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[damian666]

:-X dont tell anyone that I have MPD

Mighty Powerful Doodoo?   :))

you're just like my boyfriend then... trust me i have a funny story about might powerful doodoo  :))

::)

[Homer]

Has anyone seen bubbles?  :)))

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - A woman who became stuck to a toilet seat in a shopping mall restroom was treated at a local hospital after paramedics used fingernail polish remover to free her, officials said.

The 53-year-old Council Bluffs woman suffered burns to her skin in the incident, which happened Wednesday, officials with the Fire Department said.

Investigators said they believe someone placed a cement compound on the toilet seat in the restroom at the Mall of the Bluffs.

Investigators say they are treating the case as an assault and vandalism.

The woman, who wasn't identified, told KETV in Omaha, Neb., that the burns are painful and that the incident was one of the most embarrassing moments in her life.

[damian666]

Has anyone seen bubbles?  :)))

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - A woman who became stuck to a toilet seat in a shopping mall restroom was treated at a local hospital after paramedics used fingernail polish remover to free her, officials said.

The 53-year-old Council Bluffs woman suffered burns to her skin in the incident, which happened Wednesday, officials with the Fire Department said.

Investigators said they believe someone placed a cement compound on the toilet seat in the restroom at the Mall of the Bluffs.

Investigators say they are treating the case as an assault and vandalism.

The woman, who wasn't identified, told KETV in Omaha, Neb., that the burns are painful and that the incident was one of the most embarrassing moments in her life.

OMFG  :))  :))  :))

[justahumping]

 :))

[Lynne]

Has anyone seen bubbles?  :)))

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - A woman who became stuck to a toilet seat in a shopping mall restroom was treated at a local hospital after paramedics used fingernail polish remover to free her, officials said.

The 53-year-old Council Bluffs woman suffered burns to her skin in the incident, which happened Wednesday, officials with the Fire Department said.

Investigators said they believe someone placed a cement compound on the toilet seat in the restroom at the Mall of the Bluffs.

Investigators say they are treating the case as an assault and vandalism.

The woman, who wasn't identified, told KETV in Omaha, Neb., that the burns are painful and that the incident was one of the most embarrassing moments in her life.

thats awesome. lol poor lady. can't even take a poo in private.  :))

[kgansor]

wow   :))

[justahumping]

Would you call that a *stuck poo poo*?  :))

[kgansor]

Would you call that a *stuck poo poo*?  :))

that would seriously suck, really bad.
especially having it happen in a MALL.
wow, id die...

[Lynne]

I would laugh my azz off if I saw it happen but I'd be sooooo  :-[ if it happened to me that I probably wouldn't show my face anywhere.  :))

[kgansor]

I would laugh my azz off if I saw it happen but I'd be sooooo  :-[ if it happened to me that I probably wouldn't show my face anywhere.  :))

lol yea id defaintly be laughing if i saw it happen as well...

[Jewel]

Boyfriend's Stunt Get Under Girlfriend's Skin 

DES MOINES, Iowa - A woman went to sleep with bare skin, but woke up to find a tattoo on her ankle. Hillary Snyder, 20, said she had taken a painkiller with a sleeping pill before going to bed on Saturday night. When she woke up, she saw a tattoo of a five-pointed star on her right ankle - allegedly done by her boyfriend. Snyder had told her boyfriend before that she didn't want a tattoo, but he was determined for her to have a five-pointed star that matched his own. Needless to say, the relationship with Snyder and her unidentified boyfriend is over, and a police report accuses him of domestic assault. However, Snyder doesn't agree with the assault charge. "I mean it's not like he beat me up. There were no bruises or blood or anything. I'm just not going to see him again."   

[Jewel]

Passport Office Doesn't Shrug Off Bare Shoulders In Photo

SHEFFIELD, England - The passport application of a 5-year-old girl in Sheffield, England, was rejected because her sundress showed her shoulders, which might offend Muslims. Hanna Edwards' mother, Jane, was told by a postal clerk the passport office would reject the photo because it might offend people in a Muslim country. "I was incensed," said Edwards, a family doctor, who wanted to take her daughter to France. "I went back home and checked the form. Nowhere did it say anything about covering up shoulders. If it had, I would have done so." "How can the shoulders of a 5-year-old girl offend anyone?" she asked London's Daily Telegraph.Edwards had Hanna's photo retaken, shoulders covered. The post office accepted the application.   

[xx_mandy_xx]

DOH! what people are willing to do to steal...i tell ya... :oo

[Tara]

 :o

China Bans 'Simpsons' From Prime-Time TV
By JOE McDONALD, Associated Press Writer
Mon Aug 14, 6:42 AM

BEIJING - D'oh! China has banished Homer Simpson, Pokemon and Mickey Mouse from prime time. Beginning Sept. 1, regulators have barred foreign cartoons from TV from 5 to 8 p.m. in an effort to protect China's struggling animation studios, news reports said Sunday. The move allows the Monkey King and his Chinese pals to get the top TV viewing hours to themselves.

Foreign cartoons, especially from Japan, are hugely popular with China's 250 million children and the country's own animation studios have struggled to compete. Communist leaders are said to be frustrated that so many cartoons are foreign-made, especially after efforts to build up Chinese animation studios.

The ban hasn't been formally announced, but newspapers already were criticizing it Sunday as the wrong way to improve programming.

"This is a worrying, shortsighted policy and will not solve the fundamental problems in China's cartoon industry," the Southern Metropolis News said. "The viewing masses, whether adults or children, will have no choice but to passively support Chinese products."

Chinese animators produce hundreds of hours of programs a year but aren't known for flair or originality. They draw on traditional stories such as "Journey to the West," about the adventures of the Monkey King, and have yet to invent characters to match the appeal of Mickey Mouse or Japanese icons such as Pokemon.

The cartoon campaign comes amid efforts by President Hu Jintao's government to tighten control over other pop culture, ranging from movies to magazines and Web sites.

TV stations have been told to limit foreign programming, stop showing scary movies in prime time and have their hosts dress more conservatively and use fewer English words on the air.

Most cartoons on China Central Television, the national broadcaster, are Chinese-made. But more freewheeling local broadcasters show everything from "The Simpsons" to Japanese, South Korean and European cartoons dubbed into Chinese.

Film studios have been pushed to merge in order to create big, well-financed competitors. Officials have set up 15 animation centers to nurture the industry, invoking communist guerrilla vocabulary by dubbing them "production bases."

"The reason for the regulation is clear. It is to protect domestic cartoon production," the Southern Metropolis said.

The newspaper cited what it said was a recent study that found that 80 percent of Chinese children surveyed liked foreign cartoons and disliked domestic animation.

Chinese studios employ thousands of skilled animators, but many focus on doing work subcontracted by Walt Disney Co., Warner Bros. and other Western or Japanese studios.

Broadcasters were told to limit use of foreign cartoons in 2000 at a time when Japanese animation dominated the market. In 2004, the government stepped up controls, saying Chinese cartoons had to account for at least 60 percent of the total shown in prime time.

In February, regulators banned programs that mix animation with live characters in an apparent effort to protect Chinese studios, which don't produce such programming. Regulators haven't released details, but the ban could affect popular children's TV shows such as "Blue's Clues" from the United States and Britain's "Teletubbies."

The government also protects Chinese film studios by limiting imports of foreign titles. But that strategy appears to have backfired by creating a market for pirated movies, which both foreign and Chinese studios say robs them of box office revenues.

On Sunday, Chinese moviemakers accused TV stations of becoming part of the nation's thriving movie piracy industry, airing up to 1,500 pirated Chinese movies a year.

Beijing also has thrown up barriers to other pop culture.

In April, the government disclosed it was no longer granting publishing licenses for foreign magazines in an effort to protect its domestic industry. That came after a joint venture that published a Chinese edition of "Rolling Stone" was forced to dissolve after a single issue.

[Homer]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- The government has ordered an Internet auction site to remove an advertisement in which a Brazilian man offered to sell his wife for about $50.

The Secretariat of Public Policies for Women announced late Friday it had ordered Mercado Livre, partially owned by eBay Inc., to remove the ad and warned it was violating a law banning the offer or sale of "human organs, people, blood, bones or skin."

The advertisement was no longer visible on the site Saturday.

It was posted by a man who gave his name as Breno and said: "I sell my wife for reasons I prefer to keep short ... I really need the money."

The described his wife physically and listed her qualities as a homemaker and companion. He reportedly said she was 35 and "worth her weight in gold."

The Estado news agency said it wasn't clear if the ad was meant as a joke. It said Mercado Livre told it the ad hadn't been noticed earlier because of the large number of products offered on the site -- nearly 1 million.

There was no answer Saturday at phone numbers for Mercado Livre or its public relations agency.

[Homer]

BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) -- Where is an orange-haired bank robbery suspect most likely to hang out? The salon, of course.

That's where police found Mark Dennis, who was wanted in a Tuesday robbery in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The 24-year-old may have been trying to change his hair color to conceal his identity, said J.J. Kalaver, an agent in the FBI's Philadelphia division.

"Maybe in a big city you can get away with walking around with orange hair, but in a smaller town you probably stand out," he said.

Dennis was found Thursday at the Boardwalk Mane Styling Salon, Lt. Ron Birt said.

FBI agents are looking into whether Dennis robbed another four banks in the Scranton area in the last month, Kalaver said. He's also charged in Ohio with possession of drugs and a drug instrument, Birt said.

Dennis was likely in Bellefontaine, about 50 miles northwest of Columbus, because he had relatives in the area, Birt said. He was being held without bond Friday night in the Logan County jail, according to the sheriff's office.

[pogo_gamer]

Oh Hell, at least He thought She was worth something, Some husbands would be glad to just get rid of thier wifes by giving them away  :)) :)) :))

[HypnotizedMind]

uhh thats a pretty crazy story!!!! (O+O)

[Homer]

Airline Tells Woman Her Outfit Won't FlyThe Associated Press

SAN DIEGO - A 23-year-old woman who boarded a Southwest Airlines plane in a short skirt for a flight to Arizona says she was led off the plane for wearing an outfit that was considered too skimpy.

Kyla Ebbert said a Southwest employee asked her to leave her seat while the plane was preparing to leave San Diego's Lindbergh Field on July 3.

Ebbert, a student who was headed to Tucson for a doctor's appointment, said Friday on NBC's "Today" show that the employee told her she would have to catch a later flight.

"You're dressed inappropriately. This is a family airline. You're too provocative to fly on this plane," she quoted the employee as saying.

"I said, 'What part is it? The shirt? The skirt? Which part?' And he said the whole thing."

Ebbert was eventually allowed back on the plane after offering to adjust her sweater but said she was humiliated and embarrassed.

"I felt like everybody was staring at me. They had all heard him lecturing me," she told "Today" show host Matt Lauer. She appeared on the show in the same short white skirt, white shirt and green sweater that she said she wore on the flight.

Chris Mainz, a spokesman for the Dallas-based airline, said a customer service supervisor asked Ebbert to leave the plane and addressed her in the walkway leading back to the terminal, "away from the other customers."

The employee felt the outfit "revealed too much" but was placated after Ebbert made adjustments that included covering her stomach, Mainz said.


Calif. Carpenter Can Work in the BuffThe Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. - A carpenter caught hammering nails and sawing wood in the nude has been found by a judge to be not guilty of indecent exposure.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Julie Conger ruled Thursday that although Percy Honniball of Oakland was naked, he was not acting lewdly or seeking sexual gratification.

Honniball, 51, was arrested last year after he was spotted building cabinets in the buff at a home where he had been hired to work.

The carpenter has said he likes to work in the nude because it's more comfortable and it helps him keep his clothes clean.

Honniball earned two years' probation in 2003 after being caught three times working naked in Berkeley, which prohibits public nudity. Oakland does not have a similar ban.

[Homer]

Bank Robber Uses Own Check in RobberyThe Associated Press
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - A man robbing a bank demanded the money by writing a note on one of his own checks, authorities say. Not surprisingly, he was caught soon afterward.

Forest Kelly Bissonnette, 27, apparently tried to cover his name on the check, then handed the note to a teller Sept. 5 at the Bank of the West in Englewood, according to authorities.

"We could still make it out even though he blacked it out," FBI agent Rene VonderHaar said. Nearly $5,000 was taken.

Surveillance video showed a suspect similar to Bissonnette's description, and a tipster said a man named Forest Kelly claimed he got $5,000 in a bank robbery, according to a federal complaint.

Bissonnette remained in federal custody Tuesday after turning himself in Friday. A public defender was to be appointed for Bissonnette, who doesn't have a listed phone number.


Buffet Worker Stomps Garlic With BootsThe Associated Press
NANUET, N.Y. - Stomping on garlic with your shoes on is apparently not the correct way to prepare food. The Rockland County health department hit the Great China Buffet restaurant with two violations after someone took pictures of an employee stomping on a bowl of garlic with his boots in an alley. The man alerted health inspectors.

"I go back there, and the guy's stepping on garlic," said Dan Barreto, who used to eat at the restaurant. "There he was just jumping up and down on it, smashing it up, having a good time."

The health department does not consider a person's shoe or boot a proper instrument to use in food preparation, senior public health sanitarian John Stoughton said Tuesday.

"It was a novel way to prepare food," he acknowledged.

Great China Buffet owner Jiang Shu said the worker has been fired over the incident.

The health department said it would inspect the restaurant again.


Woman Allegedly Shoots Cheating HusbandThe Associated Press
VANCOUVER, Wash. - A woman is accused of shooting her husband four times with a 16-gauge double-barreled shotgun after learning of an affair.

Eddie Martin, 51, survived the attack, but may have to have a limb amputated. Sheryl Martin, also 51, had to reload after the first two shots.

Martin made her first appearance on Monday in Clark County Superior Court. Martin was released on bail and will live with her parents. She will be formally charged September 21st.

Eddie Martin told his wife he was having an affair and wanted a divorce.

They argued and Eddie went to sleep in a camper. Sheryl found a shotgun, loaded it and allegedly shot him while he was in bed.

Sheryl Martin called 911 and told a dispatcher what she had done and was arrested on Saturday.

The pair have been married for 30 years.


Officer Bitten by Boa in Woman's CarThe Associated Press
DELAND, Fla. - A animal control officer was recovering on Tuesday after being bitten by a boa constrictor he was removing from a woman's car on Friday.

Gary Thomas was bitten twice by the 5-foot boa, on the back of the hand and on the finger. The snake bit Thomas after another officer dropped it.

Police and animal control believe the snake had either been released or escaped from its owner. It coiled itself around coil springs in the wheel well of the woman's car when it had to be removed.

Anybody who says they got bit by a snake and it didn't hurt is a liar," Thomas said.