safety

All it takes is a change in your normal routine, a tiny distraction, a hectic schedule and suddenly tragedy strikes. In an instant a loving parent can be mourning the loss of their child who they accidentally left in a hot vehicle. It can happen to anyone. If you are worried, as I am, that this could happen to you--you might want to check out these devices designed to alert you when you leave your child in the car.

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Last week Mail Online published an article stating:
The U.S. State Department has warned American travelers to Mexico to beware of possible violent retaliation after this week's arrest of alleged Zetas drug cartel associates within the U.S.

'Given the history and resources of this violent TCO, the U.S Embassy urges U.S citizens to maintain a low profile and a heightened sense of awareness.

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My friend's little 80 year old grandma went to a federal building tax day with something to do with her taxes. I don't know the whole scoop, but all I know is, she was dying of thirst and called my friend to bring her something to drink

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Last night, during all the crazy weather, my boyfriend got in his first wreck ever. It was bad too. He wrangled a 60 foot pine tree on a dark road. Bad part is, someone else had just avoided hitting it, but freaked out, left their car and turned their lights off, so no one saw her

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You've seen it, just like I have--the distracted driver, looking at his or her phone. I have also noticed a recent shift in the typical "offender" from teenager to the 50+ crowd. A few years ago it seemed to be an epidemic problem within young drivers. But, recently I have seen all ages texting or fiddlin' with their phone in some distracted and dangerous fashion.

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This Thanksgiving PSA from William Shatner rests somewhere between his musical stylings and that time he threw a chair on ‘$20,000 Pyramid’ on the weirdness scale.

In the video below that Shatner made for State Farm Insurance, the onetime Capt. Kirk talks about the dangers of deep-frying a turkey.

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Monday night the streets of Kiss Country will be flooded with fairies, knights in shining armor, ninjas and witches. These little Halloween celebrators will be dragging their plastic pumpkins door to door eyes aglow with the thrill of the week long sugar high in their near future. Here are a few tips to keep everyone safe and happy (except for the dentists, they hate this holiday).

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Okay, so you're in a plane...with absolutely no control over your destiny or safety.  That's someone else's total responsibility.  Thousands and thousands of planes making thousands of take offs and landings EVERY day crossing paths all over the world...and yet the guy who "should" be keeping an eye on everything is SOUND ASLEEP.  It's happened 5 times in the last couple of weeks...who knows how many times it happened before it became a news item. 

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