Share the cheer, but don’t wreck the halls

With the holidays upon us, chances are you'll have lots of family and friends in your home over the next few weeks — but how safe is it? Slips and falls account for over a million injuries in the U.S. alone. And many happen right in your own home. Some other things to worry about are holiday candles, loose or broken furniture, even safe usage of your holiday lighting. Here are some tips to keep you safe and sound at home:

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Robbers Glue Victim to Exercise Cycle

A gang of armed robbers forced a man to strip naked and then glued him to his exercise bike and sealed his lips with more glue while they ransacked his house, according to a published report.

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Pranksters Glue Calif. School Doors Shut

Forget being glued to their seats: Kids at a suburban San Diego high school couldn't even get through their classroom doors Friday.

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Police departments say they are aware that motorists with peeling stickers may have a valid excuse. "Police officers and parking enforcement agents have been instructed about the problem and directed to use discretion," said Paul J.

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A man who used a public toilet in a shopping mall was taken to a hospital to have the toilet seat removed from his backside after someone smeared it with glue in what an official condemned Monday as a sick joke.

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A MARRIED man has had his penis glued to his stomach by three woman who had discovered he was romantically involved with each of them. The trio of women were tipped of about the love triangle from an unlikely source - the man's wife.

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Decrying a federal government he says is out of control, former Georgia Gov. and U.S. Sen. Zell Miller said Thursday that America is "spending like we're Paris Hilton."

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Excerpt: Groping in the bathroom cabinet early one morning, her vision blurred by sleep, Paula Griffin grasped what she thought was her bottle of eye drops. But instead she picked up an almost identical bottle of powerful nail glue and squirted it in her eye.

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A 35-year-old man has been taken to hospital stuck to a public toilet after a prankster covered the seat with glue.

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A truck fully loaded with buckets of construction glue crashed into a bus in Chengdu city, reports West China City News. The driver and a passenger escaped with only minor injuries - but the entire load of glue spilled on to the road.

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A Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed because he did not want to go back to school after the Christmas break. "The holidays were such fun," Diego Palacios, 10, who lives outside Monterrey, told Reforma newspaper.

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Since the holidays are advancing upon us like a rampaging SUV, I thought I'd talk about an essential but overlooked tool for these and nearly all holidays: tape.

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The Hong Kong company that manufactured millions of poisonous toy beads in mainland China issued a public apology Thursday, with the chairman saying that it had not occurred to anyone to check whether an inexpensive glue ingredient on the beads would be dangerous for children to  …

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The remarkable adhesive abilities of geckos and mussels have been combined to create a super-sticky material. Unlike other adhesives inspired by the nimble reptiles, "geckel" can attach to both wet and dry surfaces, the team that developed the material says.

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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to bond materials that don't normally stick together.

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review of xyron machines for crafting

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Pranksters Glue School's Doors Shut Students Sit In Gym Until Doors Unlocked

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Groomer Accused Of Cutting Dog's Ear Off, Super-Gluing Back On A dog groomer in Seattle accused of cutting off a dog's ear and then super-gluing it back on before giving it back to its owner could face charges...

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An observatory damaged in the recent earthquake has been brought back to working order with a dab of glue!

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The powerful adhesive responsible for the amazing sticking power of mussels has been revealed for the first time.

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Is this becomming a trend? First Home Depot then Wal-Mart?

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From the article:The adhesive can withstand an enormous amount of stress, equal to the force felt by a quarter with more than three cars piled on top of it. That's two to three times more force than the best retail glues can handle.

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