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Author Topic: True Stories Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-24-2005 04:59 PM                        Rated G Rat Owners Seek Grooming for Their Pets LA VERNE, Calif. (Oct. 21) - Karri Garrison is getting rid of that cliche about dirty rats - one rodent at a time. Grooming isn't just for dogs anymore, and many pet owners are bringing in their rats to groomers like Garrison, who uses waterless shampoo to make their coats shine and smell sweet. Customers at Katie's Pet Depot in La Verne, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles, began requesting rat grooming soon after the store opened nearly two years ago. Employees began researching rats and even adopted some. "We need to be there for all our clients," Garrison said. "I think we might be the only place around that grooms rats." One of the clients was named Jewel, a half-pound, white-and-yellow hooded rat owned by a local high school student. The $10 treatment included clipping her claws, spraying her with the waterless shampoo, and using a product that kills fleas and mites. Garrison and two other employees, Laurie Torres and Gloria Ferguson, also groom guinea pigs, mice, and rabbits. They said small pets can bring big challenges. "The most difficult part of grooming rats is trimming their nails," Garrison said. "They have very small feet." Ferguson recommends pet owners get their animals groomed at least once a month to protect them from parasites. "I love rats," she said. "It's an obsession to me. Sometimes when they get nervous they (urinate) but they don't usually bite. We know how to handle them because that's what we do."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-27-2005 08:10 AM                        Rated G AB Hummer Limo Carjacked A Hummer limo filled with people celebrating a birthday party turned into a wild ride early Sunday after a man attempted to steal it, San Antonio Police said. What the suspect did not realize was there were 15 people in the back of the limo. Twenty-one-year-old Noe Ochoa was arrested, police said. He was held down by people in the limo until officers arrived. Party-goers could not believe what was happening. “The Hummer starts to move and everybody's like, ‘What's going on?’” Kenneth Thornton said. His friends had rented the limo for Kenneth’s 28th birthday. The limo driver was apparently in the back talking to one of the 15 the passengers when Ochoa jumped in to the Hummer, police said. Thorton crawled through the privacy window to stop the suspected carjacker. “I flip the park on the Hummer, and it screeches us to a halt,” Thorton said. “Then, I put him in a choke hold until they can get out and pull him out.” Ochoa appeared before a judge early Sunday with a black eye and several cuts. He was charged with stealing the limo. Ochoa told police his friends ditched him so he needed a ride. Ochoa remained in the Bexar County Jail Sunday night  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-27-2005 08:15 AM                        Rated G Alice Detroit Man Wakes After EMS Declares Him Dead Oct-21-2005 A Detroit man woke after being declared dead at about noon on Wednesday, Local 4 reported. Louis Golson, 51, was pronounced dead by EMS crews that responded to the home on the 13000 block of Mapleridge on Detroit's east side, where he lives with his sister, Lisa McCloud, and her husband. McCloud's husband went downstairs to Golson's basement bedroom to check on him and found that he wasn't moving and was unresponsive. A short time after EMS arrived at the home, they came upstairs to tell the family that Golson was dead. The crew apparently claimed the 116 pound man had died in his bed overnight and rigormortis had begun to set in. "They told me to call the doctor, to sign the death certificate (and) they will not have to take him to the morgue, that the funeral home can come and get him," said Golson's niece, Kimberly Golson. McCloud said she started notifying family members that he had passed while EMS waited at the scene for police. At about 2 p.m., when Golson's other sister, Deborah Golson, went downstairs to check on his body, he opened his eyes and moved his arms, the station reported. Police responding to the scene also confirmed that the 51-year- old was not dead. "When the police came, the police took the light, flashed the light into his eyes and the police realized he was alive," McCloud said. Golson was rushed to St. John Hospital, where doctors determined that the diabetic had suffered a sugar attack. He was treated and is recuperating in a hospital bed, the station reported. Deborah Golson told Local 4 that she believes the incident is part miracle and part mistake. A captain with the Detroit EMS squad said the case is under investigation and a report was being prepared to hand over to the chief's desk to determine if the EMS workers will face any punishment.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-27-2005 08:17 AM                        Rated G Alice Serviceman's Wallet Found After 43 Years October 24, 2005 PITTSBURGH -- A worker found a wallet that was stolen from a serviceman 43 years ago in a Pittsburgh bus station. Robert Gibson, who had been in the Air Force, got a call about the wallet Thursday from an Army captain in Pittsburgh. "Before he could even say a word, I said, 'You found my wallet,'" said Gibson, 70, of Linwood, N.C. "How it got where (it was found) I don't know. I haven't taken a shower in a bus station since." Gibson stopped in Pittsburgh while returning from serving almost a year and half in Germany as a staff sergeant repairing airplanes. He had decided to take a hot shower before boarding his bus to Clarksburg, W.Va., in 1962. LeRoy Fillmore, an asbestos removal technician, found the wallet Wednesday in the former Greyhound station, which is being demolished. "You will find some stuff, but nothing as interesting as this," Fillmore said. Fillmore found it near some pipes he was inspecting and clearing of asbestos. After noticing an Air Force identification card, Fillmore called an Army recruiting office, where Capt. Jason Hearn was able to track down Gibson. Gibson was happy to have his wallet back, even though it was empty of the $300 he had. "I want it for sentimental reasons," he said. "It's not every hip 'n' stitch that someone finds the wallet they lost 40 years ago."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-28-2005 01:03 PM                        Rated G Michele No one is insignificant in God's eyes, and His care for sparrows, finches, eagles, and elephants is a constant reminder that He cares for you, and for me. What He makes, He cherishes. Consider the elephants of the Pavilion Hotel in Phuket, Thailand, where one of the most popular attractions is elephant rides. As many as eight people on one elephant, first into the surrounding forest, then down to the beach, to lunch at a fresh water lagoon, then back to the hotel. "Our nine elephants," writes Pavilion Hotel Group manager Jim France, "are kept chained to in-ground posts, not because they need to be, but because it makes the tourists feel better because their children seem safe from a tromping when they're feeding the beasts." "About twenty minutes before the first wave of the recent Tsunami hit, the elephants became extremely agitated and unruly. Four had just returned from a trip and their handler's had not yet chained them. In a desperate panic, the four elephants helped the other five tear free from their chains. They all then climbed a hill and started bellowing. Many people followed them up the hill. Then the waves hit." "After the waves subsided, the elephants charged down from the hill, and started picking up children with their trunks and running them back up the hill. When all the children were taken care of, they started helping the adults." "God's elephants" rescued forty-two people that day. Then, they returned to the beach and carried up four dead bodies, including one of a child. Not until the task was done did they allow their handlers to mount them. Then, with handlers atop, they began movin wreckage. So remember, whatever God makes, He cherishes. Including elephants, sparrows, and you.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-01-2005 10:27 AM                        Rated G POLICE SAY WOMAN USED STOLEN CARD IN LOTTERY MEDFORD, Ore. (Oct. 28) - A woman bought a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million with a stolen credit card and could wind up with nothing if convicted, police said. Christina Goodenow, 38, of White City in southern Oregon faced numerous theft-related charges, forgery and possession of methamphetamine, said authorities, who searched her home Thursday. The card belonged to a deceased relative, they said. If convicted of any of the charges, Goodenow will not be able to collect prize money from the winning ticket, said police Lt. Tim George. Oregon Lottery officials refused to discuss specifics of the case because an investigation is still under way. "I'll be fascinated to see how this shakes out," Lottery spokesman Chuck Baumann said. "In my 12 years with the Oregon Lottery, this is the first time I've encountered something like this." Goodenow purchased the winning ticket Oct. 9 using a credit card that had belonged to her mother-in-law, who died more than a year ago, police said. Goodenow traveled to Oregon Lottery headquarters in Salem on Oct 12 to accept an installment payment of $33,500. The $1 million grand prize is paid out over 20 years. Detectives began tracking Goodenow on Wednesday after learning that she had used the credit card to purchase several items, including the ticket. A search warrant served at her home Thursday turned up some methamphetamine, but little money, George said. "Our investigation is still trying to determine what happened to the $33,500," George said.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-10-2005 10:42 AM                        Rated G Lorraine POSTCARD ARRIVES 50 YEARS LATER STOCKHOLM (Nov. 7) - A Swedish postcard bearing a lottery number arrived 50 years after being sent to a retirement home on the Baltic island of Gotland. The card to a former employee at the Avallegarden retirement home in Klintehamn was mailed by a friend in Finspang, some 90 miles away on the Swedish mainland. Sent in October 1955, it arrived last month. "Now and again a letter that has gone astray like this surfaces somewhere ... but it is very unusual," Swedish Post Office spokesman Markus Trautmann said Monday. The postcard included the number of a lottery ticket that the two women bought together, local paper newspaper Gotlands Allehanda reported. It was not known if they won.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-10-2005 02:05 PM                        Rated G Old but Interesting I think I can top the person who wrote complaining about the idiocy of the phone company. Talk about garbage in, garbage out! When AT&T split with Bell, we had three phones in our house. The equipment belonged to Ma Bell and the service belonged to AT&T. After we returned all the phone equipment to Ma Bell, we received a bill for $0.00. A few weeks later, we received a check for $5 and a note thanking us. Several months later, we received another computerized bill for $0.00. We called again, got nowhere, so we sent another check for $0.00. A few weeks later we received another $5 refund with the same thank you. This went on every three months for two years. Now we are down to once a year and have given up trying to straighten this out. We just cash the $5 and forget about it. -- Linda K. R. in California  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-13-2005 09:35 PM                        Rated G Sue Bee Bizarre news - Lewis Have you folks read this story? It seems a young woman has been robbing banks in the northern Virginia area, hitting four Wachovia branches in recent weeks (it's nice to see that kind of loyalty in this day and age, isn't it?). The odd part is that she has done it every single time while holding an in-depth cell phone conversation. Police are calling her the "cell phone bandit." They're speculating that she could be using the phone to make herself seem more inconspicuous, or maybe she's using it to make herself feel more relaxed while committing the crimes, or maybe she's talking with a lookout outside in the parking lot, or maybe she's talking with a partner, or maybe she's talking with her mother. In other words, nobody has the first clue about what she's doing. Whatever it is, it's working. They haven't laid a finger on her. Personally, I think the conversations are going something like this, "Dude, you'll never guess what I'm doing right now. No, go ahead, guess. No. Nope. Not even close!"  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-21-2005 10:25 AM                        Rated G Chris True storys about medieval times. What knowledge did medieval people have in the way of health? There were many myths and superstitions about health and hygiene in medieval Europe, as there still are today. People believed, for example, that disease was spread by bad odors. It was also assumed that diseases of the body resulted from sins of the soul. Many people sought relief from their ills through meditation, prayer, pilgrimages, and other nonmedical methods. Did they really think that all illness was the result of sin? Sin was regarded by early medieval authors as the cause of sickness in the sense that without sin there would have been no material evil. This obviously does not imply that a sinful individual would become sick. One's own general sinfulness was often given as the cause of one's own sickness. This was more a result of a kind of a "guilt trip" rather than actual cause and effect occurrence. What was their view on the body and its 'humors?' The body was viewed as a part of the universe, a concept derived from the Greeks and Romans. Four humors, or body fluids, were directly related to the four elements: fire=yellow bile or choler; water=phlegm; earth=black bile; air=blood. These four humors had to be balanced. Too much of one was thought to cause a change in personality--for example, too much black bile could create melancholy. What did they use in the form of medicine? Medieval remedies were often herbal in nature, but also included ground earthworms, urine, and animal excrement. Many medieval medical manuscripts contained recipes for remedies that called for hundreds of therapeutic substances--the notion that every substance in nature held some sort of power accounts for the enormous variety of substances. Did everyone have access to a doctor? In medieval times, medical treatment was available mainly to the wealthy, and those living in villages rarely had the help of doctors, who practiced mostly in the cities and courts. Many treatments were administered by people outside the medical tradition. Coroners' rolls from the time reveal how lay persons often made sophisticated medical judgments without the aid of medical experts.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-11-2006 08:50 AM                        Rated G cutie pa2ti TRUE... Question: The names of 48 states are engraved on the frieze of the Lincoln Memorial, which was completed in 1922. How many are in the etching of the memorial on the back of the $5 bill? Answer: Twenty-six. Use a magnifying glass to check--they're in two rows on the frieze above the colonnade.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-12-2006 02:08 PM                        Rated G BostonBlackie Now, what I did to a guy I didn't like one night is a classic: I saw him at a restaurant with his "other woman" seated in the corner of the restaurant trying to be inconspicuous. I went to the head waiter and told him I wanted to send a cake over to my friend's table since he and his "wife" were celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary. If you've ever been to a place like Bennigans where the waiters and waitresses come singing and banging pots when they deliver a cake to your table, you can imagine what happened next. Four waiters and three waitresses carrying a cake with a sparkler marched over to their table singing "Happy Anniversary, Carole and Mark...Happy...Happy...Happy Anniversary." Talk about someone looking for the exits!  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-19-2006 02:27 PM                        Rated G My wife and I were traveling on the Kansas Turnpike, bucking 30 to 45 m.p.h. crosswind. At the tollbooth, I asked the attendant, "What do you people do in Kansas when the wind quits?" The tollbooth attendant didn't miss a beat. She answered, "We take the rocks out of our pockets."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-26-2006 01:25 PM                        Rated G B.B. Alesha Johnson was among 25 children at a nursery who each launched a message in a bottle last July. She drew a picture of a smiley face with her name and included a sticker with the nursery's address inside the bottle. A ten-year-old boy called Bob found the bottle six months later in a boatyard near Perth 9,000 miles away, reports The Sun. He made a copy of Alesha's original note and returned it to Time For Nursery in Heysham. He also wrote a letter to Alesha. Her mum. Sonia Matthews, 27, of Heysham, Lancs, said: "We went down to Morecambe Bay and she could barely throw the cola bottle beyond her feet. "I just assumed it would be washed straight back and forgot all about it. But then the nursery called us to say it had made it all the way to Australia. I couldn't believe it."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-05-2006 12:27 PM                        Rated G B.B. A Methodist dentist, Dr. Thomas Welch, objected to the church's use of fermented wine in the communion service. Experimenting at night in his kitchen he came up with a nonalcoholic grape beverage, which he named "Dr. Welch's Unfermented Wine." He approached church officials to persuade them to substitute his beverage for the traditional wine. The elders regarded his suggestion as being an unacceptable innovation. A son, Charles, who was also a dentist, changed the name to Welch's Grape Juice. He set up a production facility in a barn behind the family home. Response was so overwhelming that he gave up dentistry and devoted full time to making and distributing grape juice. The rest is history!  |  IP: Logged

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