Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Coffee Break
A man was arrested after a government agent allegedly found him in an office building restroom lying next to an inflatable, anatomically correct doll with his pants down.Craig S. McCullough, 47, was charged Wednesday with indecent exposure, a misdemeanor.
The criminal complaint against McCullough says he was discovered in the public restroom by an agent for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, which is one of the federal agencies that rents space in the Hach office building.
McCullough's criminal record includes a 2004 conviction for burglarizing Just For Me bridal boutique. Shortly after the burglary, police officers found McCullough in a nearby alley, carrying a mannequin wearing a bridal dress.
Bigfoot or Neeren?
The Bigfoot sighting happened near the town of Ridgeway, in the Allegheny National Forrest, which is about 115 miles north of Pittsburgh.The Bigfoot frenzy got started when a hunter took a few pictures by a camera with an automatic trigger.
The image showed a furry creature that walked on all fours.
The Bigfoot research organization said it believes it's a baby Bigfoot.
Others aren't so sure.
Concrete Jungle
Using a video camera and raw chicken, state officials hope to learn whether the king of the jungle is prowling the woods of West Virginia.Bow hunter Jim Shortridge believes he saw a full-grown, male African lion weighing between 250 and 300 pounds at the foot of Cold Knob Mountain earlier this month. The state Division of Natural Resources confirmed that at least one other person has reported seeing the lion.
Twenty pounds of raw chicken left on the site last week were devoured, but McClung said that doesn't prove the lion's existence.
"Anything could have eaten that," he said.
Oops
British marine biologists have found what may be the oldest living animal — that is, until they killed it.The team from Bangor University in Wales was dredging the waters north of Iceland as part of routine research when the unfortunate specimen, belonging to the clam species Arctica islandica, commonly known as the ocean quahog, was hauled up from waters 250 feet deep.
Only after researchers cut through its shell, which made it more of an ex-clam, and counted its growth rings did they realize how old it had been — between 405 and 410 years old.
Another clam of the same species had been verified at 220 years old, and a third may have lived 374 years. But this most recent clam was the oldest yet.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Golden Gate-way Drug
Arnold Schwarzenegger told the British edition of GQ magazine that he had not taken drugs. The former bodybuilder and Hollywood star has acknowledged using marijuana in the 1970s and was shown smoking a joint in the 1977 documentary "Pumping Iron.""That is not a drug. It's a leaf," Schwarzenegger told GQ. "My drug was pumping iron, trust me," he added.
In an interview for the magazine's December issue, Schwarzenegger refused to condemn politicians who declined to answer questions about drug use.
"What would you rather have? A politician taking stuff and not saying, but making the best decisions and improving things? Or a politician who names all the drugs he or she has taken but makes lousy decisions for the country?" Schwarzenegger was quoted as saying.
"A politician's job is to do what's best for the people and to improve the country, the economy, the environment. Why should I care if a politician takes sleeping pills every night so long as he can do his job?"
Got Any Vodka?
Two burglars probably wish that they wiped their feet. Police who responded to an alarm about 1:20 a.m. on Thursday at the Athens Beverage Company followed a trail of muddy footprints from the store to a room at the Budget Inn.They arrested Adam Wayne Blankenship, 23, and Robert Taylor Williams, 35, after finding a pair of muddy shoes that matched the footprints and four bottles of vodka in the room.
Blankenship and Williams, who both lived at the Budget Inn, were charged with third-degree burglary. They were being held in the Limestone County Jail.
Friday, October 26, 2007
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