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VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:56 am

Beware the Cheese Saboteur . . . This is not funny, really  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Nov 22, 2:13 PM EST Vermont Police Hunt Down Cheese Saboteur MONKTON, Vt. (AP) -- Wanted: Cheese vandals. Someone sneaked into the production house at Orb Weaver Farm and punctured 237 wheels of cheese at the Orb Weaver Farm. The cheese, a blend of havarti and colby that made up nearly a year's production at the farm, can no longer be sold or eaten because of the contamination last week. Orb Weaver Farm's Vermont Farmhouse Cheese is sold to local restaurants and stores. It was used in a recipe for macaroni and cheese in the recent cookbook "The Way We Cook: Recipes from the New American Kitchen." A cash reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest. --- On the Net: <a href='http://www.newenglandcheese.com/compani ... eaver.html' target='_blank'>http://www.newenglandcheese.com/compani ... er.html</a> </td></tr></table>

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:02 am

<a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ion_meteor' target='_blank'>"A meteor is coming and we're all going to die!"</a>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> A meteor is coming and we're all going to die: teacher tells pupils LONDON (AFP) - A schoolteacher, attempting to motivate her pupils into making the most of each day, told them a meteorite was about to smash into the Earth and that they should all return home to say goodbye to their families. The teacher at the high school in Manchester, only realised her lecture was misjudged when many of the assembled teenagers started crying, The Sun newspaper said Friday. The unnamed female teacher made the announcement to around 250 pupils at St Matthew's Roman Catholic High School during their regular morning assembly. Saying she had bad news, the teacher announced that a meteor would strike the Earth in 10 days' time, and that they should return home and say their "final farewells" to their parents. After the crowd of 13- and 14-year-olds looked on in horror, and many burst into tears, the teacher swiftly explained that she was only trying to encourage them to "seize the day". "Some of the children were 100 percent convinced they were going to die," the father of one child told the paper. "God only knows what this teacher thought she was doing." </td></tr></table>  Some people these days...

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:16 am

Yeah, we all know the earth is going to end when the Vogons come in their big yellow construction ships . . . .

Dr. Dos · Postby **Dr. Dos** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:59 am

Not if we take interest in local affairs!

Dr. Dos · Postby **Dr. Dos** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:24 am

<a href='http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... us/soupman' target='_blank'>The Continuing Adventures of SOUPMAN!</a> this guy is pretty awesome and I guess it's weird because they call him soupman. It just goes to show you that some people are actually nice.

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:35 am

It's good to see there is still kindness and decency out there. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Burning Sheep Productions · Postby **Burning Sheep Productions** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:03 am

Yarr, that guy's one of those people who people can learn from.

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 11:04 pm

Manners are important. Ah, the joys of family during the holidays . . .  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> 2 stabbed in turkey carving dispute Items compiled from Tribune news services Published November 27, 2004 WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS -- A man was charged with stabbing two relatives after they allegedly criticized his table manners during Thanksgiving dinner. Police said the fight broke out Thursday when Gonzalo Ocasio, 49, and his 18-year-old son, Gonzalo Jr., reprimanded Frank Palacious for picking at the turkey with his fingers, instead of using a knife. Palacious, 24, described by police only as an uncle, allegedly responded by stabbing them with a carving knife. He is charged with domestic assault and assault with intent to murder, Detective Sgt. Thomas Radula said. Police said the younger Ocasio suffered stab wounds to the chest, back and right side. His father was treated for a stab wound in his arm. Copyright 2004, Chicago Tribune</td></tr></table>

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 2:17 am

3 News items for you today. Now we have dolphins who save humans:  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Reuters) - A pod of dolphins circled protectively round a group of New Zealand swimmers to fend off an attack by a great white shark, media reported on Tuesday. Lifesavers Rob Howes, his 15-year-old daughter Niccy, Karina Cooper and Helen Slade were swimming 300 feet off Ocean Beach near Whangarei on New Zealand's North Island when the dolphins herded them -- apparently to protect them from a shark. "They started to herd us up, they pushed all four of us together by doing tight circles around us," Howes told the New Zealand Press Association (NZPA). Howes tried to drift away from the group, but two of the bigger dolphins herded him back just as he spotted a nine-foot great white shark swimming toward the group. "I just recoiled. It was only about 2 meters away from me, the water was crystal clear and it was as clear as the nose on my face," Howes said, referring to a distance of six feet. "They had corralled us up to protect us," he said. The lifesavers spent the next 40 minutes surrounded by the dolphins before they could safely swim back to shore. The incident happened on October 30, but the lifesavers kept the story to themselves until now. Environment group Orca Research said dolphins attacked sharks to protect themselves and their young, so their actions in protecting the lifesavers was understandable. "They could have sensed the danger to the swimmers and taken action to protect them," Orca's Ingrid Visser told NZPA. </td></tr></table>  Respect your elders. Good advice:  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> OSLO, Norway (AP) - A purse snatcher in a small Norwegian town picked the wrong 88-year-old woman to rob, since she was with a tough younger man at the time. Her 78-year-old friend ended up sending the thief to the hospital this week, the local newspaper Moss Avisen reported Friday. The report said the thief was on a bicycle when he snatched the purse in Raade, a small town about 50 kilometres south of Oslo. The elderly man reacted instantly, grabbing hold of the purse and struggling with the 30-year-old thief. During the struggle, the senior dragged the young man off his bike and onto the asphalt. The stunned thief took a beating - bleeding profusely from a cut on his head - and staggered off, still clutching the woman's wallet which he had pulled from the purse. Police quickly located him and took him to a hospital, where he needed seven stitches. The suspect was detained pending indictment on the purse snatching, police said. Identities weren't released. </td></tr></table>  Someone is taking holiday decorating a bit too seriously here. I'm just not sure whom.  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> MONTE SERENO, Calif. (AP) - For six years, Alan and Bonnie Aerts transformed their Silicon Valley home into a Christmas wonderland, complete with surfing Santa, jumbo candy canes and a carol-singing chorus of mannequins. Visitors loved it. Last year, more than 1,500 cars prowled the Aertses' cul-de-sac in this upscale San Jose suburb each night. This year, though, the merry menagerie stayed indoors. Instead, on the manicured lawn outside the couple's Tudor mansion, stands a single tiding: a three-metre-tall Grinch with green fuzz, rotting teeth and beet-red eyeballs. The Aertses erected the smirking giant to protest the couple across the street - 16-year residents Le and Susan Nguyen, who initiated complaints to city officials that the display was turning the quiet neighbourhood into a Disneyesque nightmare. Alan Aerts, who makes sure the Grinch's spindly finger points directly to the Nguyens' house, says the complaints killed the exhibit. They also violated the Christmas spirit, he said. "When I grew up, people decorated everything - it was wonderful to be a kid," said the 48-year-old soft drink distributor and philanthropist. "If you can't even put up a display these days, what kind of people have we become?" The Nguyens say that even after the Aertses hired a security guard to help direct traffic, the commotion kept them from having friends over for their own lower-key celebrations. "We wake up to Christmas for about 45 days of the year," said Le Nguyen, 55. "You ever seen the movie Groundhog Day? It's just like that." The exhibition's death knell came last year, when the Nguyens collected 90 signatures of protest from residents and the city council voted to require a permit for any exhibit lasting longer than three days. Mayor Erin Garner voted against it, saying he thought the Aertses provided a community service. "It will be a crying shame if (Alan) doesn't put his holiday lights up this year," he told the San Jose Mercury News. After studying the application process, the Aertses decided the usual display wasn't worth the hassle. So Alan Aerts, a six-foot-three amateur body builder, commissioned the $2,500 motorized Grinch statue, which waves its arms and emits steam as a raspy tenor belts out, "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch." Susan Nguyen, 52, is unmoved. "It was oppressive," she said. "Maybe not if you just spent 10 minutes admiring it from your car, but if you lived next door, it was definitely oppressive." </td></tr></table>

Richard K Niner · Postby **Richard K Niner** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:53 am

Watch out, they honk!  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Geese guard prisoners Four jails in Brazil are using geese to help prevent prisoners from escaping. The prisons, in Sao Paulo's Paraiba Valey, say no inmates have escaped since they brought in the geese. The geese are kept in areas just inside the prison wall and make a lot of noise whenever anyone goes near them. Idalecio Pereira Campos, director of Tremembe Prison, told Terra Noticias Populares: "When I was a child there were wild geese that would run after me on a nearby farm. "That is where I got the idea from, I thought that the geese would do great in the prison, and they do!"</td></tr></table>

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:20 am

What about the pessimists club? I hear they're doing really well . . .  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Nov 29, 7:37 AM EST Optimists Club Calls It Quits QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- It's a glum day for optimists. After 24 years of community service, the Quakertown Optimists Club is calling it quits. They're holding their last meeting on Thursday, citing declining interest. "I feel sad," club president Bernard Kensky said. Kensky said that fewer club members were taking part in sporting and scholastic activities for children, and fewer kids were getting involved in club events. The group worked with schools to hold essay, spelling and public speaking contests for students, sponsored a youth bowling league and organized golf tournaments and football and basketball events. A bicycle derby sponsored by the club and the Quakertown police department drew only 12 children last year, down from previous attendance of 50 to 70 children, Kensky said. The Optimist Club is an international organization that formed in 1920. The Quakertown chapter started in 1980 with 35 members, but dropped to 15 members this year. "Four or five people would come to meetings and only two or three people would help out with the activities," Kensky said. "I don't know why people stopped getting involved." Quakertown is about 35 miles north of Philadelphia. </td></tr></table>

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:41 am

It's just so hard to release domestic dirt back into the wild these days.  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Dec 1, 9:35 AM EST Men Arrested for Dumping Dirt in a Forest COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- Two men have been arrested for dumping dirt in a national forest. The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department said the men, who have not been publicly identified, were arrested at a garage in Coeur d'Alene where the dirt had been removed and the base apparently prepared for paving. Deputy Robert Gomez said the U.S. Forest Service confirmed that it was illegal to dump anything, including dirt, on the federal land. Gomez said he asked the two men about dumping dirt in the national forest "and they went off on a tirade about Mother Earth." The deputy quoted the pair as saying they had taken "perfectly good dirt" from the garage area and dumped it under a big fir tree where they used rakes to spread the soil to make it look nice. "They both said it was a good job having given back the dirt to Mother Earth," Gomez said. </td></tr></table>  "I don't think those boys thought this through," Yup . . .  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Dec 1, 5:16 PM EST Five Charged With Stealing Mechanical Deer KINGWOOD, W.Va. (AP) -- Five young men were charged with stealing a Division of Natural Resources' mechanical deer after one left identifying information at the scene, leading police to a pickup truck where the robot deer's head was in plain sight. Officers found the deer's body hidden in a building at the Fellowsville baseball field. "I don't think those boys thought this through," Conservation Officer Cpl. Rich McCrobie said. Patrick Bolyard, 20; Terry J. Goff III, 19; Joe Thomas Haskiell, 21; Andrew T. Knotts, 16; and Thomas J. Shahan, 19, were charged Nov. 25 with stealing the mechanical deer on Nov. 21. All live in Tunnelton. DNR officers erected the deer about 75 yards from the road in the Fellowsville area where they'd had complaints of poaching the weekend before deer gun season began. "One vehicle came up and spotlighted. We pursued it, and another came by and took the deer," Conservation Officer 1st Class Gary Johnson said. Goff pleaded no contest to petit larceny, destruction of property, spotlighting and failure to stop and check game. Magistrate Diane Thomas sentenced him to 14 days in jail plus fines and costs totaling $1,244. Of that, $600 is restitution for the mechanical deer. Thomas levied 10 days jail time and a total of $744 in fines and costs against Bolyard for his no contest plea to conspiracy to violate game laws, hunting from a motor vehicle, spotlighting and failure to stop and check game. Chief Magistrate Janice Snider sentenced Shahan to 14 days in jail and a total of $1,244, including $600 restitution, for his no contest plea to spotlighting, petit larceny, conspiracy to violate game laws and destruction of property. Snider ordered Knotts to pay $577 for tickets charging him with hunting without a license, hunting from a motor vehicle, spotlighting and conspiracy to violate game laws. A conviction for spotlighting also results in automatic revocation of hunting licenses for two years. Haskiell had not entered a plea in Magistrate Court by Tuesday. He is charged with destruction of property, petit larceny, spotlighting and conspiracy to violate game laws. --- Information from: The Dominion Post, <a href='http://www.dominionpost.com' target='_blank'>http://www.dominionpost.com</a> </td></tr></table>

Henohenomoheji · Postby **Henohenomoheji** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:03 am

your Visibility may be Missing, but your stories aren't. They're up there ^. That's a whole lot of stories since I last checked. Keep up the good work.

Softpaw · Postby **Softpaw** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:50 am

One question, about the mechanical deer article: What the hell is spotlighting?

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:46 am

Sounds like causing a deer to freeze using a spotlight is illegal in W. Virginia. It would be just like the headlight effect: the deer won't move because it can't see beyond the edges of the light.

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