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News: NYC jumper saved by trash uncollected since storm

Start-of-the-new-year miracles, thanks to a blizzard. Enjoy!

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NYC jumper saved by trash uncollected since storm

26-year-old leaped from ninth floor apartment and landed on pile of refuse

NEW YORK — Authorities in New York City say a man who tried to jump to his death from his ninth floor apartment was saved by a heap of trash bags that had gone uncollected since last week's blizzard.

Fire officials say the 26-year-old was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan shortly after noon on Sunday. He was listed in critical but stable condition.

Vangelis "Angelo" Kapatos landed on his back after jumping from his ninth-floor window. No one was home and he left no note, the New York Post reported.

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His aunt, Katharina Capatos, who spells her name differently, told the New York Post it was lucky the city had the snow and hadn't cleared the garbage.
She also said Kapatos had spent around a month at Bellevue Hospital's psych ward after a nervous breakdown and had only been released on Wednesday.

"I think he's lonely," Capatos, 64, told the Post. "I think he has manic depression."

She said her nephew told her recently that he was worried about being evicted from his $572-per-month rent-stabilized apartment.

Kapatos reportedly contacted his lawyer, Charles Small, on Friday with concerns about a court hearing set for Monday. His landlord is reportedly trying to evict him.

"I told him there's nothing to worry about, that his landlord has no case," Small told the Post. But, he said, "I have no idea" if he got the message.

The city resumed garbage pickup on Monday for the first time since the Christmas weekend blizzard dumped over 20 inches of snow on the city.

The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.

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Paganism: January and Janus the God of Gates

For those who are interested in Paganism. A history lesson on the month of January by Connie Delaney. Enjoy!

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News: Tip to robber - Reject victim's Facebook friend request

This goes under the Dumbass Criminal awards. Enjoy!

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Tip to robber: Reject victim's Facebook friend request

Mass. car wash manager tracks down TV rip-off suspect on social networking site

TAUNTON, Mass. — A robber walked out of a Taunton car wash and gas station with a flat-screen TV under his shirt. The robber thought he got away, but the manager of the car wash tracked him down.

The manager of Prestige Car Wash and Gas Station, Nicole Telles, showed 7NEWS the men’s restroom where the crime went down, where the 27-inch flat-screen used to hang. But police say a 20-year-old ripped it right from the mount and took off.
Telles said he hid the TV under his sweatshirt.

“I felt like, if we had all the information … the process would be a lot quicker,” said Telles.

Telles said she didn’t catch the culprit when the crime happened, but she figured she could do some detective work of her own and try to figure out who the suspect was.
Surveillance video showed the suspect using a credit card to pay for gas, and he had been at the counter as well. So Telles looked up the transaction and got his name. She then started digging into Facebook.

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“I went on Facebook, searched the name — the first and last name — and he was like the third one up top. He looked like the guy, and I was like, ‘All right. Let me request him’” as a "friend," said Telles. “He accepted me, so I went through all his pictures, made sure it was him.”

She says her boss even sent him a message telling him to bring back the TV and they wouldn't call police.

“He ended up deleting me, so then we thought to ourselves that the kid doesn’t want to give it up,” said Telles.

They went to police with all of their evidence and the suspect was then arrested.

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Magick: Witchcraft declared legal profession in Romania

For those who are interested in Magick. Apparently, pagan practices are okay as long as they can be taxed. Enjoy!

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Tarot: Zodiac Spread with Advice for 2011

For those who are interested in Tarot. Dixie shares a Zodiac spread using the Housewives Tarot deck and gives us advice for 2011. Enjoy!

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Zodiac Spread with Advice for 2011

By Dixie

Happy New Year! To celebrate heading into 2011, I thought we could take a peek ahead at the coming year. I opted for the fun Housewives Tarot to start on lighthearted note. The co

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News: New Jersey Woman Eats 30,000-Calorie Christmas Meal

This woman watched Super Size Me too many times, methinks. Enjoy!

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New Jersey Woman Eats 30,000-Calorie Christmas Meal

By Elina Shatkin

Donna Simpson

​When Donna Simpson dreams, she dreams big. The 650-pound New Jersey mom aims to be the fattest woman in the world. And to be the best, you have to make sacrifices. After gaining more than 50 pounds this year, Simpson celebrated by downing a 30,000-calorie Christmas meal.

Yes, you read that correctly. 30,000 calories. We didn't tack on an extra zero.

How is such a feat even possible?

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Hide the buffet! "World's Fattest Mom" Donna Simpson is coming to town.

​According to Australia's Daily Telegraph, her Christmas meal, which took two hours to eat, included two 25-lb. turkeys, two maple-glazed hams, 15 lbs. of potatoes, a 10-lb. roast, five loaves of bread, 5 lbs. of herb stuffing, 6 pints of gravy, 6 pints of cranberry dressing, 20 lbs. of vegetables and a "salad" of marshmallow, cream cheese, whipped cream and cookies.

We thought Paula Deen was a mad genius for layering her Symphony Brownies with 1-lb. Hershey bars. We admired the total body dedication that led Josh Ozersky to a bout of gout. We've long suspected Guy Fieri and Adam Richman survive on a secret diet of blood thinners. Donna Simpson, however, makes them all look like pikers.

The 42-year-old mom (@WorldFattestMom) who's also an SSBBW model (Super-Size Big Beautiful Woman, if you need your fetish initialisms decoded), chronicles her quest on her very NSFW website.

We don't advocate morbid obesity, and we generally think when one's life imitates a "Simpsons" episode, something has gone horribly awry. But even if Simpson never succeeds in her quest, she deserves a role in "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," or at least the next John Waters movie.

h/t NY magazine

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News: The Greatest 'The Price Is Right' Bloopers

As we end 2010 and enter into 2011, let's remember a show that has aired for 45 years, The Price is Right! Here are several bloopers of the show over the years. Enjoy!

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The Greatest 'The Price Is Right' Bloopers

"The Price Is Right" has been around since 1965, and it has given away more than its share of ugly entertainment centers, useless blenders and laughably tacky two-door hatchback cars.

But really, who's watching the world's longest-running subliminal advertisement for its products? The guessing game of "The Price Is Right" has always taken a back seat to contestants wearing bizarre outfits, jumping on Bob Barker and taking him down and going berserk when they win, say, $500. 

Their unpredictably (and obliviousness to the fact that millions are watching their goofiness) is what we've always loved about America's greatest game show. 

Keep reading to see the craziest, weirdest, wackiest, worst-dancing-est clips in the show's 38-year history.

Heh heh ... 420. Get it? Heh heh. Funny. This guy goes all the way out to California, to the studio at some ungodly hour, miraculously gets called on to "come on down!" and what does he do? He becomes a national joke. It doesn't help that the actual retail price was hundreds of dollars more than this doofus guessed. 

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Being on "The Price Is Right" is terrifying enough, but then you have to remember an unfunny dweeb like Drew Carey is trying to put you at ease by making fun of how nervous you are or making bad jokes about your fellow "dude" contestants. Then again, he would look even more ridiculous if he just stood there and let this zombie woman run amok.

Fans have been arguing about this video ever since it aired in January. Did this Showcase Showdown contestant fake her fainting spell for some sort of sympathy vote? Can you faint and recover this quickly? People who are actually home all day and have nothing better to do will surely debate these questions for centuries.

Although this clip runs far too long (hey, you have better things to do), it does contain some memorable moments: "Deadliest Catch" guy Josh Silberman jumping around like a deranged orangutan, Bob Barker golfing and the winner of a brand-new car humping that brand-new car. Skip to 6:00 for the winning putt and the automotive assault. Sorry to break it to you, Bob, but "hugging" does not usually involve pelvic thrusts. 

"The Price Is Right" carefully selects its contestants prior to each show based on a survey of the incoming audience. They look for high energy, interesting T-shirts and crowd-pleasing stories, such as former-military people or couples celebrating their anniversaries. Often, though, the 18 espressos haven't kicked in and there's no way of knowing how wacky people will get later on. It's a shame the image quality on this clip is so poor because you would see that this break-dancing freak looks like the love child between John Turturro and Egon. Really, you don't need to see all that clearly to make out this dancing fool scaring Bob Barker right off the freaking stage. 

In one of the most memorable moments in the show's history, Barker stopped the program to introduce one of the super-smokin' models to the audience, then brought out her boyfriend, who promptly proposed right there on the air. Based on the fact that the guy didn't even bother to get dressed up for this beautiful moment, we can't say we're surprised to learn that they broke up last year.