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Japanese Tourists Hit With “Paris Syndrome”

Eiffel Tower by night Originally uploaded by swinging girl. Reuters reports; Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Check out some of these cases: Already this year, Japan’s embassy in Paris

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No Tag at Recess Says School in Attleboro, MA

Playing Tag, 2 of 4 Originally uploaded by *CA*. 10News.com reports that the Willett Elementary School‘s principle Mrs. Heppe has banned playing tag at recess at the school. This includes not being able to play touch football! I guess kids have to resort to virtual football on their playstations and such. The school is afraid

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Another Bird Flew Into My Window!

Cute Bird… (?) Originally uploaded by chris lynch. Remember the last time a bird flew into my window? Well, it happened again, and I found this photo on Flickr of what happens to birds after they fly into strong windows. Yes, I know sad. I have a ton more details on why birds fly into

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Cell Phone 9 Scam on Sprint From Israel?

The other night, my wife gets a phone call on her cell phone. It is from an “unknown id” and the message is in Hebrew. She knows some Hebrew and she does have friends and family in Israel, so she listened to it. The message told her to press 9 to be forwarded to some

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Hives Come & Go?

The 2nd morning in a row my hands started itching and getting red. I thought it may be hives. I got hives once before, a really long time ago, and I remember it being similar. But this is weird. My hands get red botches, they begin to itch and the more I look at them

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26% of Teens Drive Drunk or on Drugs & Parents Are Clueless

I have been saving a few stories to blog about, and these seemed appropriate for the weekend. WebMD named one recent article 26% of Teens Drive Drunk or on Drugs and then a few days later wrote an other article named Teen Drinking, Drugs: Parents Unaware. More than one in four teens who drive say

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Horses Can Now Be Sold At Night in NYC

Rocking Horse Originally uploaded by Brandon Vrosh. I heard this on the radio in the AM and now I found a NY Post article showing how The New York City Council has changed an old law that didn’t allow the sale of horses 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said; “Laws

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Door Access Control System Goes Wrong at RustyBrick

We installed an access control system for our office like three or more years ago. Today, the system went bad. A device shorted and blew up, locking a few of the doors that device controlled. One of the rooms it locked was the main room where the RustyBrick programmers work in. We tried a bunch

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Man Bites Bear

Seriously, a man has taken a bite out of a panda bear’s back. The BBC News reports that a “drunken Chinese tourist says he bit a panda who attacked him after he jumped into a zoo enclosure to “hug” the bear.” The man’s name is Zhang Xinyan he is 35 years old and you can