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JOKE: Beware of Dog!

As a stranger entered a little country store, he noticed a sign warning,"Danger! Beware of dog!" posted on the glass door. Inside, he noticed a harmless old hound dog asleep on the floor beside the cash register.

"Is that the dog folks are supposed to beware of," he asked the owner?

"Yep, that's him," came the reply.

The stranger couldn't help but be amused. "That certainly doesn't look like a dangerous dog to me. Why in the world would you post that sign?"

"Because," the owner explained, "Before I posted that sign, people kept tripping over him!"

GOT CAPTION? 6/23 v.2.0

GOT CAPTION? 6/23

Mother Gets Probation for Spanking Child

A Texas mother was sentenced to 5 years probation and lost custody of her 2-year-old child for spanking the girl on the butt. The mother also got a lecture from a state judge.

"You don't spank children today," Judge Jose Longoria told Rosina Gonzales.

Gonzales, of Corpus Christi, pleaded guilty to injury to a child, for spanking her 2-year-old daughter on the butt. As part of her plea, she agreed to take parenting classes.

"In the old days, maybe we got spanked, but there was a different quarrel," Judge Longoria of 214th District Court told Gonzales. "You don't spank children. You understand?" according to a KZTV report.

Prosecutors say Gonzales struck the girl in December with an open hand, leaving red marks. She was arrested after the child's grandmother reported the injuries and took her to the hospital.

KZTV reported that the judge's ruling made it clear that spanking is a crime. The station reported that Gonzales is trying to regain custody of her daughter and another child, but they will both stay with their paternal grandmother until authorities agree her home is safe.

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What's In a Name? Man named Handy Wood charged with exposing self to women

A 35-year-old Duncannon Pennsylvania man, Handy Henry Wood, was charged by state police with two recent flashing incidents.

Police say Wood exposed himself to a female clerk at the Howe Township McDonald's drive-thru on May 17. Then, police said, on May 29, Wood parked alongside a woman at the nearby Giant/Rite Aid shopping center parking lot and flashed her.

Wood is charged with two counts of indecent exposure and open lewdness. He had been arrested June 7, 2011 on similar charges.

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Man run over after lying in front of car to prevent girlfriend from leaving

A man is in critical condition after he was run over by a car while lying on the ground in front of it to keep his girlfriend from leaving Sunday morning in Orange County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

FHP spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Montes said 25-year-old Joel Santos had had a verbal argument with his girlfriend and did not want her to go.

Despite his urging, 26-year-old Gloribeth Santiago got into the passenger seat of her cousin Christina Santiago's car about 4:15 a.m. in the parking lot of the Windmill Point condominiums on Alafaya Trail near Challenger Parkway, an FHP report said.

Both women lost sight of Santos as the car traveled west out of the parking lot. That is when they felt something beneath the front tires of the car, Montes.

Santiago stopped the car to find Santos pinned underneath the tires and called 911.

"We don't believe this is anything intentional," Montes said. "They thought he had moved but he laid down on the ground."

Emergency crews had to use a jack to lift the car off of Santos, who was unconscious.

Montes said Santos was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center suffering from several burns he sustained while under the car.

Troopers said Santos was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.

The crash remains under investigation and charges are pending.

51 Year Old Actor Marries 16 Year Old Girl

He may or may not be a creepster in real life, but he's played one on TV! (He was sanctimonious Dharma flunky Horace Goodspeed on Lost.) His bride is singer Courtney Stodden, who says she is (a) 16 (b) a good, Christian girl (c) all natural and (d) yes, really, married to That Guy. She also (e) looks 30 in bikini shots but (f) apparently really is 16, if her entry in a 2010 teen beauty pageant is any indication.

In most states, the "age of majority" -- as in, the age when minors become grownups -- is 18. A few states are even stricter and withhold the age of majority until 19 or even 21. Kids in many states can legally grow up before that, if they, say, graduate from high school at an earlier age -- or get permission from mommy and daddy.

A spokeswoman for the couple didn't immediately reply to my requests for comment. But at least one key person has spoken out in favor of the marriage, and that's Stodden's mom.

"They are very much in love and we are so supportive of this," Krista Stodden told Radar.

Krista Stodden also said she signed a legal consent form allowing her daughter to marry Hutchison before the two tied the knot in Las Vegas last month. That documentation is important, because that's the only thing making this marriage legal.

"If there was a valid parental consent, then they're now legally married in every way," confirms Joe Langlois, family law specialist and partner at the law firm Nachshin and Langlois. "There are no magic words involved, just, essentially, 'I, the parent, give consent'."

And, by law, every other state must honor that marriage, Langlois tells me.

One possible snag: It's not clear whether the bride's father is still in the picture at all. If he is, and he has any sort of legal custody of his daughter, and he didn't sign his own consent form, the marriage may not, technically, be legal, Langlois tells me.

"In most cases there are two parents who share joint legal custody," Langlois notes. "If both parents did not give consent, you might be able to nullify that marriage."

Oh, but come on. Given everything I've told you about this pair, what could possibly go wrong?