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http://www.thechronicle.com.au/localnews/s...condsubsection= Drug user gets cool reception 05.01.2008 By Peter Hardwick HAVING ice pipes at home prompted a cool reception from police for Toowoomba man Tommy Scott McLachlan. A police search of the 22-year-old's Newtown residence at 7.30am, December 14, turned up a number of drug-related utensils including "ice pipes" and filters, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard. "Ice" is the street name for crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride, a powerful, highly addictive synthetic stimulant drug. Police prosecutor Sergeant Greg Lewis told the court police initially found in McLachlan's bedroom about three grams of cannab…
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A ROOKIE Top Gun was badly burned when he was set on fire while dressed as a SHEEP in the Officers’ Mess. Shocked fancy dress revellers pummelled out the flames after a guest ignited the RAF pilot’s costume with a cigarette lighter. Pride ... wings on uniform Pride ... wings on uniform The trainee, 26, collapsed in agony and was given first aid before being whisked to hospital with 14 per cent burns to his body. Cops were called to RAF Linton-on-Ouse, near York, and a 23-year-old man – who is NOT in the RAF – was arrested. He is on police bail pending further inquiries. The pilot donned the costume following a Wings graduation ceremony and a posh formal dinn…
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AN RAF ground crew man has become a video star — break-dancing as he directs £25million Tornado jets. Dean Tabreham, 28, was filmed larking around as he guided Top Gun pilots and their 1,000mph GR4 bombers taxiing on the tarmac during a Nato training exercise. The five-minute video has zoomed around the Ministry of Defence on email, causing some computers to crash because it takes up a huge slice of memory. In one sequence, Senior Aircraftman Dean dons gigantic false hands — like those worn by madcap comic Kenny Everett — to marshal the jets. In another, he does a break-dancing routine as one of the Tornado’s red-hot turbo jet engines passes just inches over his he…
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A WOMAN had to be cut free after her hand froze to a railway track when she fell on to the line. Irina Ivanova, 62, grabbed the rail after slipping over in temperatures of -30°C. Her hand stuck to it and a passer-by found her an hour later. Rescuers used welding torches to cut the track. She was taken to hospital where doctors removed the metal and treated her for hypothermia in Tyumen, Siberia. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article649272.ece
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/01/03/skysc...ref=mpstoryview NEW YORK (AP) -- Doctors say they have never seen anything like it: A window washer who fell 47 stories from the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper is now awake, talking to his family and expected to walk again. Alcides Moreno, 37, plummeted almost 500 feet in a December 7 scaffolding collapse that killed his brother. Somehow, Moreno lived, and doctors at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center announced Thursday that his recovery has been astonishing. He has movement in all his limbs. He is breathing on his own. And on Christmas Day, he opened his mouth and spoke for the first time sinc…
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From the ABC again. A car owner in the South African capital Johannesburg was driven to desperation when she found a family of Cape Hyrax, small animals that resemble guinea pigs, living in the engine of her vehicle. Hoping to shake off the short-eared, short-tailed creatures known locally as dassies, she drove at high speed to a dealership on the other side of town. She then dumped the vehicle there without giving an explanation. Astonished staff at the dealership phoned Johannesburg Zoo and asked them to come and rescue the animals, as the car had been abandoned in their washbay and was interfering with their work. "The guys called us and said that there was mov…
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Exploding dogs pose no threat to estate houses Posted Fri Jan 4, 2008 8:18am AEDT The Northern Territory Government is confident it will not have any problems building a housing estate across the road from a crematorium in Darwin where a dead dog exploded on Wednesday night. Police were called to the crematorium because of a strong red glow coming from the chimney. Staff told the officers that the dog exploded because it had not been defrosted properly. A nearby resident says it does happen occasionally. Territory Planning Minister Delia Lawrie says the new houses will not be right next to the pet crematorium. "Planning is underway, in terms of the actual pl…
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ABC NEWS Posted Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:09am AEDT Reading in dim light will not hurt your eyes, you do not need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs will not make the hair grow back faster. These well-worn theories are among seven "medical myths" exposed in a paper published in the British Medical Journal, which traditionally carries light-hearted features in its Christmas edition. Two US researchers took seven common beliefs and searched the archives for evidence to support them. Despite frequent mentions in the popular press of the need to drink eight glasses of water, they found no scientific basis for the claim. They say the complet…
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Exploding dog causes crematorium blaze ABC NEWS Thu Jan 3, 2008 7:36am An exploding dog has been blamed for an overheating chimney which sparked an alert at a Darwin pet crematorium last night. Emergency services were called to the crematorium after a passing motorist reported the premises were on fire. Three fire trucks and a police car investigated a reported 'red glow' coming from the chimney flue. Authorities confirmed flames were coming out of the flue and called the proprietor. He revealed that a frozen dead dog in the furnace was the cause of the overheating chimney, as frozen dogs sometimes explode when cremated. an exciting way to start a new …
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Opinion; IT SOUNDS entirely defensible, at first. The federal Government plans to protect unwary children by blocking violence and pornography on the internet. Author:Galen English Date: January 02, 2008 Source: Australian IT News .com.au ; http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/...0-15306,00.html Copyright: Copyright 2007 News Limited. Sure im all for stopping child explotation but if these measures are accepted it may be taken that other web sites that condone illegal behaviour should also be blocked ... personelly i hate any form of censorship
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/071218/2/15axu.html Police are baffled over how a man allegedly acquired $3 million worth of pseudoephedrine tablets seized from a Melbourne home early Tuesday. Drug taskforce detectives found more than five million pharmaceutical-grade tablets in a raid at 2.30am (AEDT) on a family home at Epping in Melbourne's northern suburbs. Police said they also seized 250kg of white powder, 300 vials of steroids, numerous bottles of methadone and about 200 litres of various chemicals from the home. Detective Inspector Steve Smith, of the drug taskforce, told reporters the situation was unusual because illicit drug manufacturers normally used "pseudo ru…
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A CLANDESTINE drug laboratory at a southern suburbs house has exploded, forcing the evacuation of nearby residents. The lab blew up just after noon today, destroying the back half of the home at Clearwater Cres, Seaford Rise. About 40 nearby resident have been forced to shelter in a nearby park’s rotunda, while they await clearance from CFS and SES crews. Police have cordoned off the street while they investigate. Witnesses said that just after the blast, a man was seeing packing belongings into a car and driving off. Police are looking for a white Holden Commodore station wagon. One neighbour said he attempted to stop the man by standing behind the car. But the m…
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Dad sells son’s $100 video game for $10,000 16th December 2007, 14:00 WST The West Australian A Canadian man has sold his son's $US90 ($103) video game for $US9100 ($10,420) on eBay, after catching the 15-year-old smoking marijuana at home. The father sold the hard-to-get Guitar Hero III video game he bought his son for Christmas at an online auction, fetching the sky-high price from an Australian buyer. The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for his son's Nintendo Wii. “So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Christmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn’t wait to spread the…
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Kottonmouth Kings, probably the strongest voice in the pro-Marijuana community, they are about nothing BUT Marijuana and legalizing it Anyone going?
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Word of the Week We first heard about jenkem in 1999, when the BBC News reported on the growing fad amongst Zambian street children, which has quickly spread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Nobody cared — until some white, middle class, all-American claimed to have tried it. So what is jenkem? It’s human feces. Poop. Shit. Turds. SEWAGE! A bunch of African children have discovered they can get one helluva buzz by collecting raw sewage in plastic bottles, letting it fester in the sun, and inhaling the fumes. Jenkem (also jekem) is a narcotic recreational drug composed of noxious gas formed from fermented human sewage!!! The effects of Jenkem inhalation last for …
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