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Couple responds to big rent increase by buying 1990 Blue Bird school bus
Julie and Andrew Puckett spent four months renovating a run down bus
They have converted it into a comfortable, but tiny, one bedroom home
The pair were forced to move after their rent was hiked by 25 percent
Their pet cat Mr Butters and dog Starbuck also share the home with them
The couple spent $10,000 - less than £6,500 - on the bus and the renovations cost just $1,000, equivalent to £646.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3281124/Young-Georgia-couple-forced-flat-soaring-rent-convert-old-school-bus-one-bedroom-home-cat-dog.html
Israel absorbs horror in aftermath of bus station attack - crowd beats innocent man to death
Zerhom, the Eritrean, had come to Beersheba to renew the visa that allows him temporary residence in Israel. He worked in a greenhouse near the Gaza border, where his employer, Sagi Malachi, told the Ynet news site that Zerhom was a dedicated, pleasant and modest man who did his work quietly and well.
When the shooting began in the bus station, he ran for cover, authorities said. A local security guard, seeing a foreign-looking man on the run, assumed he was a terrorist and shot him. As Zerhom lay wounded on the floor in a pool of blood, a mob beat him, kicking him and bashing him with metal benches. Efforts by several to protect the injured man failed, and he was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
One of the men recounted for television cameras how he beat the presumed terrorist. “He was dripping blood, dripping, dripping,” he said. “Too bad he didn’t die.”
But overnight he did. By that time, it was clear he was not involved in the attack and authorities had announced there had been only one gunman, Oqbi, who had been fatally shot by police. Investigators began rounding up images from security cameras at the bus station to identify and locate the people involved.
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-aftermath-attack-20151019-story.html
Internet talk of boycotting star wars over black character
While #BoycottStarWarsVII hardly qualifies as an organized movement, it’s certainly generating a ton of talk.
The hashtag appears to have been launched by Twitter users — commonly referred to as trolls — who are simply trying to get a rise out of people they perceive as social justice warriors, or “SJWs.” And their mission was accomplished, because the hashtag is the No. 2 trend worldwide, at the moment, since people started arguing against such a boycott without really caring where or how it started.
Here are a few of the trolls inciting the online riot:
Let’s get #BoycottStarWarsVII trending @DarklyEnlighten
– Lord Humungus (@DarklyEnlighten) October 19, 2015
#BoycottStarWarsVII because I am sick of muds being casted in white parts. #StopAppropriatingWhiteCulture — Lord Humungus (@DarklyEnlighten) October 19, 2015
#BoycottStarWarsVII because JJ Abram’s political correctness is a code word for anti-white. — End Cultural Marxism (@genophilia) October 19, 2015
#BoycottStarWarsVII If white people aren’t wanted in Star Wars, then our money must not be either. — Critical Spooking (@officialCritDis) October 19, 2015
http://m.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Twitter-Trolls-Start-BoycottStarWarsVII-Over-6578326.php
Moped rider begs mercy from angry elephants who attacked him because they are sick of noisy motorcyc
He got away safely
The national park of Khao Yai shared the video on their Facebook page with a comment: 'Motorbikes have to be banned from Khao Yai before something serious happens.'
The park is the third largest in Thailand. It covers an area of 300 sq km (74,000 acres), including evergreen forests and grasslands.
There are 3,000 species of plants, 320 species of birds and 66 species of mammals, including Asian elephants.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3279528/On-bike-Elephants-attack-moped-rider-tries-past-moments-pack-noisy-motorcyclists-angered-them.html
Cops say 'armed' Florida church musician Corey Jones killed by police officer after car breaks down
well-known Florida drummer, who doubled as the assistant manager of the Delray Beach Housing Authority, was shot dead by a plain clothes Palm Beach Gardens police officer in an unmarked car after his car broke down on the side of the road following a music gig Sunday.
Authorities, family members say, have refused to fully describe what happened during the early morning confrontation that left 31-year-old Corey Jones dead.
But a police statement released Monday afternoon said the officer, Nouman Raja, was "suddenly confronted by an armed subject" when he "stopped to investigate what he believed to be an abandoned vehicle" along an Interstate 95 exit ramp around 3:15 a.m. Sunday.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fla-church-musician-killed-side-road-article-1.2402760#
http://m.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/family-31-year-old-drummer-was-victim-of-officer-i/nn5jm/
Update, 12:45 p.m.: The last time Mathew Huntsberger saw drummer Corey Jones was after their band finished a gig at a Jupiter bar Saturday night and Jones’ SUV was stalled on the Interstate 95 exit ramp at PGA Boulevard early Sunday morning.
Future Prezidents’ gig at Corner’s Ocean Bar and Grill in Jupiter had finished about 1:20 a.m. and Huntsberger had already made it home when he got a call from Jones saying he was having car trouble, Huntsberger told The Palm Beach Post on Monday.
Huntsberger, 34, met Jones on the exit ramp where Jones, 31, told him the car started having trouble while on Interstate 95, and then he pulled over to the nearest exit. He made it to the ramp and then pushed his car toward the end of it. He thought maybe the car needed oil, so Huntsberger got some for him. It didn’t help.
Jones called for At&T Roadside Assistance, and Huntsberger decided because he couldn’t help he’d head home.
That was about 2:30 a.m., about 45 minutes before the shooting.
What happened in those 45 minutes is not known.
Palm Beach Gardens Police has not commented on what led up to the shooting. Police also have not confirmed the identity of the person who was shot.
“I guess I was the last one to see him,” Huntsberger said. “He was like a really peaceful guy. There’s no way he had a gun. We’re all musicians and stuff. We’re not violent people
http://m.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/family-31-year-old-drummer-was-victim-of-officer-i/nn5jm/
Hunters shoot two moose before realizing they were firing into zoo
Norwegian hunting party must have been amazed at their luck when they found and shot dead two large moose.
But moments later, a horrible realization dawned on them: They'd shot through a fence and killed two zoo animals.
According to The Local, a Norwegian news site, a group of hunters killed two of Polar Park's five moose (the animals are referred to as elk in Norway, but they're part of the species North Americans would call moose). The zoo is located in the northern Norwegian town of Narvik, and the animals are caged but exhibited in "their natural surroundings."
The hunting party self-reported the incident, calling the zoo to let them know about the unfortunate accident. It seems their hunting dogs snuck into the moose exhibit so the hunters didn't realize there was a fence at all.
http://m.sfgate.com/weird/article/Hunters-shoot-two-moose-before-realizing-they-6577586.php
Comment following article
Imagine how dumbstruck those hunters would have been if the first large 'game' they saw were Siberian tigers or giant pandas.
Wild life rescue builds fancy catio: Patio for cats
http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Does-your-indoor-cat-want-a-taste-of-the-6572844.php#photo-8796835
e great outdoors is not a safe place for kitty. There are coyotes, disease and zooming cars. And kitties are not safe for the outdoors. Set free, they'll kill wildlife with impunity.
So one trend is hoping to, ahem, kill two birds with one stone: catios.
A catio is, if you haven't guessed it yet, a cat patio. Dedicated cat owners have been building budget and extravagant versions, and the phenomenon even has spawned sites that sell pre-designed kits. If you've got the budget, it's the perfect solution for pet owners who are cautious about letting Fluffy free in the neighborhood, but still want their cat to be able to experience the outdoors.
Locally, Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue is raising awareness for catios with their own build, which was unveiled recently. Two lucky kittens named Cheddar and Gouda got first run of the indoor/outdoor space. The brothers are considered "educational ambassadors" for the wildlife rescue, demoing the catio for curious visitors.
Trump is going to destroy Jeb Bush
trump has figured out Jeb Bush's greatest weakness as a candidate, and it's not his energy level
I don't know if Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination. But even if he doesn't, it's increasingly clear he's going to destroy Jeb Bush before he loses.
Over the past week, Trump and Bush have been in an argument that basically boils down to the question of was George W. Bush president on 9/11/2001?
Trump insists that Bush was president both prior to and during the 9/11 attacks, and he was therefore at least partly responsible for the security failures that permitted the tragedy. And to Trump's credit, there is considerable evidence that George W. Bush was president on 9/11/2001.
Jeb Bush's position is harder to parse: he argues that his brother was only responsible for what happened after 9/11, suggesting, perhaps, that someone else bore the responsibilities of the presidency on 9/11/2001. Or, to be a bit kinder to his position, he argues that the measure of as president isn't whether something like 9/11 happens, but whether it happens again.
The result is this absolutely brutal interview CNN's Jake Tapper conducted with Bush. "If your brother and his administration bear no responsibility at all," Tapper asks, "how do you then make the jump that President Obama and Secretary Clinton are responsible for what happened at Benghazi?"
Bush's response is almost physically painful to watch.
Trump has a bully's instinct for finding someone else's true weaknesses. His continued crack that Bush is a "low-energy" candidate is devastating precisely because it identifies a weakness not just in Bush's campaign style, but in the nature of his campaign.
http://www.vox.com/2015/10/18/9564267/donald-trump-jeb-bush-911
Breaking tradition, India's child brides fight for freedom
University student Santadevi Meghwal has been threatened, harassed, ostracised and even fined by a council of male elders in her village in India.
But the 20-year-old is determined to push ahead with annulling her child marriage, and join a small but growing number of youngsters in northern India rejecting the ancient tradition.
Meghwal was only 11 months old when her elders married her to a nine-year-old boy from a neighbouring village in the desert state of Rajasthan, where rates of child marriages have long been high.
She recalls seeing her husband for the first time aged 16, when a friend, whose family had attended Meghwal's 'wedding' when she was a toddler, pointed out a drunk man hurling abuse outside their school.
"My friend turned to me and said 'look, that's your husband'," Meghwal said, describing how her heart sank as she raced home to confront her parents.
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eghwal was supposed to move in with her husband when she turned 17. But instead she has fought a three-year battle against her council, and turned away her in-laws when they came to fetch her.
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police in Rajasthan together with social workers often conduct raids on villages to break up ceremonies, and pressure priests, wedding-card printers, caterers and tent operators to say no to families wanting to hire them.
Such campaigns, along with government cash incentives for families who defer marrying their daughters until they are older, have helped lower the overall numbers.
http://news.yahoo.com/breaking-tradition-indias-child-brides-fight-freedom-051328224.html
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