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Kids Forbidden To Bike Or Walk To School
Here’s a rich one for our desperate-to-get-the-kids-more-exercise society: In the upstate New York town of Saratoga Springs, children at some schools aren’t allowed to bike or walk to school. In fact, when one student rode to school, with his mother, on a bike path, his bike was confiscated (the rule had never been publicised). The principal...
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Mark Sanford’s Emails To Mistress Maria (PHOTOS)
Well, we now know that the U.S. Governer of South Carolina wasn’t hiking when he disappeared for a week. What we do know is that he has admitted going to Argentina to visit his mistress, a woman named Maria who is reportedly a member of the Argentinean government who lives in the apartment pictured above in a posh area of Buenos Aires known a...
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U.S. May Lower Hunting Age To 10 — Yes, 10
Respectfully, Wisconsin, I have to ask: Are you people frickin’ NUTS?? The Senate in the U.S. state of Wisconsin has voted to lower the hunting age, the firearms hunting age, to 10. Yes, one decade old. As in, let’s give a ten-year-old a large lethal weapon and send him out into the woods. I’ve gone through a bit of an evolution in my a...
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Cops Taser Toy Panther
If you've ever been terrified by one of your kids' all-too-lifelike toys in the middle of the night, don't despair. At least you didn't call out a team of cops to Taser your daughter's stuffed animal. The black panther lurking near a playground that set a father on edge, prompting him to make an anxious call to 911 turned out to be the work of a...
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6-Year-Old Banned From Bringing Bear On Flight
Those pesky baggage fees are annoying everyone these days. Airlines are forcing customers to pay for checked baggage, limiting the number of bags and now one airline went so far as banning a six-year-old girl from bringing her teddy bear on board deeming it as ‘excess baggage’. In the United Kingdom, a young girl flying from Glasgow to S...
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FOX Considers Staging Fake Kidnappings
A Minnesota FOX News affiliate is taking an intensely hands-on approach to reporting the news. To answer the question, “How easy is it to abduct a child?,” Fox 9 News planned to…try to abduct children. Reporters were going to drive around in an unmarked SUV and ask kids for directions. How’s that for hard-hitting investigative journalism?...
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Boy Accidentally Shoots Self With Forgotten Gun
Before I say anything else, let me point out the most important thing, which is that the boy is in stable condition, according to CNN. Here's what the CNN story says: 12-year-old Jacob Larsen found a ".25-caliber European semi-automatic handgun" in the closet. The gun had been stored there by Jacob's parents when they moved a few years ago, a...
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Boy Calls 911 When Mum Drives Drunk
File this under "I may not be perfect but I'm a better parent than this lady." 36-year-old Belinda Leighton of Boca Raton, Florida was arrested this week and charged with driving drunk. With her kids, ages 9 and 13, in the car. After spending "the morning drinking wine and beer", Leighton got in her car with children in tow. She told the kids...
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Mum Finds Out What Happens When Polar Bears Attack
Occasionally at the zoo, when viewing the animals, I’ll say something like “oh, look at that cutie, I want to pet him!” But do I act on that urge? Hells no! I’m not crazy. But you know who is? A 32-year woman who went to the Berlin Zoo with her husband and baby. This mother opted to take off her shoes, climb down a fence, wade through a...
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