It was genetic.

Belgian woman who altered parachute gets 30 years

BRUSSELS � A jealous schoolteacher who doctored the parachute of a love rival causing her to plunge to her death was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday.

Aircraft crashes after crocodile on board escapes and sparks panic

A small airliner crashed into a house, killing a British pilot and 19 others after a crocodile smuggled into the aircraft in a sports bag escaped and started a panic.

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Party-goer died after swallowing two spoonfuls of pure caffeine powder - equivalent to 70 cans of Red Bull

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:00 AM on 29th October 2010

A party-goer died after swallowing two spoonfuls of internet-bought pure caffeine powder with the same strength as 70 cans of Red Bull, an inquest heard yesterday.

Michael Bedford washed the substance down with an energy drink, leaving him with a massive 251mg of caffeine per litre of blood in his system.


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November 15, 2010

Wanton Tamale Assault Lands Florida Woman Behind Bars

Meet Adyan Sanchez.

The Florida woman was arrested Saturday morning for domestic battery after allegedly assaulting her boyfriend with a plate of tamales. Sanchez, 30, told cops that she tossed the corn-based projectiles at her boyfriend after he called her a "bitch" in front of the couple's one-year-old son.

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...I spent a minute trying to figure out what a "wonton tamale" was. Product of the newest Mexican-Asian fusion restaurants?

Reading comprehension. Not just for standardized testing.

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...I spent a minute trying to figure out what a "wonton tamale" was. Product of the newest Mexican-Asian fusion restaurants?

Reading comprehension. Not just for standardized testing.

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Your new user forum name: Wonton.

You should just relent and change your user name now, AW.

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You can just use your imagination, GG. (The W has to stand for something, right?)

Beware unhappy asthmatics: Italian doctors warn that Facebook could trigger an attack in some susceptible users.

Gennaro D'Amato and colleagues treated an 18-year-old man whose asthma attacks were apparently sparked by logging into Facebook and seeing how many men his ex-girlfriend had friended.

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One of the hottest holiday culinary ideas in recent years is fried turkey. The one-time Deep South-only delicacy has caught on around the country.

But Dallas doctors and fire officials say that anyone frying the nonflying fowl this season should take extra precautions to prevent burning themselves or starting a fire.

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Like make sure the bird is thawed before dropping it in the grease.

Oh, and DO NOT overfill. Grease burns.

Secondhand smoke kills more than 600,000 people worldwide every year, according to a new study.

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A Dallas-area man needed stitches after he says his new cell phone exploded and left him with a bloody heady.

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Detroit police say a 20-year-old Burger King employee who was arguing with a customer punched the 67-year-old man, who fell and later died. WJBK-TV reports police say the punch may have caused the elderly man to choke on his dentures.

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Okay, I know it was a bad joke, but this guy was killed by a falling refrigerator. You know he didn't expect that when he went to work that morning.

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Lancaster man convicted of attacking moviegoer with digital thermometer

A Lancaster man was convicted of attempted murder Thursday and faces up to life in prison for attacking a moviegoer with a digital thermometer.

A jury convicted Landry Boullard, 40, of premeditated attempted murder in the February assault, which attracted widespread attention because of the motive and the weapon. The victim had asked Boullard's female companion to stop talking on a cellphone during the movie.

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"Bildsten allegedly walked out on a tab at Joe’s Crab Shack in Gurnee, then approached an officer in a threatening manner when police arrived at her home. She allegedly threatened the officer with what police described as a “clear, rigid feminine pleasure device”"

Or Frogger

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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) -- A man has been hospitalized after police in South Carolina say he was hit by an SUV while playing a real-life version of the video game "Frogger."

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In the "Frogger" arcade game, players move frogs through traffic on a busy road and through a hazard-filled river. Before he was hit, police say the man had been discussing the game with his friends.

Chief Jimmy Dixon says the man yelled "go" and darted into oncoming traffic in the four-lane highway.

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Woman strangled by electronic massager

FORT LAUDERDALE � A woman was fatally strangled in her Parkland home on Christmas Eve by an electronic massager that got ensnared in her necklace, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office. Michelle Ferrari-Gegerson, 37, had used the massager to relieve neck pain, said a report released by the sheriff's office. Officials didn't give the massager's brand. In 2008, Matoba Electric Manufacturing Co. recalled an electronic foot massager after three cases of women in Japan strangling themselves accidentally while using it as a neck massager.