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I'm not so crazy about Hayes so this was just weird for me.

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Originally posted by Supreme Ruler ArkanGL:
Revenge of the nerds... for real!

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LA couple gets prison for robbing 5-year-old girl
Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:53 AM GMT


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles man and woman were each sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday for stealing a gold chain from around the neck of a 5-year-old girl in January.

Julio Cesar Beltran, 18, and Patricia Serrano, 31, each pleaded no contest to one count of second-degree robbery and were given two year sentences by a Los Angeles judge, prosecutor June Chung said.

A videotape captured Beltran leaping from a car being driven by Serrano and grabbing two chains on the girl's neck as she stood in front of a meat market, Chung said.

Serrano ripped one of the chains off the girl, giving her an 8-inch (20-cm) cut, she said, and the couple admitted to police that they later pawned the necklace for drug money.

"It's very shocking to have a 5-year-old robbery victim," Chung said, adding that when the robbery was first reported "people were calling in from around the country offering to buy her a new necklace."

Chung said the girl still has a slight scar on the back of her neck but was otherwise doing well.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Humphrey, a stray cat who wandered in to the official residence of the prime minister in 1989 and caused a scandal when he "retired" in 1997, has died, a spokesman for Tony Blair said on Monday.

The black and white one-time "mouser in chief" was perhaps the most famous pet in a country of animal worshippers.

"World of politics mourns a legend," headlined the Sun.

"It is true. We learnt last week that Humphrey has died," a spokesman confirmed. Humphrey was thought to be 18.

He had wandered into No. 10 Downing Street under Margaret Thatcher and remained throughout the tenure of John Major. But he was sent away to live with a civil servant in "retirement" months after Tony Blair was elected in 1997.

At the time, Conservative opponents accused Blair of having Humphrey put down because the new prime minister's wife Cherie didn't like the cat. Questions were raised. Fur flew.

"Humphrey is now a missing person. Unless I hear from him or he makes a public appearance, I suspect he has been shot," opposition Conservative politician Alan Clark declared at the time.

The government finally arranged for press photos to prove Humphrey was still alive, saying he had gone to live with a civil servant to be treated for illness.

He was photographed, hostage-like, with copies of the day's newspapers to show the pictures were fresh. Blair's office issued a statement saying Cherie was sad to see him go.

It was not the only time Humphrey had been embroiled in scandal. In 1994 the government had to issue an official denial after the cat was accused of killing a family of robins.

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"On his days off, Koizumi likes walking around the garden of the New Prime Minister's Official Residence, which is located beside the old residence. He sings opera songs at the top of his voice while on these strolls. But, apparently, he also romps around wearing only his undies," a source from Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party tells Asahi Geino. "The prime minister is under enormous stress and I guess that's the way he relieves it."

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Originally posted by charmakarmacat:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20060322/ca_pr_on_od/us_cold_war_stockpile

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The estimated 352,000 Civil Defense All-Purpose Survival Crackers are apparently still intact, said Joseph Vaccaro, a supervisor at the New York City Transportation Department. The metal water drums, each labelled "reuse as a commode," did not fare as well - they are now empty.

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Police believe the crocodile was taken in the early hours of Saturday morning but Mr Kemp remembers seeing it on Sunday morning.

He thinks it must have been taken on Monday morning when another drama occurred at the zoo.

"One of the wombats got bitten by a snake. No one can officially remember seeing [the female] crocodile on Monday."

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"Jeez, Wil, didn't we used to have some elephants around here?"
"Yeah Bruce, I think I saw them a couple of weeks ago in the Army Ant enclosure"