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A Dutch town has introduced an unusual way of trying to keep smartphone-addicted residents
safe: Installing traffic lights in the pavement. Bodegraven, in the Netherlands, has put strip
lights in the floor at a pedestrian crossing — meaning people who stare at their phones
all day will see them, preventing them from wandering dangerously into traffic. ***That’s
nice of them, but wouldn’t it make more sense to go ahead and allow those people to
get run over by cars to weed out the defective genes from future generations?
Target says they're going to hire 100,000 temporary workers for the upcoming holiday
season. Great news for those of you who were hoping to work on Thanksgiving.
In La Puente, California, some nut job was jumping from rooftop to rooftop of the single-story
homes on Beckner Street for hours, refusing commands from deputies and crisis negotiators
to stop and come down. But after being up on the roof of 83-year-old Wilford Burgess'
house for about an hour, Burgess got fed up. So he borrowed a neighbor's ladder, climbed
up on his roof and pushed the suspect off into the waiting arms of police. Granddaughter,
Ashley Wrenn, recorded the whole thing on video and said she was thankful her grandfather
was protecting his family. After the big push, the suspect was taken into custody and was
admitted to a hospital for a mental evaluation. As for Mr. Burgess, he said staying in shape
is important to him in his 80s. He added, "I tell everybody, 'Just because you're old,
that don't mean you got to sit down. As long as you're able to move, move.'" ***I’ll
bet in this neighborhood, when he says “get off my lawn” the kids listen!
The Los Angeles Lakers are going to retire Kobe Bryant's number. No one will ever pass
a basketball wearing that number again. Wait a minute, let me rephrase that…
It's not just us. Now, a veterinarian is claiming that one in three pets that he sees is overweight
or obese. ***Well, we’ve all heard that pets tend to look like their owners.
In Liberty, Missouri, the neighbors of Richard Geisenheyner were not too happy about him
flying a Confederate battle flag in front of his home and let him know it. Mr. Geisenheyner
responded by placing a sign above his Confederate flag - a sign that read: "Slaves 4 Sale."
He says, "If people actually believe that a Confederate flag stands for slavery, well,
I might as well be just as stupid as they are." Geisenheyner, who has mixed-race grandchildren,
said he flies the Confederate battle flag to make a political statement noting, "It
is for people that are tired of the government telling them what to do and what to think.
That is what a Southern rebel is." Obviously the public outcry over the sign was fierce
and Geisenheyner took it down the next day because he believes his point has been made.
Neighbors speaking to reporters said they hope that in the future Giesenhyner might
choose a different way to vent his frustrations. Meanwhile he's not expected to get many trick-or-treaters
this year.
The 21-year-old son of actor Jean-Claude Van Damme has been arrested and is accused of
holding his roommate at knifepoint at their apartment in suburban Phoenix. ***That is
really strange. I mean, you almost never hear of children of celebrities getting into
legal trouble.
In South Carolina, a woman was trying to avoid legal problems by paying a traffic ticket
in person. But when she arrived at the courthouse officers arrested her — for driving a stolen
vehicle.
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