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Cleanup crew finds bag full of pot in river

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

METHUEN, Mass. (AP) — Rocky Morrison thought he’d seen everything in his six years of pulling trash from the rivers of northeast Massachusetts.

That was until Sunday, when he grabbed a plastic bag of marijuana floating in the Shawsheen River in Lawrence. Morrison calls the discovery “unusual.”

Morrison, of Salem, N.H., helps run the nonprofit Clean River Project. He and his co-workers alerted police.

Lawrence police Chief John Romero tells The Eagle-Tribune that some of the pot had been packaged for street sale, and some was still in plant form. He estimated it weighed two pounds had a street value of $2,000.

Information from: Eagle Tribune, http://www.eagletribune.com

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School janitor finds 3-foot python in locker

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

I hate it when that happens!  But on the upside it didn’t happen in Texas where the janitor would likely have been armed and shot up the whole place LOL

Janitor cleaning out lockers at Mass. school watches as 3-foot-long python falls at his feet

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — A custodian cleaning out lockers at a Massachusetts high school was so shocked when a 3-foot-long snake fell at his feet that he didn’t even think it was real.

Ed Reardon tells The Daily News Tribune that at first he thought it was a change purse. Then he thought it was a rubber snake.

Then it coiled into attack mode.

Reardon didn’t panic. He grabbed it behind the head as he had seen on nature TV shows. When he got off work at Newton North High School, he brought it to a local pet store, where workers identified it as a ball python.

Reardon thinks a student left the snake in the locker at the end of school as a prank. He found a notebook in the same locker with a student’s name on it, and turned it over to the principal.

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Woman with no arms preparing for black belt

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Picture this you are in a bar and all the sudden a fight erupts and a woman with no arms goes to work.  In the melee you take a kick and go down hard.  How do you tell your drinking buds you were KO’d by a woman with no arms.  On a positive note, way to go.  It’s always good to see someone excel even with limitations that would stop most!

PEABODY, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman who was born without arms or kneecaps is preparing to test for her black belt in taekwondo. Sheila Radziewicz was scheduled to take her test next month at Bruce McCorry’s Martial Arts in Peabody. The 32-year-old brown belt, who was born with thrombocytopenia-absent radius, or TAR syndrome, told The Salem News she’s been training in martial arts for three years.

McCorry, her teacher, said he’s never seen a student like Radziewicz. Despite her condition, she can use nunchucks and break boards with her kicks.

The Salem resident, who works as an advocate for victims of domestic violence, said she has never let her disability stop her. At 23, Radziewicz earned her driver’s license. She uses a car that she controls with her feet.

Information from: The Salem News http://www.salemnews.com/

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Mom calls 911 over over son’s video game habit

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Can you say, “throw the game console out the window?”  What has happened to parenting these days.   It’s simple, here is the rule, either stop playing and go to bed or play till you fall asleep and I go donkey kong all over your game console.

BOSTON (AP) — Police say a frustrated Boston woman called 911 to say she couldn’t get her 14-year-old son to stop playing video games and go to sleep. Police spokesman Officer Joe Zanoli said Monday the mother called for help around 2:30 a.m. Saturday to say that the teenager also walked around the house and turned on all the lights.

Two officers who responded to the house persuaded the child to obey his mother.

Zanoli says the mother’s 911 call over video game obsession “was a little unusual, but by no means is it surprising – especially in today’s day and age when these kids play video games and computer games.”

The Boston Herald first reported the 911 call, saying the boy was playing the popular “Grand Theft Auto” game.

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