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  • Fire Leaving 20 Homeless Started By Cigarette Lighter

    04/18/2011 12:09:44 PM PDT · by eccentric · 14 replies
    KAKE News ^ | Monday, April 18, 2011 | KAKE News
    Investigators learned an occupant utilized a cigarette lighter as a light source while searching for some property under the bed. The lighter ignited fabric on the box springs and spread to the bedding. Several residents were evacuated from their second floor apartments by ladder as Wichita Fire Department crews battled a two-alarm apartment fire. Fifteen WFD units from the Wichita Fire Department responded to the call of an apartment fire at 1240 p.m. on Sunday at 1750 N. Minneapolis. Crews located smoke and fire coming from a window at the rear of the building and from the front door to...
  • Patriots Fan Jumps From Overpass

    12/24/2007 11:39:40 AM PST · by Wolfie · 61 replies · 285+ views
    The Boston Channel ^ | Dec. 23, 2007
    Patriots Fan Jumps From Overpass Incident Shocks Onlookers At Gillette Stadium FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- As stunned bystanders watched, a Patriots fan on his way into Gillette Stadium for Sunday's game leapt off an overpass and fell 17 feet onto the pavement below. "He thought he was going to land in a snow bank," said one witness to the incident. NewsCenter 5's Todd Kazakiewich reported that the 20-year old man was on a pedestrian walkway heading towards the stores at Patriot Place about 3:15 p.m. "All of a sudden he jumped. He was screaming on the way down, then he was...
  • Nipple piercing may have caused fatal infection in Newfoundland 17-year-old

    03/10/2006 6:07:07 PM PST · by wagglebee · 22 replies · 483+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 3/10/06 | Canadian Press
    (CP) - A 17-year-old Newfoundland girl is believed to have died from toxic shock syndrome - and the infection that killed her may have resulted from a nipple piercing, the province's chief medical examiner says. Dr. Simon Avis said in an interview from St. John's that the teenage girl, who died Thursday, had been admitted to hospital earlier this week "with medical problems that were quite complex." Her name has not been released. Avis said it is too early to say for certain that the apparent toxic shock syndrome was caused by infection at the site of the piercing. An...
  • Schoolgirls riot at tourist spot (hundreds watched in horror - four guards beaten)

    09/18/2005 4:50:35 AM PDT · by Libloather · 126 replies · 5,174+ views
    Northern Territory News ^ | 9/17/05 | NIGEL ADLAM
    Schoolgirls riot at tourist spot By NIGEL ADLAM 17sep05 HUNDREDS of people watched in horror as a mob of schoolgirls rioted at Darwin's biggest tourist attraction. Most of the youngsters were in their teens. But several witnesses said a few were as young as six. About 20 girls threw sticks and stones, and even pulled out a street bollard, as they fought with security guards. Fighting between rival gangs of boys and girls has been escalating at Mindil Beach markets (pictured). Market manager Tim Robinson said four guards were beaten. Security and market managers are to hold a crisis meeting...
  • Friend Killed On Dare After Bullet Pierces Protective Vest

    12/17/2004 3:56:05 AM PST · by KidGlock · 42 replies · 1,514+ views
    WFTV ^ | 12/19/04
    Friend Killed On Dare After Bullet Pierces Protective Vest POSTED: 4:06 pm EST December 15, 2004 OROFINO, Idaho -- A man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting his friend through a protective vest on an apparent dare, police said. Alexander Joseph Swandic, 20, died of a gunshot wound to the heart Monday after donning a protective vest and asking David John Hueth, 30, to shoot him, police said. Hueth initially told police that Swandic's wound was self-inflicted, but later admitted to the shooting. The two had apparently tested the vest by propping it against a dirt bank...
  • Caption This!

    12/13/2004 11:40:07 AM PST · by Hillary's Lovely Legs · 86 replies · 12,450+ views
  • Arafat Meets the Corries

    09/26/2003 1:52:38 AM PDT · by The_Media_never_lie · 38 replies · 316+ views
    Little Green Footballs ^ | 9-25-03 | Unnamed
    It’s official; every last iota of sympathy I had for Rachel Corrie’s parents is now gone. As Arafat the shriveled nightmare garden gnome and his thug bodyguards look on patronizingly, Cindy and Craig Corrie present him with a portrait of Saint Rachel.
  • Exploding table leg injures eight

    11/26/2002 7:08:56 AM PST · by Jimmyclyde · 9 replies · 150+ views
    reuters ^ | 11-25-02
    Exploding Table Leg Injures EightBELGRADE (Reuters) - A Montenegrin family thought a World War II artillery shell was the ideal replacement for a broken table leg -- until it exploded, injuring eight people as they were about to eat a meal. The Miskovic family in the town of Danilovgrad was preparing the local specialty of grilled pork fat on the table when the old shell went off at the weekend, the Yugoslav daily Vecernje Novosti reported on Monday. "It was our own idea to replace the missing leg with this cannon grenade," house owner Milovan Miskovic said. "We thought it...
  • Man hit while chasing half-full beer can across freeway (DOH!)

    10/16/2002 10:38:14 AM PDT · by chance33_98 · 68 replies · 946+ views
    Man hit while chasing half-full beer can across freeway Police say a man was struck by a truck after he ran across the freeway chasing a partially empty beer can. ABC13 Eyewitness News (10/15/02) — A rush hour accident brought traffic to a halt on the Southwest Freeway. Around 4:30 Tuesday afternoon, a man was struck by a black Chevy truck. The driver stopped to render aid to the victim. Police say the man who was hit was running across the freeway chasing after a partially empty can of beer. The victim was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital where...