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(AU News) - An innovative scheme to keep the streets of northern Taiwan clean has seen thousands of citizens dutifully collecting bags of dog poop in the hope of winning $2000 in gold.
More than 4000 residents of New Taipei City, which surrounds the capital, have signed up for the competition since it was launched in early August, and have so far collected 14,000 bags of the stuff.
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(The Smoking Gun) - Police are continuing to recover hypodermic needles that have been hidden inside garments at a Walmart in Georgia.
Yesterday morning, Bartow County Sheriff’s Office deputies again arrived at the store in Cartersville, this time in response to a shopper discovering a syringe inside a pocket in a pair of men’s pajamas.
The woman who found the needle was not stuck, according to a sheriff’s report.
While at the store, cops and Walmart officials met to “devise a plan to locate other syringes.” After settling on using “metal detector wands” to search for syringes, investigators realized that this approach was not working due to “the small amount of metal in or on them.”
Plan B, however, was more successful. While lightly tapping or touching garments, a Walmart worker discovered a syringe inside the pocket of a “pair of men’s lounging pants.” The exposed needle was facing outward.
According to another December 5 report, a woman purchased a pair of grey dress pants “on the weekend of Black Friday.” As she was putting the pants on yesterday morning, she found a syringe in a pocket. The woman, Deborah Warren, was not stuck when she removed the needle.
Deputies noted that Walmart management is “continuing to check” the store’s apparel sections for hidden needles. Investigators have classified the syringe spree as “reckless conduct.”
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(Daily Mail) - Christmas trees are meant to conceal surprises – but one family were definitely not expecting what they found in theirs.
The Baine family from Zebulon, North Carolina discovered a snake lurking among the baubles in their festive fir.
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(Huffington Post) - Is that a romantic dinner in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
Police in Florida could only wonder when they arrived at a supermarket where a 31-year-old man allegedly attempted to shoplift four steaks and a pair of candles by hiding the items in his trousers, according to the Naples Daily News.
Officials arrested Naples resident Dannial Ashley last week after grocery store employees spotted him stuffing the meat and candles — unlit, of course — into his pants. When one store worker confronted Ashley, the would-be thief ditched his stolen goods and attempted to escape on foot, WDBO reports.
The incident took place just two weeks after authorities released Ashley on bond following an incident involving aggravated assault, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.
Despite the escape attempt, an employee reportedly chased down Ashley and convinced him to walk back to the store.
Authorities promptly arrested Ashley and returned the steak and candles to the store.
Ashley is charged with retail theft under $100.
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(WTSP) - The holiday season is supposed to be a time of joy. But in Stafford County, one family is suffering through tears, anger and pain. They’ve been hammered by a barrage emails from their dead mother’s account.
They cannot make it stop. Every other day another email from the hacker hit’s them. “Male enhancement!” “Work at home!” “Cheap Viagra!” — all from their dead mother’s account — and each a reminder of the pain of losing her.
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(Daily Mail) - A driver stranded in snow for three days at temperatures of minus 17 has survived by eating frozen beer.
Clifton Vial, 52, became stranded in his Toyota Tacoma 40 miles outside Nome, Alaska after plunging in a snow drift.
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(Daily Mail) - A man earns up to $55,000 a year in cash by selling candy on the New York subway.
Alex ‘Tracks’ McFarland, from New York City, plies his trade on the city’s subway system and usually takes home around $150 a day.
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(Associated Press) - A black college student who caused outrage by displaying a Confederate flag in his dorm room window said he sees the banner as a symbol of Southern pride and not racism.
The 19-year-old student at the University of South Carolina Beaufort took the flag down at the university’s request, but he said he’s considering putting it back up after the officials relented.
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(Daily Mail By LUCY BUCKLAND) - When fire crews say they have seen it all, they really mean it.
From freeing a man’s genitals from a titanium chastity belt to rescuing a woman wedged in a vending machine, firefighters in the capital have had some truly bizarre call-outs.
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(Daily Mail) - This is the moment a young fisherman cheated death after a 600lb black marlin leapt out the water and speared him in the mouth with its sharp spear-like bill.
Stephen Schultz had been fishing off the coast of Pinas Bay, Panama, with his sister and father and was trying to reel in the monster catch when he was horrifically wounded.
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