"The State Education Department has confirmed that a fenced-off area is used for students with special needs at Seven Hills West Public School. It says the school is located near a busy road and many of the students have no sense of boundaries... The area contains just one tree with benches around it, surrounded by dirt."

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"A Vallejo teenager allegedly shot himself in the testicles Thursday afternoon, police said... The gun is still outstanding, police said, and the teen has not been cooperative."

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"In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted... An American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War... The mystery of Le Pain Maudit [Cursed Bread] still haunts the inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, southeast France."

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"Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief exorcist... When one speaks of the smoke of Satan in the holy rooms, it is all true -- including these latest stories of violence and paedophilia"... He said it sometimes took six or seven of his assistants to to hold down a possessed person. Those possessed often yelled and screamed and spat out nails or pieces of glass, which he kept in a bag."

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"There are many stories of animal suicide dating back centuries. In 1845, for example, the Illustrated London News reported a "Singular Case of Suicide" involving a "fine, handsome and valuable black dog, of the Newfoundland species." The dog had for days been acting less lively than usual, but then was seen "to throw himself in the water and endeavor to sink by preserving perfect stillness of the legs and feet."

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