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5 meteorologists saved from polar bear siege

On an Arctic Circle island, located approximately 2,800 miles off the coast of Moscow, five meteorologists who were trapped in their weather station for two weeks after polar bears surrounded their weather station were finally able to leave.

The meteorologists sought shelter as they ran out of signal flares, which they had been using to scare away the animals. Their guard dog was also previously eaten by the polar bears, according to NBC News.

There was a possibility that the siege could last for another month because a ship would not be able to reach the islands in the Arctic Circle.

A research vessel took a detour to assist the trapped scientists, station supervisor Vasily Shevchenko told NBC News.

The ship was able to frighten away the bears using its helicopter. The weather station was also restocked with more flares and puppies.
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Sounds a little bit like an episode of

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http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...allegedly-smuggled-in-body-cavity-judge-hears

Canadian Mint employee accused of smuggling $180K of gold in his rectum
KELLY EGAN, OTTAWA CITIZEN
Published on: September 20, 2016 | Last Updated: September 20, 2016 6:37 PM EDT

An employee of the Royal Canadian Mint allegedly smuggled about $180,000 in gold from the fortress-like facility, possibly evading multiple levels of detection with a time-honoured prison trick.

Hiding the precious metal up his bum.

The case against Leston Lawrence, 35, of Barrhaven concluded in an Ottawa courtroom Tuesday. Justice Peter Doody reserved decision until Nov. 9 on a number of smuggling-for-cash charges, including theft, laundering the proceeds of crime, possession of stolen property and breach of trust.

The Uck! factor aside, the case was also an illuminating look at security measures inside the Mint, the building on Sussex Drive that produces hundreds of millions of gold coins annually for the federal Crown corporation.

“Appalling,” was the conclusion of defence lawyer Gary Barnes, who described the Crown’s case as an underwhelming collection of circumstantial evidence.

“This is the Royal Canadian Mint, your Honour, and one would think they should have the highest security measures imaginable,” Barnes said in his closing submission.

“And here the gold is left sitting around in open buckets.”

Indeed, it was not even the Mint that discovered the alleged theft but an alert bank teller.


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Dryden said:
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...allegedly-smuggled-in-body-cavity-judge-hears

Canadian Mint employee accused of smuggling $180K of gold in his rectum
KELLY EGAN, OTTAWA CITIZEN
Published on: September 20, 2016 | Last Updated: September 20, 2016 6:37 PM EDT

An employee of the Royal Canadian Mint allegedly smuggled about $180,000 in gold from the fortress-like facility, possibly evading multiple levels of detection with a time-honoured prison trick.

Hiding the precious metal up his bum.

The case against Leston Lawrence, 35, of Barrhaven concluded in an Ottawa courtroom Tuesday. Justice Peter Doody reserved decision until Nov. 9 on a number of smuggling-for-cash charges, including theft, laundering the proceeds of crime, possession of stolen property and breach of trust.

The Uck! factor aside, the case was also an illuminating look at security measures inside the Mint, the building on Sussex Drive that produces hundreds of millions of gold coins annually for the federal Crown corporation.

“Appalling,” was the conclusion of defence lawyer Gary Barnes, who described the Crown’s case as an underwhelming collection of circumstantial evidence.

“This is the Royal Canadian Mint, your Honour, and one would think they should have the highest security measures imaginable,” Barnes said in his closing submission.

“And here the gold is left sitting around in open buckets.”

Indeed, it was not even the Mint that discovered the alleged theft but an alert bank teller.


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No offense but this isn't that unusual.

I once smuggled a gibbon out of the zoo up my bum.
 
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Dryden said:
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...allegedly-smuggled-in-body-cavity-judge-hears

Canadian Mint employee accused of smuggling $180K of gold in his rectum
KELLY EGAN, OTTAWA CITIZEN
Published on: September 20, 2016 | Last Updated: September 20, 2016 6:37 PM EDT

An employee of the Royal Canadian Mint allegedly smuggled about $180,000 in gold from the fortress-like facility, possibly evading multiple levels of detection with a time-honoured prison trick.

Hiding the precious metal up his bum.

The case against Leston Lawrence, 35, of Barrhaven concluded in an Ottawa courtroom Tuesday. Justice Peter Doody reserved decision until Nov. 9 on a number of smuggling-for-cash charges, including theft, laundering the proceeds of crime, possession of stolen property and breach of trust.

The Uck! factor aside, the case was also an illuminating look at security measures inside the Mint, the building on Sussex Drive that produces hundreds of millions of gold coins annually for the federal Crown corporation.

“Appalling,” was the conclusion of defence lawyer Gary Barnes, who described the Crown’s case as an underwhelming collection of circumstantial evidence.

“This is the Royal Canadian Mint, your Honour, and one would think they should have the highest security measures imaginable,” Barnes said in his closing submission.

“And here the gold is left sitting around in open buckets.”

Indeed, it was not even the Mint that discovered the alleged theft but an alert bank teller.


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Nobody else is pointing out that the judge's name is Doody?!?
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I got a death threat from a guy who dialed the wrong number a few years ago.

It was hilarious.
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So, frosh year in Morrill I answered the phone in our room one night. Some girl on the other end of the line starts talking to me like I'm her boyfriend. After a couple of sentances I, politely mind you, ask her who she is. After telling her she has the wrong number she apologizes and hangs up... Nobody in our room nor suite by her boyfriend's name so I was pretty confident it was a wrong number.

Not even 10 seconds later the phone rings again. I tell her it's the wrong number again. Hang up.

Phone rings again. Tell her it's the wrong number again and then she accuses me of lying and asks me why I'm being such an asshole. Apparently letting her know that it was not her boyfriend on the other end of the line made me an asshole. Anyhow after a couple of minutes of trying to convince her that I was not who she though she was talking to I finally gave in. I copped to it. I admitted that it was me, her boyfriend.

So, after entertaining her for a couple more minutes she says, and this is no joke, "You really don't sound like yourself tonight."

I think to myself... "nooooooo shit, wonder why..."

So I broke up with her. I told her that I never wanted to see her again and told her to quit calling. I hung up the phone.

Couple of minutes later the phone rings again. I answer it again. This time it's one of her friends. She reads me the riot act for breaking up with her. I tell her friend that I really don't care and I'm sick of her shit... It's over. She yells some more and tells me that she's sending so and so (I guess the Brute Squad) over to kick my (read: her now exboyfriend's) ass.

I laughed and basically told her to tell them to bring it.

Sadly, I suspect, that night some dude got his ass kicked and lost his girl... and to this day has no idea what happened. Just bad luck I guesss.

Anyhow... It never dawned on me until later that the totally could have figured out what room they were calling since the phone numbers were basically sequential in the Towers. Suffice it to say, the Brute Squad never made it to our room.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Anyhow... It never dawned on me until later that the totally could have figured out what room they were calling since the phone numbers were basically sequential in the Towers. Suffice it to say, the Brute Squad never made it to our room.
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... thats the part that didn't dawn on you? not telling your new not gf to meet you in the part of the parking lot furthest from any light sources and to wear a skirt with no panties so she could finish her thoughts in person?
 
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Multiple clown sightings reported in Canfield

http://www.vindy.com/news/2016/oct/01/canfield-police-clown-sightings-occurred/?mobile

“A lot of people are choosing to partake in dressing up as clowns. We have had reports of people jumping out in front of traffic, standing in people’s yards,” said Police Chief Chuck Colucci. “It’s an extremely dangerous decision that these people taking part have made.”
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"Standing in people's yards"? Imagine some poor insomniac who thought they'd do a little late-night reading and chose Stephen King's It--and then made the unfortunate mistake of looking out of their window.
 
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LostLassie said:
Multiple clown sightings reported in Canfield

http://www.vindy.com/news/2016/oct/01/canfield-police-clown-sightings-occurred/?mobile



"Standing in people's yards"? Imagine some poor insomniac who thought they'd do a little late-night reading and chose Stephen King's It--and then made the unfortunate mistake of looking out of their window.
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I saw a theory that the initial clown sightings down in NC/SC were a viral marketing gimmick for the upcoming movie version of It, but that the more recent ones are just people being creepy. Apparently there were some clowns that threatened (via Twitter) some Grove City schools yesterday, but obviously nothing came from it.
 
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