Word: flashlight
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...Kirkland, FlyBy thought the police blotter might be taking it easy for the rest of the night. Not so. According to a FlyBy correspondent, around 11:45 p.m., HUPD and Cambridge police officers handcuffed a male wearing a hooded sweatshirt on the Mt. Auburn side of Quincy House. A flashlight search was conducted (for what? we don't know.) One Quincy-open contributor said that she had gotten the scoop from the cops (after the jump...
...artist, revered both for his feisty personality (he admits to occasionally having an "abusive tongue") and provocative contemporary Buddhist art, still wakes at 2 a.m. to meditate and then scrutinize the stucco motifs by flashlight. He writes in his book Creating Buddhist Art for the Land, "I love and am attached to my project like all parents who want to see the success of their children. That's why I suffer every time when things don't come out as I've expected. This is the dharma principle that I hold to be my mentor these days. As I build...
...problem is there's no hard and fast rule for what counts as negligence. Going hiking in the early evening and then getting lost in the dark without a flashlight is considered distinct from an accident such as slipping and breaking your leg, says Colonel Martin Garabedian, chief of law enforcement for New Hampshire's Fish & Game Department. He estimates that rescues cost anywhere from $120 to more than $50,000. Annually, he oversees about 150 rescue missions, a figure that has remained steady for years. "What has changed is the cost of doing business - training, equipment, paying officers...
...nocturnal marsupials survive in this 7,800-acre (3,160 hectare) preserve at Epping Forest National Park, and I've ventured out in the hope of spotting one. As my footsteps send wallabies bounding through the scrub, something shuffles through the grass a few yards ahead. I aim my flashlight, and I'm startled to find myself confronting a small, bearlike wombat. I've just become one of only a few hundred people who have ever been face to face with the northern hairy-nose, because none are in captivity...
...book of childhood adventure stories, Victor Appleton's Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. "What an amazing thought," he once said, "stunning people with blue balls of electricity." A rejiggering of some letters later, and Cover had a name--TASER (Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle). Resembling a large flashlight, the device fired darts that delivered an electrical current through the human body, briefly incapacitating anyone on the receiving...