Prof people are to stupid to breath clean air
Teensy thief crawls in mail flap
VIENNA (Reuters) -A thief broke into the headquarters of Austria's ruling political party by wriggling through a post flap in the front door, a party official said on Friday.The burglar squeezed through the 35x35cm(13 3/4"x 13 3/4") hole early on Thursday and stole laptops, mobile phones, notebooks and cash before crawling out, Catherina Straub, spokeswoman for the Social Democrats, said. "It is such a tiny door for post and newspapers, he must have obviously been extremely small," she said, adding that the culprit had not been caught. She said it was unlikely the robbery was politically motivated and that the data stolen was not sensitive.
Psychics see big trouble over new laws
LONDON (Reuters) - Fortune-tellers, mediums and spiritual healers marched on the home of the British prime minister at Downing Street on Friday to protest against new laws they fear will lead to them being "persecuted and prosecuted."Organizers say that replacing the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951 with new consumer protection rules will remove key legal protection for "genuine" mediums.They think skeptics might bring malicious prosecutions to force spiritualists to prove in court that they can heal people, see into the future or talk to the dead.Psychics also fear they will have to give disclaimers describing their services as entertainment or as scientific experiments with unpredictable results."If I'm giving a healing to someone, I don't want to have to stand there and say I don't believe in what I'm doing," said Carole McEntee-Taylor, a healer who co-founded the Spiritual Workers Association.The group delivered a petition with 5,000 names to the prime minister's office, although Gordon Brown is away in the United States.With the changes expected to come into force next month, spiritualists have faced a barrage of headlines gleefully suggesting that they should have seen it coming.But many don't see the funny side. They say the new rules will shift the responsibility of proving they are not frauds from prosecutors and onto them."By repealing the Act, the onus will go round the other way and we will have to prove we are genuine," McEntee-Taylor told Reuters. "No other religion has to do that."The government said the new regulations form part of a European Union directive that is meant to harmonize unfair trading laws across the EU. It will introduce a ban on traders "treating consumers unfairly."The British Humanist Association, a charity which campaigns against religion and supernatural beliefs, said stricter regulations were overdue because the current laws don't work."It is misleading for spiritualists to claim that, as religious' practitioners they should not be regulated under consumer laws," said Chief Executive Hanne Stinson. "The psychic industry is huge and lucrative and it exploits some very vulnerable, and some very gullible, people with claims for which there is no scientific evidence."
Alleged Drug Dealer Calls Police To Report Robbery
(AP) A Long Island man had to know he would be arrested when he called police to report he had just been robbed during a drug deal that went bad. Nassau County Police said Christopher Canonico, 23, of Seaford, called at 8:19 p.m. Wednesday to say he had just been robbed in North New Hyde Park. Police said Canonico was set up by two women who agreed to buy heroin at a local gas station. While they were sitting in Canonico's car, a third person with a gun came up to the car and robbed him of $340, a cell phone and wallet. Police said Canonico is charged with criminal sale and criminal possession of a controlled substance. The women and man with the gun are charged with robbery and other charges.
Dog Finds Its Way Home After A Week And 77 Miles Across Nevada's Desert
(AP) A dog that ran off during a road-trip rest stop in north-central Nevada apparently made its way nearly 80 miles across Nevada's high desert and two mountain ranges to return home to Ely a week later. Moon, a Siberian husky, was reunited on April 14 with owner Doug Dashiell, who had last seen her April 6 near Railroad Valley, a distance he later clocked at 77 miles. Moon, who is nearly two years old, was no worse for the wear, with the exception of stinking like a skunk that apparently sprayed her somewhere along the journey. "I've had trouble with her running away before. She's always come home," Dashiell said. But he admitted that this time he didn't really expect her to show up after a week had passed. "After seven days _ no way," he told the Ely Times.Dashiell said he had taken his three dogs with him on a weekend trip to Tonopah. When he let them out of his truck near Railroad Valley, Moon took off when a catch on her chain let go and she bolted into the sage brush. Dashiell said he searched for her for several hours before giving up and heading home. The last he saw she was headed northwest toward the Duckwater Shoshone Reservation so he called the tribal police there, but they turned up no trace of Moon.On April 14, the White Pine Veterinary Clinic telephoned Dashiell to let him know that Moon was back in town. She had wandered up to an Ely residence where Alvin Molea took her home, fed her and gave her a warm place to sleep.Molea said he called the clinic because the dog was wearing a clinic tag. Dashiell speculated she might have fed on rabbits during her journey, which would have taken her across the White River and Ward Mountain ranges
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