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Gregoshi
11-28-2011, 04:18
The valuable deposits are being held in Fort Knox Up.
InsaneApache
11-29-2011, 10:59
If WWII happened today....
http://9gag.com/gag/672491
Warning: Some profanity.
Hosakawa Tito has zero job security (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-11/robotic-guards-will-soon-patrol-south-korean-prison)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/robotguard.png
Robot guards are coming to a South Korean jail next spring, according to the Yonhap news agency. The guards are 5 feet tall and equipped with four wheels, a friendly face and who knows what sorts of pain rays and other implements. They are designed to look friendly to inmates, according to the designers.
The machines will monitor inmates for abnormal behavior, according to the BBC. They'll be able to detect prisoner violence and even notice attempts at suicide, which researchers say will help reduce human guards’ workload. The robots will mostly work at night, patrolling correctional facilities and helping prisoners connect with officers, according to Yonhap. They come equipped with a “remote conversation function,” via the cameras mounted on their torsos.
Three prototype guard ‘bots will spend a month in a jail in the city of Pohang. The Asian Forum for Corrections, a South Korean research group, developed the robots in concert with Kyonggi University. The project will cost about $864,000.
Tellos Athenaios
11-29-2011, 16:50
Relax, it's only a scam (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/29/net_smut_pop_up_scam/).
Strathclyde Police are not levying fines on punters watching internet porn, the force has been obliged to explain.
Scam messages, that often appear as pop-ups and pose as messages from the plod, claim a user's machine has been locked for showing adult content. Marks are told they need to pay a £100 fine over the phone in order to supposedly regain access to their machine.
(...)
"We would like to assure the public that this is an internet scam and has absolutely nothing to do with Strathclyde Police, and that our organisation never asks the public for money," a police spokesman told the BBC.
Hosakawa Tito
11-30-2011, 00:26
Hosakawa Tito has zero job security (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-11/robotic-guards-will-soon-patrol-south-korean-prison)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/robotguard.png
Robot guards are coming to a South Korean jail next spring, according to the Yonhap news agency. The guards are 5 feet tall and equipped with four wheels, a friendly face and who knows what sorts of pain rays and other implements. They are designed to look friendly to inmates, according to the designers.
The machines will monitor inmates for abnormal behavior, according to the BBC. They'll be able to detect prisoner violence and even notice attempts at suicide, which researchers say will help reduce human guards’ workload. The robots will mostly work at night, patrolling correctional facilities and helping prisoners connect with officers, according to Yonhap. They come equipped with a “remote conversation function,” via the cameras mounted on their torsos.
Three prototype guard ‘bots will spend a month in a jail in the city of Pohang. The Asian Forum for Corrections, a South Korean research group, developed the robots in concert with Kyonggi University. The project will cost about $864,000.
Hehehe, better hope the robot AI is better than STW2. I can't decide who'd mess with the bots more, human CO's or the inmates. :robot:
Vladimir
11-30-2011, 23:26
If WWII happened today....
http://9gag.com/gag/672491
Warning: Some profanity.
Pretty funny but they forgot the part of Germany trying to make a nuke. Kinda how we got into the deal in the first place.
Hosakawa Tito
11-30-2011, 23:56
British Bar Puts Video Game Above Bathroom Urinals (http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-28/europe/30450577_1_urine-bathroom-lcd-screen). Hehehe, that's what I call streaming video. What's with the "Yur-rhi-nal" pronunciation? :laugh4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OlCe0VIL0Eg
Gregoshi
12-01-2011, 01:04
British Bar Puts Video Game Above Bathroom Urinals (http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-28/europe/30450577_1_urine-bathroom-lcd-screen). Hehehe, that's what I call streaming video. What's with the "Yur-rhi-nal" pronunciation? :laugh4:
What next, a PS "2" in the stalls? (what the "p" and the "s" stand for is for you to decide)
Veho Nex
12-01-2011, 03:21
Man from future attacks LHC! (http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/man-arrested-at-large-hadron-collider-claims-hes-from-the-future-49305387/)
Professor Brian Cox, a CERN physicist and full-time rock'n'roll TV scientist, was sympathetic to Mr Cole. "Bless him, he sounds harmless enough. At least he didn't mention bloody black holes."
Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered.
Its fake
Gregoshi
12-01-2011, 04:57
Veho, for that nested spoiler trick, you are getting Cole in your stocking this Christmas. :san_angry:
Veho Nex
12-01-2011, 07:33
Veho, for that nested spoiler trick, you are getting Cole in your stocking this Christmas. :san_angry:
Who's Cole? Is Cole fun to hang out with? A good friend?
If so, you can come to Gregoshi :D
Also, if it makes you feel any better, I failed at it like four times before getting it right.
Gregoshi
12-01-2011, 23:09
Cole is the nut from the future in your story. On the bright side, at least you would have access to unlimited Kit Kats.
Hosakawa Tito
12-02-2011, 01:03
UK Crematorium May Sell Body Heat To Great Britain's National Grid (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/28/durham-crematorium-turbine-energy_n_1116660.html?ref=weird-news). That is creepily energy efficient. Would it be considered "green energy" like soylent green? :sweatdrop:
Gregoshi
12-02-2011, 02:34
UK Crematorium May Sell Body Heat To Great Britain's National Grid (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/28/durham-crematorium-turbine-energy_n_1116660.html?ref=weird-news). That is creepily energy efficient.
Welcome to the Deddy Kilowatt Funeral 'Ohm, where the power is always dead but you'll see the Light.
https://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h12/gbresslr/Org Pictures/ReddyKillowatt.jpg
Ja'chyra
12-02-2011, 18:04
Great idea, cremations are very expensive and that will help with the inheritance.
Eagles Attack Paraglider in Himalayas (http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_oddities/2011/11/eagles-attack-a-paraglider.html)
Not much to add to that except to note that the article has full video of the aerial assault. From the link: "[A] man paragliding the Himalayas [has] the shock of his life when two eagles materialize out of nowhere and smash into him. It's possible that the eagles were engaged in a mid-air courtship display and unwittingly collided with the paraglider (eagles don't typically attack people), or that they perceived the paraglider as a threat and were indeed aggressively attacking."
Kidnapper sues victims for daring to escape (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/colorado-kidnapper-jessie-dimmick-sues-victims-breaking-oral-contract-hide-police-article-1.984457?localLinksEnabled=false)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/kidnapper.jpg
A convicted Colorado kidnapper is suing a couple he held hostage two years ago for breaking their promise that they would help hide him from police.
Jessie Dimmick, 25, claims that Jared and Lindsay Rowley agreed to take an unspecified amount of cash in exchange for helping him hide from cops, who were hunting him in connection with the beating death of a Colorado man, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.
Dimmick broke into the couple's Topeka, Kan., home on Sept. 12, 2009 after he crashed a stolen van onto their lawn during a high-speed chase with police.
The Rowleys claimed the young thug held them at knifepoint, but they eventually got his trust by munching on Cheetos, sipping Dr. Pepper and watching the Robin Williams flick "Patch Adams," the Capital-Journal reported at the time.
The couple managed to escape after Dimmick fell asleep, and police arrested him sometime later.
"As a result of the plaintiffs breech (sic) of contract, I, the defendant suffered a gunshot to my back, which almost killed me. The hospital bills alone are in excess of $160,000, which I have no way to pay," Dimmick wrote in the suit.
Tellos Athenaios
12-05-2011, 21:17
Snowbound Alaskan survives on frozen beer (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/05/frozen_beer/), or “Quick drive ends in terrifying Coors Light ordeal”:
An Alaskan man who ill-advisedly went for a drive without adequate emergency supplies and got stuck in a snow drift was obliged to subsist for three days on nothing more than frozen cans of beer.
Clifton Vial left Nome, on the Bering Sea, in his Toyota Tacoma last Monday night for a quick jaunt north. Some 40 miles (64km) from home, he found himself stranded out of mobile phone range, and wearing just "tennis shoes, jeans and a $30 jacket from Sears".
The 52-year-old said: "I made an attempt at digging myself out and realised how badly I was stuck. I would have been frostbit before I ever got the thing out of there."
(...)
Since his family was away on a trip, and he wouldn't be missed at work until he failed to turn up on Tuesday afternoon, a quick rescue was unlikely. Vial was obliged to crawl into a sleeping bag liner, wrap a towel around his feet and occasionally run the engine as protection against the -25°C cold.
Gay Marriage Will Lead to People Marrying Cars, Eiffel Tower (http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1070174_people-will-soon-legally-marry-their-cars-says-pressure-group)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcw8dQ02if8
The startling prediction came from Buster Wilson, general manager of American Family Radio, during a discussion with co-host Ed Vitagliano articulating the pair's views against marriage equality. (Same-sex couples can marry today in six states and the District of Columbia.)
Wilson starts out by saying that the "end result" of marriage equality is legalization of polygamous marriages.
That, he says, will be followed by polyamory marriages (multiple partners of any gender), and then "people who brought to the forefront their desire to marry—one guy had a desire to marry a building, another one a car, another one his dog." [...]
In other related news, last week the chairwoman of presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's Iowa campaign organization claimed that same-sex marriage would lead to women wanting to marry the Eiffel Tower.
The Irish Are Easily Confused (http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Surprisingly-Jewish-Hanukkah-menorah-now-a-favorite-Irish-Christmas-tradition-135016818.html)
Finding Jews in Ireland is not an easy task. Of Ireland’s 4.4 million people, only 2,000 or so are Jewish.
But finding a menorah, the eight branched candle that celebrates Hanukkah — that’s a cinch.
For some reason, already lost in time and space, thousands of rural Irish homes have unwittingly adopted this famous candelabrum to celebrate — of all things — Christmas. It’s a festival of lights for sure, but somehow the Irish have followed them in an intriguingly new direction.
It was during the mid 1990s that the Irish craze for menorahs, one of the most enduring symbols of the Jewish faith and Israel, took off. Doubtless some enterprising Irish salesman with a hard neck or thing for irony brought them to the High Street where they were instantly snapped up.
Driving west from Dublin to Galway in December you can count them by the hundred now, shining out from the polished windows of Irish living rooms. Some feature candles, some electric lights, and all seem designed to perplex or mystify their Jewish neighbors who must shake their heads in wonder at the sight.
Hosakawa Tito
12-10-2011, 01:08
Castrating Lambs With Your Teeth May Make You S (http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/12/08/cdc-castrating-lambs-with-your-teeth-may-make-you-sick/?KEYWORDS=lambs)ick (http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/12/08/cdc-castrating-lambs-with-your-teeth-may-make-you-sick/?KEYWORDS=lambs). Makes me queasy just thinking bout it. I prefer my mountain oysters cooked and on a plate.
InsaneApache
12-12-2011, 04:48
No **** Sherlock!
Transplanting faecal matter from one person to another - the thought might turn your stomach, but it could be lifesaving.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15113440
One trusts that there was no fan present in the operating theatre.
Gregoshi
12-12-2011, 05:24
Save a life. Please give a crap about C. difficile infection.
Hosakawa Tito
12-12-2011, 11:51
Next time I tell someone to eat :daisy: I can claim to be concerned with their health.
Crazed Rabbit
12-13-2011, 07:19
Skinhead Knocked Out by Victim Now Faces Hate-Crime Sentence (http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/archives/2011/12/09/skinhead-knocked-out-by-victim-now-faces-hate-crime-sentence)
Prosecutors said that Daren Abbey had threatened to stab a black man, saying "blacks were not welcome in Bayview and he had better leave before something happened," according to police. Abbey then allegedly poked the victim in the chest.
But Abbey, a self-proclaimed skinhead who sports several neo-Nazi tatoos, got knocked out with one punch by the black man during the July 3 incident. Abbey later told officials that he felt he had been "hit by a brick." Abbey apparently was unaware of the writing on the back of the black man's T-shirt: "Spokane Boxing Club Champion."
:beam:
CR
Australia's "Small Breast Ban" — Boobish Lawmaking or Outstanding Points? (http://theweek.com/article/index/105766/australias-small-breast-ban)
Australia's government is "banning" adult publications and films featuring women with "small breasts," says Aussie activist Fiona Patten, on the grounds that such images encourage pedophilia. [...] This "is a terrible idea for many reasons," says Maureen O'Connor in Gawker. Not only would such a ban do nothing to "reduce smut," censoring images of "small breasts" only codifies "an arbitrary set of female sexual ideals." [...]
Regardless, the law is sexist: A ban that classifies normal female bodies as "obscene" could not be "any more insulting," says adult industry blog Ms Naughty. Not only does this encourage women to have breast augmentations, it characterizes men who think "small boobs are sexy" as "perverts." There's an easier way to determine if a woman is "'too young" — it's called checking her date of birth.
gaelic cowboy
12-13-2011, 16:59
The Irish Are Easily Confused (http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Surprisingly-Jewish-Hanukkah-menorah-now-a-favorite-Irish-Christmas-tradition-135016818.html)
Finding Jews in Ireland is not an easy task. Of Ireland’s 4.4 million people, only 2,000 or so are Jewish.
But finding a menorah, the eight branched candle that celebrates Hanukkah — that’s a cinch.
For some reason, already lost in time and space, thousands of rural Irish homes have unwittingly adopted this famous candelabrum to celebrate — of all things — Christmas. It’s a festival of lights for sure, but somehow the Irish have followed them in an intriguingly new direction.
It was during the mid 1990s that the Irish craze for menorahs, one of the most enduring symbols of the Jewish faith and Israel, took off. Doubtless some enterprising Irish salesman with a hard neck or thing for irony brought them to the High Street where they were instantly snapped up.
Driving west from Dublin to Galway in December you can count them by the hundred now, shining out from the polished windows of Irish living rooms. Some feature candles, some electric lights, and all seem designed to perplex or mystify their Jewish neighbors who must shake their heads in wonder at the sight.
Well no more strange than having pictures above the stanley range in the kitchen of President Kennedy proudly beside the Sacred Heart.
Veho Nex
12-13-2011, 21:33
Skinhead Knocked Out by Victim Now Faces Hate-Crime Sentence (http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/archives/2011/12/09/skinhead-knocked-out-by-victim-now-faces-hate-crime-sentence)
:beam:
CR
Karma hits like a brick too.
Gregoshi
12-14-2011, 03:05
Skinhead Knocked Out by Victim Now Faces Hate-Crime Sentence (http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/archives/2011/12/09/skinhead-knocked-out-by-victim-now-faces-hate-crime-sentence)
Abbey was charged with one count of malicious harassment, one count of battery and a ten count for being incredibly stupid.
Australia's government is "banning" adult publications and films featuring women with "small breasts," says Aussie activist Fiona Patten, on the grounds that such images encourage pedophilia. [...]
Under this law, the "ABC" television network will have to change its name to "C". :inquisitive:
Tellos Athenaios
12-14-2011, 03:51
Australia's "Small Breast Ban" — Boobish Lawmaking or Outstanding Points? (http://theweek.com/article/index/105766/australias-small-breast-ban)
I thought that headline was strangely familiar. It's over a year old!
posted on January 29, 2010, at 2:41 AM
Amphibian Home Invasion (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10772980)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/SealCouch.jpg
A wandering baby fur-seal wriggled through the cat-door of a Bay of Plenty house — and made himself at home on the couch.
A stunned Annette Swoffer thought she must have been hallucinating when she found the young pup hanging out with her cats in her kitchen on Sunday night.
The seal had made its way from the Welcome Bay waterfront, through the suburb's residential area, across busy Welcome Bay Rd, up a slip road, along Ms Swoffer's long driveway, under a gate, through the cat door and up some stairs before he was found in the kitchen about 9.30pm.
"I was in my office and I heard an awful racket down below... I thought the cats have brought a rabbit or something in so I went down and had a look — and there's a seal in my kitchen.
"I thought 'I'm hallucinating, this is just wrong'."
Stunned, Ms Swoffer called a friend who lives in a unit at the same property to come and verify what she was seeing.
"I'm looking and I'm definitely seeing flippers and not paws."
Calmly, the young pup then eased past Ms Swoffer's dog and cats before making himself at home on a couch and attempting to snuggle in for the night.
Amphibian Home Invasion (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10772980)
Seals are mammals, not amphibians. :book:
I cannot imagine the chaos a seal would cause if it got into my house (aka, Siberian Central).
Vladimir
12-22-2011, 14:55
Enter a third and we can film a new Monty Python movie:
Twins born with two heads and one body (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/twins-born-with-two-heads-and-one-body-both-healthy-and-both-have-an-amazing-appetite/story-e6freuzi-1226228157955)
Man Shoot Mouse, Misses, Accidentally Reveals Child Molester (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/22/man-misses-mouse-and-shoots-roommate-revealing-child-rapist/)
Taylorsville Police Sgt. Tracy Wyant told Deseret News that the first roommate, 27, had been trying to kill a rodent when he missed and the round went through the kitchen wall and struck a second roommate, 28.
“After the gun was fired, both the roommate and Paul heard a scream,” Wyant explained.
Officers responding to the scene early Tuesday morning found a 13-year-old girl hiding in a basement closet. She told police she had been having an affair with the third roommate, 34-year-old Paul Daniel Kunzler. During an interview, the Children’s Justice Center determined that the girl had been having sex with Kunzler over a period of four months.
He was arrested on suspicion of two counts of rape of a child, three counts of sodomy of a child and three counts of sexual abuse of a child.
A fourth roommate, Zach Baker, told Fox 13 that he slept through the gunfire. [...]
Police said they suspected alcohol was involved.
Namibian "Space Balls" Mystery Solved (http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/namibia-space-ball-mystery-solved-20111227-1pb52.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/spaceballs.jpg
The mysterious large metallic ball that fell out of the sky in Namibia, sparking considerable panic, is most likely a fuel tank from an unmanned rocket (http://cs.astrium.eads.net/sp/spacecraft-propulsion/propellant-tanks/39-litre-hydrazine-bladder-tank.html).
The hollow "space ball", which weighs six kilograms and has a circumference of 1.1 metres, was found near a village on a remote grassland about 750km from the capital, Windhoek.
Locals reported hearing several small explosions a few days earlier and baffled authorities contacted NASA and the European space agency foradvice. Internet rumours began swirling that it may be evidence of extra-terrestrial life. [...]
Several such large balls have dropped in southern Africa, Australia and Latin America in the past 20 years, according to reports.
First World Watching-Paint-Dry Championships (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/884763-first-ever-world-watching-paint-dry-championships-to-be-held-in-uk)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/watchpaintdry.jpg
Apparently the most boring thing to do is watch paint dry so what better test of endurance and concentration than the World Watching Paint Dry Championships, which are due to be held in the UK next year.
Those looking to compete in the championships must send in a picture of themselves watching paint dry and state the longest time they’ve managed to stare at a wall of drying paint without looking away.
They will also need to tell organisers what their favourite colour is and why.
A shortlist will then be drawn up and those contestants will be invited to attend an ultimate final in front of media at a location in central England.
The final stare down will see six paint watchers from around the world fight it out for the international title and an iPad.
A spokesman for the organisers LocalTraders.com said: 'We’ve all heard the phrase, "I’d rather watch paint dry" and so we have decided the time has come to give people the chance to do so, for as long as they can bear.
'You don’t need to be physically fit or participate in a vigorous training regime, what’s more important is mental strength, concentration and endurance.
'Previous paint-watching experience isn’t essential, but a bit of practice might help prepare contestants for the mammoth task ahead of them.'
Namibian "Space Balls" Mystery Solved (http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/namibia-space-ball-mystery-solved-20111227-1pb52.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/spaceballs.jpg
The mysterious large metallic ball that fell out of the sky in Namibia, sparking considerable panic, is most likely a fuel tank from an unmanned rocket (http://cs.astrium.eads.net/sp/spacecraft-propulsion/propellant-tanks/39-litre-hydrazine-bladder-tank.html).
The hollow "space ball", which weighs six kilograms and has a circumference of 1.1 metres, was found near a village on a remote grassland about 750km from the capital, Windhoek.
Locals reported hearing several small explosions a few days earlier and baffled authorities contacted NASA and the European space agency foradvice. Internet rumours began swirling that it may be evidence of extra-terrestrial life. [...]
Several such large balls have dropped in southern Africa, Australia and Latin America in the past 20 years, according to reports.that's quite possibley the weirdest story i've read in my entire life nice fined :)
Island Nation Samoa to Skip Friday, Travel to Future (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/273732/20111228/samoa-friday-time-zone-international-dateline.htm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0
Samoa's tourism board notes, "we will lose one day in our lives as there will be no Friday 30th December 2011 in the history of Samoa."
At midnight on Thursday, Dec. 29, Samoa's calendar will leap ahead to Saturday Dec. 31 as it redraws the International Date Line to move to the western side after over a century on the east. [...]
The shift opens up a myriad of opportunities for fact-throwing, time-traveling tourists.
"You can have two birthdays or two wedding anniversaries on the same date without leaving the Samoan chain," Samoa's colorful and notoriously whimsical Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi suggested in May when the announcement was made.
In Samoa, the mood is predictably laid back.
[Insert Obligatory Snakes on a Plane Joke] (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvL58WmHnNYuV4AiYQ2rW2OsKmrQ?docId=26180512469345ef8dae451c4297d920)
An exotic animal salesman tried to board a flight from Argentina to Europe with almost 250 undeclared poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles in his baggage, each meticulously labeled with its Latin name.
Czech citizen Karel Abelovsky, 51, was detained after police spotted wriggling reptiles in the X-ray scanner at Buenos Aires' international airport and made him open the checked baggage. They found 247 exotic and endangered species in all, packed inside plastic containers, bags, and even socks. [...]
Judge Marcelo Aguinsky believes the boa constrictors, poisonous pit vipers and coral snakes, lizards and spiders could have escaped the cloth suitcase in the unpressurized cargo hold of the Dec. 7 Iberia flight to Madrid, and perhaps attacked people there or at his final destination in Prague, where antidotes for South American snakes aren't common, the source added.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2011/12/28/19174731.htmlA
rare Asian hooded crane, normally seen only in Southeast Asia, China and Japan, "took a wrong turn" and joined sandhill cranes wintering in the southern United States, bird experts said.
Its unexpected visit at the Hiwassee Refuge in southeast Tennessee is drawing curious birdwatchers from across the country
well this might be old news but hey it's still weird
InsaneApache
01-02-2012, 02:59
Chimp builds fire, lights it and has a barbecue. I wonder if he like a cold beer as well?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8985122/Amazing-photos-of-Kanzi-the-bonobo-lighting-a-fire-and-cooking-a-meal.html
An End to Porn as We Know It (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/06/condom-initiative-by-anti-aids-group-threatens-porn-industry.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/porn.jpg
A new initiative aimed at forcing adult film performers to wear condoms during intercourse has the porn world up in arms— and could wipe out the U.S. industry altogether. [...]
This week, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation launched a new war against porn’s potentially reckless ways, proposing a strict initiative that would require male porn stars to wear condoms during vaginal and anal intercourse.
“The fact that these workers’ health and safety has been neglected is a very dangerous situation,” AHF president Michael Weinstein tells The Daily Beast. “It’s a matter of fairness. Why is this the only industry not afforded protection when they go to work?” [...]
Just as moviegoers are turned on by special effects and other fantasy elements, porn viewers want to see people have intercourse without condoms. “Porn is meant to entertain, not to educate,” argues veteran performer Nina Hartley. “The kind of sex we’re having on camera is not like sex people have at home. Condoms won’t make us any safer.” Female porn stars are engaged in the act for an average of 30 to 55 minutes during a shoot, Hartley explains. Even for the pros, that’s a long time to keep the juices flowing. When you add condoms to the mix, it’s a “friction burn in the wrong place,” as Hartley puts it, one that can cause micro-tears in the vaginal wall and leave a woman more susceptible to diseases.
Is it really "stealing"? Seems like more of a "borrow" to me (http://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-coroner-stole-body-part-train-dog-police-235406372.html)
The medical examiner for Oneida County in northern Wisconsin was released on a $5,000 signature bond on Thursday after she was arrested for allegedly stealing a human body part obtained from an autopsy to train her dog.
Traci England, 44, of Rhinelander, faces charges of misconduct in public office and theft, according to a news release from the Oneida County Sheriff's office.
England told investigators she kept part of a person's spine from an autopsy she performed on Tuesday so that she could train one of her dogs to search for human remains. [...] She is currently on administrative suspension and has been barred from possessing any human remains.
Meet the U.S. Conservative Politico Secretly "Donating" Sperm to New Zealand Lesbians (http://gawker.com/5867386/meet-bill-johnson-the-anti+gay-goper-secretly-donating-sperm-to-lesbian-couples-in-new-zealand)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/politician_lesbians.jpg
Bill Johnson, who made a failed bid for governor of Alabama in 2010, anonymously donated sperm to lesbian couples in New Zealand, according to a report by the New Zealand Herald.
Johnson has spent much of the last year in Christchurch, where he moved without his wife and her three kids (from a previous marriage), in order to help the country's recovery from the February earthquake.
All the while Johnson was reportedly trolling the internet under the username "chchbill" for women who needed help getting pregnant. He reportedly had exchanges with at least nine women - among them several lesbians - at least three of whom are now pregnant. [...] He said the urge to become a biological father was "a need that I have".
"I am married to the most beautiful woman in the world. When I married her I knew we couldn't have any more children. She had a hysterectomy 10 years ago," he said. "There is nothing my wife would want to give me more in the world than a child of my own."
"Reproduction and having children is as basic a human need as eating," he told the Herald.
His wife, Kathy Johnson, said the revelations were "the utmost of betrayal." [...]
Johnson ran as a Christian conservative in his 2010 bid for governor, during which he said he was against gay marriage.
I'll admit, he's no George Rekers (http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-06/news/christian-right-leader-george-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rent-boy/), but it just goes to show that anybody who campaigns on explicitly anti-gay themes is ... suspect. Anyway, I thought the Alabama/New Zealand axis gave it a nice boost of weirdness, plus the unstated but clear implication that these were low-tech donations.
This seemed more News of the Weird to me, rather than my much-loved Why Is Seemingly Every Anti-Gay Activist a Closet Case? (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?127960-Why-Is-Seemingly-Every-Anti-Gay-Activist-a-Closet-Case) thread.
Montmorency
01-06-2012, 22:46
Not just anyone can become a sperm donor, so he must be alright.
Good for him, I say. Knock them all up!
Children are a gift from God, and we must always be creating more and more.
Tellos Athenaios
01-06-2012, 22:56
@Lemur: at first I thought he'd be a shoo-in for the “anything Christian touting family values is suspect angle”. But the gay thing works too, I guess.
Not just anyone can become a sperm donor, so he must be alright.
Um, he was unaffiliated with any licensed sperm bank, but rather was offering his services on Craigslist. Clearly there was no technology involved with the donations. So, um, he was doing it the old-fashioned way. To New Zealand lesbians. Hence the item's NotW status.
Montmorency
01-06-2012, 23:20
But he still had - ah, you've killed it.
Hosakawa Tito
01-06-2012, 23:53
Um, he was unaffiliated with any licensed sperm bank, but rather was offering his services on Craigslist. Clearly there was no technology involved with the donations. So, um, he was doing it the old-fashioned way. To New Zealand lesbians. Hence the item's NotW status.
A free lance sperm donor hooking up with receptive lesbian sperm receptacles. Everybody needs a hobby I guess.
Speaking of hobbies check out the Slingshot ZombieHammer und SkullEjector.
http://youtu.be/i240YgsA_rs
Only for use on zombies, jah! :laugh4:
Hosakawa Tito
01-07-2012, 14:42
Could a Backroom mod merge this with the original News of the Weird thread please? :bow:
Vladimir
01-09-2012, 15:49
I know The Hoff could never have crabs but could crabs have The Hoff?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16394430
Gregoshi
01-09-2012, 16:06
Those crabs look pretty ripped too - they've good mussel definition on their shell.
Vladimir
01-09-2012, 21:06
Those crabs look pretty ripped too - they've good mussel definition on their shell.
You're right, I can sea it now. Must be from fighting the tide.
That's all I got...
Theft of rabbits likely politically motivated, says Portland Meat Collective (http://www.koinlocal6.com/news/local/story/Theft-of-rabbits-likely-politically-motivated/VHj8kZaLekaY0A3y-fo31w.cspx)
An Oregon farmer and instructor for the Portland Meat Collective says there was likely political motivation behind the theft of 23 rabbits.
Levi Cole says the rabbits were taken from his property in a burglary Saturday, the night before he instructed a class on raising, slaughtering and cooking rabbits.
He told The Oregonian he believes the burglary was politically charged, and whoever stole the rabbits left behind nine nursing baby bunnies that died Sunday.
Portland Meat Collective owner Camas Davis says it's the first time anything like this has happened to the group, which gets an occasional comment on its website from people angry at its existence.
The rabbit class went on as scheduled with other rabbits. Cole says the burglary was the main topic of dinner conversation.
Mad monk with giant rats brings peace to Africa (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-converse-townsend/an-army-of-giant-rats-une_b_1129358.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/mad-monk.jpg
Identifying, unearthing and disarming [landmines] is dangerous and daunting. Despite record clearances, more countries deployed anti-personnel mines last year than in any year since 2004.
But one social innovator has risen to the challenge -- with the help of a few hundred friends. The innovator is the industrial engineer, Buddhist monk and Ashoka Fellow Bart Weetjens.
His hundreds of friends are sub-Saharan Africa's giant pouched rats. About three feet long and armed with a powerful sense of smell, these rats might just be humanity's best hope for moving forward with confidence.
"Our rats save human lives, and therefore we call them HeroRATS," said Weetjens, the founder of APOPO, a Dutch social enterprise that researches, develops, and disseminates detection rats technology for humanitarian purposes. Headquartered in the southern highlands of Tanzania, at the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) campus in Morogoro, Weetjens and APOPO train rats through classical conditioning -- think Pavlov and his dogs -- to detect threats in countries with long landmine legacies.
Gregoshi
01-10-2012, 07:51
Those crabs look pretty ripped too...
Must be from fighting the tide.
Are you saying it is a rip tide? :laugh4:
Could a Backroom mod merge this with the original News of the Weird thread please? :bow:
http://cdn.ci1.yp.ca/14968789aa_t.gif
There's a two plate limit, you Foreign Devil!
Zimbabwe's answer to crushing poverty: Outlaw used underwear! (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/zimbabwean-outlaws-sale-used-knickers)
What man would buy his wife secondhand underwear? The question, attributed to a government minister, has reportedly led to a ban on the import or sale of used knickers in Zimbabwe, a country that has suffered indignities enough.
The importation of "articles of second-hand undergarments of any type, form or description, whether purchased, donated or procured in any other manner", is now forbidden, according to statutory instrument 150 of 2011.
This is one lost freedom not being blamed on President Robert Mugabe. Instead, the measure is apparently the brainchild of finance minister Tendai Biti of the rival Movement for Democratic Change. Biti was shocked to discover many Zimbabweans bought used underwear from flea markets or stalls.
"I am told we are now even importing women's underwear in this country," he was quoted saying recently. "How does that happen? If you are a husband and you see your wife buying underwear from the flea market, you would have failed."
The minister added: "If I was your in-law, I would take my daughter and urge you to first put your house in order if you still want her back."
Zimbabwe has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world, estimated at more than 90%. Poverty has driven many to buy secondhand underwear from markets which are supplied with used stock or donations from the west.
Dubai gym apologizes for using Auschwitz to motivate weight loss (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/06/ad-for-dubai-gym-causes-international-outrage/)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/AuschwitzGym.jpg
Using Auschwitz as part of your ad campaign probably doesn’t seem like a good idea to most.
Apparently it did to The Circuit Factory gym in Dubai.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the founder of the gym posted 10 photos of a new ad campaign to the gym’s Facebook page. One of the ads included an image of the railroad leading to the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with the slogan “Kiss Your Calories Goodbye.”
The image was not well received, and started getting Tweeted around the web. [...]
The gym issued this statement: “We made a stupid mistake and we deeply regret the upset that it has caused to so many people. We recognise that this was a completely tasteless advert and we removed it shortly after it was posted online. The creative guy will not be used again. As a small gesture of our remorse, we are donating money earned this weekend to a fund that helps people associated with the holocaust. We have also changed our Facebook Fan and Group page profile pictures to the poster attached and will leave it online for the next 7 days. These are not empty words; we are truly sorry.”
Why the "Kiss Your Calories Goodbye" slogan? Why not go full tasteless and use "Workout makes you free"? :no:
Veho Nex
01-11-2012, 00:05
Game dev accused of espionage. Sentenced to death. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/10/kumawar-dev-faces-execution-in-iran/#more-88139)
Dear lord, I hope something good happens to this guy. Being sentenced to death for making game scenarios? Seriously?
Vladimir
01-11-2012, 14:10
Game dev accused of espionage. Sentenced to death. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/10/kumawar-dev-faces-execution-in-iran/#more-88139)
Dear lord, I hope something good happens to this guy. Being sentenced to death for making game scenarios? Seriously?
More like sentenced to death for being stupid. A better idea is to go hiking along the Iraq/Iran border. Oh, wait.
Papewaio
01-11-2012, 22:08
Devils Advocate:
US Marine, no longer serving. (no such thing as former marine accordin to marines)
Trained in espionage
Company he works for supplies software to the US military.
Language software... Wouldn't happen to be titled "How to read Iranian." , "drop that nuke suit case in Persian"
"Take me to your great leader in Korean. With tips in how to say it without laughing"
Makes video games that simulate attacking nuclear facilities in Iran.
How would the US react to a 'former' Taliban member who made flight simulators for 9/11?
Gregoshi
01-11-2012, 23:20
There is far too much seriousness going on here for NotW. Let's shift it back to silly please.
Vatican plagiarizes Cardinal bios from Wikipedia (http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=12907)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/VaticanThief.jpg
In another embarrassing public-relations gaffe, when Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals, the Vatican released short biographies of the prelates that had been taken verbatim from Wikipedia without attribution.
Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Vatican press office, acknowledged that the posting of the Wikipedia biographies on the Vatican’s Italian-language web page had been a mistake, which he attributed to haste. The “unofficial” biographies were subsequently replaced by the Vatican’s own “official” biographies, he said.
The Wikipedia biographies that were temporarily posted on the Vatican’s site included some odd comments, describing some of the newly named cardinals as “conservative” insofar as they upheld normal Church teachings, and identifying them as “Catholic” archbishops.
Man accused of assaulting police officer with stuffed monkey (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45945113/ns/local_news-buffalo_ny/#.Tw4OA2-iEUU)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/stuffedmonkey.jpg
According to the Des Moines (Iowa) Register, a 24-year-old Iowa man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly stealing a stuffed monkey from a convenience store and assaulting a police officer with it.
The man allegedly hit an officer in the face with the stuffed monkey after being stopped following his exit from the convenience store, according to the Des Moines Register. The man has been charged with fifth-degree theft, disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer, according to the report.
Montmorency
01-12-2012, 00:46
Should have hit him with a peace lily.
Parents lose custody of child for naming her "Talula does the hula from Hawaii":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/24/familyandrelationships.newzealand?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
At the risk of making the thread all serious again, two thumbs up for the New Zealand authorities. Parents should be prohibited from giving their kids names like:
Stallion, Yeah Detroit, Fish and Chips, Twisty Poi, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit
and
Benson and Hedges, Midnight Chardonnay, Number 16 Bus Shelter, Violence
Corpse Impregnates Woman (http://www.deadseriousnews.com/?p=524)
A 38 year old female mortuary worker is being held on $250,000 bond after becoming pregnant by one of her clients—a dead man. The alleged crime took place at the Mourning Glory Mortuary just outside of Lexington, Missouri. Police have charged Felicity Marmaduke with desecration of the dead and necrophilia.
According to a statement made to police by Marmaduke, the alleged victim experienced a post mortem erection while being bathed. Being alone, Marmaduke straddled the dead man and proceeded have sex with him. Much to her surprise, the alleged victim came to orgasm after several minutes. A few weeks later, Marmaduke had a positive pregnancy test while receiving a routine medical exam. Upon telling her doctor the circumstances leading to the conception, the police were notified. Marmaduke was arrested without incident at her dilapidated trailer home a few blocks from the mortuary.
In a bizarre twist, Marmaduke plans to sue the dead man’s estate for child support.
If the paternity test comes up positive, Lemur wins the thread.
Nah, actually it looks like I lose the thread big-time. Checked Snopes, and it seems I've been bamboozled (http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/stiffed.asp). Oh well, this is the danger when you trawl the internets for weird news; sometimes you get duped.
Vladimir
01-12-2012, 18:21
Nah, actually it looks like I lose the thread big-time. Checked Snopes, and it seems I've been bamboozled (http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/stiffed.asp). Oh well, this is the danger when you trawl the internets for weird news; sometimes you get duped.
I don't care if it's true or not. That was excellent! :laugh4:
InsaneApache
01-13-2012, 01:59
A worrying thought for 2012.......
10 years ago Bob Hope died
5 years ago Johnny Cash died
A couple of months ago Steve Jobs died
A few weeks ago Jimmy Saville died
Now we have no Hope, no Cash, no Jobs and nobody left to Fix It
Let's hope nothing happens to Ed Balls.
:laugh4:
Gregoshi
01-13-2012, 02:47
...Let's hope nothing happens to Ed Balls.
Sorry, Ed, but I wish something did happen to you - then IA would not have had the balls to post that. :wall:
Gregoshi
01-13-2012, 02:50
Nah, actually it looks like I lose the thread big-time. Checked Snopes, and it seems I've been bamboozled (http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/stiffed.asp). Oh well, this is the danger when you trawl the internets for weird news; sometimes you get duped.
Good. The world does not need another deadbeat dad.
Vladimir
01-13-2012, 13:41
A worrying thought for 2012.......
10 years ago Bob Hope died
5 years ago Johnny Cash died
A couple of months ago Steve Jobs died
A few weeks ago Jimmy Saville died
Now we have no Hope, no Cash, no Jobs and nobody left to Fix It
Let's hope nothing happens to Ed Balls.
:laugh4:
Today is Friday the 13th. There are multiple Friday the 13ths this year. They're all 13 weeks apart....
But it was 'wear your fake penis to work' day (http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120113_Woman_says_her_fake_penis_got_her_fired.html)
A northeastern Pennsylvania woman is suing a South Jersey-based maker of frozen treats and other snack foods, claiming that she was wrongfully fired because she wore a prosthetic penis to work.
Pauline Davis, 45, wore the device to the J&J Snack Foods plant in Moosic, Lackawanna County, while she contemplated a gender change, according to a federal civil-rights complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Scranton. She confided in several co-workers about the device, and someone told management, according to the complaint.
She subsequently was fired from her job as a packer/line inspector. Her termination, she claims, was discriminatory because a male co-worker who wore female clothing and prostheses and took hormone treatments was not fired nor disciplined.
Further, argued her Bucks County-based attorney, Lalena J. Turchi, her fake penis was concealed and "in no way interfered with her ability to do her job."
Bed Bath & Beyond sells a special glow (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/feds-say-contaminated-tissue-holders-may-have-been-sent-to-more-than-20-states-including-ny/2012/01/12/gIQAlPDquP_story.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/kleenex.jpg
Metal tissue holders contaminated with low levels of radioactive material may have been distributed to Bed, Bath & Beyond stores in more than 20 states including New York, federal regulators said Thursday.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman David McIntyre said the home products company had pulled the tissue holder from its stores. [...]
“If someone has one of these, they could receive a small radiation dose from it,” he said. For example, he said someone keeping one of the boxes on a vanity in the bathroom and spending about 30 minutes a day near it for a year would receive the equivalent of a couple of chest x-rays." [...]
The contamination was first discovered in California when two packages bound for Bed, Bath & Beyond stores in Santa Clara and San Jose containing four tissue holders triggered radiation alarms at truck scales, according to a Jan. 6 report posted on the NRC website.
The products were shipped from India through the port of Newark, N.J., the report said. The tissue holders are distributed by Tatara Group of Piscataway, N.J. The Dual Ridge line of products is described on the company’s website as having a “brushed finish.”
Papewaio
01-16-2012, 22:48
Low level long term doses of radiation may in fact be healthy. Anyhow the background radiation varies from place to place. Even different rooms might have different levels of radiation due to building materials and air flow.
The bigger worry is if the tissue gets radioactive particles embedded in the fibers and someone then inhales it. Most low level radiation (alpha particles) can't penetrate the skin, they do however cause havoc in lung tissue.
Tellos Athenaios
01-16-2012, 22:53
The "all-time diva of flies". (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/16/beyonce_horse_fly_new_species/)
American popular music luminary Beyoncé has had a species of horse fly named after her in honour of the one-time Destiny Child singer's celebrated bottom.
https://img819.imageshack.us/img819/103/beyoncefly.png (https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/819/beyoncefly.png/)
InsaneApache
01-17-2012, 11:11
UV.
Hosakawa Tito
01-17-2012, 11:48
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/fuckin_sale_thumb.jpg
Global economy translation snafu #6937.3 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086390/Japanese-department-store-makes-grovelling-apology-plastering-shop-windows-F--Sale-posters.html) :laugh4:
Rivals Coca-Cola fared no better with their first
foray into China, when their initial translation (Ke-kou-ke-la) was found to
mean 'bite the wax tadpole' or 'female horse stuffed with wax', depending on the
dialect.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086390/Japanese-department-store-makes-grovelling-apology-plastering-shop-windows-F--Sale-posters.html#ixzz1jiAOq4Z1
Tellos Athenaios
01-17-2012, 13:55
UV. Not to mention IR.
You've piqued my interest, sir. In what way could radiation be healthy? I'll admit to not knowing much about radiation outside of "It's bad, it's invisible, and it goes through stuff."
Superpowers.
Vladimir
01-17-2012, 14:25
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/fuckin_sale_thumb.jpg
Global economy translation snafu #6937.3 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086390/Japanese-department-store-makes-grovelling-apology-plastering-shop-windows-F--Sale-posters.html) :laugh4:
I found this on the page: ..."the German word Fdhrt,..."
What are you Germans up to? First it's words the size of a sentence now you're not using vowels?! Is this an attempt to shorten the language?
Oh, and I'll have the Latte please.
Tellos Athenaios
01-17-2012, 16:39
No it's just that their spell check not so great, they probably meant Fahrt.
Do you ever look at your merkin and say, 'Not luxurious enough?' (http://gawker.com/5876920/nightmare-vagina-trend-luxury-merkins-made-of-fur)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/furkin.jpg
Real Housewives of New York's Cindy Barshop's Completely Bare body waxing salon has come up with the most trivial use for the fur industry in the history of humanity: "the Foxy Bikini, in which the bikini line is waxed bare and replaced with a pubic wig made from real fox fur." It costs $225, comes in multiple artificial neon hues, and looks like nightmare porno from the id of Dr. Seuss. I hereby move to name this monstrous device a "furkin."
Pair this up with a tasteful vajazzling and hit the town!
Strip club apologizes for MLK-themed promo (http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/Draphic-Designer-Under-Fire-for-MLK-Strip-Club-Flyer-137434858.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/mlkflyer.jpg
A flyer promoting a Miami strip club's "I Have a Dream Bash" featuring MLK holding wads of cash next to scantily-clad women has its creator taking plenty of flack.
Miami Beach graphic designer Jeffrey Darnell Paul says he didn't realize the flyer, made for The Office strip club at 250 Northeast 183rd Street, would generate the controversy it has.
"I wasn't trying to disrespect anybody...it wasn't on my mind that it would escalate to something like this," Paul told NBC Miami Monday. "It was just supposed to be a promotional thing, it wasn't about disgracing Martin Luther King, it wasn't about that." [...]
"It was proposed to me like a birthday bash for Martin Luther King, I put a flyer together without thinking about the effects it would have," said Paul, who is also known as DJ Big Boy. "It's something that I really didn't think about."
aimlesswanderer
01-18-2012, 02:10
"It's something that I really didn't think about."
Highlighted all you really need to know.
There's no such thing as bad taste, only people who take things too seriously. I'd go to the MLK bash at my local strip club, lol.
agreed....people need to take the stick out of their collective ass.
MLK was a great man that did much for the civil rights movement in the US, it is also well established that he enjoyed the ladies....both are true and one thing does not contradict the other.
GeneralHankerchief
01-21-2012, 08:19
I usually don't post in the Backroom, but this was just too good to pass up.
Napoleon's final dream realized: He's getting his own theme park. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9027394/France-plans-Napoleonland.html)
I don't know which line about this article gets me the most: The fact that his two most famous losses are getting big play in the park, the fact that it's built over the site of one of his victories, or the line that it's "going to be fun for the [whole] family."
Also, I really want to go...
Veho Nex
01-22-2012, 12:21
I thought marriage was between two living beings. (http://theweek.com/article/index/223505/the-man-who-married-his-girlfriend-at-her-funeral)
Gregoshi
01-22-2012, 17:36
I thought marriage was between two living beings. (http://theweek.com/article/index/223505/the-man-who-married-his-girlfriend-at-her-funeral)
"...'til Deff do us part?" ~:confused:
Hosakawa Tito
01-22-2012, 18:37
Our Feline OverLords! :laugh4:
http://youtu.be/h6CcxJQq1x8
Dolphins Speak Whale in Their Sleep (http://www.livescience.com/18074-dolphins-sleep-talk-whale-song.html)
A group of five captive dolphins in France have been recorded making whale-like noises late at night — despite the fact that they have only heard whale sounds as recordings during their daytime dolphin shows.
If the sounds are confirmed to be mimicking whales, it would be the first example of dolphins "saving up" a sound to practice later. And since the whale sounds are only uttered at night, it's possible the whale sounds are a dolphin version of sleep-talking. [...]
To make sure they weren't hearing things, the researchers played slowed-down and regular-speed audio of the calls to 20 volunteers, along with regular dolphin whistles, slowed-down dolphin whistles, and real whale songs. They found that the volunteers correctly identified dolphin whistles as dolphin whistles and whale song as whale song 88 percent to 99 percent of the time. But 72 percent of the time, the listeners misconstrued the dolphin's whale-like whistles as real whale song.
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/ralph-shortley-oklahoma-aborted-fetuses-food_n_1230414.html)
A Republican state senator in Oklahoma has introduced a bill banning aborted human fetuses in food, despite the fact that there are no known foods or food products that actually contain aborted fetuses.
Sen. Ralph Shortey of Oklahoma City introduced on Tuesday Senate Bill 1418, which prohibits "the sale or manufacture of food or products which contain aborted human fetuses." He says he based the bill on an article he read online about an anti-abortion group boycotting companies that allegedly use embryonic stem cells to research and develop artificial sweeteners.
“People are thinking that this has to do with fetuses being chopped up and put in our burritos,” Shortey told NewsOK. "“That's not the case. It's beyond that." [...]
The FDA confirmed on Tuesday that it is "not aware of this particular concern."
same reason why "under God" was put in the pledge of allegiance?
There is not proof communist infiltrators would burst into flames while uttering that sentence....but you never know right??
InsaneApache
01-28-2012, 09:04
Thirteen-month-old Imad Aleeyan, who has six teeth, was found chewing on the head of the 12 inch snake by his mother, who alerted the neighbourhood with her screams.
"I was making his milk and I looked over and saw he had a snake in his mouth," said his mother, Ghadir Aleeyan who lives in the Arab Israeli town of Shefa'Amr, 9 miles east of the port city of Haifa.
"I started to scream. I couldn't believe my eyes," she told AFP. "I nearly died of fright."
Her screams brought the rest of the family – and the neighbourhood – running.
"We rushed in and found the baby with a snake in his mouth, chewing it. It was really scary, just horrible," the boy's aunt, Yasmin Shahin, said.
A neighbour who had rushed to see what was going on yanked the half-dead reptile out of the boys mouth and killed it, she said.
"When he pulled it out, Imad started crying," she said, describing the snake's head as "very badly chewed" when it emerged from the boys mouth.
They immediately checked the child for any bite marks but found none, with doctors at Rambam hospital in Haifa confirming he was unharmed.
"Doctors at the hospital told us the snake was really poisonous but that we were very lucky because they release less venom in the winter," she said.
Dr Boaz Shacham, an expert on amphibians and reptiles, told AFP that from looking at images of the smashed-up serpent online, it appeared to be a coin-marked snake (hemorrhois nummifer), a non-venomous species which resembles a viper.
Such snakes grow up to three feet in length, he said suggesting it was a "very young" specimen.
"It probably didn't bite the child because of the cold," said Dr Shacham who is the head of the herpetology collection at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
"They are not really active in winter."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9044599/Toddler-chews-head-off-snake.html
Starship captain evicted by divorce (http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/26/10243286-divorce-forces-man-to-beam-out-of-star-trek-home)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/startrek.jpg
When British nightclub DJ Tony Alleyne rebuilt his apartment to resemble a spaceship from "Star Trek," he couldn't have foreseen the day when he'd have to boldly go ... someplace else.
The British tabloid The Sun reports that Alleyne's apartment, in the English town of Hinckley, is actually owned by the wife he's been separated from since 1994. Now she wants to sell, meaning he'll have to leave the space-themed home behind.
"To say I'm gutted is an understatement. It is my life's work," Alleyne told the Sun. "I admit there were tears."
He says it would cost at least 100,000 British pounds (more than $150,000 American) to redo the theme in a new apartment.
When msnbc TV reported on the apartment back in 2006, Alleyne was about to file for bankruptcy over the money spent on renovations, and said he had hoped to start a business transforming homes for other "Star Trek" fans.
Msnbc TV did another segment on Alleyne in 2007 when he was apparently also hoping to sell the tricked-out home, which includes a mock transporter.
US Military bids farewell to "Birth Control Glasses" (http://marines.dodlive.mil/2012/01/27/goodbye-birth-control-glasses/)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/militaryglasses.jpg
The standard-issue spectacles, S9s, most widely known as “Birth Control Glasses,” or BCGs, are soon to become a thing of the past.
In the coming months, recruits from all branches of service will be issued 5As, a more modern, hipster-chic pair of glasses. While the 5As are inarguably more aesthetically pleasing, they offer very little help as a contraceptive. [...]
Birth Control Glasses, labeled lovingly so because they’re so ugly you don’t stand a chance of finding a partner while wearing them, have always been the great equalizer. Even the most Handsome Harry and Sexy Sally are humbled by their wear. At boot camp, there are many things that break down individual identity and reinforce a unit mentality, but the BCGs do this exceptionally well. Recruits forced to wear them share the bond of constantly thinking, “I look like an idiot in these things.” Meanwhile, all the other recruits are thinking, “Look at those idiots,” [...]
As with any good eulogy, let us remember the legacy of the BCGs with a poem. Unfortunately my Robert Frost book of poems is loaned out, so here’s a haiku:
Too thick frames appear
Taking their place on my face
Women are repulsed
Vladimir
01-31-2012, 14:06
Farewell my good friend. :cry:
Crazed Rabbit
02-01-2012, 15:13
Vero wife upset at hubby's request to 'use the bed' with another woman (http://blogs.tcpalm.com/off_the_beat_will_greenlee_blog/2012/01/-marian-searchwells-husband-said.html)
Marian Searchwell's husband said his wife grew enraged after he decided to bring home a "female visitor."
"Specifically, Searchwell began yelling at (her husband)," an Indian River County Sheriff's deputy wrote in a recently released arrest affidavit.
The husband said Searchwell -- his wife of five months -- grabbed his neck during the 10:10 p.m. Jan. 26 incident, leaving abrasions.
...
The affidavit did not state why Searchwell's husband and his "female visitor" wanted to use the bed.
Typical uses for beds include sleeping, napping, slumbering, dozing, snoozing, getting 40 winks or some shuteye. They also can be employed by children as a make-shift trampoline, or modified with the addition of wheels for use in a so-called bed race.
In any case, the affidavit did not state whether Searchwell's husband and his "female visitor" were afforded use of the bed. Nor did the affidavit state whether the bed was a twin, full, queen, king, bunk, Murphy or a rollaway.
Searchwell, of the 400 block of 43rd Avenue Southwest in Vero Beach, was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic battery charge.
CR
Hosakawa Tito
02-07-2012, 00:49
NSW firm seeks brothel sex inspector (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8410960/nsw-firm-seeks-brothel-sex-inspector)
Applicants were required to be unmarried and preferably single, to be willing to have protected sexual intercourse with prostitutes and to provide sworn evidence in court.
Unlike those dang laws that restrain the cops, they are required to do "quality control" sampling of the hookers. What a gig!:laugh4:
Sasaki Kojiro
02-07-2012, 03:48
A TEAM of Russian scientists successfully drilled down to an "alien" lake deep below the ice in Antarctica that was hidden for an estimated 20 million years, the Ria Novosti news agency reported today.
"Yesterday, our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of 3768m and reached the surface of the sub-glacial lake," the report quoted an unnamed scientific source as saying.
Scientists hope Lake Vostok could reveal new forms of life, and teams from the US and the UK also are drilling down to other hidden lakes on frozen continent.
The Russian team has not been heard from for more than a week, raising fears for its safety.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/russian-scientists-reach-hidden-antarctica-lake/story-e6frfro0-1226264229435#ixzz1lf0QjsCx
:sweatdrop:
Montmorency
02-07-2012, 03:50
Tekeli-li...
Tekeli-li...
CountArach
02-07-2012, 06:00
I'm guessing they found a Stargate.
Montmorency
02-07-2012, 06:13
The Russian team has not been heard from for more than a week, raising fears for its safety.
Just a notice: That "has" is Sasaki's responsibility. In the link, the article says "had".
Shame on you for deceiving us, Sasaki. I got my hopes up for nothing.
Sasaki Kojiro
02-07-2012, 06:15
Well, I haven't heard from them in more than a week.
InsaneApache
02-07-2012, 10:31
It's either Supermans fortress of solitude of the Octosquid invasion nerve center.
I bet the lakes made of vodka, hence not freezing and the scientists not being seen for a week. :book2:
It's either Supermans fortress of solitude of the Octosquid invasion nerve center.
I bet the lakes made of vodka, hence not freezing and the scientists not being seen for a week. :book2:
they are probably all sitting around in a circle....performing blood tests on each other.
Tekeli-li...
Tekeli-li...
Man, I wish they would make that film (http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/03/08/at-the-mountains-of-madness-movie/).
Official Presidential Candidate: The Naked Cowboy. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/18/naked-cowboy-other-presidential-candidates_n_1181407.html)
"I know what it takes to run a successful business," he said. "Plus, it's obvious I have nothing to hide."
If I were an American, I'd know who to vote for :2thumbsup:
Gregoshi
02-20-2012, 05:36
Official Presidential Candidate: The Naked Cowboy. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/18/naked-cowboy-other-presidential-candidates_n_1181407.html)
If I were an American, I'd know who to vote for :2thumbsup:
He also knows how to buck (naked) the system.
Hosakawa Tito
02-20-2012, 21:53
Beer money flashing offers lead to knife attack (http://www.abc-7.com/story/16951141/2012/02/16/beer-money-flashing-offers-lead-to-knife-attack). Beer makes their clothes fall off. Must be beer-nuts. :laugh4:
Hosakawa Tito
02-28-2012, 00:32
With Fall of the Samurai coming up, what a timely find. Japanese Fart Scrolls (http://www.tofugu.com/2012/02/18/japanese-fart-scrolls/). :laugh4:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/fart-header.jpg
aimlesswanderer
02-28-2012, 01:24
Why is it that the classy paintings like this aren't as ubiquitous as the world famous tsunami painting? This has real artistic merit and should be worth tens of millions at least.
Gregoshi
02-28-2012, 03:08
With Fall of the Samurai coming up, what a timely find. Japanese Fart Scrolls (http://www.tofugu.com/2012/02/18/japanese-fart-scrolls/). :laugh4:
A Divine Wind indeed.
:idea2: I've got an idea for a new TWS2 unit - the Yari Asifartu...
Tellos Athenaios
02-28-2012, 07:49
What could possibly go wrong? (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/27/playboy_club_in_space/)
Quality journalism bastion Playboy has teamed up with boffins at Virgin Galactic to create the one thing missing in the universe - a Playboy Club in space.
(...)
Billionaire playboys and regular folks who will work on the station will get there by rocket, but cargo for the club will "arrive by machine gun". Presumably to add a frisson of fear to the general merriment aboard the station, Playboy reckons shooting supplies in cargo bullets from Earth could be a good idea.
“We might create guns big enough to shoot things into space," futurist Thomas Frey said. “Humans couldn’t withstand those g-forces, but it would be ideal for supplies.”
Again, you have to give a nod to some Star Trek inspiration when Playboy tells you that the restaurant will have "organic printers" to make food, with "vats of organic material" attached - mmm, appetising.
Vladimir
02-28-2012, 17:54
Apparently, idiots advance evolution:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/science/young-women-often-trendsetters-in-vocal-patterns.html
No, not the NYT itself, but close.
I said Mom, not bomb! (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106690/Southwest-Airlines-pilot-causes-panic-wishes-happy-birthday-air-traffic-controllers-mother.html)
'I said 'mom' not 'bomb!'' Southwest Airlines pilot causes panic as he wishes happy birthday to air traffic controller's mother
ohhh good grief.
Vladimir
02-29-2012, 17:07
From the same page:
Yes, I kissed the Costa Concordia captain. I think we'd have ended up in bed... but the ship crashed
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106516/Costa-Concordia-Domnica-Cemortan-kissed-captain-Francisco-Schettino-crash.html#ixzz1nmtRCzTd
:laugh4:
Cute Wolf
03-17-2012, 08:08
http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/try-to-read-this-without-laughing-out-loud-peta-takes-on-bikers/
http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/try-to-read-this-without-laughing-out-loud-peta-takes-on-bikers/
It's a funny story, but doing some Google-fu, I can't find a single news outlet that's reporting this. Just blogs. They way it is written, the quotes and details, makes me suspect this is a fabrication, or the product of a comedy news site. Nothing as slick as The Onion, but maybe one of the second-string comedy sites. When I have more time I will try to run this thing to earth.
-edit-
Well, that didn't take as long as I thought it would. Parody site (http://glossynews.com/society/201001070305/activists-missing-after-declaring-war-on-leather-at-motorcycle-rally/). Never heard of 'em, but this is pretty funny, so I might need to put them on rotation.
gaelic cowboy
03-23-2012, 16:19
Zimbabwe 'sperm hunters' picking up male travellers (http://www.independent.ie/world-news/africa/zimbabwe-sperm-hunters-picking-up-male-travellers-3059516.html)
Friday March 23 2012 Irish Independent
GANGS of women in Zimbabwe have been picking up male travellers to have sexual intercourse and harvest their sperm, according to reports.
Susan Dhliwayo claims she pulled her car over recently to pick up a group of male hitchhikers and they refused to get in, because they feared they were going to be raped.
"Now, men fear women. They said: 'we can't go with you because we don't trust you'," 19-year-old Miss Dhliwayo recounted.
Local media have reported victims of the highway prowlers being drugged, subdued at gun or knife point – even with a live snake in one case – given a sexual stimulant and forced into repeated sex before being dumped on the roadside.
The sperm hunters first surfaced in the local press in 2009 but police have only arrested three women, found with a plastic bag of 31 used condoms in October. The attacks have continued since they were nabbed for allegedly violating 17 men.
"We do not have the exact number of confirmed cases," said national police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena.
"These cases occurred mostly when the victims were hitchhiking and boarded private vehicles. We encourage people to use public transport."
The sperm's exact use is not clear but is thought to be intended for "juju" or traditional rituals to bring luck – anything from enhancing good fortune, boosting business or preventing a criminal from being detected.
It is also not known why the semen is taken forcibly from strangers.
"It's really an issue which is mind boggling," said University of Zimbabwe sociologist Watch Ruparanganda, who believes it is a lucrative business. "It's quite a big mystery. Obviously we know (it is) being used for rituals."
Ruparanganda said he was astonished to discover seven years ago that semen appeared to have become a tradable commodity, while doing research for his doctoral thesis among Harare street youth who told him that businessmen would take them to hotels, give them new clothes and ply them with booze.
They were then told to pick a prostitute and to hand over the used condom after sex.
"It just shows there's some big racket somewhere, some big guys driving everything, but they are in the background and using these ladies," said Ruparanganda.
The Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association criticised the practice.
"We believe that this is a form of witchcraft. So we are totally against the idea," said spokesman George Kandiyero.
"It has really frightened people," he said. "It has really brought in a bit of shock because normally it was the other way round, normally we know of men raping women, not women raping men."
A Zimbabwean women's rights group has criticised the spotlight shifting to male rape victims, and paid for a newspaper advert to deplore that violence against women in the country is not met with the same degree of shock.
The three women linked to the case, meanwhile, have stirred much attention and public anger. Audiences pack into the dreary courtrooms each time they appear in the dock, and one of their lawyers said they have received death threats.
No law in Zimbabwe criminalises rape by women so the trio, arrested with one man, face 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault, though no trial date has as yet been set.
Dumisani Mthombeni, a lawyer for two of the women and the man, complained that five months after their arrest, prosecutors have yet to produce DNA test results, a charge sheet or witness statements but nonetheless have "paraded (the women) on national television as female rapists".
"We have not been given anything – nothing," Mthombeni said. "We believe they don't want us to go to trial because they arrested the wrong people."
The case has triggered a mix of shock, intrigue and humour – such as one newspaper cartoon showing a nude hitchhiker hoping to be picked up by a female driver – but also fear among some men.
"Of course we are scared," said a 26-year-old hitchhiker on a highway south of Harare, adding he would not get into a car driven by a woman.
"Even if she's old, we can't."
:laugh4: ahem do I need to say anything
Vodka company apologizes for ad that appears to make light of date rape (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamespoulos/2012/03/23/belvederes-failed-rape-joke-ad/)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/o-BELVEDERE-AD-570.jpg
If you find yourself rushing to take down an ad that could be interpreted as making light of rape, you’re doing internet marketing wrong.
That’s the harsh lesson Belvedere Vodka is learning today. [...] A terrified woman being grabbed by a gleeful man with a catch phrase — “Unlike some people, Belvedere always goes down smoothly” [...].
Judging from Topsy’s record of the posting time, it was taken down from both social media accounts within an hour. Of course deletion on the Internet is near impossible and many people captured screenshots, realizing how outrageous and retractable it was. This frat-boy humor was a terrible judgment call by someone in Belvedere’s marking department given the general unfunniness of rape jokes compounded by the sensitivity around the role alcohol plays in sexual assault.
[...] In Belvedere’s self description on Twitter, it urges consumers to “Trust Your Instincts.” Unfortunately, the instincts of the marketing person behind this ad were not the ones a company would want from the person in charge of being its social media voice to the world. Expect a firing before happy hour.
Vodka company apologizes for ad that appears to make light of date rape (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamespoulos/2012/03/23/belvederes-failed-rape-joke-ad/)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/o-BELVEDERE-AD-570.jpg
The guy's grin really cracks me up. Full of anticipation and such.
Most Unwanted Endorsement Ever: GO COWBOYS! (http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/texas-man-executed-for-1400887.html)
A convicted child sex offender was executed Wednesday for the beating death of a 10-month-old boy he was baby-sitting at a home in Dallas.
"God bless everybody. Continue to walk with God," the 47-year-old Hernandez said. Moments later, he shouted "Go Cowboys!" in honor of his favorite football team.
On the behalf of all true Cowboys fans, I would like to apologize for this man's poor judgment. What a hack. (http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-27/justice/arizona.execution_1_execution-elena-kagan-ruling?_s=PM:CRIME)
Burglar Kills Goldfish because he "didn't want to leave any witnesses" (http://dailyscene.com/teen-burglar-kills-goldfish-to-eliminate-witnesses/)
An ignorant teen burglar who killed his victim’s goldfish because he ‘didn’t want to leave any witnesses’ was charged with animal cruelty and burglary in suburban Illinois.
The unidentified 16-year-old boy along with his two teenage accomplices aged 15, and 17 were charged with burglary and animal cruelty for their role in a Jan. 24 break-in.
The victims of the break-in, returned home to find their fish floating dead at the top of their tank, which had been filled with mustard, ketchup and spices.
A local police officer explained the reasoning behind the assassination.
Sgt Mike Hernandez told the Daily Herald: ‘As a matter of fact, it’s a little disturbing. According to the police report, he looked at the fish tank and said: “We can’t leave any witnesses.”
“He wasn’t remorseful,” Hernandez said. “Certainly something they didn’t need to do.”
Gregoshi
03-30-2012, 04:37
What would you expect from cat burglars?
aimlesswanderer
03-30-2012, 06:32
What would you expect from cat burglars?
A real cat burglar would eat the goldfish, not season it to kill it.
Gregoshi
03-30-2012, 08:22
A real cat burglar would eat the goldfish, not season it to kill it.
Well, they did kill the goldfish with catsup.
I'll see your mountain lion and raise you a bear (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/california-hiker-bear-saved-vicious-mountain-lion-article-1.1052782)
A California hiker claims he was attacked by the predator cat in the mountains above Whiskey Flats, where a mother bear saved his life by swatting the mountain lion aside.
Robert Biggs, 69, stopped to watch after spotting the bear and her cubs playing about 40 feet away during his Monday walk.
As he turned to continue walking, the lion suddenly sprung at Biggs, the Paradise Post newspaper reported.
“They usually grab hold of your head with all four paws, but my backpack was up above my head and (the lion) grabbed it instead,” Biggs told the paper.
The hiker said he struck the mountain lion in the head with a rock pick to little effect as the wild cat shredded the skin on his left arm.
But the momma bear came to his rescue, pulling the mountain lion off the backpack during a wild 15-second scuffle. The mountain lion bolted and the bear returned to her cubs before they moved on.
Hans Brinker Budget Motel (http://www.hans-brinker.com/)
Welcome to the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, Amsterdam.
The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel has been proudly disappointing travellers for forty years. Boasting levels of comfort comparable to a minimum-security prison, the Hans Brinker also offers some plumbing and an intermittently open canteen serving a wide range of dishes based on runny eggs.
Other Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, Amsterdam services and amenities include:
A basement bar with limited light and no fresh air.
A concrete courtyard where you can relax and enjoy whatever sunshine is able to pass the high buildings on either side on the extremely infrequent days when it’s actually sunny.
An elevator that almost never breaks down between floors.
A bar serving slightly watered down beer.
Amusing witticisms and speculations about former guests’ sexual preferences scrawled on most surfaces.
The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, Amsterdam Luxury Ambassadorial Suite (featuring the Hans Brinker’s one and only bath-tub).
Doors that lock.
Is it cat litter? Or Bacon? (http://www.freshstep.com/bacon/)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/OrganicBacon_25lbs.png
The power of activated carbon meets the scrumptious scent of freshly cooked bacon.
Activated carbon is absorbing and eliminating odors
Cat-activated clay provides pleasing sizzle sound
Scrumptious bacon scent makes your mouth water
Powerful odor control with a dash of salted meat.
Gregoshi
03-30-2012, 15:27
Hans Brinker Budget Motel (http://www.hans-brinker.com/)
This website is a hoot! I was laughing my butt off.
Polar bear does an impression of the Koolaid man and gets shot for it's trouble in Newfoundland. (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/polar-bear-shot-dead-newfoundland-house-break-livestock-143534454.html)
"He had the door busted open to the dining room with his two front paws and his head in through the door," Reardon said from tiny Goose Cove, just south of St. Anthony, N.L.
Vladimir
04-02-2012, 20:44
A real cat burglar would eat the goldfish, not season it to kill it.
He's a repeat offender. He was marinating it.
Priest accidentally shows gay porn during communion presentation...denies knowledge of "material".
http://gizmodo.com/5898382/priest-accidentally-plays-hardcore-gay-porn-slideshow-to-congregation
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0403/1224314298070.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-03/priest-shows-indecent-images-during-communion-presentation/3928936
classic!
Why yes, you can haz cheeseburger (http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/03/2728952/woman-offers-sex-for-dollar-menu.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/delayingmydinner.jpg
A woman was arrested in a prostitution sting — but not before she got two double cheeseburgers off the dollar menu at a McDonald’s.
Christine Faith Baker, 47, was walking on a Southwest Florida street last Friday when she was approached by a detective working in the Manatee County Sheriff Office’s special investigations division, according to a sheriff’s office report.
After the undercover detective invited Baker into his car and the talk turned to sex, she said her fee would be two double cheeseburgers from the dollar menu at McDonald’s, the report states.
Gregoshi
04-06-2012, 04:21
After the undercover detective invited Baker into his car and the talk turned to sex, she said her fee would be two double cheeseburgers from the dollar menu at McDonald’s, the report states.
I don't think "Burger Joint" was what he had in mind. :eyebrows:
I'll just leave this right here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQts9i6wdI
NOTE: NSFW. Language, very mild nudity.
Tellos Athenaios
04-07-2012, 16:52
Rabid skunks attack US (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/06/rabid_skunks/)
Caterpillars More Likely to Vomit Alone (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120412124840.htm)
ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2012) — A type of caterpillar which defends itself by regurgitating on its predators is less likely to do so when in groups than when alone, a new study by researchers from the University of Liverpool and the University of Bristol has found.
Such reluctance is sufficient to cancel out the benefits of being in a group.
The study, published in Ecology Letters, will help in the design of more sustainable methods for reducing crop losses caused by caterpillars and similar pests.
Animals have some unusual ways to defend themselves against enemies. While many rely on nasty stings and dangerous venoms, the caterpillars of the large white butterfly (Pieris brassicae) protect themselves by vomiting on their predators.
These caterpillars, like many other species that have anti-predator defences, live in groups so that they have safety in numbers. However, many studies have shown that the size of a group does not affect the chance of survival in several different species.
Caterpillars of this species have reason to use their defensive regurgitation weapon sparingly since the loss of food through vomiting slows down growth, reduces survival and even reduces female reproduction by lowering the number of eggs.
This new study shows that there is a social side to defensive vomiting. The researchers found that whether a caterpillar is willing to regurgitate -- and to what extent -- depends on the size of its social group.
Obama Administration Must Return Michael Jackson Glove to Dictator's Son (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/barack-obama-michael-jackson-glove-equatorial-guinea-312459?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter)
In October, the Obama administration took hold of some $71 million in seized assets from the son of an African dictator. Among the yachts, cars, jets and a $30 million mansion in Malibu, the items included $1.8 million worth of Jackson memorabilia, attained when Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, went on a celebrity memorabilia splurge inside the U.S.
But Nguema hasn't been charged with any crime in his homeland, nor has he been convicted of any crime in the U.S., so a California federal court has looked unfavorably on the U.S. government's attempts to moonwalk away with the items.
But Nguema hasn't been charged with any crime in his homeland, nor has he been convicted of any crime in the U.S., so a California federal court has looked unfavorably on the U.S. government's attempts to moonwalk away with the items.
Hee hee!
Ja'chyra
04-19-2012, 20:14
Hee hee!
Got to agree, very funny, I really hope they said that in court.
Bill Nye Booed for Saying Moon Reflects Sunlight (http://web.archive.org/web/20100110212547/http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/04/06/04062006wacbillnye.html?)
And the local paper scrubs the article to avoid embarrassing the locals. I guess they forgot about a thing called the wayback machine (http://archive.org/web/web.php), and how the internets are forever:
The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights - the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.”
He pointed out that the sun, the “greater light,” is but one of countless stars and that the “lesser light” is the moon, which really is not a light at all, rather a reflector of light.
A number of audience members left the room at that point, visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence.
“We believe in a God!” exclaimed one woman as she left the room with three young children.
When Neighbors Attack: Samurai Sword vs. Chainsaw (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138259/Neighbours-war-Bloody-chainsaw-battle-sees-mans-arm-severed--anothers-finger-chopped-SAMURAI-sword.html)
In a bloody battle between two warring neighbours in Australia today, one man's arm was almost severed with a chain saw, while another had a finger chopped off with a Samurai sword. [...]
Detectives are investigating claims that after the two men argued over loud music and reckless driving, Mr Thornton went to Mr Jorgenson's house with the chain saw.
Mr Jorgenson grabbed the Japanese sword and the bloody battle began. Detective Chief Inspector Mark Brett described the result of the confrontation as 'horrific'.
He said: 'A chain saw is a serious weapon which inflicts pretty brutal injuries.' [...]
Mr Thorton's mother, Wendy, confirmed that her son did wield the chain saw, but said he grabbed it to defend himself.
'They (the Jorgensen family) had machetes and bats and we had nothing so Troy grabbed the chain saw,' she said.
The two families agreed they had been involved in an ongoing war but Mr Jorgensen said sorting it out with a chain saw was extreme. 'Fists maybe, but this is just over the top,' he said.
Lightning strikes mans scrotum (http://gizmodo.com/5907640/lightning-strikes-mans-scrotum)
call me a conservative, but this is why I´m against piercings.
Gregoshi
05-04-2012, 18:26
Lightning strikes mans scrotum (http://gizmodo.com/5907640/lightning-strikes-mans-scrotum)
So now there are two forms of ball lightning.
edyzmedieval
05-04-2012, 22:19
So now there are two forms of ball lightning.
I knew I shouldn't check this thread while I'm eating or drinking over a keyboard...
Man jumps into pool of acid to save guy who fell into pool of acid (http://www.northjersey.com/clifton/Man_falls_40_feet_into_a_tank_of_acid_in_Clifton.html?c=y&page=1)
Everybody gets an acid bath!
An ironworker who fell 40 feet from the roof of a manufacturing plant into a tank of acid and was pulled out by a co-worker was in critical condition Monday afternoon, according to his family.
Martin Davis, 44, of Avenel, was working on the roof of Swepco Tube LLC, a metal tube manufacturing plant, when he fell into the tank of nitric acid, sustaining burns from head to toe about 8:40 a.m.
Co-worker Rob Knucols, 51, who was on the ground floor, immediately jumped into the vat and was waist high in acid while he and three other roofers pulled the victim out, said Fire Chief Vincent Colavitti, Jr. [...]
The tank was filled with a 40 to 70 percent solution of nitric acid used in making tubing. Davis was fully submerged in the solution. [...]
The chief said over the years, acid steam and mist ate away at the corrugated metal roof above the tank, so the roof needed to be replaced. The roof replacement work has been shut down, but the factory remained open Monday.
Swepco was among the top polluters in Passaic and Bergen counties last year with 1,832 pounds of toxic chemicals released into the air, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory Program.
Obligatory...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFZh92MUOY
The Holy Grail of Engineering: Realistic Robotic Bottocks (http://gizmodo.com/5909164/the-most-realistic-robotic-ass-ever-made)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhHo6CUq4-o
Japanese scientists have turned to one area of research that has, so far, gone ignored: the robotic ass.
Built by Nobuhiro Takahashi and a team at the Tokyo University of Electro-Communications, this is Shiri. Shiri, of course, means buttocks in Japanese, and the researchers claim that it "represents emotions with visual and tactual transformation of the muscles". Right.
While that might not be the most convincing statement you've ever read, the video certainly delivers: this is one mighty realistic ass.
The moves and twitches are made possible by a system of inflatable air bags, and the researchers believe that a user may even feel a simulated sense of fear when they trigger its twitch. Which is, obviously, demonstrated by good, firm buttock slap.
Gregoshi
05-12-2012, 16:37
The Holy Grail of Engineering: Realistic Robotic Bottocks (http://gizmodo.com/5909164/the-most-realistic-robotic-ass-ever-made)
I, Robutt??
InsaneApache
05-14-2012, 05:59
I, Robutt??
Cheeky!
Gregoshi
05-14-2012, 08:04
Cheeky!
What can I say? I like Isaac Assimov. ~D
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/george-lucas-grady-ranch/7883
Who said you can´t send a giant ':furious3: YOU!' to your neighbors and do something nice at the same time?
well played sir.....well played!
Wisconsin man protests all-you-can-eat fish fry (http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/151468665.html)
For great justice!
At 6'6" and 350 lbs, Bill Wisth admits he's a big guy who can pack it away more than most. And he wants one restaurant to make all-you-can-eat, all he can eat too.
"It's false advertising," said Wisth to TODAY'S TMJ4.
Wisth has a beef with the all-you-can-eat fish fry at Chuck's Place. He was there Friday when the restaurant cut him off after he ate a dozen pieces.
"Well, we asked for more fish and they refused to give us any more fish," recalled Wisth.
The restaurant says it was running out of fish and patience; arguing Bill has been a problem customer before. They sent him on his way with another eight pieces, but that still wasn't enough.
He was so fired up, he called the police. "I think that people have to stand up for consumers," said Wisth.
And he wasn't done. He came back two days later with a picket sign.
Elizabeth Roeming is a waitress there and says they've tried to work with Bill over the years -- like letting him have a tab he still hasn't paid off.
And customers are running to the restaurant's defense, even interrupting TODAY'S TMJ's interview to give Bill their two cents.
Bill isn't backing down, saying his fish fry fight isn't over. But in the end, even he had something nice to say.
"They do have like some of the best pizza in town if you like deep dish pizza," said Wisth.
Bill Wisth says he will picket every Sunday until the restaurant rethinks what happened.
a completely inoffensive name
05-17-2012, 23:29
Let the guy have his fish, come on. Make a deal that if he pays his tab and pays for the meal before they serve him, that they will serve him as much fish as he wants.
InsaneApache
05-18-2012, 11:26
In case you were wondering, May is National Masturbation Month. The celebration of May as National Masturbation Month began in 1995 in San Francisco as a response to the forced resignation of then U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders.
http://www.examiner.com/article/is-may-really-national-masturbation-month
WTF! :laugh4:
http://www.examiner.com/article/is-may-really-national-masturbation-month
WTF! :laugh4:
and May 4th is Star Wars day....coincidence?
Wth happy spider.... Don't mind the texts. http://www.spitsnieuws.nl/archives/foto-video/2012/05/liev-spin-met-smiley I don't trust it
CountArach
05-20-2012, 14:41
and May 4th is Star Wars day....coincidence?
:laugh4:
ICantSpellDawg
05-20-2012, 18:07
Man jumps into pool of acid to save guy who fell into pool of acid (http://www.northjersey.com/clifton/Man_falls_40_feet_into_a_tank_of_acid_in_Clifton.html?c=y&page=1)
Everybody gets an acid bath!
An ironworker who fell 40 feet from the roof of a manufacturing plant into a tank of acid and was pulled out by a co-worker was in critical condition Monday afternoon, according to his family.
Martin Davis, 44, of Avenel, was working on the roof of Swepco Tube LLC, a metal tube manufacturing plant, when he fell into the tank of nitric acid, sustaining burns from head to toe about 8:40 a.m.
Co-worker Rob Knucols, 51, who was on the ground floor, immediately jumped into the vat and was waist high in acid while he and three other roofers pulled the victim out, said Fire Chief Vincent Colavitti, Jr. [...]
The tank was filled with a 40 to 70 percent solution of nitric acid used in making tubing. Davis was fully submerged in the solution. [...]
The chief said over the years, acid steam and mist ate away at the corrugated metal roof above the tank, so the roof needed to be replaced. The roof replacement work has been shut down, but the factory remained open Monday.
Swepco was among the top polluters in Passaic and Bergen counties last year with 1,832 pounds of toxic chemicals released into the air, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory Program.
That man is a true hero. Imagine the courage that must have taken to go in there. Truly awe inspiring.
Crazed Rabbit
05-22-2012, 06:34
From Seattle: (http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Woman-in-hot-pink-duct-tape-attacks-injures-3-cops-152214775.html)
SEATTLE - A half-naked woman wearing hot pink duct tape attacked and injured three police officers in a bizarre incident Saturday night outside a lower Queen Anne bar, police said.
...
Police were called. As they pulled up, the woman ran outside and down the street, ducking into a nearby KFC/Taco Bell restaurant and hiding in the women's rest room.
Officers found her and brought her outside, putting her in handcuffs. But as officers tried to place her inside the patrol car, she suddenly "freaked out," Witt said.
She began kicking at the legs and head of one officer. As police tried to pull her back inside the patrol car she suddenly did an over-the-head back flip and tumbled out the other side of the car.
Once outside the patrol car, officers tried to get her under control. She kicked one officer in the head, causing a slight concussion.
Another officer was kicked in the hand, which severed the tendon in his right pinkie finger.
The third officer was kicked in the jaw, causing swelling and slight dislocation, Witt said.
CR
gaelic cowboy
05-22-2012, 12:04
Woman files for divorce after husband fails to change his relationship status on Facebook (http://www.joe.ie/news-politics/world-affairs/woman-files-for-divorce-after-husband-fails-to-change-his-relationship-status-on-facebook-0024854-1)
Woman files for divorce after husband fails to change his relationship status on Facebook
18/05/2012 7:36 am
www.joe.ie/new/world-affairs
Ah Facebook, isn’t it great? It helps to keep us in touch with all our friends and it also has the power to completely destroy all our relationships in real life. Awesome.
So what’s your status then? If there’s a woman in your life, we recommend that you update that shizz immediately, otherwise you could end up like this guy…
The Daily Mail reports that an Indian woman has filed for divorce after her husband failed to change his relationship status on the social networking website. Apparently he was too busy to switch his status to ‘married.’
The woman claims that she cannot trust her husband since he failed to announce their arranged marriage on Facebook. Let’s just say that we imagine this poor guy is going to be placed firmly on his wife’s blocked users list if he doesn’t get his act together.
According to local newspaper the Deccan Chronicle, the woman’s husband pleaded his case to a judge and claimed that he had simply forgotten to update his status. Needless to say, this excuse didn’t go down well with the judge, who promptly ordered both husband and wife to undergo intensive counselling for six months.
Speaking to the Deccan Chronicle Mr Subhash, a High Court advocate who was present at the hearing, said that the husband told the judge that he was so busy after the wedding that he simply had no time to check Facebook, let alone change his status.
“He was willing to do so now or even deactivate his account, however, the woman was not keen to continue with the marriage and says her husband might be doing things behind her back and she couldn’t trust him,” said Mr Subhash.
Believe it or not, but according to new figures, Facebook was cited as a reason for nearly a third of divorces in which unreasonable behaviour was a factor last year alone.
So if you’ve recently gotten engaged or if you’ve been meeting your lady friend for a few months now, it’s probably a good idea to seal the deal and make it Facebook official. Otherwise she could pull you up in court…
Gregoshi
05-23-2012, 04:26
Sounds like Facebook needs to add "In the doghouse" to its choices for the relationship status.
InsaneApache
05-26-2012, 10:56
Eric Simons, from Chicago, slept on sofas, ate free in cafeterias, and used his days to work on his own start up company, offering teachers the chance to share lesson plans.
Other employees assumed he was a colleague and admired his strong work ethic. Simons would already be in the gym when they arrived at 7am, and he always stayed latest in the office at night.
Simons told technology website CNET: "There were so many people going in and out each day. They'd say, 'Oh, he just works, here, he's working late every night. Wow, what a hard worker.'"
During his first month Simons estimated he spent only $30 (£20) of his own money, mostly on occasional trips out to McDonald's. He kept his clothes in a gym locker where he also showered.
The teenager, who had only finished high school a few months earlier, gained access to the offices when he was part of an official education
programme. But when that ended he found his security badges still worked so he stayed.
He was eventually rumbled by a security guard who found him asleep on a sofa at 6am in the company's office in Palo Alto.
A spokesman for AOL said: "It was always our intention to facilitate entrepreneurialism in the Palo Alto office – we just didn't expect it to work so well."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9291012/Teenager-squatted-in-AOLs-offices-for-two-months-unnoticed.html
It's a bit like that movie, The secret to my success. :laugh4:
Gregoshi
05-26-2012, 22:51
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9291012/Teenager-squatted-in-AOLs-offices-for-two-months-unnoticed.html
It's a bit like that movie, The secret to my success. :laugh4:
...or an anti-A(W)OL thing.
Papewaio
05-27-2012, 23:31
Sounds like Facebook needs to add "In the doghouse" to its choices for the relationship status.
It would be the partner that changes that status.
Papewaio
Current Status - In the dog house [Wasabi]
Location - Looking wistfully at sofa beds at Ikea
Previous Status - Playing Diablo III
Location - PC
Major Robert Dump
05-29-2012, 17:27
I LOL'd
Tell her you are not just playing, but also socializing with online friends, just like Facebook, but with demons.
Vladimir
05-29-2012, 17:34
There's a congress with the beast joke in there somewhere.
Japanese man cooks and serves his own genitals (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/asexual-mao-sugiyama-cooks-serves-own-genitals_n_1543307.html?ref=weird-news)
The story has pictures, I made the mistake of reading it while eating breakfast :fainting:
Japanese man cooks and serves his own genitals (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/asexual-mao-sugiyama-cooks-serves-own-genitals_n_1543307.html?ref=weird-news)
The story has pictures, I made the mistake of reading it while eating breakfast :fainting:
He should have been on "Chopped". :yes:
Gregoshi
05-31-2012, 05:25
Japanese man cooks and serves his own genitals (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/asexual-mao-sugiyama-cooks-serves-own-genitals_n_1543307.html?ref=weird-news)
Sorry, two meatballs and a sausage link do not feed a party of five. And providing a sack to take home any left-overs is ridiculously optimistic.
35 AK-armed policemen rescue shaved orangutan prostitute in Borneo (http://www.vice.com/read/yo1-v14n10)
Interviewer: So tell us about Pony.
Michelle Desilets [Director of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation]: Pony is an orangutan from a prostitute village in Borneo. We found her chained to a wall, lying on a mattress. She had been shaved all over her body.
I want to cry.
If a man walked near her, she would turn herself around, present herself, and start gyrating and going through the motions. She was being used as a sex slave. She was probably about six or seven years old when we rescued her, but she had been held captive by a madam for a long time. The madam refused to give up the animal because everyone loved Pony and she was a big part of their income. They also thought Pony was lucky, as she would pick winning lottery numbers.
Did the clients realize that they were in fact getting an orangutan?
Oh yeah, they would come in especially for it. You could choose a human if you preferred, but it was a novelty for many of the men to have sex with an orangutan. They shaved her every other day, which meant that her skin had all these pimples and was very irritated. The mosquitoes would get to her very badly and the bites would become septic and be very infected, as she would scratch them constantly. They would put rings and necklaces on her. She was absolutely hideous to look at.
How did you get her away from there?
It took us over a year to rescue her, because every time we went in with forest police and local officers we would be overpowered by the villagers, who simply would not give her up. They would threaten us with guns and knives with poison on them. In the end it took 35 policemen armed with AK-47s and other weaponry going in there and demanding that they hand over Pony. It was filmed by a local television crew and in the background of the film when we are unchaining Pony you can hear the madam crying hysterically, screaming, “They are taking my baby, you can’t do this!” There is no law enforcement in Indonesia so these people didn’t face any sentence or anything for what they had done.
Montmorency
06-01-2012, 15:46
The child can not ever be allowed to know the truth of his lineage.
Yet I fear the baser nature will in time compel him...
Gregoshi
06-01-2012, 15:49
35 AK-armed policemen rescue shaved orangutan prostitute in Borneo (http://www.vice.com/read/yo1-v14n10)
This just makes me angry. I've nothing funny to say about it.
This just makes me angry. I've nothing funny to say about it.
Yes, it's quite horrible, but it is weird, so I posted.
The only mainstream news accounts I was able to find were in French (which I do not speak proficiently), so there's a small chance this is a hoax. Let that be some comfort.
Skullheadhq
06-01-2012, 16:42
Yes, it's quite horrible, but it is weird, so I posted.
The only mainstream news accounts I was able to find were in French (which I do not speak proficiently), so there's a small chance this is a hoax. Let that be some comfort.
Things like that happen frequently there. It is disgusting.
CDC Denies Existence Of Zombies Despite Cannibal Incidents (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/01/cdc-denies-zombies-existence_n_1562141.html)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZ0SIG2eJY
The horrific face-eating arrest in Miami and several other seemingly subhuman acts has many people wondering what's behind this flesh-munching wave of terror.
A zombie apocalypse, however, is not what we should be worried about, at least according to the federal government.
Over the years the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a couple of tongue-in-cheek "zombie warnings," which really are just disaster-preparedness stunts. But on Thursday, the agency made it official: Zombies don't exist.
"CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)," wrote agency spokesman David Daigle in an email to The Huffington Post.
Nevertheless, recent incidents in which humans reportedly ate human flesh have the Internet in a firestorm, with "zombie apocalypse" being Google's third most popular search term by Friday morning.
People can be so stupid, you can't enter a store without clothes and you WILL eventually get hungry.
a completely inoffensive name
06-03-2012, 07:06
You can't reanimate the dead, but you could theoretically have a form of rabies that could cause similar effects I guess in theory. The only thing is, all you need to do is shoot them in chest like a normal human being to put them down, so it wouldn't be so tricky. Also no super human strength, so those thick glass walls would keep them out.
InsaneApache
06-03-2012, 09:51
Spoilsport.
Man Admitted to Hospital for Kidney Stone, Discovers He’s a Woman (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/05/25/man-admitted-to-hospital-for-kidney-stone-discovers-hes-a-woman/)
A Colorado man who was admitted to the hospital for a kidney stone received surprising news when the nurse came back with test results revealing he was actually a woman.
Denver photographer Steve Crecelius said he’s felt a little different all his life.
“When I was about 6 years old, I started having these feminine feelings, but that was in the ’60s. Wearing my mom’s makeup, I thought I looked pretty,” Crecelius told ABC News.
So when he went to the emergency room five years ago, he wasn’t too shocked when the nurse told him she found traits of both genders in his ultrasound results.
He was intersex, meaning he had both male genitalia and internal female sex organs.
“The nurse is reading the ultrasound and says, ‘Huh, this says you’re a female,’ Crecelius said. “It was very liberating. I had spent so much energy after the age of 13 constantly evaluating how people looked at me and acted towards me.”
Steve, who now goes by “Stevie,” said his wife and their six children accepted his new identity right away.
Vladimir
06-06-2012, 13:12
So he/she/it gets to have all the fun!
Post-Mortem Humiliation: Obese Woman Carried So Much Fat She Set Crematorium on Fire (http://gizmodo.com/5915905/dead-obese-woman-carried-so-much-fat-she-set-crematorium-on-fire)
As you'll well know if you barbecue very often, fat is extremely flammable. Normally, the human body doesn't carry enough of the stuff for it to be a problem during cremation—but recently, an obese woman from Austria carried so much weight that her fat burnt strongly enough to set a crematorium ablaze.
The fat caused the fire inside the crematorium to reach 300C, resulting in clouds of smoke billowing out of the building when the filter mechanisms failed to stand up to the job. Firemen had to rush to the scence in Graz, Austria, where they were confronted by thick black smoke smoke which, in the words of the Daily Mail, left them "covered with a layer of sooty grease". Delightful. They eventually extinguished the fire by aiming water through the vents which are used to clear the filters of the cremation oven.
The woman in question weighed 440 pounds, and experts have claimed that it is definitely her size which caused the oven in which she was being cremated to overheat, as opposed to there being a fault. Most countries don't currently have an upper limit on weight or body size which is allowed to be cremated—but this incident could well change that. In fact, since the fire Austria and Switzerland are considering a ban on larger bodies being cremated.
I'll see your mountain lion and raise you a bear (http://blogs.ajc.com/news-to-me/2012/03/28/bear-saves-man-in-mountain-lion-attack/)
Robert Biggs, 69, [...] was roaming the woods of north-central California Monday when the giant cat jumped him.
Biggs, a photographer who enjoys getting close to nature, but probably not this close, was initially saved by his backpack, which was “up around his head” and prevented the panther from landing a mortal blow.
After tussling with the panther for a few seconds, a bear appeared and battled the mountain lion for about 15 seconds, Biggs said, before the cat fled.
The bear left Biggs alone, and he suffered only relatively minor bites, bruises and bite marks.
Biggs told the Paradise, Calif., publication that he had been taking pictures of the bear and her cub before the mountain lion attacked him. He said he had taken pictures of the mother bear before, and had even played with an earlier cub.
Gregoshi
06-06-2012, 21:16
I'll see your mountain lion and raise you a bear (http://blogs.ajc.com/news-to-me/2012/03/28/bear-saves-man-in-mountain-lion-attack/)
The headline should have been "Man Bearly Escapes Mountain Lion Attack". Must have been a cub reporter.
KukriKhan
06-07-2012, 00:20
has
Vladimir
06-07-2012, 14:16
has
WAZZZZZZUP?!?!?
InsaneApache
06-08-2012, 00:26
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html
Now at least we know what to do with Grandma now.
KukriKhan
06-10-2012, 00:47
as sast
Kadagar_AV
06-11-2012, 00:38
Post-Mortem Humiliation: Obese Woman Carried So Much Fat She Set Crematorium on Fire (http://gizmodo.com/5915905/dead-obese-woman-carried-so-much-fat-she-set-crematorium-on-fire)
As you'll well know if you barbecue very often, fat is extremely flammable. Normally, the human body doesn't carry enough of the stuff for it to be a problem during cremation—but recently, an obese woman from Austria carried so much weight that her fat burnt strongly enough to set a crematorium ablaze.
The fat caused the fire inside the crematorium to reach 300C, resulting in clouds of smoke billowing out of the building when the filter mechanisms failed to stand up to the job. Firemen had to rush to the scence in Graz, Austria, where they were confronted by thick black smoke smoke which, in the words of the Daily Mail, left them "covered with a layer of sooty grease". Delightful. They eventually extinguished the fire by aiming water through the vents which are used to clear the filters of the cremation oven.
The woman in question weighed 440 pounds, and experts have claimed that it is definitely her size which caused the oven in which she was being cremated to overheat, as opposed to there being a fault. Most countries don't currently have an upper limit on weight or body size which is allowed to be cremated—but this incident could well change that. In fact, since the fire Austria and Switzerland are considering a ban on larger bodies being cremated.
You'd think the Austrians would have had better set routines for stuff like that.
Kadagar_AV
06-12-2012, 02:45
35 AK-armed policemen rescue shaved orangutan prostitute in Borneo (http://www.vice.com/read/yo1-v14n10)
Interviewer: So tell us about Pony.
Michelle Desilets [Director of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation]: Pony is an orangutan from a prostitute village in Borneo. We found her chained to a wall, lying on a mattress. She had been shaved all over her body.
I want to cry.
If a man walked near her, she would turn herself around, present herself, and start gyrating and going through the motions. She was being used as a sex slave. She was probably about six or seven years old when we rescued her, but she had been held captive by a madam for a long time. The madam refused to give up the animal because everyone loved Pony and she was a big part of their income. They also thought Pony was lucky, as she would pick winning lottery numbers.
Did the clients realize that they were in fact getting an orangutan?
Oh yeah, they would come in especially for it. You could choose a human if you preferred, but it was a novelty for many of the men to have sex with an orangutan. They shaved her every other day, which meant that her skin had all these pimples and was very irritated. The mosquitoes would get to her very badly and the bites would become septic and be very infected, as she would scratch them constantly. They would put rings and necklaces on her. She was absolutely hideous to look at.
How did you get her away from there?
It took us over a year to rescue her, because every time we went in with forest police and local officers we would be overpowered by the villagers, who simply would not give her up. They would threaten us with guns and knives with poison on them. In the end it took 35 policemen armed with AK-47s and other weaponry going in there and demanding that they hand over Pony. It was filmed by a local television crew and in the background of the film when we are unchaining Pony you can hear the madam crying hysterically, screaming, “They are taking my baby, you can’t do this!” There is no law enforcement in Indonesia so these people didn’t face any sentence or anything for what they had done.
Everything else aside, I can understand why people prefer an orangutan in some cases.
Peasant Phill
06-12-2012, 11:27
Everything else aside, I can understand why people prefer an orangutan in some cases.
Please explain.
Kadagar_AV
06-12-2012, 14:45
Please explain.
Well, I think that would kill the joke. But oh well.
If you look at the bold part, I have found that not all human women "go through the motions". I find it most common among japaneese and english girls.
Well, I think that would kill the joke. But oh well.
If you look at the bold part, I have found that not all human women "go through the motions". I find it most common among japaneese and english girls.
And that's enough for you to prefer an orangutan?
InsaneApache
06-12-2012, 15:13
And that's enough for you to prefer an orangutan?
:laugh4:
Kadagar_AV
06-12-2012, 16:03
And that's enough for you to prefer an orangutan?
That's not exactly what I said, now is it?
I made a joke, if I had read the same joke I would have chuckled. Let bygones be bygones.
Might as well analyze a Charlie Chaplin film, where he slips on a banana, and analyze how terrible it is that he could have gotten back problems for the lack of proper stuntmen.
Sir Moody
06-13-2012, 22:20
it was just amazingly poor taste... much like the Austrian joke before it...
Major Robert Dump
06-13-2012, 22:59
I don't think it was poor taste at all. You know the old saying, "A monkey/chicken/goat/ape/gerbil never complains."
While a very sad story, were it not for all the aggravating circumstances surrounding it (the abuse, the ak 47s, etc), how would this story would be different if the ape was, say, discovered at the Bunny Ranch in Nevada, where she lived a very comfortable life, swam in a pool, chose her own clients, had an on-site chef and hairdresser. Now that would be funny.
So you see, while ape prostitution is funny, this particular case is not
Kadagar_AV
06-14-2012, 06:06
I've been hanging with bartenders and ski instructors for too long... If you frown at comments like THAT, you'd wet yourselves in panic at some of the jokes I've heard :)
Tellos Athenaios
06-14-2012, 11:18
Hitchhiker shot while researching 'Kindness of America' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/12/hitchhiker_shot/)
A hitchhiker researching a book on "The Kindness of America" is currently recovering in hospital after a gun-toting truck driver gave him a small donation of some searing hot lead.
Ray Dolin, was hitching on Highway 2 in Montana on Saturday as part of a project to produce a memoir on the great things about the open road in the big country.
Dolin was sitting on his backpack, just west of of the town of Glasgow early Saturday evening when a pickup truck slowed down.
However, rather than extending the offer of a ride, the driver extended a gun out of the window and shot Dolin in the arm.
Kadagar_AV
06-14-2012, 13:52
Hitchhiker shot while researching 'Kindness of America' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/12/hitchhiker_shot/)
A hitchhiker researching a book on "The Kindness of America" is currently recovering in hospital after a gun-toting truck driver gave him a small donation of some searing hot lead.
Ray Dolin, was hitching on Highway 2 in Montana on Saturday as part of a project to produce a memoir on the great things about the open road in the big country.
Dolin was sitting on his backpack, just west of of the town of Glasgow early Saturday evening when a pickup truck slowed down.
However, rather than extending the offer of a ride, the driver extended a gun out of the window and shot Dolin in the arm.
I feel like going all Tribesman on this one...
Ammo Manufacturer Capitalizes of Rash of Cannibal Attacks (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/zombie-bullets-z-max-ammunition_n_1594226.html)
(file under "How to sell when 'Obama Will Take Our Guns' gets old")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm9mGgPbn2c
Bullets said to be made specifically for zombie eradication are here, and they're allegedly selling like hotcakes -- or, hot, oozing brains if you're undead.
When "Zombie Apocalypse" became a media obsession -- reanimated, in part by a spate of cannibalistic attacks -- the Hornady company snapped into action and came up with the perfect plan. They rebranded one of their bullets, slapped a green tip on it, and fancied it up with creepy packaging.
Voila: Z-Max bullets are designed to "make dead permanent," according to the Detroit company's website. [...]
Reviewers, who recreated a bullet ripping through zombie flesh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJkOyPLT3o8&feature=related), aren't super impressed with the Z-max bullet in terms of practicality. One man even says that the Z-max ammo has the exact same specifications as the same company's Critical Defense ammo.
But who cares? There's nothing better than an awesome -- and awesome looking -- zombie defense kit.
Kadagar_AV
06-15-2012, 00:06
What the eff
Yeah... That is just so ironic...
Hitchhiker shot while researching 'Kindness of America' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/12/hitchhiker_shot/)
A hitchhiker researching a book on "The Kindness of America" is currently recovering in hospital after a gun-toting truck driver gave him a small donation of some searing hot lead.
Ray Dolin, was hitching on Highway 2 in Montana on Saturday as part of a project to produce a memoir on the great things about the open road in the big country.
Dolin was sitting on his backpack, just west of of the town of Glasgow early Saturday evening when a pickup truck slowed down.
However, rather than extending the offer of a ride, the driver extended a gun out of the window and shot Dolin in the arm.
-Clothes and shoes for hitchhiking across America - 40$
-Writing material for book "The Kindness of America" - 30$
-Being randomly shot by a stranger for no good reason - priceless.
The lessons the universe teaches you are priceless....for everything else...there's Mastercard.
aimlesswanderer
06-15-2012, 13:50
Ammo Manufacturer Capitalizes of Rash of Cannibal Attacks (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/zombie-bullets-z-max-ammunition_n_1594226.html)
(file under "How to sell when 'Obama Will Take Our Guns' gets old")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm9mGgPbn2c
Bullets said to be made specifically for zombie eradication are here, and they're allegedly selling like hotcakes -- or, hot, oozing brains if you're undead.
When "Zombie Apocalypse" became a media obsession -- reanimated, in part by a spate of cannibalistic attacks -- the Hornady company snapped into action and came up with the perfect plan. They rebranded one of their bullets, slapped a green tip on it, and fancied it up with creepy packaging.
Voila: Z-Max bullets are designed to "make dead permanent," according to the Detroit company's website. [...]
Reviewers, who recreated a bullet ripping through zombie flesh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJkOyPLT3o8&feature=related), aren't super impressed with the Z-max bullet in terms of practicality. One man even says that the Z-max ammo has the exact same specifications as the same company's Critical Defense ammo.
But who cares? There's nothing better than an awesome -- and awesome looking -- zombie defense kit.
Hang on, is there special ammo for killing pesky aliens? You know, the ones in flying saucers who abduct people? Given the hysteria about aliens over the years I'd think that would sell heaps.
Gregoshi
06-16-2012, 02:23
Hitchhiker shot while researching 'Kindness of America' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/12/hitchhiker_shot/)
A hitchhiker researching a book on "The Kindness of America" is currently recovering in hospital after a gun-toting truck driver gave him a small donation of some searing hot lead.
Ray Dolin, was hitching on Highway 2 in Montana on Saturday as part of a project to produce a memoir on the great things about the open road in the big country.
Dolin was sitting on his backpack, just west of of the town of Glasgow early Saturday evening when a pickup truck slowed down.
However, rather than extending the offer of a ride, the driver extended a gun out of the window and shot Dolin in the arm.
Apparently he shot himself intentionally for some publicity: self-inflicted publicity (http://news.yahoo.com/mont-authorities-hitchhiker-shot-himself-162754188.html)
Kadagar_AV
06-16-2012, 02:51
Apparently he shot himself intentionally for some publicity: self-inflicted publicity (http://news.yahoo.com/mont-authorities-hitchhiker-shot-himself-162754188.html)
People start to get really desperate for money / media coverage. I think that says more about the kindness of America than the meaning put forth in this thread. But open a thread or PM me if you want to debate, this isnt the place.
Gregoshi
06-16-2012, 16:03
No debate necessary on my part, Kadagar. I saw this further development of the story which kind of makes it weirder.
Zoo keeper in Sweden killed by wolves. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/17/sweden-zoo-wolf-attack_n_1603898.html)
This is what happens when you don´t follow the security rules when dealing with wild animals.
there are signs in these places that clearly say "don´t feed the animals".
Kadagar_AV
06-18-2012, 12:08
Zoo keeper in Sweden killed by wolves. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/17/sweden-zoo-wolf-attack_n_1603898.html)
This is what happens when you don´t follow the security rules when dealing with wild animals.
there are signs in these places that clearly say "don´t feed the animals".
She was following the park protocol... She has also handled the wolves since they were pups, feeding them with a baby bottle and stuff...
It's probably down to a number of factors, IE, the wolf pack at the time going through some sort of disturbance (like one of the wolves trying to take over the alpha role), and she maybe on top of that stumbled and fell, setting of some instinct in the wolves...
They also sense fear, so stumbling she might have got afraid, and set them off...
Poor women, but with that said, I've always been against wild animals in captivity. If some of them snaps and attacks it must be expected, and I in no way blame the wolves.
Octopus hitches ride on dolphin's genitals (http://www.livescience.com/21028-octopus-attaches-dolphin-genitals.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/Untitled-1.jpg
An octopus got the joyride of its life last week when it somehow became stuck on the belly of a bottlenose dolphin in the Ionian Sea. More specifically, the tentacled sea creature had a seat on the dolphin's genital slit.
Researchers with the Ionian Dolphin Project, part of the Tethys Research Institute, were observing a foursome of dolphins near the island of Kalamos off the west coast of Greece. Suddenly, one of the dolphins leapt out of the water with something strange dangling from its stomach. It wasn't until the researchers examined their photos of the leap that they realized the unidentified object was an octopus.
Papewaio
06-19-2012, 21:50
Orangutan, Octopus & Dolphins.
Gees the Kardashians are more desperate then ever.
Kadagar_AV
06-19-2012, 22:28
Octopus hitches ride on dolphin's genitals (http://www.livescience.com/21028-octopus-attaches-dolphin-genitals.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/Untitled-1.jpg
An octopus got the joyride of its life last week when it somehow became stuck on the belly of a bottlenose dolphin in the Ionian Sea. More specifically, the tentacled sea creature had a seat on the dolphin's genital slit.
Researchers with the Ionian Dolphin Project, part of the Tethys Research Institute, were observing a foursome of dolphins near the island of Kalamos off the west coast of Greece. Suddenly, one of the dolphins leapt out of the water with something strange dangling from its stomach. It wasn't until the researchers examined their photos of the leap that they realized the unidentified object was an octopus.
I wouldn't mind an organic sexual toy with 8 arms, known for it's ability to suck.
No wonder dolphins are known as the smartest sea creatures...
Papewaio
06-19-2012, 23:30
Woman impregnated by Squid... Herald Sun Au
"A 63-year-old woman became 'pregnant' with 12 baby squid after eating calamari, according to a claim in a bio-tech report.
The real-life 'octo-mum', from South Korea, was eating a portion of cooked whole squid when she felt a sharp pain in her mouth.
The bizarre claim has been made in a scientific paper from the National Centre for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland."
Kadagar_AV
06-19-2012, 23:33
Woman impregnated by Squid... Herald Sun Au
"A 63-year-old woman became 'pregnant' with 12 baby squid after eating calamari, according to a claim in a bio-tech report.
The real-life 'octo-mum', from South Korea, was eating a portion of cooked whole squid when she felt a sharp pain in her mouth.
The bizarre claim has been made in a scientific paper from the National Centre for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland."
source?
Gregoshi
06-20-2012, 00:34
source?
The squid, obviously. ~;)
source?
Woman, 63, 'becomes pregnant in the mouth' with baby squid after eating calamari (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2159692/Womans-mouth-falls-pregnant-squid-biting-sea-creature-scientists-claim.html)
A 63-year-old woman became 'pregnant' with 12 baby squid after eating calamari, according to a claim in a bio-tech report.
The real-life 'octo-mum', from South Korea, was eating a portion of cooked whole squid when she felt a sharp pain in her mouth.
The bizarre claim has been made in a scientific paper from the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland.
The lady told doctors that she could feel something in her mouth which they described as 'bug-like organisms'.
When examined, the doctors found 'baby cephalopods' attached to her mouth. These are small pods, covered in a cement-like material to make them stick.
Inside the pods is an 'ejaculatory apparatus' and sperm - with the apparatus expelling the sperm quite forcefully.
After the victim of the 'attack' was hospitalised, doctors removed the baby cephalopods from her gums, tongue and cheek. It was only then that the pods were formally identified as 'squid spermatophores.'
The Center's paper says: 'She did not swallow the portion, but spat it out immediately. She complained of a pricking and foreign-body sensation in the oral cavity.
'Twelve small, white spindle-shaped, bug-like organisms stuck in the mucous membrane of the tongue, cheek, and gingiva [gums] were completely removed, along with the affected mucosa.
'On the basis of their morphology and the presence of the sperm bag, the foreign bodies were identified as squid spermatophores.'
According to Science 2.0, a spermatophore is similar to a cup of semen.
Woman has 4 kinds of cones in eyes, can see colors we can't (http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-humans-with-super-human-vision/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/super-vision.jpg
Each cone confers the ability to distinguish around a hundred shades, so the total number of combinations is at least 1003, or a million. [...] Living among us are people with four cones, who might experience a range of colors invisible to the rest. It’s possible these so-called tetrachromats see a hundred million colors, with each familiar hue fracturing into a hundred more subtle shades for which there are no names, no paint swatches. And because perceiving color is a personal experience, they would have no way of knowing they see far beyond what we consider the limits of human vision. [...]
What would it be like to see through cDa29’s eyes? Unfortunately, she cannot describe how her color vision compares with ours, any more than we can describe to a dichromatic person what red looks like. “This private perception is what everybody is curious about,” Jordan says. “I would love to see that.” Jordan’s next challenge is discovering why cDa29 is different from the other women she tested. “We now know tetrachromacy exists,” Jordan says. “But we don’t know what allows someone to become functionally tetrachromatic, when most four-coned women aren’t.”
Man denied entry to strip club because adorable kitten (http://www.digtriad.com/news/article/231466/57/Sheriff-Man-Tried-To-Take-Kitten-Into-Strip-Club)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/55ae9860.jpg
Deputies were called shortly after 9:00 pm on Tuesday, to the Emerald City in Murdock after the owner said he told Everett Robert Lages, 47 to leave. The owner said Lages had attempted to bring a kitten into the club.
Instead of leaving, witnesses said Lages sat down outside the business and repeatedly called 911. [...]
Lages was placed under arrest and had to be forcibly restrained. He was booked into the jail on charges of Misuse of the 911 System, Disorderly Intoxication, Trespassing after Warning and Resisting Arrest without Violence. He is being held on $4,000 bond.
Animal Control was called to pick up the kitten and is now safe and sound.
Tellos Athenaios
06-20-2012, 20:08
Animal Control was called to pick up the kitten and is now safe and sound.
Well it's good to know Animal Control made it through unscathed and survived the cuteness of the kitten...
Man denied entry to strip club because adorable kitten (http://www.digtriad.com/news/article/231466/57/Sheriff-Man-Tried-To-Take-Kitten-Into-Strip-Club)
The jokes I could make for this headline would get me fired from the staff. :yes:
The jokes I could make for this headline would get me fired from the staff. :yes:
getting in trouble for trying to take a little pussy into the strip club.
normally it's the other way around.
InsaneApache
06-20-2012, 21:39
nm.
Fossilized turtle sex (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18495102)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/turtle-sex.jpg
Turtles killed as they were having sex and then fossilised in position have been described by scientists.
The remains of the 47-million-year old animals were unearthed in the famous Messel Pit near Darmstadt, Germany.
They were found as male-female pairs. In two cases, the males even had their tails tucked under their partners' as would be expected from the coital position.
Researchers think the turtles had initiated sex in the surface waters of the lake that once existed on the site, and were then overcome as they sank through deeper layers made toxic by the release of volcanic gases.
Kadagar_AV
06-20-2012, 22:46
Fossilized turtle sex (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18495102)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/turtle-sex.jpg
Turtles killed as they were having sex and then fossilised in position have been described by scientists.
The remains of the 47-million-year old animals were unearthed in the famous Messel Pit near Darmstadt, Germany.
They were found as male-female pairs. In two cases, the males even had their tails tucked under their partners' as would be expected from the coital position.
Researchers think the turtles had initiated sex in the surface waters of the lake that once existed on the site, and were then overcome as they sank through deeper layers made toxic by the release of volcanic gases.
What a way to die...
Papewaio
06-20-2012, 23:07
Maybe we will have to rename the Dutch Oven to German... no wait that would have the wrong connotation.
So how close to the Netherlands are these pits?
KukriKhan
06-20-2012, 23:08
haaaaaaaaa
haaaaaaaaa
This made my day! Thanks, Kukri-sama.
Gregoshi
06-21-2012, 01:25
Man denied entry to strip club because adorable kitten (http://www.digtriad.com/news/article/231466/57/Sheriff-Man-Tried-To-Take-Kitten-Into-Strip-Club)
The Emerald City strip club is apparently not a BYO establishment.
Gregoshi
06-21-2012, 01:29
Fossilized turtle sex (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18495102)
Researchers think the turtles had initiated sex in the surface waters of the lake that once existed on the site, and were then overcome as they sank through deeper layers made toxic by the release of volcanic gases.
Leave it to science to figure out what was going down.
Major Robert Dump
06-21-2012, 03:01
People who visited the wolves at the zoo are saying she was very much an alpha caretaker and exerted great control over the wolves with sounds, growls and batons.
New Alpha decided it was time to step up, used her own tactics on her. Sad, but kind of predictable when you keep pack animals in captivity in a pack.
Kadagar_AV
06-21-2012, 13:09
FAIL!!
http://theblemish.com/2012/06/chinese-reporter-mistakes-sex-toy-mushroom/
Gregoshi
06-21-2012, 14:13
FAIL!!
http://theblemish.com/2012/06/chinese-reporter-mistakes-sex-toy-mushroom/
This just "in", there apparently are two sides to every story...and the men out there may like the way this one (or is it two?) ends...
Crazed Rabbit
06-22-2012, 06:02
Meanwhile, in Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/05/09/ottawa-quebec-knight-rides-across-canada-for-valour.html
Quebec knight riding across Canada for valour
A Quebec man is travelling across Canada dressed as a knight and riding on a horse in a quest to show "true valour" still exists.
Vincent Gabriel Kirouac of Quebec City, Que., says he has been on an eight-year quest to ride across the country. He started his journey with his horse Lionheart in Quebec City earlier this year. Kirouac is heading west to his final destination in British Columbia. On Wednesday, he arrived in Ottawa.
It all began in high school, he said, when his teacher was helping him find a job. He decided he wanted to become a knight.
Now he is staying at farms across Canada each night and riding his horse each day. Click on the video link above to hear about Kirouac's journey.
CR
Gregoshi
06-22-2012, 14:41
It all began in high school, he said, when his teacher was helping him find a job. He decided he wanted to become a knight.
Because Vincent couldn't afford to quit his day job.
To you Sir Vincent, a salute from fellow Canadian Gordon Lightfoot: Don Quixote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDnPBnY6RE)
If you think clowns are creepy, you are right (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/professional-clown-found-stash-child-pornography-article-1.1099683)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/sondanceclown.jpg
A 47-year-old professional clown was found with a large cache of child pornography on computer equipment in his Arkansas home, police said.
Thomas Harold Morgan - who goes by “Sondance the Clown” - was arrested Wednesday after cops noticed someone downloading child pornography over a file-sharing network. They allegedly traced it to an Internet service provider belonging to the suspect.
Police said they then obtained a search warrant for Morgan’s home.
“There was enough material on there that it would take (investigators) at least two or three weeks to go through all of it — so there’s a lot of images,” Fort Smith, Ark., Police Cpl. Steven Dooly told 5NEWS.
Morgan wasn’t dressed as a clown when he was arrested, Dooly added.
Man claims leprechauns beat him up for dancing (http://downtownseattle.komonews.com/news/crime/759270-police-man-claims-leprechauns-beat-him-dancing)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/leprechaun-in-the-hood-2000.jpg
A “bunch of leprechauns” beat up a man in Belltown on Saturday, the bruised and bloodied victim told police.
Police say they received reports about the fight around 1:55 a.m. on Bell Street near the Alaskan Way Viaduct, but when they arrived they saw numerous people running from the scene.
Police then saw a man on the ground, who was covered in blood and holding his head and screaming in pain.
When police asked the man who was involved in the fight he said, “It was a bunch of leprechauns,” that were mad because he was dancing with a girl, according to police.
He told police one of the assailants was wearing a white tank top, but could not provide any more details about the leprechauns.
A witness at the scene told police a group of men beat him up.
The man was taken to Harborview Medical Center with multiple head injuries and cuts and bruises on his face, back, knuckles and elbows.
Police were unable to find the leprechauns or anyone else involved.
Gregoshi
06-23-2012, 05:34
When police asked the man who was involved in the fight he said, “It was a bunch of leprechauns,” that were mad because he was dancing with a girl, according to police.
More than likely they beat him up because he was after the girl's Lucky Charms. She was probably magically delicious. :eyebrows:
Bangor, Maine prepares for zombie outbreak (http://bangordailynews.com/2012/06/21/news/bangor/emergency-responders-hone-preparedness-skills-during-bangor-zombie-apocalypse/)
What if a pandemic hit Maine? Who would respond? What would they do? Where would they get vital resources that likely would be in short supply? What if there wasn’t enough antidote to go around?
These are just some of the questions that about 100 emergency responders from eight Maine counties grappled with Thursday during “Zombie Apocalypse,” a daylong preparedness exercise conducted by the Northeastern Maine Regional Resource Center at Spectacular Event Center.
During the exercise, representatives from several hospitals and nursing homes, public safety and emergency management agencies, the Maine National Guard, amateur radio operators and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention gathered to think about how they would respond to a worldwide outbreak of an infectious disease — in this case a “zombie” pandemic that originated in Jamaica and spread throughout the globe by bites from zombies.
“This gives us the opportunity to do something a little bit different, but it still has the same principles that would apply in a real situation,” said Kathy Knight, director of the Northeastern Maine Regional Resource Center.
Participants who were “bit” by zombies had stickers affixed to their name tags.
“If they don’t receive the anti-zombie drug, they progress to stage two and then on to the ‘undead’ stage,” Knight said.
Tellos Athenaios
06-25-2012, 02:59
Which basically confirms Stephen King as an author of fact, not fiction. Maine: stay away from it.
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