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Entries from Seattlest tagged with 'danger'

October 8, 2008

King5.com and the following headline: "Woman shot by her stove." When reading the headline, we thought surely King5 had a little headline clarity problem and the woman had been standing by her stove when shot, but oh no...King5 meant exactly what that headline said. A woman in Sekiu, Wash. was literally shot in the leg by her wood-burning stove. After stoking the stove, the woman heard a loud bang and was then struck in the......

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June 12, 2008

Isn't it nice to be able to swerve down the road while gossiping on your phone? Don't you love driving behind texting teens at 70 mph across a floating bridge? Starting July 1st, that will be not just be inadvisable--it will be illegal. In just over two weeks, California and Washington will both enact laws that make it illegal to drive while talking on a handheld mobile phone. You will be able to talk and......

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