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October 26, 2006
What Halloween pranksters probably don't know is that throwing raw eggs at someone could potentially cause permanent eye damage. According to a recent study published in the British "Emergency Medicine Journal," the raw egg toss that accidentally hits a human eye can be serious enough to lead to blindness.
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September 10, 2006
he Borders Council is seeking to slap an anti-social behavior order against the owner of a cockerel which crows too early and too loudly. According to the Scotsman, the council is demanding Kenneth Williamson to keep his three year-old rooster, named Charlie, silent between 11pm and 7am. If he fails to do so, he will be declared an Asbo.
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July 18, 2006
Topics eggs, egg, thailand, underwear, sydney, birds, wild, girlfriend, australia, airport, man and police
A judge hearing the case of a man who was caught with six eggs from endangered species in his underwear as he was about to board a plane rejected his claim Monday that he was taking the eggs overseas "to surprise his girlfriend. " Wayne Frederick Floyd was flying from an airport in Sydney, Australia, to Bangkok, Thailand, when he was caught with the eggs in November. Police strip-searched him after they detected an abnormal bulge around his groin area during a frisk.
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July 13, 2006
A farmer in a Kazakhstan village claims his chicken laid an egg with the word "Allah" written on its shell. Bites Amantayeva, from the village of Stepnoi in eastern Kazakhstan, tells state news agency Kazinform, "Our mosque confirmed that it says 'Allah' in Arabic. "
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May 17, 2006
Ian Mucklejohn is the UK's first man to have his own children without having a female partner. The 58-year-old businessman decided to contact an American egg donor, have her eggs fertilized with his sperm in California and pay a surrogate to carry the babies. If he had done it in the UK, it would have been illegal.
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