A Stafford County, VA EB Games store was robbed at gunpoint Monday morning. The robber stole 2 Xbox 360 game systems and 7 games.

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Some customers in a group of 300 were knocked down and trampled by other customers in a rush for the new Xbox 360 game system late Monday night at a 24-hour Wal-Mart Supercenter in Elkton, MD.

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This reminds me of the [stampede](http://stevejenkins.us/journal/archives/2005/08/16/1275/50-laptop-sale-sets-off-violent-stampede/) in Richmond, VA over $50 iBooks.

Brazil’s coffee industry has brewed up a plan to serve up to 1 million schoolchildren a free breakfast — complete with a cup of java.

“Kids have soft drinks at school. … Why not coffee instead to make them alert and attentive?”

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This [reminds me](/journal/archives/2005/02/19/656/things-that-ticked-me-off-yesterday-02182005/ “Read the story”) of the time I tried to get breakfast for my daughter at McDonald’s, but they didn’t have any juice or milk.

Police were sent to a Stafford County, Virginia home November 14 after a neighbor complained about a naked woman standing in the front yard screaming. Police arrested the 18-year-old Stafford County, VA woman November 14 and charged her with indecent exposure, two counts of assaulting a police officer, obstruction of justice, disorderly conduct and underage possession of alcohol. When the police asked her for id, she showed the police her breasts.

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of my neighbors do that. I’ve seen and heard them yell, but never while they were outside and naked.

Dozens of wild hogs that were displaced by Hurricaine Wilma are prowling the lawns and streets of condominiums in a neighborhood in Fort Meyers, Florida. Some of the hogs appear to weigh as much as 500 pounds, and they’ve dug bulldozer-like gashes in some of the yards in their quest for food. The hogs will attack dogs without provocation, and they can also bring down deer. This has prompted fearful homeowners to stay indoors after dark and keep a close eye on their pets.

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I’d like to see a video of a 500-pound hog bringing down a deer. That sounds like it’d make a good future episode on the National Geographic Channel or the Discovery Channel.

A 62-year old woman fell in front of tractor trailer while crossing the street in D.C. Thursday — and survived.

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clowns eat too

Originally uploaded by brainware3000.

Clowns with good taste in food – brainware3000 found them eating at the Texas Tavern in Roanoke, VA on Saturday, November 5.

A retired, 62-year-old Elvis Presley impersonator helped police in Las Vegas nab a man suspected of stealing more than $300,000 worth of memorabilia from the Elvis-A-Rama museum.

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Maybe, he’ll go to court dressed in his Elvis outfit when he’s scheduled to testify. Thank you. Thank you very much…

A miniature donkey named Sidekick has been loose since May, and it has spent its time wandering around the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield and evading capture. The National Park Service has tried to capture it numerous times, and last weekend, a Colonel from the Air Force with knowledge about horses also failed to capture Sidekick.

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An Annapolis, Md. man and his wife were aboard a cruise ship that pirates tried to attack about 100 miles off the coast of Somalia.

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Can you imagine being on a cruise and the captain wakes you at 6 o’clock in the morning to tell you that the ship is under attack by pirates?

A pair of teenagers, whose only visible Halloween costumes were the bandannas disguising their faces, used a BB-gun to hold up a 13-year-old trick-or-treater for his candy in Elsmere, DE Halloween night.

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Police charged four teens who are accused of beating and robbing a pizza delivery man on Halloween night in Burlington, VT. The driver said the teens attacked him and took his pizzas.

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Two 17-year-old boys armed with a pellet gun are accused of stealing candy from four kids between the ages of 13 and 15 on Halloween night in Fort Collins, CO.

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A 73-year-old Massachusetts woman was hospitalized with a broken pelvis and shoulder following a Halloween night attack at her home. According to police, a 15-year-old boy wearing a “Jason” mask tried to steal a basket of candy from the woman, causing her to fall and injure herself.

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Two Italian boys were recovering in hospital on Tuesday after a 70-year-old man shot them with his hunting rifle because he was frightened by their Halloween costumes.

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