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Robotic hamsters are holidays’ unlikely new craze

Monday, November 30th, 2009

sega hamsters1 300x226 Robotic hamsters are holidays unlikely new crazeAnd I thought the pet rock was cool!  Maybe I am a bit behind the times and I really need a robotic hamster to bring my life up to date.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Lori Fowlkes first saw robotic Zhu Zhu Pets toy hamsters in September, she remembers her kids started jumping up and down and saying “Please! Please! Can we buy them?”

Seeing a fully stocked shelf, she decided to hold off until Christmas.

That was “before I knew that the hamsters would soon be off the shelves and more scarce than an H1N1 vaccine,” said Fowlkes, 32.

Now she can’t find them anywhere.

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Man accused of ramming car into hot dog stand

Friday, November 27th, 2009

I guess everyone is expected to have a dollar menu these days but a hotdog and a drink might be asking a bit much.   It’s okay if you don’t like the prices, ram the place in your car and get some prison food catered daily.  Seems like a deal, NOT.

CARY, N.C. (AP) — Police said a North Carolina man rammed his car into a hot dog stand when the vendor refused to sell him a hot dog and drink for a dollar. WRAL-TV reported 23-year-old David Kelbaugh of Rolesville was charged Wednesday with assault with a deadly weapon, hit-and-run, driving while intoxicated and injury to property. Police said Kelbaugh was drinking at a bar in Cary early Wednesday when he left to order food at the hot dog stand.

Kelbaugh asked for a hot dog and a drink for one dollar and the vendor told him that wasn’t enough money.

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Police: Dad leaves boy and goes into strip club

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

So who exactly was being babysat here?  It seems to me the 5 year old was the more responsible of the two.  Maybe he should be charged with parental neglect for allowing this idiot out of the truck and into the strip bar.  I’d just love to have been a fly on the wall when he and his wife were alone.  You got some ‘splainin to do Lucy.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man was arrested after police said he left his 5-year-old son in a tractor-trailer while he ducked into an Indianapolis strip club to drink. The 39-year-old was arrested at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday on child neglect and public intoxication charges after calling police to report his truck stolen and his child missing. Police said the man was too drunk to remember where he had parked.

They found the boy inside watching cartoons on a television inside the cab. The keys were in the ignition, and the doors were unlocked.

Police said the suspect put his son in jeopardy by leaving him exposed in a high crime area.

The man was taken to the Marion County jail, where his wife picked up him and the child.

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Man makes wrong turn, sees train approaching

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

In checking the stats for a 1998 Nissan Sentra and that of a locomotive I am going to have to say that I give a slight edge to the train.  It’s time to abandon the car right away and film it for YouTube.

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A man whose car became stuck on a set of railroad tracks bailed out before a commuter train plowed into it. Danny Ray Olsen, 62, said he took a wrong turn in Ogden and got his 1998 Nissan Sentra high-centered between two sets of rails Monday evening. He said he saw lights approaching in his rearview mirror and decided to get out.

Utah Transit Authority officials estimate the northbound FrontRunner train was traveling about 55 mph as it approached. The operator hit the emergency brake but there wasn’t enough room to stop. The train hit the car, pushing it more than 100 yards down the track.

The train was nearly empty. No one was injured and no citations were issued.

Information from: Standard-Examiner, http://www.standard.net

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