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*******it tehehd, would you please just settle the **** down:
Skinny-dipping tailgater accused of kneeing cop
Oct 8, 3:06 PM (ET)
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) - A tailgater skinny dipping inside a truck bed at a University of Massachusetts football game has been charged with assault for allegedly kneeing a campus police officer in the groin.
Deputy Chief Patrick Archbald said a 21-year-old man was among several fans splashing around in the back of a pickup truck before Saturday's game against the University of Delaware.
When police told them to stop, the man refused to get out. He then approached an officer and kneed him twice in the groin, Archbald said.
The officer, whom Archbald did not name, was given morphine at a hospital. He could miss up to two weeks of work.
The man was charged with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
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Finally, a teenager creating useful text messages.
It's a first, in more ways than one, and a pretty good idea:
Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers
Oct 11, 11:43 AM (ET)
By KATHARINE HOURELD
 
OL PEJETA, Kenya (AP) - The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.
The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers' crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a time. But this time a mobile phone card inserted in his collar sent rangers a text message. Lesowapir, an armed guard and a driver arrived in a jeep bristling with spotlights to frighten Kimani back into the Ol Pejeta conservancy.
Kenya is the first country to try elephant texting as a way to protect both a growing human population and the wild animals that now have less room to roam. Elephants are ranked as "near threatened" in the Red List, an index of vulnerable species published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The race to save Kimani began two years ago. The Kenya Wildlife Service had already reluctantly shot five elephants from the conservancy who refused to stop crop-raiding, and Kimani was the last of the regular raiders. The Save the Elephants group wanted to see if he could break the habit.
So they placed a mobile phone SIM card in Kimani's collar, then set up a virtual "geofence" using a global positioning system that mirrored the conservatory's boundaries. Whenever Kimani approaches the virtual fence, his collar texts rangers.
They have intercepted Kimani 15 times since the project began. Once almost a nightly raider, he last went near a farmer's field four months ago.
It's a huge relief to the small farmers who rely on their crops for food and cash for school fees. Basila Mwasu, a 31-year-old mother of two, lives a stone's throw from the conservancy fence. She and her neighbors used to drum through the night on pots and pans in front of flaming bonfires to try to frighten the elephants away.
Once an elephant stuck its trunk through a window into a room where her baby daughter was sleeping and the family had stored some corn. She beat it back with a burning stick. Another time, an elephant killed a neighbor who was defending his crop.
"We had to go into town to tell the game (wardens) to chase the elephants away or we're going to kill them all," Mwasu remembered.
But the elephants kept coming back.
Batian Craig, the conservation and security manager at the 90,000 acre Ol Pejeta conservancy, says community development programs are of little use if farmers don't have crops. He recalled the time when 15 families had their harvests wiped out.
"As soon as a farmer has lost his livelihood for six months, he doesn't give a damn whether he has a school or a road or water or whatever," he said.
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants, said the project is still in its infancy - so far only two geofences have been set up in Kenya - and it has its problems.
Collar batteries wear out every few years. Sometimes communities think placing a collar on an elephant implies ownership and responsibility for the havoc it causes. And it's expensive work - Ol Pejeta has five full-time staff and a standby vehicle to respond when a message flashes across a ranger's screen.
But the experiment with Kimani has been a success, and last month another geofence was set up in another part of the country for an elephant known as Mountain Bull. Moses Litoroh, the coordinator of Kenya Wildlife Service's elephant program, hopes the project might help resolve some of the 1,300 complaints the Service receives every year over crop raiding.
The elephants can be tracked through Google Earth software, helping to map and conserve the corridors they use to move from one protected area to another. The tracking also helps prevent poaching, as rangers know where to deploy resources to guard valuable animals.
But the biggest bonus so far has been the drop in crop raiding. Douglas-Hamilton says elephants, like teenagers, learn from each other, so tracking and controlling one habitual crop raider can make a whole group change its habits.
Mwasu's two young daughters play under the banana trees these sultry evenings without their mother worrying about elephants.
"We can live together," she said. "Elephants have the right to live, and we have the right to live too."
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Cool Hand Joey does it again.
45 slices in ten minutes-- and Never even chewed?
The man IS a God.
Joey Chestnut - God among eaters - wins world pizza-binge title
He has been hailed as 'God among eaters' - a human bottomless pit who, even by American eating standards, consumes an unbelievable amount of food.
Now Joey Chestnut has added another string to his bow by becoming world Pizza-eating champion.
The San Jose resident - a veteran in both the hamburger-guzzling and hot-dog-scoffing fields over the last year - completed the latest stage in his move towards binge-eating world domination by downing 45 slices of pizza in 10 minutes.
The 24-year-old beat 10 rivals to the pizza crown, including the previous record-holder, by utilizing a technique he said was much-rehearsed.
After eating nothing but protein supplements for two days before Sunday's contest, he had coffee for breakfast on the big morning along with a gallon of water to stretch his stomach muscles
In the contest itself, he folded each pizza slice in half to make it easier to swallow and then jumped up and down to help the food go down. According to the New York Daily News, he did not chew any of the slices he swallowed.
Mr Chestnut's success gives him further bragging rights in the bizarre, tongue-in-cheek, American food faceoff hall-of-fame. Last month, he consumed 93 hamburgers in eight minutes to win a contest in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and he also won Coney Island’s July 4 hot-dog eating contest in 2007 by gulping down 66 in 12 minutes.
He admitted that the world of competitive eating was "as weird as it gets," but added: "It's fun. We make people smile."
His victory at Sunday's Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship, in Times Square, earned him prize money of $5,000 - but, arguably, incurred a hefty health price he may have to pay in future. The binge led to him consuming an estimated 11,700 calories and 450 grams of fat.
"He is truly a god among eaters," one of the other contestants, Adam Gertler, said. "He could probably put an entire work boot in his mouth."
 
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Tours of sewage plant - NO **** !!
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What happens after you flush? RI offers tour!
Fri Oct 10, 8:22 PM ET
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ever wonder what happens after you yank the chain on the old commode? Rhode Island is offering tours of several wastewater treatment facilities during what its dubbed the first annual "Rhode Island Water Infrastructure Month."
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Tours of treatment plants this Saturday are in East Providence, Bristol and Narragansett. Other tours and educational programs continue in October.
As part of the festivities, the Narragansett wastewater operators team, "Fecal Matters," also will compete in a national latrine-treating skills contest in Chicago against last year's champions, the Rocky Mountain "Commode Commandos."
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Rhode Island Office of Water Resources: http://www.dem.ri.gov/h2oinfra
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Teen Legally Changes Her Name To CutoutDissection.com To Protest Animal Dissections At Schools
(AP) A 19-year-old Asheville teenager said she legally changed her name to CutoutDissection.com to protest animal dissections in schools.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that Asheville High graduate Jennifer Thornburg now wants to be called Cutout. Her new legal name is the Web address for an anti-dissection page of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' site.
The teenager said she began opposing dissections in middle school, after a class assignment to dissect a chicken wing made her uncomfortable. She helped create a policy at her high school that allows students who object to dissections to complete an alternative assignment.
She is now an intern for PETA. She said most of her family members still call her Jennifer.
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Information from: The Asheville Citizen-Times, http://www.citizen-times.com
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She is now an intern for PETA. She said most of her family members still call her Jennifer.
and the rest just call her dip****.
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Pair probed in cremation of woman in makeshift barbecue
CORNING — The daughter and grandson of an 84-year-old Tehama County woman who apparently died in December have been arrested on suspicion of cashing her retirement and Social Security checks after they allegedly cremated her body on a makeshift barbecue behind their Edith Avenue home.
“You could make a movie out of this,” Capt. Paul Hosler of the Tehama County Sheriff’s Department said today of the morbid case.
Kathleen Theresa Allmond, 50, and her 30-year-old son, Tony Ray, were arrested Sunday on suspicion of embezzlement, elder abuse and conspiracy, said Hosler.
They were booked into Tehama County jail in Red Bluff in lieu of $30,000 bail each.
Additional charges may be filed later after the sheriff’s investigation is finished, he said.
Although the cause of Ramona Yolanda Allmond’s death may never be known, her daughter and grandson allegedly allowed her body to lie on the bedroom floor for a week until moving it to a concrete culvert behind their residence, Hosler said.
The culvert had been used by the family as a makeshift barbecue, he said, noting that the family had used it to cook their Thanksgiving turkey several weeks before Allmond’s death.
It’s not known if they used it after the alleged cremation.
“I hope not,” Hosler said.
In an lengthy interview with deputies on Sunday, Kathleen Allmond reportedly said that she and her son had placed the body into the barbecue and cremated it by burning a continuous olive wood fire in the culvert for up to 17 hours, Hosler said, adding that olive wood burns exceptionally hot.
Kathleen Allmond also allegedly made a necklace with a portion of her mother’s skull, which she wore around her neck, Hosler said, adding that she allegedly posted a photograph of herself wearing it on her MySpace page.
“It gets really weird when you have a piece of mom’s skull hanging around your neck,” Hosler said.
It’s also alleged that Kathleen Allmond and her son cashed Ramona Allmond’s monthly retirement and Social Security checks, but the amount allegedly stolen has not been determined.
Evidence gathered from the makeshift barbecue, believed to be human bones and dental remains, has been sent to Chico State University for analysis.
Deputies began investigating the case on Saturday after being asked to check upon the elderly woman’s welfare by a son living in Southern California, Hosler said.
That son, who was not identified, told deputies that he had not heard from his mother since December and had suspected something was wrong, Hosler said, adding that the man’s suspicions were further aroused when his sister and her son visited Southern California without her. Kathleen Allmond and Ray lived at the Corning home with Ramona Allmond, who owned the residence.
When deputies arrived at the residence on Saturday, they were unable to find anyone at home, although they believed they saw someone attempting to hide in an orchard behind the residence.
After they left, however, the woman’s Southern California son telephoned the Sheriff’s Department to report that he had just received a call from his mother’s home and believed that it was his sister trying to disguise her voice to sound like their mother.
Deputies returned to the residence on Sunday and found Kathleen Allmond and Ray to be home, Hosler said.
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