An Ohio mother has been accused of teaching her 2-year-old daughter to smoke marijuana after prosecutors said she e-mailed to friends a video of the child puffing on a joint. Jessica Gamble is charged with child endangerment, evidence tampering and “corrupting another with drugs,” according to an indictment returned by a grand jury in Cincinnati. [...]
September 7, 2010
The British Royal Mail on Friday issued what it called the world’s first “intelligent stamps”, designed to interact with smartphones using image-recognition technology. The Royal Mail’s latest special-issue stamps, devoted to historic British railways, are designed to launch specially developed online content when a user snaps them using an image-recognition application available on iPhone or Android [...]
August 2, 2010
A New Jersey man was jailed for up to three months on Friday for making himself vomit on a fellow spectator at a baseball game, the Philadelphia district attorney’s office said. Matthew Clemmens, 21, was sent to prison for at least 30 days, given two years probation, and ordered to serve 50 hours of community [...]
June 16, 2010
Over the past year, the Ada County Library in Boise, Idaho, has been hit with more than 10 incidents of strange but serious vandalism. And each time, the vandalism has involved CONDIMENTS. One time it was a book that was filled with ketchup, and another time, a bunch of kids’ books were drenched in corn syrup. And [...]
May 30, 2010
ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Police in Virginia say a man who robbed a bank in Fairfax County was still standing around in the parking lot with his loot when officers arrived. The Washington Post reported that twenty-nine-year-old Makele G. Habtom was arrested and charged with robbery on Thursday. Habtom allegedly walked into a BB&T bank branch [...]
May 11, 2010
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has said a restaurant or two in New York City is serving a dish called san-nakji (live octopus). The story was first reported by the New York Daily according to UPI. PETA has been picketing the restaurants and issued letters to legal authorities about the alleged practice. Some say that [...]
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