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IRISH EXAMINER | January 18th, 2017 Wacky &BITS
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California Man’s Two Vehicles seconds into Trump’s inauguration “Basically, there are not enough cus- A passenger traveling from
Crushed By Different Trees In speech. tomers going to the Galleria to support Jamaica to new York was found
Different Cities On Same Day the retailers, so the retailers close,” Tom to be carrying a box of Jamaican
A California man whose two vehicles “We legalized cannabis in Fink, senior vice president and managing beef patties filled with four
were both crushed by trees in different Washington, DC and we are not going to director of market research firm Trepp pounds of cocaine.
cities on the same day says he feels like let anyone take that away from us! This LLC said. “Whoever buys the Galleria
“the luckiest guy.” is an outreach opportunity to show will need to invest significant dollars and U. S. Customs and Border
Georgiy Karpekin said he was at President Trump’s supporters we are the change how the site is used.” Protection seized 12 duct-taped
Sacramento City College when strong marijuana majority! Join us for smokin’ packages filled with $70,000 of
winds swept over the area Wednesday, fun time!” the Facebook event page San Francisco Library Book ‘40 cocaine from inside the box of
leading to an unfortunate discovery in reads. Minutes Late’ Returned 100 Years beef patties at John F. Kennedy
the parking lot. International Airport in New
“I walked up to my truck and I saw it The group cautioned participants Later York.
was ‘taco’d’ around a tree,” he told could risk arrest, as the consumption of An overdue library book was returned
KTXL-TV. marijuana remains illegal in public places to a California library about a century “This seizure demonstrates
Karpekin’s truck was indeed “taco’d” - and on federal land, including the after it was originally checked out. the vigilance and dedication
a fallen tree had reformed the pickup National Mall. It said participants are Cousins Judy Wells and Webb demonstrated daily by CBP offi-
into the shape of a taco shell. “engaging non-violent civil disobedience Johnson returned the collection of short cers at JFK, in keeping these pro-
Karpekin got a ride to his West and may be arrested.” stories, ironically titled “40 Minutes hibited and dangerous narcotics
Sacramento home where he made Late,” to the San Francisco Public off the streets of our communi-
another shocking discovery - another The group said it would cancel the Library 100 years after their great-grand- ties,” said Robert E. Perez, direc-
tree had fallen on two vehicles parked in smoking plans if “President Trump mother Phoebe Marsh Dickenson Webb tor of field operations for
front of his house, including his own car. comes out now in support of full checked it out, according to KGO. Customs and Border Protection
“Yeah, and then I come home and two cannabis legalization in all 50 States and “In a neighborhood as old as this you in New York.
other cars, huh? My luck. I bought a lot- D.C.!” might get a book back five years late, 10
tery ticket. It didn’t win, but...” Karpekin years late, when someone moves or Customs and Border
said. “I feel like I’m the luckiest guy. Foreclosed Pittsburgh Mall Sells they’re cleaning out a house,” Librarian Protection officials seized the
Why? I came out alive. Everything is For $100 At Auction Darice McKay. passenger, Chantal Alecia
fine. My insurance is covering it. There’s Webb was 83-years-old when she Bedward, and discovered the
no other way to look at it, right?” A struggling Pittsburgh mall, once checked out the collection of short sto- cocaine after piercing one of the
“You know, life’s full of peaks and val- valued at nearly $200 million, was sold ries and records showed she died a week duct-taped packages during an
leys, man,” Karpekin said. for a fraction of that price at auction on before it was due to be returned. examination in a private search
Karpekin said on Facebook that the Wednesday. “It’s hard to come back as a ghost and room. C
damage to the car parked outside his return your late library book,” Wells
home wasn’t as severe as the truck and The Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills sold said. An Australian researcher
will soon be completely repaired. for just $100 to Wells Fargo Bank, which The book remained in a trunk full of studying deaths from venomous
“You can’t help but laugh,” he wrote also foreclosed on the property last year, Webb’s belongings for 80 years until animals discovered a shocking
of the ordeal. according to the Pittsburgh Post- Johnson discovered it and decided to statistic - horses kill more people
Gazzette. keep it to himself. in the country than snakes.
Pro-Pot Activists To Hand Out “I really enjoyed reading it, it’s one of
Free Joints At Trump Inauguration The bid was placed by the law firm the reasons I held on to it,” he said. The study, published in the
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on behalf of a The library estimated that the book Internal Medicine Journal, said
Pro-marijuana activists in special servicer of the loan for Wells would have accumulated $3,650 in late Dr. Ronelle Welton of the
Fargo, which says it is still owed $142.9 fees at the modern rate of 10 cents a day, University of Melbourne and
Washington announced they will be million on the property. according to the San Francisco her colleagues examined
Chronicle. records from hospital admis-
handing out free marijuana cigarettes at The bank essentially purchased the Under the library’s current amnesty sions and coroners from 2000 to
property from itself in a legal maneuver program, which has recovered 2,000 2013 to study “injury trends
the inauguration of President-elect which will allow it to either rehabilitate overdue books since January 3, Wells from envenoming.”
or sell the property on its own terms. and Johnson were permitted to return
Donald Trump. the book free of charge. The study led Welton to a
Mall General Manager Anthony The library must now decide whether surprising discovery - horses
DCMJ, described as a “community Stephens said operations at the 1.1 mil- to place the book back into circulation or killed more people during the
lion-square-foot mall are expected to put it on display. 2013 period than all venomous
group fighting for equal rights for DC remain the same following the transac- “This is something I know people will animals in Australia combined.
tion. want to read,” librarian Luis Herrera
cannabis users, growers and their fami- said. C The study found horses were
“We expect the day-to-day to contin- responsible for 74 reported
lies,” announced members will be dis- ue,” he told Trib Live. “The mall is open deaths from 2000-2013, while
and ready for business.” bees and other stinging insects
tributing 4,200 joints at Dupont Circle in were blamed for 27 deaths.
The mall, which is one of the largest Snakes caused 27 fatalities, and
Washington Friday morning for “The in Pennsylvania, was once worth as no reported deaths were linked
much as $190 million dollars but plum- to spider bites.
Inaugural #Trump420” event. meted to about $11 million within a
decade. Welton said the data chal-
The group said the recipients of the lenges stereotypes of Australia
as a country where venomous
“legally grown cannabis” will be asked to creatures are constantly on the
lookout for human prey.
“light up” exactly four minutes and 20
“Australia is known as the
epicenter of all things ven-
omous,” Welton told the BBC.
She said another “surpris-
ing” find in the study was that
stings from bees and other
insects were the top cause of
venom-related hospitalization,
followed by spider bites and
snake bites. C
