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Security guards wrestled a man to the ground in a Wal-Mart after he cut in line to get laptop computers that were on sale Friday, a television station reported.
AP/ Myway reports that the man started arguing with people inside the store, WFTV-TV in Orlando reported. He then started fighting with the guards, the station reported
One man told WFTV that the laptops were being thrown into the air and people rushed toward them, collapsing on each other. Another man described the scene as crazy.
Orlando police and Orange County sheriff’s officials didn’t return phone messages seeking comment. The store’s manager referred questions …read more

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A French woman has been arrested and charged after trying to open the door on her plane on a flight from Hong Kong to Brisbane.
The woman is reported to have taken sleeping tablets washed down with alcohol prior to the incident.
According to the Register, the women’s sense of fear was so dulled that she thought it would be a good idea to pop out for a relaxing smoke. She was seen heading for one of the emergency exits clutching her lighter and tabs, and than began “tampering” with the door and was only prevented from enjoying her last cigarette by …read more

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Brazil’s coffee industry has brewed up a plan to serve up to 1 million schoolchildren a free breakfast — complete with a cup of coffee.
Yahoo reports that Brazil’s Coffee Industry Association (Abic) is seeking the support of 50 roasters to launch a pilot “Adopt-a-School” programme to feed breakfast to 1 million Brazilian school children aged 6 to 18.
Under the plan, a coffee roaster would adopt a school of at least 500 children and provide them with a free breakfast of coffee, milk and bread. The annual cost of the programme for each school is estimated at 33,500 reais (9,000 pounds).
“Kids …read more

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Leading dating site Match.com has been accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy.
CNN reports: “This is a grossly fraudulent practice that Match.com is engaged in,” said H. Scott Leviant, a lawyer at Los Angeles law firm Arias, Ozzello & Gignac LLP, which brought the suit.
Match “promotes the policies of integrity to protect members, and yet they themselves, we allege, are misleading their entire …read more

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A US woman has been arrested for calling 911 after a restaurant served her cold onion rings.
Ananova reports that Sharita Williams, 30, of Houma, Louisiana, told police the food was cold when she received it and the waiter refused to replace it.
So she dialled 911 from the Malt-N-Burger restaurant in Thibodaux, reports the Daily Comet.
Police turned up – but only to arrest Williams for wasting police time. She is due in court in December.

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A Judge has sentenced a women to spend the evening in a park in the same way she abandoned kittens in local parks.
According to the New Herald, the Judge to the accused: “You can listen to the coyotes, hear the raccoons in the dark of night”.
Before she reports to the Lake County Jail in Painesville, she will be forced to spend a night alone in a remote area of a Lake County Metropark, according to Cicconetti sentence. Being allowed only water, she will not be provided with food, beverage or shelter. Murray must remain in that location until …read more

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Giving new meaning to the phrase “Corpse Bride” is a a devoted husband, not ready to accept that his soul mate had finally left him forever, who slept with her dead body for five months in their home in Pontypridd, South Wales.
HTTabloid reports that 69-year-old ex-milkman Howard Lewis kept chatting about the weather and local gossip to his wife Elizabeth, who died aged 79 in June this year. He also slept in the same bed as her corpse gradually became “mummified”.
However, outside his home Lewis kept up an appearance of normality by shopping and exchanging pleasantries with neighbours in his …read more

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If you ever wondered about Michael Jackson, the white signer has finally proven some of the rumors true!
From AP: Michael Jackson has stirred a small controversy in the United Arab Emirates by entering the ladies room in a shopping mall.
The pop star’s publicist said Jackson, who arrived in Dubai this week as the guest of a champion rally driver, did not understand the Arabic sign on the door and left the bathroom as soon as he realized his mistake.
In the statement released late Tuesday, Jackson’s publicist, Raymond K. Bain said: “Upon his exit (from the ladies bathroom), he was recognized …read more

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A Quincy police officer lost his department-issued gun apparently after driving away without realizing he had placed the weapon on the roof of his car, officials said.
The Patriot Ledger reports that the officer, Declan Breslin, was reprimanded and placed on desk duty for several days as punishment for losing his weapon, which was picked up by other Quincy police officers who were investigating a car crash last month in the same area the gun was dropped, Police Chief Robert Crowley said.
The incident marks the second time in a month that a local public safety official has lost his handgun, …read more

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