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You really are annoying. And your funny to stupid ratio is in the red.

 

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yea im moved by that dry cleaners. you think they'd do that just to keep the number of bums down to a minimum. remember that Saved By the Bell episode where Zack starts dating that chick that worked at the mall during the christmas episodes? Her dad was a bum, and all he needed was a dry cleaned suit to get back on his feet... but nobody likes bums so he didn't get that fresh clean suit. They had to live in their car and take showers at the mall. I cried a little that night - LEAVE UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE ALONE!!!!!!

 

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for real? you wear it when you go jogging? do you have the wrist things too that match? do you play basketball? where do you live? whats your real name? whats your social security number? how much money do you have in the bank? whats your bank account number? where do you work? what time do you leave to work? do you have a security system in your house? do you live alone?

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someone once helped me get my car out of the snow last year, then they said merry christmas, I told them I dont celebrate christmas. then I looked at their little daughter and said, hi little girl. I never saw them again, even thought they were my neighbors.

 

they had the right idea.

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Did my good deed for the month.

 

On the way home from Fresno this morning I spotted a hot chick, yay. She was driving a really nice white Lexus, alone. Anyways so I'm steady scoping as we stop at a red light. I glance up and notice that she had left her fucking I-phone on the roof of her vehicle. It was in a nice matching white case. Somehow this shit wasn't sliding off as we hit 45 mph headed towards highway 99. I'm like "whaaaat"....

 

So as it was I'm tired, burnt and beat the fuck up from this weekends shenans. I really don't feel like doing anything but watching her phone slide off of the roof and smashing to bits as I run over it. However, something got the best of me. Pussy! I slide up next to her at the next red light and grab her attention. She looks scared and confused at first but eventually she comes to a slow stop on the side of the road. So I check my rear view and watch her grab the phone and I'm off. No worries right? But damn... that was a fucking swell opportunity right there - oh well. Next time blud.

 

Right as I'm about to exit to 99 this broad comes hauling ass right up behind me. She's looking all giddy and happy trying to get my attention now. Again I'm like 'whhaaaat...' I pull over at a gas station and she follows me in. We talked for a minute and she gave me her number. Said anytime I'm down in that area again to give her a call. I thought she'd be put off by the stitches on my fo'head but turns out she's a Triage Nurse and she fucking loved it.

 

Yay.

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India's last "dancing", endangered bear set free

21 Dec 2009 08:19:32 GMT

Source: Reuters

By Sunil Kataria

BANGALORE, Dec 21 (Reuters Life!) - Raju the bear will never have to smoke cigarettes or dance on his hind legs under the hot sun again thanks to a multinational project to save an endangered species and end a cruel centuries-old tradition in India.

Raju was the last endangered sloth bear that had to work for a living, but who now can roam free at the Bannerghatta bear sanctuary on the outskirts of the southern city of Bangalore.

The bear's freedom is the outcome of lengthy efforts by animal rescue organisations and the government that have taken the "dancing" bears off India's streets, where the animals were once as ubiquitous as snake charmers and their cobras.

"This is the very last bear that has been rescued from the roads of India, the actual last one and that is the end of the trade," Mary Hutton, Australia-based chairperson and founder of Free the Bears Fund, told Reuters Television.

Sloth bears are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, but they often entertained crowds by playing imaginary guitars, smoking cigarettes and dancing to the pounding of drums, providing an income for their handlers.

The Bannerghatta bear rescue centre is one of the four that have been set up by India-based Wildlife SOS, Free the Bears Fund from Australia, Britain's International Animal Rescue and One Voice Association from France.

The animal welfare groups devised a holistic approach that involved setting up sanctuaries for the freed bears and giving rehabilitation packages for their handlers so that they have an incentive to give up the animals.

Raje Saab, Raju's handler, said he was looking forward to starting a new job with the money he has been given.

"I am happy that it is going to stay here, it will be looked after properly and will get proper food and care," said Saab of his bear, adding that he would probably start a small business with the 50,000 rupees ($1,069) given to him.

Once inside the sanctuary, the bears get special veterinary care to heal their multiple wounds and are quarantined for about 90 days before being allowed to socialise.

They are fed healthy food and gradually adjust to living in their large, forested enclosure, although they can never be returned to the wild because many lack basic survival techniques, as well as teeth and claws.

Activists say rampant poaching by an ancient tribe of gypsies known as Kalandars, who used the animals for their shows, had brought the sloth bears to the verge of extinction.

They say the Kalandars used to poach sloth bear cubs and then force them into submission by wrenching our their teeth and forcing a needle through their muzzle.

Wildlife SOS co-founder Geeta Seshmani said the Kalandars used to train the bears by putting them in a pan over a fire. They often castrated the bears to make them less aggressive.

As a result, many bears died, prompting more poaching, she said, and poaching still remains a pertinent threat.

"The most challenging part before us is to get the bears to be looked after at these sanctuaries," Seshmani said.

"Our anti-poaching unit works very hard and, because of the demand from South East Asia, there will always be demand for the bear cubs," she said, referring to countries were bear body parts are believed to have medicinal properties.

"There is still bear-bone soup and there is cold-blooded trade in countries outside India. And it will be our task to ensure that our cubs are not stolen from our forests and our wild bears are not stolen from our forests."

Seshmani said wildlife groups, with help from the police and other departments, have reduced poaching to a large extent. Overall, the programme has saved 600 sloth bears so far. ($1=46.78 Indian Rupee)

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