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June 16, 2008
Topics lottery, window, linda, electricity, rain, lightning, teenager, foot, play, hand, health, girl and hospital
A 16-year-old girl survived being struck by lightning and won lottery the following day. BreAnna Helsel was at her family's Blanchard home was watching thunderstorms on June 6. Rain was entering through an open kitchen window and just as she was about to close the window, she got hit by lightning.
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June 4, 2008
A 21-year-old prankster suffered deep cuts in his bare buttocks after pressing them against a restaurant window, breaking the glass. According to local authorities, the man, along with two other friends, decided to run around the area with their pants down and their bottoms exposed.
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May 29, 2008
Low thermostat settings in the office is driving up the sales of space heaters even during summer. According to Tom Flippo, manager at Bering's on Bissonnet, while the bulk of their heaters are sold during winter, an average of 100 space heaters are purchased during the hot months. Most of the buyers are office workers who find the thermostat setting too low for comfort. According to Don Young, vice president of the International Facility Management Association, the top two complaints of office workers in various countries were the office was too cold or too hot.
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May 27, 2008
Police here got the surprise of their lives Sunday when they discovered a dead turkey when responding to a break-in at a business establishment. Officer Paula Hensell was conducting her regular patrol Sunday morning when she spotted the front window of one of the businesses was broken.
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May 21, 2008
Topics police, wet, subway, clubs, homeless, bars, window, hot, toilet, island, nature and leaves
New York's commuters are up in arms against the five-hour simultaneous closing of all 78 subway toilets from midnight to 5 a. m. The New York Transit, through spokesman Charles Seaton, defended the new policy implemented the past few weeks, as its way of making the riding public more comfortable by setting exclusive window hours for its maintenance staff to clean the toilets.
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