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Grace is a 90 year old woman from Near Chicago, Illinois, USA

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  • 7online.com: Brooklyn woman finds 7-foot python in her...

    Rated Oct 18 2007 • 3 reviews • bizarre, news, snakes • go.com

    A 38-year-old Brooklyn woman got quite a surprise when she used her bathroom Monday morning.

    The New York Daily News is reporting that Nadege Brunacci was washing her hands when she glanced at the toilet and saw a 7-foot python staring back at her.
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    7online.com: Brooklyn woman finds 7-foot python in her toilet 10/17/07

  • http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7222473

    Rated Oct 17 2007 • 1 review • news • kltv.com

    Dallas police say a homeowner today fatally shot an intruder after his parrot alerted him that someone was on the property.

    Dennis Baker, who keeps several pet birds, said his Mexican Red-headed parrot "Salvador" said "hello" when he sees someone.

    As a man passed by a window at his home, Salvador began saying "Hello, hello," awaking Baker.

    Baker approached 46-year-old John Woodson in a detached garage -- and shot him.

    Woodson died at a hospital.
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    http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7222473

  • http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9XbXTkj2kUccFxk9XTVAe...

    Rated Oct 12 2007 • 1 review • animals, news • google.com

    Oh sure, blame it on the cat!

    In Greenville, Maine, Thumper, black Labrador retriever, is getting credit for saving a Greenville man when a fire swept through his home.

    Roland Cote said his wife and their 7-year-old grandson were away when the blaze started early Sunday in a converted two-story garage. He said Thumper grabbed him by the arm to wake him, leaving just enough time for him to dial 911 before fleeing the fast-moving fire.

    While the dog is the hero, a cat is the bad guy in this story.

    Cote said the fire marshal investigator believes the blaze was started when Princess, the family cat, tipped over a kerosene lantern. Cote says he and his pets escaped safely, but he says Princess did get her tail singed by the flames.
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    http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9XbXTkj2kUccFxk9XTVAeQ_n04AD8S6O88G0

  • http://www.sanluisobispo.com/breakingnews/story/157330.html

    Rated Oct 04 2007 • 2 reviews • news • sanluisobispo.com

    Getting rid of a dead blue whale is proving no easy feat.

    More than a week after a 70-foot whale carcass was hauled out to sea, the creature's putrid remains washed back to shore.

    The whale was initially found last month floating in the Santa Barbara Channel. Scientists pulled it ashore to test the remains and establish how it died. On Sept. 22, after declaring the rare sea giant died in a collision with a ship, they towed the carcass about 10 miles out to sea.

    But on Sunday, the dead whale washed onto Broad Beach in Malibu. Lifeguards quickly towed the stinking remains back into the ocean, but were concerned the carcass could wash ashore again.

    "We just wish the darned thing would sink," wildlife biologist Joe Cordaro said.
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  • http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070929/ap_on_he_me/killer_am...

    Rated Oct 01 2007 • 1 review • news • yahoo.com

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    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070929/ap_on_he_me/killer_amoeba

  • Creating a Cute Cat Frenzy - TIME

    Rated Jul 16 2007 • 8 reviews • news • time.com

    Take a picture of a cat doing something cute. Then make up a caption--something witty that the cat would be saying if cats could talk. Bear in mind that cats can't spell all that well and that they're not so hot on subject-verb agreement either. Photoshop the caption onto the image, and post your creation on a blog. What you get is lolcats: lol for laugh out loud, cats for cats.

    What you also get is the reigning instance of an Internet meme, a running gag that won't stop running but instead reproduces and mutates in the petri dish of the Net's collective imagination. A Google search for lolcats returns 3.3 million results. The website icanhascheezburger.com the definitive lolcats archive, gets 200 to 500 submissions a day. "The breadth of cultures [lolcats] has spread to is mind-boggling," says one of the site's two curators, who prefer to remain anonymous. "We think it has evolved beyond Internet subculture and is hitting the mainstream."
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    Creating a Cute Cat Frenzy - TIME

  • Iguana Causes Power Outage In Florida Keys - News Story -...

    Rated Jun 21 2007 • 1 review • bizarre, news, reptiles • wftv.com

    BIG PINE KEY, Fla. -- An iguana walking across a high-voltage electrical transformer caused a brief power outage for 27,000 Lower Keys and Key West electrical customers Tuesday.

    A spokesman for Keys Energy Services said the iguana plopped down on a transformer at the Big Pine Key electrical substation. That caused a main transmission line circuit breaker to open.

    Power was restored to most customers in 20-minutes.

    Keys Energy Services says the iguana survived, but lost some of its tail.

    Photo credit: Melissa Kaplan's Herp Care Collection
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    Iguana Causes Power Outage In Florida Keys - News Story - WFTV Orlando

  • Man Stealing Snakes Ends Up With Life-Threatening Bite -...

    Rated Jun 19 2007 • 1 review • bizarre, news, snakes • wftv.com

    BUSHNELL, Fla. -- A Sumter County man was in an Orlando hospital, Monday, with a poisonous snake bite. Deputies said a rattlesnake, which the man stole, was the one that bit him.

    One snake expert said, before you steal something, read the sign on the cage: "Danger, venomous reptiles. Authorized personnel only. Do not enter."

    You can't get much simpler than that. But, Sumter County deputies said, 20-year old Jonathon Lafever ignored the warning. They said he broke into a shed behind a home along Northwest Street in Bushnell and stole five snakes, but one of them, a banded rock rattlesnake, bit him.
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    Man Stealing Snakes Ends Up With Life-Threatening Bite - News Story - WFTV Orlando

  • http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070308/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_chi...

    Rated Mar 08 2007 • 1 review • humor, news • yahoo.com

    Yahoo News reports a story about animal research centre in northern China which has appealed to the world for help to fashion an artificial leg for a panda that lost a limb -- along with its sex life -- in a fight.

    The headline?

    Legless panda needs a hand to improve sex life

    Well, it caught my attention . . .
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  • http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,210364...

    Rated Jan 11 2007 • 4 reviews • nature, news, birds, bizarre • news.com.au

    THOUSANDS of birds have fallen from the skies over Esperance (Australia)and no one knows why.
    Is it an illness, toxins or a natural phenomenon? A string of autopsies in Perth have shed no light on the mystery.

    All the residents of flood-devastated Esperance know is that their "dawn chorus" of singing birds is missing.

    The main casualties are wattle birds, yellow-throated miners, new holland honeyeaters and singing honeyeaters, although some dead crows, hawks and pigeons have also been found.

    Wildlife officers are baffled by the "catastrophic" event, which the Department of Environment and Conservation said began well before last week's freak storm.

    On Monday, Esperance, 725km southeast of Perth, was declared a natural disaster zone.

    District nature conservation co-ordinator Mike Fitzgerald said the first reports of birds dropping dead in people's yards came in three weeks ago. More than 500 deaths had since been notified. But the calls stopped suddenly last week, reportedly because no birds were left.

    "It's very substantial. We estimate several thousand birds are dead, although we don't have a clear number because of the large areas of bushland," Mr Fitzgerald said.
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    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21036489-5006789,00.html