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After World Series Winner Yankees Manager Joe Girardi Helps A Victim
ASTCHESTER – On his way home from winning the World Series, Yankees Manager Joe Girardi stopped to help a woman who had lost control of her car on the Cross County Parkway and crashed into a wall.
“The guy wins the World Series, what does he do? He stops to help,” said Westchester County police officer Kathleen Cristiano, who was among the first to arrive at the accident scene. “It was totally surreal.”
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Christian Prison
WAKITA — This tiny town near the Oklahoma-Kansas state line north of Enid may soon own the country’s only all-Christian prison, with Christian administrators, employees, counselors and programs.
The idea is backed by Wakita’s leaders, has some support from state officials, and, its founders believe, is able to pass constitutional muster.
“If Chicken Little doesn’t come to town, we’ll be open in 16 months,” said Bill Robinson, the founder of Corrections Concepts Inc., a Dallas nonprofit prison ministry that is spearheading the projec t.
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$2 Haircuts
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Bricklayer shows up at his own funeral in Brazil
A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.
Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a Sunday night car crash in Parana state in southern Brazil, police said.
As is customary in Brazil, the funeral was held the following day, which happened to be the holiday of Finados, when Brazilians visit cemeteries to honor the dead.
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Woman, daughter hold signs admitting theft
BEDFORD, Pa. – In exchange for jail time, a woman and her adult daughter have agreed to stand outside a Pennsylvania courthouse holding signs saying they stole a gift card from a 9-year-old girl on her birthday.
Fifty-six-year-old Evelyn Border and 35-year-old Tina Griekspoor stood outside the court for 4½ hours Tuesday. They held signs that read: “I stole from a 9-year-old girl on her birthday! Don’t steal or this could happen to you!”
Because the women agreed to hold the signs, Bedford County District Attorney Bill Higgins says he’ll ask for probation instead of jail when they plead guilty to the theft.
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Lloyd Dobler Mob Invades New York For ‘Say Anything’ Anniversary
The 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray and DVD of Say Anything came out yesterday, and to mark the occasion, numerous men with lots of free time dressed up in trench coats and hoisted boomboxes above their heads and marched throughout New York City serenading people with the strains of Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes,” and a cover version of the same song by The Lloyd Dobler Effect. Check them out in the gallery below.
I know the scene, but have never seen the movie.
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Bag of Randomness
- The readers of SmarterTravel.com really like Southwest Airlines.
- I finally connected my Ooma device and imported my old phone number to it from Vonage. I really liked the Vonage product, and it was relatively cheap at about $25 a month, but with Ooma I don’t have to pay anything unless I want certain advanced features or make international calls. What I didn’t know was that Vonage was going to charge me a disconnect fee of about $40, but I’ll make that back in two months.
- But now since I have a Google Voice account, there really isn’t a need for Ooma. I would have to deal with the “inconvenience” of not having my old number, but otherwise I don’t need the Ooma device. See, I bought the Ooma device, opened it to read the instructions, but let it sit around long enough I could not longer return it and then I got a Google Voice invite out of the blue. It was bad timing and lack of initiative on my part.
- Everytime I hear about capping medical malpractice I often think of this man. Granted that story is a bit old, but that’s just one story I can’t forget and would think that man would value his manhood for more than $250,000 – which I think is the cap in Texas.
- I like the tax advantage of using the flexible spending account, but I don’t like the use it or lose it provision. Medical expenses can be hard to budget an entire year for, and a lot of times things are just unexpected. For instance, lets say I set up my FSA at the end of a year but then my wife becomes unexpectedly pregnant early the next year, like February. That’s a lot of out of pocket medical expenses that I never had the chance to budget for. Or lets say we planned on getting pregnant, budgeted the FSA for it, and the pregnancy never happened – that’s a lot of money that I would just lose. I think I would prefer it more so if a certain amount of any remaining funds can be rolled over from year to year. But I guess none of this matters as I just found out that the FSA is no longer an option for my benefit plan.
- The Dodge Viper symbol turned upside down looks like Daffy Duck.
- What not to say to the car dealer
- Hillary from The Fresh Prince hasn’t worked in Hollywood since 2002. Her best work was in Major Payne.
- I don’t really follow baseball, but I do have an appreciation for it and its part in our past and culture. I guess you can call me fair weather, but I do like to root for the Rangers, Yankees, Reds, and Padres.
- It sure is interesting how the Yankees are able to win a championship when they opened the last two stadiums. It would be nice if the Cowboys could do the same like they did when they opened Texas Stadium.
- Twenty-seven world championships – that is just amazing for an organization.
- I never thought I would see the day when former Texas Rangers Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira would be part of a championship team.
- I liked watching the Yankees play in the old stadium better – it just felt more intimate and nostalgic, especially when Sinatra starts to sing.
- Game 6 of the 1987 World Series between the Twins and the Cardinals was the last World Series game played in daylight.
- I think Arizona was the last team to wrap win the October Classic in November.
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