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Extra, Extra: Always Check Your Sofa For Kittens Before Getting Rid Of It
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 3, 2014
Modified Apr 10, 2014
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Published Apr 3, 2014
Modified Apr 10, 2014
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- A teen got trapped in a storm drain while trying to retrieve her cell phone.
- Drink beer in the West Village with a former G man.
- Make sure you check your sofa for cats before you donate it to charity.
- What is Baby Fart Aerobics you ask? This is Baby Fart Aerobics.
- Metalheads like knitting for their kitties too.
- JFK's new travel plaza has all the gourmet options you could hope for: "For dining, there’s Wendy’s (with a drive-thru), 7-Eleven, Qdoba Mexican Grill and Max’s Pizza."
- Like a Möbius Strip Mall, here's the story of the Walmart employee who picks up food at her local food pantry which was donated by Walmart.
- Animal Planet is making their own version of Moby Dick from the whale's perspective, a.k.a. "REVENGE OF THE WHALE (working title)".
- Comedian Liza Dye wrote a first person account of getting hit by a subway train.
- Bryan Cranston is writing a memoir to "tell the stories of my life and reveal the secrets and lies that I lived with for six years shooting Breaking Bad.”
- And finally, sometimes in life we aim too high, only to fall to Earth humbled:
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