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[gollum83]

Tuesday, August 31 2010, IRVINE, Calif. - A golfer's off-target swing sparked a 12-acre (5-hectare) blaze in Southern California.

The golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in the rough Saturday.

On his next swing, his club snagged a rock, causing a spark that lit the rough ablaze and eventually attracted 150 firefighters to the scene.

Fire officials say the fire burned through the rough, into vegetation next to the course and over two dry, brushy hillsides.

No charges were filed against the golfer, whose name was withheld.

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Talk about your hot streaks...

 

[blackfoot]

Nice!

 

[Swampfox]

What's the deal with the recent acid attacks? Over the last couple of days I have heard to two girls getting acid thrown in their face. What's wrong with people?

 

[SRock]

What's the deal with the recent acid attacks? Over the last couple of days I have heard to two girls getting acid thrown in their face. What's wrong with people?

Its both disgusting and horrific. If/when these people are caught they should be tried for attempted murder.

 

[Swampfox]

Its both disgusting and horrific. If/when these people are caught they should be tried for attempted murder.

I agree. I just can't understand the hatred one must have for other people to do something like that.

 

[SRock]

I agree. I just can't understand the hatred one must have for other people to do something like that.

Agreed.

 

[GFlanagan3]

In research results announced in June, a team led by a University
of Oklahoma professor, studying Mexican molly fish, discovered
that females evaluate potential mates on sight, based on the
prominence of the moustache-like growths on males' upper lips.
More controversially, the researchers hypothesized that males
further enhance their mating prowess by employing the "moustache"
to tickle females' genitals. (Catfish have similar "whiskers" and
perhaps use them for similar purposes, said the researcher.)
[BBC News, 6-28-10]

In September [1991], the Avon, Colo., town council resorted to a
contest to name the new bridge over the Eagle River, linking
Interstate 70 with U.S. highway 6. Sifting through 84 suggestions
(such as "Eagle Crossing"), the council voted, 4-2, to give it the
official name "Bob." "Bob The Bridge" is, still, a theme for several
local festivals. [Denver Post, 10-30-91]......BOB?

 

[GDCarrington]

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[Swampfox]

In research results announced in June, a team led by a University
of Oklahoma professor, studying Mexican molly fish, discovered
that females evaluate potential mates on sight, based on the
prominence of the moustache-like growths on males' upper lips.
More controversially, the researchers hypothesized that males
further enhance their mating prowess by employing the "moustache"
to tickle females' genitals. (Catfish have similar "whiskers" and
perhaps use them for similar purposes, said the researcher.)
[BBC News, 6-28-10]

 

[GFlanagan3]

who knew?

 

[GFlanagan3]

Although India has forbidden discrimination against lower-caste
"Dalits" (so-called "untouchables"), rampant oppression still exists,
especially in rural areas. In October, police were investigating
reports that a higher-caste woman had disowned her dog after it had
been touched by an "untouchable" woman. A village council in the
Morena district of Madhya Pradesh state had reportedly awarded the
higher-caste woman the equivalent of $340 compensation after she
witnessed the dog being given food scraps by the Dalit woman.
[BBC News, 9-24-10]

 

[GFlanagan3]

In October in Seminole, Fla., near Tampa, two men, ages 36
and 52, sitting on a porch, drew the attention of two passersby, who
made derisive comments and eventually beat up the porch-sitters,
who were in costumes as beer bottles.

 

[GFlanagan3]

Librarian Graham Barker, 45, of Perth, Australia, casually
revealed to a reporter in October that his hobby of 26 years--
harvesting his own navel lint daily, just before he showers--has now
won acclaim in the Guinness Book of World Records. His three-jar
collection (a fourth is in progress) has been sold to a local museum.
His pastime, he told London's Daily Mail in October, "costs nothing
and takes almost no time or effort so there is no compelling reason
to stop." Barker, who also collects McDonald's tray liners, said he
once did a "navel lint survey,"and "a handful of respondents"
"confessed" to the hobby. "One guy might have persisted, but he
got married, and his wife ordered him to stop." [Daily Mail, 10-25-
10] kind of makes talking about shaving seem normal

 

[GFlanagan3]

Chadwick St.-OHarra, 59, and Steve Righetti, 59, filed lawsuits in
small claims court in San Rafael, Calif., in November against the
Seafood Peddler restaurant for "injuries." Cutting into the escargot
at dinner in June, both men were squirted in the face by streams of
hot garlic butter. Still, the men finished the meal and admitted that
only later did they grow to resent the restaurant staff's insufficient
remorse. Said St-OHarra, "It was the friggin' rudeness" that
provoked them to sue. [Contra Costa Times-Marin Independent
Journal, 11-15-10]
But if Springs were there this NEVER would have happened

 

[GFlanagan3]

Sheryl
Urzedowski, 38, was cited in September for DUI in Orland Park,
Ill., after failing a field sobriety test to walk a straight line.
According to the officer's report, Urzedowski put her hands on her
hips and strutted to and fro "as if she were a [runway] model," after
which, apprehensive about being arrested, she asked the officer to
read her "the Amanda rights." [BBC News, 11-25-10] [Chicago
Tribune, 9-15-10]

 

[GFlanagan3]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) -- Louisville Metro Police say the doctors and patients in the Southwest Hospital emergency room got a rude awakening to the dangers of drugs Tuesday night when a meth suspect allegedly came crashing through the ceiling.

Police say it started when officers were called to the hospital to interview 27-year-old Nicholas D. Fultz after he showed up at the emergency room with suspicious burns.
When police asked them where the injuries came from, he told them they were alcohol burns, according to an arrest report.

But a female witness at the hospital told a different story. She said Fultz was a known meth dealer. She also admitted that she picked Fultz up in her vehicle and -- while he was inside -- he pulled a bottle out of a paper bag and the bottle exploded, causing the burns.

When officers searched the vehicle, they found numerous ingredients of a meth lab, including drain cleaner, pseudoephedrine pills, ammonium nitrate and lists of clients to whom Fultz allegedly sold meth.
They also allegedly found a "one-pot" meth lab in the car.

Meanwhile, Fultz -- who had been in a hospital room while the investigation was taking place -- allegedly climbed into the ceiling and crawled over into the next room.

A short time later, police say, Fultz came crashing through the ceiling into the hallway of the ER, "causing major damage."

He was charged with manufacturing meth, trafficking in controlled substances, criminal mischief, resisting arrest and giving an officer a false name or address.

Fox41.com has obtained Fultz's criminal history in Jefferson County, which dates back to 2002 and includes multiple charges such as robbery, drug charges and assault.

A spokeswoman for Southwest Hospital told Fox41.com that the hospital has no comment at this time, and referred all questions to Louisville Metro Police -- but a Fox 41 viewer sent us this image of the damage to the ceiling:
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[auk1124]

Burnt himself to a crisp and still attempted to make like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible? That guy's a freaking machine. I didn't know meth gave people superpowers.

 

[blackfoot]

Burnt himself to a crisp and still attempted to make like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible? That guy's a freaking machine. I didn't know meth gave people superpowers.

You have no idea!

 

[GFlanagan3]

You have no idea!

 

[jakespoppy]

.....He was charged with .. criminal mischief.....
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I didn't know "mischief" was a crime. We need to come up with a plan to hide Swampfox when they come looking for him!