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December 7, 2005
A South Florida store, specializing in high-tech toys and gadgets, loses some $3200 in merchandise after a couple uses their baby stroller to steal four pricey remote-controlled cars. Despite The Hobby Superstore's sixteen surveillance cameras and warning sign at the front of the building, owner Wally Warrick admits the thieves got away with four cars worth $870 each Sunday afternoon.
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November 23, 2005
The U. S. Public Interest Research Group's latest holiday-time survey finds dozens of toys, still available on store shelves, contain hazards to children's safety. Dangerous toys include old standards such as latex balloons, as well as newer gadgets like yo-yo water balls - both described in the survey as potential choking hazards.
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November 19, 2005
Topics sex, nudity, singapore, toys, pornography, dancing, marketing, stars, movies, porn, strip, image, magazine, television, city and police
For a country that is known for being on the bottom of the list for most sexually-active nations, it is no surprise that Singapore's media watchdogs would pull the nudity and sex toys out of public viewing for this year's Sexpo 2005. The exhibition, which prohibits anyone under the age of 21, is seen as a milestone for the tightly controlled city-state that bans pornography and has tight censorship laws that routinely cut nudity and sex scenes from movies.
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October 12, 2005
Topics help, creative, hurricanes, toys, stuff, cross, spread, homes, hurricane, heart, schools, lost, girl, food, children, money and people
An 8-year-old little girl with a compassionate heart and very loose tooth found a creative way to help people displaced by the hurricanes. Briton Nordmeyer of Brandon, South Dakota mailed her tooth to the Red Cross chapter in Sioux Falls, in hopes the tooth fairy would leave money with the charity instead of under her pillow.
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October 8, 2005
"EAT MOR CHIKIN" is a slogan tens of millions of Americans have come to know at local Chick-fil-A's across the nation. The successful advertising campaign has spawned off stuffed cow toys, calendars, mugs, and T-shirts that feature cows sending messages to possible customers to ignore beef and eat more chicken. Now somebody in Virginia has stolen the chicken mascot from a large 50-foot high billboard along Interstate 464 in Chesapeake.
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