I just saw this video on YouTube and no nothing about the back story. It seems to be genuine, but shows a guy messing around in traffic as his friend films him — until he is hit by a truck.
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The so-called Beauty Bandit” has been arrested in South Florida. Maria Elizabeth Chrysson, 29, has been accused of stealing Botox and other cosmetic treatments.
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There is a call to ban tasers in Pensacola after a series of injuries and fatalities linked to the use of the weapons. In one of the most controversial cases, Victor Steen, 17, died after being first tasered by an officer and then run over by his cruiser. For the video, click here. A judge has ruled, however, that the officer responsible committed no crime in the death of Steen.
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In light of the helicopter case today, I am a bit confused about the sentencing guidelines used by our cousins in England. In Manchester, Samantha Brown, 20, and her sister Toni Brown, 24, were sentenced in a horrific murder of Brown’s boyfriend and received brief jail sentences.
This scientific article is quite interesting. It appears that over the past 400 million years, the level of oxygen on Earth has varied considerably and higher oxygen levels may have contributed to ancient forest fires.
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Houshang Jafari, 58, has received a one-year jail sentence for a novel crime: grabbing a skid bar on a helicopter about to take off.
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The former President of Interpol and South African National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in Johannesburg for corruption. He was accused of receiving payments from convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti.
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Cities continue to shutdown basic services as the country spends billions abroad on two wars. Just a couple weeks after Oakland announced a plan to no longer respond to calls for such crimes as grand theft auto and burglary, East St. Louis is laying off roughly one-third of its police force as well as part of its fire department.
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The Iranian government continues to be a fashion leader this week with the appearance of its female rugby team in its new modesty protecting uniforms.
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Pedro Valladares Martinez, 27, is an alleged child molester who was the subject of a rare arrest. City officials in Lake Placid reported to police that Martinez was seeking a marriage license for himself and a 13-year-old girl.
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When Japanese police went to the house to congratulate Sogen Kato on his 111th birthday, they allegedly discovered an over 30-year-old conspiracy instead.
While I am pretty sure humans and dinosaurs did not co-exist, that does not mean such co-existence is not possible among the species.
Australia is facing a controversy that is all too familiar to Americans. Fundamentalists in state schools are teaching children that humans and dinosaurs lived together and Noah brought dinosaur eggs on to the Ark.
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Tennessee GOP Gubernatorial candidate Zach Wamp has a simple message for voters: if you love God, vote for me.
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First there was that broom stalking you on commercials when you got rid of it. Now, your detergent is watching you. Unilever — maker of Omo detergent — is placing GPS tracking devices in boxes of detergent to locate winners of its prizes through a promotions agency called “Bullet” in Brazil. Just think of Mr. Clean tracking you like a detergent version of “Cape Fear.”
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