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Many people who go for a meal at a restaurant would think how bad or good the food and service after they finish eating. But even if they liked the food, none of them would know how it was prepared inside. During a surprise visit, Saudi health inspectors caught a worker cleaning the chicken inside the toilet at a popular restaurant in the southern province of Jazan. Pictures published in the Arabic language daily Ajel showed the worker, who looks Asian, had already cleaned the chicken and prepared them for the grill. The chickens were placed on a skewer which...

Getting to Hollywood takes talent. For a local man attempting to get a free ride back to Hollywood, Fla., his acting chops won him a free ride to prison after he lied about a carjacking to get a complimentary police escort home. An incident report provided to CBS Tampa by the Port St. Lucie Police Department said that, on Feb. 9, Hector Felix, Jr. reported a carjacking by phone. In the process of responding to the scene, Florida Highway Patrol troopers and the United States Marshall’s Office were informed of the alleged incident. “Due to Hector indicating to the Marshall’s...

Extraordinary and beautiful examples of toroidal vortices produced by dolphins, beluga whales, humpback whales, volcanoes, hydrogen bombs, and man. A toroidal vortex, also called a vortex ring, is a region of rotating fluid moving through the same or different fluid where the flow pattern takes on a toroidal (doughnut) shape. The movement of the fluid is about the poloidal or circular axis of the doughnut, in a twisting vortex motion. Examples of this phenomenon are a smoke ring or a microburst. Vortex rings were first mathematically analysed by the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, in his paper of 1867 On...

Call it a case of mistaken plant identity. A 15-year-old boy climbed into Angela Cartwright's kitchen window thinking to make off with a marijuana plant, but instead the young thief was actually stealing a potted tomato plant, a sheriff's arrest report shows. As he was running from Cartwright's house on Carmen Avenue near Holly Hill on Feb. 10 just after 7 a.m., the teen even yelled at Cartwright, "See, I have one of your pot plants!" the arrest report states. Cartwright had arrived at her residence that morning after leaving her 6-year-old son off at the school bus stop. When...

Extraordinary and beautiful examples of toroidal vortices produced by dolphins, beluga whales, humpback whales, volcanoes, hydrogen bombs, and man. A toroidal vortex, also called a vortex ring, is a region of rotating fluid moving through the same or different fluid where the flow pattern takes on a toroidal (doughnut) shape. The movement of the fluid is about the poloidal or circular axis of the doughnut, in a twisting vortex motion. Examples of this phenomenon are a smoke ring or a microburst. Vortex rings were first mathematically analysed by the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, in his paper of 1867 On...

A 40-year-old woman has been burned alive in Nepal she was accused of casting black magic spells in a remote village in southern Nepal. Human rights campaigners say the perpetrators of such crimes are rarely brought to justice A mob burned alive a 40-year-old woman today after accusing her of casting black magic spells in a remote village in southern Nepal, police said. Dengani Mahato died after she was severely beaten, doused in kerosene and set alight for allegedly practising witchcraft, Gopal Bhandari, a superintendent of police in Chitwan district, told AFP. "Nine people started to beat her after a...

Cats are for petting, not for plating.Cats are fine pets. But a fine meal? No, sir. No. The alleged eating practices of a Bakersfield man has run him afoul of the law, after he was found with the headless carcass of a feline friend in his kitchen sink, according to reports. Jason Wilmert, 35, lives in the Bakersfield suburb of Oildale, where neighbors told police of hearing the sound of screaming cats coming from Wilmert's backyard. One neighbor reported seeing Wilmert decapitate a cat in his yard, police said. Yikes. Deputies arrived on-scene and saw a cat's head in Wilmet's...

An unusual school zone speed limit sign in suburban Detroit has drawn the attention of an irked driver. Greg Smith tells The Oakland Press of Pontiac that he noticed the sign recently in Oakland County's White Lake Township that lists six separate times when drivers should slow down to 25 mph on school days. Smith says drivers "practically have to come to a stop to read it." An elementary, middle and high school all are nearby. Police Chief Ed Harris says a meeting is being called with the White Lake Township supervisor, the school district and the county road commission...

MI5 investigated whether Charlie Chaplin was actually a Frenchman called Israel Thornstein, previously secret files on the Hollywood film star have revealed. Intelligence officers could find no trace of the actor's birth in Britain despite Chaplin always claiming he was born in London in 1889. The mystery surrounding his origins emerged when the US authorities asked MI5 to look into the comic actor's background after he left America in 1952 under a cloud of suspicion over his communist links.

One of the world's tiniest lizards has been discovered by keen-eyed researchers in Madagascar. The miniature chameleon, Brookesia micra, reaches a maximum length of just 29mm. German scientists also found a further three new species in the north of the island. The lizards were limited to very small ranges and scientists are concerned they could be at risk from habitat disturbance.

MORENO VALLEY (CBS) — Fast food restaurants in the Inland Empire are tapping into solar power to save money on their super-sized energy bills. A Taco Bell now under construction in Moreno Valley will be the first in the restaurant’s chain to be all solar-powered, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reports. A 200-foot long roof is being constructed over its entire drive-through line and will be covered with 155 solar panels, possibly the first of its kind, owner Grover Moss told the newspaper. The restaurant’s final structural plans to the city still have to be approved by the city, but Moss hopes...

There are things Danny White really loves. The Redskins. His red Chevy Avalanche. And a good joke. “Just having fun!” he says with a laugh. Twenty-five years ago, Danny wanted to have a little fun with his vanity plate, a DC license plate that reads “NO-TAGS.” People, he says, “See my tag. ‘Oh! You from D.C.! I like your tag!’” Well, almost everyone. Advertise | AdChoices“D.C. don’t get the joke,” he says, shaking his head. “They don’t get it.” Because now, the joke is on him. “I’ve got enough tickets here to plaster my whole car.” Three hundred dollars, $500,...

Holly Chen is a former first-grade teacher, just over 5 feet tall, with a taste for sequins... "The most powerful weapon is to move somebody emotionally," she says... Today, Ms. Chen directs one in every 10 Amway reps—getting a cut along the way. Her total haul is estimated by one direct-sales magazine at $8 million a year. "I don't even know how much I make," she says to the group gathered in Las Vegas, part of the U.S. branch of chao fan. Turns out these are flush days for Michigan-based Amway, which sells its own brands of cosmetics and personal...

On Valentine’s Day, a priest and a nun penned an op-ed in The Washington Post entitled, “A Catholic Case for Same-Sex Marriage.” Sister Jeannine Gramick and Francis DeBernardo of New Ways Ministry in Mt. Rainier, Maryland, wrote, “Many Catholics…understand that lesbian and gay love is as natural as heterosexual love.” “As Catholics who are involved in lesbian and gay ministry and outreach, we are aware that many people, some of them Catholics, believe that Catholics cannot faithfully disobey the public policies of the church’s hierarchy. But this is not the case,” they wrote. “Like Govs. Andrew Cuomo in New York...

A Boeing 787 jet took corporate loyalty to new heights when it "drew" the letters "787" followed by the company's logo across several thousand miles of North American skies. The etching of the letters and logo, while not visible from the ground, can be seen in the flight path plans.

Texas police said they arrested an 18-year-old woman who led them on a chase while wearing nothing but a pair of cowboy boots. Corpus Christi police said officers responding to a call about a suspicious person around 3:10 a.m. Sunday spotted Taylor Burnham, 18, standing next to a Jeep Wrangler wearing nothing but her boots, The Smoking Gun Web site reported Tuesday.

It was Valentine's Day in Portlandia -- should anyone have been upset about a little friendly bondage action in the back of a Subaru? Well, yes. The Portland Police Bureau was plenty upset, and the lovers, identified as Nikolas Harbar, 31, and Stephanie Pelzner, 26, are under arrest on charges of disorderly conduct in the second degree.Portland may be a city that has always prided itself on its eccentricities, but police said the red alert that went out when Pelzner was glimpsed bound and naked in the back of the car was a Valentine too far. It began shortly after...

Former American President Dwight D. Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens, a former US government consultant has claimed. The 34th President of the United States met the extra terrestrials at a remote air base in New Mexico in 1954, according to lecturer and author Timothy Good. Eisenhower and other FBI officials are said to have organised the showdown with the space creatures by sending out 'telepathic messages'.

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A 50-year-old woman accused of dousing her dad with iced tea on Super Bowl Sunday was arrested, even though she said the chilled beverage soaking was an act of "self defense," a recently released report states. The apparent tossed tea tumult began brewing Feb. 5 as a 79-year-old man told Port St. Lucie police he argued with his daughter, Jacqueline Collins, the Port St. Lucie police report states. He said the disagreement at his Southeast Victory Avenue home in Port St. Lucie was over food. After quarreling briefly, the man sat on the couch to watch the Super Bowl, a...

A Canadian guy named Joe has been digging out the basement of his house using nothing but radio-controlled scale model construction equipment... since 1997. Yes, you read that right — he's been digging out his basement for 15 years — with nothing but little R/C tractors, diggers and even a miniature rock crusher! Amazing. At an average rate of eight or nine cubic feet of earth moved each year, the process has been absolutely glacial. But what do you expect when every morning he drives his little excavator on its transport truck down to the basement, unloads it, and then...

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BOULDER, Colo. -- They're shiny, tiny and in demand. Buckyballs are powerful little magnets you can form into any shape. But a Colorado mom learned the hard way the powerful magnets can also be life-threatening. CALL7 Investigator Theresa Marchetta found out how such a dangerous toy could so easily end up in the hands of a child. "It could have been dire. Really dire," said Stephanie Thompson. In September, her 5-year-old son, Finn, had emergency surgery. The scar on his stomach is healing, but for his mom, the emotional wound is still fresh.

A cemetery owner is speaking out after someone made a horrific discovery at her cemetery. Esther King recently went to the Lincoln Memorial Park to visit some deceased relatives when she found a baby's stone tomb cracked open. "That's a baby. That's a baby that's about six to seven months old. That's a baby," King said. King looked inside the grave and discovered that the child's body was still there, but the baby boy's head was missing. King said, "That is not godly." The boy's tomb was one of many found with its concrete cover removed at the cemetery along...

Shyness, bereavement and eccentric behavior could be classed as a mental illness under new guidelines, leaving millions of people at risk of being diagnosed as having a psychiatric disorder, experts fear. Under changes planned to the diagnosis handbook used by doctors in the US, common behavioral traits are likely to be listed as a mental illness, it was reported. The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders could also include internet addiction and gambling as a medical problem. … "We need to be very careful before further broadening the boundaries of illness and disorder," Simon...

Themba the hyena and student Shandor Larenty are working to sweeten this predator’s less-than-savoury image.Recent pictures of teenager Shandor Larenty cuddling, kissing and bathing a young hyena at the Johannesburg Lion Park have amused and delighted online readers of the Mail and Sun. Hyenas are often regarded as brutal scavengers, and have an incredibly powerful jaw which can easily chomp bones. But Shandor has grown up around some of South Africa’s most dangerous predators, working with his father, lion handler Alex. And he has a special relationship with Themba, one of the park’s hyenas, who is so used to him...

With so many brands of dog food on the supermarket shelves it can often be difficult to know which one to buy for your beloved pet. But the difficult choice may not rest solely on the shoulders of dog owners anymore. That's because one dog food company is bidding to attract man's best friend to its product and not man, with the UK's first ever advert made especially for dogs.Barking mad: Dogs are drawn to the high pitch sounds in the UK's first ever advert made especially for dogsThe barking-mad one-minute clip hopes to get the tails wagging, when it...

When is it okay to kill a zombie? The Walking Dead returns tomorrow night in the wake of a moral dilemma: Should zombies be killed on sight, or quarantined as sick humans? We look at some of the issues surrounding zombie murder, and want to hear what you think about the ethics of killing these infection-spreading cannibals. We open at the beginning of the zombie pandemic. There are rumblings of an infection on the news, of people who have turned suddenly violent and spreading disease through their bites. You look out the window and see a bloody-mouthed being shuffling in...

Bin Laden Zombie Film Coming This Summer A Utah production company announced today that it has shot a movie based on the premise that Osama bin Laden rises from his watery grave and leads an army of zombie terrorists in a violent jihad of the undead. In the feature-length film, "Osombie: The Axis of Evil Dead," a NATO Special Forces unit races to defeat zombie bin Laden and his flesh-seeking militia, while also stopping the infection from spreading to even more terrorist corpses. According to the film's executive producer, Kynan Griffin, the script was written before the real al Qaeda...

Ten-year-old delivers new sister in family car on the way to hospitalWhile most 10-year-olds are out playing or doing other normal 10-year-old things, Stephanie Zamora was delivering a baby. Stephanie, a fifth-grader at Arlington's South Davis Elementary School, helped deliver her new sister on the way to the hospital. On Tuesday morning, her mother, Sandra Zamora, realized she was about to go into labor. Stephanie and her parents jumped in the car and headed to the hospital. But the baby wasn't waiting. Her mother, who was in the backseat, remembers telling Stephanie, "Help me, please." "I didn't know what to...

Residents of the southern Tunisian towns of Tataouine and Matmata, small desert cities that furnished the setting for Star Wars movies, woke up to an unusual sight today: snow. The snow started to fall overnight from Sunday to Monday, leaving a thin layer that was enough to transform the landscape from an arid desert to a glistening-white tundra. The Sahara desert, particularly the region of Remada and the neighboring area of El Borma in the governorate of Tataouine, also saw snow falling near the oil fields of El Borma. Oil fields workers were thrilled at the sight of snow, a...

At a protest "Occupying CPAC" in Washington DC, a protester admits that it would be legitimate to abort a baby because it was gay, all for the woman's "Right to Choose".

Sarah Charles’ life stopped when Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake two years ago. She was possessed by fear and anguish thinking about her son who was in Port-au-Prince at the time of the earthquake. “I was going crazy not knowing where my son was,” said Charles of Hallandale. Her anxiety grew as time passed without news about her son. But there was something that helped Charles cope with her anguish – Voodoo. “The [Voodoo] ceremonies brought all my spiritual brothers and sisters together and helped us share our pain, making it less severe,” said Charles, 40, who was...

When lead-footed drivers get snagged and ticketed, their downfall might have been passing a speed trap where a cop was using radar or a laser, or maybe the driver passed a speed camera. However, as technology improves traffic enforcement, it is also progressing on the side of the speeder. Now joining the radar detector is crowd-sourced reporting of speed traps, a virtual warning system using the Internet and a mobile app. This list of the 10 most-active cities for speed traps was compiled by Trapster.com, a community platform accessed online and via smartphone app, that alerts drivers to traps, hazards...

A misty “tsunami” has hit the coastline of Panama City, Florida, USA. A helicopter pilot managed to capture rare phenomenon and has posted breathtaking photos on Facebook. ­JR Hott, who makes his living, flying tourists in a helicopter over the city and the Gulf of Mexico, took photos of clouds of fog developing over buildings while hovering over Panama City’s coastline.

The robbery took place just before 2 p.m., agency says The FBI is searching for a man they say robbed a Bank of America at 2300 E. Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale just before 2 p.m. Friday. The FBI released little information about Friday’s heist at the Bank of America branch at the Galleria at Fort Lauderdale, saying that the robber demanded money and took an undisclosed amount, that there were customers inside at the time, and that “the robber was last seen on foot leaving the bank.” However, the agency did say that it believes the man may have...

The Kendall County Sheriff's Department has launched an internal investigation into an alleged incident involving an off-duty deputy pulling a gun on a pregnant woman in a Walmart express lane. Just one week from her due date, Nicole Thurmond said she feared for her life while checking out at a Walmart store in Oswego on a recent Sunday. "I felt someone close behind me. He started being really rude and said, 'Don't you know how to count? You are holding up the whole store," Thurmond recalled. Thurmond said she didn't know it at the time, but the man in plain...

Between tales of one police captain dropping to all fours to yell "don't beat me" and black and white commanders angrily proclaiming they were being discriminated against, jurors got a stark depiction Thursday of a Richmond Police Department consumed with racial tensions in 2006 when Chris Magnus took over as chief. The revelations came as Magnus spent a second day testifying in a Contra Costa County Superior Court trial over a lawsuit claiming he had discriminated against seven high-ranking black officers. Plaintiffs' attorney Stephen Jaffe tried to make Magnus look like a disconnected leader who revealed racist bents in quips...

As my colleague David M. Herszenhorn reports, scientists are poised to take some highly anticipated samples from a deep subglacial lake in Antarctica, saying on Wednesday that they had succeeded in boring through more than two miles of ice. The state-financed broadcaster Russia Today posted video of the researchers at the frigid Antarctic outpost, including clips of them snowmobiling around the endless expanse of ice and snow and watching supply planes land. What evolutionary secrets Lake Vostok — named after the Russian research station above it — may hold after being sealed under ice for millions of years has tantalized...

DNA Test Helps Enforce Pet Clean Up Policy SAN DIEGO - The same DNA technology that has solved cold case murders is now being used to crack down on a whole new class of criminals: dog owners who don't clean up after their pets. "Unfortunately, people leave surprises in my yard, but I always carry plastic bags, so I can clean up those surprises," said dog owner Ted Stevens. Now, BioPet Vet Lab ,a company in Knoxville, Tenn., has developed technology that is says can identify the dogs that leave unwelcome calling cards on neighborhood lawns. The system, called Pooprints,...

Bin Laden is back... As a zombie! Osombie (Warning: some blood and guts)Is this thing for real?

New Facebook group asks Prime Minister to postpone any plans to a strike of Iran's nuclear facilities until after the Queen of Pop's planned May 29 visit. Recent verbal exchanges and remarks concerning alleged Israeli plans to attack Iran's nuclear program later this year has Israelis scared, and not for the obvious reasons. In a newly launched Facebook page, Israeli fans of U.S. pop megastar Madonna are pleading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off any such plans to strike Iran until the Queen of Pop's planned show in Tel Aviv on May 29. The group, simply and directly enough...

ELLENSBURG -- From Bigfoot to the disappearance of D.B. Cooper, the Pacific Northwest is full of mysteries. Another mystery burred deep in the hills of eastern Washington keeps resurfacing. Ellensburg and its surrounding valleys and Manastash Ridge are beautiful in any season. Some believe what lies beneath is a deep, dark hole with supernatural powers. A man named Red Elk is one of the only people alive known to have ever seen the mysterious hole.

Chicago's City Clerk said Wednesday afternoon she will be using a new design for the next round of city vehicle stickers. Susana Mendoza says the original design drawn by a 15-year-old could include gang symbols. "The experts have felt that yes indeed it could potentially be perceived as symbollizing gang relations and, frankly, I, as clerk, cannot ask Chicagoans to put a sticker on their car if there's even remotely the possibility of that being misinterpreted." The stickers were supposed to be printed next week. Meantime, a spokeswoman for the special needs school where the artist is a freshman says...

SAN FRANCISCO, Colombia -- A farmer hopes his hen's enormous egg will make it into the record books. The farmer's daughter got a real surprise recently when she found the egg weighing 8.6 ounces, or about four times the normal weight of an egg.

Maine GOP Chairman Charlie Webster told The Associated Press that Romney is expected to speak Friday evening at a rally at Portland Yacht Services.

The ruling stipulates flowers, bowling, and Red Lobster.Just in time for Valentine's Day, a Florida judge ruled on Tuesday that a man involved in a scuffle with his wife treat her to an evening at a local bowling alley and a romantic meal at Red Lobster. Judge John Hurley ordered that Joseph Bray, 47 and his wife Sonja, 39, also visit a marriage counselor. Hurley handed down this ruling instead of setting bond or slapping Bray with a prison sentence after he deemed domestic violence charges leveled by Bray's wife to be "very, very minor." According to Bray's arrest affidavit,...

A two-year-old boy with "three parents" - his lesbian mother, her partner and a gay father - is at the centre of an Appeal Court test case on the status of "alternative" families. The mother says she made a pact with the father during a restaurant meeting before the boy was conceived that she and her lover would fill the role of "primary parents" within a "nuclear family" and that he would not stand on his paternal rights. But now she and her partner say they feel "bitter and betrayed" after the father - a former close friend who attended...

If you need me to explain why you should spend 1:26 watching a man wielding an iron guitar in a Faraday suit playing Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" on MIDI-compatible Tesla coils, you are in the wrong place, pal. ArcAttack is performing a Tesla Coil version of Iron Man by Black Sabbath. The Guitar Player is using an iron guitar in a faraday cage ArcAttack testing out the world's first lighting-proof MIDI guitar in their warehouse in Austin, Texas. The MIDI signal from the guitar is routed through a fiber optic cable to control the Tesla coils. Update: From the comments,...