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Police are searching for a man who skipped out on a $100 dinner bill, then brandished a gun at witnesses who tried to stop him in a Gaslamp Quarter parking garage. The incident occurred about 7 p.m. June 5, when the man in a brown suit racked up a $108 bill at Toscana Cafe, San Diego police said. He walked out of the Fifth Avenue eatery when he was done, telling the hostess he was just going to smoke a cigarette on the sidewalk. But he left without paying his tab. One of the managers followed him to Lou &...

“The Vespa 150 TAP is a Vespa scooter modified for use with paratroops. Introduced in 1956 and updated in 1959, it had a U.S.-made light anti-armour cannon. Roughly 800 of these scooters were deployed in the Algerian War.”

A $509,840 taxpayer-funded grant by the National Institutes of Health will pay for a study encouraging gay methamphetamine users to put on condoms and use less illegal drugs by sending them text messages. The study began in February. In an interview with CNSNews.com, lead researcher Dr. Cathy Reback of the Baltimore-based Friends Research Institute, Inc., explained how she and her team of health educators will spend the next four years and over half a million dollars encouraging gay meth addicts to cut down on unprotected sex by periodically sending them “gay-specific” text messages. “We did a pilot about four, five...

Dorothy Baker-Flugence (pictured with her husband and children) of Baytown, Texas, is one tough broad! Ismael Martinez (pictured) didn’t know what he was in for when he crept inside the rear of Baker-Flugence’s unlocked van last Friday with plans of robbing she and her children at knifepoint. The suspect never fathomed that he would wind up brawling with the mom. He ended up being thrown from the vehicle, run over and then hospitalized, reports Fox News. The horrifying ordeal began when 54-year-old Martinez watched Baker-Flugence go inside a CVS. He then made a beeline for her unlocked parked minivan, hid...

Chances are good that in the last couple of years, you've helped a junk-food maker or fast-food company advertise itself. That's because big food corporations are figuring out that they can maximize their social-media footprint if they stop marketing their actual products and instead roll out fake, attention-grabbing creations they have no intention of ever making. It's not at all surprising that companies are trying to use viral content to market their products — but it is a little bit shocking how readily consumers go for the bait. The trend dates back at least to 2008, when early adopter Burger...

Almost 10 years on FR. It is time for me to go. To protect my privacy. You understand. I doubt anything is secure any longer. I will miss you all. hci0904@gmail.com

Angelina Jolie's decision to get a double mastectomy after learning she had the breast cancer gene mutation has been lauded by many as courageous, empowering, and even heroic. But singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge -- a breast cancer survivor herself -- thinks it's actually the opposite of those things. Asked about Jolie's recent New York Times op-ed, in which she revealed the news of her mastectomy and breast reconstruction, Etheridge told the Washington Blade that she wouldn't make the same decision for herself. Nor would she encourage others to do so without properly researching their options. "I have to say I feel...

<p>Shaun Paul Williams, 34, was found by deputies as he was walking on the side of the roadway nude and disoriented, the sheriff’s report said.</p> <p>A North Florida man is recovering after being beaten, robbed, forced to strip naked and abandoned during his first date with “Tree,” a woman he had recently met at a convenience store, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.</p>

A young Saudi man sentenced to death for killing a relative needs to raise SR10 million (Dh9.9 million) to escape the sword as diya (blood money) for the victim’s relatives, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Mohammed Al Shammari, in his 20s, shot Shuail Al Shammari in the head following an argument in their northwestern town of Hail nearly five years ago and was sentenced to death a year later, the Arabic language daily Sabq said. Police found Shuail’s body in a deserted place and launched an investigation into the crime before the killer’s grandfather handed him over. The victim’s family...

Forget about etiquette, safety is the no. 1 reason you should always leave a tip. If you don't believe us, ask the unfortunate passenger who was reportedly strangled by his cabbie after stiffing him over the weekend. According to police, the 37-year-old victim was in the taxi at about 1 a.m. on Sunday headed to the Upper Haight. When the cab arrived at his destination -- Waller Street and Central Avenue -- the victim paid his fare, but then asked for change back. This upset the cab driver who thought he deserved a tip. The two got into an argument...

A LABOUR politician has defended his beliefs in extra-terrestrial life - after claiming to have fathered a child with an alien. Married father-of-three Simon Parkes, who represents Stakesby on Whitby Town Council, said his wife had rowed with him after revealing he had a child called Zarka with an alien he refers to as the Cat Queen. The 53-year-old driving instructor said he has sexual relations with the alien about four times a year. “What will happen is that we will hold hands and I will say ‘I’m ready’ and then the technology I don’t understand will take us up...

This auction is a charity auction for hand-made guinea pig scale-mail. (You've read that correctly) Is your pet guinea pig tired of wandering around the house unarmored and vulnerable? Do they get picked on by other guinea pigs? Has your guinea pig ever wanted to go with you to a Renaissance Fair but had nothing to wear? Fear not! A solution is here! Used “The chain mail is hand made and is in great condition. The helmet was purchased and is also in great condition. Neither are "new"... [snip]

Those who dislike or are relatively unfamiliar with the occult will likely be surprised to learn that a witchcraft school—like an adult version of Hogwarts—is in full operation in the center of New York City. The Wiccan Family Temple Academy of Pagan Studies, while certainly different from the fictional school that Harry Potter and his friends attended, does provide some intriguing elements that will serve as a surprise to those with little familiarity with Pagan beliefs and witchcraft. The academy, according to information on its web site, offers affordable training, which includes coverage in the “Path of Wicca,” Starlight Vision...

Actor Jeremy Renner says people around him considered him 'weird' during his growing up days. The 42-year-old might be one of the most in-demand action stars in Hollywood now, but he admits things weren't always so easy for him growing up, reports contactmusic.com. "I grew up in California and Hawaii, but I don't surf or smoke weed, so everybody considered me a weirdo, which I probably am," he said. Recently, Renner was seen in 'The Bourne Legacy'. He played an agent Aaron Cross in the film, who is running away from his own organisation.

The man accused of slashing women's buttocks in Northern Virginia malls has pleaded guilty in a Fairfax County court. The Washington Post reports that Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel admitted to sneaking up on four women and cutting their bottoms with a razor or box cutter.

RUSH: Last night was the Miss USA Pageant, and it was on in our house. (interruption) I didn't say I watched it. I said it was on. I heard it. I was at my desk doing show prep, I heard it, and we got a sound bite from Miss Alabama. (interruption) I don't think we have a Miss Utah. What, you like Miss Utah? BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Last night, the 2013 Miss USA competition. This is Trump's deal. Do you know where they're gonna do Miss Universe? Trump came out there last night and said they're gonna do Miss Universe,...

According to PPP — the YOLO-est of all the pollsters — 56 percent of Americans think a bear would win a fight against a shark, while 44 percent picked the shark. The setting of the fight was not specified, but presumably we are to assume water shallow enough for the bear to stand but deep enough for the shark to swim, otherwise the question would be kind of absurd. Anyway, here is someone who has thought more about this than you have.

A nonhierarchical workplace may just be a more creative and happier one. But how would you feel if the whole office voted on whether to hire you—and when to give you a raise?The headquarters of Menlo Innovations occupy the basement level of an office complex in downtown Ann Arbor, not far from the main campus of the University of Michigan. The space is airy and bright and capacious, as befits a successful software company, but unlike the standard-issue corporate hive, there are no cubicles at Menlo, and very few walls, and only a couple of doors, one of which leads...

It doesn't take a pure cat person to know that some dogs are too ugly for words. Instead of attempting to beautify dogs who aren't so easy on the eyes, their owners have decided to reward them for their crooked tongues, rat's nest fur, and general icky appearance. This week is the annual World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Marin County-Sonoma Fair, where lovers of fugly dogs compete to be the top (ugly) dog. But one thing is for sure: These beastly-looking pups have big paws to fill. Last year's winner, Mugly, had perfectly abhorrent traits, making him a shoe-in...

The second-most-nonsensical answer from last night's Miss USA contest, the winner of which gets to spend more time with Donald Trump, came from masters student Mary Margaret McCord of Alabama, who took on a thorny question about NSA surveillance. "Is this an invasion of privacy or necessary to keep our country safe — why or why not?" asked a judge, with no regard for the English language. If the question was word salad, the answer was filet mignon. "I think the society that we live in today, it's sad that if we go to the movies, or to the airport,...

....Fame today is a matryoshka doll: inside each celebrity is a series of smaller, hollow simulacra, and, at the very core, there is a hard little being who feels buried alive. In Alexis’s gang there were four girls and three boys: the main culprit, Nick Prugo, was a gay kid working his way out of the closet. When he was eventually arrested by the police he was wearing a striped top he’d stolen from the house of the actor Orlando Bloom. And that’s what they did: after days of shopping or doing pilates, hanging out on MySpace, texting or oh-my-god-ing...

The Sunday Assembly, co-founded by comedian Sanderson Jones, will make a stop in New York during its U.S. tour. The location for the sermon will be at Tobacco Road, a 'bikini bar' where the staff has vowed to cover up during the service.The British atheists are coming to Hell’s Kitchen! After six months of packed houses at monthly services in London, an atheist congregation called The Sunday Assembly is bringing its movement to the U.S. The co-founders will soon embark on a cross-country tour to decide which cities might support their own permanent Sunday Assembly franchise, and the first test...

A man who says he caught four boys vandalizing his father-in-law's home has been charged with child endangerment after corralling them in a closet until police arrived. Jesse Daniels was arraigned on four counts of endangering the welfare of a child after authorities say he interrupted the vandalism at the empty home in the Wayne County village of Clyde, midway between Rochester and Syracuse. Daniels, 53, told WHAM-TV in Rochester that he heard pounding coming from the home next door the night of June 8. The house is empty while Daniels renovates it for his father-in-law. book

Three Czech companies have teamed up to make a prototype of a flying electric bicycle that successfully took a test flight Wednesday inside an exhibition hall in Prague. It looks like a mountain bike with attached industrial fans -- a bit like a helicopter. It weighs just over 200 pounds and has two battery-powered propellers in the front, two in the back and one each on the side to provide lift and balance. Czech Republic companies Duratec Bicycles, Technodat and Evektor developed the flying bike with support from French company Dassault Systèmes. A lightweight dummy rode in the saddle for...

A moonwalking Shetland pony who became an internet sensation has lost a paternity battle after leaving his partner to seek out a new mate.Five-year-old Socks was put out to stud with three mares next to a loch but abandoned them after taking a shine to another filly called Kimberley on the other side of the water. After he swam out to meet her, Kimberley gave birth to a black colt called Scamp and hair samples were sent to a DNA laboratory to determine his paternity. But the results have confirmed that Socks, who shot to fame in a mobile phone...

GOOD news. Your cat can now take its own selfies with a new, specially-designed phone app. Snapcat has a black screen with a moving red dot, and all the kitty has to do is tap the dot with its paw, and the app takes a good, old-fashioned selfie.

Neuroscientists Say Dimitry Itskov's Plan Is Not RealisticA Russian multimillionaire said he would like to see the technology to allow humans to outlive their bodies made into a reality – to the point where “people” with artificial computer-driven brains and hologram bodies would exist in a mere 32 years. Dmitry Itskov was at Lincoln Center Saturday for his Global Future 2045 conference. Itskov, who looks younger than his 32 years, has an aggressive timetable in which he’d like to see milestones toward that goal met: — By 2020 – a mere seven years away — robots we can control remotely...

Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so. Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity’s best brains—and a few robots—in New York City on Saturday to discuss how humans can get their minds to outlive their bodies. Itskov, who looks younger than his 32 years, has an aggressive timetable in which he’d like to see milestones toward that goal met: By 2020, robots we can control remotely with our brains.By 2025, a scenario familiar to watchers of sci-fi cartoon show “Futurama:” the capability to transplant the brain into a life-support system, which...

She says she is happy with her 9 daughters and 2 sons but her husband cannot afford feeding them 21-year-old Palestinian woman has given birth to 11 children during her 7-year-old marriage, including twins, quadruplets and quintuplets. The mother from Gaza Strip says she is happy with her nine daughters and two sons but that she and her husband cannot afford feeding them. “I cannot provide them with enough food and clothing…their daily needs are beyond my resources,” the 25-year-old father, Raad Al Batash, said in television interview. Batash, a government employee, said he had received help from Palestinian president...

Imagine fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and coming face to face with a 30-foot, 50,000 pound whale shark. Now imagine jumping ship, grabbing its fin and riding it. Nineteen-year-old Chris Kreis of Fort Myers was fishing 30 miles off the Captiva's coast last Saturday when he encountered the world's largest fish species. "It's massive, it's the size of the boat" Kreis said of the gentle giant. Kreis jumped in, grabbed the fin and rode the fish for about twenty seconds. He posted a video of it to YouTube. "When I started holding on I felt the whale shark it...

Woman and boy live in the main North Island district of AucklandAn 11-year-old New Zealand boy was reported on Saturday to have fathered a child with the 36-year-old mother of a school friend, raising questions on why women cannot be charged with rape in the country. Counsellors working in the area of child sexual abuse said the case highlighted a lack of attention to women as potential offenders, according to the New Zealand Herald, which reported the story. The case has also prompted an examination of the law, under which the crime of rape applies only to men.

PHOENIX — A Phoenix woman is in custody on allegations that she injected her 5-year-old daughter with methamphetamine and amphetamine. Police say 30-year-old Jacqueline Trousdale is being held on suspicion of child abuse and endangering the life and health of a minor. A family member called authorities in October, saying Trousdale was doing drugs in front of her two daughters, ages 5 and 6. Authorities say the girls told police their mother had injected them with drugs, and state Child Protective Services took custody of the children.

A love-struck boyfriend is refusing to testify against his partner who is accused of shooting him because he wants to marry her. Randolph Costa was allegedly blasted at close range by Evelyn Barnave who faces 25 years in jail if found guilty of attempted murder. The 59-year-old initially pointed the finger at his girlfriend, but he is now refusing to co-operate with prosecutors in her trial at Brooklyn Supreme Court. He told the New York Post: 'I'm just hoping they drop this order of protection so we can get married. We love each other.

A homeless alcoholic has admitted conning staff at a £70-a-night inn into giving him a room by claiming he was "Louis Theroux from the BBC". Allan Debenham, 39, booked a room at the Duke of York, Shepton Beauchamp, near Ilminster, Somerset, in the name of the documentary maker, South Somerset magistrates heard. He provided staff at the pub with a telephone number for the BBC's finance department and an order number to arrange payment for his three-night stay. He also pretended to be Theroux's personal assistant and persuaded staff to put two bottles of wine on his room tab. They...

The high-tech, sophisticated Broward Sheriff’s Office crime lab is itself under the microscope after losing evidence in a drug case. "The crime lab lost a half gram of cocaine," said Assistant Public Defender Gordon Weekes. The BSO conducted an internal affairs investigation. The 15-page report, completed in August 2012, cites the missing 0.4 grams of crack cocaine and concludes that it was never found, and investigators were unable to determine how it was lost or whether someone may have taken it. The drug was seized from a teenager who was ultimately prosecuted. "That case where the cocaine was actually lost...

The man who tried to make human-ape hybrids Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was a gifted scientist, a dedicated conservationist, and a practical, grounded man who expanded everyone's understanding of animal husbandry. He also, for years, tried to make human-ape hybrids. The post-revolution USSR was a nation that wanted to wholly embrace new technology and progressive science while reinforcing traditional nationalistic pride. It's no wonder that Ilya Ivanovic Ivanov fit right in. He was a biologist who wanted to split his talents evenly between innovation and preservation. Ivanov got a lot of Soviet and international support because he'd been doing useful work...

The driver called his boss, and the police, and reported the truck stolen. A short time later, after leaving the supermarket with his boss, the driver spotted his truck being driven along Harry Hines Boulevard. The driver again called the police, who were able to stop the driver and take him into custody. A quick search of the truck revealed that, according to the driver's statement in the police report, 100 boxes, or more likely cases, worth an estimated $5,000, were missing from the truck.

Bank error not in your favor, right? Like in Monopoly? You know how the Banks are constantly screwing over the People, just because they get off on it sexually? Here's a good example of that: Ann Wiley is trying to get to the bottom of the error, but no one knows how it happened. She says three separate instances of $100 million charges to her account have frozen her assets. Sun Trust Bank told Wiley the problem was with the Department of Revenue. Even though this is obviously a glitch that seems like it should be easily solvable, it has...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is monitoring suspect because he's not a U.S. citizen and is considering whether to deport himBART Deputy Police Chief Ben Farrow on Thursday defended his agency's response to an incident at BART's 16th Street Mission station in San Francisco last month in which a naked acrobat allegedly harassed several passengers and employees. BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said a BART video shows the acrobat, Yeiner Perez, 24, doing flips and handstands on fare gates at the station and then harassing several passengers and employees. Trost said Perez allegedly kicked and pushed a BART employee and then...

Megabites with Dandoval: Tibetan raw yak meat and cold tongue The taste of rat only whetted our appetite for the new, the different, the other. We'd heard that some of the restaurants in the Tibetan quarter of Wuhouci had yak penis on their menu. After a day of walking around in the cold with no luck finding it, we settled for raw yak meat and tongue. Dan first tried the raw yak meat, which arrived almost as soon we had ordered it, right from the fridge. The cold, red flesh starkly contrasted with the warm, inviting atmosphere of the restaurant....

There are a couple of false-flag "conservative immigration reform" ads every commercial break on Rush today. Who's paying for them? George Soros?

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday that “cultural hesitation” makes it more difficult for some Hispanic parents to want to enroll their children in public pre-school programs because of their preference for family and friends. Duncan’s remarks came when asked about pre-school and the Hispanic community at an event to mark the anniversary of Educare of Washington, D.C., a preschool for children from six weeks to five years old. …

It started as a drunken pub fight over the outcome of the Premier League title race, escalated into a double assassination and ended with the cold-blooded murder of two policewomen.But the chain of events that led to Dale Cregan murdering Pcs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes was rooted in a decade-long feud between two Manchester gangland families in which violence was their main method of communication. The Shorts and the Atkinsons had traded kneecappings, stabbings and punch-ups before calling a truce in 2009 that was shattered with devastating consequences at the Cotton Tree pub in Droylsden on May 13 last...

It looks like another fast food chain’s employees have been caught behaving badly. In a photo posted on Reddit, a Wendy’s employee can be seen helping himself directly from the Frosty machine. “I was going to buy a frosty from Wendys [sic] until I saw the employee do this,” the user wrote. Commenters quickly pointed out that the photo doesn’t appear to be taken from across the counter, nor does it make sense that an employee would do this in front of a customer. Regardless, the gross photo is still on the Internet for everyone to check out before considering...

BANFF, Alta. — A Banff man took the phrase “pics or it didn’t happen” to another level over the weekend when he managed to snap photos of a wolf chasing him down the highway while riding his motorcycle. Tim Bartlett was travelling north on Hwy. 93 South in Kootenay National Park on Saturday afternoon when a wolf crossed a lane of traffic to try to intercept his motorcycle. Bartlett rode for another 100 metres up the highway before looking back to watch the wolf, which had stopped in the middle of the road before making its way back into the...

Guests at a wedding in Saudi Arabia panicked and stampeded out of the wedding hall after the entry of an undesirable intruder—a snake. The bridegroom was receiving well wishers at the massive wedding hall in the northern town of Rafha when a pandemonium erupted among hundreds of guests. The groom’s cousin who rushed to where the guests were stampeding saw a one-metre-long snake crawling fast into the hall. “I brought a large stick and chased it…it ran away and hid under a nearby car…I forced it out and killed it by hitting it on the head many times,” the groom’s...

A production company making a documentary about the song “Happy Birthday to You” has filed a lawsuit in New York over the copyright to it. Good Morning To You Productions Corp. says in Thursday’s federal court filing Warner/Chappell Music Inc. has been collecting “Happy Birthday to You” licensing fees for years. …

Rodham,’ a film about the life of a young Hillary Clinton, is generating serious buzz in Hollywood and Washington. The Daily Beast has the screenplay. Here are some of the juiciest bits from the movie. 113 inShare.53 The most powerful woman in the world is about to get the Hollywood treatment. Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, senator, and secretary of state—who is maybe running for president in 2016—is the subject of a new feature film about her youth. Rodham focuses on 1974, when the 26-year-old was a determined—and relatively humorless—lawyer working as a member of the House impeachment inquiry...

Sergio Romo struck a sensitive chord when he proudly showed off his "I only look illegal" shirt during the Giants' 2012 world championship parade, which called into question the since-removed Arizona law that allowed police to detain people based on the suspicion that they might be illegal immigrants. Romo, a Mexican who was born in America, signed a contract with local ice cream company Three Twins to further the statement with the release of a new flavor -- "Sergio Romo's Mexican chocolate." Pints will be stamped with the phrase "It only tastes illegal" and are expected to hit stores in...