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Two high school seniors are getting a real-life lesson in the law. John Miller and Dane Rockstead go to Wayzata High School and both are charged with animal cruelty after investigators said they abused a goose and brought it to school. "The bird appeared to be in pretty significant distress," said Chief Mike Goldstein with the Plymouth Police Department. Police said the two seniors had the bird for two days before they brought it to school in a backpack. "They actually shot it with a paint ball gun, put a net around it and then I believe put it in...

NEW: MAY 23 ASHLAND, Ky. (WSAZ) -- It's the final chapter in a story that, thanks to the internet, became a world wide sensation. Formal sentencing was Friday morning for Boyd County robber Kasey Kazee, better known as the duct tape bandit. A judge sentenced Kazee to 10 years in prison for trying to rob Shamrock Liqours in Ashland with his head wrapped in duct tape. WSAZ's Dave Benton talked to Kazee after his sentencing. "Casey, anything you want to say?" asked Benton. "I don't know man," said Kazee. "I just didn't want to say, I'm cool." "How do you...

Marietta police have arrested a suspect in the weekend death of a 21-year-old video game store manager who suffocated after having his face duct-taped during a robbery.Patrick Gray Graham, a 34-year-old ex-con, was taken to the Cobb County Jail just before daybreak Wednesday after being questioned for several hours at Marietta police headquarters. He is charged with murder, three counts of kidnapping, three counts of false imprisonment, three counts of armed robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, according to the arrest warrant. Graham was also charged with probation violation. State records show prior convictions...

Fox News Live with Julie Banderas to have Ron Paul live in a few moments Please remove from Breaking when the moment passes if appropiate.

Man Disguised as Tree Robs New Hampshire Bank July 7, 2007 Police are on the hunt for a man who robbed a New Hampshire bank on Saturday disguised as a tree, according to MyFoxBoston.com. The suspect walked into the Citizen's Bank in Manchester with tree branches duct taped to his body and demanded money from the teller. The teller filled a bag with cash and the suspect took off. A dye pack inside the bag exploded, the Web site reported. Manchester cops described the man as a white male, between 45 and 50 years old, wearing glasses and

The State is telling us, again, to prepare for DISASTER. It's called the Code Ready program. Don’t worry, don’t panic, but just in case something happens, be prepared to sit in the basement eating cold beans while civilized society comes to a shuddering, agonizing end. Have a wind-up radio so you can get instructions and drown out the screams. You’re supposed to have duct tape and plastic sheets, which makes it sound like you’re going to spend the crisis as a serial killer trying to get rid of the bodies. I don’t think we’ll see people looting Plastic Sheets ‘n’...

Wellington - An official investigation found that the crash that killed crack New Zealand pilot John Borman, 60, occurred after he tried to repair his kitset amphibious plane with duct tape, it was reported on Sunday. Borman, who had represented New Zealand in formation flying competitions, died in 2005 when he crashed into Lake Taupo as he tried to take off after makeshift repairs to the plane, which he built himself. The aircraft had first been damaged when it hit the wake of a boat in a previous take-off attempt, according to an official report on the accident, published in...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- What would happen if an astronaut came unglued in space and, say, destroyed the ship's oxygen system or tried to open the hatch and kill everyone aboard? That was the question on some minds after the apparent breakdown of Lisa Nowak, arrested in Orlando this month on charges she tried to kidnap and kill a woman she regarded as her rival for another astronaut's affections. It turns out NASA has a detailed set of written procedures for dealing with a suicidal or psychotic astronaut in space. The documents, obtained this week by The Associated Press, say...

A provocative video hits the internet this week showing male soldiers in Iraq aggressively duct-taping a female soldier to a pole! Titled, "When your the only girl in the maintenance section," the 4 minute long video shows a laughing female getting wrapped up with heavy tape.

A woman accused of duct-taping her two children together and leaving them home alone has been charged with child abuse, the sheriff's office said. Agla Nadia Vincent, 25, was arrested Monday following a seven-month investigation into whether she left her two boys, then aged 2 and 3, taped to each other while she went to work, said Lt. Annie Smith of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Vincent was a four-year naval officer at the time and worked at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. She completed her service and was discharged in August, naval base spokesman Rick Cruz said. In March, a...

Mike Hethmon, he is with the Immigration Reform Law Institute. He`s one of the groups backing the California lawsuit. Mike, thank you for doing this. I`ve been saying for a long time, "Choke these companies to death." Give me the lawsuit in a nutshell and the chances of it actually winning.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A man suffered severe burns to his face and head when he ignited a mortar-style firework that he taped to an old football helmet and placed on his head. Police said Kaleb Spangler, 21, of Bloomington attempted the stunt while drinking at a party along Indiana 46 between Bloomington and Nashville early Saturday morning. His girlfriend said Spangler decided to duct tape the large firework to the old football helmet. He then put on the helmet and ignited it. She told police she saw a large flash, then saw Spangler on the ground, unconscious and bleeding from...

Since the release of the Loose Change video the conspiracy theoriests have come out in full force. Daring to leave the safety of their basement sactuaries they've taken to the streets and blogs. Thankfully, the people at ThatsJustStupid.com have taken the time to sarcastically refudiate the tinfoil hat brigade. If you're as sick of hearing nutty theories as I am, watch this video. Please note that it is probably not suitable for children due to some language. Consipracy theorists should also duck tape their heads before watching.

Big Dig workers were so stumped by ceiling construction in the Ted Williams Tunnel they used duct tape to temporarily secure bolts now coming loose in hundreds of areas on the $14.6 billion project, state inspection records show. The records reveal massive confusion and disagreement over repeated failures of epoxy-bolt fasteners installed in the mid-1990s. Inspections noted that holes were drilled too deep, bolts were too short and epoxy was at times not mixed properly. In some cases, records show, workers scrambled to find a temporary way of keeping bolts from dropping out of the ceiling. “Bolts have falled (sic)...

A man delivering newspapers at 5 a.m. Monday heard an unusual sound as he got out of his truck to retrieve a misthrown newspaper. He walked between two parked cars and saw a 4-foot alligator. "He kind of lunged at me and hissed," said Bobby Kish, 46. "His mouth was open; I was about five feet away. It was enough to get my attention." Kish jumped back in his car, drove to the Pottstown Borough police station and told the dispatcher, who sent officers to the scene. Cpl. Jamie O'Neill grabbed the alligator from behind and secured its jaws with...

It was a typical scene on prom night. A boy, stiffly dressed in eveningwear, waits it out in the living room. His date has yet to make an appearance, but the frantic rushing in and out of a mother, an aunt, a female cousin, announce that progress is being made. The front door stands open, allowing neighbors, high school friends, little brothers, to come, go, comment, encourage, heckle, observe and mingle within the communal scene that is senior prom night. However, Clinton High School senior Krystle Gutman and her boyfriend, Clinton High junior T.J. Daugherty, delight in being different....

45 minutes into it. So far, it's alright. Not as funny as his radio show. Funniest part was him wolfing down a big mac and almost losing it.

The Red Green Show's farewell episode is called Do As I Say -- the "not as I do" part is left unsaid. It's the kind of wry, self-deprecating humour that has made Steve Smith's homegrown gadget man a faithful standby in Canadians' homes for 15 years now, and 300 episodes. It's a little late to win new converts, and the farewell episode doesn't try. Instead, in its own humble way, it's perfect for what it is. No big-bang moment, no after-death revelation -- not even an extended episode, beyond its usual half-hour running time. Green (Smith) and his man-child nephew,...

CHARTIERS TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A student was taped to the wall at a school -- and it was caught on video, police said. Chartiers Township police said that they received videotape found by an administrator of the Western Area Career & Technology Center, in Canonsburg. The video showed a student being duct-taped by his arms, hands and head to the wall of a bathroom, police said. According to police, an aerosol was sprayed on the student's shoes and the floor and then ignited. Police said that on the tape, does not appear that the student was injured in the incident,...

An amateur inventor has designed an easy to make DIY wallet that blocks RFID signals. Dustin Kirk, a usability engineer for software firm Benefitfocus, has published the plans on his web page for anyone to try. He said the wallet can be built at minimal cost using duct tape and aluminium foil...

The school bus driver accused earlier this week of duct taping a kindergartener's mouth shut will return to the same route when classes resume after the winter holiday, Pinellas County school officials said Friday. An investigator with the district found no evidence to support Kyle Gerber's allegation that the driver taped his mouth on the ride home from Dunedin Elementary School Monday...

Sony's controversial DRM technology - which installs rootkit-style software when users play Sony BMG CDs on Windows PCs - can be defeated easily with nothing more than a piece of masking tape, security researchers have discovered. Sony BMG has endured a public-relations and legal nightmare after it emerged digital rights management (DRM) software installed on some of its music CDs (First4Internet XCP program) created a handy means for hackers to hide malware from anti-virus scanning programs....

Man charged after pushing flight attendant Email this Story Sep 8, 12:32 PM (ET) DENVER (Reuters) - A man who hit a Frontier Airlines flight attendant and swore at her before being subdued by other passengers and duct-taped into submission was charged on Wednesday with interfering with a flight crew. Jason Glen Tervort, 26, struck a female flight attendant, yelled profanities, spit at and bit other passengers while on a Tuesday evening flight from Houston to Denver, according to a complaint filed by the FBI. Tervort, who Denver police said had been recently discharged from the U.S. military, could face...

Passenger duct-tapped on jet Several go to aid of attendant, tie up alleged attacker By Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News September 8, 2005 Jason Glen Tervort flew much of the way from Houston to Denver Tuesday night on the floor of the plane, tied up with duct tape. Fellow passengers on Frontier Flight 147 subdued him, according to court documents, after he walked up the aisle toward the cockpit, loudly stated, "Ladies and gentlemen, I have an announcement to make. My name is Jason," and then roughed up a female flight attendant while proclaiming repeatedly, "I'm a man!" The flight...

LONG BEACH, Calif. - A murder trial was ordered for the wife of a Banning High School teacher who was allegedly duct taped to a chair, stabbed in the eye with scissors and pushed down stairs. Nancy Jean Larios, 56, insisted the Aug. 22, 2004, death of Luis Larios, 59, was an accident, but Superior Court Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani said at the conclusion of Monday's preliminary hearing that the evidence was bizarre and she ordered her to trial.She will be arraigned Aug. 1 on first-degree murder.During the hearing, Deputy Helene Jones said she found Luis Larios at the foot of...

The Avon Heritage Duct Tape Festival takes place June 17-19 in Avon, Ohio, home to Duck brand duct tape manufacturer Henkel Consumer Adhesives. This duct tape fly was on display during last year's inaugural festival. "From sculptures and fashion to games and a parade, everything at the festival will revolve around duct tape. Festival attendees will be able to make duct tape crafts, like roses and wallets, with professional duct tape sculptor, Todd Scott and duct tape crafter and author, Ellie Schiedermayer. Henkel Consumer Adhesives, marketer of Duck brand duct tape, will celebrate the sticky stuff with the display of...

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Hurricane season is still two months away, but the first hint of potentially stormy news arrived Friday: We may have to deal with another unusually active year. Private forecaster William Gray is predicting 13 tropical storms that grow into seven hurricanes, three of them intense. Those numbers are higher than the long-term average, but -- thankfully -- lower than the number of storms that developed last year. ''All of the information we have collected and analyzed through March indicates that the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season will be an active one,'' said Gray, a professor at Colorado State University whose forecasts...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - An explosion late Wednesday rocked a plant that makes duct tape, shooting a fireball into the air and shaking homes a mile away. One employee was killed, officials said. The blast at the Intertape Polymer Group plant happened shortly before 11 p.m., said Bradley Anderson, Columbia fire chief. Firefighters contained the blaze less than an hour after the explosion, although a small fire continued to burn two hours after the blast, Anderson said. The identity of the dead worker was not immediately released, but it appeared he was on a boiler in the plant when it exploded....

Croc eats 80 people before caughtFrom correspondents in Kampala March 09, 2005 From: Reuters Man-eater ... a Ugandan Wildlife official monitors the 60-year-old giant beast / Reuters A FIVE-metre-long crocodile said to have eaten more than 80 people has been caught alive in Uganda and transferred to a sanctuary, officials said today. The giant beast - weighing about a tonne - was captured by wildlife experts who spent three nights camping in the bush before locating their target. Residents told local media the crocodile killed 83 people over the last two decades, mostly fishermen plying their trade on Lake Victoria...

Father: Teacher duct taped student’s sagging pants The Associated Press DUNLAP, Ind. — The father of a seventh-grader claims an assistant principal came up with a bizarre way to keep his son’s pants from sagging in school: duct tape. Scott Allison told the Concord School Board earlier this month that his 12-year-old son, Spencer, was ordered by a teacher to lift his shirt after she noticed the boy’s underwear was showing above his pants, a violation of Concord Junior High School’s dress code. She sent him to Assistant Principal Patricia Walters, who told Spencer to pull up his pants and...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is proposing new limits on campaign contributions to restrict the activities of so-called 527 groups. The 527s raised and spent more than $400 million in the 2004 U.S. elections. The proposed limits, including a $25,000 cap on donations, add on to those championed by McCain and Wisconsin Democrat Sen. Russ Feingold in their 2002 campaign financing law. That law did not, however, restrict the 527s from collecting large sums of money from individual contributors. The backers of the new restrictions said they were determined to stop such spending before the...

Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21 Nancy Levant I keep waiting, and waiting, and waiting for Bill O’Reilly or Shaun Hannity or Oprah Winfrey or somebody…..anybody, who has daily access to the multitudes, to say the words, “Agenda 21.” I’m still waiting, and for the life of me, I don’t understand the refusal to talk about the greatest threat to America that has ever existed. However, it dawns on me that wrapping a brain around Agenda 21 requires time, effort, interest, and a lot diligence. No one told me about Agenda 21. I found it by accident on the Internet....

WASHINGTON (AP) - Check your flashlight and keep extra batteries on hand. Stow away jugs of water and food like peanut butter and crackers that won't go bad quickly. Oh, and make sure you have some duct tape. Those are some of the tips outlined in a new emergency preparedness guide from the Department of Homeland Security and the Homeownership Alliance, a coalition of housing industry and advocacy groups. The guide, targeted at homeowners, recaps some basic tips, such as what to keep in an emergency supply kit and how to set up a "phone tree" to contact family members...

Thief duct-taped to utility pole GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - A would-be thief got a taste of his own medicine in Guyana when he was caught and attached to a utility pole with the same duct tape he intended to use to bind a family and rob them, police said Tuesday. Sabanah Gravesande, 13, was watching television at her home Monday in the capital of Georgetown when two men entered the house and tried to tape her mouth shut, police said. Neighbours heard her screams as she and her grandmother scuffled with the men, authorities said. Neighbours came to their assistance...

This is a support group for people who think that the Onstar commercials are beyond obnoxious and maybe even a propaganda tool in the conspiracy to make everyone a dumb corporate ward and the Onstar concept is potentially nefarious and its benefits are nowhere near worth the tradeoff in potential privacy loss; and redundant given the existence of cellphones...honk if you think having the grocery industry monitor you refrigerator content is a good idea.

DUNLAP, Ind. (AP) A northern Indiana father says he's outraged that school officials duct-taped his 12-year-old son's pants, then sent him back to class. Scott Allison's son, Spencer, told him that an assistant principal wrapped duct tape around the boy's waist because his pants were sagging, in violation of the school's dress code. Spencer attends Concord Junior High school in Dunlap, about 20 miles east of South Bend. Scott Allison told the Concord School Board he's worried that his son would be mocked by his classmates. Board President Randall Myers says the board won't discuss personnel issues in public. Junior...

I felt so bad for the guy - Hey Dems he just made a mistake!!

A southeast Missouri teacher resigned last month after duct-taping a misbehaving seventh-grader to his desk and covering his mouth with tape, the district's superintendent said Wednesday. The parents of 14-year-old Tommy Brindley said the boy nearly suffocated before freeing himself about 15 minutes later. It happened Feb. 19 at the elementary/middle school in Oran, a town of about 1,000 residents 120 miles south of St. Louis. The Oran School District has 370 students and two schools. Tommy was in detention for being late to school three times, his father, Larry Brindley said. He began acting up during detention. "He has...

A Coral Gables Elementary School teacher and her volunteer aide were charged Thursday with binding and gagging 6-year-olds with heavy tape as punishment for misbehaving. The aide is a felon on probation for armed burglary with a knife, cocaine possession and grand theft. Miami-Dade County school administrators said they never knew because they do not conduct background checks on school volunteers. ''If this is not a critical problem but is deemed an anomaly -- which it appears to be -- how many hairs are we going to split?'' asked Superintendent Merrett Stierheim, saying the $70-per-person fee for fingerprint checks on...

WASILLA, Alaska - A hunter attacked by a grizzly bear on a remote trail said he used duct tape to bind his bite wounds, then rode an all-terrain vehicle to his pickup truck and drove himself to a hospital. Bill Murphy said the Sept. 17 attack happened after he surprised a grizzly cub and its mother on a trail about 50 miles northeast of Anchorage where he was hunting for moose and sheep. "I didn't even have time to jump," Murphy said. Murphy grabbed his rifle but before he could raise it, the mother bear pinned him face-down. It then...

Passengers Duct - Tape Troublesome Traveler By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 12:28 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Airplane passengers and an air marshal subdued and then duct-taped a man who was pacing the aisle and reading loudly from the Bible during a flight from Hawaii, police and witnesses said. No one was injured, and the man was handed over to authorities after the plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport early Sunday, said Sgt. Carl Sansbury of the airport police. Sansbury said he didn't know what prompted the outburst on the United Airlines flight from Honolulu. He said...

<p>A man who disrupted a United Airlines flight from Honolulu was subdued by passengers and airline officials who duct-taped him, then handed him over to authorities when the plane landed Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport, police said.</p> <p>No one was reported injured during the altercation, said Sgt. Carl Sansbury of the airport police.</p>

In an effort to be inclusive, this thread is for nonmetrosexual males (and likeminded women) to advise queer guys on their outfits, decor, vehicles, hairstyles, homes and hobbies. I've outfitted the thread with keywords toward this end.Enjoy.

<p>About 200 students who were being honored for their math achievements this year were permitted to immobilize their principal today using silver duct tape. Above Mains head hung a sign that read: “School 50 is stuck on math.”</p> <p>Mains carried out the stunt to help “ramp up” his students’ improvement in basic math skills. Earlier in the year, he visited every class, promising students that if they passed a series of tests measuring basic math skills, they would get to help duct tape him to the gym wall come June.</p>

The Michigan couple arrested at the U.S. Capitol last week after strapping objects to their bodies with duct tape say they were engaged in performance art and never expected that their actions would be seen as dangerous. "We like to make things beautiful, to uplift, to make people happy. We never meant any harm to anyone," said Reena Patel, who had put small sculptures in the duct tape that was wrapped around her waist. "Wrapping is a big part of our art. Like we wrap ourselves in clothes and cars, the art is wrapped in different things." On March 6,...

Sticky, silver duct tape covered the mouth of a murder victim found in Tacony Creek Park in the Northeast on Sunday. Last month an armless man washed up on the shore of the Schuylkill. His legs were bound in duct tape. And Bucks County mom Colleen Broe was arrested last month and accused of wrapping her foster kids in duct tape. Police said it seems like there's been an increase in the use of duct tape in violent crimes recently. "Lately, we've had a couple like this," said Homicide Lt. Michael Morrin. But Homicide Capt. Charles Bloom said not to...

Sticky, silver duct tape covered the mouth of a murder victim found in Tacony Creek Park in the Northeast on Sunday.Last month an armless man washed up on the shore of the Schuylkill. His legs were bound in duct tape. And Bucks County mom Colleen Broe was arrested last month and accused of wrapping her foster kids in duct tape. Police said it seems like there's been an increase in the use of duct tape in violent crimes recently."Lately, we've had a couple like this," said Homicide Lt. Michael Morrin.But Homicide Capt. Charles Bloom said not to read too much...