A Pennsylvania man who was unhappy with his “Pizza Pizza” order decided to show his disappointment by shooting up the Little Caesars branch that he felt shorted by. William Pabon allegedly called the location twice to check on an order he thought was late, and when he wasn’t satisfied with the customer service, he picked…
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Aitkin Police Department Chief Paul Ryan joined the program to get an update on snow removal and parking ordinances with the City of Aitkin and looking ahead to 2023:
–Instead of scraping ice off your vehicle’s windows, try spraying it with a mixture of ⅔ cup vinegar and ⅓ cup water. Ice will melt right off. –Get rid of nighttime coughs by rubbing Vicks Vaporub on your feet and then placing socks over them. According to this, your cough will stop within minutes. –”Flying…
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Aitkin County Public Health’s Liz Short and Brea Hamsdorf discussed upcoming Smoking Cessation Classes coming on Tuesday in January and February at the Aitkin Public Library:
–Manuals for TVs are regarded as useless, but in five thousand years they are as valuable as the Rosetta Stone: Most of those manuals have the same text in over 20 different languages and alphabets. –Tom and Jerry are best friends. But Tom has to pretend to hate Jerry in order to protect (Jerry) so…
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(Katwe Kabatoro, Uganda) — A hungry hippopotamus in Uganda swallowed a toddler whole before spitting the child out. Police say the two-year-old boy was playing in his family’s house near Uganda’s western border when the animal attacked and swallowed him head-first. A man who saw what happened threw rocks at the hippo. The startled animal…
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A bear on the prowl for dinner in Florida found something a whole better than a pick-a-nick basket — and stole a bag of Chick-Fil-A chow from a man’s front porch. Paul Newman had placed a Grubhub order and was set to fetch it from his porch when he noticed his four-legged visitor had beaten…
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Calling police more than 2,000 times in nine days just to call them explicitly bad names will get you arrested — at least in Japan. Police say they received 2,060 angry phone calls between September 30th and October 8th (that’s roughly 229 calls per each of those 9 days or so) from a 67-year-old man…
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–Pack an extra pair of socks in your car’s glove compartment. Then if you need to get out and shovel, or if you step into a puddle, you’ll have dry socks to change into. And put those orphaned or mismatched socks to use: use them as wiper blade covers! –Ceiling fans are not just for…
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Aitkin County Soil and Water Conservation District Forester Kyle Frederickson joined to he joined to talk the 2023 Native Plant and Tree Sale, effects of the recent snowfall on wildlife, and the Private Woodland Group Tour of Long Lake Conservation Center and Workshop: