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June 17, 2007
An Applebee's restaurant accidentally served a 2-year-old boy a margarita in a children's sippy cup. It was the second such incident at an Applebee's franchise in as many years. Kim Mayorga noticed her son making faces and pushing his cup, of what was supposed to be apple juice, away. When she opened the cup, she was hit with the smell of tequila and Triple Sec.
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May 22, 2007
Topics business, texas, church, jobs, storm, wives, houses, jesus, ice, charges, children, men and people
A small Texas town is worried that a cabinet maker who happens to have two wives and two dozen children will soon be their neighbor. Samuel Fischer is a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -- a denounced offshoot of the Mormon Church. Warren Jeffs, leader of the FCJC, currently awaits trial on charges he married off teenaged brides to older men.
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March 31, 2007
Topics hotel, flames, swimming, black, smoke, restaurants, pool, ice, newspaper, head, water, bare and foot
The hotel guests at the Edgewater Hotel and Waterpark in Minnesota had to run in their swimming trunks on Thursday after a fake volcano at the center of a swimming pool "erupted" giving out smoke. The 20-foot-tall plastic volcano started emitting black smoke and flames at about 6:40 p. m. because of a malfunctioning of the internal speaker. The flames were put out by firefighters and an automatic sprinkler head mounted above the volcano. However, the entire volcano melted during the "eruption. "
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March 29, 2007
A wristwatch buried by a Norwegian watchmaker at the North Pole three years ago traveled thousands of miles and was found last week. Niels Jakup Mortensen, 11, discovered the watch near his home at the Faeroe Islands, more than 1800 miles from the North Pole. According to Mortensen's mother the watch was enclosed in a small black box along with a letter that had been partially damaged by sea water, the Associated Press reports.
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March 20, 2007
A 19-year-old boy from Anoka, Mississippi got the ride of his life when a huge slab of ice broke off as he stood along the shoreline of the Mississippi river. Amos Benjamin Cohen was spotted by Sue Hillberg, who was sitting at the kitchen table at her mother's Mississippi River-side house in Anoka.
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