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Police Warn Homeowners Over Dozens Of Teens Playing ‘Cops & Robbers’ At Night

WEATHERFORD (CBSDFW.COM) – A modified game of tag, played at night, with cars and up to 60 people, has grown to the point in Weatherford that police had to put out a warning. Called Manhunt, Cops and Robbers or Fugitive, police said it’s prompting calls from concerned homeowners and sometimes putting teens in danger.

Police said they started getting clusters of phone calls over the summer about prowlers outside homes. Often it [...]

Man waits 30 hours for gas

Downtown Ronnie Califano waited 30 hours on a Brooklyn gasoline line — and got no gas.

The marathon started last Friday when Califano’s daughter told him a Gulf attendant on Bath Ave. and Bay Parkway said a gas truck was coming at 8 p.m. Saturday.

“I figure I got the inside scoop so I got on line at 2 p.m. Saturday,” Califano said. “Figured I could make some calls for my doo-wop [...]

Benjamin Fulford – Full Update – United States Of America Corporation Looting Individual Bank Accounts To Postpone Bankruptcy – 1 October 2012

The United States of America Corporation, a subsidiary of the bloodline family owned Federal Reserve Board, has resorted to stealing private funds, and blaming it on “Iranian cyber-attacks,” in order to stave off bankruptcy, according to CIA and other sources. This desperate stalling maneuver comes as the members of the old pentagram of power, David Rockefeller, George Bush Senior, Queen Elizabeth, Evelyn de Rothschild and the Pope all argue amongst [...]

Dem lawmaker urged to resign for having sex with boy in bushes at public rest stop

Representative Kerry Gauthier was found engaging in oral sex on July 22
Police investigated whether or not there was wrongdoing in Duluth rest stop encounter with 17-year-old
Charges were dropped, but political pressure for Representative to resign is mounting

After police revealed that a Minnesota lawmaker had a sexual encounter with a 17-year-old boy, both Republicans and Democrats have banded together to ask Representative Kerry Gauthier not to seek re-election.

Representative Gauthier had been hospitalized [...]

Great fall of China: Moment daredevil plummeted to the ground during high-wire stunt he performed backwards AND blindfolded

Plunges to the ground just minutes from the end of 2,297 ft long crossing over ravine
Miraculously walks away virtually unscathed as trees and bushes break fall

Tightrope walking without a safety net would be scary enough for most people.

But one Chinese acrobat took his extreme hobby one step further – by tip-toeing walking backwards AND blindfolded 656ft over a raging ravine.

Unfortunately, the stunt didn’t quite go to plan and the daredevil, named [...]

Perfect example of “What goes around comes around!” Convicted murderer eaten by black bear after animal broke into his car

Remains of Rory Wagner, 53, found in bushes near his abandoned car
Animal prints and scratch marks discovered on vehicle, police say

A bear ate the corpse of a convicted murderer in a wooded area of Canada, according to authorities.

The mauled body of Rory Wagner, 53, was found in a rural area in southern British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

Police believe Wagner was already dead in a 1986 Volkswagen Jetta [...]

Man with gun arrested near home of President Bush

by REBECCA LOPEZ

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Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:36 PM

Updated today at 9:45 AM

DALLAS – The Secret Service took a man into custody Tuesday afternoon who had a gun in his vehicle next to the home of former President George W. Bush. He said he was attempting to deliver a “spiritual message” to the former president.

Dallas police sources told News 8 that police were called to [...]

Raising ground nuts (peanuts)

I am already raising ground nuts (peanuts) but thought tree nuts might be a good addition to our yard. There is an area on the side of the house where we needed a screening hedge . I just purchased four hazelnut bush saplings – also known as filberts. They come in tree size, but who has room for that?

What I like about the filbert/hazelnut bushes is that they (1) will only grow 10-ft high, [...]

Survivors to Norwegian Police: ‘Why didn’t you come earlier?’

(Reuters) – “Why didn’t you come earlier?,” survivors screamed when Norwegian police arrived after an hour in which Anders Behring Breivik had wandered the wooded island of Utoeya shooting dead 68 people, most of them teenagers.

In a nation united by grief over the worst massacre in its modern history, few except the survivors quoted by media have criticized authorities for not preventing the attacks [...]

GALLUP: No-Name ‘Republican Candidate’ Extends Lead Over Obama

PRINCETON, NJ — Registered voters by a significant margin now say they are more likely to vote for the “Republican Party’s candidate for president” than for President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, 47% to 39%. Preferences had been fairly evenly divided this year in this test of Obama’s re-election prospects.

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The latest results are based on a July 7-10 poll, and [...]

Woman faces 93 days in jail for planting garden in front yard

Oak Park, Michigan:

Their front yard was torn up after replacing a sewer line, so instead of replacing the dirt with grass, one Oak Park woman put in a vegetable garden and now the city is seeing green.

The list goes on: fresh basil, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, cumbers and more all filling five large planter boxes that fill the Bass family’s front yard.

Julie Bass says, “We thought we’re [...]

JITS: ‘Suspicious Device’ Rendered Safe Near Pentagon

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Police have shut down several roads around the Pentagon after a man was found overnight in Arlington National Cemetery and a suspicious vehicle was discovered along Washington Boulevard.

The incident started when U.S. Park Police found a man in Arlington National Cemetery overnight when the cemetery was closed.  Officials said the man was not very cooperative when answering their [...]

US government refuses to pay damages for Ferrari F50 destroyed during an FBI joy ride

The US Department of Justice is deploying all of its legal muscle to avoid paying the price after an FBI agent destroyed an exotic car during a joy ride. After nearly two years of trying to recover the money owed by the government, Motors Insurance Company filed a lawsuit against the government seeking the full $750,000 value of the wrecked 1995 Ferrari F50.

The vehicle originally had been stolen in 2003 [...]

Canadian “Home Buyers Plan” aka What’s that sound?

by Fat-Finger

Sure, I know the images are compelling. Long lines of young people snaking
around a new housing development complex someplace in suburban GTA, Vancouver
or Calgary. Camping out all night. Living off Tim’s. Peeing in the bushes.

Desperate to get inside and buy a new house in 14 minutes. Then staggering into
the sun in a post-coital HGTV kinda haze, sales agreement in one hand, mortgage
doc in the [...]

The National Debt — Where Did it Come From?

by Boca Joe

In 1981, the country had just elected Reagan to cure the “all-time-high, Trillion-Dollar debt.” But compared with the size of the American economy, the debt was at its lowest point in fifty years (see graph). Reagan was duped by the “supply siders” and his “greatest disappointment” was adding $1.6 trillion to the debt.

US National Debt Graph: What They Never Tell You

The green line shows what would have happened [...]