The fact that various acquaintances thought Garrido was crazy and actually saw Dugard and her daughters reveals how willing we sometimes are to ignore the strange behavior of others, and how this willingness can sometimes allow criminals to operate with impunity for years.

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"We are changing vehicles all the time so it is not strange that we get rid of vehicles but the thing we didn't do was replace them, " he said.

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Now, we do feel it necessary to add the caveat that there are some strange reports in our logs as well, coming from hardware allegedly running Android 5.0 and 6.0, but we're not convinced of their authenticity.

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Their strange shapes are different from the spiral and elliptical galaxies we see today.

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Such are the strange - and yes, scary - times in which we live.

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In fact, if the theoretical physicists are right, our correspondent says, then we will never be able to see inside these strange phenomena.

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