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Another Charge?

   As of May 5, Northwest Airlines say it will start charging $25 for a second piece of luggage for flights in North America. This charge applies each way on a two-way trip. Also, airlines will also charge $50 for luggage over 50 pounds. Other carriers will also be adding the extra charge including U.S. Airways and United Airlines.

   So let me get this straight, passengers have to either pack light (if they are heavy packers) on a long trip or pay $25 for an extra suitcase both coming and going? Sounds like the airlines want more from their customers and not just good reviews.

Honey, I’m Home!

   A match made in, well Germany - Petra, the black swan, fell in love with a swan-shaped paddleboat. She loved it so much that she wouldn’t leave its side in 2006 from the lake it floated in Muenster, Germany.  

   A local zoo stepped in found a place for Petra and her love to the zoo for the winter, where she met a new love, a white male swan.  The zoo returned the boat and Petra and her beau parted ways after he decide to leave. Zoo officials decided to reunite Petra and her first love, after she appeared to be lonely and in an agitated state.

Stupidity at its Finest

  The award goes to: 18-year-old Ruben Carate for the smartest-act-as-a-criminal award. Carate decided to rob a Chicago muffler shop safe. The workers told Carate the owner had all the money. Carate left his number so the workers could call him when the owner returned. Carate received a call from the shop and so did the Chicago police. When Carate arrived to rob the shop a second time, police charged him with armed robbery and aggravated assault of a police officer.

This Week’s Read:

   “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London. London writes in "The Call of the Wild” the transition from civilized to primitive. He does this by writing from the prospective of Buck, a half Saint Bernard and half sheepdog. At the beginning of the book, Buck lives the good life with his owner, a judge, in California. He soon finds himself in Canada as a sled dog; and after being broken with a club, misused by inexperience, and keeping to what’s left of his civilized manner for one man, he returns to the wild. This book draws one conclusion about life in the wild, “kill or be killed.”

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