday he plans to re-auction the Humboldt County hamlet on eBay next month.

"Due to family reasons, I'm pretty much tied to Southern California for the foreseeable future," Krall said. "We can't move up there. It only makes sense to pass it on to somebody else."

Krall said the auction will open April 4 with a minimum bid of $1.75 million - more than twice what he paid for the 83-acre property about 40 miles southwest of Eureka.

Bridgeville, a picturesque village with about 25 people on the Van Duzen River, sparked a bidding war in 2002 when it became the first town ever put up for sale on eBay.

The buyer, who won the auction with a $1.78 million bid, never came to see the property and the deal fell through. The property was eventually posted on traditional real estate listings, and Krall bought it for about $700,000 in May 2004.

Since then, Krall said he's invested "multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars" to restore old buildings, remove dilapidated structures and clean up mounds of garbage. He also found new tenants for the houses and received a conditional use permit for a riverfront resort.

"It's come full circle," Krall said. "Now it's been fixed up, and I think it's actually ready to be sold on eBay."

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<dc:date>2006-03-20 12:29:22.198387+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Man Forgets Pot is Illegal</title>
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        (01-31) 17:39 PST Orem, Utah (AP) --

An man who called police to report the theft of a quarter-pound of marijuana was arrested when police recovered the bag of pot and then invited him to come to the Public Safety Building to identify it.

Kory C. Tippetts, 18, identified the pot as his and then was arrested and booked into the Utah County jail for investigation of possession of marijuana in a drug-free zone with intent to distribute, police said Tuesday.

Tippetts had called police on Monday evening after he returned home and found that someone had broken a window, got cut on the glass, and crawled into the house. Tippetts told police the only thing missing was the quarter-pound of marijuana he was selling.

Tippetts also told officers that earlier in the day a man had called him about buying some marijuana, but he was on his way to work and told the caller no.

Tippetts gave police the man's name.

Officers found Richard W. Hight, 23, at his mother's home in Provo. He had a cut on his arm and blood-soaked pants. Police also recovered six ounces of marijuana at the home.

Hight was arrested for investigation of burglary, theft and possession of marijuana in a drug-free zone with intent to distribute and booked into the Utah County jail.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34655">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-08 14:15:30.696963+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Swingers Meet Soccer Moms</title>
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        (01-03) 09:52 PST Orlando, Fla. (AP) --

Some teenage soccer players and their parents saw more sights than they wanted when they stayed at a hotel where about 200 swingers were having a New Year's party.

Paul Camporini brought his wife, seventh-grade daughter and eighth-grade son from Safety Harbor and said he had to "delicately explain to my Catholic school children that swingers change partners during the evening."

"My biggest gripe is that the hotel had two distinctly different groups under the same roof," said Camporini, 49. "A soccer team and middle-aged swingers should not have been booked together."

The families said the sexually adventurous partygoers sometimes flashed breasts and bare buttocks in front of the children as they sashayed through the hotel atrium. The parents described the dress at the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Airport in Orlando as "raunchy, despicable and worse than prostitutes."

"We thought we were coming to Orlando, not the Las Vegas Strip," said Mark Gilbert, the father of a boy who plays on the Clearwater Chargers, a group of 13-and-under players from Florida.

The teams booked the $92-a-night rooms for Disney's Soccer Showcase, and said hotel management did not tell them about the swingers' party or try to keep the partygoers away from the children.

Hotel managers did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment Tuesday. All of the swingers had checked out of the hotel by late Sunday.

"We're not prudes by any means," said Rob Young of Greenville, S.C., who said his two daughters, Leah, 13 and Lauren, 11, asked questions he struggled to answer. "We would have liked to have been informed when we checked into the hotel so we could have made other arrangements.

"The kids could see through the glass atrium into the ballroom where naked people were dancing. There were exposed breasts, thongs and see-through dresses on women who were not wearing any underwear."

Young said he complained to hotel management and to John Hollis, an off-duty Orlando police officer hired by the hotel for a New Year's Eve security detail. He said neither did anything to help.

Lt. John Mina, a watch commander for the Orlando Police Department, said Hollis didn't witness anything illegal.

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<dc:date>2006-02-08 14:52:00.122898+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Counterfeit Clog</title>
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        Selina Valdez, 28, was arrested in January and her suspected partner, Daniel Marquez, 41, was sought by police, on counterfeiting charges in Pueblo, Colo., after police walked into their foul-smelling home. No hoarded animals were present, but according to police, about a week before the arrest, officers had called on the couple, who had then hurriedly flushed the bogus bills down the toilet. After questioning them, police left, but the toilet clogged, and since then, the couple have been relieving themselves into plastic bags that police found strewn about the home. [Chicago Sun-Times-AP, 1-8-06]

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<dc:date>2006-02-08 15:00:57.994856+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>X-Rated Fortune Cookies at Summercamp Fundraiser</title>
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        By ULA ILNYTZKY

NEW YORK (AP) - There is great embarrassment in your future. A box of X-rated fortune cookies was mistakenly delivered to a fundraiser hosted by a Brooklyn politician.

The 350 cookies stuffed with "the most graphically lurid" fortunes got mixed up with a batch of 1,750 cookies ordered for the Chinese New Year event, Borough President Marty Markowitz said Friday. Some guests "were stunned, to say the least."

The annual event - to raise money to send poor children to summer camp - was attended by some 700 guests Tuesday evening, but only about 80 were still there when the dirty cookies were opened, Markowitz said.

The borough president was on the second floor of the two-level restaurant when a guest "yelled to me from the first floor: 'Marty, did you order these cookies? Did you see what's inside them? I think you better get your butt down here!'" Markowitz said.

Markowitz, who was not wearing his glasses, had the "fortunes" read to him by some of the guests.

"I'm sure they were meant for a raunchy bachelor party," he said. "They were not cutesy. Triple X to say the least."

He said his office had given the restaurant 10 slogans about Brooklyn to insert into the fortune cookies, and 1,400 were delivered correctly.

They contained such G-rated boosterisms as: "Brooklyn - The 10th Planet,""Brooklyn - it's more than a freak'in tree," and "Brooklyn - it's like an everything bagel."

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<dc:date>2006-02-12 11:07:59.456197+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Hasbro Releases Eau de Play-Doh</title>
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        PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) - May 15, 2006 - It's one of the most unique smells around. And now you can wear it.

Hasbro is continuing its celebration of Play-Doh's 50th anniversary by releasing "Eau de Play-Doh," a perfume designed to smell just like the kids' modeling clay.
Spokesman Gary Serby says Play-Doh's smell is one of its most enduring memories, and Hasbro figures smelling the perfume will transport people back to their childhood.

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<dc:date>2006-05-16 08:14:33.77528+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Crazy Cat Terrorizes Connecticut Town</title>
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        (03-30) 15:12 PST Fairfield, Conn. (AP) --

Residents of the neighborhood of Sunset Circle say they have been terrorized by a crazy cat named Lewis. Lewis for his part has been uniquely cited, personally issued a restraining order by the town's animal control officer.

"He looks like Felix the Cat and has six toes on each foot, each with a long claw," Janet Kettman, a neighbor said Monday. "They are formidable weapons."

The neighbors said those weapons, along with catlike stealth, have allowed Lewis to attack at least a half dozen people and ambush the Avon lady as she was getting out of her car.

Some of those who were bitten and scratched ended up seeking treatment at area hospitals.

Animal Control Officer Rachel Solveira placed a restraining order on him. It was the first time such an action was taken against a cat in Fairfield.

In effect, Lewis is under house arrest, forbidden to leave his home.

Solveira also arrested the cat's owner, Ruth Cisero, charging her with failing to comply with the restraining order and reckless endangerment.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/91651">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-13 11:57:29.118932+00:00</dc:date>
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        (06-06) 18:19 PDT Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) --

Truth proved to be stranger than fiction for a high school criminology class investigating a fake crime scene when the students discovered a real body during a field trip.

Teacher Sue Messenger had been creating mock crime scenes with fake skeletons and other evidence for more than 20 years to give students in her forensics courses a firsthand look at what crime scene investigators do.

On Monday, however, 29 students from St. Thomas Aquinas High School got more of a jolt they expected when they discovered the real body in Fort Lauderdale's Holiday Park.

"The first thing we thought was, 'That's a real good dummy she set up,'" said student Juan Cantor, 15.

"I think they kind of went into shock and disbelief," Messenger said. "What are the odds that we would be out here?"

Police on Tuesday identified the body as David Wayne Bodie, 45, a homeless man who apparently died of natural causes.

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<dc:date>2006-09-27 10:06:45.255277+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Marijuana is Still Illegal</title>
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        (05-11) 18:38 PDT Statesboro, Ga. (AP) --

An east Georgia man landed in jail after photographing his healthy plants and going to local drug store to have the pictures developed.

His bumper crop was marijuana, according to police, who arrested him as he went to pick the photos up.

Statesboro Police Capt. L. C. Williams said Byron Charles Mattheeussen, 21, was charged Tuesday with manufacturing marijuana, manufacturing marijuana within 1,000 feet of a housing project, and possession of drug related objects.

Williams said a photo lab technician called police after seeing the subject of the photos. Officers confirmed the plants in the pictures were marijuana, he said.

After getting a search warrant, he said, police found 42 suspected marijuana plants growing in and around the residence, along with tools, literature on growing marijuana and pot-smoking paraphernalia.

Mattheeussen was taken to the Bulloch County Jail and issued an $8,000 property bond.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/91649">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-13 11:50:28.327659+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Skinny Asian Chick Wins Eating Contest</title>
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        (02-02) 12:32 PST New York (AP) --

A 100-pound woman ate 26 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes Wednesday at a New York restaurant, winning the World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship.

Sonya Thomas won $8,000 for the contest at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Times Square but said she was disappointed in her performance.

"I could have done better," she said, adding that she was aiming for 30 sandwiches.

Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., said she had to catch a train shortly after the contest to make her shift at a Burger King on Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where she is a manager.

She said she has a naturally big stomach capacity and heavily soaked her sandwiches in water to make them easier to swallow. She said to train she drinks large amounts of water to expand her stomach capacity and practices relaxing her throat.

Thomas, whose normal weight is about 100 pounds, estimated she gained 10 pounds during Wednesday's contest.

It was a close win. Her nearest competitor, Joey Chestnut, ate 25 1/2 sandwiches.

On the eating contest circuit, Thomas is known as the "Black Widow," apparently because she has defeated so many larger men.

She holds numerous world eating records, including 46 dozen oysters in 10 minutes, 11 pounds of cheesecake in 9 minutes, 48 chicken tacos in 11 minutes, 37 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes and 56 hamburgers in 8 minutes.

The event was organized by GoldenPalace.com, an Internet casino and poker room.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34657">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-08 14:29:48.809799+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2008-08-10 00:36:58.739234+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2008-08-10 00:32:35.170953+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2008-08-12 04:50:34.731832+00:00</dc:date>
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        (08-28) 17:19 PDT BEIJING, China (AP) --

A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China's Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.

No injuries were reported although both vehicles were slightly damaged, it said.

The woman, identified only be her surname, Li, said her dog "was fond of crouching on the steering wheel and often watched her drive," according to Xinhua.

"She thought she would let the dog 'have a try' while she operated the accelerator and brake," the report said. "They did not make it far before crashing into an oncoming car."

Xinhua did not say what kind of dog or vehicles were involved but Li paid for repairs.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/231559">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-09-29 09:11:49.721147+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2008-10-02 08:52:33.42899+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2008-10-02 07:54:18.227594+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2008-10-02 08:56:40.781931+00:00</dc:date>
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        Enfri-Sri lankawww.freewebs.com/chandi/Sri lankan Music ,Videos many more....<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3971017">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-10-03 03:28:08.475389+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2008-09-18 10:15:29.6845+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2008-10-03 03:20:30.794366+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>test</title>
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<dc:date>2008-08-23 09:04:05.661983+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>toon</title>
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        blyth ariel photo<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3922031">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-09-19 08:14:42.288066+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>disney</title>
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<dc:date>2008-08-26 07:18:05.831737+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>pepi c fait pogner avec 12 g </title>
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        les con de cochon m ont arreter avec 12 g de pot j ai ete stooler par carl rochon <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3875698">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-08-29 06:26:03.1739+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Restaurant close for Diner.</title>
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        a portugese Restaurant in waterbury close for Diner<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3884250">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-09-03 15:26:07.644514+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>scoala de fotbal MAGNA</title>
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2008-09-27 10:58:15.562572+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://platial.com/post/3905221">
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<title>TBILISI</title>
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<dc:date>2008-09-14 06:21:29.196552+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://platial.com/post/3900706">
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<title>tbilisi</title>
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<dc:date>2008-09-13 01:36:06.526396+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Putrajaya</title>
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<dc:date>2008-09-09 20:44:19.454213+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Cranfield University</title>
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<dc:date>2008-09-09 20:40:03.64641+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://platial.com/post/3909592">
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<title>Tarik Lotfi</title>
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<dc:date>2008-09-15 11:36:41.440135+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>tbilisi</title>
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<dc:date>2008-09-13 01:34:43.601968+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>TBILISI</title>
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<dc:date>2008-09-17 01:21:16.522186+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Man Punches Horse</title>
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        (02-01) 17:57 PST Oroville, Calif. (AP) --

A 24-year-old man could be shoveling horse manure as part of his punishment for punching a police horse.

Butte County Superior Court Judge Stephen Benson sentenced Robert William Huff, of Chico, to 20 hours of community service and 24 hours in jail after he pleaded no contest Tuesday to a charge of assaulting a police horse.

The horse, named "Bailey," was helping police control fraternity party crowds last Labor Day when Huff allegedly backhanded it in the face. Huff's attorney, William Short, said the horse had stepped on Huff's foot and was he was trying to get it off.

"There was never any malicious intent," Short said.

District attorney Mike Ramsey said he hopes Huff's probation will be spent "shoveling horse manure at the Chico police mounted unit's training grounds."<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34652">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-08 14:07:07.959742+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Alain Robert Scales Another Building</title>
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        BAGNOLET, France (AP) - French skyscraper climber Alain Robert scaled a 31-floor office building outside Paris on Wednesday using only his bare hands, his last climb before spending a week in prison in Texas.

Robert was arrested in Houston in November on charges of trespassing and drug possession as he was about to climb the 46-floor One Houston Center. Police said they believed Robert was carrying the sedative Xanax, while the climber says it was a prescription anti-epilepsy medication.

Robert said his effort Wednesday was a protest against the court decision ordering him to serve prison time.

"I don't really understand why they are charging me with criminal trespass, as I didn't even climb," Robert said before ascending one of the 400-foot Mercurial Towers in the suburb of Bagnolet. He wore a skintight black and yellow outfit covered with advertisements.

Robert has climbed more than 70 of the world's tallest structures, including the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, with his bare hands and without a safety net.

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<dc:date>2006-03-20 12:40:44.875706+00:00</dc:date>
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        26-year-old San Francisco mermaid Renata Foucre, has 22 puncture wounds on her left foot and a prescription for antibiotics to prove it.

And a colleague, Boca siren Missy Kehoe, found a 6-foot shark entangled in the fishnet costume she wore for her pictorial. That beast found its way out without hurting her.

"I'm not sure I'll ever do that again," Foucre said. "The shark definitely clamped down. There are bruises around each puncture wound, lined up from my toes to the ankle.

"I'm lucky he didn't thrash after he got me."

Foucre's mistake, said Nassau shark specialist David Eads, was to wear a flowing nightgown covered in sequins that sparkled like silvery small fry on a clear morning.

"The shark thought she was dinner but didn't like what it had bitten into," said Eads. "This was just a nibble."

The pictures connected to this post are from the photo shoot in question. The one with the big, white belly of the reef shark looming over the shoulder of the model is Renata, taken about four seconds before the shark bit her.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/793567">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-10-31 07:02:53.161812+00:00</dc:date>
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        (06-08) 20:01 PDT Tampa, Fla. (AP) --

Two middle school teachers resigned after students saw them having sex in a classroom, the school district said.

Frances J. Sepulveda, 30, and Bryant J. Wilburn, 29, said they had sex in the classroom during school hours on "one or two occasions," according to an investigation by the Hillsborough County school district.

They resigned last month after two students at Coleman Middle School reported they saw the teachers having sex. The classroom door was locked and a window was covered with paper, but a boy and a girl told school officials they could see inside.

"These teachers showed appallingly bad judgment," school district spokesman Steve Hegarty said Wednesday. "We dealt with it quickly, and the teachers are no longer welcome in the Hillsborough County classroom."

State officials will determine if the teachers will be allowed to work in other schools.

Both teachers have unlisted phone numbers and could not be reached for comment Thursday. Wilburn told the St. Petersburg Times he was embarrassed by the incident.

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<dc:date>2006-06-13 11:35:18.595416+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Secret Service Investigates Radical Pre-Teen</title>
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        (02-02) 14:25 PST West Warwick, R.I. (AP) --

The Secret Service is investigating a seventh-grader who wrote a school essay that authorities say advocated violence against President Bush, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and others.

The boy's homework assignment for English class was to write what he would do on a perfect day. In addition to the president and Winfrey, the boy wrote that violence should be directed at executives of Coca-Cola and Wal-Mart, police and school officials said.

"His perfect day would be to see the destruction of these people," Schools Superintendent David Raiche said.

The Secret Service investigation is ongoing, but the essay may have been a "cry for help," said Thomas M. Powers, resident agent in charge in Providence. Threatening the president is a felony, he said.

Authorities would not identify the boy or his teacher or release a copy of the essay. He was not arrested, police Detective Sgt. Fernando Araujo said.

"It wasn't any detailed, minute-by-minute plan," Araujo said. "It didn't meet the criteria for a criminal charge."

The boy has been temporarily barred from school, but as a mental health rather than disciplinary precaution, Raiche said.

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<dc:date>2006-02-08 14:19:51.745226+00:00</dc:date>
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