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LOL
#223
LOL. My cousin called me to ask, "is this guy related to us?"

But seriously, THIS is why I'm not a fan of the Arizona Constitutional Carry. If you decide to pack a gun... PLEASE get some training!


As Chandler residents Joshua Seto, 27, and his fiancée, Cara Christopher, walked over to a Fry's Food Store for refreshments, he tried securing her pink handgun in the front waistband of his pants.

The gun fired, striking Seto's penis and continuing through his left thigh. The bleeding started immediately and was heavy, according to police dispatch recordings released Sunday.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2011/08/07/20110807cr-penisshot0811.html#ixzz1Ufh3qdgV
#224
A heroic Halo employee subdued a suspected gunman by whipping out his own firearm and performing a citizen's arrest using his dad's old handcuffs.

Jeff Fletcher found himself in the right place at the right time (in a way) when he parked up outside an ATM and witnessed a man shoot another.

King County Sheriff's investigators in the US report that a fight broke out between two men at 8:30pm on Saturday outside the US Bank in a neighbourhood called Skyway. The confrontation resulted in both men drawing guns and one being shot by the other.

Fletcher, a former security guard, says he witnessed the gunshot while he was hiding behind an ATM. The Bungie man noticed the suspect running towards him and decided to act by pulling his own legally concealed firearm.

"I told him to drop his weapon, he dropped his weapon," Fletcher told King5.com. "I told him to get on the ground, he got on the ground."

Fletcher remembered he was carrying a pair of handcuffs that belonged to his father, an ex-Seattle police officer, and used them to detain the suspect until police arrived.

"When we got here, the shooter was searched, in handcuffs and sitting down on the curb," said Sergeant John Urquhart.

While Fletcher doesn't recommend the type of action he took to everyone, he said "to ex-police or ex-army, or somebody who's got sufficient training and who's willing to take on that kind of risk for their loved ones or their community and has the capacity to do it, absolutely."


http://www.computerandvideogames.com/315233/heroic-bungie-employee-pulls-gun-on-shooting-suspect-makes-arrest/?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS
#225
Nicolas Cage awoken by naked man with Fudgesicle

TORONTO (Reuters) - For actor Nicolas Cage, making the new thriller movie "Trespass" hit close to home.

Cage, at the Toronto film festival along with director Joel Schumacher promoting the film about a home invasion, said that he has actually lived through the nightmare in real life.

"It was two in the morning. I was living in Orange County at the time and was asleep with my wife. My two-year old at the time was in another room. I opened my eyes and there was a naked man wearing my leather jacket eating a Fudgesicle in front of my bed," he told reporters on Wednesday.

"I know it sounds funny ... but it was horrifying."
http://news.yahoo.com/nicolas-cage-awoken-naked-man-fudgesicle-222238383.html


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#226
16-foot python devours deer in Florida

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/01/us/florida-python-deer/

(CNN) -- A Burmese python slithering through the Everglades proved that her eyes weren't bigger than her stomach, swallowing intact a 76-pound deer.

At 15.65 feet, the python isn't the largest on record. But the size of her prey both impresses and concerns state and federal wildlife scientists and land managers trying to control the non-native species.

"They are large exotic animals that are not naturally from this area," said Randy Smith, spokesperson for the South Florida Water Management District. "The potential to wreak havoc on the natural Florida wildlife ... they don't have true enemies."

Contractors spraying exotic vegetation Thursday came across the female python on an island about 20 miles from Everglades National Park, Smith told CNN Tuesday. It was dispatched, by protocol, with a single shotgun blast to the head.

A necropsy conducted by Everglades National Park wildlife biologists showed the python had a girth of 44.1 inches after devouring the adult female deer. The snake normally weighed 139 pounds.
Python eats deer for last meal

Officials Tuesday said they are trying to determine the age and health of the deer.

"We see them on a regular basis," Smith said of pythons. "We've dispatched hundreds of these in the past few years."

The menu for Burmese, rock and African pythons includes rodents, birds or smaller snakes. In 2005, a python apparently busted its gut after it had consumed a 6-foot alligator.

Some of the snakes may have escaped enclosures after Hurricane Andrew's widespread destruction in 1992.

But there's a more likely cause for the problem.

"Obviously, some of these were pets," Smith said. When people realize they are going to grow up to be much larger than they expected, they often release the creatures into the wild.

That's the worst thing you can do, officials said.

Management and park officials have tried trapping, but that's largely failed.

Scientists and park managers are studying the exotic reptiles' breeding habits and pinpointing their locations to devise a strategy for controlling them.

"It's not meant to be successful in this habitat," Linda Friar, spokeswoman for Everglades National Park, said of the Burmese python. "We don't have any idea how many there are. This is the biggest (one) we have ever dealt with."

The giant reptiles compete with alligators and crocodiles.

Although pythons have been found in or near some residential areas west of Miami, there have been no reports of injuries to people, Smith said.

Friar said invasive fish species, such as walking catfish and lionfish, are an even bigger problem in southern Florida.
#227
"Cemetery collector" with 29 bodies arrested

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have arrested a man described by local media as the "cemetery collector" for digging up 29 corpses and dressing the remains in female clothing to display around his flat.

Grainy police video images of the man's cramped flat showed what look like several life-sized female dolls without faces, some with platinum blond wigs.

http://news.yahoo.com/cemetery-collector-29-bodies-arrested-150953773.html
#228
Man walks into house; puts up Christmas decorations

in Vandalia, Ohio, a man named Terry Trent was arrested for breaking into a family’s home and putting up their Christmas decorations before sitting down to watch TV.

He was high on bath salts at the time.

After being discovered by an 11-year-old boy, Trent reportedly told the kid “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you. I’ll get my things and go.” He was taken into custody without incident and is currently being held in a county lockup.


http://www.whiotv.com/news/news/local/stranger-found-vandalia-house-puts-christmas-decor/nFbrN/

Why can't all burglars be this nice?
#229
What the...? High on bath salts? That's just nuts!

#230
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you. I’ll get my things and go.”


A lot of my nights end this way.
I'll have to try the bath salts.
#231
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/09/us-crime-madison-idUSTRE8081FW20120109

Zopittybop-bop-bop arrested near Wisconsin Capitol

Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-bop-bop is shown in this undated booking photo released by the Dane County Sheriff's Office in Madison, Wisconsin January 9, 2012.

(Reuters) - He'd better watch out or he'll make a bad name for himself. Or maybe he already has.

Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-bop-bop, 30, was expected to be charged on Monday with possession of marijuana and a knife, as well as a probation violation following the Wisconsin's man's arrest in a park near the state Capitol, police said.

Zopittybop-bop-bop -- formerly Jeffrey Drew Wilschke before a state court approved his name change request in November -- was arrested on Thursday afternoon in a park less than a mile from the Capitol in Madison after police received complaints from neighbors.

Zopittybop-bop-bop told officers he would "get even with them" when he was being taken to jail, according to a police report. They recovered marijuana, a knife and drug paraphernalia after his arrest.

He was already on probation for a prior weapons possession conviction. Police had arrested him in April near another Madison park and recovered a loaded handgun and two knives from a backpack he was carrying, according to court records.

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An unemployed Austrian man cut off his own foot with a mitre saw so he could continue receiving jobless benefits.

Hans Url, a 56-year-old from Mitterlabill, then took the foot and cooked it in the oven so doctors could not reattach it.

"The planning was meticulous," Franz Fasching, a police spokesman, told the Daily Mail. " waited until his wife and his adult son had left the house and he was alone. He then switched it on and sliced off his left foot above the ankle--throwing it in the fire so it would not be possible to reattach it before he called emergency services."

The kicker: according to the paper, being footless does not necessarily qualify Url for unemployment compensation.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-saws-off-own-foot-continue-receiving-unemployment-211222700.html
#233
The funny part is the last line. The kicker:
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#235
Rabid mountain lion in attack mode no match for Chino Valley man and his frying pan

If someone told you they killed a rabid mountain lion with a frying pan, would you believe it?

Chino Valley resident Brandon Arnold has such a story, and he has witnesses to prove it.

Arnold, 24, his girlfriend Tessa Gerdes and seven of their Chino Valley friends, including three children, were camping May 4 at a remote spot on the Tonto National Forest, near the Verde River off Bloody Basin Road, when the story of a lifetime unfolded.

They were getting ready to make breakfast at about 6:45 a.m. when a large animal jumped out of the bushes onto the back of Arnold's dog Apollo, a 90-pound lab-pit bull mix.

"It was hard to tell what it was when it jumped out of there covered with grass and smelling like a skunk," Arnold's friend Donald Jones said. "I thought it was somebody's dog, so I was just pissed off somebody brought a mean dog to camp."

Jones grabbed the neck of both the animals to try to pull them apart.

That's when they all figured out the other animal wasn't a dog.

Jones let go real fast.

"I started screaming at the top of my lungs, 'Holy (bleep), it's a mountain lion!'" Arnold recalled.

The lion ran into the mesquite bushes and Apollo ran after it while the men frantically looked for the nearest weapon. Jones grabbed a camping table and Arnold grabbed a 14-inch cast-iron skillet heating up on the propane stove. Arnold got to the lion and dog fight first and did what he had to do to save Apollo.

"The first time I had a clear shot I just swung the pan and hit him right on the head," Arnold said. "It was like a cartoon - he just kind of stopped and I hit him again. He got stiff and fell over."

He hit it several more times, then another friend shot it a couple of times just to make sure it was dead.



http://chinovalleyreview.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=55221
#236
...and that's why Chris always brings his bear mace.
#237
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/28/11923580-witness-to-naked-attack-the-guy-just-kept-eating-the-other-guy-away

Click link for video.

A naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a Miami highway ramp growled at a police officer who tried to make him stop, a witness to the grisly attack said.

Larry Vega told WSVN-TV in Miami he was riding his bicycle off the MacArthur Causeway on Saturday when he saw one man biting the face of another.

&#8220;He was ripping into his face with his teeth, he was ripping his skin, his neck," Larry Vega told WSVN-TV in Miami. "He had him held down, the guy couldn&#8217;t move and he was tearing into his flesh.&#8221;

&#8220;The guy was like tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, 'Get off!'" "You know, it's like the guy just kept eating the other guy away, like ripping his skin."

Vega said he quickly flagged down a police officer and watched in horror.

&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the most gruesome things I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life in person,&#8221; he told WSVN-TV.

The officer, who was not identified, ordered the naked man to back away, but when the man continued the assault, the officer shot him, according to the Miami Herald. Other witnesses told the Herald the wounded attacker continued to eat his victim, so the officer continued firing.

Report: Miami police shoot naked man chewing on victim's face

"Police officer came over, told him several times to get off and a police officer climbed over the divider and got in front of him and said, 'Get off!' And told him several times and the guy just stood his head up like that with a piece of flesh in his mouth and growled," Vega said.

The officer fired several more times, eventually killing the attacker, the Herald reported.

A Miami Herald surveillance camera captured the aftermath as the attacker and the victim lay side by side on the ground with their bare legs visible.

The victim, believed to be a homeless man, was in critical condition on Sunday at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the Herald said.

According to WSVN-TV, the victim lost 75 percent of his face.

Authorities have not released the identity of either man.

Miami police were still trying to determine what prompted the macabre act, but theorized that the attacker had suffered from a drug-induced craze, the Herald reported.
#238
Dead Pet Turned Into Helicopter

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http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16240998

An artist has turned his cat into a flying helicopter after it was killed by a car.

Dutchman Bart Jansen stuffed Orville before teaming up with a radio control helicopter expert to attach propellers to each of its four paws.

The cat - named after pioneering aviator Orville Wright - is now a piece of artwork. The "Orvillecopter" is on show at the Kunstrai art festival in Amsterdam.

Jansen said his creation is "half cat, half machine", and part of a visual art project to pay tribute to his pet.

"After a period of mourning he received his propellers posthumously," he said.

The Orvillecopter currently struggles to fly steadily, a problem Jansen has promised to fix.

"He will receive more powerful engines and larger props for his birthday. So this hopping will soon change into steady flight."
#239
Thats just creepy
#240
It's awesome!