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In April the Denver fire department, responding to an emergency call from the adjacent city of Montbello, discovered that a woman had been trapped in her home when tumbleweeds filled her yard and jammed against her house to a height of 16 feet….And in January, residents of Kennewick, Washington, were deluged with tumbleweeds “as big as Buicks,” according to one man, including a small number that seemed to have come from the highly contaminated Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Last month in Fairbanks, Alaska, a father pleaded guilty to stuffing so much toilet paper down his seven-month-old daughter’s throat that some of it had to be surgically removed….In April a mother and stepfather in Newark, Delaware, were charged with forcing their 12-year-old boy into a doghouse and blowing cigarette smoke at him through the door….And in March a Miami woman was convicted of attempted second-degree murder after she discovered that her boyfriend had become romantically involved with her 16-year-old daughter, doused the girl with gasoline, and set her on fire, leaving her horribly disfigured.
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