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  • PIGEON IS HOME NINE DAYS LATE

    07/23/2005 7:53:27 AM PDT · by Cowman · 6 replies · 416+ views
    The Mirror ^ | 22 July 2005
    22 July 2005 PIGEON IS HOME NINE DAYS LATE A RACING pigeon sent on a nine-hour flight home took nine days - and even then needed lifts in a helicopter and courier's van to complete its trip. The bird was released at Chermont in France and should have simply headed straight across the English Channel for its loft in Bridlington, East Yorks. Instead, it flew through Belgium, Holland and Denmark before eventually flopping on to the deck of Lomond North Sea oil rig off Aberdeen. After being stranded on the platform for a week because of fog, it was sent...
  • Man calls ambulance 50 times a year, demands ride home

    07/05/2005 1:34:14 PM PDT · by Cowman · 14 replies · 880+ views
    Mainichi Daily News ^ | July 5, 2005 | no byline
    Man calls ambulance 50 times a year, demands ride home TAKAMATSU -- An unemployed man who often called for an ambulance to take him home after he went drinking has been found guilty of obstruction of duties and sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Judge Hidenaga Manabe at the Takamatsu District Court called the wrongdoing of Satoshi Nakagawa "selfish." "He committed a selfish crime by obstructing the highly urgent duties of ambulances," the judge said when he handed down the ruling on Monday. On the night of June 8 last year, Nakagawa, 55, was sitting down on...
  • At Harley-Davidson ride kickoff, an unwelcome guest

    08/24/2003 5:45:52 AM PDT · by martin_fierro · 76 replies · 290+ views
    SfGate ^ | Thursday, August 21, 2003 | FREDERIC J. FROMMER
    <p>London artists Steve Wood and Clive Morris said they wanted to create a tribute to freedom when they set out to produce a giant bronze replica of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.</p> <p>But when they tried to display their 10-foot-tall, 5 1/2-ton artwork at Harley Davidson's 100th anniversary "Ride Home" kickoff here Thursday, company officials had police shoo them away.</p>