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   An Orange County grade school was on a “modified lockdown” while the sheriff’s office investigated and then exploded a “suspicious device” that was found near the school, OrlandoSentinel.com reports.

   After blowing it up, officials deemed the toy stuffed pony “nonthreatening.”

   If you think Florida has too much imported wildlife, you might be glad to hear that a fisherman in Deltona thought he hooked a piranha but really got only a poor cousin.

   The wildlife commission determined it was merely a pacu, which isn’t a native but is relatively common in Florida (at least when measured against the piranha), wftv.com reports.

   Tom Cornell said he reeled in the 14-inch fish with a piece of snake as bait. He said it nipped his finger when he caught it and nipped him again an hour later. “I said, ‘I can’t believe this thing is still alive,’ ” he told the TV website.

   Sponsors of the 24 Horas de Cuba del Norte (24 Hours of Cuba of the North) race make no pretense of political correctness, but some Cuban-Americans still are upset that the race uses an image of Che Guevara in the race logo, PalmBeachPost.com reports.

That doesn’t faze organizers of the event, which pits drivers in a 24-hour endurance race using cars them must buy and repair (and disguise as Halloween parade floats) for $500 or less. They intend to keep using Guevara’s image.

Some of the other 24 Hours of LeMons racing circuit’s races are the Can’t Get Bayou (New Orleans), the Capitol Offense 500 (Washington, D.C.) and the Rod Blagojevich Never-Say-Die 500 (Chicago).

   Authorities arrested a 31-year-old mother as she left a cruise ship, taking her baby and saying she was a wanted prostitute, OrlandoSentinel.com reports. She did have the same name, Paola Londono, as a woman sought in several counties, but that’s about where the resemblance ends. The fugitive Paola Londono is 5 foot 4 and 125 pounds, while the Orlando mom is 4 foot 11 and 165 pounds. Ages and faces didn’t come close to a match either.

   “These two people could not look more different,” her lawyer said, but still it took a day to get her out of jail.

   And that comes on the heels of a similar case, where a woman from Winter Park is suing the Seminole County sheriff’s office for her prolonged detention after a small-time thief stole her identity. She says it took a day before she was released, even though a comparison of mug shots showed she wasn’t the wanted person. In fact, when Kimberly Shields was jailed, the woman authorities were seeking, Shannon McGuire, was in a state prison near Ocala.

   If you do something illegal, it’s best not to put the evidence on Facebook. But people keep doing it.

   Two Citrus County residents have been accused of possessing wildlife that was taken illegally because of a photo of a skinned deer on a Facebook page, Ocala.com reports. The reason for the seemingly odd charge is that nobody admitted killing the deer, or even being there when it was killed. But state officials are assuming it wasn’t roadkill.

   We’ll assume that the occasional poaching isn’t the reason for the steep decline in the size of the deer herd in part of the Big Cypress National Preserve that is puzzling scientists. That decline has prompted the wildlife commission to called off the fall and winter deer hunting season on 100,000 acres in the park, naplesnews.com reports.

ST. PETERSBURG — The Tampa Bay area's elusive mystery monkey appears to have finally found a friend:

It's himself.

Former St. Petersburg Times employee Don McBride saw the young male rhesus macaque, which has been on the loose for more than a year, and photographed the monkey gazing into a mirror in the Pinellas Point area. The monkey was in his neighbor's backyard near 56th Avenue S and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street, McBride said.

"He had been here once before," McBride said. "I saw him in my rear window staring back at me, eating out of the bird feeder."

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 McBride saw the monkey again on Labor Day. The macaque — who has been seen in various parts of Pasco, Hills­borough and Pinellas counties — appeared to be staring into a cube with mirrors on all sides.

"My neighbors who used to own the house were artists, and they sold their house to artists," McBride said. "They've had that thing in their yard, and we never really knew what it was supposed to be."

The monkey appeared to drawn to it — or rather, to his own reflection in it — Monday morning.

Full story at tampabay.com.

Bucs sign P Brent Bowden, LB Lee Robinson to practice squad

I could easily spend the whole afternoon gazing at Globe Genie.

Globe Genie takes all of Google Street View and randomizes it. Hit the shuffle button and you’re on the northern coast of Spain. Hit shuffle and you’re in the middle of a small town in North Carolina. Hit shuffle and you’re in the middle of Mexican slum. Hit shuffle and you’re on a lonely stretch of highway in Minnesota.

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After all the waiting, talking, meaningless games, cuts, additions, speculation, complaining, hoping, and watching, the 2010 NFL regular season begins in less than 3 days (5 days if you don't count Thursday's game).  We've dissected preseason games, predicted cuts, analyzed the information out there, just to fill the time until the regular season started.  

But like everything in life, there seem to be more questions that answers as the season creeps closer.  As we all know the Tampa Bay Buccaneers kickoff their 2010 season in the comfy, albeit quiet confines of Raymond James Stadium this Sunday at 1 PM.  Hit the jump to see some of the questions the Bucs hope to answer in 2010.

1) Will any home games be on TV this year?

Well, recent trends indicate that those of us in the area will see exactly 0 home games.  The two preseason games were blacked out without so much as a second thought.  And thought it has yet to be confirmed, all signs point to the home opener against the Cleveland Browns being blacked out.  The throwback game with the induction into the Ring of Honor might be televised, but outside of that, unless the Bucs can get off to a hot start, I can't imagine any games being televised.  That is unless the Glazers or some of the corporations that stand to benefit from the advertising (I'm looking at you Brighthouse and Publix) pony up some dough.

2) Where will the pass rush come from?

Lets assume for a minute that McCoy and Price have a solid, steady rookie year and control the middle of the line.  Who will bring the pressure from the outside?  That silence you hear is every Bucs fan wondering the same thing.  Sure, Stylez White has some flash, but is he good enough to consistently get in the backfield?  This could be a question that takes until the 2011 NFL draft to answer.

3) Will Mike WIlliams be able to live up to the recent hype?

He's a 4th round pick, lets remember that.  All of the sudden, he's becoming a household name, being drafted as a top 30 WR, and being hailed as our best receiver ever.  I'm as excited as the next guy, but lets let him grow into the spot.  Expecting him to take over the league is a wonderful thought, but lets not saddle him with unreal expectations.

4) Will my love for Caddy fade?

Never.

5) Will Josh Freeman take that next step in his development?

I sure hope so.  Until the thumb injury, all signs pointed to yes.  Now, this injury isn't a game changer unless he has to re-grip the ball or tweak something.  He also wil have to survive the first few hits and the center-quarterback exchange.  That puts pressure on the thumb that most of us don't think about.  Our moderate hopes this year ride with Freeman, lets hope he's back to 100% and ready to lead us.

There are undoubtedly other questions going into the season.  These were just the ones that jumped off the page when looking at our starting lineup(s).  Are you guys ready for some football?

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“Comprising of pioneering electronic musicians Peter Zinovieff and Tristram Cary (famed for his work on the Dr Who series) and genius engineer David Cockerell, EMSs studio was one of the most advanced computer-music facilities in the world. EMSs great legacy is the VCS3, Britains first synthesizer and rival of the American Moog. The VCS3 changed the sounds of some of the most popular artists of this period including Brian Eno, Hawkwind and Pink Floyd.”