Paper cuts are a killer
SUSPECTED murderer Michael Mccune gave a newspaper the finger – part of it, anyway.
The 60-year-old cut off a portion of his left middle finger and posted it, along with a twopage handwritten letter, to the editor of the Herald Bulletin in Anderson, Indiana.
Mccune was protesting about the conditions at the Madison County Jail. He has since been transferred.
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SAN Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge, left, has begun sounding like a huge panpipe making whistling noises that can be heard for miles by wind hitting new pavement railings.
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AN aspiring Missouri dog trainer, attending a lecture on how best to care for pooches, returned to her car to find both her Labrador retriever and German shepherd had died.
The woman, from High Ridge, had left them in her vehicle with the air conditioning running only for the car to run out of petrol, causing it to shut down.
The dogs died of heat exhaustion.
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FLORIDA’S Weeki Wachee, famed for its mermaid shows, is now sleeping with fishes.
Governor Ron Desantis consigned the city to the bottom of the sea after it became insolvent with just 13 residents.
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PREVIOUSLY drivers in Jupiter had to watch out whenever local Tigers Woods got behind the wheel after he was caught driving while under the influence of drugs.
Now they have a new worry after Shaun Michaelsen let a 12-year-old take a midnight drive in his Jeep.
Police clocked the schoolgirl doing 85mph in a 45mph zone.
The 41-year-old told arresting officers he told her to speed because he wanted to be a “cool father” – even though he is not her dad.
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BLACK community activist Derrick Sanderlin, right, who trains police recruits in San Jose, Texas, on racial bias was shot in the crown jewels by a rubber bullet during a recent protest. It’s fair to say his former pupils failed the training.
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FOR a man who spends a lot of time in the dog house, my barman Richard has learnt a lot about man’s best friend. This week he argued that pooches are smarter than humans. “Well, dogs can understand human language, but humans don’t understand dog barks,” he said.