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come from me, it is from my own blood, my DNA is part of it,” Circa said.
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toy would no longer be sold. Walmart said the toy was sold by a third-party and has been removed for not complying with its “prohibited products policy.”
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ed. But their strategy got them in much more trouble than the original crime would have. Both were charged with attacking power substations, causing thousands of people to
lose electricity on the holiday. Greenwood and Crahan admitted they just wanted to empty a cash register at a local business during the out- age. The sabotage amounts to
a federal crime; Crahan’s law- yer said he plans to enter a not guilty plea.
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Dog owner Erik Torres, who owns a pet store in Doral, Florida, is facing charges after he brought his Pomeranian — dyed to look like Pikachu — to a Miami Heat game on Dec. 26, WPTV reported.
Matthew Greenwood, 32, and Jeremy Crahan, 40, of Puyallup, Washington, only wanted to rob a business on Christmas Day, NPR report-
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“It made history because nobody’s ever seen a Pikachu dog sitting next to an NBA player before,” Torres said.
But Miami-Dade Coun- ty Animal Services officials were unamused.
“No animal should be dyed, regardless of whether there’s an ordinance prohibiting that,” said assistant director Kath- leen Labrada.
She noted it is “unlawful for any person to possess, sell or otherwise transfer within the county any dyed or artifi- cially colored rabbit or other animal.”
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Ashley Lynn, mother of a 9-month-old baby, took to so- cial media after her child was gifted a toy remote control, the New York Post reported. Lynn said the baby loved the toy and was “going to town chewing on” it, but then she noticed that when certain buttons were pressed, it made inappropriate comments. One was about a drive-by shooting, and anoth- er was a sexually themed joke about priests.
“What? What?” Lynn said. “Walmart, explain this. Linsay Toys, explain this.”
Lynn reached out to Lin- say on Dec. 31 and got a reply, which indicated the
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