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Americans desire time travel, mind reading powers

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011, 5:29pm
Americans desire time travel, mind reading powers

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) - Being able to fly would be nice, so would invisibility. But given a chance to pick one superpower, more Americans say they would want to travel through time or read other people's minds.

Time travel and mind reading tied for first place in a Marist College poll released Tuesday. Both superpowers received 28 percent of the votes out of five choices. Flying came in third followed by the ability to teleport and invisibility.

Pollsters surveyed 1,020 people across the country Nov. 15 through Nov. 18. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.

      

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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WNYT lights it up like it's 'Dynamite'

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Monday, January 24th, 2011, 5:48pm

We were so impressed by what the students at Monument Mountain Regional High School did that we were inspired to create our own lip dub.

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Paul Caiano's Zombie Warning Forecast

Submitted by Chris Rooney, WNYT Web Manager
Friday, October 29th, 2010, 1:03pm

According to meteorologist Paul Caiano, Halloween looks to have a mix of sun and clouds with a chance of zombies.

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Men who blew up turtle avoid stiff punishment

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Saturday, August 28th, 2010, 11:06pm

KNOX, N.Y. (AP) - Three Albany County brothers arrested after they videotaped themselves blowing up a turtle have avoided harsh punishment.

Tyson, James and Seth Pincher, of Knox, pleaded guilty Friday to a non-criminal disorderly conduct charge.

The violation is no more serious than a speeding ticket. It carries no jail time.

The men and two alleged accomplices originally faced animal abuse charges, but those counts were dropped or downgraded, in part because the statute of limitations expired.

Police arrested the men last September after discovering the videotape while searching the home of a suspect in an unrelated case.

They found guns, homemade bombs and a video in which a group of men tortured a turtle and then killed it with a pipe bomb.

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