SUFFOLK A naked man clutching a pigeon was arrested over the weekend after beating the bird against a car. Two Whaleyville residents had just pulled into their driveway Friday night when Juan Lopez, 30, of Kellam Road in Virginia Beach came up and repeatedly pounded the pigeon on the car, police said. The people got out of the car and went to a neighbors house where they called the police.
"Attention all cars, be on the lookout for a nude dude with a dead squab. That is all"
After a short chase, police caught Lopez in nearby woods. Im not sure whether hes mentally disturbed or under the influence of narcotics, but he was obviously having some sort of issue that night, said Lt. Debbie George, Suffolk Police Department spokeswoman.
This is why Debbie gets the big bucks
Police discovered that Lopez had destroyed two of the homeowners bird cages, freeing 15 small chickens and four pigeons. He killed four birds, George said. Lopez was treated at Sentara Obici Hospital for cuts and scratches. Hes charged with burglary, destruction of property and assault with a dead wigeon larceny of poultry.
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larceny of poultry
You've got to be kidding me.
A naked man clutching a pigeon was arrested over the weekend after beating the bird against a car.
Didn't we see that in the Monty Pythons interludes, more or less?
We had a kitten with eight legs, once, thankfully dead during delivery. Really weird beast.
A kitten has been born with two faces and veterinarians don't understand why.
The kitten was born Wednesday morning in Ohio. It has two mouths that meow in unison, two noses and four eyes that have not opened yet.
The little boy who owns the cat said he hasn't decided on a name for the kitten yet, but said he wants to name it Tiger.
Two other kittens were in the same litter, but they are normal.
Veterinarians say this occurrence is very rare, but the kitten could be just fine. It has already begun nursing just like the other kittens in the litter.
Well, it does say Local at the top of this. Just thought some might be interested. MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. Robert Brooks, the chairman of Hooters of America, Inc. who made his fortune selling chicken wings served by scantily clad waitresses, was found dead at his home Sunday, officials said. He was 69. It was unclear how Brooks died, but the Horry County coroner's office told The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News that an autopsy would be performed Monday. Several calls to the coroner's office by The Associated Press were unanswered.
Chris Hardwick, owner of Hardwick Funeral Home of Loris, told the AP he was handling Brooks' funeral arrangements.
Since opening its first store in Clearwater, Florida, in 1983, the chain has expanded across the United States and into more than a dozen foreign countries ranging from Taiwan to Venezuela. Hooters has about 61 million annual visitors to its some 425 restaurants.
Brooks and a group of Atlanta investors bought expansion and franchise rights for the chain in 1984. He eventually bought majority control and became chairman. Brooks was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce in 1996, according to the company's Web site.
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Headline writers live for moments like this. Also, when I lived in Southern California, you could always depend on the guys announcing the current weather conditions on the radio to say "LA is sunny and 75 degrees, Anaheim is slightly overcast and 72, and Huntington Beach is enjoying 69..."
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No doubt, died of blocked arteries. A lot of grease on an order of ten of those wings. that is what made them so good.
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Since opening its first store in Clearwater, Florida, in 1983, the chain has expanded across the United States and into more than a dozen foreign countries ranging from Taiwan to Venezuela. Hooters has about 61 million annual visitors to its some 425 restaurants.
What a entrepeneur! And, here's to hopin' that Chavez chokes on a wing-bone! Gotta wonder how many of those "annual visitors" are repeat buyers, lol. Finally, Brett you remind me of a snafu my father in law had at a place similar to Hooters. He needed change, and when the (scantily clad) waitress came up, he asked her "Do you have 2 nipples for a dime?"
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Aw, it must have been such a beautiful moment. There was a conference of Vietnam-era draft dodgers and deserters in B.C. last weekend, coming together after all these years to celebrate their deep-seated courage in avoiding service in the Vietnam war by coming to Canada. They unveiled a statue showing a Canadian welcoming two fleeing Americans with open arms. The sculpture was originally to have found a home in a municipal setting, but the national uproar it touched off sees it now in a private gallery in Nelson.
I think the fuss would have been more muted had the statue perhaps better reflected the reality of those times. Shoulda been a chicken hiding behind a beaver.
Yep. A beautiful moment. That is if you were born without the capacity to feel shame. Let's get something clear here. Vietnam was a moral war. A bunch of folks written off at the time as loonies by the left predicted that if South Vietnam fell it would become a brutal Communist dictatorship that would herd dissidents into concentration camps, that other south Asian nations would also fall. Well, after Saigon fell, those predictions came true. Life in Vietnam, particularly for ethnic Chinese, became so horrific that it gave birth to the boat people, who were thousands of desperate souls who crammed themselves and their children into leaky boats and cast themselves into the ocean to get away from the monsters who'd "liberated" their homeland. They became fodder for sharks and pirates, but it was worth the risk to get out of yet another "people's democratic republic" under a red flag.
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This was no conference, it was a support group of pussies and cowards. I hope their guilt and shame haunts them well beyond their graves.
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...I don't - and never have had - a problem with someone who honestly and truly opposes a war, and follows the LEGAL means to oppose it. The ones who ran and hid - they are the true cowards.
Mike
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Another Communist, Pol Pot, who conquered Cambodia, was worse. He killed off millions of his own countrymen; their skulls are still heaped in pyramids around that nation.
Being a lefty neo-marxists means never having to say you're sorry. It goes along with one of the major principles of elitism - one set of rules for yourself and another set of rules for everyone else. Or as George Orwell wrote - four legs good, two legs better.
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Mike,
Cassius Clay/Mohammed Ali earned some respect from me when he took jail time rather than running or wiggling out of the draft. He put his money (a lot!) where his (big) mouth was.
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In WWII, commies were sent to the Aleutians, along with individuals who after a beer or two just couldn't help but blurt out any military secrets they knew.
Some wit in the Pentagon used one such battalion for an experiment that any physician could have told him wouldn't work.
The concept was that if people routinely ate a large amount of cellulose with their meals, would they "learn" to digest it?
Well, no. However, it must have given many officers at least a little satisfaction to know that such pests were spending half the day eating paper, and the other half on the toilet.
DASKA: The Satrah police have registered a case against four 'Qadiyaanis' accused under section 298-C of the Pakistani Penal Code for preaching 'Qadiyaaniat' publically in Mianwali Bangla of Daska tehsil.
Ethel, better go get Fred's pills. The locals been preachin' their heresy again, you know how Fred gets...
According to the FIR, four local 'Qadiyaanis' namely Asghar Ali, Naeem Akram Bajwa, Prof Iftikhar and Shehzad Ahmad preached 'Qadiyaaniat' publically in the village. One month ago, they had also preached their teaching to a local Muslim villager, Mukhtar Ahmad, and forced him to embrace 'Qadiyaaniat.' The villagers have protested against anti-Islam activities and unabated preaching of 'Qadiyaaniat' in the village. They have urged the police to ensure the early arrest of the accused.
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Oooh-kay...
Now I just need to figure out WTF "Qadiyaaniat" might be...
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Qadiyani = Ahmediya, a sect of islam that is outlawed in Pakistan.
To get a Pakistani passport you must swear an oath that you hate Ahmediyas.
This is to prevent members of the sect from receiving a passport and thus being able to go to Mecca on Haj pilgrimage.
Pak sends a computer database of known Ahmediya muslims to Saudi Arabia so authorities there can arrest them on entry.
The only Pakistani citizen to win a Nobel Prize, the particle physicist Abdus Salam (born and educated in British India) is not even mentioned in Pak textbooks (though AQ Khan is) because he was a member of this sect.
It is ironic that the Ahmadiyya Jamaat was at the forefront of the partition lobby for the creation of Pakistan.
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They got their "Land of the Pure" but they were not pure enough for it !
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From some dumbass link:Qadiayaniat (so called ahmadiat) is a non-genuine religion parallel to Islam, aiming at shaking the very foundations of Islam under the umbrella of anti-Islam imperialist forces. They are nothing but a gang of traitors, apostates and infidels. The purpose of this site is to disclose the anti-Islamic character of these heretics. Needless to say that it is the primary religious duty of every Muslim to struggle against this evil.
Great article about how Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, is restoring old WWI and WWII aircraft to flying specs. He has about three dozen ranging from a Jenny Curtis to a P-47, Bf 109, etc., all of which are not only in flying condition, but are taken out and flown.
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Ooooh . . . cool!
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I thought maybe Syria was trying to get theirs off the ground ....
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``They'd fly up to the German line, shut the engine off, drop their bombs, start the engine, go back, land, rearm, refuel, go back and do it again ... up to 10 times a night,''
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"Crites said a collection like Allen's reminds visitors `that freedom really isn't free. There was a price that was paid, and these planes played a very big part of that.'"
Would put money on Allen voting "AnyoneButKerry"...
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This is cool. Now if we could get the confederate air force and Allen to have a fly in it would be The finest show ever.
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The CAF paradox is that even with pristine restoration, a lot of those old birds just aren't safe. This costs the lives of far too many CAF pilots, and the crashed plane is gone for good.
Eventually, I hope they do what classical car buffs do and re-create those aircraft but out of much stronger materials and safer engineering. Then they can fly the reproductions for the look and feel, and keep the originals in good condition for future generations.
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I went to an air show last month and saw a demo of a C-47 flying with a B-25. I think the C-47 was restored, but the B-25 was all-but-built from scratch.
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You cannot restore theose planes to flying specs because quite simply the high-octane fuel they used is no longer produced. To give an example the Hawker Tempest used 130 octane fuel. But jet planes use kerozen not gasoline, Cessnas and similiar airclub planes don't need such high octane fuel and racing cars (at least for Formula One) are restricted to commercially available fuel ie 98 octane at best.
So warbird owners have to reduce engine compression rates in order to use "civilian gasoline". It is perhaps possible for a (hefty) price to have very high octane gaoline specially manufactured for warbirds but given these are 60 year old airframes and engines I don't think it would be a good idea to fly them at top performance.
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That's quite a collection. I volunteer to fly the Spitfire, the Mustang, the BF-109, the P-47, the P-38, the Haybusa, the F-6F, the F-86, the Zero and the Mosquito.
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. Robert Brooks, the chairman of Hooters of America, Inc. who made his fortune selling chicken wings served by scantily clad waitresses, was found dead at his home Sunday, officials said. He was 69. It was unclear how Brooks died, but the Horry County coroner's office told The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News that an autopsy would be performed Monday. Several calls to the coroner's office by The Associated Press were unanswered.
DASKA: The Satrah police have registered a case against four 'Qadiyaanis' accused under section 298-C of the Pakistani Penal Code for preaching 'Qadiyaaniat' publically in Mianwali Bangla of Daska tehsil. 
