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The back of a dump truck delivering 20 tons of dirt to businesses on Sixth Street in San Francisco tipped and crashed into an adult video arcade this morning, narrowly missing three patrons. "It was close," said a video clerk at the Liberty Bookstore, who identified himself as Jersey Dog. "One guy was near the inside of the wall, but no one was hurt." The incident happened at 9:10 a.m. when Sukhdev Singh of Economy Trucking was dumping dirt to be used to fill in several businesses' sub-basements on the 100 block of Sixth Street, said Sheri Costa, a spokeswoman...

Tiger Attacks, Kills Teen Posing For Senior Pictures POSTED: 6:33 pm EDT August 18, 2005 UPDATED: 6:56 pm EDT August 18, 2005 MOUND VALLEY, Kan. -- A Bengal tiger attacked and killed a teenage girl Thursday at a southeast Kansas animal sanctuary. Haley Hilderbrand, 17, of Altamont, Kan., was posing with the tiger for her senior high school pictures at the Lost Creek Animal Sanctuary. A news release from the Labette County Sheriff's Office said the big cat was being restrained by its handler, but it attacked the teenager, anyway. The 7-year-old tiger was killed. Copyright 2005 by The Associated...

Apple security update breaks 64-bit applications A security update released on Tuesday by Apple Computer rendered 64-bit optimized applications for Mac OS X unusable. The update, which fixed many issues with the operating system, left some companies scrambling to explain to customers why their applications stopped working. One company, Wolfram Research, contacted its customers via email to explain why their 64-bit optimized Mathematica 5.2 stopped working after users installed the Apple update. “Due to an error on the part of Apple, this update prevents any 64-bit-native application from running,” said Wolfram in the note to customers. “In particular, this means...

In the state of Washington, you can eat as much roasted duck as you please.You can shoot the occasional duck, provided you follow certain rules.But you can't possess a wild duck; a fact that Diane Erdmann didn't fully grasp until two state Fish and Wildlife officers showed up at her Auburn workplace Friday demanding her pet duck Gooey.What ensued that afternoon was a bizarre altercation, the seizure of Gooey the duck and two separate criminal investigations. Fish and Wildlife is looking into Erdmann for unlawful possession of wildlife, and the Auburn Police Department is investigating the officers, one of whom...

60-year-old Sharon Huston is asking for $150,000 from Camrock Excavation. A Salem woman is suing a local contractor, after a city water project didn't quite go as she would've liked. 60-year-old Sharon Huston is asking for $150,000 from Camrock Excavation. The company was replacing a water main near her house, but she said it was too noisy. One morning, she went outside and demanded that a truck driver dump his gravel somewhere else. When the driver asked her to move, and she wouldn't, the driver dumped the gravel on her. Huston said she was stuck 20 minutes before a neighbor...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A fish caught in an east German lake near the Polish border not only got off the hook but also lured a 46-year-old fisherman to his death, police in the eastern town of Eisenhuettenstadt said on Tuesday. A police spokeswoman said the fish pulled the fishing rod out of the man's hands and dragged it about 100 metres away from shore at the Kleinen Pohlitzer lake near Eisenhuettenstadt. The man took off his clothes and swam after the pole. An eyewitness said the man reached the rod floating on the surface but then suddenly stopped moving. The...

LITTLE FALLS — A Morrison AP) Little Falls, Minn. A judge in Morrison County has ordered a strip club, adult book and video store near Swanville, Minn. to close, citing the county's revised zoning ordinances. The ordinances restrict where adult-oriented businesses can locate and create a fee scale and licensing requirement. The ruling by Judge Thomas Godzala closes Lookin' Fine Smut and Porno, located at Minnesota Highways 27 and 28 near Swanville. Gordy Wheeler opened the business in October 2003. It is located about 930 feet from a tavern. The county's revised zoning ordinances prohibit any adult uses within 1,320...

(AGI) - Oristano, Italy, Aug 10 - A woman died crushed by an iron crucifix at the entrance of the church of San Lorenzo while she was attending mass in the city's patron saint's celebrations. Paoletta Orru', 38, had returned to Mogorella, near Oristano, with her husband and two children especially for the celebration of San Lorenzo. Tomorrow was her birthday. This morning the woman was outside of the busy church, together with other devotees who did not manage to enter. Suddenly, around 12, the heavy crucifix about one metre wide fell from the entrance of the church where it...

Government safety investigators were due in Durango, Colo., Monday to look into the circumstances the led to the death of construction worker. The 24-year-old man, who has not been identified, was crushed under a five-ton road-maintenance vehicle that that flipped on top of him. The man was driving the pneumatic roller in a subdivision when the machine's left wheels went off the edge of a dirt road, causing it to roll over. The man who died was driving the roller, according to the sheriff's office. The man worked for Scott & Sons Excavation, which was performing road work in the...

A guy with some explaining to do... Mon Aug 8,11:03 AM ET ROME (Reuters) - A Macedonian man left his wife at an Italian service station and only realized he had driven off without her six hours later, news agency Ansa said Monday. The couple, who were traveling with their 4-year-old daughter, pulled over for gas in the coastal city of Pesaro as they were heading back to their home to Germany. After filling the tank, the husband drove away -- without noticing that his 30-year-old wife had got out of the car to go to the toilet. The woman,...

Midland — (08/05/05)-- A Midland man talks is talking for the first time about his unusual attack. He was severely beaten with his own prosthetic leg. Greg Gale has had some rough times. He lost his leg in a train accident twenty years ago, and now, he's been beaten by his own prosthetic leg. Gale tells abc12's Jennifer Borrasso he and his girlfriend, Tammy Johnson, got into an argument at his Midland apartment this past Wednesday night. He says she started beating him in the face and head several times with one of his spare prosthetic legs. He tried to...

A bank has apologised to a customer after sending him a debit card bearing the name "Dick Head". NatWest said it had launched an inquiry after Chris Lancaster, 18, of Tiptree, Essex, received a cash card with the wording: "Mr C Lancaster Dick Head". Mr Lancaster said he did not spot the insult until he was handing over the card in a supermarket to pay for something a few days after it arrived in the post. "I couldn't believe it," he said. "When I got the card out I saw the name embossed on it. I was so embarrassed I...

Woman sues over burst shark tank By Phil Mercer BBC News, Sydney The aquarium in Sydney is one of the largest in the world An Australian woman is suing Sydney Aquarium after a giant exhibition tank exploded, showering her with glass - and sharks. The accident left Hazel Swinden, 61, in chest-high water with a badly gashed ankle caused by flying debris. She claims to have suffered post-traumatic stress as a result. One moment Ms Swinden was admiring the reef sharks at Sydney Aquarium and the next she was surrounded by them with blood pouring from a deep cut. A...

Big rig spills beer all over freeway in north Houston An 18-wheeler loaded with beer landed on its side late Monday night after the driver goes around a curve a little too fast. Investigators say the driver apparently took a curve too fast, causing the semi to flip on its side on the Northwest Freeway right outside the North Loop. A load full of Heineken beer spilled everywhere. The driver of the 18-wheeler was not hurt. It's taken most of the morning to clean up the mess, which is still underway at this hour.

CINCINNATI -- Smoking is being blamed for a deadly fire on the campus of The Drake Center Saturday, News 5 reported. Officials said the fire broke out at the Bridgeway Pointe Assisted Living Center on West Galbraith Road in Hartwell. Firefighters were called to the scene for a report of a woman on fire. When they arrived, workers found 80-year-old Louise Francis on the ground. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators said Francis relied on an oxygen tank. Those who knew her said Francis was a smoker. Officials said damage to the building was limited.

Unidentified Corpse Found In Occupied Grave Corpse Bound In Plastic, Duct Tape HONDO, Texas -- Officers are investigating an apparent homicide after mourners found an extra corpse on top of their deceased relative in his grave. Relatives of Octaviano Hernandez, who was buried July 11 in the Hondo Cemetery west of San Antonio, discovered the unidentified body Sunday. Family members were smoothing the ground above the grave, when they found plastic sticking out of the dirt. They called police who found the corpse bound in heavy plastic and duct tape about a foot under the ground. Police Chief Ian "Buddy"...

SALEM, Ore. -- A Marion County deputy was accidentally shot in the leg Wednesday night by his own gun. The sheriff's office says Steven Cooper was on duty, getting out of his unmarked squad car when his Glock handgun discharged inside his holster. The bullet went through his lower right leg, causing "substantial" injuries to major blood vessels and arteries, as well as to his tibia. The bullet was lodged in the bone. Cooper, a 10-year veteran of the sheriff's office, was in stable condition following surgery at Salem Hospital. Investigators are trying to determine why the gun fired. Cooper...

Man drives wheelchair on autobahn From correspondents in Berlin July 27, 2005 From: Reuters TRUCK drivers in Germany were shocked to find themselves sharing a busy motorway with an 80-year-old pensioner travelling at extremely low speeds in a wheelchair, authorities said on Tuesday. "He wanted to go shopping at a service area up the road from his home," said a spokeswoman for police in the eastern town of Goerlitz. "He took to the hard shoulder in an electric wheelchair capable of speeds of between 6-10 km/h." Several passing truckers alerted police, who were on hand to pick the man up...

Stage leap tragedy of rock singer Robert Sutcliffe THE lead singer of a rock band died on stage after an acrobatic leap went tragically wrong. Patrick Sherry, 29, of Bad Beat Revue, was performing at the Warehouse Club in Leeds on Wednesday evening as part of the Club NME tour when he fell and sustained fatal head injuries. Horrified onlookers said the singer from Silsden, near Keighley, tried to grab the lighting rig hanging from one of the venue's wooden beams before losing his grip and plunging to the solid wooden floor head first.

A WEST NYACK, N.Y. MAN was found dead at his computer apparently the victim of trying to keep up with too many professional forums. Childress H. Wanamaker, 54, an account executive at a New York-based new media company, died of starvation according to the West Nyack coroner's office. Wanamaker's emaciated body was found by Loraine, his wife of 26 years, who told MediaPost she had been bringing her husband meals on plastic trays for weeks, but that he never took the time to eat them. "He was glued to his computer 24/7," she said tearfully. "He was so afraid he...