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At age 111, America's oldest veteran is still smoking cigars, drinking whiskey and loving life
AUSTIN — Richard Overton is right where he wants to be.
He’s sitting in a lawn chair on the front porch of the Austin home he built nearly 70 years ago, working on his fifth Tampa Sweet cigar on a 91-degree sunny day. The smooth tunes of the Isley Brothers flow from a portable speaker. Birds are chirping in the late afternoon breeze.
“I’m feeling pretty good today,” Overton says, emphasizing the word pretty, because any day spent on this porch smoking cigars is a pretty good day for the 111-year-old.
This is where you’ll find the nation’s oldest veteran for 10 hours every day when the weather is nice. His friends call it his “stage.” It’s where Overton sits and thinks about life, his starting in 1906, the same year as the first wireless radio broadcast and a year before the paper towel was invented.
On this day, Overton is wearing a red cardigan buttoned over a powder blue polo, with light blue slacks and a black World War II veteran hat. He’s smiling and joking and feeling thankful.
AUSTIN — Richard Overton is right where he wants to be.
He’s sitting in a lawn chair on the front porch of the Austin home he built nearly 70 years ago, working on his fifth Tampa Sweet cigar on a 91-degree sunny day. The smooth tunes of the Isley Brothers flow from a portable speaker. Birds are chirping in the late afternoon breeze.
“I’m feeling pretty good today,” Overton says, emphasizing the word pretty, because any day spent on this porch smoking cigars is a pretty good day for the 111-year-old.
This is where you’ll find the nation’s oldest veteran for 10 hours every day when the weather is nice. His friends call it his “stage.” It’s where Overton sits and thinks about life, his starting in 1906, the same year as the first wireless radio broadcast and a year before the paper towel was invented.
On this day, Overton is wearing a red cardigan buttoned over a powder blue polo, with light blue slacks and a black World War II veteran hat. He’s smiling and joking and feeling thankful.
Your name is Richard? All this time I was thinking it was Billy.At age 111, America's oldest veteran is still smoking cigars, drinking whiskey and loving life
AUSTIN — Richard Overton is right where he wants to be.
He’s sitting in a lawn chair on the front porch of the Austin home he built nearly 70 years ago, working on his fifth Tampa Sweet cigar on a 91-degree sunny day. The smooth tunes of the Isley Brothers flow from a portable speaker. Birds are chirping in the late afternoon breeze.
“I’m feeling pretty good today,” Overton says, emphasizing the word pretty, because any day spent on this porch smoking cigars is a pretty good day for the 111-year-old.
This is where you’ll find the nation’s oldest veteran for 10 hours every day when the weather is nice. His friends call it his “stage.” It’s where Overton sits and thinks about life, his starting in 1906, the same year as the first wireless radio broadcast and a year before the paper towel was invented.
On this day, Overton is wearing a red cardigan buttoned over a powder blue polo, with light blue slacks and a black World War II veteran hat. He’s smiling and joking and feeling thankful.
A photo of victims fleeing the horrific attack in London Bridge has become a surprising symbol of Londoners’ resilience.
This is because one of the people caught up in the attack, part of a crowd running away from the scene, is holding his pint.
The unnamed man managed to run down the road clutching his drink, without spilling even a drop.
http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/04/man-d...tack-becomes-symbol-of-london-spirit-6683304/
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I may have to change my vote in the restaurant tourney to Papa Johns based on this new information.
This is why Jerry is still the master of his domain...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/07/entertainment/jerry-seinfeld-kesha/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/07/entertainment/jerry-seinfeld-kesha/index.html
Who needs gravel? I've got a truckload of unwashed clamshells ...
http://turnto10.com/news/local/neighbors-make-a-stink-about-road-paved-with-clamshells
http://turnto10.com/news/local/neighbors-make-a-stink-about-road-paved-with-clamshells
"...took issue with a resident who he thought was allowing his dog to defecate on the property and the owner was not cleaning up after the animal."
Sounds justified to me. Irresponsible dog owners suck.
You know that old saying about not taking candy from strangers? Here's why.
Man who robbed bank to get away from wife sentenced to home confinement . .
A remorseful 71-year-old man who robbed a Kansas City, Kan., bank last September and told police he hoped to land in prison to escape his wife told a federal judge Tuesday that heart surgery had left him depressed and unlike himself when he committed the crime.
Though Lawrence John Ripple pleaded guilty to bank robbery in January and could have spent up to 37 months in prison, his attorney and federal prosecutors asked a U.S. District Court judge for leniency. That request was supported by the vice president of the bank and the teller whom Ripple frightened, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Catania.
U.S. District Court Judge Carlos Murguia sentenced Ripple on Tuesday to six months of home confinement after public defender Chekasha Ramsey and Catania cited Ripple’s health issues, remorse and unlikeliness to reoffend.
Ripple will also serve three years of supervised probation, including 50 hours of community service. He was ordered to pay $227.27 to the bank he robbed — the amount representing the billable hours for bank employees who were sent home on the day of robbery — and $100 to a crime victims fund.
Ripple’s story gained national attention last fall when he walked into the Bank of Labor, located a block away from the Kansas City, Kan., police headquarters, and gave a note to the teller. It read: “I have a gun, give me money,” according to court documents.
After the teller gave Ripple $2,924, Ripple sat down in the bank lobby to wait for police, and later told authorities that he had written out a robbery note in front of his wife and told her he would rather be in jail than at home.
Ramsey told a judge Tuesday that before the September incident, Ripple had lived a law-abiding life. He had no criminal record, was a dutiful father to four step-children and was in a stable relationship with his wife.
He suffered from depression after undergoing a quadruple bypass heart surgery in 2015, Ramsey said. The depression remained undiagnosed and manifested as irritability, so Ripple didn’t think to report his symptoms to a doctor.
Calling the robbery a “cry for help,” Ramsey said that Ripple has since been properly diagnosed, is on proper medication and feels like his normal self again.
“Mr. Ripple understands what he did and he respects the law as indicated by his past behavior,” said Ramsey, who told the judge that Ripple had also been attending mandated counseling sessions with his wife.
Accompanied by his wife and several family members Tuesday, Ripple appeared remorseful and apologized to both Bank of Labor and the bank teller. He declined to talk to The Star.
“It was not my intention to frighten her (the teller) as I did,” Ripple said in court Tuesday.
Ripple said that he felt better after finding the right medication and said prison would be more of a punishment for his wife than for him.
“I feel great now,” Ripple said. “I feel like my old self.”
Both Murguia and Catania said that it was extremely uncommon for a person convicted of bank robbery to receive a sentence that doesn’t involve prison time. Catania said she had only requested the court to consider other sentencing options in two other occasions throughout her career.
“What’s got lost in the news reports is that Mr. Ripple went to a bank, robbed it and never left,” Catania said.
When a bank security guard and police found him, Catania said, he immediately returned the money. Though he had threatened the bank teller with a gun, the only items found on his person were nail clippers and a hair brush.
A remorseful 71-year-old man who robbed a Kansas City, Kan., bank last September and told police he hoped to land in prison to escape his wife told a federal judge Tuesday that heart surgery had left him depressed and unlike himself when he committed the crime.
Though Lawrence John Ripple pleaded guilty to bank robbery in January and could have spent up to 37 months in prison, his attorney and federal prosecutors asked a U.S. District Court judge for leniency. That request was supported by the vice president of the bank and the teller whom Ripple frightened, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Catania.
U.S. District Court Judge Carlos Murguia sentenced Ripple on Tuesday to six months of home confinement after public defender Chekasha Ramsey and Catania cited Ripple’s health issues, remorse and unlikeliness to reoffend.
Ripple will also serve three years of supervised probation, including 50 hours of community service. He was ordered to pay $227.27 to the bank he robbed — the amount representing the billable hours for bank employees who were sent home on the day of robbery — and $100 to a crime victims fund.
Ripple’s story gained national attention last fall when he walked into the Bank of Labor, located a block away from the Kansas City, Kan., police headquarters, and gave a note to the teller. It read: “I have a gun, give me money,” according to court documents.
After the teller gave Ripple $2,924, Ripple sat down in the bank lobby to wait for police, and later told authorities that he had written out a robbery note in front of his wife and told her he would rather be in jail than at home.
Ramsey told a judge Tuesday that before the September incident, Ripple had lived a law-abiding life. He had no criminal record, was a dutiful father to four step-children and was in a stable relationship with his wife.
He suffered from depression after undergoing a quadruple bypass heart surgery in 2015, Ramsey said. The depression remained undiagnosed and manifested as irritability, so Ripple didn’t think to report his symptoms to a doctor.
Calling the robbery a “cry for help,” Ramsey said that Ripple has since been properly diagnosed, is on proper medication and feels like his normal self again.
“Mr. Ripple understands what he did and he respects the law as indicated by his past behavior,” said Ramsey, who told the judge that Ripple had also been attending mandated counseling sessions with his wife.
Accompanied by his wife and several family members Tuesday, Ripple appeared remorseful and apologized to both Bank of Labor and the bank teller. He declined to talk to The Star.
“It was not my intention to frighten her (the teller) as I did,” Ripple said in court Tuesday.
Ripple said that he felt better after finding the right medication and said prison would be more of a punishment for his wife than for him.
“I feel great now,” Ripple said. “I feel like my old self.”
Both Murguia and Catania said that it was extremely uncommon for a person convicted of bank robbery to receive a sentence that doesn’t involve prison time. Catania said she had only requested the court to consider other sentencing options in two other occasions throughout her career.
“What’s got lost in the news reports is that Mr. Ripple went to a bank, robbed it and never left,” Catania said.
When a bank security guard and police found him, Catania said, he immediately returned the money. Though he had threatened the bank teller with a gun, the only items found on his person were nail clippers and a hair brush.
Breatharian couple claim they live a 'food-free' lifestyle and haven't felt hungry since 2008
Castello and Ricardo say they survive on the “energy that exists in the universe and in themselves” and that they are sustained by “cosmic nourishment."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-castello-akahi-ricardo-ecuador-a7792841.html
Castello and Ricardo say they survive on the “energy that exists in the universe and in themselves” and that they are sustained by “cosmic nourishment."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-castello-akahi-ricardo-ecuador-a7792841.html
My thoughts exactly. They're definitely cheating on that diet, or else all those pictures Sally Struthers has been showing us are lies.They some lying-ass sons-a-bitches...
Bald Eagle Adopts Baby Hawk Instead of Eating Him
In the wild, bald eagles and red-tailed hawks are natural-born enemies, frequently fighting each other to the death – with larger bald eagles typically winning those bloody battles.
That’s why it’s so amazing that instead of serving her offspring a 4-week-old red-tailed hawk she may have snatched, a bald eagle in British Columbia has literally taken the young bird under her wing, raising it alongside her three eaglets.
A raptor expert says this is extremely rare in nature. Why was the hawklet’s life spared? One theory is that the mother bald eagle’s hormonal urge to kill it was overwhelmed by her hormonal urge to feed it when the hungry hawklet started squawking for food.
“What probably happened in this case is that when they brought this little guy back, he probably begged for food, as he would do, not even realizing the danger it was in,” Dr. David Bird (yep, that’s his real name) told CTV News.
http://www.care2.com/causes/bald-eagle-adopts-baby-hawk-instead-of-eating-him.html
HUNTINGDON, HUNTINGDON COUNTY, Pa.– A jury in Pennsylvania has awarded a Mount Union man $870,000 for a 2013 incident in which a doctor removed the wrong testicle during surgery.
http://fox43.com/2017/06/16/pennsylvania-doctor-removes-wrong-testicle-jury-awards-victim-870000/
http://fox43.com/2017/06/16/pennsylvania-doctor-removes-wrong-testicle-jury-awards-victim-870000/
LOOK INSIDE SPAIN’S BIZARRE BABY JUMPING FESTIVAL
Once a year in mid-June, devils run wild in the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia.
A blend of Catholic and pagan rituals meant to represent the triumph of good over evil, the festival of El Colacho dates back to the 1620s and takes place on the Sunday after the Feast of Corpus Christi. Its origins are unclear, but some historians believe it may have started as a fertility ritual.
In a heart-stopping display, babies born during the previous year are laid on mattresses in the street while the costumed men leap over them. A baptism of sorts, it is believed that the devil absorbs the sins of the babies, and affords them protection from disease and misfortune.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/people/look-inside-spains-bizarre-baby-jumping-festival.aspx
Once a year in mid-June, devils run wild in the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia.
A blend of Catholic and pagan rituals meant to represent the triumph of good over evil, the festival of El Colacho dates back to the 1620s and takes place on the Sunday after the Feast of Corpus Christi. Its origins are unclear, but some historians believe it may have started as a fertility ritual.
In a heart-stopping display, babies born during the previous year are laid on mattresses in the street while the costumed men leap over them. A baptism of sorts, it is believed that the devil absorbs the sins of the babies, and affords them protection from disease and misfortune.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/people/look-inside-spains-bizarre-baby-jumping-festival.aspx
Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument destroyed in less than 24 hours
Capitol police arrested a man after Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument was smashed to pieces when someone rammed a vehicle into it early Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the 6-foot granite statue was placed on state Capitol grounds.
The driver is identified in an arrest report as Michael Tate Reed of Van Buren, Arkansas....
Nearly three years ago, a Ten Commandments monument at Oklahoma's Capitol met a similar fate, when a driver crashed his car into the statue, shattering it. That driver was identified as Michael Tate Reed of Van Buren, Arkansas.
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LOL @ this dude
Capitol police arrested a man after Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument was smashed to pieces when someone rammed a vehicle into it early Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the 6-foot granite statue was placed on state Capitol grounds.
The driver is identified in an arrest report as Michael Tate Reed of Van Buren, Arkansas....
Nearly three years ago, a Ten Commandments monument at Oklahoma's Capitol met a similar fate, when a driver crashed his car into the statue, shattering it. That driver was identified as Michael Tate Reed of Van Buren, Arkansas.
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LOL @ this dude
Funny story, but stupid that the State allowed it to be put on Capitol property in the first place.
At least this one was closer to his house than having to drive all the way to Oklahoma.
Believe it or not, he lives near the state line roughly equidistant between Little Rock and Oklahoma City.
I read another story that indicated the guy has mental health issues, hearing voices and whatnot. Kinda took some of humor out of it.
Sounds like the stereotype about loving fried chicken is attributed to the wrong ethnic group.
If that was a yellow Bojangles phone, I'd be all over it.
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