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Our apartment complex is having problems with wild animals getting into the garbage bags people leave on the sidewalk. The leasing office sent out a mass email saying they were trying to solve the problem with "trap and relocate" and I really hope they were talking about the residents who leave their garbage out.

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Woman surprised to find poisonous snake in sneaker - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"A Hualien City resident named Lin Li-wei (林立維) said his wife had just put her foot into her sneakers when she felt something soft inside and that the shoe was very cramped. Upon looking inside the sneakers, she found a Taiwanese krait balled up inside, he said. Lin said they immediately called the fire department to help remove the snake from its temporary winter residence, which was accomplished without hassle. However, Lin’s wife was traumatized by the incident, saying she will never be able to wear her sneakers again." - JustDuckie - -

Kudos to the snake for finding a color-coordinating shoe, though! - Andrew C - [ 3 ] -

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Hark, a vagrant: 391 (http://www.harkavagrant.c... http://www.harkavagrant.c... )

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Woman fined $1,000 for trashing worker's office with glitter - The Denver Post (http://www.denverpost.com... )

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"A former clerk at an Ohio county's fiscal office has been fined $1,000 for trashing a co-worker's office with glitter and purple Silly String. A judge in Akron also ordered 25-year-old Samantha Lockhart on Tuesday to complete 50 hours of community service and to write an apology." - JustDuckie - -

Yeah, but she didn't *just* trash it with glitter. She also smashed photos, a computer, a scanner, a printer, and a keyboard. Surely $1,000 won't be enough to replace it all. - bentley - [ 3 ] -

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Reductress » Man Corners Woman to Explain He Is ‘One of the Good Ones’ (http://reductress.com/pos... )

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"“I’ve always been known as a strong supporter of women,” Raybould said as he stood three inches from Sabo, seemingly devoid of any self-awareness or irony. “Ask anyone who agrees with me. They’ll tell you the same thing.” The middle-aged husband and father then unleashed a non-stop verbal campaign for his own reputation that definitively proved that they didn’t know anything about him, men, women, or the world at large. Sabo made no comment out of fear that she’d never be released, while Raybould couldn’t stop making comments out of fear that he would lose the argument he himself had manufactured." - JustDuckie - -

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I think every woman has been stuck with that "Nice Guy" at one point. My convos always ended up in fistfights, because I had to prove I'm a "Nice Lady". - faboomama - [ 2 ] -

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This Target Store Just Got Trolled by Black Friday Ads With Hilariously Fake Deals | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"Jeff Wysaski, a comedian known for his work on Pleated Jeans and Obvious Plant, this week put his design skills to work and created a slew of Black Friday fliers, placing the poster-style ads at a local Target. (It's unclear which location had the honor of housing Wysaski's handiwork.) Check out the ads here, courtesy of the Obvious Plant Tumblr blog. Hey, who wouldn't want a free falcon (for purchases exceeding $75) after standing in line for hours to save on gifts? And doesn't a Skittles-branded TV sound, uh, yummy?" - JustDuckie - -

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And now I know what to get for the centaur in my life. - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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"In fact, the idea of dressing in outfits inspired by Disney characters even has a name: Disneybounding. For the uninitiated, the phenomenon has its very own and very popular Tumblr, devoted to women who fashion hipster versions of Disney-princess looks to wear when they visit the parks. The movement began due to a ban on dressing in character at the Disney parks, and Disneybounders' designs are a far cry from prefab children's Halloween costumes. Disneybounding aficionado Allison Erland told us that Disney recently loosened its all-out prohibition: "I know the dress code was much stricter a few years back. From what I understand as long as you're not in the park in a full costume, acting as the character and signing autographs, you're not going to get in any trouble." (Disney's posted dressing guidelines confirm that.) But that's not likely to change anything for Disneybounding devotees, who are still committed to tasteful interpretations rather than outright costumes. " - JustDuckie - -

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Aw, my Halloween costume was a sort of hipster take on Iron Fist, and since Marvel is owned by Disney now, I guess I was Disneybounding before I knew the term. - Andrew C - [ 2 ] -

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Giant Teddy Bear Not Allowed Atop Lamborghini Gallardo (http://www.motorauthority... http://images.thecarconne... )

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"A man in China found out that the passenger he was shuttling wasn't allowed to ride in his Lamborghini Gallardo. Well, in isn't the right word as this passenger was riding atop of the bright green Gallardo. The passenger in question was a giant teddy bear that the Lamborghini owner was bringing to his girlfriend. It was too large to fit in the passenger compartment, so the oversized fluffy guest had to be affixed to the roof of the car. Unfortunately, this meant it was smothering the engine cover, and may just have led to a toasty experience. According to Chinese website Weibo, where this photo was sourced, a police officer happened to be nearby filming a documentary and spotted the potentially hazardous roof rider. The driver was apparently later seen hopping into a cab to deliver the gift to his girlfriend. Might we recommend a slightly smaller bear in the future?" - JustDuckie - -

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Police: Woman allegedly dials 911 to lure police away from her location so she can drive home drunk | www.wpxi.com (http://www.wpxi.com/news/... http://media.cmgdigital.c... )

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"In an apparent attempt to mislead officers, a woman called 911 sending a police car away from her location so she could drive home intoxicated, police said Thursday. Hayley Oates reported to 911 dispatchers that a woman was being assaulted at a bar in northern New Jersey. Oats said the assailant was in a blue truck and quickly ended the call, according to a police statement. Police investigated the report, but found no evidence of assault or witnesses. Later security cameras confirmed that no assault had occured. Oates reportedly posted to social media: "lmao.. 2 mins later the cop peals out.. silly piggies tricks r for u." following the false report." - JustDuckie - -

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Or at least it might have worked if she hadn't posted it on social media. - John B. - [ 2 ] -

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The Gossamer Pleasures of Faerie Magazine - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"But what makes Faerie so wonderfully curious and deeply weird is that it’s a lifestyle publication for people who have a thing for faeries — a high-end fanzine. When it was founded in 2005, the magazine was aimed at the Renaissance Faire crowd, with articles about faerie artists, ads for festivals on the faerie circuit and instructions for making your own pair of wings out of pantyhose and galvanized steel wire. In its current, sleeker guise, the articles aren’t all about faeries, per se, but about the glittery, gossamer, twee or artisanal things faeries might take an interest in. Frost, amber, red mushrooms, shadow puppet theater, snowflake photography, Japanese Mori girls, an ice hotel in Quebec, Alan Cumming — the pieces cover anything and anyone, as long as the subject has a vague patina of enchantment. It’s as though Martha Stewart Living and Edmund Spenser’s ‘‘The Faerie Queene’’ had a magazine baby." - JustDuckie - -

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My thoughts exactly. - JustDuckie - -

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Russian Driver Replaces Car Tire With Log | News | The Moscow Times (http://www.themoscowtimes... http://www.themoscowtimes... )

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"A photograph of an odd-looking vehicle driving down the streets of St. Petersburg quickly went viral on Monday after being published on a VKontakte community page dedicated to traffic accidents in Russia's northern city. The photograph, taken by a witness from his car, shows a vehicle with a wooden log instead of a left rear wheel. "That guy was driving at 50 kilometers per hour, while everyone around pulled up, watching him," the photographer wrote on VKontakte. " - JustDuckie - -

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if it works, he's right u_u - eddie. - [ 2 ] -

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Watch: Darth Vader's robbery attempt foiled in Florida - UPI.com (http://www.upi.com/Odd_Ne... http://cdnph.upi.com/sv/b... )

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"Investigators said a man dressed as the Star Wars villain and armed with a silver handgun entered the 8 Til Late convenience store in Jacksonville Beach about 5:30 p.m. Sunday and demanded cash from the store clerk. Police said the clerk answered the Sith Lord's request by struggling with him and throwing a jar of blue cheese salad dressing, which struck the alleged robber in the helmet. The suspect fled, but witnesses outside the store got a quick glimpse of his face when he took off the helmet before driving away. The vehicle was located after an investigation and its owner, Jacob Jeremy Mercer, 32, of Tonawanda, N.Y., was located at a residence and arrested. Mercer, who was bleeding from the bridge of his nose, was identified by a witness as the man in the Darth Vader costume." - JustDuckie - -

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"The Tale of the Seven Sutherland Sisters and Their 37 Feet of Hair" - JustDuckie - -

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Man’s Tattoo A Constant Reminder of Time He Stabbed Panther In Face - The Hard Times (http://thehardtimes.net/2... http://i1.wp.com/thehardt... )

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“This one here, the panther? Yeah, stabbed it with a jewel-encrusted dagger I lifted from an ancient tomb,” said Stuart, rotating his bicep to show the large tattoo. “I didn’t want to do it, but there was no way I was letting some panther ambush our ragtag group of treasure hunters deep in the Amazon jungle.” - JustDuckie - -

"Many have mistakenly thought Stuart’s numerous tattoos were picked from a book of flash or obtained at tattoo conventions, but every single piece of art on Stuart’s body has unique significance. “When the Kraken rose from the depths and ripped our mast off the deck with a slimy tentacle, I knew we were in trouble,” said Stuart of the massive shipwreck tattoo on his chest and stomach. “I was stranded on that piece of driftwood for over 48 hours until I washed ashore in Japan.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Move Over Turducken, PIECAKEN Is The Dish To Beat This Thanksgiving (http://distractify.com/fo... http://wp-prod-02.distrac... )

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"It is a PIE BAKED INSIDE A CAKE. Yes, an entire pie. Yes, the combinations are virtually endless. Yes, your mind is blown right now." - JustDuckie - -

Hmm, last year I think it was called a "cherpumple". - Andrew C - [ 1 ] -

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"Right so there’s this dude named Tom his last name is Anderson and his screen name is Neo which is crazy because how was that not already taken" - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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SFBayReader | VISITING THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST - THE EMPORIUM (http://www.thesfbayreader... https://static.wixstatic.... )

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"Like the movie "A Miracle on 34th Street," there was once a magical place in San Francisco where you could go to meet “the real” Santa Claus. He of course reigned over the rooftops of this magnificient city, leaving his beloved reindeer nearby, but bringing with him instead a troop of elves to guide children through his rooftop wonderland. This once-upon-a-time was at The Emporium, where every Christmas the department store had a tradition called the Rooftop Holiday Carnival. Kids could ride a Ferris wheel, train, merry-go-round and visit with “the real” Santa at the venerable department store located at 835 Market Street. “To me, he was the real Santa, while other Santas in other stores were just his helpers,” said Tony Johnson, who grew up celebrating Christmas every year with the tradition of vising Santa at the Emporium." - JustDuckie - -

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Man steals beer truck in Columbus; runs himself over trying to escape - WSMV Channel 4 (http://www.wsmv.com/story... http://wtvm.images.worldn... )

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"A man has been arrested and taken to the hospital after stealing a beer truck and running himself over trying to elude police. Around 5:45 Monday morning, Columbus Police responded to the Circle K on the 1400 block Veterans Pkwy. where a man stole a Coors Light Beer Truck. The suspect led police on a chase, which ended at the Bojangles restaurant on Victory Dr. The suspect, 55-year-old Gregory Miller, jumped out of the semi-truck attempting to elude police. He jumped out of the semi-truck, and ran over his own leg. Miller was caught on the scene." - JustDuckie - -

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I am still trying to picture exactly how this went down. - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Students hold show targeting the fashionably dead - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... http://www.taipeitimes.co... )

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"Taiwanese traditionally buried their dead in funerary clothes — either mandarin jackets or western suits for men and cheongsams for women. However, in modern times, cremation and interment in a columbarium have became more prevalent, but the use of funerary clothing in cremations continues to be practiced nationwide. Sunday’s catwalk show featured 24 outfits designed by fashion students and a panel selected the three best designs and awarded them prizes. The show was intended to “encourage the younger generation to contribute new ideas so as to bring fashion to mortuary services that is utilitarian, environmentally friendly and innovative,” the organizers of the event said." - JustDuckie - -

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States Lead Effort to Let Pharmacists Prescribe Birth Control - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"Most Western countries require a doctor’s prescription for hormonal contraceptives like pills, patches and rings, but starting sometime in the next few months, women in California and Oregon will be able to obtain these types of birth control by getting a prescription directly from the pharmacist who dispenses them, a more convenient and potentially less expensive option than going to the doctor. Pharmacists will be authorized to prescribe contraceptives after a quick screening process in which women fill out a questionnaire about their health and medical histories. The contraceptives will be covered by insurance, as they are now." - JustDuckie - -

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The "Who Pays Writers" Conversation Needs a Little Nuance | Autostraddle (http://www.autostraddle.c... )

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"The Rumpus is not of the same world as The Huffington Post, and therein lies the problem with this conversation: somewhere along the line, in an important and valuable attempt to pay writers better, the issue of what any given publication could legitimately afford was thrown out the window. Paying writers = the right side of history, period. If you don’t have the financial backing of venture capital or a man with a lot of money, you shouldn’t even exist. Your continued dedication to existence is in fact offensive to the very writers you claim to nurture." - JustDuckie - -

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"If advertising was our only income stream, we’d be fucked, but it isn’t, so our revenue has grown every year regardless of outside factors, including traffic, which did suffer after the launch of A+ last summer. (Asking your readers to pay for writing is apparently uncouth; we were told we should, instead, invent a time-turner and devote ourselves to doing presentations at colleges.) Luckily, more and more readers have come to understand why we need A+ to survive, and have joined; thus, we still exist. We’re now able to pay all our contributors (between $25 – $100 a post, usually in the $35-$50 range), but it’s not what they could make writing for Buzzfeed, Refinery29, Slate or a Vox Media property. Sadly, it’s not much more than they could make writing for a lot of wealthy sites who crank out so much content a day that they actually manage to pay their writers less than sites like ours or feminist indie The Toast does. (Following Grantland’s shuttering, The Toast’s Nicole Cliffe shared some truly awesome real talk on how they’ve managed to survive an indie-hostile climate.) Most independent sites that attract niche groups like ours (queer women) will struggle to meet the demands of a populace whose zest for demanding better compensation for writers ignores the independent businesses who simply cannot without the financial support of that populace." - JustDuckie - -

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Rat climbs on sleeping NYC man, takes selfie - Fox 5 NY | WNYW (http://www.fox5ny.com/new... http://static.lakana.com/... )

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"First there was ‘pizza rat.’ Now, we have the 'selfie rat.' An out of towner and his friend were waiting for the subway when they saw a man sleeping near the tracks in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. A rat crawled onto the man's lap and somehow made his cellphone go off, taking a selfie. It was the flash that woke the man up, which alerted him to its presence!" - JustDuckie - -

NOPE. - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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There is no sense of satisfaction in life quite like having someone cut you off on the freeway and then seeing someone else cut them off.

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The only thing that matches it is seeing someone cut you off, and then seeing the state patrol swoop in and pull them over. - Jennifer D. - [ 5 ] -

I have yet to know such bliss, but one day my time will come. - JustDuckie - -

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Why don’t they bring back Ice-Skating Cocktail Waiters? | Messy Nessy Chic (http://www.messynessychic... http://static.messynessyc... )

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"In the 1920s and 30s at the Grand Hotel les Bains in St. Moritz, Switzerland, they had the right idea. The most senior of the hotels in St Moritz, winter playground of the rich and famous, was famous for the serving of drinks on its ice terrace by skating waiters, made famous by head waiter Renee Breguet, pictured above. It took some practice getting the rest of the staff to find their inner figure skaters, but waiting for waiters to take a spectacular fall while balancing expensive booze on a tray was obviously half the fun." - JustDuckie - -

The wealthy version of roller-skating waitresses at drive-in diners. - bentley - [ 1 ] -

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City543 » Following Amazon’s Footsteps, Taiwan’s Books.com.tw Opens Physical Bookstore (http://city543.com/taipei... http://static.city543.com... )

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"Situated by the 7-Eleven by National Taiwan University’s dormitory area, Books’ new store, however, does the exact opposite of what Amazon has done with its first new physical bookstore. Instead of buying physical books that are in sync with the e-commerce site’s massive online catalog, the store, a collaborative effort between Books and 7-Eleven, only offers previews of books; the actual purchasing still has to be done online through its website." - JustDuckie - -

"Books.com.tw has termed its new store The Future Bookstore (未來書店), and true to the name, Books presents two new features that would more likely appear in a sci-fi movie than a bookstore. The first is the Smart Shop Assistant, which is a screen with a webcam that will first scan the customer and determine his or her demographic data through face-recognition technology. Then based on the demographic result, the assistant will present a selection of books that the customer may like. If the suggestion hits the mark, customers can add it to their “like” list and later purchase the books online through customised QR codes on their app. The second feature is the iNTERPLAY technology, which projects images onto a desk that visitors can then interact with and receive tailored suggestions for books after a brief questionnaire. Again, purchasing will still have to be done through scanning QR Codes." - JustDuckie - -

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