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Dead Reverend's Rubber Fetish

OCTOBER 8--An Alabama minister who died in June of "accidental mechanical asphyxia" was found hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear, and a head mask, according to an autopsy report. Investigators determined that Rev. Gary Aldridge's death was not caused by foul play and that the 51-year-old pastor of Montgomery's Thorington Road Baptist Church was alone in his home at the time he died (while apparently in the midst of some autoerotic undertaking).

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A 180-pound young bear fell through the skylight into the living room of a suburban Juneau, Alaska, home on Wednesday during a baby's first birthday party — and proceeded to eat cupcakes, reports the Juneau Empire.

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"I was literally in the room, and I heard this cracking," father and homeowner Glenn Merrill told the paper. "The next thing you know, there's this bear that, I mean literally, fell right from (the skylight). It was like one meter away from me."

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Half an hour later, a bear suspected to be the same animal walked inside another occupied house and was shot and killed by the Juneau Police Department.

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