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The Amazing Joy Buzzards volume 1: Here Come the Spiders

July 1, 2008 4:44am

So how similar is this to the Aquabats?

Cody's Books of Berkeley, RIP

June 21, 2008 6:17am

I left the Bay area in 2000 and have only been back sporadically. I loved getting over to Cody's whenever I could. Picking up a new book and eating a slice of pizza on Telegraph.

I was confused about the multiple locations and whether this announcement only pertained to the Berkeley store. Here's what the Berkeley Daily Planet had to say: "Cody’s Books, founded on Telegraph Avenue in 1956, expanded to Fourth Street in 1998 and San Francisco in 2005, closed on Telegraph in 2006, closed in San Francisco the following year, moved to Shattuck Avenue in March, and then, yesterday, on June 19, 2008, went out of business"

Woman jailed for 50 days for possessing cat urine

October 17, 2007 9:59am

Here's a link to a St. Petersburg Times story that includes more details. Points from the article:


  1. Deputies found the vial of yellow, chalky substance while searching Hunter's purse during a pat-down. A security guard had seen her place beer, undergarments and a mixer into a shopping cart, then walk out of the Wal-Mart without paying, according to an arrest report.

  • When Hunter was booked into jail Aug. 15, authorities found that besides the petty theft, she was also wanted by Plant City police on an outstanding warrant for violation of probation for reckless driving.

  • Prosecutors and deputies said Hunter told them during questioning that she wanted to use the cat urine to help her son pass a drug screening. Hunter denies this.

  • Only Hunter has said that it was cat urine. Dehydrated human urine - packaged in small vials - is used in products designed to help people pass drug tests using someone else's urine.

  • The State Attorney spokesman said a judge might have held Hunter in jail after the petty theft arrest simply because of the warrant for violating probation. Her other past arrests have included failure to appear in court and driving under the influence.

    • What I think is the big problem here is the timeline of events:

    "Records show the FDLE processed the sample and had results showing the substance was negative for drugs Sept. 6 - a full month before Hunter was released from jail. The Sheriff's Office picked up those results Sept. 14, an FDLE spokeswoman said. Prosecutors got the paperwork Sept. 19, but it didn't come to the attention of Anderson at the Prosecutor's Office until Sept. 25."

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