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The content of this issue is Copyright © 2014 by NuCity Publications, Inc., and may not be reprinted in part or in whole without written consent of the publisher. All rights are reserved. One copy of each edition of Alibi is available free to county residents and visitors each week. Anyone caught removing papers in bulk will be prosecuted on theft charges to the fullest extent of the law. Yearly subscription $100, back issues are $3, Best of Burque is $5. Queries and manuscripts should include a self-addressed stamped envelope; Alibi assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Association of Alternative Newsmedia WEEKLY ALIBI SEPTEMBER 4-10 , 2014 [5] zoological expert Wu Kongju told China’s state know what was happening but could hear Office deputies contacted Boucher at her work. news agency Xinhua. Experts speculate the screams from the kitchen. There were calls for While talking to a deputy, Boucher stated “I ODDS bear may have learned to fake the signs of a doctor, but unfortunately by the time medical have to get on stage” and hung up the phone. pregnancy after associating them with being assistance arrived, the man was already dead. The daughter was located, unharmed, at about pampered. According to Xinhua only 24 After we heard that, we did not continue with 9pm that evening. Boucher was arrested and D percent of female pandas in captivity give our meal.” Police say Peng died before he could charged with misdemeanor obstruction. She N birth. be given lifesaving anti-venom at a hospital. was released on $663 bond the next morning. A ENDS “It is a highly unusual case, but it appears to be Dateline: China just an accident,” said a police spokesperson. Dateline: Florida WEIRD NEWS A chef from Foshan in the Guangdong In this week’s second most “Florida” story, a province died after a cobra he was preparing bit Dateline: Florida woman in Edgewater is facing drug and child Dateline: China him—20 minutes after he chopped its head off. In this week’s most “Florida” news, police in neglect charges after her 7-year-old son ratted A giant panda has been accused of faking a Chef Peng Fan was preparing a special soup Hudson say 29-year-old Bobbey Jo Boucher was her out for manufacturing meth. Briana pregnancy in order to score better food. The made from Indochinese spitting cobra, a rare talking to an officer about her missing child Buchanan was arrested on Aug. 15 after her keepers of Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding delicacy in China. When the accident but had to hang up on him because she needed landlord spoke to her young son. “Her son, Research Center were excited to see Ai Hin happened, Peng was allegedly throwing the to get up on stage at the strip club. According who’s 7, just told me she keeps bad stuff in her starting to show signs of pregnancy, including severed snake head away when it bit him and to WTPS Boucher is a stripper at the Calendar car, and he opened the trunk and she has a moving less and having a smaller appetite. As injected its neurotoxic venom. Lin Sun, 44, Girls club. The working mom allegedly left her meth lab in her trunk,” Peter Arnold—who is with her previous pregnancies, keepers moved who was dining with his wife at the time, told 10-year-old daughter at a barbecue on the also the brother of Buchanan’s boyfriend—told her into a single, air-conditioned room. “They local media, “We were in the restaurant having afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 27. When the WPTV. Buchanan’s son was also pretty savvy also received more buns, fruits and bamboo, so a meal for my wife’s birthday when suddenly girl did not return, her grandmother called about how his mom gets her ingredients. The some clever pandas have used this to their there was a lot of commotion. We did not local law enforcement. Pasco County Sheriff’s young boy allegedly told Arnold that “Mommy advantage to improve their quality of life,” goes to the store and lies to the people, saying she is sick and needs medicine.” After being shown the mobile meth lab, Arnold took the boy inside and called 911. Buchanan was charged with child neglect with great bodily harm, possession of methamphetamine, manufacturing methamphetamine, possession of listed chemicals and possession of narcotic paraphernalia. Her son was sent to stay with his grandmother. Dateline: Ohio Volunteers stepped into the kitchen after a fire destroyed one and a half tons of potato salad destined for a Toledo-area German American Festival. The fire started in a refrigeration truck early on Friday, Aug. 22. The accident ruined the mountain of potato salad and hundreds of gallons of sauerkraut shortly before the fest was set to open to the public. Within hours, Toledo’s The Blade newspaper reports, dozens of volunteers with potato peelers and paring knives were skinning spuds to replace the scorched side dish. According to WTOL- TV, it took nearly 150 people to prepare the original potato salad. The festival in the city of Oregon typically serves hundreds of pounds of the stuff each day to accompany its traditional German cuisine. a COMPILED BY DEVIN D. O’LEARY. EMAIL YOUR WEIRD NEWS TO [email protected]. [6] SEPTEMBER 4-10 , 2014 WEEKLY ALIBI WEEKLY ALIBI SEPTEMBER 4-10 , 2014 [7] OPINION | ¡ASK A MEXICAN ! Communities in California: An Overview,” a BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO 2007 paper by Lisa Kresge for the California Institute for Rural Studies, the ear Mexican: I’m estimated population for this from the southeastern group alone was about DUS, and people think 350,000—and that’s just for the that all people from Golden State and doesn’t there are dumb (and, include the many Purépecha, in many cases, Yaquis, Otomis, Mayas, correctly—see Totonacs and many other Bush, G.W.). Is Mexican indigenous groups in there a similar place Cali. Until there’s an in Mexico where incentive for Mexicans to other Mexicans identify as Indian (using an think these people are Aztec name to get into the inbred mouth chonis of a Chicanos Studies breathers? chica doesn’t count ... yet), you’re —Swanee Señor not going to find many Mexicans identify as indio —sad, but verdad .