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[Taomist]

Only in Idaho: *

Pianist maimed in potato gun mishap

:smack:

POCATELLO, Idaho — An Idaho State University student and pianist lost three fingers in a potato gun explosion…Schaible is a senior majoring in music performance, according to ISU’s Web site. The Journal reports he was scheduled to play piano at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the nearby First United Methodist Church on Sunday night.

*I don’t live there currently, but family is still there and I read their news regularly.

[Sigmagirl]

Well, he can come to Ohio . . . I’m sure he’ll be all healed up by our MLK celebration. Only in Ohio is MLK Day in March.

[SanVito]

London, UK, 19 Jan 2011.

Tory MP sorry after novelty tie breaks into speech

A Conservative MP has apologised after inadvertently turning on his musical tie while making a speech in the House of Commons.

Deputy speaker of the House, Dawn Primarolo called for order, saying: “Perhaps next time the honourable gentleman will be more selective in the ties he wears in the chamber and then we won’t need the musical accompaniment.”

Our MPs wear musical ties? In parliament? I’m paying this man’s taxes!

[Harmonious_Discord]

It really wasn’t a potato gun accident. He made a bomb out of it a set it off.

A while back two years in a row near Lake Delton Wisconsin a wallaby was running loose in the middle of winter. Both times when caught the wallaby was given to the Madison zoo. I think the third time was a kangaroo near Delavan got loose, but those people were trying to capture it and they got it eventually. For three years in a row in the Wisconsin winter there was a kangaroo on the loose.

[Drain_Bead]

@Sigmagirl

Well, he can come to Ohio . . . I’m sure he’ll be all healed up by our MLK celebration. Only in Ohio is MLK Day in March.

And exposing your genitalia to at-risk youth is a form of therapy here, too.

[delphica]

A local paper runs a weekly “police blotter” report, and then at the end of the year, they compile the best ones.
http://www.beenews.com/policeblotter_10.asp

[Drunky_Smurf]

@SanVito

London, UK, 19 Jan 2011.

Tory MP sorry after novelty tie breaks into speech
Our MPs wear musical ties? In parliament? I’m paying this man’s taxes!

You have to pay your politicians taxes? That’s messed up. Here in the Good Ol’ US of A we just pay for their hookers and blow.

[Ms.Hazel_Ice]

I sincerely wish I had a link to the article, but the local-local paper in my hometown doesn’t have a great online archive. :mad:

The gist of the article: A local farmer’s peahen was on the loose, and the farmer had lost all hope of recovering the bird until it was sighted frolicking with a pack of wild turkeys. Police and animal control officers attempted to recover the bird but failed. At the end of the article, the newspaper requested that anyone in possession of a peacock seeking a girlfriend contact the farmer in an effort to persuade the wayward peahen to flock together with a bird of the same feather.

[Askance]

Only in Australia do we celebrate a flood in quite this way:
River rescue as sex toy ditches rider

[manx]

From the New Zealand Herald:

Abandoned picnic remains a mystery, which was followed a few days later by Picnic mystery solved.

What do you mean, slow news week?