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<b>Nuns sue NYC tenants over 'vomit-like' food smells</b>
3 days ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Nuns who own a New York City apartment house have filed a lawsuit saying a tenant couple is stinking up the building with "horrible" food smells "similar to that of vomit or rotten meat." The lawsuit by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart Inc. says Gloria and Michael Lim are causing "foul and harmful odors" to come from their 16th floor apartment by cooking and smoking large quantities of fish.

Court papers said one tenant thought a dead body was decomposing in the East 19th Street apartment and called the Fire Department.

The lawsuit asks that the Lims be required to stop causing the "noxious" odors and pay legal fees and damages of at least $50,000.

Andrew Bittens, a lawyer for the nuns, declined to comment, and a call to the Lims wasn't immediately returned.


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<i>Sounds like the same people that live beside us - whatever they eat can't possibly be good for you. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> </i>
 
<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Man melting snow with blowtorch ignites home<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
<b>He wanted to clear back porch, instead he's got $30,000 in damage</b>

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - Fire officials in New Bedford, Mass., say a man using a blowtorch to melt ice on his back porch ended up setting his house on fire, causing up to $30,000 in damage.

Fire Capt. Scott Kruger tells The Standard-Times of New Bedford that no one was injured during Monday's incident at the three-story home.

Kruger says the man was using a torch hooked up to a 20-pound propane cylinder. He got too close to the building's wood frame and ignited the vinyl siding. The fire quickly spread into the building's second- and third-floor apartments.

It took 25 firefighters to subdue the blaze that damaged bedrooms in the upstairs units, and caused damage to the structure and wiring.

The homeowner will not be charged.
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> Hasn't this guy heard of Ice Melt?
 
<b>Man tries to go home for holidays - by fire truck</b>
8 hours ago

SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) — What kind of mileage does that thing get? Police in South Salt Lake, Utah, have arrested a man they say tried to steal a fire truck so he could drive home — to Washington — for Christmas.

Detective Gary Keller says firefighters on a medical call heard the $500,000 truck's air horn blaring Monday and ran outside. They found a man in the driver's seat trying to drive away.

After a lengthy struggle, firefighters were finally able to subdue the man until police arrived.

Police say the 25-year-old man told them he wanted to go to Washington to see his mother for Christmas.

<i>Information from: Deseret News, <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com" target="_blank">http://www.deseretnews.com</a></i>
 
<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Fill 'Er Up With Human Fat<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
<b>Peter C. Beller, 12.22.08, 05:00 AM EST </b>
<i>or How a Beverly Hills doctor powered his SUV using his patients' spare tires.</i>

Liposuctioning unwanted blubber out of pampered Los Angelenos may not seem like a dream job, but it has its perks. Free fuel is one of them.

For a time, Beverly Hills doctor Craig Alan Bittner turned the fat he removed from patients into biodiesel that fueled his Ford SUV and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator.

Yahoo! BuzzLove handles can power a car? Frighteningly, yes. Fat--whether animal or vegetable--contains triglycerides that can be extracted and turned into diesel. Poultry companies such as Tyson are looking into powering their trucks on chicken schmaltz, and biofuel start-ups such as Nova Biosource are mixing beef tallow and pig lard with more palatable sources such as soybean oil. Mike Shook of Agri Process Innovations, a builder of biodiesel plants, says this year's batch of U.S. biodiesel was likely more than half animal-derived since the price of soybeans soared.

A gallon of grease will get you about a gallon of fuel, and drivers can get about the same amount of mileage from fat fuel as they do from regular diesel, according to Jenna Higgins of the National Biodiesel Board. Animal fats need to undergo an additional step to get rid of free fatty acids not present in vegetable oils, but otherwise, there's no difference, she says.

Greenies like the fact that waste, such as coffee grounds and french-fry grease, can be turned into power. "The vast majority of my patients request that I use their fat for fuel--and I have more fat than I can use," Bittner wrote on lipodiesel.com. "Not only do they get to lose their love handles or chubby belly but they get to take part in saving the Earth." Bittner's lipodiesel Web site is no longer online.

Using fat to fuel cars might be environmentally friendly, but it's definitely illegal in California to use human medical waste to power vehicles, and Bittner is being investigated by the state's public health department.

Although it's unclear when Bittner started and stopped making fat fuel or how he made it, his activities came to light after recent lawsuits filed by patients that allege he allowed his assistant and his girlfriend to perform surgeries without a medical license.
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Man Arrested After Flashing Gang Signs on Santa's Lap<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
December 24, 2008

ORANGE -- An alleged gang member has landed himself in jail for flashing gang signs in a photo he took while sitting on Santa's lap.

Uriel Oliva, 18, was arrested early last week after a visit with Santa at the Village Mall in Orange.

Police say that Oliva was under a court order not to associate with members of his street gang, engage in gang activity or hang out at the Village Mall when the photo was taken Dec. 16.

The picture included Oliva and two other members of the Orange County Criminals gang. Oliva's probation officer apparently spotted the photo on a keychain during a probation check.

Oliva has pleaded not guilty on three misdemeanor counts of violating court orders. He faces up to 18 months in jail.

A pretrial hearing is set for Jan. 9 in Santa Ana.
 
<b><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Banned Snowzilla returns — bigger than ever<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>
<b>25-foot tall snowman appears in Anchorage despite cease-and-desist order </b>

<b><!--sizeo:2--><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Snowzilla battles town officials<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></b>

<img src="http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/snowzilla1.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />


ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A giant snowman named Snowzilla has mysteriously appeared again this year — despite the city's cease-and-desist order.

Someone again built the giant snowman in Billy Powers' front yard in an east Anchorage neighborhood. Snowzilla reappeared before dawn Tuesday.

Powers is not taking credit. When questioned Tuesday afternoon, he insisted Snowzilla just somehow happened, again.

For the last three years, Snowzilla — to the delight of some and the chagrin of others — has been a very large feature in Powers' yard. In 2005, Snowzilla rose 16 feet. He had a corncob pipe and a carrot nose and two eyes made out of beer bottles.

<b>'Handsome'</b>
This year, Snowzilla is estimated to be 25 feet tall. He's wearing a black stovepipe hat and scarf.

"Have you seen him?" Powers asked when reached by telephone at his home, the sound of excited children in the background. "He's handsome."

Snowzilla has consistently risen outside Powers' modest home. His children — he is the father of seven — collected snow from neighbors' yards to make the snowman big enough. Each year, Snowzilla got a bit bigger.

Not everybody in the neighborhood liked all the cars and visitors who came to see him.

<b>Safety hazard?</b>
City officials this year deemed Snowzilla a public nuisance and safety hazard. A cease-and-desist order was issued. The city tacked a public notice on Powers' door.

City officials said the structure increased traffic to the point of endangerment and that the snowman itself was unsafe.

The mayor's office on Tuesday issued a statement defending its move against Snowzilla.

"This property owner has repeatedly ignored city attempts to find ways to accommodate his desire to build a giant snowman without affecting the quiet, residential quality of the neighborhood," said the statement from Mayor Mark Begich's office. "This is a neighborhood of small homes on small lots connected by small streets. It can't support the volume of traffic and revelers that are interested in Snowzilla."

The mayor's office says Powers appears to run a large junk and salvage operation from his home. He has violated land use codes for 13 years, the city said. He owes the city more than $100,000 in fines and other assessments.

Powers said it is the city that has been difficult, not him.

"I have tried to jump through every goofy hoop they have sent to me. I have never been confrontational and it goes on and on and on and it is so goofy," he said. "Some of it is unfounded, some is just outrageous."

The city said it did not expect to take any further action until after Christmas.
 
BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Two Baton Rouge, La., sisters, ages 23 and 18, say their mother insists they have their picture taken with Santa Claus every year until they are married.
Ashley Swan, 23, and her sister Katie, 18, said mother Merry Swan's tradition of having her children pose with Santa for a Christmas photo began the year Ashley was born and has continued uninterrupted for every Christmas since, the Baton Rouge Advocate reported Thursday.

"This is how I feel -- you have to do this until you get married," Merry Swan told her daughters. "This is my gift."

The mother said her daughters have to take the photos in order to receive their Christmas gifts.

"Now, it's like bribery," she said.

The Swan sisters said that while taking pictures with Santa can be embarrassing for grown women, they go through the motions each year to make their mother happy.

"We complain about it, but if it's what makes her happy and it's the only thing she really wants, it's not too much to ask," Ashley said.

"It's just really embarrassing when standing in line with a bunch of 5-year-olds," Katie added.
 
<!--quoteo(post=293876:date=Dec 25 2008, 08:22 PM:name=Old Salt)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Old Salt @ Dec 25 2008, 08:22 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=293876"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 25 (UPI)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->every 23 and 18 year old woman I know would get revenge on dear old MA
by having a Santa Picture made especially for the occasion

With an X-rated Santa.
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Is it just me, or is the flood control gone? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=294008:date=Dec 26 2008, 01:21 PM:name=Stallion)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Stallion @ Dec 26 2008, 01:21 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=294008"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Is it just me, or is the flood control gone? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Think it is just you. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=294006:date=Dec 26 2008, 11:19 AM:name=Old Salt)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Old Salt @ Dec 26 2008, 11:19 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=294006"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->X-rated Santa? That would end the annual photo-op with old Saint Nick.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
that's the idea <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/danse1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":dance" border="0" alt="danse1.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=294044:date=Dec 26 2008, 03:35 PM:name=Meigger)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Meigger @ Dec 26 2008, 03:35 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=294044"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=294008:date=Dec 26 2008, 01:21 PM:name=Stallion)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Stallion @ Dec 26 2008, 01:21 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=294008"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Is it just me, or is the flood control gone? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Think it is just you. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />
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<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> That it is - it came back. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/urgh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":urgh" border="0" alt="urgh.gif" />
 
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