Driver Reading a Book, Kindle, and Phone at the Same Time Is a Distracted Super-Moron. America's Most Elaborate Slot Car Track. I'm Either In Wonderland Or Someone Flipped This Cafe Sideways. Boy, 8, accidentally shoots himself to death with Uzi. I Wish I Were a Kid Again So I Could Go to This Psychedelic School. Costco Will Sell You an Apocalyptic Year's Worth of Disgusting Food for $800. Pat Burns memorabilia could be worth $30,000 on black. Hamilton Spectator MONTREAL Police have been swamped with calls from the public in the hunt for the return of 30 autographed National Hockey League jerseys stolen from Pat Burns’ widow hours after the former NHL coach’s funeral Monday.
“Everyone wearing a hockey jersey has become suspicious in Montreal, even someone behind the wheel of a car with a hockey jersey on,” said Constable Olivier Lapointe of the level of outrage. How to Escape from a Sinking Car. How Can This Gigantic Truck Turn? Tricking an Internet Conman Into Sculpting You a Wooden Commodore 64. Gun deal went down in school, police say. Staff, students and parents will no doubt be alarmed to learn of a firearms deal that transpired inside Downsview Secondary School - even if it was nine months ago.
But Toronto Police say they can take some comfort in knowing it was thanks to a School Resource Officer that the three teens allegedly involved in the gun sale have been arrested. Penny for his thoughts man mailed one-cent refund. A penny might not get you much these days, but HSBC seems to think it can.
HSBC Financial Corp. sent Shehzad Khan, a 41-year-old convenience store retailer a cheque for one-cent in the mail, which Khan finds a little perplexing. "It costs more for the postage," he said. "I don't check my mail too often, maybe once a week. When I opened it, I thought someone had mailed me money, but when I saw it, it was nothing. " How Google Maps Led to An Accidental Invasion. Sophisticated Smuggling Tunnel Containing Rail System, Oxygen Pumps, And 30 Tons of Marijuana Discovered. Another Halloween, Another Dude in a Breathalyzer Costume Busted For Drunk Driving. Actor killed after being mistaken for real gunman.
Pizza chain offers $31,000/hr job. Nissan recalls 2 million vehicles for ignition. TOKYO - Nissan is recalling 2.14 million vehicles in the U.S., Japan, Europe and Asia, including the popular March and Mycra subcompacts, for an ignition problem that may stall the engine — its third-largest recall ever.
No accidents have been reported that are suspected of being caused by the defect, according to Yokohama-based Nissan Motor Co. A problem was found in an ignition-system part called the relay for vehicles produced from August 2003 through July 2006, including small cars like the March, Cube and Note, and about a dozen other models, such as the Tiida sedan, Titan pickup and Infiniti QX56 luxury model. In extreme cases, the engine will stall and won’t be able to start, said Nissan spokesman Mitsuru Yonekawa. Of the recalled vehicles, nearly 835,000 were produced in Japan, 762,000 in North America, and 354,000 in Europe. Warning issued after brake lines cut. TORONTO - Beaches resident Carm Rizza was driving her 12-year-old when she pressed her brakes and nothing happened.
She is one of a half-dozen victims who had the brake lines of their vehicles cut overnight. "My first thought was 'Did my husband pull my seat back? ', because as soon as I pressed down, nothing happened," she told the Sun this morning. Rizza, a 39-year-old mother of four, said she immediately pulled her parking brake. If she had not, she said, she would have rolled out into traffic on busy Queen St. Toronto Police said at least six vehicles parked on Bellefair Ave., Queen St. Woman dragged by car. A young mother is recovering in a Hamilton hospital after being dragged for more than 30 metres behind a car.
Hamilton police say witnesses called 911 after hearing the woman screaming as the vehicle drove along Brucedale Ave., near East 36th St., around 8:30 p.m. Monday. Officers arrived on the scene and found the 25-year-old woman suffering from critical injuries. "The responding officers found a woman lying on the street, motionless and suffering apparent head injuries," Sgt. Terri-Lynn Collings said Tuesday in a press release. It's believed the woman and her husband had been driving along Brucedale when they became embroiled in an argument.
The 30-year-old driver pulled over around East 36th St. and his wife exited the vehicle, Collings alleged. "At this point the man started to drive away with his spouse hanging on," Collings alleged. Ceiling Collapses at Etobicoke Collegiate - Local News. Teen charged after driving at crowd. Vatican insists Homer is a Catholic. Hamilton Spectator The Vatican newspaper has declared that Homer Simpson is part of the pope’s flock — a claim that leaves The Simpsons’ executive producer baffled.
“Few people know it and he does everything to hide it but it is true: Homer J. Simpson is Catholic,” L’Osservatore Romano wrote in its weekend edition under the headline: Homer and Bart are Catholic. Last December, the newspaper praised the show on its 20th anniversary for its philosophical leanings and irreverent take on religion. The weekend story was the latest example of the Vatican paper’s efforts to be more relevant in the past few years, and follows stories not only lauding Harry Potter but even praising the Beatles and waxing philosophical about John Lennon’s boast that the British band was more popular than Jesus.
The paper quoted an analysis by a Jesuit priest, the Rev. L’Osservatore says the analysis shows that behind the TV program’s jokes are themes “linked to the sense and quality of life.” Hoax sparks police probe. A hoax pulled by four St.
Catharines high school kids had cops thinking they were searching for a kidnapping victim. The teens didn't realize what a stir they caused until they saw the news Monday morning and realized the cops were looking for them, believing they were involved Sunday in an abduction of a male from the Pen Centre Shopping Centre. Niagara Det. -Sgt. Bill Harris said one of the four teens told his parents about the kerfuffle they created, and the parents called detectives explaining what really happened at the Glendale Ave. mall.
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UFO shuts down Mongolian airport - All your Genghis Khan are belong to us. An airport in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, was forced to shut to avoid a collision between a UFO which was refusing to take instructions from air traffic control. Given that few people speak Mongolian, and even less speak Alien it is not surprising that there was a communications breakdown.
Three flights to Baotou from Shanghai and Beijing were reportedly forced to circle the airport until the UFO got bored and wandered off. According to Reuters, two other flights were diverted away from Baotou and to the nearby cities of Ordos and Taiyuan. The airport was shut for around an hour "to guarantee safety". Teen dressed as devil robs gas bar: Police. WINNIPEG - In this case of armed robbery, the devil didn't make him do it - the devil did it himself. Sort of. A 17-year-old boy is accused of holding up a Winnipeg gas bar while wearing a red devil mask and armed with two knives early Monday. City police officers weren't spooked by the suspect's Halloween-inspired getup. Woman sleeps on balcony to escape bedbugs. East York resident Lori Howard would dearly love to come in from the cold.
But since bedbugs began biting inside her new flat, she has been sleeping - and changing clothes - on her 10th floor balcony. "I never had it before," Howard said Saturday, a day after joining an Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now protest outside the 15-storey privately owned Dawes Rd. building. Update all of your social networks at once!
FBI finds 'Waldo' The alleged bank robber investigators dubbed the "Where's Waldo Bandit" has been arrested. On Sept. 21, a thin man with a thick mop of dark brown hair, black glasses and a striped sweater walked into a bank in Tualatin, Ore., with a box. He told the bank teller he had an explosive device and demanded cash, before fleeing and leaving the box behind. Bear trouble a-bruin at gas station.
CALGARY - All things being equal, Lori Ellingboe says she's had worse customers at her Radium, B.C. gas station. But after surveillance footage caught a curious black bear who broke into the Petro-Canada in the mountain town red-pawed, the 15-year owner of the store said she and staff are a bit nervous that the unwanted patron could return. "I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it on video," Ellingboe said of the ursine invader that smashed through the glass doors of the store in the wee hours of Monday morning to do some browsing. "It roamed around for about six minutes but it didn't eat anything - it did leave a large gift for us, however.
" Three surveillance cameras logged occasional glimpses of the four-legged customer cruising through the aisles during 14 minutes of raw footage that she has posted to YouTube. Brides trash their gowns playing paintball. What Is This? UFOs Neutered Nukes, Officers Claim. Human-powered aircraft takes flight. A University of Toronto student has done something nobody's been able to do before -- he built and flew a human-powered aircraft with flapping wings. Todd Reichert, an engineering PhD candidate at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, achieved the feat, which has eluded humankind since Leonardo da Vinci sketched the first human-powered ornithopter in 1485.
Black widow spider visits Woodbridge. Donato Tersigni had the scare of his life Saturday when he discovered a black widow spider in a crate of grapes he bought to make wine. Vatican believes in aliens with souls - Willing to convert them to Christianity. Somerset man invents perpetual motion machine - To power his milking parlour. Man arrested for masturbating in Walmart toy aisle.