In the video, which was posted to YouTube but
has since been removed, a man wearing a Joker-like mask holds a pistol
while making the threats.
Friday, November 20, 2015
Paranoid Woman Gets Four Innocent Muslims Kicked Off Of Flight For Using Smartphone
The reality of flying while Muslim: You can be thrown off of any
plane for nearly any reason if someone says they’re scared of you.Vodka-swilling, spade-swinging flasher exposed genitals and made death threats in the street
A vodka-swilling man who exposed himself to a shocked woman from his
front window, before flashing police as they arrived to arrest him, has
been ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for five years.
Drunken David Helens had earlier been spotted swinging a spade in the
street by the same witness while drinking from a spirit bottle, leading
her to call the police.
When he returned to his flat, she saw the 26-year-old pull down his
trousers and expose his genitals while ranting that he would ‘kill
everyone’.
When police were dispatched to his address in South Shields, Tyne and
Wear,
he flashed officers before making lurid sexual comments in their direction
.
Helens admitted charges of exposure and using threatening, abusive words
or behavior when he appeared before South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court
on Monday.
The court heard that Helens is seeking support to tackle drink problems,
which have fueled his offending.
Glenda Beck, prosecuting, said; “At 11.05pm the witness saw Helens run
out of his address, carrying a spade and waving it about in a
threatening manner.
The defendant appeared drunk.
She was across the road and called police as she feared for his and her
own safety.
She later saw him pull down his trousers and expose himself at his front
window, shouting ‘I’m going to kill everyone.’
“When he saw the police arrive, he pulled his trousers down again and made sexual comments to the police. He was then arrested.” David Hatfield, defending, said Helens only gets into trouble with the law when he has drank to excess. He said: “When drink is in, wit is out – that is the case with David Helens. When he does not drink there is never any problem with him. His offenses have been caused by him having excessive amounts to drink. He can hardly remember the incident. This must’ve terribly unpleasant for those who witnessed the incidents.” Helens was given a 12-month community order last December after making a malicious 999 call to the ambulance service claiming a friend had been shot in the chest.
But he had been playing a violent video shooting game on his PlayStation and admitted the call was total fantasy after police and the ambulance service were sparked into action. He was given a fresh 12-month community order for his latest offense, with a 20-day rehabilitation activity requirement and must complete a six-month alcohol treatment order. He was also fined £100 and must pay a criminal courts charge of £180, prosecution costs of £85 and a £60 victim surcharge, as well as having to sign on as a sexual offender until November 2020. Gareth Cracknell, chairman of the magistrates, said: “This is not a very nice thing to do is it. We understand you are engaging with Turning Point (an alcohol misuse support service) about your alcohol issues. What you have done is very stupid. These kind of offenses must stop. We don’t want to see you here again.”
Archaic Texas Laws Have Led Up To 240,000 Women To Perform Their Own Abortions
The closing of safe, clean clinics across the state has brought the back alley abortion back to Texas.
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Teenage burglar ate food before masturbating into fridge
A homeowner in Laurel, Maryland, was surprised after a teenage burglar
committed a lewd act into their refrigerator after eating from it during
a break-in.
Anne Arundel County Police first began investigating a burglary on Oct.
5., when an electronic tablet was stolen.
After the theft, the victim installed an interior camera system in the
home to capture any other misdeeds.
On Nov. 7, another burglary was reported at the same home that was
captured on the interior camera system that recorded the suspect inside
of the home.
Police say the video showed that the teenage suspect entered the home, ate some of the resident’s food, and then masturbated into the refrigerator. The suspect left after stealing cash from the residence. The suspect was identified as a 15-year-old boy who lives nearby in Laurel. Last week, a search warrant was served at the boy’s residence, where police say evidence recovered includes the clothing the suspect was wearing during the recorded burglary.
Police learned the stolen tablet from the first burglary had been sold to a neighbor, who was cooperative and gave the device to investigators for further analysis. The 15-year-old was arrested and confessed to his involvement in the break-ins police say. He was placed in the Cheltenham Youth Facility pending an upcoming court appearance. He has been charged with two counts of first-degree burglary, two counts of theft of less than $1,000, theft of less than $100 and cause to ingest bodily fluid.
Police say the video showed that the teenage suspect entered the home, ate some of the resident’s food, and then masturbated into the refrigerator. The suspect left after stealing cash from the residence. The suspect was identified as a 15-year-old boy who lives nearby in Laurel. Last week, a search warrant was served at the boy’s residence, where police say evidence recovered includes the clothing the suspect was wearing during the recorded burglary.
Police learned the stolen tablet from the first burglary had been sold to a neighbor, who was cooperative and gave the device to investigators for further analysis. The 15-year-old was arrested and confessed to his involvement in the break-ins police say. He was placed in the Cheltenham Youth Facility pending an upcoming court appearance. He has been charged with two counts of first-degree burglary, two counts of theft of less than $1,000, theft of less than $100 and cause to ingest bodily fluid.
Woman ran over ex-husband's foot after sexual position dispute at storage facility
A 45-year-old Florida woman was arrested on Saturday evening following a
series of events that began with a trip to a storage unit with her
ex-husband (with whom she has recently reunited).
According to police, Wendy Luper and Michael Vaccaro, who were married
for 12 years, drove together to retrieve some of his belongings from
their storage unit in Bradenton.
While parked in the rear of the facility, “Luper got undressed, and
asked Vaccaro if he wanted to have sexual intercourse,” police reported.
“Vaccaro agreed, and told Luper to lay down.”
But Luper, a court filing notes, “did not want to have sexual intercourse in that position and stated no.” It
is unclear where the pair was planning to tryst, or the position that
was rejected by Luper. During a subsequent argument, Luper allegedly
struck Vaccaro in the head with a thrown object.
As Vaccaro sought to remove some of his belongings from the car’s rear
seat, Luper allegedly accelerated the vehicle “with Vaccaro still half
way inside the vehicle.” As Vaccaro “pulled out of the vehicle,” Luper
drove over his right foot.
When officers arrived at the scene, Vaccaro was bleeding from a head
wound and his right foot appeared to be swelling. After being contacted
by police, Luper returned to the vicinity of the storage facility.
“She was unable to explain” Vaccaro’s injuries, noted police, who added that she “stated Vaccaro wanted to have sex with her.” Luper, who works as a housekeeper, was arrested for domestic battery. She was booked into jail on the misdemeanor charge and released from custody after posting $750 bond. Luper was arrested in August for domestic battery after she allegedly punched Vaccaro in the face, neck, and arm after he ignored her request to do laundry. Prosecutors subsequently declined to pursue the misdemeanor charge against Luper.
As Vaccaro sought to remove some of his belongings from the car’s rear
seat, Luper allegedly accelerated the vehicle “with Vaccaro still half
way inside the vehicle.” As Vaccaro “pulled out of the vehicle,” Luper
drove over his right foot.
When officers arrived at the scene, Vaccaro was bleeding from a head
wound and his right foot appeared to be swelling. After being contacted
by police, Luper returned to the vicinity of the storage facility. “She was unable to explain” Vaccaro’s injuries, noted police, who added that she “stated Vaccaro wanted to have sex with her.” Luper, who works as a housekeeper, was arrested for domestic battery. She was booked into jail on the misdemeanor charge and released from custody after posting $750 bond. Luper was arrested in August for domestic battery after she allegedly punched Vaccaro in the face, neck, and arm after he ignored her request to do laundry. Prosecutors subsequently declined to pursue the misdemeanor charge against Luper.
Arkansas judge accused of coercing young men into sex in exchange for lighter sentences
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Skull Carved from a Meteorite
The Los Angeles salesroom of Bonhams, an auction house firm, is offering what it claims is the largest meteorite sculpture in the world. It is Yorick, a sculpture named for the dead jester that Hamlet spoke to in Shakespeare's play.Artist Lee Downey carved it from one of the many meteorites that lay scattered around Gibeon, Namibia. It arrived on Earth about a thousand years ago some four billion years after the metal was formed in space.
I'd love to see a forensic scientist do a facial reconstruction of this skull. Let's see what Yorick looked like when Hamlet knew him.
Ancient Board Game Found in Looted China Tomb
Pieces from a mysterious board game that hasn't been played for 1,500 years were discovered in a 2,300-year-old tomb.
Earth News
Supervolcanoes, such as the one dormant under Yellowstone
National Park, may erupt when cracks form in the roofs of the chambers
holding their molten rock, according to a new study.
‘UFO’ Captured In Photo Of Earth Taken From The ISS
Conspiracy theorists believe that it just might be, after an astronaut on the ISS tweeted this picture - with what appears to be a UFO hanging ominously in the top right hand corner.
The picture was shared by astronaut Scott Kelly - who has spent almost a year in orbit, and now alien conspiracists believe that the photo is an attempt by Kelly ‘to tell the world about the existence of aliens.’
Freaky.
In a YouTube video, conspiracy theorist Sonofmabarker says: ‘You can clearly see a large object with two lights on each end.“
Astronomical News
In the search for Earth-like worlds beyond the solar system,
Kepler-438b seems to have it all. Alas, its angry star is a poor host
for any potential lifeforms.
Shimmering deep inside a cosmic supervoid is MCG+01-02-015, a
pristine galaxy that is the undisputed galactic loner of the universe.
Ripple patterns in the dust around young stars may show off where giant planets are lurking.
Where can you catch a light show in the solar system? Here are some of the locations where we have seen auroras.
Animal News
A survey of over 100 mammal species shows which males have the longest and/or most plentiful sperm.
Species of snake in nine states are vulnerable to an often deadly disease.
A pair of proteins may hold the key to how animals like
pigeons, sharks and bees sense the Earth's magnetic field and use it to
navigate.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
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Today in History
| 1620 | The Pilgrims sight Cape Cod. | |
| 1828 | In Vienna, Composer Franz Schubert dies of syphilis at age 31. | |
| 1861 | Julia Ward Howe writes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while visiting Union troops near Washington. | |
| 1863 | Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address" at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. | |
| 1885 | Bulgarians, led by Stefan Stambolov, repulse a larger Serbian invasion force at Slivinitza. | |
| 1873 | James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation. | |
| 1897 | The Great "City Fire" in London. | |
| 1905 | 100 people drown in the English Channel as the steamer Hilda sinks. | |
| 1911 | New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy. | |
| 1915 | The Allies ask China to join the entente against the Central Powers. | |
| 1923 | The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures. | |
| 1926 | Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1942 | Soviet forces take the offensive at Stalingrad. | |
| 1949 | Prince Ranier III is crowned 30th Monarch of Monaco. | |
| 1952 | Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe. | |
| 1969 | Apollo 12 touches down on the moon. | |
| 1973 | New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years. | |
| 1976 | Patty Hearst is released from prison on $1.5 million bail. | |
| 1981 | U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil. | |
| 1985 | Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, meet for the first time. | |
| 1985 | In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco. | |
| 1990 | Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning Girl You Know Its True album. | |
| 1996 | Canada’s Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril arrives in Africa to lead a multinational force policing Zaire. | |
| 1998 | US House of Representatives begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton. | |
| 2010 | New Zealand suffers its worst mining disaster since 1914 when the first of four explosions occurs at the Pike River Mine; 29 people are killed. |
Ten Turkey Myths Debunked
I'm
thankful my mom taught me how to cook an entire Thanksgiving meal from
scratch, and over the years I've volunteered to "do Thanksgiving" time
and time again simply to gain experience.
And
yet somehow I've been living, and cooking, with certain misconceptions
about the meaty center of the Thanksgiving meal - the turkey.
Come
Thanksgiving everybody trots out their favorite turkey related trivia,
claiming you should rinse the bird before cooking it, and that white
meat is healthier than dark and all that L-tryptophan makes them sleepy.
And
then the budding animal expert begins talking about how turkeys can't
fly, love to gobble and are so stupid they sometimes drown in the rain.
But
this Thanksgiving you'll know better, and you can tell those sitting
around your table that they've been chowing down on a plate full of
LIES!
Floating Pool Cuts Through House
The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Building Palaces Out of Grain
The city wanted to signal that life in the Midwest wasn't as dreary and desperate as it might seem, and, as Pamela H. Simpson writes in Corn Palaces and Butter Queens, the idea for the palace came from a town meeting, at which one enterprising man asked “why, if Saint Paul and Toronto could have ice palaces, Sioux City couldn’t have a corn palace.”Of course, pictures were taken of the various crop palaces, and you can see them as well as read about them at Atlas Obscura.
The palace the city built was such a success that President Grover Cleveland came to visit, and almost immediately, other cities started work on their own agricultural edifices. In 1889, there was a Texas Spring Palace, decorated not just with corn but with oats, cactus, moss and johnson grass. Ottumwa, Iowa, made a Coal Palace, built on a foundation of coal and walled with coal mixed with mortar. By 1890, there was a bluegrass palace, a hay palace, Forest City’s flax palace, and a sugar beet palace in Grand Island, Nebraska, followed in the next years by a grain palace, broom palace, and more and more corn palaces.
Playboy settles model's backside golf-injury lawsuit
A woman and Playboy Enterprises have settled a lawsuit in which the
plaintiff alleged she was hurt when a co-host of The Playboy Morning
Show struck her in the buttocks with a golf club during a photo shoot at
the Playboy Golf Finals in 2012.
An attorney for Elizabeth Dickson told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge
Holly Fujie on Monday that the case was resolved.
No terms were divulged.
Dickson filed her lawsuit in March 2014, alleging battery and
negligence. She sought unspecified damages.
According to the complaint, Dickson, a model, was invited to the Playboy
Golf Finals at the Industry Hills Golf Club in Industry on March 30,
2012, where she was to help Playboy Playmates host the event.
Dickson agreed to have a photo taken of her lying on her stomach “with
her buttocks partially exposed” while Kevin Klein, co-host of Playboy’s
radio show, stood poised to hit a golf ball put on top of a tee that
was inserted between the cheeks of her buttocks, the suit stated.
However, Klein unexpectedly swung the club and “struck plaintiff on the buttocks, causing her injuries and damages,” the suit alleged.
Attorneys for Playboy maintained in their court papers that Dickson
signed releases beforehand agreeing to not hold the company liable for
any legal claims associated with her taking part in the event.
“Dickson was not required to or forced to participate in this contest or
event,” Playboy’s attorneys stated in their court papers.
Dickson will suffer pain, suffering, worrying and anxiety as a result of
her injuries, the suit stated.
Dickson agreed to have a photo taken of her lying on her stomach “with
her buttocks partially exposed” while Kevin Klein, co-host of Playboy’s
radio show, stood poised to hit a golf ball put on top of a tee that
was inserted between the cheeks of her buttocks, the suit stated.
However, Klein unexpectedly swung the club and “struck plaintiff on the buttocks, causing her injuries and damages,” the suit alleged.
Mentally handicapped black worker rescued after 4 years of torture and enslavement by SC restaurant owners
ISIL Killed His Wife And The Mother Of His Son In Paris, And He Has A Message For All Of Us
This man lost almost everything in the attacks on Paris.
He deserves a moment of our attention.
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Ethiopian christian attacked by enraged Uber passenger after being mistaken for a muslim
Thanks to the NRA Over 2000 Suspected Terrorists Were Able to Buy Guns in the U.S.
Christopher Ingraham writing in the Washington Post reported, “Between 2004 and 2014, suspected terrorists attempted to purchase guns from American dealers at least 2,233 times. And in 2,043 of those cases — 91 percent of the time — they succeeded.”
There you go, the NRA arming terrorists. In a rational political discussion about the alleged risks posed by refugees, we would be pretty focused on keeping assault weapons out of the hands of any terrorists who we are told will come in with the refugees. But notice, Republicans don’t address this, even as Christie tells us that he would deny even a 3-year-old orphaned refugee. Demonstrating his failure to understand how we vet incoming refugees.
Yes, we can’t be too careful. Unless of course, it comes to guns. When it comes to guns, we should give them to EVERYONE, no questions asked. To ask a question is to infringe on second amendment rights, which are sacred, unlike your first amendment rights, according to Republicans.
“But people on the FBI’s consolidated terrorist watchlist — typically placed there when there is “reasonable suspicion” that they are a known or suspected terrorist — can freely purchase handguns or assault-style rifles,” the Post explained.
A majority of gun owners agree on these basic background checks. The Post pointed out that even King (R-NY) worked with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to bring forth the “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015”, which would have kept us from legally selling guns to terrorists.
But the NRA was not pleased with this notion of not selling guns to terrorists, after all, a terrorists’ money is as good as anyone’s. Or, as the NRA put it, the bill was taking aim at law-abiding citizens and terrorists will buy guns anyway (just not from gun manufacturers if in fact it were illegal, so yeah, it’s all about the profit). Per the Washington Post again:
“But these bills have rarely made it out of committee, in part due to vehement opposition from the National Rifle Association and its allies in Congress. The NRA objected to earlier versions of the bill, saying they were “aimed primarily at law-abiding American gun owners,” that “prohibiting the possession of firearms doesn’t stop criminals from illegally acquiring them,” and that the bills were “sponsored by gun control extremists.”The NRA will do and say anything to keep even the most reasonable gun law from being enacted. They have in fact accused President Obama of planning to confiscate law-abiding citizens’ guns. In the wake of another mass murder, when the American public is really fed up with the gun laws, the NRA doubles down on the crazy, like this: “What Obama is really proposing, despite some platitudes to the contrary, is the end of private firearm ownership for self-defense…”
In fact, President Obama has been more than reasonable, calling for closing a loophole to keep the most dangerous guns off of the streets and keeping military weapons off of the streets. Huh. That’s almost like coming for private guns but not. Not at all. Sadly, Obama can’t make laws from the Executive Branch, he can only get behind policy or change things for federal contractors or change the implementation of a law (e.g., immigration). Congress makes actual laws.
And Congress is run by Republicans right now, and they aren’t alone in their NRA servitude.
So when Congressional Republicans are talking tough on terror, someone ought to ask them just when they’re going to address the terror they’ve allowed the NRA to inflict on this country.
Making sure terrorists can get guns legally is kind of an incentive to make sure they come here. Why not? We have everything they need and they don’t even have to hide. Thanks, NRA.
Spain Issues Arrest Warrant For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Will Bibi finally be held accountable for his crimes?
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Miami cops have shot six people since Friday — but only recovered a gun in one case
Police officer found guilty of terrorizing dominatrix
A former police officer in New Zealand carried out a four-month
"campaign of hatred" against a dominatrix he had been seeing then helped
her install a security system to try and catch the culprit, a court has
heard.
Jason Karl Harris, 43, appeared in Auckland District Court on Monday
afternoon after admitting to intimidating the woman and unlawfully
accessing the police database to find out more about her.
He was sentenced to three and a half months home detention, 100 hours of
community work and ordered to pay the woman $3,000 - what she had paid
for the home-security system.
Harris also had to stand in the dock while the victim revealed he was a
"cross-dressing, gay prostitute".
The victim, who read her victim-impact statement in court, said the
former Pukekohe police officer clearly took great pleasure in seeing the
stress he caused her.
The court heard the man had a "professional" relationship with her for a
number of years and the pair had formed a friendship.
So when four posts were put on sexual websites advertising the victim's
home phone number and address prompting a barrage of calls, she confided
in Harris.
And when she found her lawn and backyard covered in explicit A4 prints
of her and numerous business cards tacked to her family home that she
shared with her husband and children, it was Harris she turned to to
make her home more secure.
The woman described the offending, between February and June, as her
"worst nightmare" but could come up with no real explanation for why it
happened.
Harris even sent letters to her husband at work, which included further
explicit photos of the victim.
The letters "outlined what you considered to be her immoral lifestyle",
Judge John Bergseng said.
The victim said the ongoing abuse meant she was unable to sleep and lost
10kg over the four months.
"The irony is he tried to ruin my life but ended up ruining his own life and now everybody knows." she said. When police were informed about the offending online ads, they tracked the IP address and found it came from Harris's computer. A search warrant executed at the defendant's home turned up more than just electronic evidence. Police also found a hydroponic cannabis set-up with 15 plants and 20 seedlings. Judge Bergseng said there was nothing to suggest it was for anything other than personal use and fined Harris $600. Further inquiries also found that before he had quit the force in April, the defendant had searched the victim's name three times on the police's National Intelligence Application. He explained it was to ensure she did not have gang or drug links and therefore minimise the risk of bringing the police into disrepute by his involvement with her, but the judge said that explanation made no sense.
Judge Bergseng said there was a high level of cruelty inherent in
Harris's actions and a severe breach of trust considering he was working
as a police officer for part of the time the intimidation was ongoing.
"Your actions clearly put her in a state where she was terrified as to
what may be coming next," he said.
"You would have known exactly what her family situation was . . .
leaving photos attached to the house was, in my view, particularly
cruel."
But he was given discounts for his previous good character, his efforts
at rehabilitation and his early guilty pleas.
His lawyer Larissa Mulder said the "relationship" with the dominatrix
had left her client in a lot of debt but he was determined to make
reparation for the emotional harm he caused.
Harris also apologised through his lawyer for bringing the police into
disrepute.
His home detention sentence was deferred for two weeks so he could organize things with his new job at BP.
Outside court the victim said she would have preferred to see Harris
locked up but was happy he would be named and shamed.
"The irony is he tried to ruin my life but ended up ruining his own life and now everybody knows." she said. When police were informed about the offending online ads, they tracked the IP address and found it came from Harris's computer. A search warrant executed at the defendant's home turned up more than just electronic evidence. Police also found a hydroponic cannabis set-up with 15 plants and 20 seedlings. Judge Bergseng said there was nothing to suggest it was for anything other than personal use and fined Harris $600. Further inquiries also found that before he had quit the force in April, the defendant had searched the victim's name three times on the police's National Intelligence Application. He explained it was to ensure she did not have gang or drug links and therefore minimise the risk of bringing the police into disrepute by his involvement with her, but the judge said that explanation made no sense.
Lorikeets accused of being drunk are probably suffering from a virus
Staggering red collar lorikeets in Australia's Northern Territory are
not actually intoxicated after all - and it’s taken more than five years
for the record to be corrected.
Back in 2010 a phenomenon was first observed in Darwin of
lorikeets falling out of trees, staggering around looking drunk, and
finding it difficult to perch themselves atop of branches.
All the hallmarks of a bit too much of the good nectar.
But now it has been revealed that the poor parrots have received a bad
wrap for the past five years because they were probably never really
drunk after all.
It turns out that the most likely explanation is a seasonal virus, akin
to the human flu season, that seems to strike the colorful birds in the
Top End build-up each year.
Wildcare spokeswoman Barbara Backers, who recently had 19 lorikeets in
care, have said that the likely respiratory infection was temporary and
usually saw the condition resolved within two weeks.
“It seems to get into their system and they end up not being able to
perch or they can’t lean up properly against a tree,” Ms Backers said.
“The actual condition is sometimes referred to as Drop Lorri Syndrome. But they do actually look drunk.” Five years ago NT Parks and Wildlife Commisson officers were certain fermented fruit nectar was causing the birds to literally fall out of the sky. But Ms Backers said tests undertaken by vets did not find alcohol conclusive in the majority of the birds. Ark Animal Hospital owner Dr Stephen Cutter said the more likely explanation was the birds were dropping from a combination of factors. “Every time they are tested they come back with different things. But we do know it is not alcohol,”
Dr Cutter said. “We still don’t know the exact cause, it may be several different diseases working together, definitely some kind of virus that seems to attack the immune system and usually seasonal. They look drunk as they stagger around and fall over.” Dr Cutter said he usually had around five lorikeets brought into his Palmerston practice a week. An NT Department of Primary Industries spokeswoman said the Government was unable to confirm if the behavior of the birds was due to a “respiratory disease”. But she added there was no laboratory evidence that the birds were intoxicated.
Pilot takes puppy rescuing to new heights
Dan Drennan from Western New York loves flying, and he also loves dogs.
So when he was approached by some local rescue organizations asking for a favor, he didn’t think twice.
Dan has flown everywhere from Texas to Kentucky to Ohio to rescue puppies. All in all, he’s transported about 500.
Dan flies with the Western New York Pilots Club, but when he’s making rescue flights it’s for Pilots N Paws, a non-profit organization that matches pilots like him, to rescues that need a hand. All of Dan’s flying is done on a volunteer basis.
“It gives me a place to go, and it’s for a really good cause. They guys all come from very high kill shelters and their outlook is not good,” he said.
During the flights, Dan admits he often gets attached to his passengers, but said he’s always thinking about the next mission.
“There’s always more. You want to get attached and all that, but there’s more dogs that need rides,” he says.
Dan flies with the Western New York Pilots Club, but when he’s making rescue flights it’s for Pilots N Paws, a non-profit organization that matches pilots like him, to rescues that need a hand. All of Dan’s flying is done on a volunteer basis.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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Europe
Belgium - Bosnia/Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia - England - Finland - France - Germany
Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Luxembourg - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal Romania - Russia - San Marino - Scotland - Serbia - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Ukraine
Wales
Asia
Burma - China - India - Indonesia - Japan - Korea - Malaysia - Mauritius - Nepal
Saudi Arabia - Sri Lanka - Thailand
Africa
Djibouti - Libya - Morocco - South Africa - Zambia
The Pacific
Australia - New Zealand - Philippines
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