Monday, April 12, 2004
Today in History: April 12, 1985 - Federal inspectors declared that four animals of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were not unicorns. They were goats with horns that had been surgically implanted.
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Taking a Bite Out of Crime
HA! Some loser thieves sure picked the wrong truck and cargo trailer to steal in White River Township last week. They managed to steal the truck etc owned by Greg O'Dell and that which makes his livelihood. Translated: 25,000 - 30,000 sets of Billy Bob teeth.
Now, sure, the crooked teeth are worth about $300,000 retail, but I don't know that there's a big call for them out there on the black market. Especially since the trucks only held the teeth - the essential putty adhesive to stick them in your mouth was NOT in the same vehicle.
Greg's pretty chewed up about it. Those teeth were his livelihood. What will he do if he doesn't get them back? “I haven’t figured that out yet,” he said to The Daily Journal. “You can’t keep a good crooked-tooth salesman down.”
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Too Freakin' Weird.
For reasons I have yet to determine, some bloke is swimming across Australia. In the back of a truck. With a lifeguard. And a big harness to hold his body in the water, since the pool is, like, moving faster than he can. Chris Gabelish is the Geraldton city councillor and he is planning, along with 8 other 'swimmers' to swim from Geraldton to Sydney by April 21. Um. That's it.
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big old hurricane map
Bigwig scientists saying a humongo hurricane or 12 will make landfall this year. Here's a map with interesting past statistics. In the near future, it supposedly will have predictions for us too. Whoo hoo! Batton down the hatches!
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Just Hanging Around
Here's another "I can't imagine why, but" story. A 29 year old man was found dangling by his ankle from a bridge in New Brunswick. Apparently, he had been twistin' in the wind for a good two hours before anyone noticed him there, swinging from 6 feet of rope. After he was finally noticed, it still took another 40 minutes or so for rescue workers to get him down. And nobody knows what he was doing there.
Maybe he didn't know you need to use a stretchy bungee cord for bungee jumping (hence the name).
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Taking a Bite Out of Crime
HA! Some loser thieves sure picked the wrong truck and cargo trailer to steal in White River Township last week. They managed to steal the truck etc owned by Greg O'Dell and that which makes his livelihood. Translated: 25,000 - 30,000 sets of Billy Bob teeth.
Now, sure, the crooked teeth are worth about $300,000 retail, but I don't know that there's a big call for them out there on the black market. Especially since the trucks only held the teeth - the essential putty adhesive to stick them in your mouth was NOT in the same vehicle.
Greg's pretty chewed up about it. Those teeth were his livelihood. What will he do if he doesn't get them back? “I haven’t figured that out yet,” he said to The Daily Journal. “You can’t keep a good crooked-tooth salesman down.”
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Too Freakin' Weird.
For reasons I have yet to determine, some bloke is swimming across Australia. In the back of a truck. With a lifeguard. And a big harness to hold his body in the water, since the pool is, like, moving faster than he can. Chris Gabelish is the Geraldton city councillor and he is planning, along with 8 other 'swimmers' to swim from Geraldton to Sydney by April 21. Um. That's it.
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big old hurricane map
Bigwig scientists saying a humongo hurricane or 12 will make landfall this year. Here's a map with interesting past statistics. In the near future, it supposedly will have predictions for us too. Whoo hoo! Batton down the hatches!
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Just Hanging Around
Here's another "I can't imagine why, but" story. A 29 year old man was found dangling by his ankle from a bridge in New Brunswick. Apparently, he had been twistin' in the wind for a good two hours before anyone noticed him there, swinging from 6 feet of rope. After he was finally noticed, it still took another 40 minutes or so for rescue workers to get him down. And nobody knows what he was doing there.
Maybe he didn't know you need to use a stretchy bungee cord for bungee jumping (hence the name).
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