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DEAR ABBY: We love being near the water, but my husband drags a chair behind our rental and sits in the sun in the alley without his shirt. This is an upscale neighborhood, and it's embarrassing to me, especially because he is in his 70s and not in shape to display his stomach. The neighbors laugh it off, but I have told him how I feel and pleaded with him to walk a few steps to the beach and sit there shirtless. He said I hurt his feelings and embarrassed him by suggesting it. What more can I do to make him see how inappropriate it is? -- BEACH BUNNY DEAR BUNNY: Nothing! If he doesn't feel sunbathing in the back alley is inappropriate and the neighbors aren't offended, then the problem is you, not him. He may not want to sunbathe on the beach because he is self-conscious about his appearance, and your comments didn't help. Apologies are in order.

Researchers catch biggest tadpole on record The tadpole discovered by the American Museum of Natural History's Southwestern Research StationTwitter This critter might be a tad too big. The largest bullfrog tadpole on record was discovered by a volunteer at the American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station in Arizona, researchers said Thursday. Earyn McGee, PhD student at the University of Arizona originally tweeted an image of the freaky larva – to the horror, or delight, of many. “A look through the scientific literature suggests this is the largest bullfrog tadpole ever recorded. Rare indeed!” said Geoff Bender, the director of the Southwestern Research Station. While tadpoles are usually pretty small, the one in the picture has grown to epic proportions. Researchers think its size is due to a hormonal imbalance and don’t believe it’ll ever metamorphose and turn into a frog, McGee said. The record-breaking amphibian was found in a local landowner’s pond in March, as researchers drained the area on non-native predatory bullfrogs, Bender said. Some Twitter users joked the overgrown tadpole was a baby Godzilla or said it looked like a creature out of Netflix sci-fi show “Stranger Things.” “This is definitely going to haunt my dreams,” wrote @ocean_ginger. The AMNH didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

No wonder I always feel paranoid that nobody likes me. Lord knows, I've tried! :D

A woman with 89 license suspensions and revocations was arrested on Long Island, authorities say. Suffolk County Police say they arrested Dawn Taddeo after stopping her for traffic violations in Huntington, Long Island, Wednesday. Taddeo, 49, was allegedly driving a 1996 Buick Regal on Pulaski Road without a registration sticker displayed on her windshield. When Second Precinct Patrol Officer initiated a traffic stop and checked Taddeo’s driver’s license it showed it had been suspended 89 times. Suffolk police say it was also determined that the vehicle Taddeo was driving was unregistered and was being driven with improper or “switched” license plates. Taddeo, of Huntington Station, was arrested and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree. Taddeo was also issued summonses and the vehicle was impounded. Taddeo will be arraigned Thursday at First District Court in Central Islip. It is not immediately clear if she retained an attorney to comment on the charges. 2 Staten Island sisters, ages 10 and 12, race off with daddy's car, flip it, escape serious injury Not even the best Father’s Day present is going to get a pair of Staten Island daddy’s girls out of this jam. The two sisters, 10 and 12, are likely to get grounded for a long time after taking their dad’s car Thursday for a joyride, and flipping it in the middle of a busy Manor Heights intersection shortly after 2 p.m.. The girls were able to climb out of the Acura after it came to rest on the driver’s-side doors at Manor Road and Lincoln St. It was not clear which girl was behind the wheel. The sisters were being treated for minor injuries at Richmond County Medical Center, where they were joined by their furious father. There were no charges, though police said a juvenile report will be prepared. http://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/uOpPTSQ8NbTpwAmtOeoCRg7gWyQ=/1400x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5b22d89e/turbine/ny-1529010329-bsqfp6zc91-snap-image/2000 Two young girls (in pink) have a lot of explaining to do to authorities after wrecking their dad's car on Staten Island on Thursday. Jonathan Jimenez said he was dumping trash from a nearby bagel store where he works when he saw the car wreck. “I was shocked,” Jimenez said. “She made a very sharp turn and flipped the car. They jumped out very quickly.” Jimenez said the Acura bounced off a Mercedes-Benz before it flipped over. “I went over there to look,” Jimenez said. “I asked one of them if there was anybody else in the car. She said, ‘No, it was just me and my sister.’ ” http://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/1nZlDW_744gC2FXIwU9oQvbQyp4=/1400x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5b22dace/turbine/ny-1529010887-fz0y2k71b2-snap-image Luckily, the little girls who flipped the car weren't seriously injured. (Steven Sanfilippo) Cops and first responders quizzed the girls, both dressed in pink, on the sidewalk about what happened. Video of the commotion showed two girls who appeared more frightened than injured. One girl wore a T-shirt that featured a smiley face. “It was the craziest scene I’ve ever seen,” said David Jones, who watched as a tow truck removed the vehicle. “It is crazy that two young kids were able to operate that kind of vehicle. Thank God no one got hurt.” Even better... it wasn't the dad's car, it was his girlfriend's.

Florida man worried his meth was bad, asked sheriff's office to test it for him — and they did A Florida man, worried he may have received “bad” meth from a drug dealer, asked the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office if they would check the quality of his illegal narcotic. They did — and promptly arrested him. The story started as Douglas Peter Kelly, 49, of Hawthorne, reportedly thought someone sold him the wrong illegal drug. “On Tuesday, Kelly contacted the sheriff’s office and said he purchased methamphetamine about a week earlier and had a ‘bad reaction’ after smoking the narcotic,” the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office posted on its Facebook page. “The suspect said he believed because of the ‘violent reaction’ he had after smoking the drug, he was sold the wrong narcotic.” According to the sheriff’s office, Kelly told detectives he wanted to get the substance he purchased tested “because he wanted to ‘press charges’ on the person who sold him the wrong narcotic.” Detectives told Kelly to come to the sheriff’s office so they could test the drug he bought. Sure enough, Kelly reportedly drove to the office and “handed detectives a clear, crystal-like substance wrapped in aluminum foil.” The good news for Kelly: The sheriff’s office said substance he brought did test positive for methamphetamine, which is what he said he was trying to purchase. The bad news for Kelly: He was immediately arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamine. The sheriff’s office said Kelly was walked from the office to the Putnam County Jail and was held on $5,000 bond. “Remember, our detectives are always ready to assist anyone who believes they were misled in their illegal drug purchase,” the agency said in its Facebook post. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX '5 likes and I'll go shoot up Disney': Florida man arrested in Facebook threat A Florida man was arrested Tuesday after he reportedly threatened to commit a mass shooting at Walt Disney World in a Facebook group chat, according to the Brevard County Sheriff's Office. Derek Eitel, 23, of Cocoa, posted in the group saying "5 likes and I'll go shoot up Disney and hang myself," ABC Action News reported. Detectives with the sheriff's office say that the Facebook group has more than 800 members, who were all able to view Eitel's post. Two of the members reported the statement to authorities, according to News 6 in Orlando. Detectives didn't release the name of the Facebook group. In an interview with investigators, Eitel later confessed to typing the threat on his phone while he was at work, the outlet reported. He was arrested on a charge of making written threats to kill or do bodily harm and is being held at the Brevard County Jail on a $100,000 bond, according to jail records. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article213153944.html#storylink=cpy XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Man killed pregnant wife and kept body in his apartment for 8 days, detectives believe A man accused of killing his pregnant wife for disrespecting him kept her body in his apartment for a week, detectives suspect. Eight days after the death of Martine Bernard, 20, her desecrated body was moved into a garbage bin in an alley, which detectives found before sunrise on Tuesday. From his second floor apartment at 522 N.E. First Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, Cassandritz Blanc could look over that alley. The 22-year-old — who does not have a criminal record in Florida — is facing charges of premeditated murder and abusing a corpse in the June 4 killing. Blanc had shot Bernard in the head and tried to dismember her body to make it easier to dispose of, but he failed, a police report said. He is also the prime suspect in the killing of Bernard’s father, Roosevelt Bernard, 68, of Hollywood, police say. As of Wednesday, Blanc had not been arrested in that case.

That reminds me of the old Thomas Dolby song, She Blinded Me With Acid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMWGXt979yg

You should have made this a poll: Yes No Depends on what he charges.

Trump must have a damn ugly skeleton!

...can a raccoon scale a 20-story building and become an internet darling.

Too good-looking for what?

A Tennessee couple died Saturday after the vintage car they were traveling in “accelerated rapidly” and crashed shortly after leaving their relative’s funeral, authorities said. Troy Jenkins, 49, and Cameo Sanders-Jenkins, 38, had just left the parking lot of a church where they attended a cousin’s funeral when their 1968 Chevrolet Camaro slammed into a rock wall, the Nashville Metropolitan Police said in a news release. The couple was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead, police said. While the couple had been wearing their seatbelts, the ’68 Camaro had only lap belts because of its age, police said. The vintage car also didn’t have airbags. Officers said “excessive speed” was likely the primary factor in the crash even though there were “signs of braking” before the Camaro hit the rock wall ahead of the Ashland City Highway intersection. Amber Phillips, a relative, told the Tennessean that the Jenkinses had supported her and her young son “physically and emotionally” after his father was murdered two years ago — even helping her buy a house. “They were amazing people,” Phillips told the paper. “I just can’t name one person they did not help in some way.” Troy Jenkins worked in maintenance for a project management company, while Sanders-Jenkins had begun work as a real estate broker six years ago, the paper reported. “She had a spark to her, and nobody pushed her around and nobody ran over her,” Daniel Miller, a fellow broker, told the Tennessean. “But she would also help anybody — her family, her friends — she was there for everyone.”

As long as they're not decorating my coffin...

A raccoon that appeared to be stranded on a ledge after climbing more than 20 stories of a high-rise office building in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, has made it to the roof, easing concerns that the animal could plummet to its death. Onlookers and reporters tracked the raccoon’s progress Tuesday as it scaled the UBS Tower. By early Wednesday, the animal made it to the roof, where St. Paul Animal Control had placed cat food and a trap in hopes of enticing the animal to safety. The raccoon’s adventures caused a stir on social media, with many Twitter users voicing concern for its safety or joking about the drama surrounding the animal’s exploits. Minnesota Public Radio, from a building less than a block away, branded the raccoon #mprraccoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0J8U0RecIw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytkkbQRfvE4

They purposely didn't say, to help preserve his/her privacy.

Two roommates face rape charges for allegedly grooming a prisoner to be their “sex puppy,” according to reports. Jacob Lester, 26, and Benjamin Mooney, 31, are accused of inviting a person over Thursday for “pup play training” then keeping the person captive at their home in Fayetteville, Arkansas, news station KSFM reported. Police said the unnamed individual went willingly to the residence but was drugged, raped and beaten. Investigators said the “pup play training” was aimed at making the victim more submissive. Mooney reportedly handled the lessons but the group had threesomes in between. The incidents left the person with bruises and whip marks all over the back and buttocks, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Police said the victim was able to escape Saturday morning from the home, and showed up naked at a Goshen residence, pleading for help. Authorities tracked down the two men who allegedly admitted in an interview to the bizarre sex acts. When police read Mooney his rights, he said that if he understood he would respond with a “woof.” He reportedly explained that “woofs” meant that his “puppy personality” comprehended, according to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Mooney told police that his personalities are split between a sex puppy, a sex slave and a person. He also said he couldn’t recall whether he struck the victim because he “blacks out while he is in sex slave persona,” according to the police report. Both men were arrested Saturday on charges of rape and false imprisonment. They are being held on bail at the Washington County Detention Center.

Two roommates face rape charges for allegedly grooming a prisoner to be their “sex puppy,” according to reports. Jacob Lester, 26, and Benjamin Mooney, 31, are accused of inviting a person over Thursday for “pup play training” then keeping the person captive at their home in Fayetteville, Arkansas, news station KSFM reported. Police said the unnamed individual went willingly to the residence but was drugged, raped and beaten. Investigators said the “pup play training” was aimed at making the victim more submissive. Mooney reportedly handled the lessons but the group had threesomes in between. The incidents left the person with bruises and whip marks all over the back and buttocks, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Police said the victim was able to escape Saturday morning from the home, and showed up naked at a Goshen residence, pleading for help. Authorities tracked down the two men who allegedly admitted in an interview to the bizarre sex acts. When police read Mooney his rights, he said that if he understood he would respond with a “woof.” He reportedly explained that “woofs” meant that his “puppy personality” comprehended, according to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Mooney told police that his personalities are split between a sex puppy, a sex slave and a person. He also said he couldn’t recall whether he struck the victim because he “blacks out while he is in sex slave persona,” according to the police report. Both men were arrested Saturday on charges of rape and false imprisonment. They are being held on bail at the Washington County Detention Center.

A woman has accused Jamie Foxx of slapping her in the face with his penis, an allegation the actor-musician is calling an “absurd” lie. The alleged incident took place in 2002, but the woman making the claim only went to Las Vegas police last week, according to TMZ. The woman claims she and a friend were partying at the Oscar winner’s pad when he allegedly asked her for oral sex. She claims that when she refused, Foxx slapped her face with his penis. The woman claims she went to the hospital in Los Angeles the next day to seek treatment for a severe panic attack. The case is open, but the statute of limitations expired after three years. Foxx plans to fire back legally at his accuser. “Jamie emphatically denies that this incident ever occurred, and he will be filing a report with the Las Vegas Police Department against the woman for filing a false police report against him,” Jamie’s attorney, Allison Hart of Lavely & Singer, told TMZ. “The first time [Jamie] became aware of this woman’s absurd claims about an incident that supposedly occurred 16 years ago was when TMZ contacted his representatives [Tuesday] about this story.” Hart added, “The alleged incident was not reported to law enforcement in 2002, or at any other time in the last 16 years until last Friday because the incident never happened.”

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