Weird News

[Lamplighter]

OregonLive.com
Everton Bailey Jr
6/7/12

Love tote to downtown Portland apartment runs afoul of police

Aisea Poulivaati and other workers at a downtown Portland apartment complex
wondered for months what a man kept lugging around in a pink rolling suitcase.
Monday afternoon, a caller told police that a man kidnapped a woman,
put her in a pink suitcase and took it into the apartments.

Lowe denied knowing anything about a woman in a suitcase, said a police report.
But officers searched the apartment.
They found a pink suitcase in the living room and Kola J. McGrath, 50, in the closet.

Workers at the complex said McGrath and Lowe were in a relationship.
But she was banned after breaking a fire extinguisher case
with her purse while arguing with him, Poulivaati said.
She also had been warned about violating the building's visitation policy.

[TheMercenary]

Got Bandaid?

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/0...g-in-your-leg/

[BigV]

Nice catch! "soft tissue" indeed.

[ZenGum]

[Gravdigr]

RPGintheleg...Man, I hate when that happens.

[Sundae]

Interesting situation (I thought RPG was a Role Playing Game), weird scenario and brave man but awful article. Very sloppy journalism.

[Lamplighter]

ABC News
By KATIE MOISSE (@katiemoisse)
June 29, 2012

Man Plagued by Porn-Induced Headaches

A man plagued by porn-induced headaches has to take painkillers
30 minutes before watching the X-rated movies, according to a case study.

The unnamed "unmarried male software professional," 24, complained of
"severe, exploding" headaches that developed gradually and peaked 10 minutes into the sexy scenes.

"Progressively, he started to refrain from viewing videos as a means of avoiding headaches,"
researchers from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in New Delhi, India,
wrote in the case study published in the June issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior.
The cause of the man's ill-timed headaches, triggered only by porn and not by sex or masturbation, is unclear.

Maybe it's a male version of the same problem Linda Lovelace had in her famous movie.

[BrianR]

Have you ever SEEN Indian porn? That'll give ANYBODY a headache!

[DanaC]

Right, this isn't weird news so much as wtf coverage.

Here's the story as I initially saw it on the BBC news site:

South Africa's Chimp Eden maulers escape death penalty

Two chimpanzees which mauled an American student in South Africa will not be put down, a government investigator says.

They were defending their territory and there was no evidence of negligence by their keepers, said Dries Pienaar.

Andrew Oberle was studying at a sanctuary in north-eastern South Africa when he was attacked last Thursday.

The chimps tore off some of his fingers, a testicle and mauled his head.

Mr Pienaar, a conservationist who is leading the investigation into the attack said the animals were defending their territory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18702968


Quite an interesting story so I read on, and then scrolled down to the bottom of the page where it gives external links to other coverage of the incident:

[Griff]

Study Links Cat Litter Box to Increased Suicide Risk

A common parasite that can lurk in the cat litter box may cause undetected brain changes in women that make them more prone to suicide, according to an international study.

Scientists have long known that pregnant women infected with the toxoplasma gondii parasite -- spread through cat feces, undercooked meat or unwashed vegetables -- could risk still birth or brain damage if transmitted to an unborn infant.

But a new study of more than 45,000 women in Denmark shows changes in their own brains after being infected by the common parasite.

The study, authored by University of Maryland School of Medicine psychiatrist and suicide neuroimmunology expert Dr. Teodor T. Postolache, was published online today in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

The study found that women infected with T. gondii were one and a half times more likely to attempt suicide than those who were not infected. As the level of antibodies in the blood rose, so did the suicide risk. The relative risk was even higher for violent suicide attempts. ...

Interesting stuff, but then one of the conclusions...



He also cautions against trendy food production techniques that let animals roam free. "The risk of infection could go up," he said, "and increase the rate of toxoplasmosis."


hmmm... so man has been cooking meat for 125,000 years. Large scale confinement agriculture has built up over what, 50 years? So free-ranging food animals is trendy?

[Gravdigr]

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[Clodfobble]

I'd like to take a moment to caution against trendy pet ownership techniques that don't let cats roam free.

[DanaC]

Not every cat owner is able to allow their cat to roam free. If I were ever to have a cat I'd be inclined to rear it as a mostly indoors cat. The roads are just too dangerous. And I am in a semi-rural village.

Friend of mine lost three of her five cats to car accidents.

[xoxoxoBruce]

After the first, why did she let them borrow the keys?

[Flint]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

After the first, why did she let them borrow the keys?

Why don't we let Toonces drive the car?