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#1
Posted 24 February 2009 - 02:39 AM
Cops: Man tries to steal laptop to check Facebook
– Sheriff's officers said a 19-year-old man snatched a Starbucks customers laptop after being told he could not use it to check his Facebook account. According to officers, the man then grabbed the customer's laptop and ran out of the coffee shop, located in an outlet mall.
Two people in the parking lot tackled the man and held him there until a mall security guard arrived.
The victim got his laptop back and the man was charged Saturday with robbery by sudden snatching, a felony.
#3
Posted 24 February 2009 - 03:04 AM
#4
Posted 24 February 2009 - 04:03 AM
The escape artist octopus released from a New Zealand aquarium last week has been warned that he faces a date with death as he embarks on a "hard and fast" sex spree off the coast of Dunedin.
'Sid' was released from the Dunedin aquarium after trying to escape a number of times, most recently after hiding out in a drain for five days before being busted making a dash for the door.
Spokesman Peter Bell says that after eight months of being held at the aquarium, the six-foot mollusc will be keen to find a girlfriend - or several.
"He was one of the octopus that escaped every moment he got, we had to tie the doors shut to keep him in. He could fit through a gap about two inches wide, so we don't expect to see him back," he said.
"We expect him to be enjoying life immensely swimming around the harbour and meeting up for a few liaisons with some female octopus out there.
"It's really nice to think that potentially in the future we'll have Sid's octopus offspring coming back."
Mr Bell says Sid will most likely prefer to spread his seed, rather than be a one-woman man.
"I know that they can mate more than once, it's likely the males will take as many opportunities they can get," he said.
"They're fly by night customers, they're not into the monogamous relationship. If they hang around they tend to try and eat each other.
But he says Sid's "hard and fast" lifestyle will unfortunately come to and end after mating.
"He'll probably swim around for a number of weeks and have a number or partners in that time and they tend to die following mating, or in the female's case, after they've laid their eggs and they have hatched," he said.
#5
Posted 24 February 2009 - 06:10 AM
#8
Posted 24 February 2009 - 11:10 AM
#12
Posted 24 February 2009 - 02:33 PM
#13
Posted 24 February 2009 - 03:03 PM
Oh... My... God!
That was exactly what I thought!
#15
Posted 25 February 2009 - 03:21 AM
holy cow!!!
#16
Posted 25 February 2009 - 04:27 AM
Son stabbed in buttock after dispute; arrest pending for 58-year-old father
updated 5:42 p.m. ET Feb. 24, 2009
BALTIMORE - A 58-year-old man stabbed his teenage son after he refused to take off his hat at church earlier in the day, police said.
The father and his 19-year-old son got into an argument on Sunday afternoon, police said. That's when police said the father went to a car, got a knife and stabbed his son in the left buttock and fled.
The son was taken to University of Maryland Medical Center for treatment. The father's name was withheld pending his arrest.
#19
Posted 25 February 2009 - 08:46 AM
As long as it doesn't kill me, I'll drink it.
#20
Posted 25 February 2009 - 02:05 PM













