Dog Mugged for His Designer Winter Coat

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HEADLINE: Dog Mugged for His Designer Winter Coat
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/10/crimesider/entry6194344.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.12
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Doggonit! That is bound to be what a New York City terrier was thinking after a Brooklyn mugger stole a doggie coat right off his back.

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HEADLINE: Rio Carnival gets seven-year-old queen
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/girl-7-to-lead-rios-carnival/story-e6frfku0-1225829128083
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A RIO de Janeiro court has given permission for a seven-year-old girl to lead a parade in the city's upcoming famed Carnival, despite protests from child rights groups.
Julia Lira will thus be allowed to be the "dancing queen" for the Viradouro samba school when it struts its stuff Sunday night.

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HEADLINE: Calif. Man Allegedly Tried To Buy Boys' Urine
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/10/ap/strange/main6194924.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.12
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Manhattan Beach police have arrested a man they claim tried to buy urine from boys at an elementary school. Sgt. Brian Brown said an 18-year-old man was arrested on Monday for investigation of annoying children. He remained jailed Wednesday on $150,000 bail

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HEADLINE: Arrest after backside of girl, 1, tattooed
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/man-tattooed-backside-of-one-year-old-girl/story-e6frfkui-1225829027277
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A US man is facing a felony child-endangering charge for allegedly tattooing the backside of a one-year-old girl.
WJW reported Lee Deitrick, 20, is accused of putting the non-removable tattoo on the child's backside while she was visiting his house with a female relative in November

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HEADLINE: Australian Farmers Told to Dynamite Rabbits
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/10/australian-farmers-told-dynamite-rabbits/?test=latestnews
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Australian farmers are being urged by authorities to use poison gas and even ammonium nitrate explosive to blow up rabbits, as biological controls fail, The Adelaide Advertiser reported in its Thursday edition.

A warning issued to farmers by the South Australian Environment Department urges them to "overcome the rabbit's tremendous breeding potential" by traditional means such as bulldozers, poison baits, fumigation, dogs and even explosives.

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HEADLINE: 'Baby machine' mum opts for contraceptive implant after having 14 kids
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/baby-machine-mom-opts-for-contraceptive-after-having-14-kids/story-e6frfku0-1225829012700
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A BRITISH woman dubbed the "Baby Machine" who has seen all 14 of her children taken into care has had a contraceptive implant fitted to try and win them back, The Sun reported.
Theresa Winters, 37, has pledged to stop getting pregnant in an effort to prove to social services that she is responsible enough to look after her kids.

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HEADLINE: Man invents chastity belt for dogs
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/dexter-blanch-invents-chastity-belt-for-dogs/story-e6frfku0-1225829012522
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A LOUISIANA man has come up with an unorthodox alternative to spaying and neutering dogs, MyFox National reported.
According to a report by AOLNews , 51-year-old Dexter Blanch created a strap-on chastity belt for dogs.
PABS, or Pet Anti Breeding System, is a belt made of polypropylene that consists of an eight-buckle locking system and a washable mesh pad for female dogs.

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HEADLINE: Lawsuit: I Was Jailed for God Talk in Mall
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585389,00.html
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Imagine getting arrested for just striking up a conversation about religion in public.
That’s what happened to California resident Matthew Snatchko in 2006 when the youth pastor initiated a conversation about God with three shoppers at the Roseville Galleria mall.

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HEADLINE: Woman dies after pensioner falls on her
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/world/woman-dies-after-pensioner-falls-on-her/story-e6frfkyr-1225828905926
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A HONG KONG woman has been killed in a bizarre accident in which an elderly neighbour plunged from her high-rise flat and landed on top of her, police say.

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HEADLINE: Sleeping Beauty condition means teenager sleeps for two weeks
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7205452/Sleeping-Beauty-condition-means-teenager-sleeps-for-two-weeks.html
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Louisa Ball, 15, has earned the nickname 'Sleeping Beauty' thanks to a rare condition that causes her to sleep for up to two weeks at a time.

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HEADLINE: 'I slept with him, because I'm kind of sick'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/10/DDQQ1BS53Q.DTL&tsp=1
CLIP:

Starting here in preparation for Valentine's Day, this is what's been said about love, step by relationship step:
-- "I've liked him ever since we were in the fourth grade." "Well, I've liked him since third grade." "Third grade doesn't count." (Teenage girls in discussion, overheard on the 24-Divisadero by Mark Abramson)
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/10/DDQQ1BS53Q.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0f9hNb7Xw

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HEADLINE: $500 KFC Chicken Reward for Colonel's Head
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/10/ap/strange/main6194069.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.12
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KFC is hoping the folks who ran off with a bronze bust of Colonel Harland Sanders have big appetites.
The chicken giant is offering $500 worth of grilled chicken as a reward for information leading to the return of the bust that was taken from a Berea KFC last month.

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HEADLINE: Just in Time for Valentine's Day: Cocaine Roses
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585335,00.html?test=latestnews
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AMSTERDAM — A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but apparently not sweet enough to conceal the scent of cocaine.
Dutch customs officials say they have intercepted a shipment of the drug hidden among 20,000 long-stem roses flown to the Netherlands from Colombia in time for the St. Valentine's Day holiday this week.

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HEADLINE: Docs Leave 7-Inch Forceps Inside Woman During Surgery
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585366,00.html
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A British mother spent three months in agony after doctors left a 7-inch set of forceps inside her during a routine operation, The Sun reported.

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HEADLINE: Man Shoots Himself In Leg Outside Fla. Gun Store
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/09/ap/strange/main6192359.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.12
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A man accidentally shot himself in the leg shortly after leaving a Jupiter gun store. Police said the unidentified man went to Chuck's Guns and Ammo Monday afternoon, looking for batteries for the laser sight on a small handgun. When the man was back in his car, the gun accidentally fired, hitting him in the leg.

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HEADLINE: Call to gastric band fat Aussie kids
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/national/obese-aussie-kids-need-gastric-bands-study/story-e6frfkvr-1225828569554
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THE authors of a major new Australian study into childhood obesity are advocating a big increase in the number of juvenile gastric-banding operations to tackle the growing prevalence of morbidly overweight kids.

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HEADLINE: Man robs arcade armed with cup of coffee
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/man-robs-arcade-armed-with-cup-of-coffee/story-e6freuz9-1225828580247
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A THIEF in the German town of Hamelin has robbed an amusement arcade by threatening the attendant with a cup of coffee.

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HEADLINE: Nurse faked resume with job at TV's ER
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/nurse-faked-resume-with-job-at-tvs-er/story-e6freuyi-1225828550354
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A MAN landed a job in a British hospital after claiming he had previously worked at the hospital that features in US drama ER, it was reported today.

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HEADLINE: Millionaire gives away fortune which made him miserable
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/7190750/Millionaire-gives-away-fortune-which-made-him-miserable.html
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Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy.

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HEADLINE: Just stay in the kitchen, ladies
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/just-stay-in-the-kitchen-ladies-job-aid-for-women-was-better-in-the-fifties/story-e6freuy9-1225828480130
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WOMEN with working husbands are being tied to the sink under a welfare system that hampers them finding a job.
A new study that examined barriers to women entering the work force found they had more help from the Federal Government's job-seeking services in the 1950s. ..

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