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A Texas prison inmate, Willie Joe McAdams, who was mistakenly released 36 years early, was re-arrested after approaching his victim in a bar, shaking his hand and apologising for shooting him in the head, blinding him in one eye.[/b]
 
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A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to chips. The bird walks into a newsagents in Aberdeen when the door is open and makes off with cheese-flavoured corn chips. The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popular that locals have started paying for the chips.[/b]
 
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OSCAR the cat makes his grand entrances just as life is about to leave.

A hop onto the bed, a fastidious lick of the paws, then a snuggle beside a nursing home patient with little time left.

"He's a cat with an uncanny instinct for death," said David Dosa, assistant professor at the Brown University School of Medicine and a geriatric specialist. "He attends deaths. He's pretty insistent on it."

In the two years since Oscar was adopted into the dementia unit of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Providence, he has maintained close vigil over the deaths of more than 25 patients, according to nursing staff, doctors who treat patients there and an essay written by Dr Dosa, published in yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine.When death is near, Oscar nearly always appears at the last hour or so. Yet he shows no special interest in patients who are simply in poor shape or even patients who may be dying but who still have a few days.

Authorities in animal behaviour have no explanation for Oscar's ability to sense imminent death. They theorise that he might detect some subtle change in metabolism — felines are as acutely sensitive to smells as dogs — but are stumped as to why he would show interest.

"It may just come down to empathy," said Dr Nicholas Dodman, a leading behaviorist and professor at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, when told about Oscar's eerie knack.

When Oscar settles on a patient's bed, caregivers take it as a sign that family members should be summoned immediately to bid their loved one farewell.

"We've come to recognise him hopping on the bed as one indicator the end is very near," said Mary Miranda, charge nurse in the Safe Haven Advanced Care Unit, the formal name of the surprisingly cheery floor that is home to 41 patients suffering the final stages of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke and other mentally debilitating diseases. "Oscar's been consistently right."

Said Dr Dosa, who treats patients at Steere: "This is a cat that knows death. His instincts that a patient is about to die are often more acute than the instincts of medical professionals."

"Caregivers are always there trying to make the patient comfortable until the very end," said Brenda Toll, a registered nurse and unit manager. "But Oscar's a component of dying … It's kind of weird, but kind of lovely. He's become part of the death ritual, along with lowered lights, aromatherapy and gentle music."

Keeping pets has been a trend in nursing home care for several years. The Steere Centre, founded in 1874, has 120 residents, six cats, a slew of parakeets and a floppy-eared rabbit.

Oscar's sole domain is the locked dementia ward. He came as a kitten, brought by a staff member to replace the floor's previous resident feline.

Occasionally, families are spooked by a cat keeping death watch. But others are deeply appreciative of Oscar.[/b]

.... And i thought it was black cats that were unlucky...
 
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3 convicted of soliciting sex must wear chicken suit

PAINESVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A judge known for giving unusual sentences has ordered three men who pleaded guilty to soliciting sex to take turns dressing in a bright yellow chicken costume.

Painesville Municipal Judge Michael Cicconetti agreed to suspend a 30-day jail sentence if they wear the costume between 4 and 7 p.m. Friday outside the court while carrying a sign that reads "No Chicken Ranch in Painesville."

The sign and costume refer to the "World Famous Chicken Ranch," a prostitution house in Nevada where sex-for-money is legal.

Daniel Chapdelaine, 40, of Perry Township; Martin Soto, 44, of Ashtabula; and Fabian Rodriguez-Ramirez, 29, of Painesville, solicited sex from an undercover Painesville police officer earlier this summer.

Cicconetti has used barnyard animals to dispense justice in the past.

He ordered a man who called a policeman a pig to stand next to a live pig in a pen and hold a sign that read "This Is Not a Police Officer." A couple who stole a baby Jesus statue from a manger were sentenced to dress as Mary and Joseph and walk with a donkey.[/b]

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A Canadian artist has come up with a new way to memorialise the dead, with portraits drawn from pencils made from their ashes. Lucas Seaward will sell the concept to funeral homes and has applied to patent the pencil-making process.[/b]
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WHO'S CALLING, PLEASE? Doctors at the Policlinico Juan D. Peron, the main
hospital in Villa Mercedes in San Luis province, Argentina, had a
patient on the operating table when the power went out. "The generator,
which should have been working correctly, didn't work," a hospital
spokesman said, so "a family member got some cell phones together from
people in the hallway and took them in to provide light." The surgeons
were able to finish the emergency appendectomy thanks to the cell
phones' backlit screens. (Reuters) ...Can you see me now?[/b]

Taken from thisistrue.com

Thank god for cell phones huh!
 
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The "Butt Cam" is a success. A new service at a clothing
store in Scottsdale, Ariz., the Butt Cam allows shoppers trying on
clothes to see what they look like from behind. "A lot of people dread
trying on jeans and so any more entertaining you can make it the
better," explains shop owner Tom Simon. "We're even thinking of doing a
'best of' and putting it on DVD," he said. "'Best Butts of '08' or
whatever, yeah." (Arizona Republic) ...Yep: if there was one way to
kill this idea, it would be to make customers fear they were being
recorded.[/b]

Does my butt look big in this??
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An Italian couple paid $16,000 for a private helicopter to take their black cat, Fufi, from Rome to Sardinia because it was afraid of planes and boats. Owner Donna DiMichele said: "Fufi means a lot to us, and so investing so much money in one trip was worth it."[/b]

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A man got a life-size tattoo of his partner's face on his back - only to be dumped for a younger man. The Wales steelworker spent $2000 and 20 hours under the needle, but was left reeling when he found the mother of his two children was having an affair with a workmate.[/b]
 
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