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Exploding paperweight costs teacher his hand - Page 5 - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 4th Apr, 2006 - 10:39pm
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Post Date: 23rd Dec, 2004 - 1:35am / Post ID: #
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KIDNAPPING, HEIST IN BELFAST
In one of the world's biggest robberies, thieves took the families of two top bankers hostage and forced the bosses to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank's main office, authorities said Tuesday.
Ref. https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C...99526%2C00.html
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Airport worker locked in cargo hold, takes unexpected trip
From USAToday.com
An airport worker loading baggage in Milwaukee got locked inside the cargo hold of an airplane that flew to Philadelphia.
The worker was "a little stressed" but uninjured after the unscheduled flight, a spokeswoman for Midwest Airlines said Friday. The cargo hold was heated and pressurized.
This guy was lucky this wasn't an international flight, because he may not have survived. The article goes on to say the worker was worried about returning home and finishing his shift. Talk about dedication!
https://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-0...rt-worker_x.htm
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Oh my gosh! Can you imagine? It's almost funny, but it could have been very tragic, as you pointed out malexander. Doesn't someone count heads before they close the doors?
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From FoxNews.com
Chicken Cleared of Crossing Road Charge
https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158011,00.html
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| RIDGECREST, Calif. - A chicken (search) that got a ticket for crossing the road has clawed his way out of it. The $54 citation for impeding traffic was dismissed Friday after Linc and Helena Moore's attorney argued that the fowl was domesticated and could not be charged as livestock. State law restricts livestock (search) on highways, but not domestic animals. The chicken was ticketed March 26 for impeding traffic after it wandered onto a road in Johannesburg (search), a rural mining community southeast of Ridgecrest |
I wonder how they knew who to give the ticket too? Did they just stick it on the chicken until it got back to its owners?
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This brings on a new chapter in the "Chicken Crossing the Road" jokes -- Why did the chicken cross the road? To dodge the cops! To avoid a ticket! etc etc
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Post Date: 3rd Jun, 2005 - 6:27pm / Post ID: #
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Breaking news from CBC News Online
A Virgin Atlantic airplane with 288 people on board was diverted from its New York destination Friday morning and is expected to land in Newfoundland within half an hour. The airplane's communications system is broadcasting a hijacking code, but the pilot has been contacted and says his aircraft is not being hijacked.
Ref. CBC.ca
Post Date: 8th Jun, 2005 - 4:23pm / Post ID: #
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Flight to Britain from Portugal diverted after suspicious object found on board
LONDON (AP) - A passenger flight from Portugal to Britain carrying 108 people was diverted under an air force jet escort Tuesday after a suspicious object was found on board, British police said. Officials later said the object was an unclaimed cell phone.
Ref. https://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-0...ed-flight_x.htm
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Exploding paperweight costs teacher his hand
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| A teacher who kept a 40 mm shell on his desk as a paperweight blew off part of his hand when he apparently used the object to try to squash a bug, authorities say. The 5-inch-long shell exploded Monday while Robert Colla was teaching 20 to 25 students at an adult education class |
https://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/04/paperweig...n.ap/index.html
I was surprised that the school allowed him to keep a bullet shell, live or not, on his desk in plain view of the students.
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