There has been some crazy news in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area this morning.
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Police: Woman shot toddler while high
She drove 3-year-old cousin to the hospital after gun went off
By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS, Texas - Dallas police believe that a 21-year-old woman was high on cocaine when she inadvertently shot her 3-year-old cousin in the neck, then drove him nearly six miles to Mesquite Community Hospital.
He was transferred to Children's after arriving at Mesquite Community on Interstate 30. Police believe the cousin drove him there shortly after shooting him at 3:30 a.m. Sunday.
The 21-year-old, who also was not identified, was apparently examining the gun at the house in the 9900 block of Cedar Mountain Circle in Pleasant Grove when it went off, police said.
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Thank goodness it didn't turn tragic.
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Sex offender abducted in Grand Prairie
By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - A Dallas man remains missing three days after he was kidnapped in broad daylight in Grand Prairie by men who had guns and were wearing ski masks. They left the victim's infant son asleep in his Suburban.
Witnesses said that at 3:40 p.m. Friday, Jose Inez Galaviz, 33, brought his son, who is less than a year old, with him to check on one of his other vehicles being repaired at a business in the 3900 block of East Jefferson Street. Two late-1990s model SUVs, one brown or gold and the other two-toned gold over blue, pulled up. Several men dragged Mr. Galaviz into one of the SUVs and left. Bystanders who phoned 911 watched the child until police arrived and returned the boy to his mother, who is Mr. Galaviz's girlfriend.
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Isn't it the other way around?
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Man killed in bee attack while cutting grass
ALICE, Texas (
DallasNews.com/AP) - A South Texas man died after being swarmed by bees when he was mowing a lawn, officials said.
Reymundo Ramirez died Saturday after bumping a lawn mower into a storage shed near Alice, according to the Jim Wells County Sheriff's Office.
Ramirez, whose age was not available, ran to the side of the house but collapsed covered in bees, sheriff's officials said.
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Oh dear!
OK, back to the worldwide craziness.
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Plucky boy gets Miss Universe dream date
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A plucky Australian schoolboy who asked a former Miss Universe to his school dance, only to be rebuffed, has finally had his dream date over lunch.
Daniel Dibley, 17, needed a partner for the school dance in the Australian country town of Bathurst, west of Sydney, and he decided to aim high.
He wrote to Australia's best-known beauty queen, Jennifer Hawkins, to ask her to the dance, and was stunned when the 2004 Miss Universe accepted.
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Sweet!!
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Man plans to feed placenta to goannas
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - An Australian man who says "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin shaped his love for reptiles said Tuesday he plans to feed the placenta from his newborn son to his pet goannas to bring the family closer to lizards.
Wil Kemp, a reptile keeper at Rockhampton Zoo in northeastern Queensland state, said his second son was born on Sept. 5, the day after Irwin was killed by a stingray attack while filming on the Great Barrier Reef.
Kemp and his fiance Kahila Pepper gave the boy the first and second names Tai and Irwin — the former after the taipan snake and the latter after the television star and conservationist.
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I'm sure Steve Irwin would be proud.
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Man who hawked rifle as boy gets it back
SYRINGA, Idaho (AP) - It was a ricochet nearly 50 years in the making. At age 8, Terry Jackson gave up his prized .22-caliber Winchester short-barrel rifle to get his grandmother a washer. Recently, the 57-year-old got the gun back through a series of chance encounters and conversations.
"I didn't even have much reaction," said Jackson. "I was so dumbfounded."
As a boy, Jackson felt bad that his grandmother was too poor to have a washer. So he took the rifle he had earned money for by mowing lawns and doing other chores to a pawn shop.
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I would be dumbounded as well.
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Iowa woman finds drowned bat in tea mug
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - A western Iowa woman is recovering from the shock of finding a drowned bat in her tea mug — after she sipped from the cup all day.
The brown bat, about the size of two tea bags, was found a few weeks ago by a 60-year-old Woodbury County woman, said Chuck Cipperley, an environmental director for the Siouxland health office in Sioux City.
"I knew the person, so I knew it was no joke," said Cipperley, who took the call from the woman.
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