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Title: News Thread
Post by: Wast on June 07, 2011, 05:02:24 PM: Post or discuss important news and current events here!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/07/us-mullet-bandit-idUSTRE7563RP20110607 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/07/us-mullet-bandit-idUSTRE7563RP20110607)
Title: Re: News Thread
Post by: Myroria on June 07, 2011, 05:32:27 PM: "As soon as employees saw the man enter the bank, they knew immediately that it was the 'Mullet Man,'" Harry Trombitas, a special agent with the FBI, told Reuters. "But by then it was too late."
Title: Re: News Thread
Post by: Gulliver on June 07, 2011, 07:53:27 PM: This case is just another reason for banning mullets.
Title: Re: News Thread
Post by: Of Crazed on June 09, 2011, 12:48:05 AM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZeDc8fubAA
Title: Re: News Thread
Post by: Wast on June 09, 2011, 05:27:54 AM: A cylinder made of cylinders on mars OH NO

http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/05/23/candy-land-movie/ (http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/05/23/candy-land-movie/)
Title: Re: News Thread
Post by: Gulliver on June 09, 2011, 05:38:00 AM: LOTR set in Candyland.
Title: Re: News Thread
Post by: Corgi on June 09, 2011, 09:48:33 AM: *****NEWS FLASH******

Sharon Newling, 58, was arrested in Salisbury, N.C., in April and charged with shooting at her stepson with a .22-caliber rifle. She denied shooting "at" him, but said she was just shooting toward him "to make him stop working on his truck." [Salisbury Post, 4-19-2011]

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Title: Re: News Thread
Post by: Gulliver on June 09, 2011, 06:40:57 PM: I don't know where that is, why should it concern me?
Title: Re: News Thread
Post by: Corgi on June 09, 2011, 06:52:23 PM: Because you don't know where it is. Maybe it is right behind you.

DUCK!
Title: Re: News Thread
Post by: Gulliver on June 09, 2011, 09:04:43 PM: What is this "it" of which you speak?
Title: Re: News Thread
Post by: Corgi on June 10, 2011, 01:36:23 PM: There's a man with a gun over there, Telling me I got to beware. I think it's time we stop ...

*****NEWS FLASH*****

Boat named Titanic II sinks on maiden voyage

If you name your boat Titanic II, you’re asking for it.

Nevertheless, when Mark Wilkinson of Birmingham, England headed into a Dorset harbor on his 16-foot cabin cruiser, that was the name plastered on its side.

The boat sank. Go figure.

“It’s all a bit embarrassing and I got pretty fed up with people asking me if I had hit an iceberg,” Wilkinson said.

He was headed back from a fishing trip when the newly-purchased boat went down, according to a story on Yahoo News. He clung to nearby pilings until rescued.

The harbormaster who rescued Wilkinson said the breach in the Titanic II’s fiberglass hull might have happened because a repair job deteriorated, according to the Christian Science Monitor.

This might be why airlines retire the flight numbers associated with crashed planes — or why there aren’t too many airships called Hindenburg these days.

(Visit seattlepi.com’s home page for more Seattle news. Contact Amy Rolph at amyrolph@seattlepi.com or on Twitter as @amyrolph and @bigblog. )

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