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April 6, 2007
Apparently, it won't be a Good Friday for some in the town of Newcastle in England. A pastor has banned children under 12 years of age from his Good Friday service because he will instead be showing clips from Mel Gibson's controversial movie The Passion of The Christ. What's more, the pastor also slammed the modern Easter holiday for being "sentimentalized with eggs and fluffy chickens". The pastor, Mark Elder, 45, of Heaton Baptist Church says: "The Easter story is not pretty and I want to get across the true un-cut version. It's effectively an X-certificate service," according to Ananova.
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March 22, 2007
A 24-year-old man who walked into Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis with a gunshot wound to his arm claims that his 2-year-old son had allegedly taken the gun from his mother's purse and fired it at him. According to police reports, the kid's mother was also at home along with her 4-year-old son when the accident took place, but they were in the adjacent room. There was no other witness to the shooting.
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March 5, 2007
A moose apparently annoyed by being shot with a tranquilizer dart charged the rear rotor of a hovering helicopter, colliding with it and eventually bringing it down to the ground. The pilot and a wildlife biologist aboard the helicopter were not injured in the incident but the moose had to be euthanized. As a part of his study on moose, biologist Kevin White shot the animal with a tranquilizer dart and followed it while the pilot maneuvered the helicopter to keep the animal from slipping into a tight space or collapsing in water and drowning, Doug Larsen, regional supervisor for the Division of Wildlife Conservation told the Anchorage Daily news.
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February 26, 2007
A painting by a Norwegian man who pasted bills equivalent to $16,300 to the canvas was stolen from the gallery where it was displayed over the weekend, Oslo's MGM Gallery said Monday. The robbers broke into the gallery overnight Saturday by smashing a window and cut all the cash out of the canvas. After they left only the frame that formerly housed artist Jan Christensen's 6. 5-by-13-foot painting "Relative Value" remained.
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February 26, 2007
A painting by a Norwegian man who pasted bills equivalent to $16,300 to the canvas was stolen from the gallery where it was displayed over the weekend, Oslo's MGM Gallery said Monday. The robbers broke into the gallery overnight Saturday by smashing a window and cut all the cash out of the canvas. After they left only the frame that formerly housed artist Jan Christensen's 6. 5-by-13-foot painting "Relative Value" remained.
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