Patrick Havens on April 25th, 2008

I worked with homeless at shelters in Seattle, San Francisco and Oakland… and I’ve seen all types. From the out of work and temporary homeless fighting to “get back to normal”, to those with mental illness who end up homeless and needing help all the way to those who I’d consider professional homeless. [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 24th, 2008

In a headline sure to grab attention “Penis theft panic hits city…” I read of yet another place that I don’t think I want to visit?
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Police in Kinshasa, Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 14th, 2008

Who are a couple of the more deranged magicians? How about Penn & Teller…. here they are purposely pulling THOUSANDS of bees from “thin air.”

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Patrick Havens on April 14th, 2008

Moment Of Zen…
You take something that is supposed to be exciting and keep adding dangers.  First it may of been a motorcycle, and then perhaps they decided to add in an automobile.  But how were they planning on topping adding a grown lion in a sidecar?
[from Le Blog Moto via Jalopnik]

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Patrick Havens on April 1st, 2008

WAUSAU, Wis. - Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands.
But though they made dozens of teens take breath tests, none tested positive for alcohol. That’s because the keg contained root beer.
The party was held by [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 25th, 2008

The fur on this kitten, born Sunday in Sacramento, California, seems to spell out “I (heart) (dot).” That’s especially cute because the kitten’s mother is named Dottie.
I wish I could say I saw this in the Sac Bee… but no.  I saw this on BoingBoing and it was quoting a Witchita Falls, Kansas? News Channel?
I [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 29th, 2008

A freaky procedure was carried out to turn a body-art fan’s eye blue, ala. Dune.
And it took FORTY insertions of the needle to get the job done.
Volunteer Pauly Unstoppable, from Canada, has perfect vision but jumped at the chance to be the first for this unusual work.

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Patrick Havens on February 19th, 2008

This is freaking hilarious.  The fact that this is an actual product (No I won’t dignify it with a link, google if desperate) just makes the irony more delicious and bad.

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Patrick Havens on February 18th, 2008

Actually it’s not very warm here. Not freezing, though it’s not unusual for it to drop into the teens during the winter. The Napa Valley tends to be warmer then a lot of places. But it only feels that way when one bothers to do some searching and runs across an article [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 13th, 2008

I ran across a site that had supposedly collected a number of images from his running of situations in which nature had taken its course and a tree had slowly enveloped an item. All of them where originally un-credited and I have tried to credit when I have found it.
Most policeman keep track [...]

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