Russian police hunt for thieves who stole a 200-ton metal bridge

nobrifdga.jpgRussian police are hunting scrap metal thieves who stole a 200-tonne metal bridge in a night-time raid.

The bridge in Khabarovsk in eastern Russia vanished overnight and was part of the only road leading to a local heating plant.

The thieves worked at night when there was no one around, which allowed them to dismantle and remove the heavy construction without anyone noticing, a spokesman for the heating plant said.

Local workers arrived at the bridge in the morning to discover that the only direct route to work had disappeared.

The company estimates the bridge will cost over £20,000 to replace and will be made of reinforced concrete, instead of steel.

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Letterman, Stern, Dr Phil, Shaffer, and UNT

Once again I can’t fall asleep so I’m up watching Letterman and he has Howard Stern as a guest.  Stern starts to talk about Dr. Phil and mentions what kind of fraud this guy is and how he has done a little background check on the good doctor.  He goes on to say that Dr Phil’s dissertation was over arthritis and that he graduated from the University of North Texas – a place he claims you can’t even get a drivers license or something to that affect.  Then Stern goes on a little University of North Texas rant about how it’s a two bit university.  I mention this because the university is about 15 minutes north of GeedingManor.  Oh, and SisterGeeding is currently a student there.

But what got me really thinking was that when I was in junior high I heard that Dave’s musical sidekick, Paul Shaffer, graduated from the University of North Texas - it does after all  have one heck of a music program, and Norah Jones attend.  So this got me to wondering why didn’t Paul chime in about his school during Stern’s rant?  Well, I used The Google and couldn’t find any sort of relationship between Shaffer and UNT.  Turns out it was a local urban legend or something.

But here’s something I did find interesting about Shaffer, he was actually inducted into the National Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame.  Source 

I’m sure not a lot of folks don’t know any notable alumni from UNT, other than Mean Joe Green of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dr Phil, so here’s part of the Wikipedia list of notable alumni.

  • Stone Cold Steve Austin
  • Pat Boon
  • Thomas Haden Church
  • “Blue” from the movie Old School
  • Phyllis George
  • Don Henley
  • Meat Loaf
  • Roy Orbinson
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I wonder . . .

I keep finding story after story about female teachers having sexual encounters with high school students.

I wonder if this kind of stuff has always been happening and was never reported, or is it just now some sort of crazy phenomenon.

I’m glad that I got my education in Mineral Wells where the administration was smart enough to hire mature and attractively-challenged female teachers – because of this we were forced to learn.

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