A Grand Prairie man accused of stealing two bags of money from a Master Vend driver was captured Friday afternoon in Corsicana following a full-scale manhunt, complete with an entire school of dogs.
The dogs from around North Texas were less than a mile away at a police dog training seminar, and the handlers and their four-legged partners sprang into action as soon as the call came out.
The excitement began around 10:30 a.m. at Navarro Regional Hospital, while vending machine driver Bart Dunaway was servicing the machines, filling them with snacks and emptying their change reservoirs of cash, and evidently being watched by a man eating at a nearby table, explained Corsicana Police Detective Jason Grant. While Dunaway had his back turned, the guy grabbed two money bags and took off, Grant said.
Chasing him were the Master Vend employee and two witnesses as the suspect fled on foot down West State Highway 22.
The nearby schools, Collins Catholic School and Corsicana High School, were told of the pursuit, and went into lockdown, which means students are kept in their classrooms, and the campuses are on high alert. Also on lock-down were Collins Middle School and Bowie Elementary, said Kristin Zastoupil, spokeswoman for the Corsicana Independent School District.
Canine officers from around North Texas, who were at the Navarro College Police Academys seminar behind the old Kmart building, were asked to help in the manhunt. The search was centered on 110 acres of a semi-wooded area on the north side of Highway 22, just west of the Catholic school, according to police.
Mr. Esteemed Site Owner (sucking noises), if you have difficulties supporting this fine weblog, just ask for a tipjar-athon, there's no need for your extended family to resort to petty larceny, really!
An American student is suing her university for negligence after a mounted moose head fell on her from a wall during a biology exam. Amy Walters was peering through a microscope when the stuffed trophy fell, hitting the side of her head.
She says she has suffered from headaches ever since, and is suing for "loss of enjoyment of life" and "embarrassment and humiliation". Pennsylvania State University has not yet commented on the case.
The accident happened at the university's biology laboratory at the Fayette campus during an exam in February 2005.
Ms Walters' complaint said there were "several wild game heads displayed on the walls about the room". The "moose head with antlers" fell from the wall, knocking Ms Walters into a chair, whereupon the hunting relic landed in her lap, it said.
The impact "caused immediate pain in her head and caused Ms Walters to see spots", it said, although "after taking a moment, she was able to complete the exam". Nevertheless, a few hours later she felt sick and reported to the university's medical facility.
She said she has continued to suffer from severe headaches since the day of the accident, and wants a jury trial to award damages. She is alleging that the "defendants were careless, reckless and negligent in failing to ensure the moose head was properly affixed to the wall".
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"Everybody laughed at me. I felt so embarassed. They better pay me a million dollars cause they laughed at me. Dammit - make that two million. I'm so humiliated."
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"loss of enjoyment of life" and "embarrassment and humiliation".
Hey, I've got that as well, and in quantity! As a matter of fact, it's my daily staple, and it's mostly due to school and university too. Where do I get my benefit? Give my me money, it's my due, dammit!
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Now if only the moosehead assault had turned her into an uncontrollable nymphomaniac, we'd be able to dramatically increase this story's comment count.
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OK, let's get this out of the way: Moose heads, why do they hate us?
DUBLIN, Jan 25 (Reuters Life!) - An Irish convict who stole a car to get back to prison after missing a weekend release deadline has been given a six month suspended jail sentence.
Trevor Doyle, 25, grabbed the vehicle after falling asleep on a bus and overshooting his stop near Shelton Abbey open prison in Arklow on Ireland's southeast coast, Wexford district court officials said Thursday.
The court, which would not reveal the man's prior conviction, also fined him 300 euros ($390) for failing to submit to a breathalyzer test.
Q: Why did the Good Lord invent whiskey?
A: To keep the Irish from ruling the world...
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that not English?
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This guy must be the source of the attack shitz tzus in GA. If the snake indeed ate 11 dogs they weren't very big. IMHO a 24 foot reticulated python would be hard pressed to eat 100lbs of food in one sitting. The dogs would have to be the size of 8lb rabbits. Of course I doubt third world guard dogs are that large. From my limited experience in the third world the only thing worse than being a dog in a third world, would be to be in prison in a third world country. That is after seeing the Georgetown Guyana prison from the outside, never want to see what the inside looks like.
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Someone ask for a translaton?
First frame
Tintin: My poor Snowy!
Snake: I'm not well! I'll have to take a bit of baking soda.
Second frame
Snake: That, for example, that's curious. I never realized that I had paws.
A 65-year-old Californian woman has saved the life of her husband, 70, by fighting off an attacking mountain lion with a small log and his pen. Jim and Nell Hamm were walking in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park when the cougar wrestled Jim to the ground. Nell started hitting the animal with the log but it kept hold of Jim's head. She then tried to stick the pen in its eye. The cougar eventually let go.
Mr Hamm is in fair condition after having his lips stitched back together. He also suffered scalp lacerations and puncture wounds. "She saved his life, there's no doubt," said Steve Martarano, spokesman for the Department of Fish and Game.
The park, 320 miles (515km) north of San Francisco, was closed after the incident and wardens tracked down and killed a pair of lions near the trail where the attack happened.
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Mike N, that comment tells more about you than about him.
I knew that comment would be a little revealing.
Seriously though, it's a guarantee that she raised some fine upstanding children. If she will attack a mountian lion with a pen at 65, there is no way this women let her kids run amuck. At her age, I hope I am half the man she is. Heck, I would settle for right now! lol!
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Save our seniors, kill big predators.
When there were lots of hunters around killing and conquering, there was no problem, but today, one should not go into the woods without serious fire power.
it's parody, OK?
BETHESDA, MDAccording to sources at the Allstate Insurance Company, CIA Director Michael Hayden purchased nuclear-attack insurance Wednesday, paying a $100,000 monthly premium for his homes in suburban Washington, Pittsburgh, and near Cheyenne Mountain, CO. "It's a typical nuclear policy that protects the insured from damages caused by falloutpretty straightforward, though at that monthly rate, I don't usually sell too many of them," said Bethesda, MDbased Allstate agent Gary Rutter, adding that Hayden paid for the first premium with a certified bank check to guarantee that the policy would take effect no later than next Monday. "After he purchased the insurance, he asked again if everything was set for Monday. I assured him it was, and then he left." Insurance agents throughout the D.C. area reported selling 35 such policies in the last week, all to high-ranking government officials
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I think it was only recently that the CIA realized they were highlighting things in black magic marker.
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Rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have vowed to stop killing rare mountain gorillas after sparking outrage by slaughtering two this month, conservationists said Wednesday. Fighters loyal to dissident DRC general Laurent Nkunda pledged to halt the killings of the highly endangered species in a three-hour meeting on Tuesday with officials from the Virunga National Park mediated by the United Nations and Congolese army, they said.
The rebels also agreed to allow wardens to return to the southern portion of the park, where two silverbacks gorillas were killed on January 5 and 11, to resume protective patrols, the charity Wildlife Direct said in a statement.
The killings of the two gorillas prompted fears of a mass slaughter and deep concern about the future of the species, only about 700 of which remain in the wild, all in the mountains of Rwanda, Uganda and the eastern DRC.
Nkunda's men, blamed for sowing insecurity in parts of eastern Congo, were blamed for the deaths of both gorillas, which were slaughtered and then eaten.
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Oh, I know I shouldn't make fun of this (which was already a problem back in 1993, when refugees from genocide-era rwadan started hunting and killing gorillas for food), but...
LONDON - First engineering work stopped their train. Then a replacement bus broke down. But the final blow for six sorry passengers came when rail staff jumped in a taxi and abandoned them outside London in the snow. Wasn't Tony supposed to make the trains run on time?
"They said not to worry there will be another bus or a larger taxi along in a minute. Then they scarpered," said actuary Alex Waite, one of the people left stranded at a roundabout near the town of Woking on Tuesday night.
After half an hour of shivering in the cold, no-one had arrived so one of the other passengers called a cab to rescue the group and drop them home at a cost of 180 pounds ($354.6), Waite, 37, told Reuters, adding that South West Trains had agreed to refund the amount.
The Times quoted the firm as saying the train driver and guard had needed to go as quickly as possible for another job. Sucking chest wound, meet band-aid.
Anti-Iraq war leader George Galloway and veteran Labour politician Tony Benn are to join forces in Rochdale as speakers at a meeting which will attack the Blair government foreign policy.
Other speakers include the controversial Palestinian activist Dr Azzam Tamimi who has described the Hamas militia as "resistance fighters". Also on the platform will be journalist Yvonne Ridley who converted to Islam after escaping capture by the Taliban in Afghanistan. She is now an outspoken critic of Blair's war policy.
Local opinion will be voiced by Anjum Anwar of the Lancashire Council of Mosques and Muhammad Umar, the chairman of the Rochdale-based Ramadhan Foundation who are organising the meeting in the Great Hall of Rochdale Town Hall on 28 January.
Organisers are expecting a big turnout both from the town's white and Asian population.
Ramadan Foundation spokesman Mohammed Shafiq said he realised Dr Tamimi was a controversial figure. He said: "We are giving people the platform to say what they like. Dr Tamimi was hard to get. He is very reluctant to appear for organisations who ask him to curtail his views. He is controversial but he is a very good speaker."
The chief executive of the foundation, Shazad Anwar added: "The Ramadhan Foundation is at the heart of the community and this special event will demonstrate how we deal with issues facing Muslims in the UK. We are pleased to host such internationally renown speakers in Rochdale. This event will demonstrate the positive way forward for Muslims in the UK."
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the usual suspects... I was not surprised as well to hear that the hugelarge minimal antiwar protest at DC would have Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover and Jane Fonda as speakers....
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A Grand Prairie man accused of stealing two bags of money from a Master Vend driver was captured Friday afternoon in Corsicana following a full-scale manhunt, complete with an entire school of dogs.
A 65-year-old Californian woman has saved the life of her husband, 70, by fighting off an attacking mountain lion with a small log and his pen. Jim and Nell Hamm were walking in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park when the cougar wrestled Jim to the ground. Nell started hitting the animal with the log but it kept hold of Jim's head. She then tried to stick the pen in its eye. The cougar eventually let go. 
LONDON - First engineering work stopped their train. Then a replacement bus broke down. But the final blow for six sorry passengers came when rail staff jumped in a taxi and abandoned them outside London in the snow.
Anti-Iraq war leader George Galloway and veteran Labour politician Tony Benn are to join forces in Rochdale as speakers at a meeting which will attack the Blair government foreign policy. 
