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"Colombian police have found the bodies of three human foetuses hidden in statues destined for the United States.

The discovery was made by officers searching for contraband at Bogota Airport on Tuesday.

The corpses were wrapped in plastic and concealed inside statues of Christian icons, which were smashed open.

Colombian police chief Gen Jord Alirio Varon said the four to five month old foetuses could have been intended for use in Satanic rituals.

Gen Varon said the foetuses were found alongside crucifixes and medals."

On Wednesday September 21, Reuters reported that Rita would send retail gas over $3 a gallon, but the spike at the pump will not be as sharp as after Hurricane Katrina, "oil analysts said on Wednesday". Reuters

On September 22, CNN/Money is painting a more dire picture of the effect Rita will have on oil. " 'We could be looking at gasoline lines and $4 gas, maybe even $5 gas, if this thing does the worst it could do' said energy analyst Peter Beutel of Cameron Hanvoer.'" CNN/Money

Looks fishy to me.

"SYDNEY (Reuters)-An Australian man built up a 40,000 volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.

Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together.

When he walked into a building in the country town of Warnambool in the southern state of Victoria Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet.

'It sounded almost like a firecracker,' Clewer told Australian radio Friday.

'Within about five minutes, the carpet started to erupt.'

Empoyees, unsure of the cause of the mysterious burning smell, telephoned firefighters who evacuated the building.

'There were several scorch marks in the carpet, and we could hear a cracking noise- a bit like a whip- both inside and outside the building.' said fire official Henry Barton.

Firefighters cut electricity to the building thinking the burns might have been caused by a power surge.

Clewer, who after leaving the building discovered he had scorched a piece of plastic on the floor of his car, returned to seek help from the firefighters.

'We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited,' Barton said."

"By Roy Rivenburg Times Staff Writer- Think of them as amphibious sumo wrestlers. A pack of rowdy sea lions has invaded Newport Harbor sinking a boat, thrashing docks and- with their cacophony of barking-turning residents into sleepless zombies."

"Union Springs, N.Y. Sep 15, 2005-A 17 year old student was arrested for streaking through his high school in a gorilla mask after being chased down the street by the school principal.

Union Springs High School Principal Kimberle Ward who said she runs three to five miles daily didn't catch the fleeing student, but she was able to help police arrest the teen after watching a hallway surveillance camera video and interviewing several students."

"By Alessandra Stanley- The fallen woman used to be a classic American tale. Now it's the fallen lawyer.

In the old days, trollops had to jump off the Waterloo Bridge-or at least endure snubs from haughty salesgirls on Rodeo Drive. Now, we prefer to see a shyster squirm. But first we hanker for a lubricious peek at the modern equivalent of black garter belts: billable hours and personal injury scams. Tort reform is the new tart reform."

Great more lawyer bashing. But who is the second person you call after your Mom and Dad if you're in trouble? That's right. Your lawyer.

But we don't need another Hollywood stereotype of what the legal profession is about.