Nude Kiwi cyclists warned over helmets

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HEADLINE: Nude Kiwi cyclists warned over helmets
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/nude-kiwi-cyclists-warned-over-helmets/story-e6frfku0-1225813072448
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CYCLING starkers might be okay in New Zealand - but just make sure the cops don't catch you without a helmet.
Two Kiwi men wearing nothing but their birthday suits have been issued with a warning for riding without protective head gear on a jaunt around a sleepy New Zealand seaside town.
Senior Constable Cathy Duder was patrolling Whangamata, a beach resort in the North Island, on a quiet Monday night when she came across the two nude men, both in their early 20s.
"They were more shocked than I was, trying to cover up their bits and pieces with their hands," Senior Constable Duder told AAP.
When asked for an explanation, the pair replied that "they wanted to experience total freedom".

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HEADLINE: Vatican Gives Thumbs Up to 'The Simpsons'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580928,00.html?test=latestnews
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VATICAN CITY — To put it as the devout Ned Flanders would, the Vatican's newspaper thinks "The Simpsons" are an okely dokely bunch.
L'Osservatore Romano on Tuesday congratulated the show on its 20th anniversary, praising its philosophical leanings as well as its stinging and often irreverent take on religion.
Without Homer Simpson and the other yellow-skinned characters "many today wouldn't know how to laugh," said the article titled "Aristotle's Virtues and Homer's Doughnut."
The paper credited "The Simpsons" — the longest-running American animated program — with opening up cartoons to an adult audience.

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HEADLINE: Man With 5-inch Knife Stuck In Chest Orders Coffee
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/22/ap/strange/main6011397.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.10
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WARREN, Mich. (AP) - A 52-year-old man complained only about the cold weather before walking into a diner with a five-inch knife sticking out of his chest. The unnamed man called a Warren 911 operator on Sunday night to ask that an ambulance be sent to Bray's, an eatery in neighboring Hazel Park. He said he had been stabbed during a robbery attempt half a mile away, then walked to the restaurant and called 911 from a pay phone.

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HEADLINE: Fortune cookie factory gone to pot
SOURCE LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/22/state/n094909S95.DTL&tsp=1
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Oakland police are looking for the growers of at least 1,000 marijuana plants found after a small fire at a one-time Oakland fortune cookie factory.

Sgt. Rich Vierra says the pot plants, valued at about $500,000, were not burned during Monday's fire in the former Kar Mee Fortune Cookie Factory in Oakland's Chinatown district.

Police say the plants ranged in size from seedlings to 4 feet tall and were being grown in about 1,750 square feet of space.

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HEADLINE: Man Convicted for Drinking Coffee Naked
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/21/crimesider/entry6006155.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.3
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FAIRFAX, Va. (CBS/AP) In the privacy of his own home, Erick Williamson likes to drink his morning coffee in the buff, a fact that got several of his suburban Virginia neighbors brewing.
Now, a jury of his fully-clothed peers has convicted Williamson of indecent exposure because two women said they saw him naked while walking by the windows of his house in October. He received neither jail time nor a fine, but is appealing anyway, saying a larger principle is at stake.

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HEADLINE: Green vibrators promise truly sustainable pleasure
SOURCE LINK: http://www.canada.com/life/Green+vibrators+promise+truly+sustainable+pleasure/2356130/story.html
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DUBLIN — When world leaders in Copenhagen argue for days in knife-edge talks to save the planet, what more fitting way to relieve the tension than an environmentally-friendly vibrator?
The global sex toy industry is worth an estimated annual $15 billion and uses up a mountain of batteries in the process, many of which end up as toxic waste.
But now one Irish company reckons they’ve got the solution to shake up the market: a vibrator they are calling the world’s first-ever "green technology sex toy".
The Earth Angel, described as "eight inches (20 centimetres) with a sleek white finish", is a wind-up vibrator which comes with a handle built into the bottom.

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