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A customer at the Goodwill Store on Peters Creek Parkway in Winston-Salem found a grenade on one of the store’s shelves and tried to purchase it. The store was evacuated and bomb squad personnel came to take it away (no word yet on whether it was live ordnance).

This is the second time this week that grenades have been found at Goodwill Stores around here. On Monday a training grenade was found amid some donated clothing at the store in Mayodan.

So… what’s the trend here? Some idiot kids “goofing off”?

Or perhaps we should heed the words of one Auric Goldfinger: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”

(Seriously though: if this is “terrism” this has pathetic written all over it. I mean, trying to bring chaos down in a Goodwill store?!)...

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It was “probably the worst place in Sydney where they could have taken him”, said Steve Ashley: one of a group of Australian ninjas that came to readily assist a medical student who was being attacked by muggers.

From the story at News.com.au…

A STUDENT has been saved from a vicious assault – not by the boys in blue but the men in black.

Ninjas scared off three thugs who had the misfortune to attack the 27-year-old medical student outside their warrior school.

The German exchange student had been targeted by the men while he was riding the late-night train home, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

They demanded he give them his wallet but when he refused and got off the train, they followed.

They pounced as he made his way through a dark alley in Sydney’s west.

They grabbed his phone and iPod and kicked him while he lay

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A would-be pilferer of an expensive comic book has been arrested after being caught in the act and apprehended by none other than Spider-Man himself!

The friendly neighborhood webslinger was also assisted by several Jedi Knights and high-speed hero who rides the lightning, the Flash.

Here’s the story from The Sun…

SPIDERMAN foiled a would-be thief as Jedi Knights blocked his escape route.

No, it’s not a comic book plot but the scene which unravelled in a Australian book store on Saturday.

Store owner Michael Baulderstone, dressed as Spiderman, spotted the man trying to steal an X-Men book worth $160 (£97).

The 45-year-old called for back-up and the hapless thief was surrounded by superheroes within seconds.

Mr Baulderstone said: “We had about 40 people dressed up as their favourite superheroes to celebrate International Free Comic Day, so he didn’t have much of a choice but to hand the comic

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A hunter named Charles Olsen has been hit with a $7000 fine after being found guilty of violating game and wildlife laws, after illegally shooting and killing a bear.

It’s how Olsen led the unwitting bear to its doom that particularly raises eyebrows: with a trail of donuts.

From the story…

Charles Olsen, 39, who has been nicknamed the ‘Pastry Poacher’, was found guilty of violating game laws after he lured the creature with the sweet treats and illegally shot it.

He first attracted the attention of a Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officer when he was spotted driving his truck, which was loaded with pastries, on a highway just one week before the start of bear season.

Charles Olsen was fined after luring the bear with doughnuts and then shooting it.

The wildlife officer then reported Mr Olsen’s truck license number to bear check stations.

Officer Cory Bentzoni is

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This is part of the PowerPoint presentation that was shown to General Stanley McChrystal and other United States military officers leading operations in Afghanistan. It’s supposed to clearly and concisely diagram why the situation there is so dire.

No wonder…

McChrystal, commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, quipped that “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war.”

Daily Mail brings us the both tragic and comic story of how PowerPoint has become despised by senior members of the military....

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It’s literally (almost) a case of “To Serve Man” as Penguin Group Australia is rushing to pulp and re-print a cookbook that mistakenly called for “freshly ground black people” in a recipe that was supposed to call for “freshly ground black pepper”.

From the story at the BBC…

Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is “extremely hard” to do so, Penguin said.

The recipe was for tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto.

“We’re mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don’t know,” head of publishing Bob Sessions is quoted as saying by the Sydney newspaper.

Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and

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A lady named Amanda Flowers in Great Britain is, errr… blaming Nintendo’s Wii Fit for causing her to have persistent orgasms.

From the article at the Daily Star…

A WOMAN has gone from Nintendo to nympho after a fall from her Wii Fit board turned her into a sex addict.

Randy Amanda Flowers needs 10 sex sessions a day after the slip-up.

And now the slightest of vibrations, from mobile phones to food processors, turns her on.

The catering worker said: “It began as a twinge down below before surging through my body. Sometimes it built up into a trembling orgasm.”

A doctor diagnosed her with persistent sexual arousal syndrome due to a damaged nerve.

Probably a million-to-one thing that happened to Amanda Flowers and likely not easily replicated (no matter how many people will attempt it, no doubt). I found this interesting enough to post ‘cuz I’ve ...

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Yes, April Fools Day was a week ago. But no, it’s not a joke.

A quarter century ago, on Saturday morning cartoons gone far, far away…

That’s the title sequence from the short-lived Star Wars: Droids animated series on ABC. The theme song “In Trouble Again” was co-written and performed by Stewart Copeland of The Police. Anthony Daniels again provided the voice of C-3PO.

Twenty-five years later and with Star Wars: Clone Wars a certifiable success for Lucasfilm and Cartoon Network, an animated Star Wars situation comedy is now in the works. Among those involved with the project are Seth Green and Matthew Senreich: the creators and executive producers of Robot Chicken (which has a long history of lampooning the saga).

Ehhhhh… hmmm… don’t know what exactly to say about this one. I knew that Lucasfilm was working on an animated Star Was series aimed at pre-schoolers and for ...

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A fella named Donald Wolfe has been arrested in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania on a public drunkenness charge. Police found him along a highway 65 miles east of Pittsburgh.

The biggest clue that something was terribly amiss was that Wolfe was attempting to restore to life a roadkilled possum, which reportedly had been “dead for quite awhile”, with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

I’d love to know what the heck this guy had been drinking…...

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