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Cannon Fodder

Derrick Curtis, 29, also faces charges of prohibited use of a weapon, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
An employee at the Aurora restaurant told investigators that two Denver police officers were waiting for their food at the drive-through window May 21 when one grew impatient and pulled his gun.
No one was injured.
Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson told The Denver Post that Saunders had been suspended with pay andwould be put on unpaid leave once the department is formally notified of the charges.
I think if I found myself in a “Big Mac” queue and was lucky enough to have a gun, I would shoot myself.
Orgy outrage

Once a sleepy fishing village, Ayia Napa is popular with families for its pristine beaches but since 2000 has gained a reputation as a clubber's paradise, attracting hoards of young partygoers.
Giorgos Economou, a local police spokesman, told Reuters that similar stories about such cruises surfaced every year in the foreign press.
"The boats are checked every day by the port police and no evidence has been found as yet to suggest such activities are going on."
"But we wouldn't be able stop them when they're in the middle of the open seas doing their business," Economou said.
Story of my life, wrong place………..

Nester, a dairy steer raised by Jack, 16, tipped the scales at 2,157 pounds. That's far above the typical weight of 1,600 pounds.
"I'm eye-level with his back," Jack said. "He was a large calf when me and my dad pulled him."
A midget Holstein named Midge was 10-year-old Cal's creature, weighing in at 1,177 pounds.
The brothers, whose family owns a dairy farm with 300 cattle, entered the steers in the Fowlerville Family Fair through a 4-H club, hoping to take home grand champion and reserve awards for livestock.
They didn't win - Jack said the judge called his steer "too big" and Midge was deemed "too beefy-looking."
"I just like having him," Cal said of Midge. "It's really a good feeling."
And it wasn't a total loss. Nester could be sold for slaughter at $1 a pound, netting Jack more than $2,000.
"It's tough to see them leave, but you get used to it," he said.
Not that attached to them then.
It’s raining it’s, well drizzling

The result was that power failed In several neighbourhoods and 4000 houses had their roofs damaged, Schools were closed Tuesday so that officials can repair the damage.
The city of 170,000 people in northern Chile is in the heart of the barren Atacama Desert, squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. It averages about 0.02 inch (0.6 millimetres) of rain a year, according to University of Chile meteorologists.
Houses in the region are not built to resist rain and their roofs often have no slope for runoff.
Lucky for some.
That’s yer lot for today, I’m off to bed.
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