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Alcohol and motor vehicles don’t mix. If you have a drink, you don’t hit the road — no matter how many wheels your ride has. But what if it was your ride guzzling the booze instead? Ethanol fuel is a thing and 98% of gas sold in America contains ethanol, so we suppose all our …
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Cops often have to deal with various kinds of difficult and unpredictable customers. Drunken people, enraged neighbors, farm animals… There’s been a strange uptick in the latter cases recently. Cops have had to wrangle with lonely and perverted goats — but they’ve also received assistance from unusual four-legged informants. Over the last week, Oklahoma officers …
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Guilty of crashing and all for views. This is the story. Trevor Jacob, 29, pleaded guilty last Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court to the felony charge of obstructing a federal investigation by deliberately destroying the wreckage of an airplane after intentionally crashing in Santa Barbara County in November 2021. The charge of obstructing a …
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Lollipops and wine. That sounds like a tasty treat, right? But try surviving on that stuff for days on end and you might be begging for some real food pretty quickly. Yet, you can’t get picky in an emergency. An Australian woman recently found that out the hard way. A 48-year-old identified only as Lillian …
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A family of five from Utah faced an unspeakable tragedy last year. Eric Richins, a husband and father-of-three died suddenly. The cause of death was a mystery at the time. Yet, it devastated the life of Kouri Richins and her three children. To cope with the pain, they turned to literature. With the help of …
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This mum wrote a grieving book for her children after their father had died, and then it came to light that she was his killer. She was arrested on Monday, May 8th, more than a year after her husband, Eric Richins, had died. Kouri Richins, 33, is from Summit County in Utah and her husband …
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When you work with the recently deceased, you need to have a certain amount of tact. After all, it’s a difficult time and you should treat the dead with respect. A New York morgue worker certainly didn’t do that, if a recent lawsuit is anything to go by. The suit, filed at Nassau County Supreme …
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When it comes to New Jersey, cooked pasta and politics, the thing they have in common is they’re all involved in this weird story. So, about 500 pounds of cooked pasta was found dumped next to a stream. A concerned citizen contacted Nina Jochnowitz, who ran for council in the town’s 6th ward previously. She …
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Some people are just s***ty neighbors. But for one Arkansas woman, that phrase has become disgustingly literal. Erica Craig lives just outside the city of North Little Rock in Pulaski County. She claims she has been dealing with a gross, smelly problem for years. According to Craig, her neighbors are far from sanitary. She says …
When you have a dog, you often want to take your little friend along for different activities. But there are some things that probably shouldn’t involve your pooch. Like, say, a high-speed police chase on top of a motorcycle. A Florida biker on a cross-country road trip recently tried to outrun the police in Louisiana. …
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