Weird News

Elspode;444766 wrote:

So, take the bullets out of one gun, and get a permit to carry another?

xiphos;444793 wrote:

To India: Not a bad idea, but it could use some thought. Instead of getting to your gun licence quicker, one could get certain benefits, like a monthly pension special for them, etc. It would create less killing, and would acually help the citizens of India.

Urbane Guerrilla;445448 wrote:

Thanks to Parliament not knowing its arse from a knothole on this, you have administratively bought your increased crime rate. It went up steeply after your disarmament program really kicked in. Your nation desperately needs to find its Charlton Heston. Then and only then will you enjoy the low crime rate you did in the days of being armed, and a man's home his castle.

Urbane Guerrilla;445448 wrote:

snip--

...Your nation desperately needs to find its Charlton Heston. Then and only then will you enjoy the low crime rate you did in the days of being armed, and a man's home his castle.

--snip

tw;445471 wrote:

Translated - Great Britian does is not ruled by 'big dics'. Therefore Great Britian has been castrated. Quoted from "The World According to UG".

Cicero;445983 wrote:

~snip~PARIS (AP) — The French parliament's lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone — including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites — to publicly incite extreme thinness.

The National Assembly approved the bill in a series of votes Tuesday, after the legislation won unanimous support from the ruling conservative UMP party. It goes to the Senate in the coming weeks.

Fashion industry experts said that, if passed, the law would be the strongest of its kind anywhere. Leaders in French couture are opposed to the idea of legal boundaries on beauty standards.

The bill was the latest and strongest of measures proposed after the 2006 anorexia-linked death of a Brazilian model prompted efforts throughout the international fashion industry to address the repercussions of using ultra-thin models.

Conservative lawmaker Valery Boyer, author of the law, argued that encouraging anorexia or severe weight loss should be punishable in court.

Doctors and psychologists treating patients with anorexia nervosa — a disorder characterized by an abnormal fear of becoming overweight — welcomed the government's efforts to fight self-inflicted starvation, but warned that its link with media images remains hazy.

French lawmakers and fashion industry members signed a nonbinding charter last week on promoting healthier body images. Spain in 2007 banned ultra-thin models from catwalks.

But Boyer said such measures did not go far enough.

Her bill has mainly brought focus to pro-anorexic Web sites that give advice on how to eat an apple a day — and nothing else.

But Boyer insisted in her speech to lawmakers Tuesday that the legislation was much broader and could, in theory, be used against many facets of the fashion industry.

It would give judges the power to imprison and fine offenders up to $47,000 if found guilty of “inciting others to deprive themselves of food” to an “excessive” degree, Boyer said in a telephone interview before the parliamentary session.

Judges could also sanction those responsible for a magazine photo of a model whose “excessive thinness ... altered her health,” she said.

Boyer said she was focusing on women's health, though the bill applies to models of both sexes. The French Health Ministry says most of the 30,000 to 40,000 people with anorexia in France are women.

Didier Grumbach, president of the influential French Federation of Couture, said he was not aware how broad the proposed legislation was, and made no secret of his strong disapproval of such a sweeping measure.

“Never will we accept in our profession that a judge decides if a young girl is skinny or not skinny,” he said. “That doesn't exist in the world, and it will certainly not exist in France.”

Marleen S. Williams, a psychology professor at Brigham Young University in Utah who researches the media's effect on anorexic women, said it was nearly impossible to prove that the media causes eating disorders.

Williams said studies show fewer eating disorders in “cultures that value full-bodied women.” Yet with the new French legal initiative, she fears, “you're putting your finger in one hole in the dike, but there are other holes, and it's much more complex than that.”

Associated Press writer Emmanuel Georges-Picot in Paris contributed to this report. ~snip~

Oh great now I'm too skinny? Fine.
:D
Then there's the complex arrangement of sticking your fingers in just one hole in the dike. I can't believe people bother to use that expression anymore.

The criminal complaint says the officer at the scene was able to ID the drug because of "his prior experience as a police officer in drug arrests, observation of packaging which is characteristic of this type of drug, and defendant's statements that . . . 'I've got some meth in my pocket.' "

Man Attempting to Capture Lightning in a Bottle Killed by Lightning

No one has ever called John Willis a smart man. He was constantly at the bottom of his class in high school, thus knocking off the ’smart’ portion of that statement, and numerous ex-girlfriends of John’s will also contest using the word ‘man’ to describe him. But one thing everyone can call John now is dead.
That is because he was killed late Wednesday night after being struck by lightning not once, but twice in the same night.
“John had this crazy idea, it was just stupid,” said John’s longtime friend Tony. “He heard someone make an offhand remark about ‘catching lightning in a bottle’ and he took it seriously.”
“It was John’s dream to be rich,” said another friend. “No one has ever been able to catch lightning in a bottle, but he thought he could fill a few bottles and make a fortune selling them at craft shows and outside sporting events.”
John fashioned a makeshift lightning rod from some old pipes he removed from his home that he felt “weren’t that important anyways” and attached them to an old glass jam bottle using duct tape. He then had a plastic cover for the bottle, which he intended on “placing over the bottle really quickly after the lightning strikes” to trap it.
“He used a plastic cover because he didn’t want to get electrocuted,” said Tony. “He also wore rubber-soled shoes and rubber gloves, but it just wasn’t enough protection.”
John waited patiently for nearly two weeks before a lightning storm finally struck. When it did, he made his way to an open field and setup his operations.
“John placed a few bottles in the field, then put his lightning rod in the first,” said John’s girlfriend Tracy, who was with John when he was killed. “He had me hide in some bushes away from the bottles, he was afraid the lightning wouldn’t strike if it saw both of us there waiting to trap it.”
John knelt next to the bottles, one hand steadying the lightning rod, the other with the cover for the bottle, ready to trap the lightning when it struck. At approximately 8:30, John’s first chance came.
“I’ve never seen lighting so close to me,” said Tracy. “It was like a huge discontinuous natural electric discharge in the atmosphere right in front of me!”
The lightning struck the pipes but John was unable to cover the bottle.
“When it hit, it knocked John back about ten feet,” said Tracy. “He was burnt, smoking, and unconscious for the next hour.”
When John finally came to, he was even more determined to capture the lightning.
“I could see the look of determination in his face,” said Tracy. “At least, I think that was determination, but it might have just been the look of a man with no eyebrows.”
The second bolt of lightning struck an hour later.
“John was getting tired, he had rested up against the rod for support,” said Tracy. “When the lightning finally struck, it sent John flying backwards and he collapsed onto the ground.”
Paramedics at the scene pronounced John dead and “cooked to a delicious golden brown”.
John’s parents were clearly upset by the news, but didn’t feel John was solely to blame for this mishap.
“We encouraged John to always follow his dreams,” said John’s father. “We never would have told him that if we knew he had such stupid dreams.”
Tracy plans to continue the dream of John’s and finally capture lightning in a bottle.
“I’ve gotten a bigger bottle, I think that was the fate of John,” she said. “His bottle couldn’t hold all the lightning, so it transferred over to him. But now I’ve got the biggest bottle Wal-Mart sells and there is no way I won’t accomplish what he died trying to do.”

xiphos;444793 wrote:

lol.

To India: Not a bad idea, but it could use some thought. Instead of getting to your gun licence quicker, one could get certain benefits, like a monthly pension special for them, etc. It would create less killing, and would acually help the citizens of India.

By Joe Bavier

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

...

"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.

"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.

...

"It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.

DETROIT - Detroit police say they've found the partially mummified body of a woman in her 80s on the kitchen floor of a house where her mentally troubled sister was living.

Police say they believe the surviving sister had been living with the body for one to three years. They say the body was partially covered with newspapers and that a cat and dog apparently ate part of it.

The Detroit Free Press says authorities removed the surviving sister Wednesday night and took her to a crisis center. She's also in her 80s and appears to have mental problems.

Police say they went to the house after a neighbor called to express concern.

xoxoxoBruce;447201 wrote:

I used to work with an Indian engineer that told me getting a gun was no problem. But the government strictly controlled ammo, and you had to account for what you shot at, to get more.

Vanya Yudin, aged six, may have Mowgli Syndrome, according to local social workers.
In the family flat in Volgograd in southern Russia are two parakeets along with several aquariums and a rabbit.
Social worker Galina Volskaya claims he has used the birds as role models.
"When you start talking to him, he chirps," she said.
When he gets agitated, he flaps his arms like wings, it is claimed.

But the child's 31-year-old mother Svetlana Yudina insisted: "He does have speech problems but there is nothing else wrong with him."

A single mum, she claims his problems may derive from the boy's father walking out on her and the sudden loss of both her parents.
But she insists she is the victim of a vendetta by the social services.
She says she is "shocked" by claims that her child is a 'bird boy', saying he is lively and communicative.

She sought help with Vanya from the local authority after her husband walked out on her and both her parents died.
"It all started when I turned for help to our social services department asking for rent discounts," she said.
"They refused, saying all they could do is send Vanya for fostering.
"They came to look at our living conditions.
"They found fault with me having no curtains on the windows. But we live alone, who would fix the curtain rails?
"After that they said Vanya was that slim because I didn't feed him. But this is such nonsense."

She hit back: "If they want to take children away from anyone, they should remove them from alcoholics.
"All we need is help, getting him into the right school with help for his speech."

Officials say she failed to place the child in a kindergarten and this may have contributed to his lack of speech.

She accepted her child needs a speech therapist but she has not been able to find one despite taking a job to earn extra money by delivering newspapers.

"I don't want to register his disability," she said.
"I do not want my child to live for the rest of his life labelled as being disabled.
"We don't need the allowance I would get for this."

She says she has now started taking him to a local help centre, and she hopes her battle with the social services will soon be over.

Mowgli Syndrome is the name given to children developing animal behaviour often after being neglected by their own parents.

Russia has seen a number of cases of feral children who have lived with animals - usually dogs - after being abandoned by their parents.

There were contradictory reports last night as to whether the child had been taken into care.

Brianna;456818 wrote:

you know, I wonder what is happening in transylvania?

William Patrick was the son of Adolf Hitler's half-brother, Alois, but there was little family affection: "Uncle Adolf" referred to William Patrick as "my loathsome nephew".

A German nursing home has created a pretend bus stop to prevent Alzheimer's patients from wandering off. The bus stop, outside the Benrath Senior Centre in Dusseldorf, is an exact replica of a standard stop but no buses call there.

...

"It sounds funny," said Old Lions Chairman Franz-Josef Goebel, "but it helps. Their short-term memory hardly works at all, but the long-term memory is still active. They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home."

"We will approach them and say that the bus is coming later today and invite them in to the home for a coffee," said Mr. Neureither. "Five minutes later they have completely forgotten they wanted to leave."

The idea has proved so successful that it has now been adopted by several other old folks' homes across Germany.

Rubbish blaze
By Kathie Griffiths
Firefighters from Brighouse had to tackle a rubbish fire in a lift at a block of executive flats earlier today. No-one was hurt but it is believed the lift was at the top floor when the fire started.

Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must now measure the waistlines of Japanese people between the ages of 40 and 74 as part of their annual checkups.

Those exceeding government limits — 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women, which are identical to thresholds established in 2005 for Japan by the International Diabetes Federation as an easy guideline for identifying health risks — and having a weight-related ailment will be given dieting guidance if after three months they do not lose weight. If necessary, those people will be steered toward further re-education after six more months.

...the government will impose financial penalties on companies and local governments that fail to meet specific targets.

Yoichi Ogushi, a professor at Tokai University’s School of Medicine near Tokyo and an expert on public health, said that there was “no need at all” for the Japanese to lose weight.

“I don’t think the campaign will have any positive effect. Now if you did this in the United States, there would be benefits, since there are many Americans who weigh more than 100 kilograms,” or about 220 pounds, Mr. Ogushi said. “But the Japanese are so slender that they can’t afford to lose weight.”

Still, at a city gym in Amagasaki recently, dozens of residents — few of whom appeared overweight — danced to the city’s anti-metabo song, which warned against trouser buttons popping and flying away, “pyun-pyun-pyun!”

“Goodbye, metabolic. Let’s get our checkups together. Go! Go! Go!

Goodbye, metabolic. Don’t wait till you get sick. No! No! No!”

Flint;462081 wrote:

I wish someobdy would do this for me.
I get things done when there's a deadline.

(CNN) -- A severed human foot was found washed up on an island on the western coast of Canada this week, the fifth detached foot found in the area in the past 11 months, according to local police and media reports.

The foot was found Monday on the shore of Westham Island south of Vancouver, according to Constable Sharlene Brooks of the Delta Police Department in British Columbia.

The severed left foot, which was in a shoe, was taken to a coroner for DNA tests, she added.

The foot was one of five found in area recently, she said.

"Our first step is to establish identity," Brooks said. "It is a little mysterious, but we don't know if it is linked to others."

According to the Vancouver Sun newspaper, the other four feet found in the area since August were right feet. ...

HungLikeJesus;463069 wrote:

footfootfoot, I read this and thought of you.

[SIZE=2]Fifth severed foot found on Canadian coast[/SIZE]

classicman;463094 wrote:

I lost a foot on 9/11.....

HungLikeJesus;463069 wrote:

footfootfoot, I read this and thought of you.

[SIZE=2]Fifth severed foot found on Canadian coast[/SIZE]

HungLikeJesus;463471 wrote:

Six feet under?

Undertoad;463491 wrote:

What race are the feet?

HungLikeJesus;463521 wrote:

What ever race it was, I think they lost.

glatt;463462 wrote:

Now there is a sixth foot that's been found!

glatt;463071 wrote:

Isn't there an ocean currents guy who can trace those feet back to the shipping container that fell overboard in the Indian Ocean in a storm?

Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an expert on ocean currents, told The Sun a foot wearing a buoyant athletic shoe could float as far as 1,000 miles.

zippyt;465825 wrote:

Dumb asses didn't know the difference between live ammo and Blanks !!!!
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/troops-use-live-ammo-instead-of-blanks/2008/06/30/1214677880713.html

Testicle bill dangles over Fla. legislators
Ban on trendy replicas on trucks: Good policy or anti-freedom?

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - They're proudly displayed by any self-respecting bull, but dangling big metal ones on the back end of a truck could be banned in Florida.

Metal replicas of bull testicles have become trendy bumper ornaments in some parts of the Sunshine State, but state Sen. Carey Baker is campaigning to ban the orbs.

HungLikeJesus;465971 wrote:

I like Vista.

Dell, for one, has posted plans to continue selling Windows XP on some computers until June 2009, and HP has reportedly said the same thing. The equipment builders say they'll use a loophole that Microsoft offers to business customers to downgrade systems from Vista to XP. Dell and HP would make the switch before the computer ships, letting customers get a computer preloaded with the tried-and-true XP.

The switcheroo would help only customers willing to pay more for Vista's Business or Ultimate editions. That leaves out many PCs at retail, which often come with the Home versions installed.

But retailers might see slivers of light at the end of the tunnel. Microsoft could still change its mind if it heard a loud enough outcry about ending XP. Microsoft already extended XP's life once and could again, CEO Steve Ballmer told a group in Belgium late last week.

"If customer feedback varies, we can always wake up smarter," Ballmer said, according to Reuters. "But right now, we have a plan for end of life for new XP shipments."

By Johnny Johnson
The Oklahoman
TULSA — A woman who was charged with committing felony crimes against nature was arrested this morning after police were notified of more than 150 homemade movies of the Tulsa County woman engaging in various sex acts with dogs.

Donald Roy Seigfried, 55 and Diane Sue Whalen, 54, were charged with the crime, which deals with bestiality.

Whalen, 54, was arrested this morning and booked into the Tulsa County Jail.

Seigfried, whom police describe as her partner in the movie productions, was arrested and released on a $10,000 bond Tuesday.

Authorities were notified of the tapes after Whalen’s son accidentally stumbled onto one of the movies and then alerted the sheriff's department.

The tapes, along with three dogs -- a Labrador, a blue heeler and a mixed breed -- were also taken into custody. Bowman said his office is recommending that they be taken away from the suspects and be put down.

zippyt;465825 wrote:

Dumb asses didn't know the difference between live ammo and Blanks !!!!
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/troops-use-live-ammo-instead-of-blanks/2008/06/30/1214677880713.html

TheMercenary wrote:

Show us your Bush.

The crew spent nearly an hour using three high-powered machines to saw through the sex toy – as the man passed out.

Clodfobble;467029 wrote:

I agree it's unfair to the dogs, but what realistically can happen to them? No one will knowingly adopt a dog that has effectively been trained to perform sex acts. So either they don't tell, which would probably get them sued, or they just keep the dogs forever at a shelter where they are already putting down animals every day for lack of space.

xoxoxoBruce;468616 wrote:

Would you prefer step-sun? ;)

sweetwater;468980 wrote:

concerns over the zoonotic nature of brucellosis

classicman;469354 wrote:

Woman finds brand new grenade in backyard

What more can I say, but.... Gooood Morning.

"It is quite unusual for someone to find a grenade in their backyard, especially one that hasn't been spent," Edmonton police spokeswoman Patrycia Chalupczynska said.

lookout123;472502 wrote:

why would he have not disposed of the pieces at some point in the last three years? seriously stupid criminals.

A giant inflatable dog turd brought down a power line after being blown away from a Swiss museum.

The artwork, entitled Complex Shit, was carried 200 metres on the night of 31 July, reportedly breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again.

The sculpture, by American artist Paul McCarthy, was equipped with a safety system that should have deflated it.

The fake faeces has been returned and will remain on display at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern until October.

McCarthy is well known for his inflatable artworks, two of which - Blockhead and Daddies Bighead - were displayed outside the Tate Modern in London in 2003.

The search for Bigfoot is over, according to two US hunters who say they have found the body of the hairy ape-like creature and will back their claims up at a press conference tomorrow.

Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer say they discovered the body in a forest in northern Georgia, a south-east US state, about two weeks ago.

The pair, who reportedly operate a Bigfoot tracking business, will present "DNA evidence and photo evidence of the creature" at a press conference in California tomorrow.

Photos already released on the internet show a large ape-like animal crammed into a freezer, where it was being preserved.

The body is reportedly male, over two metres tall, weighs over 230 kilograms, has reddish hair, blackish-grey eyes and human-like teeth.

"I got to be honest, when I first saw it I hated to see it in that state it was in. I wanted to capture one so the world could see it walking. I guess this is the next best thing for the time being," he said.

He said a video filmed by the two men the day they found the body showed at least "three others walking upright like a man".

The body is reportedly male, over two metres tall, weighs over 230 kilograms, has reddish hair, blackish-grey eyes and human-like teeth....

Aliantha;476007 wrote:

Actually, it sounds a lot like my cousin...

Shawnee123;476429 wrote:

...
But you know, isn't there a little part in every one of us that hopes Bigfoot (and Nessie) are real?

:lol:

The long and short of it is this: the press conference was called to hype Tom Biscardi's internet talk show and both Bigfoot tracker businesses involved -- Searching For Bigfoot, Inc. and Bigfoot Tracker Atlanta. As is per usual in these cases, no real or hard evidence was presented, and, again as usual, promised at a later date. The public is left wanting, curious, and feeling a bit cheated (if of nothing other than their time). The Bigfoot press conference was nothing new and certainly produced nothing proving the existence of Bigfoot.

But you know, isn't there a little part in every one of us that hopes Bigfoot (and Nessie) are real?

I just hope that you and the rest of the Cellar cast are real.

Shawnee123;476433 wrote:

We are frighteningly real. Emphasis on frighteningly.

Why do I even care? It's the last sentence that tries to sound all ominous that the printer refused to comment. Like that makes them guilty or something.

Flint;481204 wrote:

We're conditioned to assume that a news story is a compact summary of the relevant material, which has been scoured over by an editor to remove superfluous verbage; therefore we assume that any sentences contained are actually pertinent to the story.

One of my least favorite tricks of the journalistic trade is to include a total non sequitur in the story, and let the assumed reason for including the sentence create a connection that doesn't exist, or can't be demonstrated directly.

This one is very popular: "couldn't be reached for comment" equals "GUILTY AS HELL."

Remember Marge, there's "the truth" [shakes head while frowning] and then there's "the truth!" [smiles enthusiastically while nodding].

BigV;481370 wrote:

Perhaps these "assumption producing statements" wind up in stories by habit.

A burglar who broke into a home just east of Fresno rubbed food seasoning over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to whack the other man on the face and head before running out of the house, Fresno County sheriff's deputies said Saturday.

Lt. Ian Burrimond, describing the crime as one of the strangest he's ever heard of, said a suspect was found hiding in a nearby field a few minutes later and taken into custody on suspicion of residential robbery.

Deputies, he said, had no problem linking the suspect to the crime.

"It seems the guy ran out of the house wearing only a T-shirt, boxer shorts and socks, leaving behind his wallet with his ID," Burrimond said.

Arrested was Antonio Vasquez Jr., 21, of Fresno.

Burrimond said deputies headed to the victims' home in the 300 block of South Thompson Avenue near Kings Canyon Road shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday regarding a burglary in progress.

The victims, both farmworkers, told deputies they were awakened by a stranger applying "Pappy's Seasoning" to one of them and striking the other with a sausage.

Both the spices and the sausage, Burrimond said, reportedly were obtained from the victims' kitchen.

After the man fled, the victims discovered the home had been ransacked and that some money was taken, Burrimond said.

Burrimond said the money was recovered, but that the piece of sausage used in the attack was discarded by the suspect and eaten by a dog.

"That's right, the dog ate the weapon," Burrimond said.

"I tell you, this was one weird case."

The bullet did work as a replacement fuse, however when a short circuit was created, the wiring burnt up and the bullet did not fire. When the wiring was upgraded to a higher gauge, the bullet did fire out of the fusebox, but not with enough velocity to cause any serious injury. Though both Adam and Jamie admitted that the myth was plausible from their tests, they had to call it busted due to a lack of conclusive evidence...

With real estate values plummeting and foreclosed homes sitting empty, a family of bobcats apparently decided the time was right to pounce.

So last week, they slipped out of the parched foothills of Lake Elsinore and into a spacious vacant home in well-groomed Tuscany Hills.

Residents of the development got their first look Aug. 27 when the feline squatters -- at least two adults and three kittens -- lolled atop a wall outside the Spanish-style house.

Someone called 911, reporting mountain lions. Four police cruisers showed up, and officers ordered everyone inside. But soon they were out snapping photos along with the neighbors.

Bobcats are not known to attack humans, said Monique Middleton of Animal Friends of the Valley, which provides animal-control services. "But are they pussycats? No. Can they do a lot of damage? Yes," she said. "They usually look for a food-and-water source, and there is an old koi pond in the backyard and that's where they are headed."

She said she expected the animals to move on in a few weeks, when the kittens are old enough to travel.

Tuscany Hills has been hit hard by foreclosures, and the house on Vista Palermo has been empty at least six months, neighbors said.

Said Scott Brown, who with his wife, Karen, moved there from Long Beach to be close to nature: "They are great neighbors, and as long as they don't want to baby-sit my kids, it's not a problem."

--David Kelly

dar512;482508 wrote:

snopes says this one is false, but it makes me laugh anyway.

SACRAMENTO, CA - Finding a dead worm in your fried fish may be gross, but it's not a health code violation. One Sacramento couple learned this the hard way Monday afternoon at a local fast-food restaurant in Sacramento.

Jessie Pritchett said he and his wife Jonie had been eating their fish platters when his wife found something in her piece of fish.

"She broke the fish and went to put it in her mouth and she saw something that looked like a worm," Pritchett said. "When she pulled the batter back it was a worm, and I don't know how many worms she ate before that one," Pritchett added.

Kelly McCoy, a representative with the Sacramento County Health Department said as long as the worm was dead, there was no health code violation committed. McCoy said the discovery is more of a customer service issue.

On average, the Sacramento County Health Department receives about one complaint a month from restaurant patrons who find dead worms in fish, McCoy said.

Problems can arise if the fish is not properly cooked and the worms are still alive. If a person eats a live worm, he can become a host to the parasite. Finding a live worm in cooked fish would show that the fish was not properly cooked, and that would also be considered a violation, McCoy said.

Pritchett said the restaurant gave him a refund, but that didn't settle his stomache. He said when you eat at a restaurant, finding dead worms in food should not be acceptable.

"It shouldn't be normal. It should be a crime for someone to sell fish with worms in it," Pritchett said. "That's ridiculous gross."

A humpback whale has been put down after becoming stranded in waters off the state's (Western Australia) mid west coast.

The 10-metre, 15 tonne whale beached itself in shallow waters near Jurien Bay a week ago.

The Department of Environment says it used explosives to put down the animal.

The carcass will be buried.

TheMercenary;492206 wrote:

hitting the bear with a stick. (I would have mounted it on the wall!)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/10/08/bc-bear-attack-survivor.html?ref=rss

sweetwater;492223 wrote:

The stick or the smashed skull?

October 15, 2008

The family of a dead elderly woman cremated her remains on a makeshift barbecue and continued collecting her retirement checks amounting to more than $25,000, authorities in Northern California said. Ramona Allmond's daughter and grandson were arrested Sunday on suspicion of embezzlement, elder abuse and disposing of a body without a permit.

Allmond, 84, likely died of natural causes, though investigators were still trying to determine the exact cause of death, said Tehama County sheriff's Capt. Paul Hosler.

Allmond's daughter, Kathleen Allmond, 50, and Allmond's grandson, Tony Ray, 30, told investigators their relative died in December. They left her body on her bedroom floor for a week before cremating the remains in their backyard fire pit, Hosler said.

Investigators said the two kept collecting Allmond's monthly retirement checks, amounting to more than $25,000. Sheriff's Detective Richard Knox said they may have been trying to honor Allmond's desire to die at home and be cremated.

The two were arrested after Allmond's son grew suspicious about her whereabouts.

Both were in jail in lieu of bail, with arraignment scheduled for Thursday. The sheriff's department said they do not yet have attorneys.

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Authorities said Kathleen Allmond later took a picture of herself wearing a necklace made from pieces of her mother's skull and posted it on her MySpace page, reported KNVN-TV in Chico, Calif.

TUCKER, Georgia (CNN) -- Last Thursday around dusk, Granite Park soccer field in suburban Atlanta was more crowded than usual.
With lights not working, the Optimist Club of Fort Worth, Texas, was forced to play all games on Saturday.

With lights not working, the Optimist Club of Fort Worth, Texas, was forced to play all games on Saturday.

Makeshift goals had been erected to accommodate five extra teams from the Tucker Youth Soccer Association. On the sidelines, groups of giggly kids waited their turns on the field while soccer moms and dads mined the crowded green space in search of a place to park their lawn chairs.

The atypical arrangement was caused by thieves who had ripped out copper wiring from light poles at nearby Henderson Park field, causing about $6,000 in damage, displacing teams that practiced under the lights and making the TYSA players the latest victims of a nationwide epidemic.

"It's annoying that we have to drive all the way here. It takes away time from homework and talking to friends," said Lizzie Howell, 15, who had to leave home earlier than usual to make it to practice by 7 p.m.

Her friend and teammate, Jessie Spencer, worried that the cramped quarters might affect her game.

"I'm kind of upset that we didn't get to practice on the same field and we have to be all crowded out here," said Spencer, 15.

TYSA fared well compared with its neighboring league, the Gwinnett Soccer Association, whose teams sought refuge at Granite two weeks earlier under similar circumstances. The vandals who hit the GSA's field in Lilburn stole about $100 worth of copper wiring from their field and caused about $8,500 in damage.

Those losses paled in comparison to the $25,000 in damage caused by thieves who hit Norcross Soccer Academy's field in Pinckneyville, Georgia.

Claim: A Fisher-Price talking doll utters the phrases "Islam is the light" and "Satan is king."
Status: False.
[snip]
Other toys that speak have been the focus of similar misunderstandings. The 2006 talking book Potty Time with Elmo had some folks hearing its "Uh-oh! Who has to go?" phrase as "Uh-oh! Who wants to die?" — a negative toilet-training message if there ever was one.

In 1982 similar problems plagued "Baby Darling," a doll manufactured in Hong Kong. American consumers mistook its Spanish "Quiero a mami" (meaning "I want mommy" or "I love mommy") as "Kill mommy."

A passenger on a French train had to be rescued by firemen after having his arm sucked down the on-board toilet.

The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.

...

"He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off,"

...

He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off

The man was carried away by emergency services, with the toilet still attached to his arm.

ZenGum;498672 wrote:

Is it too late to vote for the hand?

HungLikeJesus;463069 wrote:

footfootfoot, I read this and thought of you.

[SIZE=2]Fifth severed foot found on Canadian coast[/SIZE]

glatt;503852 wrote:

Looks like they found a 6th foot. (There had been a previous 6th one, but it was a hoax.)

The not-so-secret code names used by the US Secret Service for the president-elect and his family have been published.

Barack Obama is called Renegade, while his wife Michelle is Renaissance, and their daughters Rosebud and Radiance.

They will replace Trailblazer (President George W Bush) and his wife Tempo in the White House on 20 January.

SNIP


When 19-year-old Karenna Gore's father became vice-president in 1993 she had to choose her own name.

In 1997, she wrote: "Ever since four years ago, when I was put on the spot and told 'two syllables' and 'It has to start with an s,' I have been cringing in the back seat when identified as 'Smurfette'."

Al Gore frequently told people his code name was Al Gore because he was so boring. However, the Washington Post reported that he was initially called Sawhorse but eventually became Sundance for unknown reasons.

Vice-President-elect Joe Biden is known as Celtic.

The outgoing president retains his code name as he and his family will continue to have Secret Service protection.

The defeated Republican presidential candidate John McCain, a senator from Arizona, is Phoenix, while his wife Cindy is Parasol.

His running mate, Sarah Palin, was Denali - the name of national park in her home state of Alaska, and the natural gas pipeline project there.

Her husband, Todd, the North Slope oil worker, was [SIZE="3"]Driller[/SIZE].

Previous code names have included: Passkey for President Gerald Ford; Rawhide for President Ronald Reagan; Deacon for President Jimmy Carter; and Angler for Vice-President Dick Cheney.

Aliantha;504118 wrote:

Gosh...now I'm trying to think of what codename I'd pick for myself. lol

A MAN caught by police with his penis submerged in a pasta sauce jar was still pleasuring himself while resisting arrest, a court has been told.

Police drew their weapons after New South Wales man Keith Roy Weatherley, 46, led them on a brief, slow-speed car chase, the Newcastle Herald reports.

Weatherley attracted police attention while he was parked in a no-stopping zone near Nobby's Beach on October 26, Newcastle Local Court was told yesterday. .

Police thought he might have a weapon because they saw him doing something with his hands in his lap, the Herald said.

Instead, they found him partially clothed with his genitals in a jar, a police statement said.

That's when the pursuit began, the court was told.

When Weatherley was stopped, he refused to leave his car and four officers used batons and capsicum spray to get him out.

They found a 750mm jar around his penis and said Weatherley attempted to continue "pleasuring himself in between bouts of wrestling".

A search of his car uncovered pornography, a homemade sex aid, women's stockings and a Jack Russell terrier.

Weatherley pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction.

He was convicted and fined $600.

War medic confirms Adolf Hitler only had one testicle
AN account from a German army medic has confirmed that Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
Veteran Johan Jambor made the revelation to a priest in the 1960s, who wrote it down but the document has only been realeased now, The Sun reports.

Mr Jambor died aged 94 in 1985, but the secret he told to priest Franciszek Pawlar was backed up by Mr Jambors friend Blassius Hanczuch.

He said: “In 1916 they had their hardest fight in the Battle of the Somme.

“For several hours, Johan and his friends picked up injured soldiers. He remembers Hitler.

“They called him the ‘Screamer’. He was very noisy. Hitler was screaming ‘help, help’.

“His abdomen and legs were all in blood. Hitler was injured in the abdomen and lost one testicle. His first question to the doctor was: ‘Will I be able to have children?'"

Mr Blassius said that when the Nazis swept to power Mr Jambor began to suffer nightmares and blamed himself for saving Hitler.

There has long been suspicion that Hitler only had one testicle and the topic has been the topic of many British songs, a common example being:

Hitler has only got one ball,
The other is on the kitchen wall,
His mother, the dirty bugger,
Chopped it off when he was small.

ZenGum;505755 wrote:

I'm still trying to figure out what the weirdest part of this is.

On a misty mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists for the first time in more than eight decades have observed a living pygmy tarsier, one of the planet's smallest and rarest primates.

Over a two-month period, the scientists used nets to trap three furry, mouse-sized pygmy tarsiers -- two males and one female -- on Mt. Rore Katimbo in Lore Lindu National Park in central Sulawesi, the researchers said on Tuesday.

They spotted a fourth one that got away.

The tarsiers, which some scientists believed were extinct, may not have been overly thrilled to be found. One of them chomped Sharon Gursky-Doyen, a Texas A&M University professor of anthropology who took part in the expedition.

"I'm the only person in the world to ever be bitten by a pygmy tarsier," Gursky-Doyen said in a telephone interview.

AS the world celebrates World Toilet Day today, sanitation experts have called for the end of the flushing dunny to save water and provide fertilizer for crops.

Leading health advocates have called for the use of "dry" toilets which separate urine from faeces and remove the need to flush.

Speaking at the recent World Toilet Summit in Macau, World Toilet Organisation founder Jack Sims said the concept of the flushing toilet was unsustainable.

Mr Sims said a culture where people flushed their loos but disregarded the thousands of litres of wasted drinking water each year was one of sanitation's greatest challenges.

"This 'flush and forget' attitude creates a new problem which we have to revisit," he said.

ZenGum;506448 wrote:

Swings: Those swings are pretty weird. For one afternoon I could believe it was wind at just the right angle/frequency, but long term?

Teacher Maria de Silva Agustina said yesterday: “One child called it the Blair Witch Playground. We believe it is haunted.”

Cicero;506733 wrote:

Well, why do they swing? Who has the answer for 50 American Dollars?

Nirvana;506766 wrote:

"But so far the boffins have failed to find a logical explanation."

What is a boffin?

xoxoxoBruce;507023 wrote:

Boffin - Colloquial term for sexual intercourse.
Yeah, I was boffin her, when her old man pulled in the driveway. ;)

ZenGum;507387 wrote:

Meanwhile, this Japanese freak has decided to spend his entire Mexican vacation in the airport, for no apparent reason.

NEW YORK - An entrepreneur has decided to have fun with the U.S. presidential campaign by marketing condoms featuring images of the candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

Benjamin Sherman, who created the company Practice Safe Policy, says the Obama condom carries the slogan "Use With Good Judgment."

The McCain version says "Old But Not Expired" - a reference to the candidate's relatively old age of 71.
Advertisement
According to the Web site, McCain condoms are battle-tested, strong and durable, for those occasions when "you just need to switch your position"!

While the company can't guarantee the condoms are 100 percent effective, it says it's certain that without wearing one, there's likely to be an Obama-Mama in your future.

OSAKA, Nov. 24 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A man was arrested Monday in the act of spreading hundreds of worms inside a train running across Osaka Prefecture, local police said.

Manabu Mizuta, a 35-year-old company employee who is suspected of deliberately obstructing railway operations by his act, was quoted as saying, "It was fun to watch other passengers freak out when they looked at the creepy worms wiggling their way (inside the train)."

At the time of his arrest, Mizuta had about 3,600 worms contained in small, photographic film cases in his bag, the police said.

The incident took place as the train was traveling on the Keihan line through the city of Neyagawa around 10:05 a.m.

The suspect, a resident of Hyogo Prefecture, is believed to have scattered about 200 mealworms, the larva of the darkling beetle, a feeder insect for birds. The railway car was cleaned immediately but the train was delayed by about three minutes, according to the police.

Since earlier this month larvae have frequently been found inside Keihan trains, so railroad police officers have been put on alert.

AN Adelaide driver faces police charges after a video of him doing a burnout in a company ute was posted on the YouTube website.
After receiving a tip-off, police tracked down the motorist because the name and phone number of an auto parts company was emblazoned on the driver's door and clearly shown in the clip.

Traffic Enforcement Section officers visited the business on Friday, and after interviewing a middle-aged man, charged him with "misuse of a motor vehicle due to a sustained tail spin".

The utility was also immediately seized and impounded under the State Government's tough hoon driver laws.

A Tri-State woman is in critical condition Wednesday after police say her husband shot her while they were having sex.

Timothy Havens, 38, told Springfield police he was reaching for something on the nightstand when the pistol went off, hitting his estranged wife Carolyn in the upper chest. (Hear part of the 911 call)

Carolyn Havens, 42, is being treated at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.

This is isn't the first time there's been trouble for the Havens. Court documents showed Timothy served 60 days in jail for assaulting his wife and was ordered to go to anger management classes.

His arrest Tuesday for the weekend shooting was for violating a civil protection order that Carolyn had taken out against him earlier this year.

Bond was set at $75,000 after prosecutors asked for a high bond, "due to alleged prohibited contact between the parties (and) the suspicious nature of the circumstances surrounding (her injury)."

Shawnee123;510664 wrote:

Heh, saw that on the local news.

Why, it's not fishy at all! :)

ZenGum;509274 wrote:

Not really weird but very very dumb.

Brianna;510746 wrote:

I saw that on the news, too. Yep. We're a wild bunch.

Shawnee123;510927 wrote:

Didja see wifey on the news last night? It was totally an accident, and she wants him home. He was only reaching to the nightstand. Or they were having sex and it went off. Or he threw it and it went off. Who knows? :blush:

ZenGum;505755 wrote:

I'm still trying to figure out what the weirdest part of this is.

These days, however, in farmers’ markets, butcher shops, village pubs and elegant restaurants, squirrel is selling as fast as gamekeepers and hunters can bring it in.

“Part of the interest is curiosity and novelty,” said Barry Shaw of Shaw Meats, who sells squirrel meat at the Wirral Farmers Market near Liverpool. “It’s a great conversation starter for dinner parties.”

HOUSTON – A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it.

Andre Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter in March 2004. Their hearts also had been ripped out. He was convicted and condemned for the infant's death.

classicman;520659 wrote:

Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it

TheMercenary;521642 wrote:

Yea, the press loves news when Jaws attack. Makes for great reads and sells papers. Did you see the pic of the guys board? That beast was hungry. That board would hang on my wall forever.

QUINCY, Fla., Jan. 13 -- Authorities in northern Florida arrested an Indiana businessman on Tuesday night who is suspected of having tried to fake his own death in a plane crash.

Marcus Schrenker, 38, was taken into custody at a campground in Chattahoochee, Fla., according to Lt. Jim Corder of the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office.

Police found Schrenker after he allegedly e-mailed a family member from the campground office.

Broadcast reports said Schrenker was being treated at a local hospital for slices to his wrist, none of which were considered life threatening.

Schrenker had been missing since Sunday, when he flew from Anderson, Ind., bound for Destin, Fla. Southwest of Birmingham, Ala., he radioed that his plane's windshield had imploded and that his face was covered with blood.

Authorities said they think Schrenker then bailed out of the Piper Turboprop, parachuting to the ground and speeding away on a motorcycle he had stashed away in the pine barrens of central Alabama. Military jets tried to intercept the plane and found the door open, the cockpit dark. The plane crashed in the Florida Panhandle after traveling more than 200 miles on autopilot.

Authorities suspect Schrenker, president of a wealth management company, was trying to escape legal and financial troubles, including allegations of fraud. Schrenker's wife also had filed for divorce, alleging that he was having an affair.

Authorities examined the crash site and presumed Schrenker was dead.

But on Monday, a visibly wet Shrenker, wearing goggles made for "flying," was spotted by a police officer in Childersburg, Ala. He allegedly told the officer that he had been in a canoeing accident with some friends and handed the officer his driver's license before being taken to a nearby hotel.

After discovering who he was, police went back to the hotel to find Schrenker missing. He had checked in under a fake name, paid in cash and fled into the nearby woods wearing a black toboggan cap.

When a 5-foot, 275-pound woman found out she had a tumor on her spine, she was told by her local hospital to go the zoo to have a MRI because a regular MRI machine could not hold her weight, MyFOXKC.com reported.

Carolyn Ragan told the television station she discovered the tumor two years ago and, after the hospital told her she could not use their MRI machine, a medical assistant said he would help her find a solution.

“So he suggested the Kansas City Zoo,” Ragan said. “I thought, I know I’m big, but I’m not as big as an elephant. And my husband got mad.”

The University of Kansas Hospital would not comment on Ragan’s claim, but said its MRI department does not know of any animal MRI in the Kansas City area that would scan a human.

Ragan’s problem was two-fold: She was too heavy for the table and too wide to slide through the opening.

Medical Imaging in Kansas City North, which has both closed and open MRI machines can typically hold up to 440 pounds, but sometimes a person who weighs less can still be out of luck, according to an MRI technician.

“It depends on how they are built a lot of times and what part of their body we’re scanning,” said technician Sarah Abbott of Medical Imaging. “(The machine) can only be so open before the magnetic field dissipates into the room.”

Ragan, who ended up having two surgeries and some paralysis, said she finally found an open MRI machine that held her weight, but it was embarrassing and frustrating.

“They should have machines that fit most everybody,” she said.

Flint;522236 wrote:

Millions of people, every day, can't have a radiological etc. study for various reasons

Flint;522236 wrote:

This is a non-story. (Thousands) of people, every day, XXX. This is a boring fact of life, and not noteworthy in any way whatsoever. ...

Flint;522262 wrote:

644 imaging studies "per 1000 persons (all ages) in the U.S. population" in the year 1999.

Pie;522281 wrote:

In the weeks before he died, it seemed like my father was getting 1-2 'imaging studies' done per day. I bet there is a subset of patients that skew the statistics mightily.
For which the rest of us (mostly healthy) people should be glad.

glatt wrote:

I'm guessing it includes x-rays at the dentist, which are routine every 2-3 years. Still, it's much higher than I thought.

Clodfobble;522312 wrote:

My dentist does a small round of x-rays every visit (i.e. every six months.)

Pregnant women skew the numbers too, they can have anywhere from 3 to a dozen sonograms.

Robber stabbed to death with sushi knife by seven angry waiters for stealing their tips

By Peter Allen
Last updated at 4:35 PM on 12th January 2009

Seven waiters at a Japanese restaurant in Paris were under arrest today after an armed robber was stabbed to death with a sushi knife after trying to steal their tips.

The 22-year-old was brandishing a pistol when he raided Planet Sushi, in the upmarket 5th arrondissement, last night.

An accomplice, also 22, was with him, holding an electric stun gun.
Planet Sushi, Paris

The 22-year-old unnamed man was stabbed to death with a sushi knife after trying to steal tips from Planet Sushi, in the upmarket 5th arrondissement in Paris

The pair first demanded that that management in the restaurant handed over all the day’s takings.

When they refused the criminals began helping themselves to a tray full of tips.

This infuriated the waiters, who began fighting with the robbers, stabbing one
with a razor sharp kitchen knife used to ‘sculpt’ fish segments into sushi.

‘An extremely vicious fight broke out, with one robber mortally wounded,’ said
a Paris police spokesman.

glatt;525289 wrote:

More weird news. Don't steal tips from waiters. Just don't.



And the cops arrested the robbery victims for defending themselves during the robbery.

glatt;525289 wrote:

And the cops arrested the robbery victims for defending themselves during the robbery.

dmg1969;525299 wrote:

I guess the robber never heard the old adage about bringing a gun to a knife fight. :D

Dr. Harold Henry, chief of maternal and fetal medicine and one of 46 doctors, nurses and assistants who delivered the children by Caesarean section, agreed. “It is quite easy to miss a baby when you’re anticipating seven.”

The mother plans to nurse the babies herself, which are now being fed pumped breast milk, Gupta told TODAY. "Right now, we are really encouraging her," Gupta said. "She is going to breast-feed the babies.

morethanpretty;520455 wrote:

Brits like squirells! As in eating them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/dining/07squirrel.html?em



Hey, I ain't judgin, vittles is vittles.

Pie;527000 wrote:

Caesarean. Not quite semi-automatic, but still.

Shawnee123;526994 wrote:

Woman gives birth to octuplets in 5 minutes.

Like a salad shooter.

Radar;527067 wrote:

My great great grandmother used to kill squirrels and cook them up for my dad and his sisters. My dad said she was a great shot. I knew her when I was little, She was the toughest lady I ever met. She mowed her 4 acres on a hill with a push mower into her 80s. She had skin like leather.

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin drivers making their morning commute were in for a surprise when two road signs on a busy stretch of road were taken over by hackers. The signs near the intersection of Lamar and Martin Luther King boulevards usually warn drivers about upcoming construction, but Monday morning they warned of "zombies ahead."
"I thought it was pretty funny," said University of Texas sophomore Jane Shin, who saw the signs while driving down Lamar Bouelvard with friends Sunday night. "We wondered who did it."
...

KXAN Austin News cameras caught many drivers slowing down to read the signs as they approached. Some read, "Zombies ahead! Run for your lives!"

... [more]

CCTV has captured the moment when two handcuffed prisoners' attempt to escape custody came to a crashing end as they ran into a lamppost.

The pair ran away while awaiting their court hearing in Hastings and managed to cross a street towards a car park before they were recaptured.

Cicero;527607 wrote:

Monopoly money exchange? lol!

http://www.thelocal.se/17154/20090126/

Shawnee123 wrote:

Woman gives birth to octuplets in 5 minutes.

Like a salad shooter.

Clodfobble;528469 wrote:

Oh, and she already had 6 kids.

She "never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said." WTF? You have six kids, and THEN you take fertility treatments??

Annmarie Bricker, of Valparaiso, Ind., allegedly showed up uninvited at her sister's wedding reception, wrestled the bride to the ground and pulled out some of her hair. Police charged the 23-year-old emergency dispatcher with misdemeanor battery.

Jeremy Glotzbach told police he was hosting a reception for newlyweds Nicholas Landry and Lori Kappes at his home on Jan. 23 when Bricker, Kappes' sister, attacked Kappes on the front porch.
Bricker pulled out clumps of Kappes' hair, struck her head and took the bride to the ground during a struggle, according to the Porter County Sheriff's Department.
Bricker told police she went to the house because she "just wanted to talk" to her sister and parents about family problems. She said she never touched her sister, but five witnesses contradicted her, authorities said. Kappes did not need medical treatment.
Bricker later resigned from her job as a Porter County 911 dispatcher, officials said.

A pair of identical twins escaped being convicted and hanged on drugs charges in Malaysia, due to confusion over which one of them was the culprit, reports said Saturday.

Grahame-Smith said about 85 per cent of his novel is Austen's original text.

Sex toys spring up in suburban street


RESIDENTS in the rural area of Darwin have renamed their street "Dildo Boulevard" after 30 sex toys were found lying in front of a house on Friday morning.
Robert Johns and Laurelle Bates discovered the mysterious toys as they left for work in the morning.

"It's a real mystery. We have no idea where they came from," Ms Bates said.

"I know they aren't new. They look used."

Mr Johns said he counted the sex toys on Friday morning, and the number had decreased within 24 hours.

"Yeah, some of the bigger ones are gone," he said.

Many of the devices are still lying outside the Osbeck Rd home - most crushed under the wheels of passing cars.

Locals have been puzzled by their sudden appearance and are trying to solve the curious case of the invading sex toys.

One theory is that it is an elaborate - and expensive - practical joke. Another school of thought is that they fell off the back of a delivery truck.

FEBRUARY 9--"You cannot dial 911 'cause you're unhappy with your burger." That's what a police operator told a Florida man early Saturday morning when he called 911 to complain about his order at a Burger King in Boynton Beach. As can be heard on the below police recording, Jean Fortune, 66, called 911 when a Burger King employee told him that they did not have lemonade. Fortune told cops that he had placed an order for a #7 combo meal (chicken fries, French fries, and a soda for $4.49) while in the drive-thru line. But when he got to the window, Fortune was told the fast food outlet did not have lemonade. He was offered Coke, but Fortune decided instead to call police. "Sir, come on. I know you don't seriously think that the police need to make Burger King give you food faster. I cannot believe that," said an exasperated 911 operator. She also noted, "Customer service is not a reason to call 911. 911 is if you're dying. Do you understand that?" Fortune was charged with abuse of 911 communications, according the below Boynton Beach Police Department report. Pictured above is the Burger King at which Fortune did not find lemonade.

Authorities say Aasiya Hassan recently had filed for divorce from her husband.
"She had an order of protection that had him out of the home as of Friday the 6th [of February]," Benz said.

“Natural living” advocates unveil their latest planet-saving invention - the reusable toilet wipe.

Surely it’s time global warming believers marked their houses with some sign, a green pentangle or something, as a warning to visitors to enter at their own risk.

Oh Dear.

From their page on how to use them comes the following tips for washing:

I recommend washing wipes separately from the rest of your laundry. Wash in hot [sic], dry in the dryer. You may add whatever laundry additives you desire - chlorine bleach, oxygen bleach, tea tree oil, lavender oil, stain remover, whatever.


apart from being utterly gross, how eco-friendly are they if you have to tumble dry and bleach them???

Using cloth wipes for other toilet visits is not any more difficult, but there is a certain ick factor involved. Consider how much waste you're willing to leave on your children's diapers or wipes when you toss them in the pail. Use the same standards for yourself. Shake, scrape, swish, or squirt off anything you don't want in your laundry, and then toss the wipe into the pail or container. (Personally speaking, we just wipe and toss in the pail. Our wipes have minimal staining.)

MARCH 3--Angered that her local McDonald's was out of Chicken McNuggets, a Florida woman called 911 three times to report the fast food "emergency." Latreasa Goodman, 27, last Saturday called police to complain that a cashier--citing a McDonald's all sales are final policy--would not give her a refund. [To listen to Goodman's 911 calls, click here, here, and here.] When cops responded to the restaurant, Goodman told them, "This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one." Goodman noted, "I called 911 because I couldn't get a refund, and I wanted my McNuggets," according to the below Fort Pierce Police Department report. That logic, however, did not keep cops from citing Goodman for misusing the 911 system. Even after being issued a misdemeanor citation, Goodman contended, "this is an emergency, my McNuggets are an emergency."

glatt;541272 wrote:

And if the customer stole a pack of McNuggets from McDonald's, should McDonald's call the non-emergency number too?

glatt;541272 wrote:

Who keeps the non emergency number memorized in their heads anyway?
When you go out to a restaurant, do you know which precinct you happen to be closest to?
If you called directory assistance, would you even be able to explain to them what number you were looking for?

glatt;541272 wrote:

It would have been better for her to use the non emergency number, but she should not be cited for calling 911. This was a matter for the police, and she called 911 to get the police. She did nothing wrong.

911 is the number to dial for the fastest possible emergency response when you need emergency POLICE, FIRE or MEDICAL ASSISTANCE in a life or death situation.
Using the non-emergency number keeps 911 available for true emergencies.

glatt;541272 wrote:

And if the customer stole a pack of McNuggets from McDonald's, should McDonald's call the non-emergency number too?

A 26-year-old passenger on board an American Airlines jet from Charlotte to Dallas opened a door and slid down an inflatable emergency chute Tuesday as the aircraft waited to taxi to its gate at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

The man, who had not been identified Tuesday night, reportedly ran into the first class section of American Airlines Flight 1343 and opened the exit door, according to an airport advisory. The plane, an MD-80, had just arrived from Charlotte/Douglas International Airport about 1 p.m. and was parked on a ramp when the incident happened.

After opening the door, the man deployed the inflatable slide and slid down to the Aircraft Operations Area, where he was held by American fleet service clerks until airport public safety officers took him into custody.

“I wasn't really paying attention until there was a scuffle upfront,” Grundy said. “The pilot called for passengers to come and help. Several guys moved to the front, but then someone said, ‘Well, he's jumped out.' You could see him running on the tarmac.”

It's not political, ideological or cultural, but San Francisco officials say they are seriously considering cracking down on one of the city's most popular events in the growing "flash mob" phenomenon.

This year's Valentine's Day pillow fight was, quite simply, a mess. Officials, only slightly amused, say the episode left the city holding the bag - or empty pillow case - with thousands of dollars in damage and cleanup costs due to mounds of wet, sticky feathers.

The promoters of the counterculture event, now in its fourth year, must take responsibility for future happenings or "otherwise we are going to have to find a way to shut it down," said Lisa Seitz Gruwell of the Recreation and Park Department.

San Francisco's pillow fight is part of an international fad, partly anarchistic, partly absurdist, in which a mob of participants suddenly materializes at a public place, engages in odd behavior and then disperses.

The events range from zombie marches to dances and pie fights, including a shaving-cream-on-paper-plate pie fight staged late Thursday afternoon at the cable car turnaround at Powell and Market streets.

They are organized via telephone text messages, Web sites like Laughingsquid.com and eatbrains.com, and just old-fashioned word-of-mouth. They often have no identified leaders or sponsors.

A Web advertisement for this year's pillow fight at Justin Herman Plaza said in part, "Rules: Tell Everyone you know. ... Arrive with pillow hidden in bag. ... Practice responsible fun and help clean up. ..."

It was the city's biggest and longest flash mob pillow fight yet: It drew an estimated 1,500 to 3,000 people and went on from about 6 p.m. until past midnight, according to officials.

As the crowd pounded each other with pillows, the cases split, releasing large volumes of feathers that the wind quickly spread.

And it was wet. Intermittent rain plastered the feathers to everything they touched, forming a gray, feathery sludge that lined the lawn, the gutter, cars and buildings.

The soggy stuff clogged drains in nearby Four Embarcadero Center, flooding the Osha Thai Restaurant, said Norm Dito, a manager with Boston Properties, which owns the center. He estimated his firm's cleanup costs at more than $10,000.

Feathers also filled the Vaillancourt Fountain and threatened to jam and burn out its pumps. Workers had to drain the cubist fountain's 12,000 gallons of water - it had only recently been filled - clean it out and refill it, said Dito.

The city had to dispatch two engineers to check the fountain along with a five-person crew that filled three pick-up trucks with feathers, all at a cost of more than $2,213, said Dennis Kern, director of operations for the Recreation and Park Department.

"It was quite a mess, much more than we have experienced in previous years," said Mohammed Nuru, deputy director of the Department of Public Works. "Everywhere was feathers."

DPW assigned three extra cleanup shifts - a total of 69 employees and an extra street sweeper truck - costing about $19,000, Nuru said.

"It was really hard raking through the grass trying to get all those little feathers up," he said.

Kern said officials want the organizers of such events to follow standard procedure: apply for a permit, pay a use fee (at least $1,750 for the plaza) and supply security, portable toilets and cleanup crews.

But he acknowledged that such conformance would be contrary to the flash mob's decidedly decentralized, anti-bureaucratic principles. Kern said Rec and Park does not even know how to contact the pillow fight's anonymous organizers.

A series of e-mail and phone inquiries from The Chronicle seeking comment from pillow fight organizers went unanswered.

However, one of the pie fight organizers, who gave his name as Herbie Hatman, seemed unfazed by the concern. Wearing a bowler hat and tuxedo and covered in shaving cream at Thursday's event, he shrugged at the suggested rules.

"That seems like a natural response from the city," he said.

Sheldonrs;544104 wrote:

Arabia says he believes the fish died as a result.

US Airways released a statement saying the problem was caused by a "verbal miscommunication between a delivery driver and the cargo representative." The airline says it's deeply sorry.

Dave Skepper, commercial director of Stagecoach, said: "Strictly speaking it is vandalism," he said. "But we have a sense of humour at Stagecoach and as long as it's not obscuring bus information we're not too bothered.

Shawnee123;544156 wrote:

All the way home I tried to think of what the miscommunication could have possibly been? Did the delivery driver say "Uh,yeah, I'm here to pick up a shipment of "gold molly" and the cargo rep thinks he says "old body?"

Yeah, that's the best I could come up with. There is a great joke in here somewhere!

The Times of India reported that Mehul Kumar had fallen on the rod while playing on his grandparents' under-construction roof terrace in Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand state.

The rod pierced through Kumar's body and he then fell to the ground, the newspaper reported.

He was rushed to a nearby hospital and then taken to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Bariatu, six kilometers away.

Dr Sandeep Agarwal, the leader of the five-strong team of doctors who spent five hours operation on Kumar, told the Times the boy was out of danger.

"We first removed the rod following which an operation was done to repair the vital organs that had been injured,'' he said.

Brianna;545079 wrote:

Hmmm...attaching a sex toy to a saber saw blade - brilliant!

classicman;545127 wrote:

Well they are from Maryland. :rolleyes:

Pie;545278 wrote:

The girlfriend came with a warranty??

TheMercenary;545993 wrote:

Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to
deal with the vigilante granny. 'What she did was wrong,
and she broke the law, but it is difficult to throw an
81-year-old woman in prison,' Det. Delp said, 'especially
when 3 million
people in the city want to nominate her
for Mayor.'

dar512;546030 wrote:

half-cocked

Flint;546032 wrote:

[COLOR="White"] . . . [/COLOR]:::snicker:::

glatt;546477 wrote:

It's unclear.

glatt;546477 wrote:

It's nuclear.

ZenGum;545029 wrote:

Since I'm going anyway, might as well go fist class :devil:

A Fort Lupton, Colorado couple says they have so much natural gas in their water they can light it on fire.

On Friday Jesse and Amee Ellsworth met with energy companies to try and solve the problem.

The Ellsworths say the gas has been leaking into their water well from a nearby gas well for the last six months. They say the gas companies are working on a well water treatment system, possibly for the entire community, but that any solution will take time.

Aimee Ellsworth says their only clue that something was wrong was the pressure of the water.

"It crashed, made noises. I thought this isn't normal."

She says tests found explosive levels of the gas in her basement, bathroom and by her water well.

"I'm jittery all the time" says Ellsworth.

Her home is located in a rural area within a half mile of eight natural gas wells.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Commission leaders say it's tried to find the origin of the leak. Director Dale Neslin says "We've looked at well compilation reports, taken gas samples to look for a match, done pressure testing and we've not been able to find the well that appears to be causing the problem."

The Ellsworths say they approached Noble Energy and Anadarko Petroleum - the two companies that operate the nearby wells - and begged for help. They say the companies initially refused to do anything. But, at the urging of the Oil and Gas Commission, they have now agreed to put in a water treatment system at the home.

glatt;548699 wrote:

Flammable Water Found In Ft. Lupton Home
taken gas samples to look for a [COLOR=Red]match[/COLOR]...

Shawnee123;548711 wrote:

Hey, that's Fire Faucet!

ZenGum;549252 wrote:

It's the photographic line up I'm interested in.

"Doctor, do you recognize these boobs? How about these? These?"

Sheldonrs;549574 wrote:

Man gets 90 days for sex with car-wash vacuum
Mar. 26, 2009 06:28 AM
Associated Press

SAGINAW, Mich. - A man police caught performing a sex act with a car wash vacuum has been sentenced to 90 days in the Saginaw County Jail.

"My staff came to me and said, what's happening?" said Jones, the chairman of the Department of Regional Urology of Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. "Why are we suddenly having an explosion in guys asking for vasectomies?"

They looked at their statistics and realized the uptick started around November as the economic crisis deepened. October went down in the history books as one of Wall Street's worst months.

Since then, the Cleveland Clinic has seen a 50 percent increase in vasectomies, an outpatient surgery that is the cheapest form of permanent birth control. Vasectomies are less invasive and cheaper than tubal ligation, which involves blocking, tieing or cutting a woman's fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy.

HARRISBURG, Pa. – A retired police chief said he was robbed by "probably the dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania," at a police officers' convention on Friday morning. John Comparetto said as he came out of a stall in the men's room, a man pointed a gun in his face and demanded money. There were 300 narcotics officers from Pennsylvania and Ohio at the gathering.

Comparetto gave up his money and cell phone. But when the man fled, Comparetto and some colleagues chased him. They arrested a 19-year-old man as he was trying to leave in a taxi.

The suspect is also awaiting trial on four previous robbery charges.

The suspect was arraigned and taken to Dauphin County Prison. When a reporter asked the suspect for comment as he was led out of court, he said, "I'm smooth."

Laughing German triggers emergency rescue

A police car and rescue helicopter were called in to save a screaming man in a German forest, but it turned out that the man was in fact screaming with laughter.


If you hear someone screaming in a forest, it's probably best to dial the local emergency hotline and do your civic duty.

That's what a German woman thought she was doing after hearing a man screaming in his car in a forest in Elmstein, a town in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

A police car and rescue helicopter were dispatched to help the poor man, who the woman said had been screaming for three hours.

When police turned up on the scene, it turned out that the man was not screaming at all - he was just laughing at a very funny book.

The man said he'd gone to the forest to enjoy the peace and quiet.

Unfortunately for all those looking for a great read for their upcoming summer holidays, police did not disclose which side-splitting novel the man had been reading.

"That's something I'd like to know too," said police spokesman Heinz Hussy.

said police spokesman Heinz Hussy.

Clodfobble;554171 wrote:

Really? Really.

An amorous motorist faces a fine and a driving ban after he was caught having sex with his girlfriend while speeding on a highway, Norwegian media reported Tuesday.

Police spotted the car driving erratically on Sunday evening in Lier, southeastern Norway. It had been doing 123km/h in a 100 km/h zone, local news Web site ABC Nyheter reported.

The officers quickly realized the driver was doing more than just breaking the speed limit.

After filming the incident for evidence, they finally pulled the car over.

Police officer Tor Stein Hagen told ABC Nyheter that the driver had the woman "on his lap" while the car was moving.

"It was creating a various dangerous situation," Hagen added.

After charging the driver, police allowed the 21-year-old woman to switch seats and drive her lover home.

Money stuffed in a woman's bra saved her life after she was shot aboard a bus in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Bahia, local media reported this morning.

Russian scientists say that Moscow stray dogs became much smarter. The four legged oldest human’s friends demonstrate real smartness such as riding the Moscow metro every morning to get from their suburban places of living to the fat regions of Moscow center. Once they arrive to the downtown they demonstrate different new, previously unseen for the dog skills. Those skills can include “the hunt for shawarma” for example, the popular among Muscovites eastern cuisine dish.

The father of an adorable "Slumdog Millionaire" star allegedly offered to sell the young girl for nearly $300,000, claiming his impoverished family "got nothing" from the Oscar-winning flick, according to a published report.

PHOTOS: Rubina Ali

Word of the alleged child-selling scheme prompted an ugly confrontation outside the home of 9-year-old actress Rubina Ali yesterday as the girl's natural mom slugged it out with the stepmother, according to The Times of London.

Rubina's biological mom, Kursheed, confronted Rubina's dad, Rafiq Qureshi, and his second wife after a report in The News of the World claimed the little girl was on the block for 200,000 pounds, which is roughly $296,000.

Kursheed demanded Rubina be removed from the house, leading to a fist-throwing brawl between Qureshi's former and current wives.

Rubina was allegedly being hawked in talks between Qureshi and men posing as reps for a Middle Eastern sheik. The men were, in fact, reporters for The News of the World.

The asking price was four times what the fake Arab dignitary originally had offered. "We've got nothing out of this film!" Qureshi declared.

The hard-bargaining dad's brother, Mohiuddin, allegedly chimed in, saying: "This is not an ordinary child. This is an Oscar child."

In the international blockbuster movie, Rubina plays a young Latika, the romantic interest of title character and game-show contestant Jamal.

The alleged plan to sell Rubina was reportedly prompted by a legitimate inquiry from a Middle Eastern family that wanted to adopt her.

But once the girl's family realized there was interest, they launched a callous auction, looking for the highest bidder, according to The News of the World.

It wasn't immediately clear what criminal charges, if any, family members might face.

Qureshi denied he was trying to sell Rubina but had no further comment, the Times said.

No butts: Officials to smoke or be fined
Officials in a county in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter of a million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being fined, state media reports.

The Gong'an county government in Hubei province has ordered its staff to puff their way through 230,000 packs of Hubei-produced cigarette brands a year, the Global Times said.

Departments that fail to meet their targets will be fined, the report said.

"The regulation will boost the local economy via the cigarette tax," said Chen Nianzu, a member of the Gong'an cigarette market supervision team, according to the paper.

The measure could also be a ploy to aid local cigarette brands such as Huanghelou, which are under severe pressure from competitors in neighbouring Hunan province, according to the paper.

China has 350 million smokers, of whom a million die of smoking-related diseases every year.

More than half of all male doctors in China smoke, but the Government is now trying harder to get them to kick the habit in order to set an example for others.

-AFP

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., May 7 (UPI) -- Authorities in New York state said a man searching his pockets for a summons in a courtroom dropped a bag of marijuana onto an officer's shoe.

Nassau County District Attorney spokesman Eric Phillips said Desmond Kelly, 28, was being arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead, N.Y., on a motor vehicle violation when the judge asked Kelley if he had the original traffic ticket, the New York Post reported Thursday.

Phillips said Kelly "reached into his pocket and took out the ticket. At that time, a small bag of marijuana fell out and landed on top of the shoe of a court officer."

The spokesman said the officer shouted "'You're under arrest!' and the audience in court gasped."

Kelly was immediately arraigned on the drug possession charge.

Brianna;563917 wrote:

Hey, could happen to anyone.

classicman;563918 wrote:

Well it was Hempstead.

Eco-sailors rescued by oil tanker

An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker.

Raoul Surcouf, Richard Spink and skipper Ben Stoddart sent a mayday because they feared for their safety amid winds of 68mph (109km/h).

All three are reportedly exhausted but safe on board the Overseas Yellowstone.

Neighbors concerned about strange van
May 7th, 2009 @ 6:03pm
By Sam Penrod

PROVO -- Provo police are investigating a bizarre incident this week: a van parked in a residential neighborhood with a sign on it, reading: "free candy inside."

It turns out, police believe the sign was harmless. But for neighbors who live in Provo's Grandview neighborhood, it raised serious concerns with them that a child predator could be targeting kids on the street.

The white van was parked on a neighborhood street in front of a home. No one on the street knew who the van belonged to, and the neighbors were worried about the sign posted in the back window.

Adults looked inside and did not see any candy, but they did see a mattress and some clothes in the back of the van. Police were called to investigate.

Officers tracked down the van's owner, who is a college age student. He told officers he put up the sign a few days ago as part of a prank with his friends.

Police credit the neighbors for watching out for their neighborhood. "With this sign possibly enticing children to a van, your worst case scenarios come to mind. So, it was good, a good example of someone in a neighborhood watching out, not only for his own family, but the whole neighborhood," said Capt. Cliff Argyle, spokesman for the Provo Police Department.

Officers say the man was very cooperative with investigators and was actually embarrassed by what happened, so much so he drove to the police station to show officers the sign was down.

The man is apparently staying with some relatives within walking distance of the neighborhood where the van was parked and at times lives in the van.

Police say, if nothing else, this situation is a good reminder for parents to talk to their children about stranger danger.

Students from schools and colleges in Japan shut down over fears of swine flu have been flocking to karaoke clubs to fill their new-found free time.

The students were told on Monday they should stay at home if possible, but some club managers said they were busy as soon as the closures were announced.

Weird and wonderful is the only way to describe many of the stories which came out of New Zealand this past week.

By now most people have heard about the service station owners from the North Island city of Rotorua, who skipped town after Westpac accidentally put $10 million in their bank account.

They are still hiding out somewhere in Asia.

[Also, one in-law was able to visit them for a while but was ditched after posting details of her location ON HER FACEBOOK PAGE :smack: and one thing they aren't explaining is how the couple got $5,000,000 or so out of the account and out of the country. Zengum]

But New Zealand police managed to catch up with Billy the Hunted One.

South Island man William Stewart had been playing a cat and mouse game with police for 100 days and became a bit famous in the process.

Despite a string of violence and drug convictions, Billy the Hunted One - as he likes to be known - was being written up as a "national hero" in some newspapers.

When he was being chased by police, he would bamboozle them by pulling off the road and turning off his headlights.

He also gave hitch-hikers rides in his stolen vehicles and scratched thank-you notes into kitchen tables with a knife when he stole food from farmhouses.

One female journalist appeared to have developed a slight crush on the long-haired fugitive.

In her stories she likened him to a "dishevelled version of American crooner Michael Bolton".

But Billy was bad - his luck ran out when he tried to steal a farmer's quad bike in the middle of the night.


As the week wore on, the stories got even stranger.

A motor vehicle company in New Zealand announced it was giving away a free goat with every ute sold.

Its public relations man was quoted in the papers as saying, with sheep numbers in decline in New Zealand, it was time to "float the goat".

He talked up their weed-eating abilities and also guaranteed there was zero risk of getting goat flu.

Then, police revealed thieves had broken into a wine shop just down the road from the ABC's office in central Auckland.

Local robberies do not usually raise an eyebrow, but this was no ordinary break-and-enter.

The bandits stole alcohol worth $250,000.

They pinched rare pinot noir, very costly cognac and a bottle of Dom Perignon, which was plated in gold and worth $14,000.

Police believe it was a robbery to order and the bottles have probably already hit the black market.

On the subject of beverages, a New Zealand woman came forward with her story of how she lost 45 kilograms in eight months.

She revealed she had done it by drinking nothing but the energy drink Red Bull.

Brooke Robertson says she downed about 10 cans a day. If she was desperate for some solids she scoffed a handful of cereal.

She hid her addiction from her family until she had a minor heart attack. She now suffers from anxiety and has a permanent heart murmur.

Dwarf gets penis stuck to vacuum cleaner

Posted Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:00am AEST

A dwarf performer at the Edinburgh Fringe festival had to be rushed to hospital after his penis got stuck to a vacuum cleaner during an act that went horribly awry.

Daniel Blackner, or 'Captain Dan the Demon Dwarf', was due to perform at the Circus of Horrors at the festival known for its oddball, offbeat performances.

The main part of his act saw him appear on stage with a vacuum cleaner attached to his member through a special attachment.

The attachment broke before the performance and Blackner tried to fix it using extra-strong glue, but unfortunately only let it dry for 20 seconds instead of the 20 minutes required.

He then joined it directly to his organ. The end result? A solid attachment, laughter, mortification and ... hospitalisation.

"It was the most embarrassing moment of my life when I got wheeled into a packed A&E [accident and emergency ward] with a vacuum attached to me," Blackner said.

ZenGum;570390 wrote:

So there you are in Glasgae, you've had a few too many, gotten into a fight with a lamp-post, and are waiting in A&E for the X-rays, and through your whiskey-haze you notice the guy on the seat across from you is a dwarf in a devil costume with a vacuum cleaner stuck to his wang. ... "Nurse? I think you may have overdosed my pain-killers"...

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported one school board member cut her finger on the device at a private meeting Tuesday and required stitches.

MESA, Ariz. - Police in Arizona say five officers have been placed on paid leave after one allegedly flushed a fetus down a toilet.

Mesa Police Chief George Gascon (gas-KOHN') says four officers responding to a call about a possible miscarriage at a motel on Monday discovered a woman who apparently lost a fetus estimated to be 12 to 14 weeks old.

Gascon says an officer who wasn't at the motel instructed the four over the phone to flush the 4-inch fetus down the toilet rather than take it to a hospital.

A supervisor who was reading incident reports came across details about the disposal of the fetus and shared them with a superior.

Gascon says all five officers were placed on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation.

He says police plan to forward the case to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office to see if prosecutors recommend charges.

Flint;571106 wrote:

I say the mother was a hooker that one of the cops got pregnant.

A MADCAP prankster has smashed the world record for transporting maggots — after carrying 17kg in his MOUTH.

Charlie Bell moved two square foot of live maggots in one hour using only his chops.

The-35-year-old, from Leyton, East London, admitted: "It was disgusting."

[No shit, Sherlock! ZG I have faded out the rest of the text because it is so disgusting. Highlight at your peril for his descriptions :vomit:]
[COLOR="LemonChiffon"]
"I had been practising at home with rice for months but until that day I'd never had a mouth full of maggots.

"I've handled them a bit on fishing trips but this was a whole new level.

"I didn't realise that they would smell so revolting. They do their business in the tubs and so they stink of ammonia. It was like putting my head down a filthy public toilet."

The former steel fixer, who has a YouTube site where he performs other stomach churning pranks, revealed: "I was gagging and heaving violently but I was determined to do it.

"I was getting bits of their innards caught in my teeth and gums and my face got very sore. I must have swallowed loads of them but I managed not to be sick."

He added: "At one point I thought I couldn't go on but somehow I did it."

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capnhowdy;571652 wrote:

** sigh **

...it's a dogs life.......

ZenGum;570390 wrote:

This was years ago, but I found the link in an old email so I thought I should post it here, just in case we haven't seen it.




So there you are in Glasgae, you've had a few too many, gotten into a fight with a lamp-post, and are waiting in A&E for the X-rays, and through your whiskey-haze you notice the guy on the seat across from you is a dwarf in a devil costume with a vacuum cleaner stuck to his wang. ... "Nurse? I think you may have overdosed my pain-killers"...

A 19-year-old Manatee County man was arrested Friday after he was found in a cow pasture collecting psychedelic mushrooms while carrying a crossbow, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said.
...
Moore was found holding a small crossbow and sling shot. He told deputies that the weapons were for protection in case the cows in the pasture came at him.

ROME — Italian authorities say they have arrested two Japanese men who allegedly tried to bring $134 billion (C96 billion) worth of undeclared U.S. bonds into Switzerland.

Anti-fraud police in Como, near the Swiss border, said Monday the men hid the bonds in the bottom of a suitcase. They were caught in Chiasso's train station June 3 after an inspection.

Police said the two suspects were carrying a total of 259 bonds, including 10 with a value of $1 billion (C721 million) each and 249 with a value of $500 million (C357 million).

Police said they were checking whether the bonds are authentic. If they are found to be real, the two men could face a fine of C38 billion ($53 billion).

PORTLAND, Ore. – Washington County's "Bunny Lady" is back in the hutch after violating a court order banning her from owning animals for five years. Miriam Sakewitz, 47, was arrested Tuesday at a hotel in the Portland suburb of Tigard after an employee reported finding rabbits hopping around in her room.

Problems for Sakewitz started in October 2006 when police in Hillsboro, about 15 miles west of Portland, found and confiscated nearly 250 rabbits in her home, including about 100 dead ones in freezers and refrigerators.

Police said she broke into the facility where the survivors were being cared for in January 2007 and stole most of them back. Authorities found her a few days later in Chehalis, Wash., with eight live rabbits and two dead ones in her car. Another 130 rabbits were recovered at a nearby horse farm.

Sakewitz was sentenced in April 2007 to five years probation and was banned from owning or controlling animals. She also was told not to go within 100 yards of a rabbit.

That summer, Sakewitz was ordered to spend three days in jail for violating her probation by keeping a rabbit in her house. County probation officer Susan Ranger also said Sakewitz had canceled counseling sessions and refused to open the door for unannounced visits. Ranger said she found no rabbits when she finally got inside but did find a half-empty 10-pound bag of carrots.

A staff member of Federal Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella has resigned over his behaviour at last night's Press Gallery Ball.

According to witnesses, Tony Scrinis, who had been working in Ms Mirabella's office for three days, approached a number of women and tried, or asked, to touch their breasts.

Ms Mirabella said the staffer admitted that "some of his behaviour was inappropriate but he doesn't accept the allegations."

Ms Mirabella is the Opposition spokeswoman for childcare, youth and the status of women.

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) - A 23-year-old woman is accused of getting friend to kill her Jack Russell terrier and skinning the puppy to make a belt out of its hide.

Krystal Lynn Lewis and Austin Michael Mullins, 26, were being held Friday in the Muskogee County jail on $25,000 bail each. They were charged with one felony count of cruelty to animals.

"We're talking about a 6- or 7-week-old defenseless puppy," said sheriff's deputy George Roberson. "That's pretty heinous and sadistic."

A Muskogee County judge ordered a mental competency hearing for both defendants.

Lewis wanted the puppy, named Poplin, killed because it was a gift from a female ex-lover with whom she doesn't get along, said Muskogee County sheriff's deputy George Roberson.

Roberson said Mullins shot the terrier 10 times with a .22-caliber pistol. Lewis skinned the animal at her apartment and nailed the hide to a board.

Shawnee123;576041 wrote:

He shot it ten times? A six or seven week puppy? Wouldn't there be a lot of holes in that hide? Would there be any hide left?

Shawnee123;576041 wrote:

He shot it ten times? A six or seven week puppy? Wouldn't there be a lot of holes in that hide? Would there be any hide left?

dar512;576465 wrote:

Proof that if you don't keep your dog on a leash, you could be trampled by cows.

ZenGum;576684 wrote:

I'm sure the poor puppy will never have kids.

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says an alleged sex scandal involving male Navy personnel could discourage people from joining the armed forces.

The Defence Department is investigating claims Australian sailors from HMAS Success engaged in a sex-for-money competition.

Channel Seven News last night aired claims that the seamen ran a contest to see who could sleep with the most female crew members.

Ms Gillard has told Channel Ten today that she wants a full investigation so women do not feel excluded from serving their country.

"As a nation ... we've been saying for a long period of time we want men and women to be able to join the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and to have good careers in it," she said.

"We don't want to see anything that precludes women from having a good career in our armed forces if that's what they choose to do with their lives.

"Clearly these allegations need to be fully investigated."

The sailors reportedly dared one another to have sex in numerous locations, like the top of a pool table, and more money was on offer if a sailor could sleep with a female officer or lesbian.

It is alleged the contest was discovered when the ship was in Singapore in May.

The captain ordered the sailors to immediately return home to Australia after they were formally interviewed.

A Defence Department spokesman would not confirm how many sailors were involved but says the men were removed from the ship and a formal inquiry is underway.

More money was on offer if they had sex with a female officer.

A New Zealand teenager tried to sell some sexy photographs of his mother on an internet auction site after the pair had an argument, a local newspaper reports.

The 18-year-old student opened an auction for "five naked photos of my Mum" on the Trade Me site after being told to clear the family garage and sell any unwanted items on the site, the Herald on Sunday said.

Trade Me pulled the auction the next day, but the student, identified only as Michael, was soon back trying to sell a series of eight-year-old "glamour" shots of his mother, including one of her in underwear.

His mother Jennifer, 44, who did not want the family name published, told the paper she was "pretty annoyed" when she found out about the first set of photographs.

"He was quite naughty... I thought you cheeky little git," she said.

But she was also annoyed that Trade Me withdrew the second set of pictures, of which she approved.

"I insisted Michael show me first, the little bugger. They are quite artistic. There is nothing dodgy about them."

"I wanted 50 per cent of the sale, but more than that I miss the nice comments."

Trade Me spokesman Jon Macdonald said both auctions were withdrawn because of "inappropriate" photos.

"We don't really want to be the place where people list photos of their mums in their underwear," he said.

Sundae Girl;579862 wrote:

Re the puppy-makes-belt post - I wear leather (when I can afford it!) and I eat meat. If I was confident the killing was humane I'd buy a puppy-belt. Sorry and all that.

A Camden man died after he fell into a vat of melted chocolate at a factory Wednesday morning.

Vincent Smith II, 29, was standing on a nine-foot-high platform loading chunks of raw chocolate into a melting tank at Cocoa Services in Camden, N.J. when he fell in around 10:30 a.m., according to Camden County D.A. spokesman Jason Laughlin.

After falling, Smith was struck in the head by an agitator -- a large paddle-like mixing device – and killed.

Coworkers acted quickly to try and save Smith. They turned off the machine but were unable to pull the injured man from the eight-foot vat. He was eventually removed from the machine by firefighters.

"I tried as hard as I could," said a distraught friend and co-worker. The man asked not to be identified, but was visibly shaken by the accident.

Smith was a temporary worker who was with the company for the past few weeks, said Laughlin. He had just moved back to the city more than a month ago to find work.

"He was a good, hard-working person and it was a tragic loss that happened," the unidentified friend said.

Cocoa Services rented the facility on the 700 block of N. 36th Street in Camden from Lyons & Sons, Inc. The company mixes and melts raw chocolate for use by food and candy manufacturers such as Hershey Foods. The plant was quickly shut down for the day following the accident.

Smith's father and aunt rushed to the facility only to find out that he had died. "They say he didn't make it," confessed Smith's teary-eyed aunt Teresa Smith.

The family stood at the facility's gate late Wednesday afternoon, waiting to talk to Cocoa Services management. They want to know what exactly transpired and if the accident could have been prevented with a safety harness.

"That's all it would have taken was just some sort of a safety harness…to prevent him from falling in," said the aunt.

OSHA is opening an investigation to see if there were any safety violations at the plant.

A WOMAN is suing an Egyptian hotel claiming her daughter
Magdalena Kwiatkowska’s 13-year-old returned to Poland from their holiday expecting a baby.

Magdalena believes the teenager conceived from stray sperm after taking a dip in the hotel’s mixed pool. She is now seeking compensation from the hotel.

A travel industry source said: “The mother is adamant that her daughter didn’t meet any boys while she was there.

“She is determined to go ahead with the case.”

Tourist authorities in Warsaw, Poland, have confirmed they received the bizarre complaint.

Clodfobble;581019 wrote:

Well, if the only other choice is letting her husband and brothers slaughter her poor child... I'd try to convince my retarded male relatives that it was a magical sperm pool in Poland too.

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Uh, the pool was in Egypt, the family in Poland.

dar512;581203 wrote:

More stupid news. Daughter falls into manhole while texting.

And the parents are suing the city.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/girl-falls-into-manhole-while-texting-parents-sue/

crews were flushing a high-pressure sewer line at the time.

"It was four or five feet, it was very painful. I kind of crawled out and the DEP guys came running and helped me," Longueria told the Staten Island Advance.

Sewer line workers are supposed to cut off pedestrian access to work sites or at least mark them with warning signs.

For its part, the Department of Environmental Protection said its workers had turned away briefly to grab some cones when the incident occurred.

Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities
IT'S NOT OIL: No one in the area can recall seeing anything like it before.

TheMercenary;582086 wrote:

Big Balls...

Man uses chain saw in Wyo. mountain lion attack

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99G76VO0&show_article=1&catnum=0

The wounded animal retreated after Britton inflicted a six- to eight-inch gash on the lion's shoulder, leaving him with only a small puncture wound on his forearm.

"You would think if you hit an animal with a chain saw it would dig right in," he said. "I might as well have hit it with a hockey stick."

Griff;582138 wrote:

Dustin Britton, a 32-year-old mechanic and ex-[COLOR="Red"]Marine[/COLOR] from Windsor, Colo., said he was alone cutting firewood about 100 feet from his campsite in the Shoshone National Forest when he saw the 100-pound lion staring at him from some bushes.
There is your explanation. I always thought a chainsaw would be your best bet against a bear or lion.

“Chris Everhart just had a Father’s Day he’ll never forget. The ex-Marine saved the lives of his three young sons when a 300-pound bear attacked their Georgia campsite last weekend.

xoxoxoBruce;582360 wrote:

Another ex-marine kills a bear by throwing a log at it.

link

ZenGum;582424 wrote:

Holy shit. He killed a bear by throwing a log at it.

Even Rambo would have used a knife.

I think "do not mess with ex-marines" sounds like a good rule for life.

xoxoxoBruce;582238 wrote:

This is surprising, to me. I guess he hit the lion with a glancing blow on the shoulder, rather that a straight shot to soft tissue. :confused:

Swimmers warned over loved-up dolphin

New Zealand swimmers are being warned not to go out into the sea alone - or they risk getting a little too much love from a lonely dolphin.

Moko the dolphin took up residence at Mahia, on the east coast of the North Island, last year.

Since then hundreds of people have swum with him, but on the weekend things got out of hand with one woman.

Moko wanted to keep playing and kept swimming in circles around the woman, stopping her from returning to the beach.

She panicked, jumped on a buoy 200 metres out to sea and screamed for help.

Fisherman Joe Hedley says Moko is craving human company.

"He lets you hang onto his fins, swims around his legs, lets you pat and scratch him," he said.

"He'll come right in to knee-deep water".

He says people should stay close to shore and only swim with Moko if they are in a group.

Stolen inflatable clown found with list of demands

Police in Alice Springs say an inflatable clown recently stolen from the Moscow Circus has been found.

The circus mascot Boris was taken from Blatherskite Park on July 26.

A police spokeswoman says a man walking through the Alice Springs golf course on Saturday morning found the clown still inflated at the barbecue area at the 17th green.

She says a handwritten note found with the clown demanding better working conditions has been seized by police for forensic testing.

Police have contacted the Moscow Circus with a view to reuniting it with the clown.

OURAY, Colo. -- An autopsy showed a 74-year-old Ouray County woman whose body was found being eaten by a bear was attacked and killed by that same bear after she attempted to help a smaller bear that had been hurt in a fight.

Munson told her brother by telephone that she was putting out hard-boiled eggs and milk for the younger bear to eat, said the victim's son-in-law, Bruce Milne.
Munson told her brother Thursday night that the older bear was back and said, "I'm going to chase it off with a broom."

ZenGum;587142 wrote:

... A police spokeswoman says a man walking through the Alice Springs golf course on Saturday morning found the clown still inflated at the barbecue area at the 17th green. ...

Naked man survives frozen fall

A naked man has suffered hypothermia and cuts after falling down a frozen embankment in Victoria's alpine region.

The 21-year-old Melbourne man fell 80 metres down the hill at Hotham Heights and slammed into some trees.

Police say it serves as a reminder that snow and alcohol do not mix.

Crimson Ghost;588287 wrote:

I tend to go with the 'asteroid exploding before it hit Earth' theory.
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... Her mangled body was found in a suitcase in a metal rubbish bin in Buena Park, south of Los Angeles, on 15 August. She was identified by a serial number on her breast implants. ...

The veteran musician Bob Dylan has been speaking about getting back into the recording studio - but not for a new album.

Bob Dylan says he is thinking of going into satellite navigation.

The 68-year-old says he has been talking to car companies about becoming the voice of their GPS systems.

"I think it would be good if you're looking for directions and you heard my voice saying something like, 'take a left at the next street, no, a right, you know what, just go straight'," he said.

"I probably shouldn't do it because whichever way I go, I always end up in one place - on Lonely Avenue."

Sigurd Eysteinsson (aka Sigurd the Mighty, ruled circa 875–92[1]) was the second Viking Earl of Orkney, who succeeded his brother Rognvald Eysteinsson. He was a leader in the Viking conquest of what is now northern Scotland. Bizarrely, he was killed by the severed head of one his enemies, Máel Brigte, who may have been mórmaer of Moray.[1] Sigurd strapped Máel Brigte's head to his saddle as a trophy of conquest, and as he rode, Máel Brigte's teeth grazed against Sigurd's leg. The wound became infected and Sigurd died.[2]

...

According to the Orkneyinga saga, towards the end of his reign, Sigurd challenged a native ruler, Máel Brigte the Bucktoothed, to a 40-man-a-side battle. Treacherously, Sigurd brought 80 men to the fight. Máel Brigte was defeated and beheaded. Sigurd strapped the head to his saddle as a trophy, but as Sigurd rode, Máel Brigte's buck-tooth scratched his leg. The leg became inflamed and infected, and as a result Sigurd died.

A man who impersonated a Qantas engineer has had his jail sentence extended for providing fake character references.

Timothy McCormack was sentenced to at least two years jail for impersonating a QANTAS maintenance engineer.

Between 2006 and 2007, he signed off on a number of aircraft safety inspections.

Today, his sentence has been extended by at least eight months, for fabricating evidence and trying to pervert the course of justice.

The district court in Sydney heard that he provided fake references at his sentencing hearing, including one from a school counsellor and another from a football official.

Police in Paris are dealing with traffic anarchy after the mayors of two feuding suburbs declared the same busy street one-way - but in opposite directions.

There was chaos among bemused drivers at the point where the rival systems converged, with all traffic forced down one side road.

The confusion followed a decision by the Mayor of Levallois who wanted to introduce a one-way system to free up traffic through his borough.

Fearing an overspill into his district, the Mayor of Clichy, Gilles Catoire, brought in a one-way system running the opposite direction.

The local prefect, representing the French state, has issued a decree ordering the immediate return of two-way traffic in Clichy, accusing its Mr Catoire of provoking serious disorder.

Mr Catoire is refusing to back down, saying he will challenge the decision in court.

- BBC

Busted For Slapping Stranger's Crying Child
Georgia man, 61, threatened to "shut that baby up" at Walmart

SEPTEMBER 2--Meet Roger Stephens. The Georgia man, 61, was shopping Monday morning at a Walmart in Stone Mountain when he crossed paths with Sonya Matthews and her two-year-old daughter Paige. The child was crying, which apparently greatly perturbed Matthews. "If you don't shut that baby up I will shut her up for you," Stephens warned Matthews, according to a Gwinnett County Police Department report. Moments later, Stephens acted on his threat, slapping Paige "across the face approximately four or five times." Though the child "started crying and screaming" after being struck, Stephens told Matthews, "See, I told you I would shut her up." After police were summoned, Stephens told a cop that the child was crying "and he just slapped her," according to the report. Stephens was arrested for felony cruelty to children and booked into the Gwinnett County Detention Center, where he is being held without bond. Paige sustained "slight redness to the face," but was otherwise unharmed. (3 pages)

Cicero;591582 wrote:

Wow!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090828/twl-i-cheated-hubby-signs-up-to-be-punis-3fd0ae9.html

No, humiliating would be- I cheated and came home with herpes!

Darwin police say a man they caught drink-driving last night tried to give officers a dead fish.

Officers were called to a service station at Casuarina just after midnight and say the 44-year-old man was visibly drunk.

Duty Superintendent Rob Farmer says the man "stumbled" out of the car and tried to talk to police before producing the dead fish.

"I'm told it was a saratoga, not a very good one either, only about 30 centimetres long apparently," he said.

"We don't know why he produced it and where he got it from. But yeah, he was intent on showing it to them."

Police say the man later recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.235 per cent.

Superintendent Farmer says he is unsure what happened to the fish.

"As far as I know, it's still with the car now," he said.

"I don't know whether there were other people there who may have been able to take care of the fish or whether he's going to have a surprise in his vehicle when he gets back to it.

"It's not a good idea to keep dead fish in your car."

The man is due to appear in court today along with another alleged high-range drink-driver who had only just been released on bail after crashing a stolen car.

Police say the man went drinking again, stole a ute, backed it into a parked car and later crashed it into a moving car, before ending up in a stormwater drain near Darwin's CBD.

The 28-year-old has been refused bail, and police say he did not have a licence to begin with.

Women freed from 'fake Big Brother house'

Turkish military police have stormed a villa in Istanbul to free nine women who were tricked into appearing on an online pornography site.

The women thought they had been recruited for a Big Brother-style reality television show.

They had signed a contract promising they would have no contact with their families and agreeing to pay a hefty fine if they left the show within two months.

But instead of appearing on TV, photos of the scantily-clad women were distributed on a website that charged viewers to see the photos on their mobile phones.

Most of the women alleged they had been held against their will.

Turkish prosecutors are now preparing charges against those responsible.

Flint;594974 wrote:

Haven't you Archie Bunker-lookin' motherƒuckers ever read the Politically Correct handbook?

xoxoxoBruce;595150 wrote:

Maybe the four chicks were stealing it to give to him? :eyebrow:

“They really didn’t plan it,” he said Sunday. “One of their friends had an eye on the chili and they got together last night and decided they were going to get it for the friend.”


SNIP


“I’m not sure how it was going to fit,” he said. “It’s a pretty large chili.”

To power the drill, Grande said they connected 470 feet of extension cords that they ran from the Chili’s building, across all four lanes of [Route 67] and through the parking lot of Home Depot to a nearby outlet.

A pet cat which went missing in Tasmania and turned up in outback Queensland has been reunited with its owners in the Derwent Valley.

The long-haired Himalayan named Clyde disappeared from home when he was just 12-months-old.

He was eventually found in Cloncurry in north-west Queensland, 3,800 kilometres away.

Earlier this year, Clyde walked into the local hospital and followed a nurse home.

The woman contacted Clyde's owners after a vet found the cat was microchipped.

ZenGum;595157 wrote:

Looks like you're right:



:lol:

I thought this bit was pretty amazing:



Awesome, but (a) what idiot cooked up this brilliant plan and have the Darwin Awards (honourable mention section) been advised of this, and (b) who the hell can come up with 470 feet of extension cord, but can't get their hands on a cordless drill?

I find it very noticeable that, of the four young rascals that did this, there was not a single Y-chromosome amongst them. Behold, today's Young Woman, proving once again that women can do anything men can do, no matter how bloody stupid it is.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A South African company on Wednesday proved it was faster to transmit data by carrier pigeon than to send it using the country's leading internet service provider

MARTINSBURG - The popular online social networking site Facebook helped lead to an alleged burglar's arrest after he stopped check his account on the victim's computer, but forgot to log out before leaving the home with two diamond rings.

Jonathan G. Parker, 19, of Fort Loudoun, Pa., was arraigned Tuesday one count of felony daytime burglary.

According to court records, Deputy P.D. Ware of the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department responded on Aug. 28 to the victim's home after she reported the burglary.

She told police that someone had broken into her home through a bedroom window.

There were open cabinets in her garage, and other signs of a burglar.

The victim later noticed that the intruder also used her computer to check his Facebook status, and his account was still open when she checked the computer.

The victim later noticed that she was missing two diamond rings from her dresser in the same room as her computer.

The two rings were worth more than $3,500, reports indicate.

During the investigation, a friend of the victim told her that he knew where Parker was staying, in the same area as the victim's house.

Police then went to the home and spoke with a friend of Parker's.

The man said Parker had stopped by his home occasionally, but he said the man didn't live there.

He also said that the night before the burglary, Parker asked him if he wanted to help break into the victim's home but he refused.

As of Tuesday evening, Parker remained in custody at the Eastern Regional Jail on $10,000 bail.

If convicted he faces one to 10 years in prison.

The band sold 2.2 million copies of albums, individually and in two multiple-CD boxed sets, in the first five days that the remastered music went on sale in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, according to the group's label, EMI.

SNIP

On Billboard magazine's Comprehensive Albums chart, listing the most popular CD releases, including current and past-catalog titles, the Beatles set a record for the most simultaneous titles by a single act (18), including five of the top 10 and nine of the top 20.

CHOP

Woman pulls gun on cop as chihuahua deal goes wrong

A Sydney woman has allegedly tried to steal a chihuahua at gunpoint from a police officer's home in the city's north-west.

Investigators say a 26-year-old woman had arranged to buy the puppy and went to a house at Kellyville to collect the animal yesterday.

Once inside the property, police allege the woman produced a gun and demanded the puppy be handed over.

The woman was restrained by the people who lived at the house, including an off-duty policeman.

Police say the gun was a replica pistol.

The woman has been charged over the attempted robbery and will face court next month.

Australian police are gearing up for an annual crackdown on motor-racing fans - limiting race-goers to 24 cans of beer a day.

Spectators at the Bathurst 1000 - a three-day race meeting staged this week - will be told to stick to just the one "slab" of beer while at the racetrack.

Wine-drinkers must also show restraint, facing a four litres per day limit.

Police hope the limits will prevent the famous New South Wales race being blighted by alcohol-related violence.

Known as "The Great Race", the Bathurst 1000 is a 1,000km (621 mile) event, the highlight of the three-day meeting held annually in the town of the same name.

Boasting a long, proud history, the race - seen as the most prestigious motor event in Australia - is currently contested by teams of drivers racing powerful touring cars equipped with V8 engines.

The "one-slab" limit was first imposed in 2007, with police insisting drunken hooligans were tarnishing the reputation of the race and causing disruption in town.

Those choosing to drink lower-strength beer will be allowed to bring in 36 cans, police said.

Magdalene H. had worked for the North Rhine-Westphalian building association in Dortmund for more than three decades only to be fired for taking two rolls and a Frikadelle, a German meatball specialty, after setting up a meal for her boss and his guests.

But later a colleague noticed that food was missing and her boss confronted her, the paper said. When she admitted to eating the food, she was sacked.

On Tuesday, Magdalene H. faced her employer, building association head Hermann Schulte-Hiltrop, in court to request that he give her a warning instead, saying the incident was not a classic case of theft.

“She believed her behaviour was in order,” her lawyer Wolfgang Pinkepank said. “Bread and Frikadellen that are left over after conferences are allowed to be eaten by workers. If she had been reprimanded she would not have done it again.”

But Schulte-Hiltrop, 51, told the court he would not change his decision.

“From the outside it naturally looks like a minor offence,” he said. “But we work on highly sensitive information here. And if you don’t trust someone any longer, it’s not a good feeling.”

Meanwhile lawyer Pinkepank said that at 59, his client would likely not find another position.

Official court proceedings will begin in January 2010, the judge said.

The word Creole comes from a period when people's humanity was measured by the amount of white blood they had in their bloodstream," he was quoted as saying.

"This is the same kind of thought that underpinned horrific regimes like the Nazis."

Definitions of Creole on the Web:

a person of European descent born in the West Indies or Latin America
a person descended from French ancestors in southern United States (especially Louisiana)
of or relating to a language that arises from contact between two other languages and has features of both; "Creole grammars"
of or relating to or characteristic of native-born persons of French descent in Louisiana; "Creole cooking"

A special cattle dog in Maryborough in south-east Queensland will receive the RSPCA's animal achievement award.

Two years ago, Jim Touzeau suffered a heart attack and collapsed at his Tinana glass factory.

His cattle dog Teka jumped up and down on his chest with her two front paws and barked in his face, causing Mr Touzeau to wake up.

Teka also ran outside and jumped up and down on the kerb to attract attention.

xoxoxoBruce;603207 wrote:

I'm sure the German courts have nothing better to do than dealing with this major criminal conspiracy.

Methinks the "colleague" that ratted her out was looking for a promotion, perhaps to the perp's job, eh? Maybe the perp's boss wants to play hide the salami with the "colleague"?:eyebrow:

ZenGum;604090 wrote:

We all know Merc's snake-hunting dog is indeed a Good Doggy, but can he do CPR?

Dispatch: You behind them?

Mary Strey: No, I am them.

Dispatch: You am them?

Mary Strey: Yes, I am them.

Dispatch: Okay, so you want to call and report you're driving drunk?

Mary Strey: Yes.

xoxoxoBruce;603207 wrote:

I'm sure the German courts have nothing better to do than dealing with this major criminal conspiracy.

Methinks the "colleague" that ratted her out was looking for a promotion, perhaps to the perp's job, eh? Maybe the perp's boss wants to play hide the salami with the "colleague"?:eyebrow:

RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

The convict was arrested earlier this year after a seven-year old boy helped police in their investigation. The child left in the desert after the rape was three years old, Okaz newspaper said.

International rights groups have accused the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, of applying draconian justice, beheading murderers, rapists and drug traffickers in public. So far this year about 40 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia.

In Saudi Arabia, crucifixion means tying the body of the convict to wooden beams to be displayed to the public after beheading.

classicman;605491 wrote:

Kind of a bummer, but wasn't sure where else to put this....



Link

RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man

convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

It is the machine that scientists hope will recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time. But scientists at the £3.6bn Large Hadron Collider (LHC) found their plans to emulate the big bang postponed this week when a passing bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into the machine, causing it to overheat.

The Guardian

A 21-year-old Australian man has admitted creating what is thought to be the first virus to infect Apple iPhones.

The virus, which can spread from phone to phone, changes the iPhone's wallpaper to a photograph of 1980s singer Rick Astley - best known for his hit Never Gonna Give You Up.

The wallpaper features the words "Ikee is never gonna give you up".

Engineered penises provide tailor-made transplants
Posted 20 minutes ago
Updated 17 minutes ago

Researchers in the United States have engineered functioning artificial penises in rabbits using cells from the animals, who then used their new organs to father baby rabbits.

The work takes scientists closer to making other complex solid organs using a patient's own cells and could one day help humans, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study was led by Dr Anthony Atala, from the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre's Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Dr Atala says it provides a tailor-made transplant.

"Once the tissue is there, the body recognises the tissue as its own," he said.

Dr Atala focused on the penis because he is a paediatric urologist, and has specialised for years in disorders and congenital defects of the bladder and sexual organs.

"That was the inspiration for this work," he said.

"We are seeing babies born with deficient genitalia all the time. There are no good options."

Human hopes

Dr Atala is also a specialist in regenerative medicine, which uses the body's own cells to repair damage.

In this case, his team used ordinary cells, not the stem cells often used in such research.

Dr Atala is hoping the procedure will work with people, perhaps starting with adult men who have had damage to their organs.

"Patients with congenital anomalies, penile cancer, traumatic penile injury, and some types of organic erectile dysfunction could benefit from this technology in the future," the team wrote in the report.

The process takes six weeks from beginning to end, and there is reason to believe a penis grafted onto a baby would grow with the child.

Dr Atala hopes the approach will work with other organs.

"We have made clitoral tissue in the past," he said.

"We have extensive work going on with kidneys and livers."

Making bunnies
Dr Atala's team first created a scaffold using the penis of a rabbit, and removed all the living cells from it, leaving only cartilage. They then took a small piece of tissue from the penis of another rabbit and grew the cells in a lab dish.

Dr Atala says the work has taken his team 18 years to complete.

"We had to find the right growth factors, the right soup to grow the cells in," he said.

They made sure to have two cell types, smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells, the same type of cells that line blood vessels.

The smooth muscle cells made the organ's spongy tissue and the endothelial cells grew into blood vessels - very important in an organ like the penis, which requires good blood supply.

The cells were seeded onto the scaffold, and six weeks later the researchers had penises to graft onto rabbits that had their penises removed.

The animals seemed to realise they had working organs again - the 12 with the grafts tried to mate with female rabbits within one minute of being put into cages with them, and four of the female rabbits became pregnant.

Those with the scaffolding alone and no working tissue did not even try.

November 09, 2009, 6:47PM
NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio — A breeder from Columbus has sued a North Ridgeville animal clinic over a breeding mix-up that almost killed her champion show dog.
Barbara Lea Jacobs charges that her purebred Pembroke Welsh corgi was inseminated with semen from both a corgi and from a Great Pyrenees, which is five times the size of a corgi, because the semen was negligently mixed by veterinarian Dr. Robert Hutchison and Animal Clinic Northview.
"It was like breeding an elephant to a gazelle. She almost died. They destroyed the value of this bitch," said attorney David Jay Hyman, who is representing Jacobs and is also a breeder of show dogs.
The suit, filed in Delaware County, was transferred to Lorain County Common Pleas Court last week on a motion by Hutchison's attorney Todd Haemmerle.
Haemmerle said he could not comment on the case. Hutchison, who was also named individually in the suit, did not return phone calls.
Hyman said the corgi, known as Gwynne, was inseminated in 2007 with semen from a 30-pound corgi that was contaminated with semen from a 150-pound Great Pyrenees.
Gwynne conceived a litter that included two purebred corgis, six "abnormally large" Pyr-Corgi puppies and a puppy that died shortly after birth, according to the suit. Gwynne grew so large during the pregnancy that she was unable to eat normally or walk, and the puppies had to be delivered by cesarean section.
"She continued to bleed for three months, and was unable to care for her puppies," Hyman said. "She ultimately had to be spayed" -- destroying her reproductive and economic value to Jacobs, and ending her show career because spayed or neutered dogs cannot compete in American Kennel Club shows.
Gwynne had one litter of puppies previously, and would have been bred again several times, Hyman said. Purebred Pembroke Welsh corgi puppies are valued at $2,000 to $3,500, he said.
Hutchison, who is recognized by breeders internationally as an authority on small animal fertility and reproduction, produces approximately 150 frozen semen litters yearly, according to the Web site for Animal Clinic Northview.
The suit alleges four counts of negligence, fraud and breach of warranty, and seeks compensatory and punitive damages of $800,000 per count. Three other veterinarians who are shareholders in the clinic -- Brian Greenfield, Randall Hutchison and Matthew Wilson -- were also named in the suit.

Crimson Ghost;607418 wrote:

Next up - ManBearPigWithBunnyDick

Crimson Ghost;607418 wrote:

Next up - ManBearPig

A LONG-DISTANCE swimmer says he was injured in a freak accident with a sea turtle off Adelaide while in training to swim the length of the Great Barrier Reef. [i.e. 1,800km - ZG]
The Cairns Post reports South Australian chiropractor Dr Rob Hutchings said he suffered "shell shock" after encountering a large turtle while training for his reef swim next year off the coast of Adelaide last Friday.

"I was just swimming along thinking about how wonderful life was, and my left arm came crashing down on the back of a very large turtle," Dr Hutchings said.

"I was quite shocked by it, because I didn’t think turtles were down here.

"I've been swimming down here for about six years and never seen them down here. For a split second, I thought I had run into a shark."

The encounter exacerbated an injured shoulder Dr Hutchings had suffered, after he had accidentally crashed into a kangaroo the week earlier while mountain biking in the Grampians.

A RUSSIAN man survived after guzzling three bottles of vodka before leaping from a fifth floor balcony - twice.
Moscow man Alexei Roskov says he jumped the second time because he couldn't stand anymore of his wife's nagging after the first time.

His wife Yekaterina watched in horror as her sozzled husband opened the kitchen window of their Moscow apartment, and dived out.

Astonishingly 22-year-old Muscovite survived - staggering back upstairs with barely a scratch after the 15m fall.

But while his wife called for an ambulance and began to scold him, he decided to jump again.

Paramedics treated Mr Roskov for minor cuts and bruises before releasing him.

Mr Roskov said he was now teetotal after giving up drinking, and added: "Now I can say just one thing - I was very lucky.

"I have no idea why I jumped the first time but when I came back up and I heard my wife screaming angrily at me I thought it was best if I left the room again - out of the window."

The children were gathered up by the tens of thousands, some of them as young as 3, taken from single mothers and impoverished families in Britain, then sent abroad for what was supposed to be a better start in life. What they found was isolation, physical and sexual abuse, and what the prime minister of Australia said Monday was “the absolute tragedy of childhoods lost.”

ZenGum;609110 wrote:

Also, Australia was in a "populate or perish" mindset, after WWII.

For over 75 years, these Orphan Trains rolled along, delivering their precious young riders to new homes. Thousands of children were transfered from the over-crowded orphanages and homes in the large cities in the northeastern United States, to live with new families on farms throughout the middle West. Here is a little history of the Orphan Train Movement.

Mortensen told reporters that he'll fight until the bitter end for what he roughly supposes the Constitution to be. He acknowledged, however, that it might already be too late to win the battle.
"The freedoms our Founding Fathers spilled their blood for are vanishing before our eyes," Mortensen said. "In under a year, a fascist, socialist regime has turned a proud democracy into a totalitarian state that will soon control every facet of American life."
"Don't just take my word for it," Mortensen added. "Try reading a newspaper or watching the news sometime."

xoxoxoBruce;609593 wrote:

We did a little resettling too.

Orphan Trains

Murders linked to cosmetics fat trade
Posted November 20, 2009 09:17:00

Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing some 60 people to sell their fat and other human tissue to Italian co-conspirators for cosmetic use in Europe, authorities say.

The suspects were arrested in central Peru this month and a search is underway for seven others - including two Italian citizens whose names were not revealed - lead prosecutor Jorge Sans Quiroz said.

The fat was purchased "to be commercialised in European [cosmetology] laboratories," he said.

The prosecutor's indictment said the gang allegedly targeted farmers and indigenous people on remote Andean roads, tricking them by offering them jobs before killing them.

One reported killing took place in mid-September to remove human tissue for trafficking.

The trafficking network could be linked to 60 individual disappearances in the central Andean region, although the ties could not be confirmed.

Police began arrests after discovering early this month a container with human fat that was being shipped to Lima from the Andean city of Huanuco, some 400 kilometres north-east of Lima.

Signs of "an international network trafficking human fat" first surfaced about two months ago, according to General Felix Burga, head of the police criminal division.

Peruvian press cited him as saying the fat can be sold for $US15,000 ($16,325) per gallon in European countries.

The alleged plot revived the Andean legend of the Pishtacos, white foreigners who were said to suck the fat out of people travelling on lonely roads at night, making fine soaps, lubricants, healing salves and beauty creams out of the tissue.

TheMercenary;609905 wrote:

I've never heard of it. Thanks.

The alleged plot revived the Andean legend of the Pishtacos, white foreigners who were said to suck the fat out of people travelling on lonely roads at night, making fine soaps, lubricants, healing salves and beauty creams out of the tissue.

xoxoxoBruce;610009 wrote:

I read an article many years ago, in Smithsonian magazine, but haven't seen anything about it since. I had to Google it, to find the story to link to. Just one of those things that happened in history, with mixed opinions and mixed results. Would probably make a good Ken Burns, PBS special. :)

ZenGum;609978 wrote:

$15,000 a gallon???!!!

Pie;610121 wrote:

Ummm.. why? Wouldn't any one of a variety of animal fats work as well, and be cheaper & legal and not require murder???

Pie wrote:

Ummm.. why? Wouldn't any one of a variety of animal fats work as well, and be cheaper & legal and not require murder???

Cicero;610560 wrote:

Sure and what of the alcohol and caffeine content? :) Oh wait that's just me....

TheMercenary;613220 wrote:

Sweden woman's 'murder' committed by elk not husband

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8384143.stm

The transgressions of Tiger Woods have proved too much to take for one of the golf superstar's most fanatical fans, who is now disbanding a church set up in praise of the sports icon.

John Ziegler, the pastor of the First Church of Tiger Woods - www.tigerwoodsisgod.com - has announced in a statement on the blog that the organisation is being dissolved because of the golfer's "personal sins".

The church, whose home page has now been rechristened "The Damnation of Tiger Woods", was launched by radio host Ziegler in 1996 to "celebrate the emergence of the 'true messiah".

ZenGum;615189 wrote:

These idiots should just join scientology.

skysidhe;614783 wrote:

Naturally, the revamped look hasn't gone unnoticed, rankling both ends of the political spectrum. The blog for conservative magazine The Weekly Standard noted that the new Sun-Maid girl looks "as if Julia Roberts decided to don a red bonnet and start picking grapes," while the feminist website Jezebel.com remarked that it looks as if she's had “some implants.”

Moments ago, CBS 2 obtained a copy of the subpoena request. The trooper stated a witness, presumably Elin Woods, told him Tiger had been drinking alcohol earlier in the day and he'd taken the prescription drugs Ambien and Vicodin. The officer said that warranted suspicion that the golf star's accident was caused by his impairment, but the subpoena was denied.

Bloom believes Uchitel must have been paid off by Woods for her silence, especially given the maneuvering of her mom over the past few days.

"We know that paparazzi caught Gloria Allred leaving Tiger Woods' lawyer's office on Monday night. That has to mean they were engaging in negotiations. Paparazzi then caught her leaving Rachel Uchitel's hotel on Wednesday night after midnight, and at 7:00 a.m. the press conference was cancelled," said Bloom.

It was a press conference where the club hostess was expected to tell all. But the date with the media was canceled due to "unforeseen circumstances." Bloom said a check must have been cut.

Tiger Woods' mother-in-law was rushed early this morning from the golfer's home to the same Florida hospital where he was taken after a car accident two weeks ago, according to an official at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee. Barbro Holmberg, 57, a Swedish politician, was taken to the hospital by paramedics called to the golfer's Windermere home shortly after 2:36 a.m. Holmberg complained of stomach pains, and her condition is not life-threatening, hospital spokesman Dan Yates said.

"She's in a wing that helps protect her privacy," he said, adding that she's in stable condition.

Crimson Ghost;615876 wrote:

Perhaps he should have used a driver.

Spexxvet;616242 wrote:

Police: Amish man found drunk, asleep in moving buggy. Link

Five people have been arrested in China for digging up the corpse of a young woman to be a "ghost bride" for a man killed in a car crash.
The suspects included a grieving father who allegedly paid his four accomplices around £2,700 pounds to find a female to be his son's companion in the afterlife.

The men were caught after unearthing the remains of a teenage girl who had poisoned herself after failing her university entrance exams last year, a newspaper in Xianyang in China's Shaanxi province reported.
In rural China, superstitious villagers have for centuries sought out the bodies of recently deceased woman to be ghost brides for young men who die single.

Marriage ceremonies are conducted for the two corpses, and the bride is placed in the same grave as her husband.

Under Chairman Mao's rule, officials made strenuous efforts to stamp out the ghoulish practice but it has since resurfaced in some rural areas.

Last year, a gang in southern China was arrested for strangling young women to sell as ghost brides when the supply of female corpses in their area ran short.

It's a ho-ho-hold-up as bad Santa robs bank

Police in Nashville, Tennesee are hunting for a "jovial" armed robber who held up a city bank dressed as Santa.

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The man entered the SunTrust bank at 10am (local time) and demanded money from the teller at gunpoint.

The teller handed over the cash and the robber fled in a grey car.

Nashville's WSMV-TV says the robber told bank staff that he needed the money "to pay his elves"

"It was a little unbelievable. He was actually jovial, which is scary. He explained that he was robbing the bank because Santa had to pay his elves," witness Richlyn Jones told reporters.

TheMercenary;620207 wrote:

Woman calls 911 when husband refuses to eat dinner

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CP7L5G0&show_article=1

I bet they voted for Obamy. :lol:

dar512;621427 wrote:

:rolleyes: You are well on your way to becoming a caricature, Merc.

Earth's north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet's core, new research says.

skysidhe;625430 wrote:

Well it is weird that they were saying cell phone use could cause brain cancer and here they found out that the plaque from Alzheimer is destroyed by the radiation instead. ...

Scriveyn;625554 wrote:

On the other hand it seems that Alzheimer's protects you from cancer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8425824.stm

Take your choice.

Palin wrote:

It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news

Palin majored in journalism with an emphasis on broadcasting at the University of Idaho and worked part-time as a weekend sportscaster in 1988 for KTUU-TV in Anchorage, using her then-maiden name Heath. The station's sports director, John Carpenter, said the young broadcaster left after a few months because of the low pay.

Carpenter said he was sorry to see her go. She was a hard worker who enjoyed the entire process, not just being in front of the cameras, he said.

"She knew sports, she could talk sports, she looked OK on TV," Carpenter said. "She had the aptitude, no question."

classicman;625750 wrote:

seems very fitting. Sad, but fitting.

classicman;625750 wrote:

seems very fitting. Sad, but fitting.

...the president and CEO of the Wine and Liquor Wholesalers of America, who announced Tuesday that Palin will keynote the group's annual convention and and expo in Las Vegas in early April...

....The convention includes a "Wine and Spirits Tasting Competition," which, according to the press release, "secured a spot on the agenda after drawing overwhelming response and favorable feedback during its debut" last year.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/12/palin-to-address-alcohol-industry-event-in-las-vegas/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_politicalticker+(Blog%3A+Political+Ticker)

Higher Ed Watch has learned that the student loan company Nelnet recently had a subpoena issued to the U.S. Department of Education for documents it believes will definitively show that the agency's former leaders signed off on the company's plan to aggressively grow its 9.5 percent student loan holdings. Nelnet took this action shortly after a federal court judge ruled in favor of allowing a False Claims lawsuit filed by Jon Oberg, the former Education Department researcher who uncovered the 9.5 student loan scandal, to proceed against the company and five other lenders.

Nelnet officials certainly believe that they were given the green light. In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the company’s lawyers made clear that they intend to make the Department’s role in the case a central part of their defense.


“In the case of Nelnet, the evidence would include witnesses to meetings between the company and the Department regarding this issue. It would include witnesses to phone calls between the company and the Department. It would include witnesses to the settlement agreement entered into between the company and the Department. All of these witnesses would testify to matters that reflect the intent of Nelnet...”


At Higher Ed Watch, we are pleased by these developments, as we believe that this type of information should have seen the light of day years ago. After all, doesn’t the public have a right to know whether government officials were complicit in a scheme to fleece taxpayers? And doesn’t it have the right to see how the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program has been a magnet for fraud and abuse?


As we’ve said before, Jon Oberg should be congratulated for his tenacity in trying to get to the bottom of the scandal. It looks like his efforts are starting to yield results.


[Editor's Note: A spokesman for Nelnet declined to comment on the subpoena, except to say,"We believe the allegations of the lawsuit are entirely meritless and intend to vigorously defend the claims."]

A judge Friday sent a Virginia man to prison for 15 years for sending a text message to a former Frederick woman he was previously convicted of assaulting.

In October 2005, Colin Akin Johnson stabbed Lakisha Frye seven times and almost cut off an ear, according to testimony in Frederick County Circuit Court.

In August 2006, Judge John H. Tisdale ordered Johnson to serve five years of a 20-year sentence in the Maryland Division of Correction for the first-degree assault conviction.

Released Jan. 29, 2009, after spending more than three years and three months behind bars, Johnson told Tisdale on Friday that his mistake "was allowing Lakisha back in my life ... I came out (of prison) and I was ready to go. I was trying to be the best dad I could be."

Johnson and Frye have a daughter together, and he also treated Frye's older daughter as his own, according to court testimony.

Tisdale recalled the heinousness of the 2005 crime during a 30-minute hearing Friday in which Johnson admitted sending the text message, which meant he had violated probation.

The judge refereed arguments between Assistant State's Attorney Teresa R. Bean and defense attorney Alan L. Winik. The two lawyers Friday were pushing for starkly different punishments for Johnson's offense.

Bean urged Tisdale to impose the previously suspended 15 years. Winik said a sanction was appropriate, but suggested the seven months Johnson has served since being arrested in June 2009 should be considered.

"Things should be kept in perspective," Winik said.

The text message Johnson, 32, sent Frye the day he was served with a protective order was not inflammatory, Winik said.

"Sorry about all this. Call me when you get a chance," he read from a document that stated the content of Johnson's text message.

Shawnee123;625835 wrote:

...

Johnson said after his release from prison he and Frye re-established a relationship. He said he later told her he wanted only a friendship with her, that he wanted to focus on the children.

"She erupted. She cursed me," Johnson said.

That's when she leveled the allegations against him that led to the Virginia protective order.

He recalled the number of supporters who testified on Johnson's behalf at his 2006 sentencing. He recalled a hearing the next March when Frye asked him to release her attacker from prison early.

"These cases don't have much logic to them," Tisdale said.

"Lakisha Frye has obviously not protected herself very well," he said, referring to her decision to live about five minutes away from the residence Johnson shared with his mother.

Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found.
The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.

U.S. military rules specifically prohibit the proselytizing of any religion in Iraq or Afghanistan and were drawn up in order to prevent criticism that the U.S. was embarked on a religious "Crusade" in its war against al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents.
One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament, which reads: "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."

Other references include citations from the books of Revelation, Matthew and John dealing with Jesus as "the light of the world." John 8:12, referred to on the gun sights as JN8:12, reads, "Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Elspode;628287 wrote:

A whole new spin on "praise God and pass the ammunition". Makes me want to get a gubmint sight contract and inscribe a pentagram somewhere. I mean, fair's fair, right?

squirell nutkin;628393 wrote:

How about a reference to...what was that thing in the bible about thou shalt not... what was it? Damn, it's on the tip of my tongue...

squirell nutkin;628393 wrote:

How about a reference to...what was that thing in the bible about thou shalt not... what was it? Damn, it's on the tip of my tongue...

jinx;628473 wrote:

Bust a cap?

Only players that are natural born United States citizens...

... with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league.

Intelligent Design: As with all copulating species, female Muscovy ducks battle male Muscovy ducks over which controls fertilization. Patricia Brennan of Yale, writing in a recent Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, found that the female Muscovy avoids forced sex by having evolved a clockwise-spiraled corkscrew vagina that foils male intruders (but relaxing it for preferred mates, so that they don't get stuck in vaginal "cul-de-sacs"). Brennan's team worked with high-speed video and mock-up glass tubing of the respective organs. [LiveScience.com, 12-23-09]

Mafeteng Districts Hospital, Lesotho

From freethinker.co.uk

[SIZE="4"]London transport chiefs apologise to passengers after driver stops to pray[/SIZE]

A MUSLIM bus driver stunned passengers when he stopped his vehicle and began praying in the aisle this week –with the engine still running.

The driver, according to this report, parked without warning – then used a fluorescent jacket as an improvised prayer mat. He took off his shoes, knelt down facing Mecca, and began to chant.

The prayer session held up the bus for more than five minutes with no-one able to get on or off. ...[continued]

Perhaps an effective countermeasure would be to set up an emergency atheist hotline. Then, if a driver starts praying, a freethinking passenger could call the hotline and have a loud, one-sided chat about evolution.

Sundae Girl;444852 wrote:

Or perhaps a little education to prove the benefits of not having too many children and that having live spermatazoa in your ballbags has very little to do with being a man.

Gravdigr;635065 wrote:

He should remind them to keep their hands off the alter boys.

Pete Zicato;634978 wrote:

Maybe especially being Catholic, this AP headline seems more than a bit ironic:

[SIZE=5]Pope tells Irish bishops to be honest over scandal[/SIZE]

You think the Pope should remind them not to steal as well?

BBC News wrote:

A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said.
The pair fed their own premature baby just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at an internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported.

skysidhe;637914 wrote:

Sunken Town Re-Emerges After 25 Years


(Feb. 26) -- Intentionally flooded in 1985 to make way for a reservoir, the former Venezuelan town of Potosi has suddenly made a haunting reappearance thanks to a historic drought brought on by the El Nino weather pattern.

Donna Simpson already weighs 43st, but she is determined to nearly double her size to become the world's fattest woman.

The 42-year-old from New Jersey, U.S, is set on reaching the 1,000lb mark (71st) in just two years. Remarkably she insists she is healthy, despite now needing a mobility scooter when she goes shopping.

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Ms Simpson already holds the Guinness World Record as the world's fattest mother, when she gave birth in 2007 weighing 38stone.

She needed a team of 30 medics to deliver her daughter Jacqueline during a high-risk Caesarean birth.

Yet although she can only move 20ft before needing to sit down, she wants to be even bigger.

'I'd love to be 1,000lb,' she said.

'It might be hard though. Running after my daughter keeps my weight down.'

You might expect her long-term partner Philippe, 49, to advise her to slim down, but instead he encourages her to eat more.

He met Donna on a dating site for plus-size people and is a self-confessed fat admirer, although he himself only weighs 150lbs.

'I think he'd like it if I was bigger,' said Donna.

'He's a real belly man, and completely supports me.'

To fund the massive $750 weekly food shop, she runs a website where men pay her to watch her eat fast food.

A band instructor and girls’ golf coach faces a felony charge after he was arrested for sexual exploitation by a school employee late this morning.

ZenGum;640998 wrote:

...he's a real belly man...