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Posted: May 24 2006,10:49 am

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CANTON, N.Y. (AP) - A man was charged with burglary and criminal mischief Thursday after he allegedly broke into a funeral home and fell asleep in a coffin.

Joel Fish, 20, of Queensbury, was arrested after he was discovered at the O'Leary Funeral Home in Canton, 127 miles north of Syracuse.

Debra White, wife of the home's funeral director Joe White, said she noticed a broken window and open door to the casket display room when she awoke at 6:30 a.m. Inside, she saw a boot and pair of pants on the floor and a pair of knees sticking out of a stainless steel coffin.

Fish, who police said was intoxicated, was treated at Canton-Potsdam hospital for cuts. He was arraigned and released to return to court at a later date.

The funeral home estimates the damage from the burglary, mostly to the coffin, at $4,000.

It's a fact of Life:

After Monday and Tuesday, even the Calendar says : WTF .......

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Posted: May 24 2006,10:51 am

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A CATFISH called Kipper is being blamed for starting a fire that destroyed his ownerâ€™s home.
Kipper might have been an 8in (20cm) slippery customer, but was an unlikely suspect as a potential arsonist. Nonetheless Sharron Killahena, the fishâ€™s owner, is sure that he was the culprit.

Dripping water led to a short circuit that caused a power surge. That, in turn, melted the lid of the fish tank. Burning plastic dripped on to a sofa that caught fire, setting off a smoke alarm.

The alarm woke Miss Killahena, 25, her two children Nicole, 6, and Kerry, 2, and their landlord, Simon Justice, giving them all time to escape. All four were treated in hospital for smoke inhalation.

Afterwards Miss Killahenna said that Kipper was a notoriously belligerent fish and often fought with other occupants of her 5ft aquarium.

She suspects that the fishâ€™s antics caused water to splash on to a power socket, starting the chain of events that led to the fire.

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After Monday and Tuesday, even the Calendar says : WTF .......

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Posted: May 24 2006,10:53 am

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OLYMPIA, Wash. - A practical joker got a taste of revenge when friends turned part of his apartment into a human-sized hamster cage, complete with shredded newspaper bedding, a six-foot exercise wheel and a giant water bottle.

"It was a lot of work, but it was one of those cases where you do it because you have to," said Keith Jewell, a longtime friend and neighbor who engineered Monday's hamster-cage prank on Luke Trerice.

Trerice, 28, had it coming: In 2004, he enlisted others to help him encase another friend's apartment and most of his belongings in aluminum foil. advertisement

The victim of that prank, Chris Kirk, spent nearly two years cleaning up the meticulous coating of foil, which was wrapped around everything from his toilet and CD collection to the individual coins in his spare change.

A giant ball of foil still sits in the basement of Kirk's former apartment building. :stupid

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Posted: May 24 2006,10:54 am

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Maybe Mr. Kibbles will know better the next time he's looking for a litter box. Christopher Cortes, 33, and wife Iris Zuckerman, 33, were sentenced Thursday to 100 hours and 50 hours of community service, respectively, for snatching the black cat from their neighbor's home and leaving him in the Everglades.

Police said Cortes was upset the cat used the back of his pickup truck as a litter box and scratched it.

Cortes, a firefighter, drove the cat 15 miles into the Everglades and left him there to fend for himself in February 2005, police said. The couple had pleaded no contest to petty theft and declined to comment after the hearing. Police said Cortes told them he took the cat.

Maggie Leonard, the 12-year-old owner of the cat, said Mr. Kibbles made his way back to his Coconut Creek home two weeks after being left. At first her kitty behaved "weird," but was quickly back to being his own self, she said.

The young girl said she's disappointed in Cortes and his wife, who were close friends of the family. She said firefighters should be saving cats from trees, not stealing them.

The charges will be erased from their criminal records if they complete community service and they pay several hundred dollars in court fees. Defense attorney Peter Patanzo had suggested that his clients be allowed to pay fines instead of performing the service, but the judge refused.

Maggie said she was satisfied with what happened in court.

"That's what they get for taking an innocent cat," she said.

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Posted: May 24 2006,10:55 am

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CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - Tammy Emery used to think of deer as sweet and adorable, like Bambi. An encounter with a hard-charging doe changed that. The 31-year-old secretary was among at least seven people threatened or injured by female deer last year on Southern Illinois University's campus - attacks that have prompted the school to wage a safety campaign during this spring's fawning season.

The attacks in the woods at the 20,000-student university have been attributed to a combination of protective motherly instinct, squeezed habitat and, in some cases, a little too much human curiosity.

The message now: Keep your eyes peeled for deer, don't approach them, and if a wild-eyed deer starts bounding your way, run.

"Before last year, no one really had heard of this sort of thing," says Clay Nielsen, a wildlife ecologist at the university.

Nielsen believes different deer were responsible for the three attacks that sent Emery and at least three others to the hospital, mostly with minor injuries.

"It wasn't like it was one crazy animal," Nielsen says. But some of the attacks may have been avoided, he thinks, if the victims hadn't committed an absolute no-no: moving in on a fawn to pet it.
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Posted: May 24 2006,10:57 am

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A new meaning to dirty politics....

Some people casting write-in votes chose profane language instead of candidates.

The nifty write-in feature on the new electronic voting machines attracted something different in Tuesdayâ€™s election: profanity.

â€œIâ€™m disturbed by some of the swear words,â€ said Luzerne County Election Bureau Director Leonard Piazza.

He was most offended by a pair of â€œcâ€ words which appeared several times.

â€œThatâ€™s disgusting. If thatâ€™s the kind of word youâ€™re going to type into these machines, then you ought not to be bothering to vote because thatâ€™s an insult to the voting process,â€ Piazza said.

Piazza said he had a hunch heâ€™d see profanity because voters spell out write-in votes on the new voting machines by touching letters on a keyboard screen.

He believes the old lever machines discouraged vulgar write-in votes because they had to be written by hand on a paper roll, leading voters to think that the handwriting could somehow be traced back to them.

The write-in option is also much more noticeable on the electronic machines because it appears on the screen as a choice along with the names of candidates.

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Posted: May 24 2006,10:58 am

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ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - An exotic chicken that was saved from drowning by mouth-to-beak resuscitation more than three months ago has died, her owner said Tuesday.

Boo Boo, the chicken who was revived after she was found floating face down in the family pond in February, died recently, said owner Jackie Calhoun. The fowl's story was featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Animal Planet network.

"She had seizures," Calhoun said. "I've come to the conclusion that's what put her in the pond in the first place." He said he assumed another seizure had caused the fowl's death. advertisement

In February, Calhoun said he removed the chicken from the water and his sister Marian Morris blew into its beak, causing its eyes to pop open. Morris, a retired nurse, said she hadn't used cardiopulmonary resuscitation in years. She said she was glad that the chicken she saved was exotic and not just an ordinary chicken.

The chicken, who was named Boo Boo because she was easily frightened, also lived to lay three eggs before dying, Calhoun said. Until then, Calhoun said he didn't know if the bird was male or female.

"We incubated one of her eggs, and it hatched," Calhoun said. "The chick has black and white markings like Boo Boo's."
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Posted: May 24 2006,11:10 am

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where do you find these? :laugh

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Posted: May 24 2006,3:20 pm

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On the internet....It's a really birg place with alot of stuff on it... :laugh

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Posted: May 24 2006,9:26 pm

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Be surprised what you find on the net!..

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Posted: May 25 2006,8:38 am

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Quote (Wifey @ May 24 2006,11:10 am)

where do you find these? Â :laugh

www.snopes.com

It's a place to go to verify some of the bogus stuff that gets sent around the internet.....my wife always sends stuff to me and it turns out to be a prank or just plain ficticious.

These are from a group of stories that they are pretty sure did happen. :laugh

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