Pair charged with stealing skunk from pet store

Authorities arrested two people connected to the theft of a baby skunk from a pet store. The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office reported that the skunk was stolen Wednesday from Animal Crackers Pet Store. The animal was valued at $400.

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Skunk stink shutters Pa. library for 2nd week

Bookworms are always welcome at a central Pennsylvania library, but a different kind of critter has kept patrons away from the building for more than a week. The Allensville branch of the Mifflin County library has been closed since Feb. 10 because of the putrid smell from a skunk that may still be prowling among the stacks.

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Texas border town faces skunk infestation

The residents of this border town are facing a stinky and growing problem these days: skunks. Eddie Ortega, the director of Del Rio's Community Health Service Center, said there's an unusually high number of the malodorous creatures running around these days.

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Uninvited skunk causes stink, delays plane in Miami

An uninvited passenger created a smelly situation on a plane in Miami. American Airlines Flight 915 from Miami to Bogota, Colombia, was delayed Wednesday night after a skunk was found in the back of the cargo hold, discharging its foul odor throughout the aircraft, airline officials said.

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Skunks under Ohio family's home reek havoc

A family's dream home became a stinky nightmare after skunks moved in. They chewed underneath Kerry McCullough's house in Sheffield Lake, about 20 miles west of Cleveland, and started their own family.

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Cop Uses BB Gun to Save 'Jarhead' Skunk

These are the salad days for one lucky skunk. Officer James Kellett said a skunk whose head was stuck in an empty salad dressing jar wandered into the police station's parking lot Thursday in Carrollton Township, near Saginaw and about 80 miles north of Detroit.

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Skunk Supporters Gather in Northern Ohio

People from as far away New Mexico and the Netherlands were in northern Ohio over the weekend, getting up close and personal with skunks.

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A skunk in Oklahoma who got his head stuck in a jar of peanut butter was rescued with the help of a passer-by and a man known as the "skunk whisperer."

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Teresa Vick saw something very strange Monday morning, a skunk with his head stuck in a peanut butter jar in downtown Bixby.

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A skunk crossing a Rogers County road caused two cars to collide head-on Sunday evening.

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It is the end of a taboo: articulate, middle-class parents are speaking out about the nightmare of seeing their children spiral into drug abuse and, all too often, mental illness.

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I can see this having a lot of effect on the way police handle cannabis users, (not). This legislation doesn't change the public or authoritys attitude on cannabis; I would suggest that the new more potent breeds of cannabis have their own seperate classification.

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Israeli police say the new crowd-control method, which they call a "skunk bomb," was used for the first time Friday in the village of Naalin. Palestinians have been holding almost daily protests against a security barrier that Israel is building in the area.

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Cannabis users are increasingly opting for high-strength skunk because weaker varieties of the drug have been frozen out of the market, campaigners warned today.

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Posey Possum and Surly

The smily clerk at the wildlife park happily announced that there were many new babies to see at the nursery and Surly was out today. I paid for entry and went through the wooden door to the park. A large sign showed correct and incorrect ways to feed the animals.

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The residents of this border town are facing a stinky and growing problem these days: skunks. Eddie Ortega, the director of Del Rio's Community Health Service Center, said there's an unusually high number of the malodorous creatures running around these days

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Ruby Jane is special because we have eight other domestic skunks and she is the "princess" of the house. She is a "Mommy's Girl" and I love her dearly. She lives with my husband and I and eight other domestic skunks in Dupont, IN. We bought Ruby Jane from a breeder in June 2000.

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American Airlines Flight 915 from Miami to Bogota, Colombia, was delayed Wednesday night after a skunk was found in the back of the cargo hold, discharging its foul odor throughout the aircraft, airline officials said.

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The 18th-century poet Alexander Pope was a keen student of human nature, and often delivered bits of timeless wisdom in memory-friendly rhyming couplets.

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Stoned: Britain's fuddled cannabis policy

"Jeeves! Could you please get me a good pound of Afghan hash?" could well have been a common saying of a rich Victorian Englishman, for until the 1920s, you could buy hashish in most good British shops, including Harrods.

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The headline pretty well sums it up. But here goes -- a family of six is forced to flee their million-dollar home in April 2007 when a skunk stench greeted their arrival home. The smell was overpowering.

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The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, will today stress the dangers of more potent strains of cannabis as she is expected to defy medical opinion by announcing that the drug will be upgraded from class C to class B.

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Nicky is not just another of the millions of Britons who smoke cannabis regularly. She chose to experiment with the drug as part of a BBC documentary in which she investigated just how damaging smoking different forms of the drug can be - with herself as a guinea pig.

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The body of a motorist was found in his submerged sport utility vehicle a short time after he drove up to the San Dimas Reservoir area to release a skunk he trapped in his backyard.

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Skunk, the drug of choice with British Cannabis users.

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The unpublished results of authoritative research into cannabis confirm the "skunk" now on sale in England is stronger than it was a decade ago, but demolish claims that a new "super-strength skunk" - which is 20 times more powerful - is dominating the market.

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Some people choose their pets, some others are chosen by their backyard wildlife. What do you do if you find a skunk in your garden?

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A dramatic increase in hospital admissions for mental health problems caused by cannabis was revealed yesterday.

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A parent's worst nightmare: a beloved child decides to use marijuana, and both parent and child become entangled in the world of addiction and psychosis related to the use of marijuana.

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Experts warned that the emergence of skunk, the extra-strong variety of the drug which is 25 times stronger than cannabis resin, was a "mental health timebomb". It's year 2007 and we still see articles like this in main stream media.

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"Record numbers of teenagers are requiring drug treatment as a result of smoking skunk, the highly potent cannabis strain that is 25 times stronger than resin sold a decade ago."

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In the early 1980s, 80 percent of marijuana on US streets was imported, mostly from Mexico, according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), which works to stop arrests of marijuana smokers.

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