Thread: Wild head lines and unbeliveable stories

Video KILLED THE RADIO STAR
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/busin ... ref=slogin

Is Radio Still Radio if There’s Video?


By RICHARD SIKLOS
Radio stations are putting up more video fare on their Web sites as the medium emerges as an unlikely savior for an industry facing an array of challenges

HEAR KITTY KITTY

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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to cat owners concerning Wild Kitty Cat Food.
Consumers were told they should not buy or use 3.5 ounce and 1 pound containers of the brand's "Raw All Natural, Frozen Cat Food - Chicken with Clam Recipe."
The FDA said cats and other pets that eat the food could become infected with salmonella, which was found in a raw sample. It said people are at risk of infection if they handle the cat food, touch pets that ate the food or come into contact with any surface the food has touched.
The agency is not aware of any reports of illnesses.
The company's president said the FDA warning affects less than 1,000 pounds of cat food, which consumers could have purchased since July 2006.
Retail stores, distributors and Internet retailers nationwide sold the product

Who says cats and dogs don't get along?


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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:05 PM EST
The Associated Press
By STEPHEN SINGER

MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — Who says cats and dogs don't get along? Workers at the Meriden Humane Society are marveling at a short-haired mother cat who has willingly adopted a six-day-old Rottweiler puppy that was rejected by its mother.

The tiny pup, named Charlie by Humane Society volunteers, nurses alongside a jumble of black and gray kittens recently born to Satin, who was surrendered to the shelter by an owner unable to care for her.

Charlie's mother was found by the side of the road in Meriden a couple of months ago. She gave birth to two puppies, but one was stillborn. As sometimes happens with a stillborn in the litter, the mother dog refused to accept Charlie.

Volunteers bottle-fed him every two hours, but the effort was both exhausting to humans and insufficient for the puppy, who needs to feed when he wants, said volunteer Chris Chorney.

Research indicated that a suitable substitute could be Satin, who had given birth to four kittens that have quickly warmed to Charlie.

"The kittens scrum up with him and the kittens treat him like one of their own," Chorney said. "There's a certain social benefit of small animals being with each other."

The cat-and-dog relationship is not all that unusual in certain circumstances, said Deirdre Chiaramonte, a veterinarian at the Animal Medical Center, a specialty teaching hospital in New York.

"In those types of situations, it's common," she said.

The cozy arrangement between Charlie, Satin and the kittens will likely changes as the pup grows. Full-grown male Rottweilers commonly weigh 100 pounds.

Volunteers are hoping that dog owners will volunteer their puppies to be Charlie's playmates.

"Dogs need to be with a litter of puppies, to learn to play with other dogs," Chorney said. "He has to learn to be a well-socialized dog."

Teen Suffers Three Weeks Of Hiccups
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You might get the hiccups from a good belly laugh. But what's happening to Jennifer Mee is no laughing matter.

The 15-year-old Floridian can't stop hiccuping.
For more than three weeks, Jennifer has hiccuped close to 50 times a minute when she's awake. And she's got the doctors stumped.
Blood tests, a CAT scan and an MRI haven't helped. Neither has holding her breath, breathing into a paper bag or drinking out of the wrong side of a glass.

And, yes, people have tried to scare the heck out of her.
Jennifer's mom, Rachel Robidoux, recently turned to the St. Petersburg Times for help. She's hoping a member of the public might have a solution to her daughter's case of the chronic hiccups.

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North Dakota Couple Ties Knot At McDonald's
Bismarck, ND -- After meeting there for lunch every Tuesday for more than a year, a couple in North Dakota decided to tie the knot at McDonald's. Newlyweds Lori and Craig Sager got married in a small ceremony at Bismarck's restaurant on Valentine's Day, Wednesday.
According to AP reports, Craig Sager said he suggested the idea to his bride only as a joke while planning their wedding but was surprised when she not only liked the idea but also approved it.
Lori said that since everyone gets married in a church, they decided to do something different and McDonalds seemed to be the perfect place

3 students arrested in snowy prank
Friday, February 16, 2007
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php? ... &clk=81767
WOOSTER, Ohio (AP) — Police arrested three College of Wooster students participating in a campus tradition of packing snow into a two-story archway in hopes of getting a snow day.
About 350 of the more than 1,800 students who attend the northeastern Ohio school gathered outside the castlelike Kauke Hall on Tuesday night to stuff snow into the passageway, which leads into the college green.
Campus security tried but failed to get the students to disperse and called in police, leading to a "chanting mob or cheering crowd, depending on your point of view," Dean of Students Kurt Holmes said.
One of the 10 officers called to the scene was pelted with a snowball, police Chief Steve Thornton said.
"There were some flying beer cans, but I can’t say I saw anyone drinking," he said.
Students backed off when an officer showed his stun gun, which was never used, Thornton said.
One of the arrested students was charged with failure to disperse, another with misconduct in an emergency and the third with failure to disperse and resisting arrest. All were released on bail.
Thornton said the crowd was under control within an hour, when Holmes arrived and got the students to agree not to block the doors to Kauke Hall, which just underwent an $18 million renovation. The 105-year-old building is home to academic departments, classrooms and faculty offices.
"It wasn’t our institutional policy to stop them," Holmes said. "There was some miscommunication down the chain of command. If we had the chance to do things differently, we would."
The students were allowed to proceed with the prank, passing snow-filled pails and garbage cans down a line to the archway.
Generations of Wooster students have stuffed snow into the archway after the winter’s first big snowstorm, believing it will prompt school administrators to cancel classes the next day.
"While classes have never been canceled as a result, it is an event that unites the student body in a powerful way," according to the college’s Web site.
The school canceled classes Wednesday because of the bad weather, not the prank, Holmes said.
Wooster is about 95 miles northeast of Columbus.

political correctness or not so political correctness

Due to the climate of political correctness now pervading America,
Kentuckians,
Tennesseans and West Virginians will no longer be referred to as
"HILLBILLIES."

You must now refer to them as APPALACHIAN-AMERICANS.
And furthermore:

HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:
1 She is not a "BABE" or a "CHICK" - She is a "BREASTED AMERICAN."

2. She is not "EASY" - She is "HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE."

3. She is not a "DUMB BLONDE" - She is a "LIGHT-HAIRED DETOUR OFF THE
INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY."

4. She has not "BEEN AROUND" - She is a "PREVIOUSLY-ENJOYED
COMPANION."
5 . She does not "NAG" you - She becomes "VERBALLY REPETITIVE."

6. She is not a "TWO-BIT HOOKER" - She is a "LOW COST PROVIDER."

HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT MEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:

1. He does not have a "BEER GUT" - He has developed a "LIQUID GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY."

2. He is not a "BAD DANCER" - He is "OVERLY CAUCASIAN."

3. He does not "GET LOST ALL THE TIME" - He "INVESTIGATES ALTERNATIVE
DESTINATIONS."

4. He is not "BALDING" - He is in "FOLLICLE REGRESSION." 5. He does not act like a "TOTAL a.hole BEEEP - He develops a case of RECTAL-CRANIAL INVERSION."

6. It's not his "CRACK" you see hanging out of his pants - It's "REAR
CLEAVAGE.
Live much, laugh often, and love always!! sorry this came in a bunch of stuff i cant afix a link to it as it would be a mater of personaly security I hope no one has already posted this some where else in alipac if
they have remove this story

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Lawmaker Tries To Ban Naked Lady Mudflaps

PHOENIX -- It's still going to be legal in Arizona for trucks to have splash guards with racist terms and silhouettes of naked women.

The state House on Thursday rejected a Democratic amendment that would have banned splash guards with images that are "obscene or hateful."

Tempe Democrat Ed Ableser sponsored the amendment. He said he'd seen a splash guard that used a derogatory term for black children and said he wanted to make sure that people with hateful motives didn't inflict them on others.


Democratic Rep. Theresa Ulmer of Yuma supported the amendment and said it fit with lawmakers' other efforts to crack down on pornography and sexual predators.

"I personally am tired of explaining to my 11-year-old son why they (women) are depicted on mudflaps , but not all women are 36Ds. He's very confused by that," Ulmer said. "But seriously, this is about family values -- what are we going to send out as a message to our children."

Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Gilbert opposed the amendment. He said it probably violated First Amendment protections for free speech and that "hateful" isn't defined by law.

Ableser's amendment, rejected on a 31-19 roll call vote, would have been added to a bill (HB2316) sought by the Arizona Trucking Association to change Arizona's height requirement for rear fender splash guards. The bill was given preliminary approval and now awaits a formal House vote

Weevils woovel but the dont go down should have been the title to this little diddy


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Some Texas Inmates Get 'Weevil' Noodles
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:07 PM EST
The Associated Press


EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Some inmates at the El Paso County Jail annex were served noodles infested with weevils, sheriff's officials said. Sheriff's Deputy Jimmy Apodaca said the food was removed as soon as they learned of the problems.

"We have prepared new meals and are taking extra steps to safeguard that this type of incident doesn't take place again," he said in a news release.

There were no immediate reports of anyone becoming ill from the bad food. Health officials are investigating the case.

Deputy Jesus Tovar said it appeared the weevils were in boxes of noodles shipped to the facility for use at the annex and the downtown El Paso jail.

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1949: Grady the Cow gets stuck in silo A 1,200-pound cow, named Grady, became stuck in a storage silo today on an Oklahoma farm. When the cow's owner asked the local newspaper for help, the story received national media attention, generating suggestions from all over the United States and even Canada on how Grady could fit back through the silo door, which measured only 17 by 25½ inches.

On February 26, 1949, the Mansfield News Journal reported that the cow had finally been freed. "Knock-out drops, cut grease and a strong push-and-pull freed Grady the cow from her silo prison today. It was a triumph for the Denver Post, which invaded Oklahoma to rescue this bovine damsel in distress. She left the silo with great squirming and clatter of hoofs with Ralph Patridge, farm editor of the Post, pushing her from behind with the help of three others," read the article.

The cow's owner received hundreds of suggestions on how to free Grady. The Lima News called it an "international free-for-all." On February 26, 1949, the paper wrote, "The great nation that liberated France and freed the Philippines bent its mighty energy to freedom's latest task today. Getting Grady the cow out of her silo."