21 year old James Farrelly of St Anthony's Road, Rialto, Dublin, was later stopped by Gardai, and handed over a samurai sword he'd been hiding in his jeans.

The three raiders who robbed a pharmacy in Bluebell, were all armed with swords, when they got away with four hundred euro and a variety of prescription drugs on April 14th 2005.

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(Man flies onto screen, performs series of sword movements and speaks in Chinese)

Subtitle: There can be only ONE dumbass!!!

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The 2008 presidential bid just got a little more challenging for the race’s only satanic vampire candidate.

Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey, a 42-year-old New Jersey man who is running under the Vampire, Witches and Pagan Party, is currently being investigated by the Secret Service for potential threats toward President George W. Bush.

According to Sharkey, Secret Service agents visited him and his 19-year-old wife, Spree, in Ohio on Feb. 15. The visit concerned Sharkey’s repeated remarks about impaling Bush, an act Sharkey said he would only do if he were elected president.

“They never even asked to see my impaling stick,” Sharkey said.

Under U.S. law, threatening the president is a felony that carries a five-year prison sentence. On average, the Secret Service develops investigations about nine out of 10 times they receive threatening information, said Secret Service spokesman Darrin Blackford. Such investigations usually involve an interview with the person in question, and sometimes with parents and local officials to determine the severity of the person’s threat.

“They were telling me, when they were interrogating me, that their job was to protect Bush even after he’s out of office,” Sharkey said. “I’m looking at them like, ‘Oh, you’re going to defy me when I become president?’”

While Sharkey’s declarations of his desire to impale Bush may not seem totally feasible, the Secret Service is required to investigate potential threats, Blackford said.

“Oftentimes … we receive criticism as to ‘Why are Secret Service agents investigating this when clearly it was a joke or clearly it was a comment taken out of context?’” he said. “Unfortunately, in our line of work, we can’t take that chance.”

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Ok, now given a choice between voting for Bush or this guy, I would vote for....hold on...give me a sec here......hmmm...I'll get back to you on that one.

I love that the commentary made is more made for "Monday Night Raw" than the Iowa primary; either way, any other candidate's run so far has (im)paled in comparison to this guy!

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(3/12/07 - COSTA MESA, CA) - A Laguna Niguel man allegedly broke into a woman's home and fell asleep on her couch naked, according to police.

Police arrested Bonnie on suspicion of residential burglary and indecent exposure. He is being held on $250,000 bail.

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This reminds me of a scene from "Real Genius"..

Chris Knight: I'm a degenerate? What about that time I found you alone naked with a bowl of jello?

Kent: You did not!

Chris: It's true.

Kent: I was hot and I was hungry!

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From his prison cell in Sullivan County Shawcross wrote a letter to The Mirror in London.

"I have a crush on a native of Ireland. Her name is Becky - a fine redhead who I desire truly. Help me find her," the paper quotes him as writing.

Shawcross is serving a 250 year term for killing 11 Rochester area prostitutes. But he claims to have killed as many as 53.

And that was after he served time for killing 10 year old Jack Blake and 8 year old Karen Hill in Watertown.

Also while behind bars Shawcross has been distributing baking recipes - including one for earthworm cookies.

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To Becky:

Earth Angel, Earth Angel

Will you be mine?

My darling dear, your bones I will grind

I'm just a fool

A fool in love, with you.....

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CHESTER, England, March 12 (UPI) -- Four employees of a British firm received text messages on their mobile phones indicating they were being fired, effective immediately.

The managing director of Stanley Porters and Co. Ltd, in Chester sacked the four at 7:45 a.m. and told them not to come to the office to collect their belongings," The Chester Chronicle reported.

"Due to the lack of professionalism and poor overall performance of the Chester office, I hav no option but to let u go," the message from Lee Wilson allegedly read. "Ur pay wil be calculated and paid on pay day. U are not required to go into the office. All belongings wil be sent to u."

One of the four employees, a 22-year-old identified only as Nick, told the Chronicle he had just spent $6,000 on a trip to Florida.

"He talks about a lack of professionalism but what is unprofessional is sacking people by text message without any proper notice," said Nick.

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AHMEDABAD: An Indian woman, despairing over her lover's accidental death when he fell down a well soon after their engagement, insisted on ceremonially marrying his corpse just minutes before the cremation.

"It was for just few minutes the girl was dressed as a bride and then as a widow," KM Kapadia, a police officer in the town of Anand in western Gujarat state, said.

Wedding attendees sat the corpse up by a fire, the traditional centre of Hindu wedding ceremonies, and chanted some marriage prayers before cremating the body, police said.

"The girl refused to give away the body of her lover for the cremation till she tied the knot with him," Kapadia said.

The bride's parents opposed the marriage but later attended the wedding ceremony and gave their 22-year-old daughter Tulsi Devipujak clothes and utensils as gifts, according to the Hindu tradition.

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Witnesses to the wedding stated that the song played throughout the ceremony was "Hunka Hunka Burning Love".

I have a silly question here. Doesn't the groom have to say "I do" in order to be married? Am I missing something here?

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Waffle House of Rome will serve as the breakfast host to the Yellow Jersey Club, the official hospitality venue for the Tour de Georgia, event organizers said.

The Norcross-based restaurant chain will be the official provider of the 2007 Tour de Georgia’s Start Hospitality experience at all of the race’s host cities. It marks the second consecutive year that Waffle House has partnered with the tour.

"What's great about Waffle House is that wherever the Tour travels across more than 660 miles, there's always a Waffle House near by,” said Chris Aronhalt, Managing Partner of Medalist Sports, the marketing agency licensed to operate the Tour.

"Our partnership with Waffle House has become a true Southern tradition for the Tour's staff, athletes, volunteers, media and spectators," Aronhalt said. "It is a pleasure to have them as a sponsor again this year, providing our breakfasts for the VIP hospitality at Start Line host venues."

Rome is among the Tour de Georgia host cities, serving as both a destination and starting point for two stages of the 2007 tour. The race, which comes to Rome April 17 and 18, also will touch Rockmart and Summerville before moving on farther north.

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Tour officials have added that contestants normally get cups of water during the race; this year the water cups will be replaced by cups of gravy. Those who also finish the race will be greeted by a prize of a bucket of extra crispy KFC "finger lickin good" chicken.

Oddsmakers have predicted that over 1000 people will show up to start the race, but less than 50 will actually make it out of the parking lot.

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Oliver Jufer was arrested last December after drunkenly spray-painting several portraits of the monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

In court, Jufer pleaded guilty to five charges under Thailand's draconian lese majeste law.

He is due to be sentenced later this month, and the maximum penalty he could face is 75 years in jail.

Jufer's lawyer said the minimum sentence he faced was seven-and-a-half years.

Police reports said Jufer was drunk when the portraits were defaced on December 5th, which as the day of the King's birthday is a national holiday.

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Why are Bob Marley and Kurt Cobain considered by some to be messiahs? When did rock music lose its edge and become another product manufactured and marketed by huge conglomerates such as Viacom?

It was a conversation perfectly suited to the setting. Beer-stained wooden tables and the smell of hops complemented a free-flowing, spirited debate among hip young people in scruffy beards and T-shirts.

In 2007, this is church.

Theology at the Bottleworks is run by a wildly successful congregation of young St. Louisans called The Journey. The Schlafly program is part of the church’s outreach ministry. And it works.

Every month, dozens show up at the brewpub to drink beer and talk about issues ranging from racism in St. Louis to modern-art controversies to the debate about embryonic stem cell research. First-timers are invited to check out the church on Sunday, and Journey leaders say many have. Theology at the Bottleworks is just one of The Journey’s ministries, but it has helped the church grow from 30 members in late 2002 to 1,300 today.

The Rev. Darrin Patrick, The Journey’s founder and lead pastor, said its nontraditional approach is aimed at those who are not likely to attend church.

"We want to go where people are," he said. "We don’t expect them to come to us."

For nearly two years, the beer ministry has brought new members to the church. Now it’s being called unbiblical. The Journey defines itself as an interdenominational church, but it has a working relationship with the Missouri Baptist Convention.

In 2005, The Journey borrowed $200,000 from the Baptist organization to help buy and renovate a former Catholic church in St. Louis. In December, Baptist leaders began questioning the church’s methods of attracting worshippers, specifically its use of alcohol.

At last year’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, members overwhelmingly reaffirmed their traditional stance on alcohol by passing a resolution that expressed "our total opposition to the manufacturing, advertising, distributing and consuming of alcoholic beverages." Baptists within the denomination who oppose such a strict view of alcohol use argue that the Southern Baptist position is based on denominational tradition, not Scripture.

The Journey is part of what sociologists of religion call the emerging church movement.

"Emerging congregations offer a radically different style of worship that appeals to certain kinds of young folks," said Scott Thumma of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research.

The Rev. Bill Edwards, chairman of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s church planting subcommittee, said he had received a number of calls from Missouri Baptists complaining about The Journey’s Web site, some pages of which depict or suggest drinking beer and wine. Kerry Messer, a member of the Missouri Baptist Convention’s executive board, said that he had attended The Journey’s December Theology at the Bottleworks program and that what he had seen worried him.

"Beer being served as part of a church presentation sends mixed messages to the community and causes confusion," Messer said. "Had we known about this before the loan was approved, I would have openly spoken out against a financial relationship being established."

The Journey, he said, represents "a movement that compromises the positions, beliefs and doctrines of the Baptist church in order to attract people to theirs."

At the Missouri Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in October, the organization had a very different take on The Journey.

Executive director, the Rev. David Clippard, singled out the church in front of 1,200 Baptist leaders as an ideal model. Clippard noted The Journey’s median age of 29 and its explosive growth, raining praise on Patrick.

On a recent Sunday, 500 20-somethings, dressed in jeans and fleece jackets, carried Starbucks cups and dog-eared Bibles into The Journey’s nave before the 11 a.m. service, greeting each other with hugs and handshakes.

The music of Sufjan Stevens poured through the sound system as church notices flashed on the big screen above the sanctuary and the four wide-screen plasma monitors hanging above the pews. As the service began, a six-piece worship band played a few rousing tunes, and then Patrick, dressed in khakis and a brown sweater, began to preach.

For an hour, Patrick cited Genesis, Proverbs, Ephesians and 1 Corinthians to drive home his message for this Sunday: Men like risk. Men need to be challenged, and a "less-than-masculine" church is doing little to challenge them. Men need to take responsibility for their lives, their families, their spiritual well-being.

The goal of many pastors in emerging churches is to make Christianity relevant to young people. In his sermon, Patrick touched on a subject not often broached from a traditional pulpit, telling married men in his pews, "The hottest sex in St. Louis should be in your bedroom."

Its leaders’ willingness to take on issues that directly relate to their lives attracts many young people to The Journey.

"Younger people are looking for a sense of belonging," said church member Jason Froderman, 25.

Patrick said all the Journey campuses were united in one mission: to serve the poor in the city of St. Louis. That work puts The Journey and the Missouri Baptist Convention on the same page, Patrick said.

"We look at the Missouri Baptists as a group that wants to start churches and help the poor," he said. It was this common mission that led to the $200,000 from the Baptist organization, which Patrick said was an unsolicited loan.

Despite opposition from some Missouri Baptists, Patrick said he would continue working with the organization.

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