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#140 Vietnam vet and retired paratrooper dies in Palm Coast. Family pays over $4,000 to have him dressed in a jumpsuit and placed in a crate enclosed in cardboard box and sent to his family in Kentucky. His nude body arrived in a wet cardboard box tied with two pieces of nylon. [Kentucky.com]
#141 A pack of pit bulls is still on the loose in Deerfield Beach. They have attacked a man at a Target parking lot, killed a pet rabbit and a guinea pig, and are accused of "ominously eyeing a woman's cat through her window." [UPI]
#142 A construction crew in West Palm Beach found a dead baby in a two-gallon pickle jar on Friday. [Local 6]
#143 Nas' wife Kelis ("Milkshake") was charged Friday for yelling racial profanities at Miami Beach police officers. [Fox News]
#144 A 14-year old girl who had been caught stealing four cars in four months was just caught stealing her fifth in five months in Orange County. [Local 6]
#145 An uncooked burrito was the reason a Tampa man claims he is now in a wheelchair. [AP]
#146 Pedicab drivers are being robbed in Orlando. [Local 6]
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