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Boys stuck to flagpole by tongues in freezing weather

Seems there is a new craze sweeping the USAA at the moment - imitating dumb things seen on movies and on TV.

The Times from Indiana (no, not the London Times) reports how single-digit temperatures brought a scene right out of the movie “A Christmas Story” to two students at Jackson Elementary School on Friday morning.

It seems the two fourth-grade boys, who served flag duty to raise and lower the flag for the school, stuck their tongues to the flagpole and spent the rest of the day in pain and embarrassment.

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Electrodes on nipples kills woman

The York Record reports on a 37-year-old Lower Windsor Township man being charged with using electricity to shock his wife to death in what police describe as some “bizarre sex” inside the bedroom of their southern York County trailer.

Toby Taylor, 37, of the 100 block of Oak Leaf Court, was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment.

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Canada unsafe destination - Australia Govt says

War-torn countries and those suffering civil disturbance could be safer holiday destinations than, well….Canada, according to the Australian Government.

Seems Canada has a lot of reasons to turn you away, other than half the country speaking French, half the year being so bloody cold you can’t move and the other half suffering plagues of mosquitoes.

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Travel company closes Singapore airport

In a move that is unlikely to win too many customers, a light aircraft owned by a travel agency successfully closed down Changi airport when it breached Changi Airport airspace.

The single engined Cessna belongs to an Australian Mary Cummins, who co-owns a tourist adventure flight company with Rhys Thomas.

This is probably a good reason not to take a tour with them.

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Jesus held hostage

In what must be one of the most perverted acts of anti-Christianity, Jesus was kidnapped in the USA this week.

Jean Mansel, who loves Jesus, was outraged when she saw that her concrete Jesus statue had been stolen from her front yard.

However, lackluster local supporters of Jesus failed to take the opportunity to ransack the Oakfield township in a religious fervor in a bit to find the transformed sack of concrete, instead preferring to ignore the whole matter.

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Police avert 16 year old starting nuclear war

Police in Boulder, USA, have prevented a 16 year old from starting a future nuclear war, after tracking him down after he hacked into his school’s computer system and changed math scores for all the students in his class.

FBI agen,t Scud Dingmere, said “First you computer hack to change your grades, then you’re hacking in and buying plane tickets to France for your girlfriend, and pretty soon you’re hacking into the NORAD computer and asking it to play a game of Global Thermonuclear War.”

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Underground homes ’slump’ in flood

Some home-owners in Australia’s central Queensland have been forced to abandon their possessions after heavy rains inundated their homes.

There is a moral to this story which we need to say right at the start - if you build your home under ground, you have to expect it to act like a drain when water comes in the front door.

Heavy rain in the area has seen rivers break their banks and flood across the flat country around the mining area of Sapphire, which is where they mine, well…. sapphires….

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Driver ‘cut down’ while riding mower

Having been disqualified from driving his car, New Zealander Richard Gunn thought his ride-on lawnmower made a perfectly acceptable, albeit slow, stand-in.

Reaching a top speed of 8km/h, the mower was not going to win any races, but, as the 52-year-old told New Zealand’s One News, he thought it was safe.

But when police pulled the vehicle off the road on Monday night and found Gunn drunk in charge of a mower, he found out he’d got it wrong.

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Police guard dead whale to prevent illegal entry

A police guard has been set up at a dead whale found on a South Australian beach, after an arthritis sufferer tried to crawl inside the six metre long carcass.

Local Parks and Wildlife ranger, Jack Irinton, said the 60 year old man approached the carcass and produced a knife and cut the carcasss before putting his hands inside.

“Onlookers were amazed to the this happening and rushed forward to prevent his entry.

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Global warming good for business

Global warming will present rewards for businesses who are quick to adapt to the new opportunities from diminished ice covering and altered weather patterns, according to pundits at a think-tank held in Memphis yesterday.

Speaking at the first annual “Greenhouse for Greater Future” thinktank held in Memphis, Texas, organizer and leading business opportunist Larry Heit-Jackson said too many people were looking at the negatives of global warming and not enough at the opportunities unfolding before us.

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