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USA – For most Americans in the United States, Armed Forces Day is not on the lists of likely holidays to honor the country’s military in celebrations of Memorial Day or Veteran’s Day.
Sadly, most Americans may not even realize that Armed Forces Day is even a legitimate holiday.
Armed Forces Day was established to be celebrated on the third Saturday in May.
It started during Harry Truman’s administration when he led an effort to consolidate the various holidays supporting each separate branch of the military into a simple unified holiday to honor the four branches together.
The actual initiation of this day occurred on August 31, 1949, when Truman’s Secretary of State announced the establishment of a joint Armed Forces Day to take the place of the former tradition of having separate days to honor the men and women in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. Full Article
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Texas – A Houston landlord has constructed a fake cemetery to keep local homeless people from loitering on his property.
The small green space is located in the shadow of some of Houston’s tallest buildings, but also close to a known homeless encampment.
After years people sleeping on the lot, the man who owns the property who asked ABC station KTRK not to use his name, said that he had erected the tombstones nearly a year ago.
The stones are rejects from a local stonecutter.
The property owner said that he did not know when he bought the stones that they bore the names of real deceased people. Full Article
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USA – Born with Asperger’s syndrome, Jacob Barnett was written off by experts who insisted he would grow up locked in a world of his own.
They said the youngster would never be able to read, write or even tie his own shoelaces.
But his mother Kristine refused to accept their word and set about transforming his life.
Since then, she has watched him flourish into a child genius with an IQ of 189 – higher than Albert Einstein’s – and an astonishing grasp of maths and physics.
And he’s still only 14. Full Article
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Idaho – An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records show.
Michael Watkins, 22, of Weiser, Idaho, in March pleaded guilty to attempted grand theft, a felony, and misdemeanor animal cruelty stemming from the break-in and beating death of the monkey at Zoo Boise in November.
The primate was one of the zoo’s two Patas monkeys, ground-dwelling animals from Africa that stand more than 2 feet tall and weigh about 35 pounds.
Watkins attempted to steal the monkey, which bit him, police said. Watkins then kicked and hit the animal, severely wounding it, according to police.
The monkey later died of blunt force trauma, zoo officials said. Full Article
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GREENWICH, Connecticut – An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived.
Officials at the LEO Zoological Conservation Center tell the Greenwich Time they had removed the only male anteater from the enclosure in August, long before the six-month gestation period for baby Archie would have begun.
They feared that male, Alf, would kill another baby in the pen.
That left the mother Armani, and the young female, Alice, in the enclosure. Full Article
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Eugene, Oregon – Funeral Home director Wade Lind offers a unique service where he uses a bicycle to haul caskets.
An Oregon funeral home in offers natural burials where the ride to the person’s final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle.
Sunset Hills Cemetery and Funeral Home director Wade Lind says he got the idea from bikers and designed the pedal-powered hearse himself.
It has an electric motor to give him a little help hauling the casket. Full Article
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Germany – Day care doesn’t come cheap for Justin Bieber, who reportedly owes a German animal shelter thousands for watching his monkey, OG Mally.
Last month, Bieber was forced to leave his pet capuchin monkey, OG Mally, at the Munich airport because he didn’t have the correct documentation to allow the pet in the country.
Bieber was given 30 days to come up with the papers, and he ultimately decided to give up the monkey.
However, it seems he didn’t tell that to the Munich animal shelter where Mally has been held since being taken away from Bieber.
The shelter is now billing Bieber for the cost of care for his monkey. Between general care, food and vet visits for OG Mally, Bieber’s bill is several thousand dollars, according to the Munich customs office.
Furthermore, the shelter is still waiting for a response regarding next actions for Mally. Full Article
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Africa – Swaziland is cracking down on high-flying witches by banning them from flying above an altitude of 500 feet.
Anyone caught flying a broomstick above the limit faces arrest and a hefty fine, the country’s civil aviation authorities said this week.
“A witch on a broomstick should not fly above the limit,” corporate affairs director Sabelo Dlamini reportedly told The Star newspaper.
Witchcraft is taken seriously in Swaziland where many people believe in the power of black magic. Full Article
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Wisconsin – A Wisconsin woman saved her husband from an attacking black bear outside of their cabin by hitting the animal with a gun, authorities said.
Fox 11 reports that Gerre Ninnemann initially saw the bear running after his dog, Maddy, on Wednesday.
He then went outside the Silver Cliff cabin to summon the 8-year-old yellow lab inside, but the bear chased and tackled Ninnemann, biting and clawing at his back.
Ninnemann briefly escaped and ran to the corner of the cabin, but the bear mauled him again.
Ninnemann’s wife, Marie, then found a shotgun in the cabin’s basement, but she didn’t know how to load it properly.
She instead took the weapon outside the struck the bear on its head, allowing her husband to escape. Full Article
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OKLAHOMA CITY – A local waitress is causing a national uproar over a picture and comment she posted about some Oklahoma sheriff’s deputies.
Ashley Warden posted the picture on her Facebook page Thursday along with the comment: “Stupid Cops better hope I’m not their server FDP.”
The post has gone viral and is now all over law enforcement sites across the country. On just one site the post received over 400 comments, a majority blasting Warden.
Many people contacted the waitress’s employer, Chili’s, over the whole thing and now that waitress has been fired.
The three men in the picture are Oklahoma County Sheriff’s deputies who had just finished volunteering the past five hours as a funeral escort for a Catholic priest. . Full Article
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New York – In the cold of February, as New York City police officers gathered for their daily orders at roll call, they were given a rather unusual command, for both its timing and its substance: If they happened upon a topless woman, they were not to arrest her.
The command was read at 10 consecutive roll calls. Each of the city’s 34,000 officers, in theory, got the message: For simply exposing their breasts in public, women are guilty of no crime.
Whether any officer encountered such a brave-hearted, bare-chested soul is not clear, nor is the reason for the Police Department’s concern about such matters in the dead of winter.
One possible explanation lies in the person of Holly Van Voast (picture), a Bronx photographer and performance artist known for baring her breasts. Full Article
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Washington – A McDonald’s employee in Washington state got the surprise of a lifetime when her stolen SUV rolled up to her drive-thru window and the alleged car thief placed an order.
Virginia Maiden awoke Tuesday morning to start her typical weekday.
As she left her apartment, however, Maiden noticed that her SUV that had been parked outside her window was gone and nowhere in sight.
“She was so confused, didn’t know what was going on, it was just gone,” Rebecca Guerrero, second assistant manager at the McDonald’s in Kennewick, Wash., said.
Maiden continued her day and hitched a ride to work, where she later noticed a familiar car coming through the drive-thru and then spotted her McDonald’s visor in the dashboard, confirming that it was her vehicle. Full Article
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Florida – The seated man in the green shirt receives treatment at Jupiter Lanes Bowling Alley in Jupiter, Fla., after accidentally shooting himself in the leg.
A man shot himself in the leg at a busy Florida bowling alley after accidentally firing a gun in his pocket.
Cops think the bowler went to swing the ball but bashed it on his limb which set off the concealed revolver to shoot.
Witnesses at Jupiter Lanes, in Jupiter, at first thought someone had let off a firecracker.
But they then spotted the man clutching his leg as he limped back to his seat and realized he’d shot himself. Full Article
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GWERU, Zimbabwe – A man in Zimbabwe said he is feeling “OK now” after mourners at his funeral noticed his legs twitching and had him rushed to a hospital.
Brighton Dama Zanthe, 34, was declared dead at his home after a long illness, but he was rushed to Gweru Provincial Hospital when mourners at his funeral Monday noticed his legs were still moving, The Daily Telegraph, Britain, reported Wednesday.
Zanthe said told Zimbabwean newspaper The Chronicle he does not remember his apparent death or the ensuing funeral. Full Article
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Florida – A Florida man who fled the scene of a fender-bender explained to cops that he had consumed some bad Chinese food and was on the verge of defecating in his pants when he went in search of relief, police report.
Carlos Baca, a 27-year-old Honduran citizen, took off last Monday after backing his pickup truck into another vehicle on a Port St. Lucie road, according to an arrest affidavit.
Baca, seen above, returned to the scene soon after the 6:30 AM crash and apologized for leaving, but believed he had no choice due to gastrointestinal distress caused by the Chinese food. Full Article
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CARACAS, Venezuela – First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short.
Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities – toilet paper.
Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other shortages, the embattled socialist government says it will import 50 million rolls to boost supplies.
That was little comfort to consumers struggling to find toilet paper on Wednesday.
Economists say Venezuela’s shortages stem from price controls meant to make basic goods available to the poorest parts of society and the government’s controls on foreign currency. Full Article
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In 1991, Kevin Weber, a homeless man stole 4 cookies from a restaurant in California and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison under a 3 strikes law.
The man later killed himself to avoid prison.
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Minnesota – As the Great Ammunition Shortage continues, police departments across the country are struggling to supply their arsenals.
One police chief turned to the community for help, and citizens stepped up.
In Proctor, Minnesota, police chief Walter Wobig says that his suppliers have told him he’ll have to wait months for the 1,000 rounds he’s requested.
When Wobig turned to the residents of Proctor by putting out a call for help meeting his department’s ammo needs, citizens contacted his office, eager to help.
“The citizens were like, ‘If you need something, we got plenty here,’” said Wobig.
One resident and a Proctor police officer loaned 1,500 rounds from their personal stockpile to the department. Full Article
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CARTERSVILLE, Georgia - Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly set a neighbor’s yard on fire in Cartersville on Wednesday.
Cartersville police say 58-year-old Phillip Roger Bennett is a suspect in an arson that occurred on Boatner Avenue in Cartersville.
Police said that Bennett had been involved in an apparent feud with Marty Corbitt, who lives across the street from Bennett.
Corbitt said that Bennett starting complaining about the length of his grass.
“My grass is too tall for him. I was going to cut it today when he set it on fire,” Corbitt said. Full Article
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