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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- A transgender woman was denied access to Busch Gardens theme park in Williamsburg because a park security guard deemed her skirt a costume. Bria Gibson's girlfriend was born a male, but identifies as female. The couple went to the park on Saturday to enjoy the Halloween season's Howl-o-Scream event. But their day took a turn as soon as they reached the park's security gate. There, a security guard looked at her girlfriend, who was wearing an ankle length skirt, and began shaking his head, according to Gibson.

Spam heists are on the rise in Hawaii, so much so that stores are putting the fatty canned meat treat in locked plastic cases. The black market for Spam is real in Hawaii because the price has been on the rise, along with other grocery goods. However Spam is a particularly popular food staple in the string of islands as it is used in a variety of dishes particular to the state. Stores have started putting Spam under lock and key. The Honolulu Civil Beat found cans of Spam locked up in a case at a Walgreens this week, with...

Luke Gabriele was a healthy 14-year-old football player in Pennsylvania when he began to feel soreness in his chest that grew increasingly painful. After his breathing became difficult, doctors detected a mass that appeared to be a tumor. For a week, Dan and DeAnna Gabriele thought their son was dying until tests identified the cause: not cancer, but chickens — the ones he cared for at home. They had apparently infected him with salmonella that produced a severe abscess. The popular trend of raising backyard chickens in U.S. cities and suburbs is bringing with it a soaring number of illnesses...

The prosecution in the first Twin Peaks Biker Brawl Trial presented most of its case late yesterday and today.Typically, because the prosecution is not artful but clumsy, it interrupted its own narrative to try to vilify the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, a living, breathing artifact of the Vietnam era, as a “criminal street gang.” The concept of a “gang” has evolved since sociologist Frederic Thrasher published The Gang: A Study of 1313 Gangs in Chicago, in 1929. Contemporary sociologists are inclined to see what police call gangs as expressions of gender. One witness yesterday said the Bandidos “teach you how to...

Canadian man is suing an airline for serving sparkling wine instead of champagne on a flight.Daniel Macduff flew from Quebec to the Cuban island resort of Cayo Coco on Sunwing Airlines which he says advertised a “glass of champagne”, The National Post reports.The retired civil servant filed a lawsuit against the airline after he was served a cheaper alternative, not from the Champagne region in north-east France, on his return flight.Sunwing argues that terms like “champagne service” and “champagne vacations” it uses in its marketing is not in specific reference to the type of drink served on board.The airline now states on...

The attorney for the second biker scheduled for trial in the deadly Twin Peaks shootout says prosecutors have not complied with discovery motions and should be assessed fines for disregarding court orders before his client's upcoming trial. Clint Broden, Dallas attorney for Matthew Clendennen, of Hewitt, filed the emergency motion, asking the state to show cause as to why the McLennnan County District Attorney's Office has not submitted a "realistic" exhibit and witness list before his client's Nov. 6 trial date. Broden stated that in a Sept. 15 pretrial hearing, the state agreed to provide the documents earlier this week,...

A mysterious 'ghost car' that appears to cause a crash after emerging from nowhere in a video has left viewers baffled. Footage of the strange smash has had Singaporeans scratching their heads as they try to work out why the vehicle cannot be seen until just before the collision.

A snake with two heads has been spotted in the Netherlands. A slithery reptile suffering with the condition polycephaly, which sees animals and humans conjoin, has been discovered by wildlife photographer Matthijs Kuijpers in Amsterdam, the Daily Star Online has reported. And the male - who has previously kept and bred his own snakes when she was a child - has admitted it was the "first ever" time he has seen a two-headed animal. Speaking about the discovery, he said: "I photograph wildlife all over the world and this is the first ever live two-headed snake I have photographed. "People...

Isn’t Michelle Obama adorable? She actually thinks she is a typical woman in the United States, and that she can speak for all of us. Michelle says she has no interest in running for president, trying to shatter what Hillary Clinton called the “highest and hardest glass ceiling,” but she might consider bursting out of that elitist, condescending Beltway Bubble. Speaking recently at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women, Obama pushed women to speak up for themselves in the workplace. “Don’t waste your seat at the table,” she said. “If you are scared to use your voice, then you’ve got to...

Comedian and writer Charlyne Yi accused David Cross of directing racist comments towards her — but he has no recollection of the incident. “I think about the first time I met David Cross ten years ago & he made fun of my pants (that were tattered because I was poor),” Yi, 31, tweeted Sunday. “Dumbfounded I stared at him speechless and he said to me ‘what’s a matter? You don’t speak English?? Ching-chong-ching-chong.'” “Then after he saw I was offended he asked me if I was going to fight with him karate in a southern accent,” she continued. “Then a...

A person dressed as a clown was beaten with a selfie stick by a child riding a bicycle in Voulsia County. According to Fox 13, the victim told the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office someone dressed as a clown jumped out from behind bushes and tried to grab him. The 11-year-old victim, riding a bicycle, then began to beat the clown with a selfie stick. The victim said the clown, standing 5 feet 9 inches and 230 pounds, was wearing blue hair, a rainbow-painted face, red foam nose, black boots and pants and a green, long-sleeved shirt. The clown began chasing...

It sounds like something from a comedy, but a British man who was believed missing for 10 years has returned after he said he hid in the woods to escape his nagging wife. Fox News reports that 62-year-old Malcolm Applegate left his wife of three years after she would argue with him over his increased work as a gardener. “For three years it was all right, we got on with one another and the gardening got too much for her,” Applegate told the Daily Mail. Applegate told the news outlet that his wife did not like the increased amount of...

PASCO CO., FL (WCMH) — Authorities in Florida say a murder-turned-shootout started when a man believed a family friend was hitting on his imaginary girlfriend.

Lana Del Rey’s 2012 track “Cola” about older men is about Harvey Weinstein, sources tell us. “Cola” features the lyrics: “I got a taste for men who are older. It’s always been, so it’s no surprise,” and was originally followed by the line, “Harvey’s in the sky with diamonds and he’s making me crazy. All he wants to do is party with his pretty baby.” Plus, “I know your wife, and she wouldn’t mind.” We’re told the song is ironic. (She wasn’t into Weinstein at all.) An entertainment-industry source tells Page Six that Del Rey wrote the track after Weinstein...

The Dallas attorney for the second defendant scheduled to go to trial in the Twin Peaks shootout is pushing back against prosecutors' request to delay his client's November trial date. The McLennan County District Attorney's Office filed a request for a continuance Tuesday, seeking to postpone the Nov. 6 trial of former biker Matthew Clendennen. A panel of more than 600 potential jurors has been summoned to report to court Oct. 27 to answer questionnaires to aide jury selection. Clendennen's attorney, Clint Broden, immediately filed an objection to the continuance, saying the delay would further infringe on his client's right...

Ponchatoula police arrested a man Sunday morning for bringing a samurai sword in a bar after he had been asked to leave the premises, authorities said. Shawn Verret was inside the Stray Cats bar when he got into an argument and was asked by bar personnel to leave the premises, the Ponchatoula Police Department said in a news release. Police said Verret re-entered the bar around 2 a.m. with a mask on top of his head and samurai sword in his hands. He was asked again to leave and police were notified. Police arrived a short time later and found...

One of the largest video game industry conferences currently taking place in Poland has become subject to a controversy after its social media manager—and game developer—made a gaffe on Twitter. Her crime? Using the word “pretty” to describe other women. Her innocuous tweet was met with immediate fury from transgender game developers like No Man’s Sky’s Innes McKendrick, who assumed Wiznerowicz’s gender, and demanded that she “shut the hell up and listens to them.”

<p>The Federal Aviation Administration says it will check to see whether any laws or regulations were broken when a low-flying pilot dropped live turkeys onto an Arkansas festival over the weekend.</p> <p>The annual Yellville Turkey Trot in northern Arkansas has included a turkey drop for more than five decades, though sponsors in recent years have distanced themselves from the practice.</p>

New London — The man facing a criminal charge for what city officials say is his failure to maintain an unruly bamboo grove claims he is being unfairly targeted by the city and he is mounting a legal defense in Superior Court. Carlos Carrion of 16 Borodell Place entered a not guilty plea last week in New London Superior Court to the city’s first blight-related criminal infraction under a newly revised blight ordinance. The ordinance allows for criminal penalties and fines when civil actions are exhausted. City officials claim Carrion repeatedly refused to trim back his bamboo and clean up...

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