After 27 years of burglaries, 'North Pond Hermit' is arrested.

France has the gayest looking homophobes evah. Check the pictures:

http://americablog.com/2013/07/franc...ike-again.html

If these fellers were any further in the closet they'd be in Narnia.

via YahooNews

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Here, kitty, kitty, kitty. Good dog.

Judge sentences man to 53 years, then performs his wedding

"...plans to appeal the sentence." Which, the 53 yrs, or the marriage?

Thanks Gravdigr I enjoyed both of those weird stories

You're very welcome.

...only in Kentucky:

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I guess the mule shoulda been wearing a seatbelt. Also, how do they know the mule wasn't high? I mean, it is KY.

I thought the article was going to say the mule ignited into a blue flame.

Rocket mule?

Let's hope they didn't leave it out in the sun.

The plot thickens ...
 

Pass the mayonnaise, now meat stolen

First it was mayonnaise, now meat has been the target of thieves.

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Photo: Steak take: Meat stolen from Whyalla
premises in the early hours (file photo)


Police at Whyalla in South Australia are investigating a theft of steak from a local business.

They say the meaty haul was valued at about $500.

The theft is believed to have happened in the early hours from the premises at Whyalla Norrie.

It follows a puzzling theft of 42 kilograms of mayonnaise in two large tubs from Whyalla premises back in June.

Police do not know if the robberies are related.

Of course they are. Who doesn't love a steak sandwich with a little mayo?

Freedom!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4171590.html

Christopher Knight, 'North Pond Hermit,' To Be Freed After Pleading Guilty To Burglary, Theft

Understatement of the year.:rolleyes:

Whizz Kids At Work

the physics of peeing. Nice.

...that's what she said.

Washington Post columnist watches "12 Years a Slave", and is surprised to discover that slavery was brutal:
Part of the story is in what a (probably deliberately) horrible job the school he describes did when describing slavery.

But the other part is that he's not fresh out of that horrible primary education. He's a Washington Post columnist with pure white hair. How could he have made it to his age, in the journalism field, and still have to unlearn THAT?

I guess there are plenty of people his age who hang on to that view, but still.

He was brave to admit it.

Willful ignorance.

A friend of mine moved to Texas from Pennsylvania in the middle of high school, and due to the differences between the two states' curriculum layout, she ended up having to retake several subjects.

She was utterly flabbergasted at how differently the Civil War was presented in the north vs. the south. And ours was a pretty liberal high school in the middle of a liberal city--certainly no one tried to justify slavery to us the way the Washington Post writer describes experiencing several decades earlier. Nonetheless, from what she told us it was still taught vastly differently in our part of the country.

A white kids from South Africa moved to my school in the UK when he was about 15. He was astounded to learn we all thought apartheid was evil and that there were sanctions against SA because of it. He thought without white governance, the blacks would all be savages and apartheid was better for both races. Other than that, he was a nice kid

Wasn't it here that someone was saying, they went to China and wanted to visit Tiananmen Square, and their Chinese hosts were first confused as to why this traveller would even know the name of such an insignificant plaza, and then were really blown away to learn that in the Western world it was considered the site of a major historical tragedy.

He's back:
He writes these things from the perspective of someone stepping out of that mindset, but he's not out yet.

Read in the weekly wipe obits about a lady that lived her entire adult life in ___, MS.
Working for _____. Then 30 years for _______. Folks, that's what is called a productive life.

The !@#$%^ Ducks again http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...l#incart_river

A biracial couple, having mixed race children. What a concept! :rolleyes:

You'd think that the kids were half-elephant or alligator, or something.

Over the course of a lot of decades, I've learned that once you step into the doors of the "Stupid Market" - there's no shortage of stock on the shelves. ;)

:D

... had not heard that one before !

I'm gonna wait 'til the dust settles then I'll be stealing that for a sig. :D

from Nov 12, 2013

Prolly just a bunch o' weirdos...

~The Onion

Meanwhile, in Kentucky:

:facepalm:

from YahooNews

Well, see, now it makes sense...:right:

Fire Station closed due to beard growth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...tland-25884196

Lost Mexican fisherman shows up in the Marshall Islands after 14 months adrift, with really long hair and a long beard. And US taxpayers give him a haircut. You'll never believe what he looks like afterwards.
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***Pic and vid at the link is prolly NSFW*** (it's a man's ass)

ATTN PENNSYLJERSEY:

These are your people.

Obviously he got stuck on the ice and is melting it with pee. Nothing to see here, move along. ;)

Well, that's just using common sense right there.

Sinkhole Inside Corvette Museum Swallows Eight (8) Corvettes

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Authorities allowed museum officials to remove the world's only 1983 Corvette from the Dome.

List of Known Casualties:

1993 ZR-1 Spyder on loan from General Motors
2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil” on loan from General Motors
1962 Black Corvette
1984 PPG Pace Car
1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette
1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette
2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette
2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette

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No one was injured.

The Skydome camera is down at the moment, but keep checking here, you may get to see the hole on the Nat'l Corvette Museum's security camera network.

I think the "Streaming enthusiast" camera is adjacent to the sinkhole, because I keep seeing people walking by and gaping at the open doorway that's partially blocked off with those velvet rope poles. And maintenance guys went in there with a ladder.

All their outdoor cameras used to be PTZ cams. You could control the pan/tilt/zoom functions. I just now noticed they have removed that function. Looks like they've also replaced some of their outdoor cameras. Pretty good vid quality on the 'Front Circle', and 'Motorsports Park North & South' cams. The Motorsports Park is under construction across I-65.

Holey museum floor, Batman!
That's a real waste. At least the lions got a meal when Marius said hej hej. These beasts went to auto-heaven with no benefit to anyone.

Corvette Museum Skydome camera is back up. Not a hole lot to see.<---:lol2:

From the better late than never category:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...y-knees-n36171

Prince in stitches as soldier ditches queen's English
 

Yep, he said that to the Duke of Edinburgh.

-from AFP, via YahooNews

You should hear what he said to the House of Lords...

M25 cyclist in Surrey 'sent on motorway by phone app'.

It beggars belief that people can be so daft...

On Sunday, when I was at exactly this spot and turned onto the on ramp onto this parkway. There was a cyclist at the bloody smudge mark I've drawn onto the Street View picture. I was stuck behind him for 100 meters or so until the barricades ended, and I could cross illegally over the double yellow line to get around him.

I'm a nice guy, so I didn't tailgate him or honk for those 30 seconds. He wasn't so much daft as arrogant. But a bit daft too.


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Arrogant is worse.

Swastika building question put to Essex County Council

I was last in the US in 2004 and stopped off in Thermopolis, Wyoming, where this building caught my eye.

Of course, the Swastika was around long before Uncle Adolf and his band of scamps, but the design does tend to draw attention to itself, doesn't it?

Ruining a fairly cool design is pretty low on the list of crimes against humanity that the Nazis are guilty of committing, but it still annoys me. I like the visual look of a swastika. It's much like a greek key, which is also pretty cool looking.

Thanks, I wasn't aware that design had a name. Well, I figured people that used it called it something or other, but something more technical than Greek Key. :thumb:

Pinwheel. I have a really old quilt top with a pinwheel design. It's a dead ringer for a swastika.

That sounds interesting, quilts are such a regional thing, in materials, designs, stiches and names.
I'm only familiar with this type being called windmill.

I don't understand, probably me being foreign.
I'm honestly not questioning your opinion or judgement, I just don't get it. Can you explain (in simple terms!) please.

There is a sign to the right saying that bicycles are forbidden on this stretch of road. The sign is there because bikes are common on the road I'm turning from, and in fact there is a large bike lane on that road. But this road is a limited access road that leads to the Beltway, a 12 lane limited access highway that circles the city.

Just before this road meets up with the Beltway, there is a turn off that leads to a high security government installation on the one side, and a small picnic area on the other side. I imagine the bike was going to the picnic area. But this road is dangerous for bikes because it's heavily traveled, is narrow with no shoulders, and the speed limit greater than bikes can achieve. So they are forbidden.

Oh, and the "barricades" are down the center of the road, marking the lanes to keep traffic away from one another. It's just on the curve, and when the road straightens out, the barricades stop.

:redface: my only excuse is that even though I know you drive on the other side of the road, I automatically still expect to see signs on the left. My bad.

I get it now, and thanks for the additional information.

Buckets of gold coins found in California back yard.
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If you found $10 million in gold, would you go to the papers? I bet the finders wind up not getting to keep anything.

Buried on the property they've owned for years? I'd be surprised if they were prevented from keeping it, or keeping the proceeds.