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07:48 - 29 January 2005
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happy saturday!!!!
the inversion is gone! yay!! mr sun made a somewhat dramatic apperance yesterday, in all his blazing glory, and i was working, too, so i decided to take advantage and go outside with my wal mart cheapie cam, and take some pics! but alas, when the 5 o'clock hour came about, i ran like hell up the stairs, and plugged the cheapie cam into the usb port and went to downloading, but the pics i took went poof!!and onto web cam heaven!!!(whine) they were really smart pics too!! sheesh! me thinks in my excited fumbling, i must have hit the delete button by accident! o well, today, its raining (whine) but i do have to report i slept like a champ, all night long, 7 hours! a new world land speed record!! hehehee!
SO, instead of fun pics to look at, i decided to post news shorts, (briefs, not boxers)!!


A BABY boy landed his dad with a �50 litter fine � for throwing an empty can out of his pram.

Elliot Nightingale became the latest victim of Britain�s daft fines culture at just 16-MONTHS-OLD.

He playfully tossed the Pepsi Max can into a bush after 21-year-old dad Lee put it in his pram.

But it was spotted by a litter enforcement officer who stung the jobless labourer with the on-the-spot penalty.

Last night Lee, of Oldham, Greater Manchester, branded the fine �absolutely ridiculous�.

Lee, who lives with the tot�s mum Teresa Nadin, 19, added: �Elliot wouldn�t understand he was doing anything wrong. I tried to get the can out of the bush but it was thorny and I had to leave it.

�I offered to go back and try again but was told it was too late and I had to pay.�

Graham Boundy, of Oldham Council, warned that anyone aged ten or over would be fined for dropping litter, including cigarette butts, chewing gum, apple cores, crisp packets and drink containers.

He added: �The council is committed to maintaining a clean and pleasant borough.�




Mechanic Runs Errand, Returns Wrong SUV

CRESSONA, Pa. (AP) - An auto mechanic used a customer's sport utility vehicle to run an errand, left it in a parking lot with the motor running, then mistakenly took another running vehicle and returned to the garage, police said.

Police said after they informed Michael Brown, 47, that he had taken the wrong vehicle, he returned it to the bank, where the customer's vehicle was still running and unlocked in the parking lot, police said.

Brown mistakenly got into a pickup truck owned by Brian McHale, who parked two spaces from Brown's customer's SUV. McHale also left his truck running as he went into a bank.

State trooper John Powis said Thursday that he was unsure whether charges would be filed against Brown.

Neither the garage nor Brown has a listed telephone number. A woman who answered the phone at McHale's address said the bank called police when McHale noticed his car was gone.



Man peed way out of avalanche

A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.

Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains.

He told them that after the avalanche, he had opened his car window and tried to dig his way out.

But as he dug with his hands, he realised the snow would fill his car before he managed to break through.

He had 60 half-litre bottles of beer in his car as he was going on holiday, and after cracking one open to think about the problem he realised he could urinate on the snow to melt it, local media reported.

He said: �I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it. It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I�m glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there.�

Parts of Europe have this week been hit by the heaviest snowfalls since 1941, with some places registering more than ten feet of snow in 24 hours.



News in brief from the Philadelphia area

An honor roll student who took an over-the-counter pain medicine in school was suspended under a "zero tolerance" drug policy.

Haverford High School's drug and alcohol policy forbids any form of self-medicating without approval.

The senior student experiencing cramps got from a classmate a generic version of the painkiller known by the brand name Aleve.

The student still felt discomfort and went to the school nurse, telling her she earlier took Aleve. An assistant principal was summoned, and the girl who took the medication and the girl who supplied it were sent home.

"It's like throwing a hand grenade on an anthill," said the mother of the girl, whose name was not released. "This is a kid who wants to be in school, loves to be in school, and gives back to the community."

Principal Nicholas Rotoli stood by the school's response and the policy



Pole wants phone pole out of his kitchen

WARSAW - Piotr Kardys is a Pole with a problem -- a pole; in fact, a telephone pole in his kitchen.

It was erected without his permission by telephone operator TPSA and when he built a home on his property in 2001 he had to build around the offending object, which is how the pole ended up in his kitchen.

Local authorities said since no one objected when the pole went up, it was legal. Kardys, a businessman from Kolbuszowa, disputed this view and Poland's Supreme Administrative Court has now agreed with him.

But his problems aren't over. Local authorities rescinded the building permit for the pole and told TPSA to move it, but TPSA spokeswoman Izabella Szum said the company would appeal.

"We have to have a binding decision -- we could do it on our own, but you have to realise this is a big investment," she said.


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