Booze Hospital For Too Much Christmas Cheer

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HEADLINE: Booze Hospital For Too Much Christmas Cheer
SOURCE LINK: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/London-Ambulance-Service-Sets-Up-Booze-Hospital-A-Week-Earlier-Than-Last-Year/Article/200911415477210?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_8&lid=ARTICLE_15477210_London_Ambulance_Service_Sets_Up_Booze_Hospital_A_Week_Earlier_Than_Last_Year
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The emergency facility is at Liverpool Street Station to treat patients who are drunk or have minor injuries.

Duty Station Officer for City and Hackney Nick Lesslar said: "Every minute that we spend mopping up vomit, is a minute that could have been spent helping a patient who is seriously ill or injured".

More than a hundred ambulance staff will be on duty throughout the festive period.

They will pick people up across the capital, bringing them back to the field hospital.

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HEADLINE: Parents Accused of Ditching Kids At Walmart On Black Friday
SOURCE LINK: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/21741519/detail.html
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COMMERCE, Ga. -- Two people face reckless conduct charges after police said they left their young children in a shopping cart inside a Georgia Walmart while they went shopping.

It happened at about 7 a.m. on Black Friday at the Walmart in Commerce in Banks County.

Police said Mario Navarro, 35, and Elias Esmeralda, 31, put a 9-month-old girl and a 9-year-old child in a shopping cart and pushed the cart off to the side inside the Walmart and went shopping.

One witness told Channel 2 Action News that Walmart employees paged the parents for more than 45 minutes before they used store surveillance video to track them down.

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HEADLINE: Mummified cat found in raided Toronto Humane Society building: Officials
SOURCE LINK: http://www.canada.com/news/Mummified+found+raided+Toronto+Humane+Society+building+Officials/2277918/story.html
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TORONTO — Investigators said Friday they had found a mummified cat in the ceiling of the Toronto Humane Society offices.

The cat was found in a live trap, meant as a humane method of catching an animal, but it had apparently never been checked.

"It sent chills down my spine," said Kevin Strooband, an Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals investigator. He met reporters Friday outside the humane society office as he gave media tours of the facility, a day after its top officials and board of directors were charged with animal cruelty offences.

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HEADLINE: Family Sues After Dad's Body Falls From Broken Casket
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,577286,00.html
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PHOENIX — A suburban Phoenix family is suing after their father's body slipped from a shattered casket when it was dropped into a grave during a burial ceremony.

Lawsuits filed by the wife, children and two dozen family members of 50-year-old Robert Gowdy Sr. claim a strap on a casket-lowering device snapped as family was gathered around a grave last year, dropping Gowdy's coffin and breaking it open.

The lawsuit against the city of Mesa and its workers, the funeral home, casket company and device-maker says Gowdy's body had to be pulled from the grave by two family members after cemetery workers ran away.

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