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It’s cool to be “Green” right now. NBC devoted a week of programming gimmicks to being “Green,” with recycling and environmental efforts taking over some part of all of their hit shows. Meanwhile, Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize and Overture studios shipped out sapling trees with their fall preview kits. Just two signs we’ve seen in the last few weeks that being environmentally conscious is suddenly the right place to be. New York City is following in the trend this year with their oversized Christmas tree. The Rockefeller Center perennial will use LED lighting (light emitting diodes) to...

To Deputy Sheriff Michael Knights, the dispatcher’s call sounded like something out of a slasher movie: a report of a man standing on a street corner threatening passing motorists with a chain saw. "You know how in the ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ the guy raised his chain saw up and revved it? That’s what he was doing," Knights said Wednesday. "Alcohol was involved." Maine State Police Trooper Thomas Fiske said they took the chain saw away from Dube at gunpoint. Knights confiscated it after seeing that Dube was threatening motorists ... Fiske said he was mystified as to why Dube was...

Deaf lesbian chainsaw murder shocks US April 09, 2007 THE trial in South Dakota of a deaf, black lesbian accused of murdering a rival and dismembering her with a chainsaw has shocked the rural midwestern US state. Daphne Wright, 43, could become the first woman sent to death row in South Dakota, which has not executed a prisoner in more than 60 years. Wright is accused of kidnapping and murdering a heterosexual deaf woman, Darlene VanderGiesen, 42, whom she thought was spending too much time with her girlfriend. Emotional testimony and gruesome exhibits filled the first week of her trial,...

A hapless US Air Force pilot had to be physically cut free from the cockpit of his F-22A Raptor when the canopy resolutely refused to open, Flight International reports. The mini-drama unfolded on 10 April at the 27th Fighter Squadron's base at Langley AFB, Virginia, when the canopy "became stuck in the down and locked position and could not be opened manually after the pilot cycled the mechanism several times, following a pre-flight warning that the canopy was unlocked". Accordingly, an emergency team of ground operatives moved in after five hours and attacked the $134m Raptor with a decidedly unstealthy...

Aussie chainsaw croc runs amok   Saltwater crocs are known to attack boats with outboard motors A crocodile in northern Australia has chased a storm-clearance worker up a tree and made off with his chainsaw.The 4.4m (14.5ft) saltwater crocodile called Brutus apparently took exception to the noise of the saw. The worker was clearing a tree that fell on the crocodile enclosure at the Corroboree Park Tavern, 80km (50 miles) east of the northern city of Darwin. Brutus chewed on the chainsaw for 90 minutes, reducing it to pieces. Neither man nor beast was injured. Northern Australia has an...

A 4.4-metre crocodile has chased a man up a tree in the Northern Territory while the man was cleaning-up debris left by cyclone Monica. The owner of the Corroboree Park Tavern, Peter Shappert, says the man was trying to remove a tree that had fallen against the saltwater crocodile pen. Mr Shappert says the crocodile, named Brutis, managed to take possession of the chainsaw the man was using. "He's been a bit upset with the noise, so he's come shooting out of the pond, run up the tree and tried to grab Freddy the chainsaw man," he said. "So he's...

An Ottawa man is in serious condition and was airlifted to the burn unit at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto after accidentally setting himself on fire yesterday morning while trying to cut open a gas tank with a chainsaw....

I used to think that any fool would know the difference between an FBI investigation and a real U.S. military action, but that's before the Clinton administration. Eight years of Bill and Hillary Clinton forever changed my views about the political world. I used to think liberals were interesting, and in a way entertaining. Today I have concluded that if they're in power, they're dangerous to the national security. But even more dangerous are the ignorant citizens who vote for liberal policies. Why? Because they are "used" by dishonest politicians seeking to move a flawed and failed agenda forward. ...

Grand Island police went to the man's business about 5PM Tuesday to serve a federal arrest warrant for being a felon in possession of a firearm, said Deb Collins a Nebraska State Patrol spokeswoman.Paul Smidt Jr. 40, refused officers acess to the building, Smidt Lawn Care, anD barricaded himself inside. Negoiations continued until after midnight when officers got into the building. Smidt, armed with a chain saw, barricaded himself in a bathroom at the back of the business.Officers got into the bathroom and orderd Smidt to drop the chainsaw. When he refused, an officer fired a non-lethal beanbag at Smidt,...

State police have classified the deadly police shooting of a Forty Fort man who attacked a state trooper with a chain saw as "suicide by cop," said the commander of the state police barracks at Wyoming. William Henkle, 40, charged at 10 police officers with a chain saw before he was shot more than a dozen times outside his home at 378 River St., shortly before 5 a.m. Monday. State Police Capt. Kenneth Hill, commander of Troop P at Wyoming, said Henkle struck Trooper Michael Hartzel in the shoulder, lower back and buttocks with the chain saw before the Forty...

TORONTO -- A chain saw-wielding man who U.S. authorities allowed to enter the United States boasted he was a "trained sniper with over 700 kills" and refused to return to Canada for a court date, a top U.S. customs official revealed Friday. . . .

BOSTON — On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States. The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Despres' hometown of Minto, New Brunswick: The decapitated body of a 74-year-old country musician named Frederick Fulton was found on Fulton's kitchen floor. The man's head was in a pillow case under a kitchen table. His common-law...

Hats off for British delinquent Fri May 27, 1:22 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - A British juvenile delinquent who terrorized his neighbors with a chain saw was banned from wearing a cap or hooded sweatshirt for five years. Authorities slapped the Anti Social Behaviour Order on 16-year-old Dale Carroll of Cheetham, a suburb of Manchester, northwest England, after he was caught on a video surveillance camera taking a chain saw to a metal post. Carroll, known as "Elms" to his friends, then threatened a passing cyclist with the chain saw. It was the first time an Anti Social Behaviour Order,...

WILKES-BARRE – Ever since state and local police unleashed 39 shots at a chain saw-wielding man outside a Forty Fort home, police have heard rumblings from the public, questioning their actions: Why didn’t the officers use a taser gun instead of pumping 17 bullets into 40-year-old William Henkle? Why didn’t police back off and discuss a better plan of attack? And why not wait for the saw to run out of gas? The answer, state police Capt. Kenneth Hill said, to each is simple: The officers did not have tasers. There was no time to talk strategy. And, it’s impossible...

A Forty Fort man was killed by police this morning after he "lunged" at and cut a state police trooper with a chain saw, a state police spokesman said. State police would not release the dead man's, nor the injured trooper's name. The trooper was treated for injuries to his buttocks and released from an area hospital, according to Trooper Tom Kelly, a spokesman at the Wyoming Barracks. The incident began about 5 a.m. when police and an ambulance from the Luzerne County borough responded to 387 River St. for a man suffering a heart attack, Trooper Kelly said. They...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A college student who admitted he fatally shot his parents in their bedroom and broke a chain saw cutting up their bodies told investigators: "God told me to." Philip Badowski made the comment in a recorded interview with police following the Dec. 2 slayings of Chester "Chet" Badowski Jr., 47, and Christine Badowski, 46. Prosecutors played the recording at Badowski's preliminary hearing Friday. General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon referred two murder and abuse of corpse charges to a grand jury and ordered Badowski held without bail. Lawyers for both sides declined to comment after the...

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Police: Chainsaw injury an accident By Norman Miller / News Staff Writer Tuesday, March 2, 2004 FRAMINGHAM -- Exactly how a man cut his nose off with a chainsaw Sunday is not known, and because police have ruled out foul play, the accident will not be investigated. "We don't have anything to investigate -- it was a medical call," said Lt. Lou Griffith. "It was just an accident." The fire department will not release the man's name due to federal regulations on patient privacy. On Sunday, the unidentified man walked up alone to the back of the Fire Headquarters building...

Gonzo-rocker and hunting activist Ted Nugent was injured today while cutting wood with a chainsaw. It apparently slipped while he tried to cut down a tree on his property in Texas. According to reports on his website (www.tednugent.com), his left knee was injured, but otherwise he's okay. He's in a cast and will be laid up for a while. Here's best wishes to a speedy recovery for our dear Uncle Ted!