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Nine Buck
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Penguin fans going wild.
Pa. woman accused of stealing 5-ton steel coil
Jun 6, 2:40 PM (ET)
ROCHESTER, Pa. (AP) - Police say a Beaver County woman stole a 5-ton steel coil and drove for miles in a three-quarter-ton pickup before the sagging truck was pulled over. New Sewickley Township police said when they stopped 40-year-old Linda Lee Boots, of Koppel, early Thursday, the truck's right side was crushed and the tires looked flat.
Police said the truck also was carrying two boxes of copper fittings weighing 120 pounds. Authorities said the items were stolen from Chambers Steel Service in Hermitage, about 30 miles from where Boots was stopped.
Hermitage police said they found a forklift running with no one around at Chambers Steel. The company's owner later verified the coil was missing.
Boots is charged with receiving stolen property. A phone number for Boots could not immediately be found.
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Pa. crews rescue nude man stuck in portable potty
Jun 6, 2:37 PM (ET)
LEBANON, Pa. (AP) - Rescue crews had to cut apart a portable toilet to rescue a man who got stuck naked inside the potty. Authorities say the 31-year-old man used his cell phone to call 911 on Sunday from inside a portable toilet.
Police say the man had been drinking and had taken off his clothes. Somehow, he immersed himself in the holding tank.
Deputy fire commissioner Chris Miller told WPMT-TV, "I've been on the job in one form or fashion for 21 years, and this is the first port-a-potty rescue I've ever had."
Police charged the man with public drunkenness and creating a health code violation, but they have no idea why he was in the toilet with his clothes off. They said he didn't suffer any serious injuries.
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Teh Collage of teh douchebags
 
and one bizarre pic for the road:
it appears you have some kind of fascination for these kids. Does "gives"thehed know about this?
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6/7/2008, 8:58 am
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it appears you have some kind of fascination for these kids. Does "gives"thehed know about this?
how cute, we have a thread stalking newbie douchebag.
Obsess much?
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6/7/2008, 9:04 am
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Slow news day, and the stranded divers fending off a hungry Komodo dragon, just isn't interesting enough, so I'm going to have to dig into the archives and give a shout out to Lawnchair Larry:
Lawrence Richard Walters, nicknamed "Lawnchair Larry" or the "Lawn Chair Pilot", (April 19, 1949 – October 6, 1993) was an American adventurer. He took flight on July 2, 1982 in a homemade aircraft, dubbed Inspiration I, that he had fashioned out of a Sears patio chair and 45 helium-filled weather balloons. He unintentionally rose to an altitude of 16,000 feet (3 miles or 4900 meters) and floated from his point of origin in San Pedro, California into controlled airspace near Long Beach airport. The account of his flight was widely reported in newspapers. The feat is noted as an urban legend, albeit one based on actual events.
Origin of his plan:
The story goes that Walters had always dreamed of flying but was unable to become a pilot in the United States Air Force due to bad eyesight. He first came up with the idea of using weather balloons to fly at age 13, when seeing them hanging from the ceiling of an Army Navy surplus store. His original plan was to attach a couple of helium-filled weather balloons to his lawnchair, then cut the anchor and float above his backyard at a height of about 30 feet (9.1 m) for a few hours, finally using a pellet gun to pop the balloons one after another to float gently to the ground again.
Preparation and launch:
It was in the early 80s that he finally realized his dream. Walters and his girlfriend, Carol Van Deusen, purchased 45 eight-foot weather balloons and helium tanks at California Toy Time Balloons. To avoid suspicion, they used a forged requisition from his employer, FilmFair Studios, saying the balloons were for a television commercial shoot. Walters then attached the balloons to his lawn chair, filled them with helium, donned a parachute, and strapped himself to the chair. He took with him a pellet gun (with which he intended to shoot the balloons to lower himself), a CB radio, sandwiches, beverages, and a camera. After that, things did not work out as he had planned. When his friends cut the cord that had tied his lawn chair to his Jeep, Walters' lawn chair, which was planned to rise 100 feet (30 m) above the ground, quickly rose to a height of about 3 miles (4.8 km);
He did not dare shoot any balloons, fearing that he might unbalance the load. He drifted over Long Beach and crossed the primary approach corridor of Long Beach Airport.
He was in contact with REACT, a CB monitoring organization, who recorded their conversation:
REACT: What information do you wish me to tell [the airport] at this time as to your location and your difficulty?
Larry: Ah, the difficulty is, ah, this was an unauthorized balloon launch, and, uh, I know I'm in a federal airspace, and, uh, I'm sure my ground crew has alerted the proper authority. But, uh, just call them and tell them I'm okay.
After spending about 45 minutes in the sky, he figured he would have to shoot a few balloons after all; doing so caused him to descend slowly again, until the balloons' dangling cables got caught in a power line, causing a blackout in a Long Beach neighborhood for 20 minutes, but also allowing Walters to climb down to the ground again.
Arrest and notoriety:
He was immediately arrested by waiting members of the Long Beach Police Department; when asked by a reporter why he had done it, Walters replied, "A man can't just sit around."
Regional safety inspector Neal Savoy was reported to have said, "We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, and as soon as we decide which part it is, some type of charge will be filed. If he had a pilot's license, we'd suspend that. But he doesn't." Walters was initially fined US$ 4,000 for violations under U. S. Federal Aviation Regulations, including operating an aircraft within an airport traffic area "without establishing and maintaining two-way communications with the control tower." Walters appealed, and the fine was reduced to US$1,500. (A charge of operating a "civil aircraft for which there is not currently in effect an Airworthiness Certificate" as it was not applicable to this class of aircraft.) Walters commented, "If the FAA was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk."
Walters also received the top prize from the Bonehead Club of Dallas for his adventure, as well as invitations to The Tonight Show and Late Night with David Letterman and an honorable mention in 1982's Darwin Awards.
Larry's flight was replicated (though tethered) on one of the pilot episodes of the TV show MythBusters, where one of the show's hosts was successfully lifted to a height just under 30 m (100 ft) and gradually reduced his altitude by shooting out balloons with a pellet gun.
Life after flight:
The lawnchair used in his flight was given to an admiring boy named Jerry, although Walters later admitted he regretted doing so. The Smithsonian Institution asked him to donate it to its museum. Twenty years later, the boy, by that time an adult, sent an e-mail to Mark Barry, a pilot who had documented Walters's story and dedicated a Web site to it, and identified himself as the boy who was given the chair. It had been sitting in his garage the whole time, still attached to some of the original tethers and water jugs used as ballast.
In retrospect, Walters said, "It was something I had to do. I had this dream for twenty years, and if I hadn't done it, I think I would have ended up in the funny farm. I didn't think that by fulfilling my goal in life — my dream — that I would create such a stir and make people laugh." After his flight, he was in brief demand as a motivational speaker and he quit his job as a truck driver. He was featured in a Timex print ad in the early 90s, but he never was able to make much money from his fame.
Later on in his life, Walters hiked the San Gabriel Mountains and did volunteer work for the United States Forest Service.
He committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart in Angeles National Forest on October 6, 1993.
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6/9/2008, 8:35 am
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And the "Mental" Darwin award goes to...
Teh Ohioans.
Police: Phony deputy's fake test claim nets cash
Jun 9, 8:44 PM (ET)
WHEATLEY, Ark. (AP) - Police say a man pretending to be a St. Francis County Sheriff's deputy scammed an Ohio couple out of nearly $1,000 by claiming he needed to test their cash for drug residue.
Wheatley Police Chief C.P. Kuzinsky says the fake deputy knocked on the Waverly, Ohio, couple's motel room door last week. The man told the couple a drug raid just happened next door and a police dog needed to sniff all of their money.
Kuzinsky says the couple handed over the money and the fake deputy got into a small gray car and drove off.
Kuzinsky says the man flashed some sort of identification and pretended to talk into a handheld radio during the robbery.
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6/10/2008, 8:20 am
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haha, nice one.
and hey, I know the Sabean bashing gets old, but...
you know Brian is jealous of his relatives abilities to fish for a good catch.
After seeing his overall good work in this year's draft--Maybe he will adapt and land us a nice mature fish with a big bat:
Scientists find monkeys who know how to fish
Jun 10, 7:27 AM (ET)
By MICHAEL CASEY
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Long-tailed macaque monkeys have a reputation for knowing how to find food - whether it be grabbing fruit from jungle trees or snatching a banana from a startled tourist.
Now, researchers say they have discovered groups of the silver-haired monkeys in Indonesia that fish.
Groups of long-tailed macaques were observed four times over the past eight years scooping up small fish with their hands and eating them along rivers in East Kalimantan and North Sumatra provinces, according to researchers from The Nature Conservancy and the Great Ape Trust.
The species, Sabeanus ****upitis, had been known to eat fruits (**Pink Pete**) and forage for (**Crazee**) crabs and (***Dodger***) insects, but never before fish from rivers.
"It's exciting that after such a long time you see new behavior," said Erik Meijaard, one of the authors of a study on Baseball General managers that appeared in last month's International Journal of Primatology. "It's an indication of how little we know about the species."
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Yes, it's another slow news day, so if you can do better, please do.
High tech Doctor tool:
Man feels fine after being shot in head by nailgun
Jun 10, 3:15 PM (ET)
SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) - George Chandler said he feels fine, even though a nailgun fired a 2.5 inch nail into the top of his head on Friday. Chandler and a friend were doing a project in a backyard when the nailgun hose became tangled, causing the tool to fire one nail.
Chandler said Monday he told his friend he didn't know where the nail went, but he felt a sting on the top of his head.
They discovered that the nail was driven deep into Chandler's head, so they called an ambulance and he was rushed to a hospital.
Chandler said a doctor used a common claw hammer to remove the nail.
He said he feels "very lucky, very, very lucky" to have escaped serious injury.
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Low tech... "Doctor What- a-Tool":
Calif. police: Things get ugly at the gas pumps
Jun 10, 4:33 PM (ET)
CYPRESS, Calif. (AP) - Violence broke out at the gas pumps in Orange County. Police say a La Palma doctor waiting in line to buy gas at the Costco warehouse store in Cypress grabbed a tire iron and confronted a motorist who cut into the line.
Sgt. Tom Bruce said the doctor was arrested and booked for investigation of brandishing a deadly weapon in a rude, angry or threatening manner, a misdemeanor.
Witnesses told police the doctor was in line at the pumps Monday evening when another vehicle cut in front of him. When the doctor confronted the motorist with a tire iron, the other driver locked himself in his car and called police.
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