News of the Weird

[Hosakawa Tito]

Hehehe, PETA's gonna hate this.:laugh4:

[Gregoshi]

Thankfully, a well-timed rainstorm flushed most of the beer into the sewers.
Suddenly it turns into an American beer. :laugh4:

[Hosakawa Tito]

Naked Girls Reading at the Canadian Ballet (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/theatre/naked-girls-reading-burlesque-turns-a-page/article1646322/). They chose their own texts, and it turns out they actually know how to read. Better mark this one on our social calendar for next year. Literature & Ballet is good for you.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/michelle_l_amour_775583gm-a.jpg

[CountArach]

55% alcohol, and it comes packaged in its own dead squirrel or stoat (http://www.brewdog.com/blog-article.php?id=341) (I want this beer SO BAD)
The perfect way to package my stout.

[Gregoshi]

The perfect way to package my stout.
:inquisitive: Not with your nuts nearby...

[Lemur]

Finally, a cave tour in Klingon (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66Q5EF20100727)

Currently a self-guided audio tour at the caves in the Blue Mountains is offered in eight languages, but staff came up with the idea of adding the fictional language Klingon as the caves did once feature in the popular TV series. [...]

The Jenolan cave system, located about 175 km (109 miles) west of Sydney, is enormous with over 40 km (25 miles) of passages and incorporating caves, underground rivers and natural archways.

The Klingon tour has been set up for the Nettle Cave, which attracts up to 200,000 visitors a year, and will start on August 22.

Jenolan Caves guide Gordon Mills said Klingon language experts Michael Roney Jr and Tracy Canfield earlier this month flew in from the United States to record the audio tour.

"We wanted to do something a bit obscure and we will now be the first tourist attraction on this planet at least to have a Klingon tour," Mills, a self-described Star Trek enthusiast, told Reuters.

"There is a fantasy side to caves and a timeless nature, rather like Star Trek, so we thought this was fitting."

[Crazed Rabbit]

Bosnian man claims he's being targeted by aliens. (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/835482-man-hit-by-six-meteorites-is-being-targeted-by-aliens)

The thing is he may have a point; his house has been hit by meteorites six times since 2007, the odds of which are astronomically low.


Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the falling rocks he has handed over were meteorites. They are now trying to work out what exactly it is about his house that particularly attracts them. The strikes always happen when it is raining heavily, he says, never when there are clear skies.

Lajic has his own explanation, of course. After the fifth rock struck his house, he said: 'I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit six times has to be deliberate.'

50-year-old Lajic has had a steel girder reinforced roof put on the house to protect it from the alien bombardment - which he funded by selling one of the meteorites to a university in the Netherlands.

'I have no doubt I am being targeted by aliens,' he adds. 'They are playing games with me. I don't know why they are doing this. When it rains I can't sleep for worrying about another strike.'

CR

[Hosakawa Tito]

Watch closely and you'll discover the very beginning of the Octosquid invasion, 1967. We suffered a compression chamber malfunction, and now it's too late.:shame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgFKAr7wfdg&feature=player_embedded

[Vladimir]

Watch closely and you'll discover the very beginning of the Octosquid invasion, 1967. We suffered a compression chamber malfunction, and now it's too late.:shame:

FOOLS! How could they ever have hoped to contain such a thing?

[drone]

I lost a sanity point watching that video.

[Gregoshi]

FOOLS! How could they ever have hoped to contain such a thing?
We were riding high from the Moon missions - the scientific world was ours to command.

[Lemur]

I, for one, welcome our Chinese fox army overlords (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66R43O20100728)

Authorities in China's far west have bred and trained "an army" of silver foxes bought from a fur farm to fight a plague of rats threatening a huge expanse of grasslands, state media said on Wednesday.

The Xinjiang government bought 20 foxes in 2004 and they have since increased to 284 and been released into the wild, the official Xinhua news agency said.

"Foxes are excellent natural predators of the rodent. One fox can catch about 20 rats per day. There has been a decline in the rat population in several counties where the measure has been adopted," it quoted official Ni Yifei as saying.

[InsaneApache]

Not sure if it's weird but it sure is funny.

Has anyone seen my pussy (http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html)?

[InsaneApache]

I might have caught a glimpse (http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/07/26/nhs_trust/)!

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust has incurred the wrath of the Sun by spunking £7,500 on a "special room" kitted out to help chaps deliver vital supplies of man oysters. The trust's fertility centre shared the cost of "computer equipment worth £4,625, flat screen TVs costing £2,225 - plus £500 of blue movies"

:book:

[Crazed Rabbit]

Not sure if it's weird but it sure is funny.

Has anyone seen my pussy (http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html)?

Oh man, that's great!

CR

[Lemur]

Oh man, that's great!
It's also professional comedy writing. As in, didn't happen, not real, made-up for your amusement.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I was amused because it's funny, not because it's real. If it was real, the reality of a man who annoys everyone around him constantly would be sad.

Though, that does mean it's not really news.

In offering to the dieties of the NoTW thread for my sins, here's some NoTW via the Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703977004575393353665119526.html):

Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate
This correction, published yesterday in the Daily Star of Manchester, England, is so good it's worth quoting in full:


On 21 July we published an article claiming that the video games company Rockstar Games were planning to release a version of their popular Grand Theft Auto video games series titled "Grand Theft Auto Rothbury."

We also published what we claimed would be the cover of this game, solicited comments from a family member impacted by the recent tragedy and criticised Rockstar Games for their alleged plans.

We made no attempt to check the accuracy of the story before publication and did not contact Rockstar Games prior to publishing the story. We also did not question why a best selling and critically acclaimed fictional games series would choose to base one of their most popular games on this horrifying real crime event.

It is now accepted that there were never any plans by Rockstar Games to publish such a game and that the story was false. We apologise for publishing the story using a mock-up of the game cover, our own comments on the matter and soliciting critical comments from a grieving family member.

We unreservedly apologise to Rockstar Games and we have undertaken not to repeat the claims again. We have also agreed to pay them a substantial amount in damages which they are donating to charity.

CR

[Lemur]

The two weirdest candidates in the current round of U.S.A. elections:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hvaeHllwtw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYtnrvn9xd4

I'm more than half convinced that they are both secret representatives of 4chan.

[naut]

I'm more than half convinced that they are both secret representatives of 4chan.
Test their photo-shopping skills, then you'll know.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Has anyone seen my pussy (http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html)?I laughed. :beam:

Professional comedy or not, that was hilarious.

[woad&fangs]

Basil Marceaux is not only running for governor, but also senator of Tennessee. To top it off, his son, Basil Marceaux Jr. (http://politics.freesitenow.com/basilmarceauxjr/) is running for a spot in the Tennessee state house of representatives. Are these the descendants of the illustrious Emperor norton? Long live the Marceaux Dynasty!

[Fragony]

Facebook knows it's true http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/facebook-prank-lost-in-translation/

[Lemur]

Maryland declares September 21st "Civilization V" day (http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/733/article/september-21st-is-now-officially-sid-meier-s-civilization-v-day-in-maryland/)

The state of Maryland has officially recognized September 21 as Civilization V day. This means September 21, 2010 will be officially known as "Sid Meier's Civilization V Day" in Maryland.

Governor Martin O'Malley cited the achievements of studio founder Sid Meier, "a longtime and celebrated Marylander who has spent his full professional life in this State."

[Hosakawa Tito]

Wear a Pink Sari and Carry a Big Stick (http://www.slate.com/id/2260797/). Reforming domestic abusers one broken knee cap at a time.

[Vladimir]

Maryland declares September 21st "Civilization V" day (http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/733/article/september-21st-is-now-officially-sid-meier-s-civilization-v-day-in-maryland/)

The state of Maryland has officially recognized September 21 as Civilization V day. This means September 21, 2010 will be officially known as "Sid Meier's Civilization V Day" in Maryland.

Governor Martin O'Malley cited the achievements of studio founder Sid Meier, "a longtime and celebrated Marylander who has spent his full professional life in this State."

I don't get it. Is he announcing a new tax?

[Hosakawa Tito]

Penis can take only so much electricity, surgeons warn (http://www.news.com.au/technology/penis-can-only-take-so-much-electricity-surgeons-warn/story-e6frfro0-1225898973712). Anyone who has ever accidently peed on an electric fence coulda told dem college boys that.:sweatdrop: Yeah, I'm that guy.

[Fragony]

I know it doesn't really belong here and this photo is absolutely hilarious only for Dutch members

http://www.geenstijl.nl:80/mt/archieven/2010/08/lubbers_live.html#comments

[Gregoshi]

I know it doesn't really belong here and this photo is absolutely hilarious only for Dutch members
Is it the pink tie?

[Gregoshi]

Penis can take only so much electricity, surgeons warn (http://www.news.com.au/technology/penis-can-only-take-so-much-electricity-surgeons-warn/story-e6frfro0-1225898973712).
It's not good for the family joules either. Gotta love current events.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Mother sues for support from son she abandoned (http://www.montrealgazette.com/Mother+sues+support+from+abandoned/3319007/story.html). Life imitating a Rodney Dangerfield joke.

[Beskar]

Mother sues for support from son she abandoned (http://www.montrealgazette.com/Mother+sues+support+from+abandoned/3319007/story.html). Life imitating a Rodney Dangerfield joke.

That story is depressing. Feel sorry for the poor kids.

[InsaneApache]

It's not good for the family joules either. Gotta love current events.

Watt? I take ampage at these puns! :book:

[Banquo's Ghost]

For years, we consoled ourselves that were safe from Daleks as long as we had stairs. How wrong we were.

Now the Octosquids are testing solutions for the obvious shortcoming in their bid for world domination - refuges deep inland.

Burrowing bioweapon corpse-feast dog-squirrel horror (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/04/carnivorous_mice_aiee/). (I couldn't better El Reg's strapline :beam:)

[Lemur]

Meet the Bodybuilding Neo-Nazi Porn Star Who Embalms Dead People (http://gawker.com/5602520/meet-the-bodybuilding-neo+nazi-porn-star-who-embalms-dead-people-for-a-living)

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/500x_0803_cb_front_01.jpg

The internet is full of strange people. Corinna Burt may be the strangest. The prominent white supremacist is an undertaker, bodybuilder, and former torture porn star. By phone, she discussed her unusual life and how racism "saved her" from porn.

Corinna Luray Burt is "the most prominent National Socialist Movement organizer in the Pacific Northwest," according to a watchdog group that monitors the activities of the neo-Nazi organization. [...]

Corinna says white pride inspired her to quit porn. "If we consider ourselves a master race then we have to act like a master race, not degenerates," she says. "I credit my involvement with the NSM and my awakening racial consciousness as what got me out of the porn industry for good. I have no desire to return, though I admit 'Nazi Girls Gone Wild' has a nice ring to it."

[Banquo's Ghost]

Lemur, I think you just won the Internets. :laugh4:

[Hosakawa Tito]

Nice scoop Lem. Can't wait for the movie of her life story to come out.

Eel crawls up fishmonger's bottom (http://www.digitalspy.com/odd/news/a255839/eel-crawls-up-fishmongers-bottom.html). That is one heck of a worker's compensation claim.

[Cute Wolf]

Meet the Bodybuilding Neo-Nazi Porn Star Who Embalms Dead People (http://gawker.com/5602520/meet-the-bodybuilding-neo+nazi-porn-star-who-embalms-dead-people-for-a-living)

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/500x_0803_cb_front_01.jpg

The internet is full of strange people. Corinna Burt may be the strangest. The prominent white supremacist is an undertaker, bodybuilder, and former torture porn star. By phone, she discussed her unusual life and how racism "saved her" from porn.

Corinna Luray Burt is "the most prominent National Socialist Movement organizer in the Pacific Northwest," according to a watchdog group that monitors the activities of the neo-Nazi organization. [...]

Corinna says white pride inspired her to quit porn. "If we consider ourselves a master race then we have to act like a master race, not degenerates," she says. "I credit my involvement with the NSM and my awakening racial consciousness as what got me out of the porn industry for good. I have no desire to return, though I admit 'Nazi Girls Gone Wild' has a nice ring to it."

wait... racism saves her from porn?

[Gregoshi]

Meet the Bodybuilding Neo-Nazi Porn Star Who Embalms Dead People (http://gawker.com/5602520/meet-the-bodybuilding-neo+nazi-porn-star-who-embalms-dead-people-for-a-living)

Eva Brawn stars in Pumping Irony. You'll dig her rack.

[Vladimir]

Meet the Bodybuilding Neo-Nazi Porn Star Who Embalms Dead People (http://gawker.com/5602520/meet-the-bodybuilding-neo+nazi-porn-star-who-embalms-dead-people-for-a-living)

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/500x_0803_cb_front_01.jpg

The internet is full of strange people. Corinna Burt may be the strangest. The prominent white supremacist is an undertaker, bodybuilder, and former torture porn star. By phone, she discussed her unusual life and how racism "saved her" from porn.

Corinna Luray Burt is "the most prominent National Socialist Movement organizer in the Pacific Northwest," according to a watchdog group that monitors the activities of the neo-Nazi organization. [...]

Corinna says white pride inspired her to quit porn. "If we consider ourselves a master race then we have to act like a master race, not degenerates," she says. "I credit my involvement with the NSM and my awakening racial consciousness as what got me out of the porn industry for good. I have no desire to return, though I admit 'Nazi Girls Gone Wild' has a nice ring to it."


Nice scoop Lem. Can't wait for the movie of her life story to come out.

Eel crawls up fishmonger's bottom (http://www.digitalspy.com/odd/news/a255839/eel-crawls-up-fishmongers-bottom.html). That is one heck of a worker's compensation claim.

Was it an electric eel?

:idea2:

[Marshal Murat]

Become a Tarvu (http://www.tarvu.com/)

https://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee125/Tokugawa141/TarvuPg1.jpg

https://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee125/Tokugawa141/TarvuPg2.jpg

I smell an Octo-squid attempt at world religion.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Weird but not exactly news. Quick Google search reveals the thing is at least about 2 years old now: http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=8078 (look at post date, also a warning: it looks like that board is a hangout for people who quit Scientology).

[Lemur]

Lemur, I think you just won the Internets. :laugh4:
It's not often I find an article as good as that one. Gotta savor the moment. Meanwhile, to justify this response:

Dog chews off Michigan man's toe, saves his life (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6735S820100804)

Jerry Douthett, 48, woke up on a Saturday night in late July in his Rockford, Michigan home to find his Jack Russell Terrier, Kiko, had gnawed off his right big toe.

"The dog always lays with me on the bed," said Douthett. "That night, I woke up and looked down at my foot, and it was wet. When I looked it was blood, and there was the dog looking at me with a blood mustache."

Douthett's wife, Rosee, rushed him to a hospital where doctors found he was suffering from Type 2 diabetes. His toe was badly infected and surgeons amputated the remainder of the digit.

Douthett's wife, a registered nurse, had been urging him for weeks to have his infected toe examined by a doctor.

[Lemur]

Police unsure which twin is the evil one (http://www.popjolly.com/police-not-sure-which-twin-to-charge-after-ny-shooting-1315) (bonus video: "I Wish I Had an Evil Twin" by the Magnetic Fields)

Niagara Falls police have a homicide and an eyewitness. But they also have a problem: The suspect has an identical twin brother. Police believe one is a suspect, but which one?

A judge ordered twins Edward and Raymond Nickens, 31 to be photographed with and without their shirts in an attempt to identify if one of them was the shooter. Niagara County prosecutors said the photo session was also important as the twin brothers could change their appearances to look even more alike. [...]

Complicating the issue, the assistant D.A. told the judge that both brothers tested positive for gunpowder residue on their hands and clothing.

Police have not released photographs of the pair yet because they have not being able to determine which one to charge.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0z8wwTAwXs

[Peasant Phill]

Who is Linus?

[Lemur]

Who is Linus?
He's some dog of no import. WHat's crucial is the background music.

[drone]

Police unsure which twin is the evil one (http://www.popjolly.com/police-not-sure-which-twin-to-charge-after-ny-shooting-1315)
The answer is easy. Which one has the goatee?

Didn't Tom Clancy use the criminal twins conundrum in one of his books?

[naut]

Eel crawls up fishmonger's bottom (http://www.digitalspy.com/odd/news/a255839/eel-crawls-up-fishmongers-bottom.html). That is one heck of a worker's compensation claim.
That's awfully similar to another case in China where a cook died when his friends played a practical joke on him when he passed out drunk, by putting a live eel up his rear. He died.

[Hosakawa Tito]

District of Calamity Awards Ceremony for Rehabbed Youth Ends in Brawl (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Awards-ceremony-for-rehabbed-youth-ends-in-brawl-1005864-99720924.html). What we have here is failure to communicate...some people you just cain't reach...:laugh4:

[Hosakawa Tito]

Research Breakthrough: Monkeys Hate Flying Squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts (http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0730/Monkeys-hate-flying-squirrels-report-monkey-annoyance-experts).

Monkey-annoyance experts?:inquisitive: :book::laugh4:

[Ronin]

Air Steward has enough of passenger, cusses him out, grabs beer, and leaves airplane via emergency slide.

An example of workers everywhere. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/10/air_steward/)

[drone]

Air Steward has enough of passenger, cusses him out, grabs beer, and leaves airplane via emergency slide.

An example of workers everywhere. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/10/air_steward/)

Steven Slater, new American hero!

[Lemur]

Monkey-annoyance experts?:inquisitive: :book::laugh4:
What kid doesn't want to grow up to be a monkey-annoyance expert?

[Vladimir]

Research Breakthrough: Monkeys Hate Flying Squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts (http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0730/Monkeys-hate-flying-squirrels-report-monkey-annoyance-experts).

Monkey-annoyance experts?:inquisitive: :book::laugh4:

I live in Virginia. This seems racially insensitive to me.

Racist scientists?

[Lemur]

Vladimir, put down the hookah and walk away slowly.

Man, Hosa, any article which contains the words "a new study in monkey-antagonism" needs to be in the NotW hall of fame.

[Vladimir]

Vladimir, put down the hookah and walk away slowly.

Man, Hosa, any article which contains the words "a new study in monkey-antagonism" needs to be in the NotW hall of fame.

It helps alleviate my glaucoma so I can see racial injustice.

Struggle! :afro:

[Hosakawa Tito]

What kid doesn't want to grow up to be a monkey-annoyance expert?

I know what I wanna be when I grow up!


Air Steward has enough of passenger, cusses him out, grabs beer, and leaves airplane via emergency slide.

An example of workers everywhere. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/10/air_steward/)

The ultimate "Take this job and shove it!" statement. Might I suggest a career in monkey-annoyance?


Vladimir, put down the hookah and walk away slowly.

Man, Hosa, any article which contains the words "a new study in monkey-antagonism" needs to be in the NotW hall of fame.

Git er done, Vlad.

Between the article on everybody's dream girl Undertaker saved from the porn industry by Nazism and my new career goal to become the best damn monkey-annoyance expert in the field...I believe I'll have to replace my monitor & keyboard from all the beer that has shot out my nose from reading this stuff. Where do they find these freaks...:laugh4: Monty Python Lives!!!

[Gregoshi]

...I believe I'll have to replace my monitor & keyboard from all the beer that has shot out my nose from reading this stuff. Where do they find these freaks
The Biermeister! Hosa nose his beer! ~:cheers:

[Lemur]

When things slow down, you can always count on Washington State:

Sure, I had sex with her dead body, but it's not like I killed her (http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/08/bernard_howell_accused_of_murd.php)

​When a Thurston County deputy got flagged down on Sunday night, the man who pulled him over said he'd just experienced something strange: another man had stopped him on a popular trail and asked if he'd help him move a dead body. As the cop and the man were talking specifics, the man drove past in a pick-up truck.

When police pulled over the Nissan two-door, they found 26-year-old Bernard Howell behind the wheel. He didn't resist arrest. Nor try to stop the officers from unzipping the sleeping bag lying next to him in the passenger's seat. And when he was asked why he had the dead body of a 50-year-old woman with him in the car, he was similarly nonplussed.

​Howell told deputies that he had simply found the body and was taking it to "save the family the funeral expenses." A wacky explanation that didn't pass the smell test. Especially after cops, seeing what they're describing only as "intentionally-inflicted wounds," determined that the woman had been murdered.

Howell was booked for second-degree murder and one count of theft, because deputies believe he also took the victim's car. But Howell wasn't done talking.

In court yesterday, Howell claimed that he found the woman after she was dead, had sex with her corpse and then went back to his house to get supplies, including zip ties, the sleeping bag and a 10-pound weight. His plan was to dump her body in a nearby swamp.

[Husar]

Air Steward has enough of passenger, cusses him out, grabs beer, and leaves airplane via emergency slide.

An example of workers everywhere. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/10/air_steward/)

If they charge the steward with "reckless endangerment and criminal mischief", shouldn't they also charge the passenger with assault?

[Crazed Rabbit]

In more Washington State news;
Rapist Attacks Roommate with Machete Over Dirty Dishes. (http://www.seattlepi.com/local/424791_sink09.html)


A Federal Way man is facing felony assault charges on allegations that he hacked his roommate with a machete after finding the sink soiled.

In charging documents, King County prosecutors claim Delester Ray Walton, 58, attacked his roommate with the machete.

At 7:40 a.m. July 30, Federal Way police were called to the home following a report of a domestic assault involving a knife.

Arriving at the scene, police found blood throughout the home as well as a man with a deep cut to his arm, a Federal Way detective said in court documents. The man was rushed to Harborview Medical Center for treatment.

"I observed the machete next to a couch," the detective told the court. "I also observed notes in the kitchen and bathroom. The notes were reminders to clean up after yourself."

The detective contended Walton, his sweatpants covered in blood, admitted to slicing the man's arm with the machete following an argument about the filthy state of the sink.

CR

[Vladimir]

Who cleaned up the blood?

[Hosakawa Tito]

McNuggets Rampage. No sound but be forewarned there is a written f-bomb or two. You gotta admire the staffs dedication to getting the next customer's order ready.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22YPIRYBJGY&feature=player_embedded

This occured in the morning on New Years Day, and they don't serve McNuggets for breakfast. Yeah, and alcohol was involved...:laugh4:

[naut]

Peas don't be Lung Cancer. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10945050)

[aimlesswanderer]

McNuggets Rampage. No sound but be forewarned there is a written f-bomb or two. You gotta admire the staffs dedication to getting the next customer's order ready.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22YPIRYBJGY&feature=player_embedded

This occured in the morning on New Years Day, and they don't serve McNuggets for breakfast. Yeah, and alcohol was involved...:laugh4:

I swear that looks like a zombie is trying to eat the drive thru staff!!

[Vladimir]

Corpse of renowned French chef found in freezer (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38663456/ns/today-foodwine?gt1=43001)

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I guess I'll do both.

[gaelic cowboy]

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/fish-freezer-man-may-have-been-killed-four-years-ago-704788.html

This guy was 4 to 5 years in a freezer unit the owner did not have a clue.

They eventually charged someone for it

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0216/griffene.html

[Fragony]

Nice goal, curving it there is hard, perfect technique and tacnically sound. Maybe we shouldn't be so harsh on women's football, there is a lot of potential just waiting to be grabbed

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1070991/9749315b/goaalllll.html

(mildly nsfw)

[Crazed Rabbit]

Lots of weird stuff today:
Police in Italy catch a criminal drug payment enforcer on cocaine ... who happens to be an albino snake. (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/12/2980561.htm)

In Massachusetts a man ate some peas and one went down the wrong pipe. Naturally, it began growing in his lung. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10945050)

In India, the inspector general of the police in the capital of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, a man known for being tough on crime, showed up dressed in women's clothes and declared he was a woman. (http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Top_cop_in_frock_shock) This was after he secretly went to court to adopt his wife in order to continue supporting her.

EDIT: And what Fragony means by "mildly nsfw" is Definitely NSFW.

CR

[Hosakawa Tito]

Pop-Tarts makes the big time (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/08/10/Pop-Tarts-cafe-opens-in-New-York/UPI-64981281481435/). Sushi pop-tarts in Times Square...further proof the apocalypse is upon us.:help:

[naut]

In Massachusetts a man ate some peas and one went down the wrong pipe. Naturally, it began growing in his lung. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10945050)
Some Lemur's disease on show today. See above: "Peas don't be Lung Cancer'. :balloon2:

[Lemur]

Support for gay marriage firm and rising

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/gaymarriagegraph.jpg

As you can see from this chart, Americans' support for gay marriage, which had one been limply hanging in the 10% range, has firmly thrust upward into the 50% area, thus splitting the electorate into two quivering, moist halves. Some sort of bump or ridge in 2005 creates an outlying statistical pressure, but the firm movement of public opinion obviously pushed past that knob of discontent.

Some used to speculate that support for gay marriage was a lot like a turtleneck sweater, with a leading edge of opinion that would come and go as various supporters stood erect to be counted or shrank back in the face of controversy. As this graph demonstrates, the evolution of public opinion has been much more like a German helmet, with a strong push forward that was only (briefly) interrupted by the "ridge" of 2005.

[Vladimir]

Looks like that graph needs to see a doctor.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Miami; City of Adventure.
(http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/12/1773678/unlikely-group-helps-photographer.html#storylink=fbuser)

MIAMI -- Heard the one about the judge, the taco vendor, the pistol-packing Iraq war vet and the thief on roller blades?

It apparently happened Wednesday when Al Diaz of The Miami Herald was preparing to photograph the Taqueria Mexicana Orale taco truck at Northwest 27th Avenue and 17th Street for a feature story. He briefly placed his camera on a chair to set up some lighting equipment.

Seizing the moment, a man on wheels snatched the camera and whooshed down 16th. Someone munching a taco yelled, "That guy just grabbed your camera!"

Taco stand owner Moises Gonzales, incensed at the interruption, tore out on foot after the roller-blader. A food inspector joined him.

That's when Deborah White-Labora happened along. A judge in Miami-Dade's drug court, White-Labora was driving a white Scion minivan with her two children, 17-year-old Christopher and 20-year-old Amanda, having just visited the bank to pick up some travelers checks en route to Miami International for a flight to Peru.

Gonzales flagged down the van, barked out "follow that man!" or words to that effect, and the pursuit continued.

The minivan overtook a roller-blader at 3071 NW 18th Terrace. Christopher bounded out of the car and "pounced like a cobra" on the skater, said Amanda. Gonzales, the taco maker, joined the fray.

Ian Vaquero, in whose front yard the chase ended, didn't know what to make of the wrestling match. So the Iraq war vet sorted things out the Miami way, drawing his 9mm Smith & Wesson and telling everyone to freeze.

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[Gregoshi]

Well played with the puns Lemur (about 14?!!!!...a record?) :laugh4:, but isn't that just a tad graphic by Org standards?


Looks like that graph needs to see a doctor.
Agreed, but it also looks like that graph did see Alice. :inquisitive:

[Hosakawa Tito]

Breaking News: Officials seek court order to kill Lemurs! (http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/08/13/officials-seek-court-order-to-kill-lemurs/)

Run Lem, RUN!~:eek: We'll hold'em off long as we can.:chucks:

Are they mad? There must be a better way than kill'em all, let God sort it out.

[drone]

The octosquids are opening the cyberwarfare front, activating their deep cover agents.

Hacker arrested for octopus virus (http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201008040281.html)

A hardened computer hacker has been arrested on suspicion of writing a computer virus that systematically destroys all the files on victims' PCs and replaces them with homemade manga images of squid, octopuses and sea urchins. Between 20,000 and 50,000 computers may have been infected.

Masato Nakatsuji, 27, of Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, was quoted as telling police: "I wanted to see how much my computer programming skills had improved since the last time I was arrested."

[aimlesswanderer]

Lucky he chose octopi, it could have been much much worse.

[Lemur]

Breaking News: Officials seek court order to kill Lemurs! (http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/08/13/officials-seek-court-order-to-kill-lemurs/)
Upsetting story has sad ending: "Update, 5:30 p.m. Friday: A Washington County judge has ordered euthanasia and rabies testing for the lemurs. Results are expected over the weekend. Reached Friday, Jeff Ash, the owner of the petting zoo, said 'it’s pretty sad for the little lemurs, cute little things.' "

Meanwhile ...

3D Imax PORN! (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67F0T620100816)(File under "About damn time.)

No ordinary porn flick, "3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy" is being touted as the world's first IMAX-3-D erotic film.

First out of the gates, the soft porn Hong Kong film comes as the stricken industry, hit hard by free Internet porn in recent years, turns to 3-D as a potential money-spinner, following on from the success of Hollywood blockbusters such as James Cameron's Avatar.

"Somehow when you're doing a 3-D movie you always want to make an impressive image because the viewers ... are going to buy tickets with double or even triple the ticket price to get into a world they've never seen before," said the U.K.-educated Sun

"It's not just erotica, they want some 'wow factor!.'" [...]

Taking almost twice the time to shoot than conventional films and with a higher budget, more advanced equipment and elaborate lighting, the takeup of 3-D productions has been relatively slow in the porno industry despite early excitement at its promise.

"We have to change the lenses for a long time, the setting, lighting, we need more time than a normal movie," said Japanese porn star Saori Hara after completing a scene.

Despite this, other major 3-D sex flicks are now reportedly in the works.

[Gregoshi]

3D Imax PORN! (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67F0T620100816)(File under "About damn time.)

No ordinary porn flick, "3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy" is being touted as the world's first IMAX-3-D erotic film.
Finally, a real reason to duck at a 3D movie. :embarassed:

[Beskar]

Finally, a real reason to duck at a 3D movie. :embarassed:

I am going to sue you for the mental images prompted from this statement which resulted in mental disturbance. :smash:

[Hosakawa Tito]

Unathletic Orangutans (http://af.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idAFTRE67B2QO20100812). But it's not like they're dumb. Orangutans mime (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10926301).

[Gregoshi]

Unathletic Orangutans (http://af.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idAFTRE67B2QO20100812). But it's not like they're dumb. Orangutans mime (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10926301).
Silly prmimemate.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Artisanal Pencil Sharpening (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/08/david-rees-artisanal-pencil-sharpening.html).

"I'm going to have this nice, authentic, considered reaction with your pencil," Rees said. "I just want to treat it with respect. And get it really freaking sharp."

Now that's the entrepreneurial spirit.:laugh4:

[Beskar]

Salty water leads to conviction of assault (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/7946862/man-contaminates-water-in-lewd-act)

[Crazed Rabbit]

Attractive Women; apparently a rarity in Washington state. (http://www.heraldnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100818/NEWS01/708189659/0/ENT&template=printart)


EVERETT -- Nice-looking women in short shorts quickly complicated an otherwise ordinary four-car pileup this afternoon.

About 4:15 p.m., four drivers crashed into each other on northbound I-5 near 41st Street in Everett.

State troopers cleared the highway. The drivers and passengers were waiting by the side of the road, including several young women in summertime garb, Keith Leary with the State Patrol said.

More drivers crashed, apparently while checking out the women.

Leary personally saw two more accidents happen within a minute involving distracted drivers. Speed also was a factor, he said.

Only minor injuries were reported, and no one was taken to the hospital. Traffic was back to normal within minutes, though police were waiting for a tow truck around 5:30 p.m.

Leary reminds drivers to follow posted speed limits -- and to keep their eyes on the road.


:sad:

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[Fragony]

Go bull, too bad nobody died. Just let that beautiful creature be why such mindless cruelty. http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1080281/820c3512/stierengevecht_met_publiek.html

edit wrond thread. But the Spanish are sick :daisy: when it comes to animals, after a hunt they hang the dogs, good fun I guess. Why would you do such a thing to a dog they love you.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Manpacks is your savior (http://www.manpacks.com/). Never wash your underwear again! Just wear it till it rots and get new ones in the mail!

[Crazed Rabbit]

An Oregon man is literally paralyzed by love. Yes, I used the word literally correctly; (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7954593/The-neuroscientist-paralysed-by-love.html)


Matt Frerking, 39, from Portland, Oregon, is left immobile if he even has a romantic thought or sees others showing displays of affection.

The affliction has been diagnosed as a combination of the chronic sleeping disorder narcolepsy with cataplexy, a sudden weakening of the muscles which renders the person temporarily immobile but still aware of their surroundings and able to hear.

For Mr Frerking the feeling that sparks an attack is love and being around his family can send him into a state of physical paralysis.

He is unable to put his arm around Trish, his wife of 13 years, and suffers attacks on anniversaries. He can suffer attacks several times a day

“Holding hands in public is something that we can do for a few seconds at most, and that’s about it,” Mr Frerking said.

“Putting my arm around her is something that I don’t do unless we’re sitting down and I know that it won’t matter that much if I just flop over. I have to limit those things very carefully.” During an interview with ABC News, he described having to avoid “warm and fuzzy” feelings before passing out after looking at photos in his wedding album.

Attacks are also triggered by trailers for romantic films and Mr Frerking said he tries to stave them off by thinking about scientific research.

Carol Ash, a sleep specialist at the Sleep for Life Center in New Jersey, said: “In someone like Matt strong emotions are flipping a switch.”


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[Gregoshi]

An Oregon man is literally paralyzed by love. Yes, I used the word literally correctly; (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7954593/The-neuroscientist-paralysed-by-love.html)
So essentially, turn-ons are turn-offs.

[Fragony]

Dang RIP Anne Frank tree, just got timber'ed by the storm

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/Fragony/boomiesdeaud.jpg

Very very :(

[Hosakawa Tito]

Prince for a day (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1300939/British-student-stands-Prince-Philip-ceremony-island-duke-living-God.html). Must have been a bit awkward without the kilt.:laugh4:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/princeforaday.jpg

[Beskar]

Prince for a day (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1300939/British-student-stands-Prince-Philip-ceremony-island-duke-living-God.html). Must have been a bit awkward without the kilt.:laugh4:

I am sure this is a Lemur moment, as I already seen this before on here.

[Ronin]

Referee kills player in football game. (http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/index.php/2010/08/24/brazilian-referee-stabs-player-to-death-after-free-kick-row#)

Man...talk about harsh!
what about a red card referee? let's take this one step at a time!

[Vladimir]

I'll toss a cat before I toss a salad: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38847582/ns/world_news-europe/?GT1=43001

On second thought, while I'm down there...

[Hosakawa Tito]

I'll toss a cat before I toss a salad: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38847582/ns/world_news-europe/?GT1=43001

On second thought, while I'm down there...

Or you can just lightly season & stir fry (http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article97630.ece)...

[naut]

This little cow eats grass,
This little cow eats hay.
This little cow drinks water,
This little cow runs away,
This little cow does nothing,
But just lies down all day. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/7965615/Cows-given-waterbeds-to-improve-milk.html)

[Hosakawa Tito]

Idiot of the Day (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7964542/Motorcyclist-wearing-barbecue-on-motorway-fined-for-careless-driving.html).

Paul McClure, his defence lawyer, said Mr Wiles's excuse was "lack of thought processes" at the time and poverty.

Now he's $800 poorer, pretty expensive lesson.:laugh4:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/motogrill.jpg

[Lemur]

Dog who ate beehive wins unusual pet insurance award (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67N3XD20100824)

A Labrador that ate a beehive containing pesticides and thousands of dead bees won an award on Monday that recognized the most unusual pet health insurance claim in the United States.

Ellie, who fully recovered from her encounter with the beehive in southern California, beat a border collie that ran through a window to get at a mailman, and a terrier that bit a chainsaw.

[Vladimir]

Who (http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/08/_by_june_q_wu.html)can save us from the Octisquids. (no, that wasn't a question)

[Hosakawa Tito]

Tree predicts lottery win (http://www.nerve.com/scanner/2010/08/24/thailands-vagina-tree-correctly-predicts-lottery-numbers). Better have protection before shaking that money tree.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/vaginatree.jpg

[Gregoshi]

Tree predicts lottery win (http://www.nerve.com/scanner/2010/08/24/thailands-vagina-tree-correctly-predicts-lottery-numbers). Better have protection before shaking that money tree.
That is a knotty tree. Very knotty. It should be spanked.

[Beskar]

Trust Thailand to do that to their own trees.

[Gregoshi]

Trust Thailand to do that to their own trees.
~:confused: Thai it up and spank it?

[Crazed Rabbit]

Ghost hunters in North Carolina search for a 'ghost train' on railroad tracks.... and one gets killed by a real train. (http://www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=13055036)


A man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a legendary "ghost train" in Iredell County was hit by a locomotive and killed early Friday morning.

The incident happened on a train trestle at 2:45 a.m. near the 900 block of Buffalo Shoals Road.

Robin Chapman, a spokesperson for Norfolk-Southern Railroad, said the eastbound train consisted of three locomotives and no freight cars.

The train was rounding a curve and approaching a trestle over Boston Creek just prior to Buffalo Shoals Road when it struck a man on the trestle, Chapman said.

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[Gregoshi]

Ghost hunters in North Carolina search for a 'ghost train' on railroad tracks.... and one gets killed by a real train. (http://www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=13055036)
Last words: "I detect a presence..."

[Hosakawa Tito]

Wake-n-Bacon (http://www.likecool.com/WAKE_n_BACON--Clock--Home.html). I know what I want for Christmas.

[naut]

Nigerian police hold 'magic' goat over attempted car theft. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/4325377/Nigerian-police-hold-magic-goat-over-attempted-car-theft.html)

[Lemur]

Let us all have a moment of silence for:

The 2010 Mushroom Hunter Massacre (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67T41P20100830)

At least 18 mushroom-lovers have been killed in accidents while hunting for their favorite fungi in the mountains and forests of northern Italy.

Mountain rescuers say eager mushroom seekers are abandoning safety procedures as they don camouflage and hunt in darkness to protect coveted troves, la Repubblica newspaper reported on Sunday.

"There is too much carelessness. Too many people don't give a darn about the right rules and unfortunately this is the result," Gino Comelli, head of the Alpine rescue service in northwest Italy's Valle di Fassa, told the newspaper.

Seventeen people have died in nine days -- six in 48 hours alone -- mostly from sliding off steep, damp slopes in the northern mountains, la Repubblica said in a story headlined "the massacre of the mushroom hunters."

[Hosakawa Tito]

Pissky (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/839222-a-wee-dram-whisky-made-from-urine). There might come a day when I'm that thirsty, but I doubt it.:sweatdrop: mmm love dem ammonia notes.

[Lemur]

Castration with a chisel or a power drill in my head? Can't I have both? (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2010/08/31/gang-chop-off-rival-s-manhood-with-chisels-days-after-twin-has-holes-drilled-in-his-head-86908-22525727/)

GANGLAND thugs armed with chisels chopped off a young man's penis in a gruesome attack beside a main road.

The attack on Bryan Hanlon, 26, came a week after his twin brother James had holes bored in his head with a power drill in another targeted underworld assault. Police are horrified by the brazen nature of both attacks and the savage violence used.

The Hanlon twins were both close pals of murdered gangland enforcer Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll.

[naut]

"It's understood he also suffered injuries to his back passage, inflicted by a chisel."

Ouch.

[Hosakawa Tito]

T & A Murder (http://wearecentralpa.com/wtaj-news-fulltext/?nxd_id=203465). Names will not be changed to protect the only reason this story is weird. I'm surprised the victim survived school with a name like that.

[InsaneApache]

An end to boob and butts then. :embarassed:

*coat on; taxi called*

[Gregoshi]

T & A Murder (http://wearecentralpa.com/wtaj-news-fulltext/?nxd_id=203465). Names will not be changed to protect the only reason this story is weird. I'm surprised the victim survived school with a name like that.
I'm going to be surprised if the accused survives prison with a name like that. :eyebrows:

[Lemur]

German Commies giving porn to children (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6823EY20100903)

To sweeten their first day at primary school German children are normally given a cardboard cone filled with sweets, but schoolchildren in Essen this year opened their cones to find pens which project erotic images.

Children attending the Adolf Reichwein School in the northwestern German city were handed cones containing the pens by members of the German Communist Party, according to the school's headmaster.

Angry parents who discovered that the pens given to their six-year-old children could project erotic images of women informed the headmaster.

In a press release the German Communist Party stated that it had purchased the pens from a discount store, which had said the pens lit up at the push of a button.

"The German Communist Party deeply regrets what has happened and is outraged that this kind of thing, which borders on pornography, can be purchased in normal shops," it said, adding that its lawyers were now investigating whether the vendors could be prosecuted.

The party has offered to exchange the pens for something more suitable for children.

[Husar]

Well, I like my new pen.

[Lemur]

ELO cellist killed by giant bale of hay (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6863ZK20100907)

A giant bale of hay has killed a founding member of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) band after it tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van.

Cellist Mike Edwards, 62, died after the 600 kg (1,323 lb) bale rolled down a steep field in Devon, southern England, smashed through a hedge and careered on to the road.

[InsaneApache]

Out of the blue then. :embarassed:

[Crazed Rabbit]

Vancouver BC decides to condition drivers to ignore children in the road: (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/09/07/speed-bumps-of-the-future-creepy-optical-illusion-children/)
https://img651.imageshack.us/img651/1499/3dgirl1.gif

Today, West Vancouver officials will roll out a new way to keep drivers alert and slow them down: a little girl speed bump. A trompe-l’œil, the apparently 3D girl located near the École Pauline Johnson Elementary School is actually a 2D pavement painting, similar to the one shown here.

In what sounds like a terrifying experience, the girl’s elongated form appears to rise from the ground as cars approach, reaching 3D realism at around 100 feet, and then returning to 2D distortion once cars pass that ideal viewing distance. Its designers created the image to give drivers who travel at the street’s recommended 18 miles per hour (30 km per hour) enough time to stop before hitting Pavement Patty–acknowledging the spectacle before they continue to safely roll over her.

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[Ronin]

Britney Spears Sued for Sexual Harassment (http://www.billboard.com/news/britney-spears-sued-for-sexual-harassment-1004113535.story#/news/britney-spears-sued-for-sexual-harassment-1004113535.story)


A former bodyguard for Britney Spears filed a sexual harassment lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the pop star of repeatedly parading herself around in the nude and having sex in front of him.

According to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Flores began working for Spears in February 2010. He alleges that the "Circus" singer made repeated, unwanted sexual advances, summoned him to her room to expose her naked body, and "engaged in numerous sex acts" in front of him.

TMZ reported that in one alleged incident, Spears was wearing a white lace see-through dress when she intentionally dropped an object on the floor close to Flores and bent over to pick it up.


Ok...first of all....you are going about this all wrong dawg!
what you do is...you hit that...secretly film it and release it for big bucks....the internet would explode.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/vincent_pt/id_hit_it1.jpg

second...does this mean I can sue her for that time she flashed he hoo-ahh at everyone when getting out of her car?

[Raz]

Enraged husband kills his wife over poorly cooked eggs (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1311300/Husband-enraged-wife-cooked-eggs-kills-others.html)
A row over how his eggs had been cooked for breakfast is thought to have led a man to kill his wife, stepdaughter and three neighbours
Stanley Neace went on a rampage with a shotgun while in his pyjamas in a trailer park in the rural east of the U.S. state of Kentucky.

[Vladimir]

I said it before and I'll say it again: God bless the Dutch.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/13/first-klingon-opera-lifts-off

[Gregoshi]

A row over how his eggs had been cooked for breakfast is thought to have led a man to kill his wife, stepdaughter...in a trailer park in... Kentucky.
His wife and stepdaughter were actually the same person.

[naut]

Teen banned from US after drunken email to Obama (http://www.smh.com.au/world/teen-banned-from-us-after-drunken-email-to-obama-20100914-159ph.html)


A British teen has been banned from the US for life after a drunken moment of rage.

Luke Angel, 17, admits he sent US President Barrack Obama an abusive email in which he called Mr Obama "a prick".

Luke told the Daily Mail the incident happened after he had too many drinks before sitting down to watch a TV program about the September 11 attacks in 2001.

He claims he was so incensed by what he saw that he sent the email to the White House.

The Daily Mail reported that the FBI intercepted the message and contacted British police.

Officers then paid Luke a visit, informing him that he was now banned from the US for life.

"I don't really care. My parents aren't very happy about it," Luke said.

"The police who came round took my picture and told me I was banned from America forever."

Bedfordshire Police said the teen was banned by the US because he sent "an email to the White House full of abusive and threatening language".

Luke faces no criminal charges.

[Beskar]

That is 'win'.

I wish I was banned from the US, for novelty reasons, but I hope one day to actually go there.

(While I disapprove of America sometimes, there are actually quite a number of things I actually like about America.)

[Gregoshi]

(While I disapprove of America sometimes, there are actually quite a number of things I actually like about America.)
Don't go soft on us now Beskar. ~:pat:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

(While I disapprove of America sometimes, there are actually quite a number of things I actually like about America.)

Rename thread "News of the mind-bendingly unexpected".

[gaelic cowboy]

Nom nom hmm blond cheerleader

American football fans were stunned when a cheerleader was 'eaten' by a mascot during an NFL match.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/article/22284/

[Hosakawa Tito]

Hehehe, I wonder how many got banned for sending love letters to Bush...

[Hosakawa Tito]

Man replaces ex-girlfriend with custom made sex doll (http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/man-replaces-ex-girlfriend-with-custom-made-sex-doll/story-e6frflri-1225912671577). Bonus: At $18,000 the doll is cheaper too.

[Gregoshi]

American football fans were stunned when a cheerleader was 'eaten' by a mascot during an NFL match.

That cheerleader went down easy...and the mascot has good taste.

[Lemur]

Female snails grow penises on their heads after exposure to chemicals (http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/special-features/freo-snails-grow-pensies-on-head/story-e6frg19l-1225917615063)

FEMALE marine snails living off the Perth coast are growing male sex organs on their heads after exposure to the chemical TBT, according to local researchers.

Curtin University researchers have revealed the snails are suffering from imposex, a condition that involves the development of a second sex organ after being exposed to the chemical.

[Beskar]

Female snails grow penises on their heads after exposure to chemicals (http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/special-features/freo-snails-grow-pensies-on-head/story-e6frg19l-1225917615063)

FEMALE marine snails living off the Perth coast are growing male sex organs on their heads after exposure to the chemical TBT, according to local researchers.

Curtin University researchers have revealed the snails are suffering from imposex, a condition that involves the development of a second sex organ after being exposed to the chemical.

and I just thought only the males were .... .....

[Louis VI the Fat]

Underage girls cought on camera!

https://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7664/strangepic.jpg


Hah! Bet she didn't realise we'd all have an unexpected look at her naked, hairy ....


...armpit, you perv.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Okay, so I see a couple of naked hairy heads: what's so strange about that???.

Count Von Count would enjoy this one, no doubt:

A message about love from the dolphins:
http://faeriekat.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/att1.jpg?w=640

[Lemur]

Underage girls cought on camera!
I see a full moon rising. Or at least I thought I did.

[CountArach]

81 year old woman clocks 164km/h on road (http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/states-oldest-female-hoon-clocked-at-164kmh-20100915-15bg6.html)

A woman described as Victoria's oldest female hoon has had her licence suspended for 12 months.

Judith Slade, 81, of Heathcote near Bendigo, was detected travelling 164km/h on the Murray Valley Highway near Lake Boga earlier this year.

Police gave chase, but she ignored their lights and sirens for four kilometres.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

81 year old woman clocks 164km/h on road (http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/states-oldest-female-hoon-clocked-at-164kmh-20100915-15bg6.html)

A woman described as Victoria's oldest female hoon has had her licence suspended for 12 months.

Judith Slade, 81, of Heathcote near Bendigo, was detected travelling 164km/h on the Murray Valley Highway near Lake Boga earlier this year.

That sounded impressive until I did the conversion.


Police gave chase, but she ignored was blind and deaf to their lights and sirens for four kilometres.

[naut]

'Fake' Togo team played Bahrain in friendly (http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=823331&sec=global&cc=3436)


A "fake" Togo national team played against Bahrain in an international friendly last week, prompting an investigation from the African nation's sports ministry and FIFA.

Bahrain beat who they thought was the Togo national team 3-0 in Bahrain last Tuesday, but Togo officials have claimed to have no knowledge of the match. It has emerged the players may not have been professional footballers or even Togolese nationals but mystery still surrounds their true identity.

Sheik Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, vice president of the Bahrain football federation, has insisted the match was legitimate and that the confusion has been created by a conflict between the Togo sports ministry and the interim Togo football federation. Al Khalifa did concede that the Togo team, which was not expected to feature the country's Europe-based star, was still suspiciously weak.

Seiyi Memene told AP: "We cannot send our players to play friendly matches abroad without the approval of FIFA. The players that took part in the friendly match against Bahrain were completely fake. We have not sent any team of footballers to Bahrain. The players are not known to us."

[Ronin]

Mayor's aide bites cop over Lisbon traffic dispute (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68C45V20100913?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FoddlyEnoughNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Oddly+Enough%29)


(Reuters) - A top municipal official in Lisbon's Oeiras suburb sank his teeth into a traffic police officer during a discussion over a fine, apparently enraged by the familiar form used by the officer to address him.

Police said on Monday Esequiel Lino, an aide to the mayor of Oeiras, had come to the police station to protest his daughter's car being towed away by police.

"He started verbally abusing the officers, kicking the desk and was warned several times, but it didn't stop him. He went on and ended up biting one of the officers in the arm, and had to be detained," a police spokeswoman said.

The officer had to be treated in a hospital.

The Diario de Noticias daily quoted a police source as saying the official had become infuriated when a young policeman, telling him to stop shouting, addressed the 64-year-old using the familiar form of "you," without the honorific "sir."

Lino's responsibilities in the mayor's administration include links with the municipal police.

-'the zombie apocalypse starts???'
or
-'mandatory rabies shots for politicians to be entered in the next revision of the Portuguese constitution'

[Tellos Athenaios]

Nasty paperwork...

[gaelic cowboy]

Underage girls cought on camera!

https://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7664/strangepic.jpg


Hah! Bet she didn't realise we'd all have an unexpected look at her naked, hairy ....


...armpit, you perv.

Yea there is deffo a full moon in the background

[InsaneApache]

Yea there is deffo a full moon in the background

Cheeky.

[Gregoshi]

Yea there is deffo a full moon in the background
I don't think so. It is either a Photoshopped or badly deformed armpit. My bet is the former. Butt it does get one gazing at a heavenly body.

[Gregoshi]

'Fake' Togo team played Bahrain in friendly (http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=823331&sec=global&cc=3436)


...Al Khalifa did concede that the Togo team, which was not expected to feature the country's Europe-based star, was still suspiciously weak...

Bahrains over brawn.

[Hosakawa Tito]

One comfortable :daisy: mattress (http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/italian-inventor-creates-love-mattress-with-a-hole-for-the-knees/19626641). With strap handles for those rodeo moments. Replace the block cushion and hopefully solve the age old problem of who has to sleep on the wet spot. Build it and they will cum.

[naut]

One comfortable :daisy: mattress (http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/italian-inventor-creates-love-mattress-with-a-hole-for-the-knees/19626641). With strap handles for those rodeo moments. Replace the block cushion and hopefully solve the age old problem of who has to sleep on the wet spot. Build it and they will cum.
"We locked a couple in the factory to have them try out the prototype for a night, and it worked,"
:laugh4: Brilliantly nonchalant.

[Lemur]

Pay us $11k or the puppies get it (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68G2V420100917)

Russian bailiffs have threatened to take what is most precious from a Russian pensioner who has failed to pay a debt -- her three Shar Pei pedigree puppies, they said Friday.

The pensioner, who bailiffs did not name, owes 350,000 rubles ($11,330) to an individual in her home town in Russia's volcanic Kamchatka region in the Far East.

"If she does not fulfill her obligations (to pay back the debt) within 10 days, the puppies will be sold by the Federal Agency for State Property Management," bailiffs said in a statement on their site fssprus.ru.

In Kamchatka, Shar Pei puppies fetch 15,000 rubles ($482.6) each, media reported. But bailiffs said they will try sell them for 5,000 rubles to attract more potential buyers.

They added that the famously wrinkled Shar Pei puppies have been allowed for the time being to remain with the pensioner, who breeds them as her sole source of income as she has no property.

[Lemur]

Beer industry: Don't you dare legalize marijuana! (http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/marijuana/beer-lobby-gives-10000-to-no-o/)

A political action committee of the California Beer & Beverage Distributors recently gave $10,000 to the campaign to defeat Proposition 19, the November ballot initiative that would legalize pot and its cultivation and distribution. [...]

Perhaps we should call it: Sobriety for thee, but not for me.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/DOG-BIRTHDAY.jpg

[Lemur]

Buttock enlargement goes horribly wrong (http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/09/ana_josefa_sevilla_fake_doctor.php)
​
If you're looking to get in on the cutting edge of crime, there's no more lucrative career during these wonderfully vain and self-absorbed times than fake plastic surgery. Take Ana Josefa Sevilla of Miami, a fraudulent M.D. specializing in the art of discount butt enhancement...

Our saga begins a few months back, when Lady Sevilla was trolling for customers outside a Miami spa. That's where she encountered Donia Rodriguez. The two women got to talking, and Donia complained that she didn't like the shape and contour of her butt. It was apparently lacking in all-encompassing bootiliciousness.

Sevilla, claiming to be a doctor, offered to make those worries go away for the low, low, everyday price of $1,100. So Donia showed up at Sevilla's fake medical practice for the procedure.

Sevilla first injected an unknown substance that she claimed was anesthesia. But fake anesthesia, just like fake doctors, doesn't seem to work very well. As Sevilla continued to drill Donia's butt with injections, the pain kept getting more unbearable, until Donia finally passed out.

She was so out of it after the procedure that she had to call her mom to pick her up. She would soon need surgery after developing severe infections, and she ended up spending two weeks in a hospital. Doctors believe she could have been killed -- or at least lost her leg -- if she waited any longer for treatment.

This isn't the first time a woman's nearly died from fake butt enhancement. Florida police say the practice is a damn-near epidemic. Women seeking to beautify themselves on the cheap have been injected with everything from super glue to Fix-A-Flat, the chemical used to repair car tires. They're also getting injected with silicone used for industrial purposes, not the medical kind. [...]

Sevilla, meanwhile, has been hit with two counts of unlicensed practice of a health care profession and practicing medicine without a license.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY84MRnxVzo

[Hosakawa Tito]

Doctor Branded Woman's Uterus After Surgery (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/doctor-branded-womans-uterus-after-surgery).
Surgeons just wanna have fun.

[Lemur]

Doctor Branded Woman's Uterus After Surgery (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/doctor-branded-womans-uterus-after-surgery).
Surgeons just wanna have fun.
I read that one, and felt that her lawsuit was bogus. Her uterus had been removed, and he etched her name on the organ so it wouldn't get mixed up with others. I suppose if he had tossed it in a baggie and written her name with a sharpie she might have been less upset.

But really, this isn't like the doctor who carved his initials (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/22/nyregion/doctor-carved-his-initials-into-patient-lawsuit-says.html) into a living patient.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Top that, Ben & Jerry's (http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=511547). You knew it was just a matter of time before they came up with the ultimate sugar buzz, and on doctor's orders too! A scoop a day keeps the doctor and reality away. Wow man.

[gaelic cowboy]

'Wind lent Moses hand' in parting Red Sea (http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/wind-lent-moses-hand-in-parting-red-sea-2347721.html)


IN the biblical version, "Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night".

In reality, wind, hydrodynamics and the unique topography of the Nile Delta may have had the same miraculous results for the Israelites.

A study based on 14 computer models suggests that Moses may indeed have been able to lead his followers out of Egypt between walls of water -- a story told in both the Bible and the Koran.

The study by the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado replaces the hand of God with a 63-mph east wind blowing for at least 12 hours.

It also suggests that the epic crossing of the Red Sea happened 75 miles north of Suez, where an ancient branch of the Nile approached a shallow coastal lagoon near the modern Port Said. Otherwise, one of the study's authors claims: "The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus."

In that account, Moses and the Israelites are driven from Egypt by the Pharoah's army, which pursues them across the Red Sea only to be drowned when the waters return to their natural state.

Carl Drews, the lead author of Dynamics of Wind Setdown at Suez and the Eastern Nile Delta said yesterday: "The wind moves the water in accordance with physical laws, creating a safe passage with water on two sides and then abruptly allowing the water to rush back in."

Using the computer models and modern understanding of the phenomenon of "wind setdown" -- by which strong, steady winds have been shown to push back large volumes of water temporarily -- Mr Drews concluded that a gale of the kind described in the Bible could have created a land bridge two miles wide and three miles long and open for perhaps four hours.

Mr Drews is a devout Christian who maintains a website about his efforts to reconcile his faith and scientific work. (©The Times, London)

[Vladimir]

[posted mostly for the picture]

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Yo! That's straight up gansta G!

Check out the pimp daddy cane.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09/cias-afghan-kill-teams-expand-u-s-war-in-pakistan/

[InsaneApache]

A tory councillor lived in his home with his mother's decomposing body for SIX WEEKS because he could not accept she had died, an inquest heard yesterday.

Richard Stewart, 63, even told a colleague he was leaving a council meeting early as "mum wants to watch Ascot".

But a nurse who visited his home in Truro, Cornwall, in July 2009 found the corpse of Pat Nixon, 85, upstairs - she had died in May.

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Mr Stewart, who later quit as Tory councillor for St Austell, has since died. But he told police in a statement at the time: "My life's been organised around looking after her for such a long time I couldn't accept she'd gone.

"She died in her sleep. She was obviously dead, so I didn't alert anyone."

Yesterday his ex-fiancee Jenny Stewart told the inquest: "When I visited him I was never allowed upstairs." Coroner Emma Carlyon recorded an open verdict.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/09/22/councillor-lived-with-dead-mum-115875-22578880/#ixzz10FMgMwli

I bet he wouldn't hurt a fly.

[drone]

I bet he wouldn't hurt a fly.
I'm sure there were plenty around...

[gaelic cowboy]

Simmilar thing happened here except the guy did not even know it had happened

Aghamore pensioner died of self-neglect (http://archives.tcm.ie/westernpeople/2004/02/18/story18238.asp)


Aghamore pensioner died of self-neglect
Inquest: The discovery of a woman’s decomposing remains in the bedroom of her home in Aghamore last year was recalled at an extraordinary inquest in Westport yesterday (Monday).
The jury of six men and two women found that Agnes Lyons, of Carrownedan, Aghamore, Ballyhaunis, died on August 13, 2002, as a result of self-neglect. The verdict came after a hearing where some light was shed on the reclusive lifestyle of the deceased.
Ms Lyons lived in the family home with her sister, Mary Ellen, and brother Michael (Sonny) since she returned from England in the Sixties. At first she had attended Mass in the local church and could be seen cycling around the district but gradually became more and more reclusive.
Her health had been failing for a number of years but at no time did she request any medical assistance. She spent most of her time in the bedroom she shared with her sister and they only moved into the rest of the house when their brother was out working on the farm.
Mr John O’Dwyer, coroner, said that both their brother and the local community were available to assist the sisters in every way but they resisted all offers in order to protest their reclusive existence. He called on members of the media and public to look on Agnes Lyons’ death in a compassionate rather than judgemental way,
Outlining the circumstances that led to the discovery of Agnes Lyons’ body, Michael ‘Sonny’ Lyons said that he had little or no contact with his sisters for a number of years until he found Mary Ellen sick in the bathroom at approximately 11am on August 4, 2003. He went to find Agnes in order to get help but got a shock when he opened her bedroom door.
“I said I would get Agnes and went to the bedroom to rouse her. I pushed in the door but when I saw what was inside I got an awful shock and pulled back quickly. That was the first time I had been inside the girls’ room for about 20 years,” he said.
He phoned the local doctor’s surgery where the family were registered patients and told the nurse on duty, Mrs Moira Noone that his sister, Mary Ellen, was very ill and he thought his other sister, Agnes, was dead.
“I asked him why did he think she was dead and he replied that he went to her bedroom door and called her and called her and got no answer,” Mrs Noone said.
She immediately phoned West Doc where a Triage nurse, Ms Elizabeth Watson, was put in contact with Mr Lyons. She told the hearing that ‘Sonny’ was in a state of shock.
“He was distressed and upset and gave me the impression that both sisters were dead in the house. I tried to encourage him to go into the house in case they were unconscious and they’d be safer on their sides but he said he was frightened and refused to go in.”
Nurse Watson then contacted Dr Ken Keane, a Ballyhaunis GP and he arrived at the Lyons’ residence just after 11.30am after instructing Nurse Watson to notify the ambulance service and the gardai.
He told the inquest that he met Sonny Lyons outside the house and inside on the floor of the bathroom he found Mary Ellen in a shocked and distressed state.
“I asked her where her sister was but she was unable to tell me. I then went to a bedroom up the hallway. The light was poor as the curtains were drawn and the room was in a mess with cartons, papers and tins strewn all over the floor. The deceased was lying on her back in the double bed in a decomposed skeletal state and I brought one of the gardai into the room to show him where the deceased lay.”
In his statement Dr Keane said that in his opinion Ms Lyons had been dead for a number of months.
Garda John Commons said that he went to the bedroom with Dr Keane and he described what he saw.
“The room was in general disarray with rubbish strewn all over the floor. There was one window in the room and the curtains were drawn so no natural light entered the room. There was an electrical light fitting but there was no bulb in it. Agnes Lyons was lying on the left side of the bed and it was obvious that she had been dead for some time.”
Garda Michael John Connor also gave evidence of the scene in the room.
“The remains were fully clothed and seemed to be in a very decomposed state. The room was very dark with the curtains drawn. It was practically full of all kinds of rubbish such as dirty and damp clothing, books, newspapers and cardboard boxes. Many of these boxes were filled with what appeared to be urine. Garda Commons and I had to remove many wheelbarrows of rubbish before the body of Ms Lyons could be removed from the room.”
The remains of the deceased were then removed to the morgue at Mayo General Hospital and later taken to University College Hospital in Cork City where a post mortem was carried out by Deputy State Pathologist, Dr Margaret Bolster on August 6, 2003. In her evidence Dr Bolster outlined the advanced state of decomposition that the body was in and said that entomological samples taken from the deceased indicated that death had occurred anywhere between three months and a year previously.
She went on to explain that a new technique where the examination of the body is allied to the diet of the deceased at the University of Reading gave the approximate date of death to be within 12 days of August 1, 2002. This was a groundbreaking technique which is very highly regarded she said. There was no evidence of any poison or trauma in the body but given the absence of any organs she had to record the cause of death as unknown.
Supt John O’Driscoll, the garda officer in charge of the investigation, said that the Lyons sisters lived in ‘a world apart’ from their brother and the wider community. Their secluded lifestyle was totally of their own choosing, he concluded.
“They purposely cut themselves off from those outside the house and had only the minimum of contact with their brother with whom they shared a house.
The evidence indicates that Agnes Lyons was in poor health for a considerable period of time and died in a bed she had not left for a long time.”
“Bizarre as it may seem the evidence indicates that Michael Lyons didn’t know that his sister Agnes had lain dead for approximately one year in the house in which he resided. There is also no evidence to suggest that Agnes or Mary Ellen were purposely deprived of medical treatment or care.
Mr. John O’Dwyer, Coroner then addressed the jury and indicated a number of options available to them. They returned once to ascertain whether they had to indicate a precise date of death and came back minutes later with a verdict of death from self-neglect on August 13th 2002 from an unknown cause.
Mr. O’Dwyer then sympathised with the extended Lyons family and commended the gardai for their professionalism in dealing with the case. He also hoped that the matter would now come to a close.
“Agnes’s death has caused great sorrow, grief, speculation, media intrusion, accusations, bewilderment and profound sadness. May we look on this death with compassionate rather than judgmental hearts. May she rest in peace,” he concluded.

[Vladimir]

If the Daily Mail were a girl with bad teeth, I would wed her: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1295617/Gurkha-ordered-UK-beheading-dead-Taliban-fighter.html

[naut]

If the Daily Mail were a girl with bad teeth
As it's a British paper, that'd be a certainty.

[Lemur]

Woman fights off bear attack with zucchini (http://www.forkparty.com/woman-fights-off-bear-attack-with-zucchini/)

A brave (or startled) woman in Montana was approached by a bear while on her back porch. Some quick critical thinking made her choose the most powerful weapon in her vacinity – a zucchini. After hearing some suspicious noises coming from her back yard, she went to investigate and found a black bear attacking her dog.

After screaming at the bear, it got pissed off and decided to charge her, and the bear tried to come into the house.

The bear actually swiped at her with its paw, and shredded the leg of the woman’s jeans. She hurled a 12-inch zucchini at the bear, hitting it square in the head, which apparently was enough to scare the bear away.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/zucchini1.jpg

This image provided by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office shows the zucchini used by a Montana woman to fend off a bear attack Thursday Sept. 23, 2010.

[Vladimir]

As it's a British paper, that'd be a certainty.

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Yea baby! :hippie:

[Cute Wolf]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139738

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/mess-report/mess-report-are-the-palestinians-silencing-the-attempted-rape-of-u-s-peace-activist-1.301905

Quite weird... you play with fire, you shouldn't complained when you got burned...

But err... is there another source outside Israelli News?

[Crazed Rabbit]

Sesame Street, Miami Style;
Don't mess with Elmo, because he'll kick your ***: (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/os-man-attacks-elmo-20100925,0,1544182.story)


Police in Winter Park said a man dressed as Elmo was attacked at a local music store on Saturday afternoon by a man who believed the Sesame Street character was a threat to him.

According to Winter Park police Lt. Wayne Farrell, the man had been hired to wear the Elmo suit for an event at Winter Park Village, and was on his break when the attack occurred at the Guitar Center on Orlando Avenue at about 3 p.m.

"He just wandered into the Guitar Center to look at instruments," Farrell said. That's when police say a man, who they said felt "threatened" by the Sesame Street star, attacked.

Farrell said the attack was "unprovoked."

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"He immediately thought (the man dressed as Elmo) was a threat," Farrell said. Farrell called the ensuing struggle a "very physical fight," with multiple punches thrown.

"Elmo got the best of the guy," Farrell said. "He broke two of his fingers."

Police took the assailant to a local hospital, where Farrell said he will be temporarily detained for mental health evaluation.

And though he was the victim of the attack, police said the man dressed as the loveable children's character emerged unscathed.

"Elmo was unhurt," Farrell said

CR

[Hosakawa Tito]

Semi hauling fire extinguishers catches fire (http://www.wthitv.com/dpp/news/local/One-lane-of-I-70-reopens). Ironic, no? :laugh4:

[Gregoshi]

Semi hauling fire extinguishers catches fire (http://www.wthitv.com/dpp/news/local/One-lane-of-I-70-reopens). Ironic, no? :laugh4:
No fire sales for Wal*mart.

[Vladimir]

Woman fights off bear attack with zucchini (http://www.forkparty.com/woman-fights-off-bear-attack-with-zucchini/)

A brave (or startled) woman in Montana was approached by a bear while on her back porch. Some quick critical thinking made her choose the most powerful weapon in her vacinity – a zucchini. After hearing some suspicious noises coming from her back yard, she went to investigate and found a black bear attacking her dog.

After screaming at the bear, it got pissed off and decided to charge her, and the bear tried to come into the house.

The bear actually swiped at her with its paw, and shredded the leg of the woman’s jeans. She hurled a 12-inch zucchini at the bear, hitting it square in the head, which apparently was enough to scare the bear away.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/zucchini1.jpg

This image provided by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office shows the zucchini used by a Montana woman to fend off a bear attack Thursday Sept. 23, 2010.

This reminds me of a video I saw online yesterday. That old gal certainly loves her veg!

[gaelic cowboy]

10 bizarre medical conditions (http://uk.health.lifestyle.yahoo.net/bizarre-medical-conditions.htm)


The human body is a complex machine in which the cogs sometimes break down, leading to unusual ailments and behaviours - so much so that they baffle both the patient and the doctor.
We've complied a list of 10 very real, but unusual conditions below.
Allergic to sex
Around 100 women in the UK have human seminal plasma hypersensitivity i.e. they are allergic to their partner’s semen, the fluid which carries sperm.
This is because semen carries a number of proteins which can trigger an allergic reaction in susceptible women.
Signs of a semen allergy usually include redness, burning and swelling soon after sex, wherever the semen has come into contact with the skin. This can be avoided by the man wearing a condom.
However, if the couple want to start a family, sometimes the man’s sperm can be washed to rid it of semen, and the woman is impregnated artificially.
Fear of clowns
They can be riotously funny, mildly amusing, or just dull, but who would actually be afraid of a clown?
Well, some people have what is called coulrophobia, or fear of clowns. Watching the grinning circus performers can lead to breathlessness, trembling, increased heartbeat, dizziness and a slew of other symptoms related to anxiety.
As with many phobias, an early childhood experience may be behind the adult phobia. Contrary to popular opinion, many children don’t (whisper it) like clowns.
A study carried out by the University of Sheffield concluded that clowns were “universally disliked by children,” and their images should not be used in decorating children's wards in hospitals.
Speaking of clowns, actor Johnny Depp once said: "There always seemed to be a darkness lurking just under the surface, a potential for real evil.
"I guess I am afraid of them because it's impossible — thanks to their painted-on smiles — to distinguish if they are happy or if they're about to bite your face off.''
Constantly sea sick
Many people experience the feeling of still being at sea even after stepping off a boat. This usually lasts only a few minutes, but if you have Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS), the sensation can persist for days, weeks or even years.
MdDS is more common in women than men and often occurs in people in their forties and fifties. The symptoms triggered after travelling on a boat or plane include the sensation of rocking, swaying, floating or tumbling. Strangely, the symptoms may disappear completely when the person is on the move, in a moving car or train.
The cause of this debilitating condition is a mystery, and treatment usually involves advice on how to cope with the symptoms.
Pica
Most pregnant women experience food cravings during pregnancy, but some also crave substances other than food such as dirt, coal, chalk or paper - items without nutritional value.
Although it’s often said that pica cravings are the body’s response to replenishing deficient vitamins and minerals, the reason for pica cravings is unknown.
Some people have a craving to chew ice, which is often associated with iron deficient anaemia, though doing so has no nutritional value.
White coat syndrome
Unless it is managed, high blood pressure can be a real killer, which is why we are forever reminding you to visit you GP to get it measured.
But for some people, the mere presence of a doctor can cause their blood pressure to rise, which is known as white coat syndrome.
Around one in three people with mildly raised blood pressure will find it returns to a normal level once they leave the GPs surgery.
Foreign accent syndrome
This most unlikely condition occurs when, following a brain injury or trauma, the person starts speaking in what appears to be a foreign accent - in one instance, a woman from Newcastle with a Geordie accent started speaking with what sounded like a Jamaican accent.
This is a very rare condition, with just 60 cases recorded in the last 70 years. Doctors believe it is caused when small areas of the brain linked with language, pitch and speech patters are damaged. As a consequence, the person suffering from the syndrome may draw out or clip vowels, which gives the impression they are speaking in a foreign accent.
Indeed, recent evidence suggests that the foreign accent syndrome is a mechanical issue, as it is tied to the cerebellum, which controls motor function.
Stendhal syndrome
Have you ever been overwhelmed by the beauty of a work of art, and became giddy and confused, your heart racing?
If you did, you might have experienced Stendhal syndrome, a condition that occurs in some individuals when they are exposed to art of overwhelming beauty, like Michelangelo's David.
An early victim, after whom the condition is named, was the French novelist Stendhal, who suffered an attack when visiting the museums of the Tuscan capital.
While there is debate in the medical community about whether the condition really exists, some sufferers actually require treatment in hospital.
Trimethylaminuria
This condition, also known as fish odour syndrome, is a metabolic disorder which causes the sufferer to give off a strong, often fishy odour.
It is caused by the body's inability to break down a compound called trimethylamine, which then builds up and is released in sweat, urine and breath.
Those affected by this rare disorder carry no other physical symptoms and are otherwise healthy. It appears to be a heritable condition.
While no treatment exists, those affected can reduce the fishy odour by avoiding certain foods such as eggs, legumes, fish, meats, or by taking antibiotics.
Dr Strangelove syndrome
Named after the cult comedy's sinister scientist, who is affected by this condition, it manifests itself when a person's hand appears to develop a mind of its own, performing even complex tasks of its own accord. For this reason it is also known as the alien hand syndrome.
It is a consequence of an rare neurological disorder which occurs when the two hemispheres of the brain are separated surgically to relieve extreme epilepsy cases, though it can also occur after a stroke or brain surgery.
Those affected have sensation in their arm or leg, but are generally unaware of what the limb is doing, unless it does something that draws attention.
While there is no treatment for this condition, the hand can be distracted by giving it something to hold.
Delusional parasitosis
Do you ever get those tingling pins and needles in your limbs?
Well, some who experience a variation of this sensation become convinced that bugs or insects are crawling under their skin, though no such thing is happening.
This is a delusional condition which sometimes leads those who suffer from it to injure themselves in an attempt to remove the bugs.
Those affected use the sensation - also known as formication - to confirm the belief that bugs are crawling under their skin.
This condition is a form of psychosis, and while those who suffer from it generally deny they are delusional, anti-psychotic medication may be effective in treating the condition

[Tellos Athenaios]

The allergic to sex thing isn't weird. Just like most allergies it is a hyper sensitive immune system. Allergic/aggresive immune reactions towards semen are rather what you would expect: semen cannot register but as something “alien” to a host system. It's just that by default women have a big gaping hole in their immune system called the vagina which lets them contract all sorts of infections as well as pregnancy by having a partially disabled immune system in there. As for semen itself: the immune system of the male who produced it would attack it as well. If semen were to enter someone's blood (which can happen in men with badly damaged testes) the immune system would trigger a violent reaction, because as far as the immune system is concerned “semen” is simply too alien to put up with. Similar to the E. coli bacteria of which only your very own pet bacterium variety (E. coli varies with the DNA of its host in order to mimic host cells) is tolerated in the intestines for the purpose of symbiose only but it is attacked anywhere else (whether your pet variety or someone elses) and may well trigger violent allergic reactions or infections elsewhere. For what is truly remarkable, auto-immune reactions exist as well: there are people who are allergic to themselves, that is their immune system actively attacks their own cells.

Pica is normal infant behaviour, btw; and occurs in quite a few animals (in particular animals -especially birds- which feed on carrion).

I expect Whitecoat syndrome is probably the anxiety that something is going to be wrong, https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=2053213781or the general dislike of having someone else rummaging around inside your body. I don't like it much either. :shrug:

[gaelic cowboy]

Stendhal syndrome or Dr strangeglove syndrome fit the weirdness bill surely

[Tellos Athenaios]

Thing from Addams Family? Sure they do.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Jesus Toaster (http://jesustoasters.com/). Just in time for Christmas too. Jesus on toast.

No more waiting for that miracle to happen in your neighborhood!
No more fighting the crowds to get a quick glimpse!
No more high "donation fees"!
Now, you can create that miracle any old time, right in your very own kitchen!

The Father, The Son, and The Holy Toast! :laugh4:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXFVtzbHrnI&feature=player_embedded

[Peasant Phill]

White coat syndrome
Unless it is managed, high blood pressure can be a real killer, which is why we are forever reminding you to visit you GP to get it measured.
But for some people, the mere presence of a doctor can cause their blood pressure to rise, which is known as white coat syndrome.
Around one in three people with mildly raised blood pressure will find it returns to a normal level once they leave the GPs surgery.

Yep, that's my fiancée. It doesn't help that her GP knows about it and jokes about it just before measuring her blood pressure.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Squirrels materbate to avoid sexually transmitted infections (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/28/squirrels-masturbate-to-avoid-sexually-transmitted-infections/). After thinking long and hard, Jane Waterman cum up with the perfect excuse for our number 1 hobby. No more hairy palms or going blind stigma, I masterbate for my health, so :tongue3:.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/squirrel-6754.jpg

[Vladimir]

On Arrakis, we consume all of a man's water. :yes:

[Fragony]

Some Asian guy wins the Darwin award twice

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1145531/57ff13f1/meh,_geen_zin_om_te_wachten.html

[Vladimir]

Yea. That's more "backroom video" than "news."

Funny though!

[Hosakawa Tito]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7N-H3E1-p8&feature=player_embedded

Low Blow Morales (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/05/morales-bolivian-president-knees-football-groin). Secret Service protection? We don't need no stinkin' Secret Service protection.:laugh4:

[Lemur]

A heck of a correction (http://www.tbd.com/blogs/amanda-hess/2010/10/hiv-positive-black-gay-men-to-get-the-bayard-rustin-project-a-district-campaign-against-aids-2873.html):


This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men. Also, the photo caption incorrectly attributed Bayard Rustin's photo to "Wikipedia Commons." The correct title is "Wikimedia Commons."

In reference to gaelic cowboy's masterpiece above, this has to be my favorite ad placement of all time:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/duck-ad.jpg

[Veho Nex]

Want to sext? Well apple says noooo!!! atleast gives parents the option too. (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/104350-Apple-Patents-New-Anti-Sexting-Technology)

[gaelic cowboy]

Good luck with that one Apple sexting indeed that is soooo 2004 it's all Facebook nowadays

[Louis VI the Fat]

In reference to gaelic cowboy's masterpiece above, this has to be my favorite ad placement of all time:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/duck-ad.jpg

That quacks me up. Priceless. I learn about the most obscure affliction around, and for a bonus I am treated to a hilarious ad too. Bless the NotW!

Anatidaephobia makes sense though. Now that I think about, I do encounter a whole lot of ducks on a daily basis. They're everywhere, they all look at me, always. It's enough to make one an anatidaephobiac. :laugh4:

[gaelic cowboy]

'Catholic pub' opens in historic Rome crypt (http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1019/rome.html)


'Catholic pub' opens in historic Rome crypt

The beer is cheap, the waiters are talkative and the music is 1960s Motown - but the new pub that opened its doors this week in a historic crypt in central Rome is not really like any other.
Start with the landlord being a Catholic priest, the religious sayings on the walls and the large crucifix hanging in one of its vaulted rooms.
Then there's the name of the new drinking establishment: 'Giovanni Paolo II', or 'John Paul II'.
'Vodka is not allowed here,' said barman Marco Mincaglia, as he served out beers and snacks to a visiting group of young German pilgrims.
Massimo Camussi, the doorman, dressed in a black T-shirt reading 'JP2,' said: 'It's about drinking to meet people and talk about the Catholic Church and listen to Catholic music. We love John Paul II.'
The 'John Paul II' is not just a novelty drinking venue - it is part of a Catholic initiative called 'Jesus in the Centre' aimed to reach out to the clusters of kids who flock to central Rome at night.
The idea is to offer the young people of Rome... an opportunity to express themselves, to listen, to be listened to, to drink something but in a healthy way, in a nice way,' said Maurizio Mirilli, a priest and the landlord.
'The important thing is that anyone who comes here should know they can't get drunk. There are rules. Because you can have fun, you can drink in a healthy way. There's no need to go crazy to have fun,' he said.
The sign on the bar behind him reads: 'Give me a drink' - a quote from Jesus Christ in the Bible - another from pope John Paul II reads 'Be not afraid' and from Saint Therese of the Child Jesus: 'Everything is grace.'
The bar is located down some steps in the vaulted crypt of the San Carlo al Corso basilica on one of Rome's most popular streets, surrounded by high-end clothes shops and chic drinking venues.
In fact if it is to have any hope of competing with its neighbouring establishments, the 'John Paul II' might do better than talk up its low prices.
A Corona costs €3, a Heineken €2.50 and a Moretti €2.50 - far less than the prices charged in most places in central Rome.
There were only a handful of visitors on the opening night, however, and Pascal Mengede, 27, a local government official from Cologne in northwest Germany, had a few complaints about the new establishment.
'It was very difficult to find because there were no signs,' said Mengede, adding that he had heard about the pub on Vatican radio.

'It's okay but I think an Irish pub is nicer than this.'

[naut]

Just some monkey business (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3190568/Escaped-chimp-in-suburb-rampage.html).

[gaelic cowboy]

Love this line


A giant chimpanzee went Ape

:laugh4::laugh4:

[gaelic cowboy]

Man denies crack in buttocks is his (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39508920/ns/us_news-weird_news/)

Comedy gold that is I tell ye :laugh4:

[Lemur]

If I were Mexico, I would be very offended. At least buy me a dinner first.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/Mexico_facial.jpg

[Vladimir]

Baby killed as family jumps from Paris window after 'devil sighting' (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/eleven-people-jump-from-paris-window-after-devil-sighting-14985331.html)

The Devil made me do it?

[gaelic cowboy]

Time traveller spotted at Chaplin premiere? (http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/57334/time-traveller-spotted-at-chaplin-premiere.html)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj3qesTjOE8&feature=player_embedded#!


Has the first real evidence of time travelling been found? A video on YouTube seems to think so.

On the DVD extras for Charlie Chaplin's 'The Circus', a woman is spotted in the background at the movie's premiere in 1928 and appears to be talking on a mobile phone.
Stunned by what he saw, Irish filmmaker George Clarke consulted experts on his find, and has since posted it on YouTube. He claims that the video has not been tampered with in any way.

The footage does seem to show a lady nattering on a mobile phone, but if you thought your phone reception was bad at normal times, we hate to think what it would have been like in the ‘20s.

Cynics have scoffed at the footage, asking, if you were a time traveller, would you openly show off the amazing gadget? Others have asked why you would go to a Chaplin premiere if you could go back to any point in time?

Clarke replied, "Who says the person in question went back to see the Chaplin premiere? How about, the person went back to an earlier period and got stuck there or was in town doing something else and just happened to stroll on by."

Have a look and see for yourselves.

[gaelic cowboy]

The spookiest locations in the world (http://uk.travel.yahoo.com/p-promo-3360070) :scared:

[Peasant Phill]

WHy not cracked for some spooky (http://www.cracked.com/article_18830_the-6-creepiest-places-earth-part-2.html) locations. Also read part1 (http://www.cracked.com/article/181_the-6-creepiest-places-earth).

[Rhyfelwyr]

WHy not cracked for some spooky (http://www.cracked.com/article_18830_the-6-creepiest-places-earth-part-2.html) locations. Also read part1 (http://www.cracked.com/article/181_the-6-creepiest-places-earth).

No.5 in the second article (in the order that you list them, I mean the one you call "part 1") is right where I live! Some crazy cult recently bought the property, surely increases the future potential for creepiness...

[Hosakawa Tito]

Eat like snake...:sweatdrop:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H5LX8KRFlc&feature=player_embedded

[Husar]

Eat like snake...:sweatdrop:

[video]

:laugh4:
That's great.

[gaelic cowboy]

There is no News of the Cool thread so I'll post this here check the vid part way down the website for RTE news

Reports of 40-foot waves off the west coast (http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1109/surfing.html)

RTE News Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Surfers say weather conditions off the west coast combined perfectly to create huge waves of up to 40 feet high yesterday.
Surfers have said weather conditions off the west coast of Ireland combined perfectly to create huge waves of up to 40 feet (12m) high yesterday.
One of the surfers, Andrew Cotton, from Devon in England, is photographed on the front of today's Irish Times.
He says everything came together for the wave to happen.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Cotton said the conditions were very rare.
The west coast is battered by a lot of swells but yesterday there was no wind, which is very unusual, Mr Cotton added.
All of those who travelled about 2km out to sea on boats and jet-skis experienced the thrill of surfing the wave.
Mr Cotton is recovering from knee surgery and is not supposed to be surfing at the moment. But when he heard that the wave might materialise on Sunday, he flew to Ireland.
He said he felt very fortunate to have been able to ride the wave.
The wave has been named 'Prowlers' by surfers who first ventured out on it yesterday.
The crew of six surfers stayed tight-lipped on the exact location of the wave.

Sound is rubbish on the youtube vid so I suggest watching it on the website


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D53iPTj5HLk

[Lemur]

Woman assaults police with "a clear, rigid feminine pleasure device" (http://triblocal.com/gurnee/2010/11/10/police-say-woman-attacked-officer-with-sex-toy/)

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/s-CAROLEE-BILDSTEN-large.jpg

A Gurnee [Illinois] woman charged with aggravated assault for threatening a police officer with a sex toy was supposed to be reaching into a drawer for money, but instead pulled out what a department spokesman described as a “clear, rigid feminine pleasure device.”

Carolee Bildsten, 56, was with the officer at her apartment on Tuesday when she allegedly “approached the officer in a threatening manner,” Gurnee Police Cmdr. Jay Patrick said Thursday.

Police had been called when Bildsten allegedly left a nearby Joe’s Crab Shack without paying her bill for a second time in a few weeks, Patrick said.

The officer saw her lying in the grass along Grand Avenue near the entrance to Six Flags Great America, Patrick said.

When the officer told Bildsten she’d either have to pay her bill or be arrested, she told him she didn’t have any money with her, but she had some cash at her nearby apartment, Patrick said.

The officer escorted her there, where Bildsten went into her bedroom, saying her money was in a dresser drawer, according to Patrick.

But instead of pulling out money, she pulled out the sex toy, and went toward the officer with it held over her head, Patrick said.

The officer was able to knock the device out of the way before being struck with it, and placed Bildsten under arrest. She was transported to the Gurnee Police Department, where she was processed.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Gotta catch that car.:laugh4:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BgjH_CtIA&feature=player_embedded

[InsaneApache]

http://www.kenfrost.com/BBCgaffe.mp3

:sweatdrop: :laugh4: :laugh4:

[Hosakawa Tito]

Flush Tracker (http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/847768-flush-tracker-lets-you-track-your-poo-in-honour-of-world-toilet-day). Ever wonder where that duece you just dropped ended up? Me neither, but in case you just gotta know...:laugh4:

[InsaneApache]

nm.

[Lemur]

You got rat problems? You know what you need? Coyotes. (http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/11/coyote-in-the-loop-probably-on-rat-patrol.html)

A coyote loping along the South Loop streets this morning was probably at his job searching out rodents, according to city animal welfare officials.

A video shot overnight shows the coyote running down State Street as cars and a moving truck pass by.
Brad Block, a supervisor for the Chicago Commission on Animal Care and Control, said the animal has the run of the Loop to help deal with rats and mice. He said no one has called today to complain.

"He's not a threat...He's not going to pick up your children," Block said. "His job is to deal with all of the nuisance problems, like mice, rats and rabbits."

Block said he believes the coyote is one of those fitted with a GPS device to monitor its whereabouts. He said the coyote is pretty timid and stays away from people.

Cook County officials have fitted a few coyotes with GPS as part of an urban coyote project and has allowed them to run wild in Chicago to deal with the rodent population. It was unclear whether this coyote is part of that program. The animal was not captured.

[drone]

You got rat problems? You know what you need? Coyotes. (http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/11/coyote-in-the-loop-probably-on-rat-patrol.html)
The comments section for that article is gold.

[Hosakawa Tito]

The comments section for that article is gold.

Ya got that right.:laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:

[Pannonian]

Naming Putin's new puppy (http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7393671-naming-putins-new-puppy/content/67001179-putin-with-puppy)

Putin is hardly the cuddling type but he seems to show a softer side with his new puppy dog. Putin was in Bulgaria to sign a gas pipeline deal. He was presented with a Bulgarian shepherd dog by Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borissov. Putin looked genuinely thrilled with his gift.

Putin is no doubt hoping for some good PR. He has invited the public to suggest a name for the dog. The now adorable pup will turn into a quite large shaggy guard dog. Putin has a Labrador called Connie who is already graying.

Russian rights activists have complained that to leave a suggested name on Putin's web site you must fill in all sorts of contact details. The aim is no doubt to cut out those treasonous wags who submit names that are in bad taste or suggested names such as poisoned umbrellas. Some of the names suggested so far are: Gazprom, T-Rex, Poligraph, and Nanotechnology.

Putin has always portrayed himself a macho guy, showing off his muscles, even going so far as to drive a race car. However with his puppy dog he can have a photo op to show his softer side. His wife does not seem to be in the picture!

https://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj277/pannonian/67001179-putin-with.jpg

[Vladimir]

Looks like Cujo.

The dog looks like Blago.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Penis Cemetery (http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/middle-east/101111/iran-tourism-penis-tombstones). Lookit all the head stones.

[Gregoshi]

Penis Cemetery (http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/middle-east/101111/iran-tourism-penis-tombstones). Lookit all the head stones.

:laugh4: Good one.

Looks like Viagra existed in the olden days...but they didn't know about the "four hour" rule back then. :eyebrows:

[Lemur]

Penis Cemetery (http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/middle-east/101111/iran-tourism-penis-tombstones).
If and when I get the shaft, bury my parts at Wounded Knee.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Paris woman trapped for 20 days in bathroom

An elderly woman has survived being trapped in her bathroom in Paris for 20 days, after the door lock jammed.
The room had no window or phone so the 69-year-old was unable to tell anyone but she tapped on pipes during the night, hoping to alert her neighbours.

They thought the noise was DIY work and started a petition to have it stopped. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11828052

[InsaneApache]

Shouldn't there be two* seven of 'em? :inquisitive: :laugh4:

When I learnt the ditty as a kid we used two not seven. Ah well c'est la vie.

[Tellos Athenaios]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11828052

Well if that isn't an acid test for neighbours, I don't know what is:


They thought the noise was DIY work and started a petition to have it stopped. (...)

"You could hear banging sounds, like a hammer, even at night," one neighbour told local media. "But we thought they were doing work at night. We said: 'They are going too far! They are preventing us from sleeping!' If we had known....'"

[Hosakawa Tito]

Half a head (http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/11/yes_that_flattened_head_mugsho.php). This dude needs all the head he can get.

[Gregoshi]

Half a head (http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/11/yes_that_flattened_head_mugsho.php). This dude needs all the head he can get.
He's a none skull. A half-wit-out. He hangs out with convex.

[drone]

He's a none skull. A half-wit-out. He hangs out with convex.
I bow before the master. :bow:

[Tellos Athenaios]

Motel guest trashes room to free imaginary 'midget' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/25/motel_6_midget/)


A man trashed his South Carolina motel room on orders from a prank caller, who told him there was a "midget" imprisoned next door. (...)

The prankster rang the Motel 6 room at 11pm on Sunday night and told Jones he was under surveillance via "highly sophisticated" hidden cameras.

To get rid of them, the caller said, Jones needed to smash the TV with the toilet cistern lid, and then throw it out of the window. He complied. (...)

Jones related this tale to skeptical Spartanburg County deputies who attended the scene after other motel guests complained about the noise. They were convinced when his anonymous instructor rang again to check on the progress of the Lilliputian liberation operation. (...)

The prank bears the hallmarks of several pulled in recent years by members of PrankNET.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Gah! I will be having nightmares about that half-headed guy for some time to come...

[CountArach]

Spanish woman claims the Sun as property (http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/11/27/Spanish_woman_claims_the_Sun_544484.html)

After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner - a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia says she's registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.

Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo on Friday she took the step in September after reading about an American man who had registered himself as the owner of the moon and most planets in our Solar System.

There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals, she added.

'There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first.'

The document issued by the notary public declares Duran to be the 'owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometres'.

Duran, who lives in the town of Salvaterra do Mino, said she now wants to slap a fee on everyone who uses the Sun and give half of the proceeds to the Spanish government and 20 per cent to the nation's pension fund.

She would dedicate another 10 per cent to research, another 10 per cent to ending world hunger -- and would keep the remaining 10 per cent herself.

'It is time to start doing things the right way. If there is an idea for how to generate income and improve the economy and people's well-being, why not do it?' she asked.
The Sun Tax is not to be taken lightly.

[Tellos Athenaios]

I'm just waiting for Murdoch to respond.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Spanish woman claims the Sun as property (http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/11/27/Spanish_woman_claims_the_Sun_544484.html)
After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner - a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia says she's registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.

The Sun Tax is not to be taken lightly.That is bizarre.


But not more outrageous than a 20th century non-European corporation trying to get paid every time a European relates an ancient European tale to his children. Which makes for a fine NotW entry:


The Walt Disney Company currently has a trademark application pending with the US Patent and Trademark Office (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Patent_and_Trademark_Office), filed November 19, 2008, for the name "Snow White" that would cover all live and recorded movie, television, radio, stage, computer, Internet, news, and photographic entertainment uses, except literature works of fiction and nonfiction.

http://tarr.uspto.gov/tarr?regser=serial&entry=77618057&action=Request+StatusMind this is not about the Disney animated cartoon characters or likenesses thereof, but any portrayal of Snow White by that name.
Maybe I should register the name 'Jesus' as my property, to prevent any portrayal of his story that does not involve my version. After all it's only two thousand years old, and who do those Christians think they are using my property.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Woman reports snowman theft (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11908583)

[Gregoshi]

It must be crime week for NOTW.

Grand Lardceny (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2010/12/02/mxp.bodyfat.shoplift.cnn?hpt=T2)

[Hosakawa Tito]

Pity the cops who had to venture into no-man's-land to retrieve the loot.

[al Roumi]

UK culture secretary James Hunt accidentaly renamed by radio newsreader (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/06/james-naughtie-today-jeremy-hunt). What rhymes with Hunt?

[Louis VI the Fat]

What rhymes with Hunt?I know, I know!


* jumps excitedly up and down his chair, finger raised high in the air, hoping to catch the teacher's attention *


'With Hunt rhymes Runt! No doubt he renamed him James Runt!!'

That rude newsreader. Tsk. :no:

[al Roumi]

I know, I know!


* jumps excitedly up and down his chair, finger raised high in the air, hoping to catch the teacher's attention *


'With Hunt rhymes Runt! No doubt he renamed him James Runt!!'

That rude newsreader. Tsk. :no:

It's the "coughing fit", where I'm sure he is either imploding with shame or desperately resisting a massive laugh that gets me.

Fair play to the culture secretary who took it in his stride and with good humour.

[Fragony]

Kewl secret code found in the eyes of the Mona Lisa, might be a clue on her identity. Can make it easy for ya it's a self-portret you idiots paintings from that time are full of little jokes.

A balloon for who can spot the joke in this one http://www.pienternet.be/damesmetklasse/images/V_11.jpg

[Beskar]

Kewl secret code found in the eyes of the Mona Lisa, might be a clue on her identity. Can make it easy for ya it's a self-portret you idiots paintings from that time are full of little jokes.

A balloon for who can spot the joke in this one http://www.pienternet.be/damesmetklasse/images/V_11.jpg

The Mona Lisa is Leonardo Di Vinci in drag. The shroud of Turin also has Leonardo Di Vinci's face on it.

[Tellos Athenaios]

A balloon for who can spot the joke in this one http://www.pienternet.be/damesmetklasse/images/V_11.jpg

That's an easy one to collect, because the subject of The Arnolfini Wedding is so thoroughly canvassed in art history. ~;)
For those who are interested, a quick search gives you a good overview page for the Scavenger Hunt of little details that is included with this painting: http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth214_folder/van_eyck/arnolfini.html
In answer to Fragony: you probably mean the little self portrait of the painter by way of reflection in the mirror on the wall. Also: “Johannes de eyck fiut hic” is written as signature, which is of course a classic.

[Fragony]

The Mona Lisa is Leonardo Di Vinci in drag.

I thought that's what I said

Ya TA in the mirror he painted his own reflection

[Hosakawa Tito]

Haggis chips (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/12/10/Tired-of-BBQ-chips-Here-comes-haggis/UPI-15441292009889/). Betcha can't eat just one any! :sick2:

[Hosakawa Tito]

Warning: pic contains bad language

Bad Santa sends message to Harrods (http://njuice.com/Bad-Santa-sends-message-Harrods). That's the Christmas spirit in big neon letters.:laugh4:

[Fisherking]

It is funny but some of the reactions are just as whacked out.

"Oh!, it just is not an appropriate message for a child. At least not at Christmas time."

Well duh!

I don't think he did it to win friends and influence people...at least not in a positive manner.

[drone]

Warning: pic contains bad language

Bad Santa sends message to Harrods (http://njuice.com/Bad-Santa-sends-message-Harrods). That's the Christmas spirit in big neon letters.:laugh4:
That is awesome. :bow:

[Gregoshi]

Bad Santa sends message to Harrods (http://njuice.com/Bad-Santa-sends-message-Harrods). That's the Christmas spirit in big neon letters.:laugh4:
I don't think they will be firing the head of security until after the lights come down.

[Hosakawa Tito]

The Church of Tell It Like It Is. (http://www.westword.com/2010-12-23/news/christian-punks-jesus-christmas/) What could a disaffected youth possibly do to tick off the parents more than join Scum of the Earth Church? Brilliant! :laugh4:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/scumoftheearth.jpg

[lars573]

I saw this story while checking mah email. And knew where it had to go.

Talk about Green River (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/non-toxic-chemical-turned-b-c-river-green-20110105-111801-709.html)

Clip from the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO_-gwiteFE

[naut]

Maybe if you bathe in it you'll gain super-powers?

[InsaneApache]

Maybe if you bathe in it you'll gain super-powers?

You know nothing *in Manuels accent*

It's obviously a typical Lex Luther trick to catch Superman and imprison him for eternity. Honestly some peeps......










:laugh4:

[Hosakawa Tito]

Games Men Play With Their Pee. (http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/05/controlling-video-games-with-your-pee-sega-brings-awkward-fun-to-the-restroom/) A beer drinking game, oh boy!:laugh4:

[Vladimir]

Nazi Buff Turned Jihadi Allegedly Bites FBI Agents (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/nazi-buff-turned-jihadi-allegedly-bites-fbi-agents/story?id=12557232)

Maybe it was during a sting.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Chucchio Norrissi:


Italian man shot in head sneezes out bullet and lives

An Italian man has astonished doctors by sneezing a bullet out through his nose after being shot in the head.
Darco Sangermano, 28, had been taken to hospital in Naples for emergency treatment after being hit by a stray bullet during New Year's Eve celebrations.

The bullet passed behind his right eye and lodged in his nostril, but miraculously did no serious damage.
He is expected to make a full recovery, doctors say.

Mr Sangermano had spent New Year's Eve with his girlfriend in Naples.
As the city sky exploded in a traditional celebration of fireworks, firecrackers - and the occasional high-spirited blast of firearms - he was wandering the streets when a stray .22 calibre bullet struck him on the side of the head, behind his right eye.

Bleeding heavily, he was rushed to hospital.
But while he was waiting for doctors he sneezed - and the bullet popped out of his right nostril.

Doctors say it had been slowed down when it hit his skull - which almost certainly saved his sight, as well as his life.
Mr Sangermano is expected to undergo laser surgery on his right eye's damaged retina.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12160874

[Lemur]

Fox shoots hunter (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70C5Q620110113)

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A wounded fox shot its would be killer in Belarus by pulling the trigger on the hunter's gun as the pair scuffled after the man tried to finish the animal off with the butt of the rifle, media said Thursday.

The unnamed hunter, who had approached the fox after wounding it from a distance, was in hospital with a leg wound, while the fox made its escape, media said, citing prosecutors from the Grodno region.

"The animal fiercely resisted and in the struggle accidentally pulled the trigger with its paw," one prosecutor was quoted as saying.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Man killed by own cock. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/21/man_bird_death/)

Blade-enhanced battle-beast missing, presumed stolen
By Sarah Bee • Get more from this author

A Bengali man has reportedly suffered a gruesome demise after he pushed his metal-enhanced cock that bit too far.

Singrai Soren, a trainer of fighting roosters, was killed in Mohanpur in West Bengal after one of his birds apparently turned on him, the Daily Mail soberly relates.

According to a friend, Soren forced the cockerel - whose legs were tooled up with razor blades - back into the ring to fight as it repeatedly tried to get away.

"This upset it, and it attacked Soren," said the friend.

The man's throat was slit in the struggle. The whereabouts of the killer cock are unknown, but it is thought that another trainer has bagged it. The bird had won four fights prior to its deadly attack.

Police are looking for the black and red feathered beast.

A lesson for all, we can surely agree, who are too pushy with birds. All further puns, moral outrage etc to the usual address. ®

Let the puns begin!

CR

[Conqueror]

Better than being killed by another man's cock...

[Lemur]

Who Wants a Slice of Human Cheese? (http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2011/01/miriam-simun-talks-about-human-cheese-biotechnology-sustainable-food-systems/)

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DG: Where did you procure the milk and how expensive was it?

MS: I used two different sources. One woman lives here in New York, and she very kindly donated it to me – she has been overproducing, filling up her freezer, and was finding it painful to just throw it away. I purchased the milk from the another woman, and she shipped it to me in ice, from Wisconsin. I am working to make a delicious Wisconsin human cheddar. I found both the women on an online marketplace for breast milk – where women regularly arrange to sell and donate their milk. [...]

The culture that exists around making food with breast milk – women make bread, yogurt, ice cream, soup…you name it. I never expected it. Cheese is a bit more complicated, because of the unique properties of human milk. But it’s great to know that I’m not too off base with human cheese – in some ways, I’m just bringing a niche food product to the mainstream. Kind of like caviar.

[gaelic cowboy]

So what your saying is Soylent Green wasn't too far off the mark with the raising us as cattle analogy

[Hosakawa Tito]

Electrified Booze (http://io9.com/5731129/drunken-scientists-pour-alcohol-on-superconductors-and-make-an-incredible-discovery). Nobody's more fun than Superconductor Researchers. Gentlemen, we must expand on this breakthrough into other fields for the sake of mankind.

[Lemur]

Crazed Rabbit's Home State Ranked #1 for Bestiality (http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/01/washington_state_is_worst_stat.php) (and now we know why the rabbits are so crazed)

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The ranking comes via stats from Pet-Abuse.com, which lists four bestiality incidents in its stats on Washington (one more than Georgia and Florida, which each have three), but has an interactive map showing five incidents.

No example of Washington state animal buggery is more famous than Kenneth Pinyan and the "Enumclaw Horse Sex Case" of 2005.

Countless articles have been written about it, and a film was even made.

But in short, Pinyan was a Boeing engineer and Gig Harbor resident who got his kicks on the side by traveling up to a farm near Enumclaw and letting a horse named "Big Dick" fuck his brains out while a couple friends videotaped the action. Pinyan took his fetish too far one day when the horse perforated his colon, an injury that soon afterward killed him.

The case led to a new law in Washington, which specifically outlaws bestiality.

Next we have Michael Patrick McPhail, a 26-year-old from Spanaway, who was the first person charged under the post-Pinyan bestiality law. McPhail was caught by his wife having sex with a "squealing and crying" female pit-bull mix on the couple's porch and turned in to sheriff's deputies. He was later acquitted.

Reaching back even further, a 2004 incident involves five 12 and 13-year-olds who broke into a barn at White Swan High School and brutalized and sodomized several pigs with "canes, axes, knives, and hammers." The kids--being kids--ended up skating with light punishments after much of the evidence was cleaned up or tainted by parents and other locals.

Moving up to 2007, we have Mr. Arthur Lawton, a man who was charged with animal cruelty for having sex with a goat in a barn where he worked at Eatonville's Pioneer Farm Museum. He'd been caught mid-shag by a tour guide, though he later claimed he was only "trying to milk" the creature.

Then last year, Douglas Spink, a former cocaine runner and extreme sports enthusiast, was arrested for essentially running a bestiality resort for tourists near the Canada-Washington border.

After pleading guilty to letting a man visit his ranch and have sex with his dogs, he was sentenced to three years in federal prison.

And finally, there's Gary A. Veldhuizen of Ferndale--a lover of the online game FarmVille and an even bigger lover of goats. Real ones. Real ones that he has sex with.

Veldhuizen was caught doing the deed with a goat by a family member, and later sentenced to one month in jail by a Whatcom County judge.

So as you can see, Washington is steeped in man-on-beast history. Whether it's our defining shameful trademark seems a stretch. But it is what it is.

[gaelic cowboy]

Cool my relations live in Iowa and it says "oldest state" so it must be rubbish at being old then, so therefore they must all be cool cornfed hip cats and everything.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Baby sitting is thirsty work (http://www.keysnet.com/2011/01/18/300078/cops-drunk-grandpa-passes-out.html).
When roused, he reportedly told Deputy Bradford Colen he was "resting." :laugh4: Bad Grampa!
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