Drivers Wanted

 A railroad trestle above Route 24 in Richmond was moved 6-8 inches Friday morning when a tractor-trailer truck hit the structure.

Richmond police said the accident happened just after 10:30 a.m. when Dale Laney, a driver for Northcenter Food Services, did not see a sign warning of low clearance.
Police said the truck made it under the trestle but the top  of the truck was sheared off.
Crews from the Maine Department of Transportation welded brackets to the trestle as a temporary fix but will return on Monday to make permanent repairs.

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Deflating Drunks Made To Inflate Again

A GROUP of drunken men who let down dozens of car tyres in Weymouth were forced to pump them back up again.
The culprits were driven to Asda by police to buy a pump after officers tracked them to a seafront guesthouse.
And two of the three men returned later to finish the job when the pump they were using broke.
Police said the men were remorseful and praised them for doing the right thing.
Dorset Police received a report early yesterday of tyres being let down in Custom House Quay.
Investigations revealed about 15 cars around the harbourside and on the Esplanade behind Alexandra Gardens had been targeted by three men.
The men, believed to be contractors, were staying at Aaran House guesthouse and had been out drinking when they decided to let down the tyres.
Jim Groves of Aaran House said the men involved were aged in their mid-20s.
Mr Groves and some of his guests were among those whose cars were targeted.
He said: “It’s all praise to the police who were here quickly and were able to resolve the situation. They acted promptly and efficiently.”
Teresa Nicol of the nearby Cavendish House guest house said: “We were putting the rubbish out when we noticed the front tyres of a neighbour’s car were as flat as a pancake.

“Then we noticed more along the road. We spoke to a neighbour who said three contractors staying locally had got drunk and let down the tyres. The police found them and said they’d let them go if they put it right. I found it a bit weird the police just let them go like that.
“I suppose if the tyres had been slashed it would be different.”
A Dorset Police spokesman said the damage was linked to three men ‘under the influence of alcohol’.
The spokesman said: “Officers advised the offenders that they needed to re-inflate the tyres and they escorted them to the supermarket to buy a foot pump.
“They returned to the scene and police remained to ensure the tyres were re-inflated.
“Unfortunately the pump broke so the men were made to leave notes on the remaining vehicles advising the owners to check their tyre pressures.
“Details of the three men were recorded. Police vehicle examiners returned in the morning to help re-inflate the tyres of the remaining vehicles.
“Two of the offenders returned to assist them.”

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Robber Dies Trying To Use Fire As Weapon

Police in Prince George's County are trying to identify a would-be robber who was killed in a bizarre crime.

Police say that a man hailed a cab at the Largo Metro Station Friday night and asked to be driven to Bowie Town Center. When they arrived, the suspect told the cabbie to give him his money. Then he hit the driver on the head, pulled out a flammable liquid and attempted to douse the driver with it. When he tried to light liquid, he wound up setting himself on fire and the car burst into flames.

Just as he felt the liquid igniting, the cab driver was able to get out of the car with only minor injuries. The would-be robber, however, wasn’t as lucky.

“The fire department arrived and was able to put the fire out. And once they did, they realized the deceased was still in the back seat,” Bowie Police Chief John Nesky told News4’s Darcy Spencer.

Cab drivers we spoke to at the Largo Metro Station say there is always danger when picking up Metro riders.

“Sometimes they just come and get in the cab without knowing their intentions. That’s why we need the presence of police here all the time,” one driver told Spencer.

Fire investigators still don’t know what the flammable liquid was.

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Driver Swerves To Avoid Moose, Smashes Into Bear

A Norwegian driver who swerved his car on a rural road to avoid running into a moose hit a bear instead, authorities said on Thursday.
The driver spotted the moose on a country road near Hanestad, 225 kilometers north of Oslo, around midnight on Wednesday, and tried to go around the animal, not realizing that a bear was also nearby.
"The driver had lost a bit of speed as he tried to avoid the moose before hitting the bear," said Svein Erik Bjorke of the local wildlife authority, who was out in the forest searching for the wounded animal.
"We are currently tracking the bear and we have found traces of blood indicating internal injuries," he said.
The driver escaped uninjured while his car suffered some damage.
Norway's rugged mountains are sparsely populated and full of wildlife. The country, nearly the size of Germany but home to just five million people, has around 100,000 moose and 150 brown bears, authorities said.

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Rod From God

A 24-year-old construction worker survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above and pierced his head, doctors said Friday.
Luiz Alexandre Essinger, chief of staff of Rio de Janeiro's Miguel Couto Hospital said doctors successfully withdrew the iron bar from Eduardo Leite's skull during a five-hour surgery.
"He was taken to the operating room, his skull was opened, they examined the brain and the surgeon decided to pull the metal bar out from the front in the same direction it entered the brain." Essinger said.
He said Leite was conscious when he arrived at the hospital and told him what had happened.
He said Leite was lucid and showed no negative consequences after the operation.
"Today, he continues well, with few complaints for a five-hour-long surgery," Essinger said. "He says he feels little pain."
The bar fell from the fifth floor of a building under construction, went through Leite's hard hat, entered the back of his skull and exited between his eyes, Essinger said, adding, "It really was a miracle" that Leite survived.
The accident and surgery took place on Wednesday.
"They told me he was laying down (in the ambulance) with the bar pointing upward, said Leite's wife, Lilian Regina da Silva Costa. "He was holding it and his face covered in blood. His look was as if nothing had happened. When he arrived he told the doctors he wasn't feeling anything, no pain, nothing. It's unbelievable."
Ruy Monteiro, the hospital's head of neurosurgery told the Globo TV network that Leite escaped by just a few centimeters from losing one eye and becoming paralyzed on the left side of his body.
He said the bar entered a "non-eloquent" area of the brain , an area that doesn't have a specific, major known function.
Leite is expected to remain hospitalized for at least two weeks.

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Featured Friend Friday #1!

One Kool Kat

My Blogger friend Kat just got a large article and photo about her in her local newspaper.  I had been mulling around starting a Featured Friend Friday regular post and that decided it right there.  I don't have that many Blogger friends,  true,  but the ones I do have got it going on!  

Kat is a very accomplished Artist,  Tattooist,  and Comic Strip author.  I enjoy her blog and am proud to feature her here. :)  So,  without further ado,  here is the translated article about her:

Kat loves the surprising, the profound. A cat with a stiff collar, a dead mouse in a cocktailglass - everytime she´s painting the world turns into a complex and sometimes frightening entity.

Everything is possible then. 

"I think it´s great when the beholder doesn´t see every detail within one view. There must be always more to discover", says the young artist.

With her paintings, willingly opulent and sometimes overflowing with baroque elements, she expresses her own lifestyle. "Classy and a little off one´s trolley with slight signs of insanity", she says laughing.

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She broke up her studies in Design and Communication because there was too much focus on working with the computer. "I like to work with my hands, having the control over my pen and the material", she explains.

One of her first chances of success has been the exhibition of one of her works for the competition of the "Frankfurter Sparkasse" (a bank in Germany).

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To live just from her art, that´s something she doesn´t dare to believe ( Comment from me: Hummm... I DO dare to believe btw :-D But it´s soooo hard to make it happen!!!). But she has found her way to make money with her talent: "I want to absolve an apprenticeship in tattooing and open a tattoo-shop one day" (Comment from me: I don´t just wanna make money with it - Tattooing is the one thing I most desire to practice in my life. Even more than painting with acrylics ;-) ).

You can visit her here:  http://thisisfreakadelle.blogspot.com/

Woman Stare At Boobs Too!

<--- Aisleyne Horgan Wallace,  just for the record.
Stop looking at her boobies woman!



And now we present science news that will get you out of the dog house: men don't stare at cleavage because they're horny dirtbags. Men stare at boobs because ALL HUMANS do. A new study in Science Daily says that men and women are equally likely to look at women's bodies as a collection of parts ready to be objectified. Essentially, when looking at a female, we all go into Terminator vision mode, honing in on specific parts of her body and assessing them.
And not just the hot ones! Even when a hefty gal lets her chest-beefers hang out, we guys know that we still can't stop ourselves from taking a peek. Well, women look at the ugly ones, too. This means that we're ALL looking at ALL the cleavage. Sure, men are probably doing it to look for potential mates, and women are probably doing it to compare to themselves, but still. We're all guilty here.
So the next time your girlfriend slaps you for checking out a woman right in front of her, you can call her out on the same violation. After all, did you ever wonder how she knew what you were checking out in the first place? Yeah, she knew what you were checking out because she was checking it out, too.


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Mom Spanks 5 Year Old With Bag Of Glass Shards

A 24-year old woman is behind bars accused of spanking her 5-year-old son with a bag of glass for playing video games.

Alicia Anne Croney was arrested shortly after taking the boy to the emergency room with a deep gash in his leg that required surgery.

The young mother told the doctor she hit the boy with what she thought was an empty bag of Doritos that she had pulled from the trash.


Turns out the bag contained shards of glass from a broken jar.

Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Major Shannon Clark says he finds the story difficult to believe.

"That someone would spank someone with a Doritos bag is highly unlikely," Clark told local station Fox 23.

"Not that it didn't happen, but it seems like of all things that you would have at your disposal in your home, a Doritos bag…I'm just not finding the relevance as far as how that would discipline a child."

Croney is being held on $50,000 bail on child abuses charges.

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Drunk Driver Poops Pants Trying To Avoid Arrest

<--- The proud pooper.


Police said they pulled over Wayne Benoit, 53, about 2 p.m. Tuesday after officers noticed Benoit’s truck swerving in the road, nearly striking a bicyclist.
According to police, Benoit smelled of alcohol and failed a field sobriety test.
Once Benoit realized that he was going to be placed under arrest, officers said he began straining and purposely soiled himself.
Officers said Benoit thought he would be released after the episode. The act didn’t deter officers from arresting him, however.
Benoit was taken to the Lafourche Parish Detention Center, where it was determined he had a blood alcohol level of 0.20.

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Hearse Driver Dies Taking Body To Funeral

Beverly Hills police say a hearse driver who was found dead with a body in the vehicle died while taking the casket to a funeral.
Lt. Lincoln Hoshino says authorities were alerted that a body was slumped over in the driver's seat of a hearse parked near the Beverly Hills Hotel at about 3 p.m. Monday.
Hoshino says the investigation is in its early stages but the woman appears to have died of natural causes, with no weapons or evidence of violence discovered. Coroner's investigators will make a final determination of the cause of death.
The woman's relatives have not been notified yet and her identity has not been released.
Police could not immediately say to what funeral home or cemetery where the body was being sent.

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