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 Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:27 pm
Cable glitch: Religious program to racy ad
PHILADELPHIA (AP)— A Philadelphia cable network’s early morning broadcast of a Good Friday service at the Vatican abruptly changed to something wildly different — a 30-second “Girls Gone Wild” ad.
Comcast spokesman Jeff Alexander says the 2 a.m. Friday programming glitch was due to a required test of the Emergency Alert System. He says such tests are usually done in the overnight hours.
The test automatically tunes viewers to a preselected channel that would provide information in the event of an emergency. But during tests, the channel airs regular programming, which in this case included a paid advertisement for the racy videos.
Alexander says the problem affected the network’s entire local area, but only one person called to complain.
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Burglar apologizes, turns over stolen goods
PELHAM, N.H. (AP)— Police in southern New Hampshire are searching for a burglar who says he’s sorry.
Pelham police say a resident who pulled into his driveway Friday afternoon caught a burglar coming out of the house with jewelry boxes and electronic items.
The homeowner told police that when he approached the burglar, the man apologized, then put the stolen goods back.
Police say the homeowner tried to detain the burglar by engaging him in conversation, but the suspect fled by the time officers arrived.
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Jobless woman hopes it pays to advertise
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP)— An unemployed Connecticut woman has taken her job search to the side of a highway.
Pasha Stocking, of East Hampton, has rented a billboard along Interstate 95 in Bridgeport. The sign includes her photo and the message, “Hire Me!” It directs people to her Web site, www.hirepasha.com.
Stocking, a 37-year-old single mother, was laid off in June. She says has tried everything to land a new job in marketing and design. She also is interested in executive assistant positions.
Stocking says she got the idea from a Milwaukee man who did the same thing.
She says she’s paying for the ad with money she had been saving to buy a home. She won’t say how much she spent, but the billboard company says on its Web site that a similar sign costs about $7,000 a month.
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Woman knows how to count beans, wins $25K
NEW YORK (AP)— There are plenty of bean counters in New York City, but one Manhattan resident is an exceptional bean-guesser.
Twenty-six-year-old Jessica Silverman won $25,000 after guessing the exact number of jelly beans in a jar — 7,954.
Silverman, who works for a fashion designer, says she was on her way to meet friends for coffee Tuesday when she saw a booth set up by an insurance firm at the Hilton New York Hotel. The person manning the booth for insurer DeWitt Stern persuaded her to take a guess.
Silverman says she’ll use her winnings to put a down payment on a new home.
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:00 pm
Well I read in an article in Spanish, that in Madrid two ducks were crossing the road and caused a 4-car accident. But the saddest thing is that the ducks were hit and killed. sad
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:14 pm
Blown-away Chihuahua reunited with owners
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind picked up the six-pound Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight.
Dorothy and Lavern Utley credit a pet psychic for guiding them on Monday to a wooded area nearly a mile from where 8-month-old Tinker Bell had been last seen. The brown long-haired dog was dirty and hungry but otherwise OK.
The Utleys, of Rochester, had set up an outdoor display Saturday at a flea market in Waterford Township, 25 miles northwest of Detroit. Tinker Bell was standing on their platform trailer when she was swept away.
Dorothy Utley tells The Detroit News that her cherished pet “just went wild” upon seeing her.
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Volunteers married at homeless shelter
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Two central Illinois volunteers have tied the knot in the place they first met: a homeless shelter.
Joyce and Joe Reynolds were married Saturday at the Washington Street Mission in Springfield.
On the first day they met at the mission, Joyce Reynolds says she mistook her future husband for a homeless man seeking shelter.
But Joe Reynolds, who is a longtime volunteer and leads Bible studies at the shelter, says he set her straight.
The Reynolds went on their first date a month after that first meeting.
About 100 people, including the homeless who rely on the shelter, attended Saturday’s wedding.
The Reynolds say they plan to continue volunteering.
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Happy the hippo leaving DC for Milwaukee, females
WASHINGTON (AP) — Happy the hippo could soon be a lot happier.
The National Zoo’s solitary male Nile hippopotamus is heading to the Milwaukee County Zoo, where his new home will include a pool, a sandy beach and two potential girlfriends, Puddles and Patty.
Zoo officials say they’re sad to see Happy go, but that Milwaukee will offer him a great life.
Happy is 28 and weighs about 5,500 pounds. He has to leave the National Zoo because his home is being eliminated for the expansion of the zoo’s elephant exhibit.
The Milwaukee zoo, meanwhile, is beginning a roughly $10 million expansion of its hippopotamus exhibit, part of which will allow visitors to watch hippos swimming underwater.
Happy is expected to move to Milwaukee this summer.
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 6:39 pm
Police get burned as 4,000 teens flood beach
REVERE, Mass. (AP)— City councilors just outside Boston say police should be better prepared for large crowds descending on a local beach after thousands of students skipped school and headed there.
Authorities were caught off guard April 28 when as many as 4,000 teenagers playing hooky hopped on trains and descended on Revere Beach, considered the country’s oldest public beach. The temperature hit a record 93 degrees that day.
Local, state and transit police say they reacted as quickly as possible. But traffic was tied up on nearby streets for much of the day.
Six people were arrested, and one injury was reported.
Council President Daniel Rizzo called Monday for coordinated police planning to avoid similar crowd and traffic problems in the future.
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Math buffs awed by Odd Day
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)— Prepare to be awed by Odd Day.
For the mathematically challenged, Thursday’s date, 5/7/09, is one of only six this century that will feature three consecutive odd numbers.
Numbers lovers say the rare occurrence is an excuse to celebrate.
“The previous stretch of six dates like this started with 1/3/1905 — 13 months after the Wright Brothers’ flight,” said Ron Gordon, the Redwood City teacher who enthusiastically promotes these numerical holidays, like Square Root Day on 3/3/09.
Gordon is offering a prize of $579 to those who celebrate the date with the most zeal or who get the most people involved in an Odd Celebration.
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Boy finds $8,160 stuffed in charred backpack
ALTON, N.H. (AP)— A 10-year-old boy picking up litter in New Hampshire found a charred backpack stuffed with more than $8,000 in cash.
Arie Johnston of Dover was helping his grandmother with her town’s annual roadside cleanup when he spotted the backpack Saturday. He told Foster’s Daily Democrat his first thought was that a person had been killed for the money.
Arie’s grandmother called the Alton town clerk, who identified the bag’s owner based on the passports and other documents found with the money. The owner was a woman who had lived across the street until a fire damaged her apartment last year.
Police say the woman has since moved to Maine and has asked that her belongings be given to her sister who lives in Alton. Arie’s grandmother says a reward may be coming.
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Where now, black cow?
NEW YORK (AP)— A 500-pound cow that nearly drove police mad after hoofing it out of a New York City slaughterhouse has been saved from a future between two buns.
The young cow, nicknamed Molly, was delivered intact to a Long Island farm sanctuary on Thursday afternoon.
Joseph Pentangelo of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says the all-black cow seems to be enjoying her new freedom at the Calverton sanctuary.
He says: “Her future’s a lot brighter now than it was 48 hours ago.”
The spirited cow dodged cars, cops and a few irate butchers for a mile after escaping Wednesday from the Queens slaughterhouse. Police captured the heifer an hour later.
The New York Times reports that Molly was signed over to animal control services by the slaughterhouse’s owner.
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 12:38 pm
FROM THE PAGES OF HISTORY: These stories (may not be the full story) were taken from the pages of Redlands Daily Facts newspaper in the year 1909 in the month of May.
"“It saves whiskey” is one but not the greatest recomendation given by prominent physicians for permanganate of potassium, the new antidote for the poisonous bite of venomous reptiles and instects. The discovery of this new and efficacious remedy is likely to put whiskey out of the runing as the time-honored cure for bite of the rattlesnake.
Now when a party goes into the mountains or out on the desert for a pleasure trip, the whiskey bottle may be safely left at ome, or reserved strictly for non-medical use, if one of the party carries a little hypodermic syringe and a small vial of permanganate."
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"At midnight last night a complaint was filed by Mrs. Ellen Finney charging her husband, Guy Finney and Mrs. Maud Jepson with the crime of adultery, and a warrant was issued for their arrest. Justice Gifford was called from his home to his office at that hour in order to issue the warrant.
The report is that last Tuesday the two charged with this crime went to a rooming house and secured rooms as man and wife and had been living together there as such until last night when the proprietor of the lodging house learned that the couple, although both married, are not husband and wife, and they were immediately “fired” from the premises. Officers Rex and Rhodes learned of the circumstance and this led to the filing of the complaint by Mrs. Finney."
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:41 pm
Funny headlines that ran in real newspapers:
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
Joint Committee Investigates Marijuana Use
Prostitutes Appeal to Pope
Enraged Cow Injures Farmer With Ax
Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge
Blind woman gets new kidney from dad she hasn't seen in years
Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
Two Sisters Reunited After 18 Years at Checkout Counter
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
Kicking Baby Considered to Be Healthy
Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One
Stolen Painting Found by Tree
Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case
If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While
Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:43 pm
A news story found in the pages of the Redlands Daily Facts, CA circa 1909:
Perhaps the most novel use to which bread is put may be seen in one of our great watch factories, where more than forty loaves of fresh bread are required each day. An official of the watch factory is quoted as saying:
“There is no secret regarding the use of bread in this factory, and I am willing to tell all I can concerning it. From the earliest times in the history of watchmaking it has been the custom of watchmakers to reduce fresh bread to the form of a dough. This is done by steaming and kneading. They then use this dough for removing oil and chips that naturally adhere in course of manufacture to pieces as small as a part of a watch. There are many parts of a watch, by the way, that are so small as to be barely visible to the naked eye. The oil is absorbed by this dough and the chips stick to it, and there is no other known substance which can be used as a wiper without leaving some of its particles attached to the thing wiped. This accounts for the continued use of bread dough in the watchmaking industry.” — American Food Journal.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:08 pm
From the pages of the Redlands Daily Facts, Wednesday, November 10, 2004.
The contents of the red and green cardboard box that Jack Bowen carried into the veteran's room at Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center was simple: a package of tissue, a tube of lotion and a pair of socks. [...]"
The rest is unnecessary. That part right there made me LOL.
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:52 pm
Deer goes shopping in furniture store
Posted Nov 05, 2009 @ 01:56 PM
A young deer got a police escort out of Eldon earlier this week after being chased from a business where the animal had sought refuge after crashing through a plate-glass window.
from morningsun.net
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Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 8:42 pm
Lord Jesus Christ hit by Mass. car
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP)— The victim might have forgiven the woman who ran him down in a Massachusetts crosswalk, but police haven’t. Police say a Pittsfield woman has been cited for running down a man named Lord Jesus Christ as he crossed a street in Northampton on Tuesday. The 50-year-old man is from Belchertown. Officers checked his ID and discovered that, indeed, his legal name is Lord Jesus Christ. He was taken to the hospital for treatment of minor facial injuries. Police say 20-year-old Brittany Cantarella was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 1:37 pm
This is why I love watching the news
Hamburger Assualt
Victim told police she was hit in face
John Buell was arrested for assualt
Buell says he was provoked.
I culd not stop laughing. This was posted on my birthday and I took a picture of the info page on the news with my phone, and I will never delete it!
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Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:13 pm
Missouri pooper scooper finds $58 in doggie doo
ST. LOUIS (AP)— This is why your mother says to wash your hands after handling money.
An employee of DoodyCalls Pet Waste Removal in St. Louis says he recently found $58 packed in dog poop, then returned the cash to the pooch’s owner.
But Steve Wilson says he sanitized the bills first.
Wilson says he wasn’t sure what to do when he first noticed money sticking out from the doggie doo. But after pulling out the cash and cleaning it, he placed it in a plastic zip-locked bag and gave it back to the customer.
The Association of Professional Animal Waste Specialists says Wilson is the first person in his profession to find and report money in dog poop.
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