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ROHNERT PARK, CA –I just couldn’t help but post this once I saw it over at Fail Blog. This did happen basically in my back yard. Rohnert Park is about 5-10 minutes away. Up close you can’t really see what all those soda cases make but once you take a step back you will see who is about to eat the super mushroom! Thanks to InAdaWords for the write up below.
“A Pepsi representative (and Super Mario fanatic it seems) tasked with creating an eye-catching display for the recent Labor Day weekend sale at the Rohnert Park Safeway in northern California constructed this giant Super Mario-themed installation piece made out of 12-Pack soda containers!
According to the fellow who spearheaded the Nintendo-themed display (his name is Ryan; his YouTube page can be found here), the entire project took him and two other workers four hours to complete!
In the end, a thousand 12-Packs of soda were used to create the giant-sized Mario and 1-Up Mushroom.”
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NOVATO, CA — A bomb squad was called to Novato over the weekend to remove an intact grenade found buried in a resident’s backyard. Novato police were contacted shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday by a homeowner on Wallace Court who, while digging in his backyard, found what officials described as a heavily corroded, completely intact fragmentation grenade.
“As soon as he found it he called for help,” Novato police Lt. John McCarthy. “God knows how long it had been there.”
McCarthy said the bomb squad from the University of California at Berkeley took the grenade to a nearby remote field and defused it.
He said it wasn’t clear how old the device was or how it ended up in that residential area. The homeowner had lived at the property for the past decade, McCarthy said.
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A Novato man accused of ramming an ice cream truck in a freeway robbery attempt could face up to five years in prison under charges filed Thursday, while a second suspect was released without charges.
Joseph Victor Denatale-Watson, 24, was arraigned on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, attempted robbery, reckless driving and hit-and-run driving, said Deputy District Attorney Linda Witong.
Denatale-Watson’s bail was set at $250,000. A plea hearing is pending.
The alleged robbery attempt occurred Tuesday night on Highway 37 near the Petaluma River Bridge, when a self-employed ice cream vendor was driving his 1973 Chevy truck on eastbound Highway 37.
Police said a group of men in a green Mercury Sable approached and rammed the ice cream truck three times, spinning it out and bringing it to a halt.One witness, who declined to be named, said an occupant of the Mercury videotaped the event, and another occupant threw a bottle of beer at the ice cream truck.
After the vehicles pulled to the highway shoulder, several men emerged from the Sable and demanded money from the ice cream vendor, witnesses told the California Highway Patrol. But the bandits fled when a witness stopped and told them police had been notified and were on the way, the CHP said.
Late that night, Novato police stopped a green Mercury Sable to investigate whether the driver was intoxicated. When police checked the Mercury’s license plate number with dispatchers, it matched the suspect vehicle in the Highway 37 incident.
Denatale-Watson was arrested at the scene, as was a passenger, 18-year-old Shane Evan Maynard of Novato. The ice cream vendor identified the men as two of the three suspects who attacked him, the CHP said.
On Thursday, Maynard was released without charges after additional investigation established he did not participate in the attack, according to the district attorney’s office.
The ice cream vendor was not injured in the incident.
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The driver who was killed when his vehicle crashed more than 200 feet off Point Reyes-Petaluma Road Thursday was identified as Harry Samuel Atkinson, 80, of Daly City.
According to Andrew Barclay of the California Highway Patrol office in Marin County, the CHP received the call reporting the accident at 12:46 p.m. Thursday.
Atkinson’s 2005 Ford Escape plunged 200 feet down an embankment on the 5900 block of the road, near the McEvoy Ranch.
Firefighters responded and used ropes to reach Atkinson and pull him back up the embankment, but he died after being airlifted to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.
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Attessa III – 225 Ft. Motoryacht. Exterior and Interior.
Yacht Fast Facts:
- Owner: Dennis Washington, 88th on the Forbes list of wealthiest Americans
- Size: 225 feet, 14th largest yacht in America; 71st largest in the world
- Features: Helicopter, movie theater, gym, massage room, Jacuzzis
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Credits:
Vancouver Shipyards; North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. News. Boat International USA (Mar. ’06). Power & Motoryacht (Feb. ’06). Showboats International (Dec. ’05/Jan. ’06). P&M ( Nov. ’06) Showboats International Award – Best Refit/Reconfiguration – 2006. Boat International Award – Best Refit – 2006. Photos by Neil Rabinowitz.
PETALUMA, Calif. — An 18-year-old Petaluma man was injured when a pipe bomb exploded in a portable toilet located in a public park on the Fourth of July.
At about 10:35 p.m., Officer Matthew Capitelli was flagged down at Lucchesi Park to assist with someone who had been injured.
“The officers found… the subject had a puncture wound to his back,” said Petaluma police officer Tim Lyons.
The injury was severe and the victim was losing a large amount of blood, police said.
Medical personnel arrived while Capitelli was assisting him and transported him to the hospital.
The man said he was walking by the portable bathroom located near the park when he heard a loud bang and felt the injury to his back. The portable bathroom had evidence that a pipe bomb had been detonated inside, according to police.
The shrapnel from the pipe bomb had blown through all the walls and the roof of the portable bathroom. A piece of shrapnel from the pipe bomb hit and injured the victim.
“We don’t have any witnesses to the crime. No one reported it or called in any loud explosions,” said Lyons. “The female that flagged down the officers just found the injured subject.”
The man is in stable condition and an investigation is ongoing, according to the Police Department.
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PETALUMA, Calif. — Petaluma police and animal control personel were on the lookout Thursday after multiple reports of a black bear roaming the city’s streets.
The animal has been described as a black bear weighing about 200 pounds. It’s been seen in the area of East Washington Street and Maria Drive.
Animal control calls the sightings credible. Those who saw it said the bear walked down the street, then ducked into a creek and disappeared.
Before dawn Thursday the search was on. The sheriff’s chopper was up in the air and guns were drawn down on the ground. The search lasted a few hours but was called off before the sun came up. Within a few hours, the bear sighting slowly became the talk of the town.
“I’ve been in Petaluma 40 years. I’ll be truthful, I’ve heard of mountain lions up in the mountains, but bears? I’ve never seen a bear,” said local resident Mike Alvardo.
Animal Control officer Jeff Charter said he’s been in Petaluma for five years and never had a bear call. Then he had one resident tell him of a black bear sighting on Tuesday and then three more sightings late Wednesday night.
Charter said the callers told police the bear was walking along East Washington Street jumping from the adjacent creek, to the street, and back to the creek.
“He was just around. He wasn’t on anybody’s car from what I’ve been told. Didn’t get into anyone’s trash or after anyone’s pets.” said Charter.
The city of Petaluma is known to many for its quaint downtown, river, and rolling hills… but a bear sighting? That had people chatting.
Raul Lopez was more than surprised, “I was shocked a bear around these parts?”
Petaluma Animal Services said there’s been 12 bear attacks since 1980 in California, but not one in Petaluma.
And Petaluma native Mike Alvarado doesn’t foresee one in his lifetime. “To me it’s a gimmick. To me, like I say, I hunt every year. Hunting with my father since I was five years old so bears down this low I’ve never truly heard of it.”
Petaluma Animal Services said it received one more call Thursday.
Officers went to the northwest part of town to check it out and officers discovered a bear track in a driveway, but no black bear.
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