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And this is what happened. Nathan Drew Morgan, 29, was with a female companion at Lake Keowee in South Carolina on Tuesday March 15th. An elderly couple on a nearby pontoon noticed that Morgan and the woman with him were in distress in the water after falling off the jet ski sans life jackets. The …
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Urinary tract infections (UTIs) aren’t that uncommon of an ailment, but they’re no laughing matter. There’s a whole bunch of reasons why your pee canal might get infected. We can now add another entry to that list. Having a glass tumbler in your bladder for four years apparently causes a UTI. Who would’ve thought? But …
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If you’re already kind of scared of dentists, you might want to skip this story. It sure made us plenty uncomfortable. A Wisconsin dentist has been found guilty of gruesome violations of both the law and probably every single medical oath in existence. The crooked dental health provider purposefully damaged his patients’ teeth to make …
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If you were to cheat on an exam, how would you do it? Would you sneak in a cheat sheet, or maybe try to have your phone on your lap? Whatever your answer, it probably didn’t involve surgical procedures. But these students were ready to go to any lengths to get into the school if …
The best crime stories are generally those where the crook gives the cops a good challenge. But here’s a case that proves that the exact opposite can spin a good tale as well. Thomas Eugene Colucci, 42, got arrested on drug charges on March 10. The cops busted him after the Spring Hill, Florida, resident …
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Look, we all make mistakes. And that’s alright — it’s just a part of life. Just learn from your screw-up and move on. Of course, some people either can’t or don’t want to grasp this concept. Take, for example, the man that recently had to be saved from an Arizona mountain — twice. Not only …
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As if there wasn’t enough calamity going on in the world already. We may now also have to contend with an escaped Japanese fox succubus. On March 4, a decidedly ominous sight awaited tourists arriving to see the Sessho-seki in the mountains of Nasu, some 100 miles north of Tokyo. The Sessho-seki — known in …
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Some time ago, we wrote about an adventurous British dog who got rescued from a swamp with sausages. Clearly, this Michigan pup heard the story and thought she could do better. Maehem, a three-year-old Kai Ken escaped from her owners and went missing for nearly a week. After an exhaustive search, rescuers finally picked her …
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Have you ever seen a Tasmanian tiger? Unless you’re nearly 100 years old, you haven’t — the animal went extinct in 1936. Still, Australians still occasionally claim to have seen the long dead creature prowling the wilds. Well, in the future, they actually might spot it again. The Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research (TIGRR) Lab …
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Most recreational drugs are illegal, but that hasn’t stopped criminal organizations trading in them. To get the narcotics to their target markets, they often have to smuggle them across national borders. Of course, the border guards are constantly on alert to stop any obvious drug smuggling attempts. That’s why the drug gangs have had to …
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