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**SNIP** A swarm of squatters have shacked up inside the celebrity chef’s $16.1 million pub — using Ramsay’s own kitchen appliances to barricade themselves inside, according to a report. **SNIP** One person was seen barefoot and sprawled across on a black leather sofa inside the restaurant, with their personal belongings and debris, including empty wine bottles, strewn across the floor. **SNIP** “The pub was temporarily closed while he was finalizing a new lease, and during this handover period, a gang of professional squatters somehow bypassed all the security and CCTV, and got themselves in. “They’ve now boarded themselves in the...

A Florida woman might have proof of that. Cristina Ryan told WOFL-TV that she caught a glimpse of a "baby dinosaur" running through her yard on a home security camera. Advertisement "Maybe I've watched 'Jurassic Park' too many times, but I see a raptor or other small dinosaur!" she told the TV station. People who have seen the video have various theories about what the animal may be — perhaps a bird, a lizard or a dog dragging a leash? It's more likely that whatever it was will remain a mystery.

Freep this poll Gov. Bill Ritter has vetoed a bill that would have exempted some gun buyers from background checks, saying it contains "inadequate safeguards" to prevent ineligible people from buying firearms. The bill would have allowed holders of valid concealed-handgun permits to avoid mandatory criminal background checks by presenting that permit along with one other piece of identification when buying a gun. Critics said there would be no way to guarantee that the current holder of a concealed-weapons permit surrendered it in the event of their arrest for a violent felony. A person in that circumstance would not be...

Would you eat a blond, furry lobster? Never I only like redheads Only with extra butter

Who would I be? I am a Southwestern myotis. That is I am a bat. I am very similar to the long-eared myotis, except my ears are shorter. How big would I be? I have an average wingspan of 10 1/2 inches. My body is about 2 inches long. Where would I live? I can be found in the ponderosa-pine mountain islands of Central and Southern Arizona and New Mexico. I like woods with mixed pine and oak, also chaparral and riparian forests. I am a summer resident in these states, but I am very secretive as to where I...

MIDI - RAG DOLL Doll-oll-oll-oll hair…it's just as silly as can be Doll-oll-oll-oll hair…I laugh when he is on TV Joe Biden had his doctor put plugs in his head He should have superglued a critter that was dead He has…doll hair…he has…doll hair It's a bad transplant…worse than Traficant Doll-oll-oll-oll hair…it's just as silly as can be Joe lost his hair about the time he lost his mind This liberal puke can kiss my rosy red behind He has…doll hair…he has…doll hair It's a bad transplant…worse than Traficant Doll-oll-oll-oll hair…it's just as silly as can be Doll-oll-oll-oll hair…I...