News of the Weird

[Gregoshi]

Hey, I'm getting Good Vibrations...



I, I can see by her looks she's scared
And the way her trembling dances her long hair
I ask for cash with a single word
While waving my girl's vibrator in the air.


I'm pickin up good vibrations
Its giving me excitations
I'm pickin up good vibrations
(oom cops cops good vibrations)
Its giving me excitations
(oom cops cops excitations)...


It is disguised
Oh please don't turn on right now
'Cuz they think I've got a gun here in my hand.
Oh, I can't look in my girlfriend's eyes
As she IDs the sex toy on the witness stand.


I ain't gettin' no probation
My picture's on every station
I ain't gettin' no probation
(oom cops cops no probation)
Biggest fool in the whole nation
(oom ha ha the whole nation)...

[Papewaio]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/21/1187462212841.html


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

...

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

:sweatdrop:

[Gregoshi]

Pape, this has already been reported in post #738 above by BG.

[Papewaio]

Oops... still paying out on the Dan in our team :laugh4:

[seireikhaan]

Hey, I'm getting Good Vibrations...



I, I can see by her looks she's scared
And the way her trembling dances her long hair
I ask for cash with a single word
While waving my girl's vibrator in the air.


I'm pickin up good vibrations
Its giving me excitations
I'm pickin up good vibrations
(oom cops cops good vibrations)
Its giving me excitations
(oom cops cops excitations)...


It is disguised
Oh please don't turn on right now
'Cuz they think I've got a gun here in my hand.
Oh, I can't look in my girlfriend's eyes
As she IDs the sex toy on the witness stand.


I ain't gettin' no probation
My picture's on every station
I ain't gettin' no probation
(oom cops cops no probation)
Biggest fool in the whole nation
(oom ha ha the whole nation)...



:laugh4:

[InsaneApache]

I bet that thief got a buzz out of that! :laugh4:

Anyways on the frontiers of science...


A MIRACLE material for the 21st century could protect your home against bomb blasts, mop up oil spillages and even help man to fly to Mars.

Aerogel, one of the world’s lightest solids, can withstand a direct blast of 1kg of dynamite and protect against heat from a blowtorch at more than 1,300C.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2284349.ece

Amazing. :jawdrop:

[Peasant Phill]

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

I don't get it. Shouldn't the glue fail if it didn't dried long enough?

[Banquo's Ghost]

I don't get it. Shouldn't the glue fail if it didn't dried long enough?

Don't worry. It's a tacky story.

[Gregoshi]

Well, that's Dan's story and he's sticking to it.

[Lemur]

Man fakes his own death (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/17/AR2007081702365.html?hpid=topnews%3Cbr%3E) ... to get out of a cellphone contract.


Fed up with dropped calls and a string of defective cellphones, Corey Taylor said he became irate when he learned he'd have to pay $175 to get out of his long-term contract with Verizon Wireless. So he resorted to a rather extreme measure. He faked his own death.

After reading on a blog that wireless companies would cancel the contracts of deceased customers, "I thought, 'What have I got to lose, besides a cellphone I despise?' " Taylor said. The Chicago consultant fashioned a fake death certificate and had a friend fax it to Verizon Wireless, his carrier.

It's amazing that U.S. cellphone companies are allowed to charge such high fees for leaving their service. Really kills the competitiveness of the market, if you ask me. Rather than get stuffed with a $250 bill for the pleasure of leaving, people stay with service they don't much like. Anti-competitive, and anti-free-market.

Unfortunately, Corey's faked death didn't work, and he wound up having to pay Verizon anyway. But here's a toast to his lateral thinking!

[Haudegen]

It's amazing that U.S. cellphone companies are allowed to charge such high fees for leaving their service. Really kills the competitiveness of the market, if you ask me. Rather than get stuffed with a $250 bill for the pleasure of leaving, people stay with service they don't much like. Anti-competitive, and anti-free-market.


I don´t know what these contracts are like in the US but over here these monthly fees are effectively the price the customer pays for the new cellphone he receives at the beginning. I think it´s only fair if the company gets a compensation for the loss of the monthly fees, after all the customer got a brand new cellphone (worth several hundred euros) for almost no (instant) cost.

[Lemur]

Point taken, but here we run into another bad issue in the U.S.: most phone companies issue handsets that will not work with other carriers' networks. Nice, eh? So they subsidize the purchase of a phone you can only use with them. It's all a bit rotten, frankly.

As long as we're talking about products, who here needs a bulletproof baby?


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

Click the link (http://www.bulletproofbaby.net/) to view a highly disturbing video in which mom puts her toddler in a bulletproof stroller, and then empties a clip into it. Who says Americans are violent?

They also sell bulletproof cribs. English Assassin and other new dads should look at this stuff. You can never be too careful.

-edit-

From the product description:


A must for mobile baby protection, the Heavy weight bulllet proof stroller provides 100% protection against all modern ballistics including Armor Piercing rounds. It’s heavy enough to maintain stability even under a heavy barrage, and yet has light steering enabling the stroller to turn on a dime if required. For the smart urban baby, this stroller is the ultimate in style, comfort and extreme combat protection.

[Papewaio]

I don't get it. Shouldn't the glue fail if it didn't dried long enough?

The vacuum prossibly speeded up the rate at which it cured and the length of time attached to it probably didn't help either...

[Crazed Rabbit]

Lemur, that's a fake gun. The way it reacts, the way she holds it, the fact that it's a new, expensive H&K gun you can't get in the US, the fact that the muzzle flashes are faked, the fact that there are no bullet casings coming out - all fake shooting.

CR

[Papewaio]

You could take the link seriously or as a satire...

as a commercial venture you could question it being posted at a .net site...
you could read the product quotes:

“I was at the recent Christmas sales with my newborn and it quickly turned into a riot like situation as everyone rushed to pick up a bargain. Thanks to my Bullet proof baby riot shield I was able to protect little Gavin and pick up a fabulous romper suit at half price!”..

It looks more like a uni assignment then anything else...

[Haudegen]

Point taken, but here we run into another bad issue in the U.S.: most phone companies issue handsets that will not work with other carriers' networks.


Wow, didn´t know that. But in the light of this, the anger against those companies is quite understandable, I must say.

[Lemur]

Lemur, that's a fake gun. The way it reacts, the way she holds it, the fact that it's a new, expensive H&K gun you can't get in the US, the fact that the muzzle flashes are faked, the fact that there are no bullet casings coming out - all fake shooting.
Yup, it's a fake site. Fooled me for a bit, however. So ridiculous, I just wanted it to be true. Now I will never get an armored buggy for my little lemur girl. Sigh.

[Peasant Phill]

OK so the bulletproof stroller is fake, but the bullet proof bagpack isn't
bullet-proof bagpack (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/safe-books/ballistic-bookbag-bullet+proof-back+pack-289587.php)

[Banquo's Ghost]

OK so the bulletproof stroller is fake, but the bullet proof bagpack isn't
bullet-proof bagpack (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/safe-books/ballistic-bookbag-bullet+proof-back+pack-289587.php)

Not much good against the weird guns (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/bang-bang/weirdest-guns-ever-amuse-and-scare-the-hell-out-of-me-291804.php) in the adjacent link. Now that's a Zombie-fighter.

[Gregoshi]

Rubber baby buggy bumpers
Rubber baby baaggy bumpers
Rubber baby buggy bunkers
Rugger baby bunky buggers :dizzy2:

[English assassin]

They also sell bulletproof cribs. English Assassin and other new dads should look at this stuff. You can never be too careful.

That's why I bought my armoured car. CR and others may think that firearms are the best safeguard for a citizen against an oppressive government, but I'm calling them lightweights. No man who is not his own armoured division* can truly call himself free.

(*or light recon company, anyway.)

Not strictly news of thw weird this, but news of the cool: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2284349.ece Its a slow news day in August, and the Times takes the chance to update us on bomb proof frozen smoke. See, even material science can be sexy. Sort of.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Not strictly news of thw weird this, but news of the cool: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2284349.ece Its a slow news day in August, and the Times takes the chance to update us on bomb proof frozen smoke. See, even material science can be sexy. Sort of.

IA beat you to it (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=1645371&postcount=756) by a day.

~;p

In other news, lighting candles (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/22/moscow_human_candle/) is not always romantic.

[Gregoshi]

EA, with the new baby your car really needs rumper baky bubby bunkers...:wall:

[InsaneApache]

IA beat you to it (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=1645371&postcount=756) by a day.

~;p.

Don't depress him anymore BQ, he's got three kids as it is. :laugh4: The armoured car will come in handy when they're teenagers though. :laugh4:

[Banquo's Ghost]

When this guy (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2474584.html?menu=) flips you the bird, you stay flipped.

:shocked2:

[Gregoshi]

In other news, lighting candles (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/22/moscow_human_candle/) is not always romantic.
The article said they were divorced, so that would make her an old flame. I wonder if he still carries the torch for her as she obviously had the hots for him.

[Gregoshi]

When this guy (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2474584.html?menu=) flips you the bird, you stay flipped.
I guess he couldn't pick his nose, unless... :worried2:

[Banquo's Ghost]

The article said they were divorced, so that would make her an old flame. I wonder if he still carries the torch for her as she obviously had the hots for him.

Well, the spark was still there...

[Gregoshi]

Well, the spark was still there...
:laugh4: That story has so much potential.

[English assassin]

IA beat you to it (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=1645371&postcount=756) by a day.


Sleep deprivation :yes:

[InsaneApache]

Blimey, just when I thought the UK couldn't get any pottier.....


"They came to arrest him in my house, they took him into a police van. They took him to Elizabeth Slinger [police station], put him in a cell, took his photographs, his fingerprints, then interviewed him. "And then they decided to charge him with common assault - with a sausage.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6958826.stm

Now where did I put that slavska? :whip:

[Gregoshi]

Did the police put the boy in 'cuff links?
:thinking2:

[Banquo's Ghost]

Three reprimands? Obviously a badly behaved brat - worst thing that could happen to him.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Here's one for you, Lemur, of a mother putting her child into terrible peril:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S8cNrIR5ac&NR

Sadly, I think that's completely real.

CR

[Lemur]

Well, it's from Texas, where throwing knives at your youngsters is normal and approved. I believe Strike for the South was subjected to daily hatchet-throwings until he was five. Par for the course.

[InsaneApache]

I think that's a splendid idea. It's up there with my theory that children should be herded into camps until they get to 25 years old.

A winner in any (parents) book. :2thumbsup:

[Don Corleone]

It is certainly one way of thinning epilepsy, Parkinson's and alcoholism out of the gene pool... you may be able to breed those traits along to one generation, but you're taking that generation out before they have had a chance to pass those maladies along any further.....


:juggle2: :juggle2: :juggle2: :juggle2: Dad... shouldn't you wait until your hands stop shaking??? Dad???? :sweatdrop: :sweatdrop:

[InsaneApache]

Wait 'till you teenagers mate. :sweatdrop: Your hands will not just shake, but perspire, profusely. :wall:

[Gregoshi]

I'm sure those Gallagher girls wish things were a little duller around their house.

[InsaneApache]

"But the monkeys can tell the difference and they don't run away from us and point at our breasts. They just ignore us and continue to steal the crops."

In addition to stealing their crops, the monkeys also make sexually explicit gestures at the women, they claim.

This monkey scarer is armed with small rocks


"The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts. We are afraid that they will sexually harass us," said Mrs Njeri.

:laugh4:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6959209.stm

[Lemur]

Sounds like the villagers are going ape over the base, mammarian behavior of the monkeys. Maybe it's time for sexual harassment to gain a new mascot? Kids, don't be rude like Sexual Harassment Monkey ...

Now as embarrassed as I am about being duped, utterly duped by Bulletproof Baby, I found a real-life follow-up. Why send your kid to school without protection? If you love your children, surely you will buy the My Child Backpack (http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=ef8a16ae-b27f-4adf-b2f3-4c9ccb7e1584&k=91232):


Just in time for the new academic year, Massachusetts-based MJ Safety Solutions has unveiled My Child's Pack, described on the company's website as the first "full size, lightweight ballistic protection backpack that is affordable and practical."

The response has been overwhelming.

"We were pretty sure that parents would take to this," said co-founder, Mike Pelonzi, but the incredible demand for the product has caught everyone there off guard. Orders for the $175 US bags have been pouring in online and the one store in Pelonzi's hometown of Danvers, Mass. carrying the packs has been sold out since day one.

[Gregoshi]

Sorry Lemur, but Peasant Phill above (post #768) beat you to the punch: Bulletproof backpack (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=1646537&postcount=768)

[Lemur]

Maybe I need to take a Weird News break, then. I can't seem to shoot straight lately ...

[Gregoshi]

Don't be so hard on yourself Lemur. You astound me how you find so many weird stories, not to mention the time it must take you to seek out such weirdness.

If you think you need a break, take it. I can relate. In the last few weeks I've found puns more difficult to come by - at least the better ones I'm willing to post*. :bow:


* scary thought, ain't it?

[drone]

We haven't had a genital mutilation item for a while, so here goes:
Russian woman sets fire to ex-husband's penis (http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL22591513.html)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A woman set fire to her ex-husband's penis as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka, Moscow police said on Wednesday.

Asked if the man would make a full recovery, a police spokeswoman said it was "difficult to predict".

The attack climaxed three years of acrimonious enforced co-habitation. The couple divorced three years ago but continued to share a small flat, something common in Russia where property costs are very high.

"It was monstrously painful," the wounded ex-husband told Tvoi Den newspaper. "I was burning like a torch. I don't know what I did to deserve this."

[Gregoshi]

We haven't had a genital mutilation item for a while, so here goes:
Russian woman sets fire to ex-husband's penis (http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL22591513.html)


:laugh4: Maybe it is time to give this thread a rest. drone, this is another duplicate. BG posted this story a couple fo days ago: lighting candles is not always romantic (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=1646583&postcount=772)

[Crazed Rabbit]

Okay, time to step in and save the thread for a reposted story meltdown:
1)
Apparently, you can buy anything on Ebay:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5680344,00.html
Of course, it pays to be smart about it.

2)
Don't wear a longhorns shirt in Oklahoma:
http://newsok.com/article/3108932
Key Phrase:

Thomas hit the other man several times before several bar patrons intervened, but Thomas said Beckett didn't let go until Thomas heard his scrotum tear and blood ran down his leg.

3)
Teenagers get even stupider in Darwin, Australia:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=287944

Reckless teenagers are leaping in front of moving cars on busy roads as part of a dangerous new stunt craze.

4)
A Canadian town is brought down financially by the squirrels:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070823.BCSQUIRREL23/TPStory/National
Poisoning and trapping don't work too well.
Will they try the Ohio Program?
http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1187945799199240.xml&coll=2

5)
Witchcraft returns to Salem, in a very grand and dignified manner!
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/08/23/witches_charged_after_raccoon_entrails_left_on_doorsteps_1187873178/?p1=email_to_a_friend


That's all for now.

CR

[drone]

:laugh4: Maybe it is time to give this thread a rest. drone, this is another duplicate. BG posted this story a couple fo days ago: lighting candles is not always romantic (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=1646583&postcount=772)
~:doh: Dupe! :gah2:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

CR...I'm afraid all of those have been posted before.

[Crazed Rabbit]

*is suspicious*
:inquisitive:
Have they, now? Care to post links to the originals?

CR

[lars573]

Venezuela to change time zone by 30 minutes. (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070824/odds/odd_venezuela_time_dc)

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has changed his country's name, redesigned its flag and rejigged its coat of arms in his drive for a socialist state.ADVERTISEMENT



Now the leftist reformer, highly popular for redistributing oil income, is seeking to move the country's time zone to offer a more equitable distribution of sunlight.

Venezuela in September will turn clocks back by 30 minutes as it switches time zones to boost the amount of natural light to residents, a government official said on Thursday.

Next month Venezuelan clocks will be set at Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) minus 4-1/2 hours, compared to the previous GMT minus four hours, Science and Technology Minister Hector Navarro told reporters at a news conference.

He said the measure sought "a more fair distribution of the sunrise," which would particularly help poor children who wake up before dawn to go to school.

"Very rigorous scientific studies have determined that ... the metabolic activity of living beings is synchronized with the sun's light," he said.

Navarro said the government is planning to announce additional measures to "make more effective use of time."

Venezuela, which under Chavez was officially changed to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, adopted its current time zone in the 1960s
:laugh4: I love Chavez! :smitten:


Shoplifter nabbed trying to exchange stolen shoes (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070824/odds/odd_crocs_dc)
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police arrested a woman who stole a pair of Crocs shoes when she returned to the store hours later to exchange them because they did not fit her son, a police spokesman said Friday.ADVERTISEMENT



"The store clerk identified her from security camera footage and called us," said Amos Shimoni, police spokesman in the northern town of Safed.

"Instead of exchanging the shoes for another pair, she exchanged them for a criminal record."
A real genius I tell you. :smash:

Atlanta considers banning baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070823/koddities/atlanta_sagging_pants)
ATLANTA (AP) - Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta's indecency laws. ADVERTISEMENT



The amendment, sponsored by city councilman C.T. Martin, states that sagging pants are an "epidemic" that is becoming a "major concern" around the country.

"Little children see it and want to adopt it, thinking it's the in thing," Martin said Wednesday. "I don't want young people thinking that half-dressing is the way to go. I want them to think about their future."

The proposed ordinance would also bar women from showing the strap of a thong beneath their pants. They would also be prohibited from wearing jogging bras in public or show a bra strap, said Debbie Seagraves, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.

The proposed ordinance states that "the indecent exposure of his or her undergarments" would be unlawful in a public place. It would go in the same portion of the city code that outlaws sex in public and the exposure or fondling of genitals.

The penalty would be a fine in an amount to be determined, Martin said.

But Seagraves said any legislation that creates a dress code would not survive a court challenge. She said the law could not be enforced in a nondiscriminatory way because it targets something that came out of the black youth culture.

"This is a racial profiling bill that promotes and establishes a framework for an additional type of racial profiling," Seagraves said.

Martin, who is black, said he plans to hold public hearings and vet the proposal through churches, civil rights groups and neighborhood organizations. The proposal will get its first public airing next Tuesday in the City Council's Public Safety Committee.

"The purpose of the paper is to generate some conversation to see if we can find a solution," Martin said. "It will be like all the discussions we've had around the value of the hip-hop culture. We know there are First Amendment issues ... and some will say I'm just trying to put young black men in jail, but it's going to be fines."

Makeda Johnson, an Atlanta mother of a 14-year-old girl, said she is glad Martin introduced the proposal. She does not want to see a law against clothing, but said she thinks teenagers are sending a message with a way of dressing that is based in jailhouse behavior.

Atlanta would not be the first city to take on sagging pants.

Earlier this year, the town council in Delcambre, La., passed an ordinance that carries a fine of up to $500 or six months in jail for exposing underwear in public. Several other municipalities and parish governments in Louisiana have enacted similar laws in recent months.
Probably already posted but, busy-body city councils are always good for a laugh. Like this one. :laugh4: :laugh4:

[HoreTore]

He said the measure sought "a more fair distribution of the sunrise," which would particularly help poor children who wake up before dawn to go to school.

"Very rigorous scientific studies have determined that ... the metabolic activity of living beings is synchronized with the sun's light," he said.

Navarro said the government is planning to announce additional measures to "make more effective use of time."


That's actually not wrong...

[InsaneApache]

CR...I'm afraid all of those have been posted before.

:laugh4:

[edyzmedieval]

We have to say it, Chavez has much more style than most of the presidents in this world. :2thumbsup: :laugh4:

[Caius]

*is suspicious*
:inquisitive:
Have they, now? Care to post links to the originals?

CR
I will help Sasaki:

Here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=1649368&postcount=797)

[Lemur]

You astound me how you find so many weird stories, not to mention the time it must take you to seek out such weirdness.
I can assure you, I spend very little time on it. How is that possible? I cheat. I found RSS feeds for several news sites that harvest, among other things, weird news. So I can scan them very quickly, and decide if any of the titles seem thread-worthy.

One of my RSS feeds has the following stories currently, none of which come up to my low standards:

Shoplifter nabbed trying to exchange stolen shoes
Excuse me, I'd like to buy your B-52 (Almost posted this one, but decided against it when it turned out to be just a Russion billionaire, probably drunk, pulling out his checkbook at an airshow)
Housewife hid $3 million in Forex gains
Country to change timezone by 30 minutes (already posted)
Man leaves dead mother in armchair for two years
China nips and tucks transsexual TV
Murdered man taken to morgue in taxi
Fire damages controversial crematorium
And the Peter Forgacs award goes to ...
Man nabbed in severed-finger shrine protest

As you can see, it takes very little time to scan an RSS feed like this. Normally this system works well for me, but in the last week I've been hoodwinked twice, and (worse!) posted a dupe. This speaks to some sort of malaise of the soul. Maybe I took sacred lava away from a Hawaiian shrine. It's also possible that I have been possessed by demonic forces who wish to ruin my good name. Anybody's guess, really.

I'll keep scanning the feeds, and when a real humdinger comes along, I'll post again. And no, I won't tell you how to access my sources. A lemur needs to keep some homefield advantages. (Although anybody with an ounce of web savvy can reproduce my methods, now that I've described them.)

[InsaneApache]

Man leaves dead mother in armchair for two years

Now you can't leave that one hanging mate. Was his name Norman by any chance? :laugh4:

[Lemur]

Man Leaves Dead Mother in Armchair for Two Years (http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL248039520070824)

BERLIN - A German left his dead mother seated in her favorite armchair at their shared home for two years because he could not face organizing a funeral, police in the southern town of Fuerstenfeldbruck said Friday.

The woman died of natural causes in the chair in July 2005 at the age of 92, a police spokesman said. A doctor called to the scene at the time gave the son a death certificate but he did not register the death.

Neighbors recently alerted police about the corpse. The man told police he could not bear to move his mother and said he never again entered the room where she was seated. Police have started an investigation for violating German burial law.

-edit-

I think my judgment was correct, however. This really doesn't have that certain something that qualifies as threadworthy. Maybe if lobsters had been involved, or if he had kept the corpse in slightly more morbid conditions, or if the son was also a circus dwarf. Something. It goes without saying that a severed/burned/suctioned/electrified penis would have given this story an instant greenlight.

[InsaneApache]

I bet he wouldn't hurt a fly. :sweatdrop:

Thanks for that btw.

[edyzmedieval]

Excuse me, but that guy has serious mental problems. How could you possibly live with a corpse for 2 years?!!! :inquisitive:

[ShadesPanther]

Excuse me, but that guy has serious mental problems. How could you possibly live with a corpse for 2 years?!!! :inquisitive:


With Air Fresheners and lots of them.

[ShadesPanther]

Stop kicking Allah! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6964564.stm)

[Gregoshi]

Stop kicking Allah! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6964564.stm)
Okay, how, exactly, does one get rid of the offending footballs without further insulting Islam? ~:confused:

[ShadesPanther]

Okay, how, exactly, does one get rid of the offending footballs without further insulting Islam? ~:confused:


Well if you remove Saudi Arabia's flag they will complain that it isn't included.
Or if you remove the offending writing from the flag they will complain about changing the flag.

[Gregoshi]

The US military needs to mullah over these ideas before they make a similiar mistake in the future.

[Husar]

Okay, how, exactly, does one get rid of the offending footballs without further insulting Islam? ~:confused:
I was wondering that as well, if you just destroy them that would be offending again, wouldn't it?

Maybe just put them into a rack somewhere and keep them there for eternity. Or give them to Saudi Arabia and let them handle it. What do they do with old flags there anyway?

[Papewaio]

Stop kicking Allah! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6964564.stm)

First class idiots. This happened before several years ago and made headline news when a small relative unknown company did a similar thing by putting the Saudi flag on its packaging. I'm not sure if any Americans would know of this company so maybe it is excusable...

McDonald's put Saudi Flag on Burger Wrapper. (http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/bmms/1994/05May94.html#Saudi%20flag%20on%20burger%20bag)

[Gregoshi]

Pape, I gather the Big Mecca and Egg McMuslim weren't big sellers.

The McDonalds article does address how the footballs can be disposed of: with dignity. I wonder what that entails? Here in the US, our old flags are supposed to be burned in a certain way - a service provided by the Boy Scouts.

[Fragony]

lol? You sure like your flags. But for weird, we all know google-earth blocks certain strategical sites, now what is with the one IN SPACE

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/981421

[Gregoshi]

"I see nothing. NOTHING!" - Sgt Schultz, Hogan's Heros

[InsaneApache]

Very dark for the weird thread but weird nonetheless.


"I saw three people with my own eyes. When they got very sick and people could not look after them, they buried them," she told reporters.

She described how one person called out "mama, mama" as the soil was being shovelled over their head.

Villagers told her that such action was common, she said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6965412.stm

:thumbsdown:

[Lemur]

Australia takes iPhone away from Apple, gives it to Microsoft.


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/teenagerunlocksmicrosofey7.png

[Andres]

World Championship Cellular phone throwing (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20447405/)

:inquisitive:

Cellular phone throwing turns artistic
Distance event winner hurls handset 98 yards, just short of record

SAVONLINNA, Finland - Juggling rather than throwing his mobile phone, a teenaged circus performer won the freestyle gold medal at the world championships on Saturday.

Taco Cohen of the Netherlands, who was celebrating his 19th birthday, used acrobatics and juggling in his performance which was judged on aesthetics and artistic impression.

He told Reuters his performance reflected his training in a youth circus. "Juggling I have done for many years with balls. (But) these are irregular shapes and weights, it is difficult."

Finnish domination in the distance event continued when Tommi Huotari took gold with a throw of 89.62 meters (294 feet), a few short of the world record.

"I have never thrown a phone before but have been participating in potato-throwing ... surprisingly, a potato flies further," said the 38-year-old engineer.

"I am sure everyone would like to throw their phone away every once in a while."

Event organizer Christine Lund said the contest reflected people's love-hate relationship with the mobile phone.

"This contest speaks to people the world over as mobile phones are a blessing and a curse ... phones have become a part of the modern man, and sometimes many of us would like to remove that part."

Originally a local event in this small town close to the Russian border, the contest drew contestants from Canada, Austria and the United States.


"I am sure everyone would like to throw their phone away every once in a while."

So true. I think I'll participate in the next edition...

[Gregoshi]

Cellular phone throwing turns artistic
Distance event winner hurls handset 98 yards...
...just 3 meters short of his cell phone's range.

Mine does drive me crazy at times. Makes me wish I had a padded cell.

[Lemur]

It's not as sexy as throwing cell phones, but it has a certain charm of its own:

Peat bog race takes place in Wales (http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/08/27/peat_bog_race_takes_place_in_wales/9898/)

LLANWRTYD WELLS, Wales, Aug. 27-- One of the most bizarre yearly competitions has taken place in the Waen Rhydd Peat bog in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, the smallest town in Britain.

Entrants raced to complete two lengths of a 60-yard trench while wearing snorkels and flippers, The Daily Mail reported Monday.

The competition has taken place ever year since 1985 on August Bank Holiday Monday and some people even dress up.

This year, 11-year-old Ellie Jones dressed up as octopus for the race, and another entrant braved the peat in a Borat costume.

Proceeds from the bizarre sporting event go to a local charity.

[Papewaio]

Australian University offers MBA in Arms Dealing (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22318083-2,00.html)



COST blowouts and technical troubles in some of Australia's most controversial defence purchases have prompted a university course for those who aspire to manage the multi-billion-dollar deals.

The Queensland University of Technology will next year offer an executive masters of business administration in complex project management,

Apparently you can do a double major in Arms Dealing and Oil Pipeline Design. :laugh4:

[InsaneApache]

This year, 11-year-old Ellie Jones dressed up as octopus for the race,

A fifth columnist no doubt. :sweatdrop:

[ShadesPanther]

If you are a drug dealer, Prepare to be Tarred and Feathered. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6966493.stm)

[Crazed Rabbit]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070828/capt.bej10508281134.china_web_police_bej105.jpg?x=380&y=237&sig=rJI.7_eWtn1elOa.54MP.g--

China Launches Web Patrols:


Beijing police launch Web patrols

BEIJING - Police in China's capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.
ADVERTISEMENT

Starting Sept. 1, the cartoon alerts will appear every half hour on 13 of China's top portals, including Sohu and Sina, and by the end of the year will appear on all Web sites registered with Beijing servers, the Beijing Public Security Ministry said in a statement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_hi_te/china_web_police_1

CR

[HoreTore]

Maybe just put them into a rack somewhere and keep them there for eternity. Or give them to Saudi Arabia and let them handle it. What do they do with old flags there anyway?

Isn't it standard practice to take the flags apart string from string and then burn the strings in separate piles(by colour)?
At least that's how we do it(in theory) here...

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Isn't it standard practice to take the flags apart string from string and then burn the strings in separate piles(by colour)?
At least that's how we do it(in theory) here...

I don't see why we don't just throw them on a pile of burning brush and be done with it. Geez it's just a flag....

Oh if I eventually have to burn our Norwegian and German flags due to them getting old and ratty will I be in trouble if I just toss them on a camp fire?

[Gregoshi]

China Launches Web Patrols:

The Dragnet...dot dot dooooooot, dot dot dot dot coooooom....

[ShadesPanther]

I don't see why we don't just throw them on a pile of burning brush and be done with it. Geez it's just a flag....

Oh if I eventually have to burn our Norwegian and German flags due to them getting old and ratty will I be in trouble if I just toss them on a camp fire?


Well most Europeans don't care, to us it's just a bit of cloth to show what area we are from. But for some reason Americans do seem to be osessed with their flag.

So you'd probably be alright with it.

[Andres]

Penis museum in manhunt. (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2482770.html)


The world's only penis museum has appealed for a human specimen.

Curator Sigurdur Hjartarson opened the museum in 1974 in Husavik, Iceland, and has collected 195 penises from various animals.

His collection includes penises from hamsters, horses and whales.

But now he is appealing again for a human organ.

He said people from the UK, Germany and the US had contacted him offering their penises in the past but that none of the offers had ever been serious.

Any volunteers :inquisitive: ?

[Andres]

Wife's handy solution (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2482755.html?menu=news.quirkies)


Wife's handy solution

A Chinese wife has cut her husband's right hand off because of his internet addiction.

Jiang Ming of Chengdu city promised his wife, He Ling, that he would not go on the internet anymore and would spend more time at home to take care of their newborn son.

But after a short time he started to sneak into nearby internet cafes again to have video chats with girls.

"I was on the internet, and suddenly felt a numbness in my right hand. The arrow on the screen stopped moving," says Jiang Ming.

"Then I found that my right hand was on the mouse pad, and blood was shooting out."

In court, the husband pleaded with the judge to release his wife, since he was to blame for breaking his promise.

The court has adjourned and will announce its verdict on another date, reports Chongqing Evening News.


"The arrow on the screen stopped moving," says Jiang Ming.

:laugh4:

[Lemur]

Walrus penis fetches $8,000 at auction (http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/08/28/walrus_penis_fetches_8000_at_auction/3987/)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 28 -- A 12,000-year-old fossilized walrus penis measuring 4 1/2 feet in length was the most talked-about item at a Beverly Hills, Calif., auction.

The walrus penis, thought to be the largest specimen on record, was purchased by oddity-museum chain Ripley's for $8,000 at I.M. Chait auction house, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

"I was prepared to spend at least twice, probably three times that amount," said Edward Meyer, vice president of exhibits and archives for Ripley's Believe It or Not!

"This one is considerably bigger than anything we've seen before. When it comes to fossils, size matters," Meyer said.

He said the purchase will now be taken to an Orlando, Fla., warehouse for a detailed examination before it goes on display at one of the company's 30 museums.

"We're very pleased that it's going to Ripley's so that the public can have an opportunity to see it," auctioneer Josh Chait said. "There's a limited clientele for a piece like that. Not everyone's going to want to put it on their mantel."

[InsaneApache]

Well I didn't know about this....


SOUTHAMPTON A small iron key that could have saved the Titanic from disaster is expected to fetch up to £70,000 when it is sold at auction in Devizes next month.

The key, which opened the locker containing the lookout’s binoculars, was left behind when the liner set off on her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. The lives of 1,522 passengers and crew were lost when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic. When asked what difference the binoculars might have made, Fred Fleet, a lookout who survived the disaster, said: “Enough to get out of the way.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2343776.ece

As Spock would say, fascinating. :book:

[InsaneApache]

I'm not too sure if it's weird. It is remarkable though.


“To start with it was like watching a chick learn to fly, except that he is this huge 3ft-tall creature. Because he had had little experience of flying he was a bit ungainly at first and it took him some time to learn to soar. But he got there and you could tell he just loved it; suddenly he was 500ft in the air, soaring above the sea and looking so majestic, the way it should be.”

Sampson gradually learnt to approach the microlight, and then to fly alongside it. “When we are up there in the clouds I talk to him and he calls back and circles around me; it is an awesome and exhilarating experience,” Mr Marshall said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2337240.ece

That must be some buzz. :yes:

[Peasant Phill]

I would've said something about the 'key that could've saved the Titanic' but someone already said it as a comment on the article:

Was there really only one lookout and only one pair of binoculars on board such a big liner? One imagines that if they really were the only pair somebody might just have forced the lock on the cupboard.

This appears to be just a story designed to boost the sales

[Husar]

Cappuccino Coast (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=478041&in_page_id=1811)


It was as if someone had poured tons of coffee and milk into the ocean, then switched on a giant blender.


Suddenly the shoreline north of Sydney were transformed into the Cappuccino Coast.

Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings, including the local lifeguards' centre, in a freak display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales.

If you ask me, this looks like an excellent opportunity for octosquid agents to sneak onto the beach unseen.:inquisitive:

[ShadesPanther]

The True story of the film Hostel. (http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1281639,00.html)

[FactionHeir]

Well I didn't know about this....



http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2343776.ece

As Spock would say, fascinating. :book:
I'm actually more surprised that noone tried to break the locker open...

[Lemur]

Cappuccino Coast (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=478041&in_page_id=1811)
That article was a real puff piece.


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/FoamBeachII1_468x721.jpg

There's no way you could spot an octosquid agent in all that foam.

[FactionHeir]

That looks more like a movie scene to me. And more ice than foam :inquisitive:

[Pannonian]

Awww... (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2063176.html)


Biologists in Muenster, north-western Germany, say the rare Black Australian Swan has been showing all the typical signs of love for its species, circling its lover, staring endlessly at it and making crooning noises.

The swan now refuses to fly south for winter without his mate.

Swan in love with paddle boat

A swan who fell in love with a swan-shaped paddle boat has been moved to a zoo with his plastic lover.

Biologists in Muenster, north-western Germany, say the rare Black Australian Swan has been showing all the typical signs of love for its species, circling its plastic lover, staring endlessly at it and making crooning noises.

The swan now refuses to fly south for winter without his mate.

Park keepers say that 'Black Peter' as the lovesick swan is known, refused to leave the boat on the Aasee Lake - which also should be taken off during the cold weather.

Boat-owner Peter Overschmidt has agreed not to lock his boat away for the winter.

He said: "When you see how Peter circles the swan boat you know there could be no other option, it's the centre of his life."

Hearing about Peter's plight Allwetter Zoo then agreed that both Peter and the boat could spend the winter on their pond near the elephant enclosure, which is more protected from the elements than the lake.

Zoo director Joerg Adler said: "This arrangement could go on for ever because the animal now firmly believes he has found a partner for life."

[English assassin]

The True story of the film Hostel. (http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1281639,00.html)

This is just a cover up of the true story, which was, clearly, a zombie attack. Smashing someone's head and eating their organs? Classic zombie behaviour.

[InsaneApache]

Flippin' nora, what with the Zombies, Lizards, Octo-squids and Lobsters about to invade, this calls for urgent action.

I'm off to the pub. :surrender2: :titanic: :The end:

[Gregoshi]

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/FoamBeachII1_468x721.jpg



Somebody Show Me the Way to Go Home...


Show me the way from the foam.
I'm mired and I don't know where to head.
I was swimmin' in the drink about an hour ago
And the stuff covers my head.
Everywhere that I roam
There's salt and sea and foam.
You can always hear me singin this song.
Show me the way from the foam.

[drone]

Terrorists plant phosgene gas in NYC! (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/30/un.gas/index.html)
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Workers found vials believed to contain the poison gas phosgene at a U.N. office building in New York Thursday.

U.N. archivists for UNMOVIC, the U.N. chemical weapons agency, unexpectedly turned up samples of material from an Iraqi chemical weapons plant in old files.

The samples were in weapons inspectors' files dating back to the 1990s, but the substance is not believed to pose any immediate danger, U.N. officials said Thursday.



Oh, wait, not terrorists. The UN. Bomb the UN!

[Lemur]

I love my adopted state. Driving with no legs? Not a big deal. Driving with no legs while intoxicated? Crawl out of hte car, sir ...

Legless driver and pedal pusher get DUI's (http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/08/30/legless_driver_and_pedal_pusher_get_duis/6206/)

DORCHESTER, Wis., Aug. 30 -- A man without legs and one of his friends were both arrested for driving the same vehicle while intoxicated in Dorchester, Wis.

Harvey J. Miller, 43, who has no legs, was steering the vehicle while Edwin H. Marzinske, 55, operated the pedals, the Marshfield News-Herald reported Thursday.

They were pulled over and both men were issued citations for drunk driving. It was the third offense for Miller and the second for Marzinske, but both of them were also cited for driving after revocation.

Another drunk man who was in the vehicle walked home after the Aug. 18 incident.

[lars573]

Cars smash up man's home for 10th time (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070830/odds/odd_germany_house1_dc)

ERLIN (Reuters) - A German man said Thursday he feared he may have built his own tomb after a vehicle ploughed into his house for the 10th time.ADVERTISEMENT



"If we stay, someone's eventually going to kill us. We're living in a time bomb," Manfred Sedlazek, 59, told Reuters.

Sedlazek is reluctant to leave the house he built himself, which is on a bend of a busy road, but said it may be his only chance of survival.

Earlier this week, a 40-tonne truck blasted through the side of the red-brick house in the village of Karlshoefen, in northern Germany. Sedlazek returned home from shopping to find the shattered vehicle sticking out of his living room.

Police estimated the damage at more than 100,000 euros ($136,100).

Nine previous smashes into the two-storey building Sedlazek shares with his wife have wrecked his kitchen, bedroom and garden, causing damage worth tens of thousands of euros.

[Xiahou]

Spiders create giant web (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070830/ap_on_re_us/odd_giant_spider_web)

Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.

[English assassin]

There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."

Hahahahaha

Scream, you blood sucking spawn of satan.

Oh, btw. Spiders = 8 legs. Octosquid = 8 tentacles. Coincidence? I think not.

[Ronin]

Hahahahaha

Scream, you blood sucking spawn of satan.

Oh, btw. Spiders = 8 legs. Octosquid = 8 tentacles. Coincidence? I think not.

*plays X-Files music...*

the truth is out there my friends....keep watching the skies!

[Fragony]

Squids have 10 arms, octopusses have 8. Know the enemy.

[InsaneApache]

Squids have 10 arms, octopusses have 8. Know the enemy.

Octopi? :inquisitive:

Know thy classical grammar. :laugh4:

[English assassin]

Squids have 10 arms, octopusses have 8. Know the enemy.

Frag, you are behind on the squid news: http://squid.us/octosquid-discovered-a-cross-between-an-octopus-and-a-squid/


It appears to be a cross between an octopus and a squid, which is being called, you guessed it, an octosquid. The specimen, which has 8 arms, an octopus head and squid mantle...

@IA, in fact the pedantic plural of octopus would be something like octopodes, the -pus, is from greek, not latin.

Ahh, years of classical education not wholly wasted... :laugh4:

[drone]

DonC might like this one:
Milwaukee Attorney Receives Goat Head In Gift Bag (http://www.wisn.com/news/13996527/detail.html)
MILWAUKEE -- In the movie "The Godfather," a horse's head was used to intimidate and that is exactly what Milwaukee police said they believe is behind the discovery of a bloody goat's head at an attorney's office.

Prominent Milwaukee-area defense attorney Robin Shellow has represented hundreds of clients. Many of them are convicted criminals.

So, the list of people who may have an ax to grind is long.

Milwaukee police said they are taking Monday's discovery outside Shellow's office near Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, just north of downtown Milwaukee, very seriously.

The severed head of a goat was found near the corner of the building stuffed inside a pink gift bag.

A note, which police described as threatening, was in the goat's mouth. It contained a name, but apparently not the name of a suspect.

[Fragony]

Frag, you are behind on the squid news: http://squid.us/octosquid-discovered-a-cross-between-an-octopus-and-a-squid/


Dear god.........

[Louis VI the Fat]

WILLS POINT, Texas - Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park. 200 yards? Tsk. That's average for Texan spiders. :us-texas:



the pedantic plural of octopus would be something like octopodes, the -pus, is from greek, not latin.
I beg to differ. Proper Greek would be oktopous, not pus. Hence a Greek plural seems out of the question.

I vote for 'octopussies'.

[spmetla]

^^Holy molly! Thats from Kona, where I'm from. I had to forward this to my dad, he used to got scuba diving out there all the time, though not to those depths of course. Pisser is that it looks like the local paper West Hawaii Today completely missed it.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20070831/twl-kung-fu-monks-demand-apology-3fd0ae9_1.html


Furious kung fu monks in China have demanded an apology after a comment on the internet claimed they had once been beaten by a Japanese ninja.

The famous Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of kung fu martial arts, wants a web user to say sorry for the remarks posted on an online forum.

The user known as Five Minutes Every Day suggested that a Japanese ninja came to Shaolin, asked for a fight and many monks failed to beat him, according to the Beijing News newspaper.

"The fact that the monks could not defeat a Japanese ninja showed that they were named as kung fu masters in vain," the post was quoted as saying.

Shaolin Temple became famous in the West as the training ground for Kwai Chang "Grasshopper" Caine in the 1970s Kung Fu TV series.

The newspaper reported that the temple "strongly condemned the horrible deeds" of the website user.

"The so-called defeat is purely fabricated, and we demand the internet user to apologise to the whole nation for the wrongs he or she did," the Beijing News said, quoting a lawyer for the monks.

"It is not only extremely irresponsible behaviour with respect to the Shaolin Temple and its monks, but also to the whole martial art and Chinese nation," it quoted the monks as saying.

Ninjas are professional assassins trained in martial arts which date back to medieval Japan.

Relations between China and Japan are still sensitive after Japan's invasion and occupation of parts of China in the first half of the 20th century.

[Lemur]

Furious kung fu monks in China have demanded an apology after a comment on the internet claimed they had once been beaten by a Japanese ninja.
When will these silly monks learn that ninjas have real, ultimate power (http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm)?

[Crazed Rabbit]

In a one on one, I might have to go for the Kung fu guy, who's actually trained for such, instead of the trained-for-stealthiness ninja.

CR

[Lemur]

Oh yeah? Well what about a kung-fu master versus a Klingon armed with a betleH (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_culture#Small_arms.2C_blade_weapons.2C_and_hand_weapons)? With a Time Lord as referee?

Geek fight!

[Lemur]

Chupacabra found in Texas? Can he be an agent of the octosquid conspiracy?


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

Has a mythical beast turned up in Texas?

By ELIZABETH WHITE, Associated Press

CUERO, Texas - Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.

"It is one ugly creature," Canion said, holding the head of the mammal, which has big ears, large fanged teeth and grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin.

Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 80 miles southeast of San Antonio. Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she can get to get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity.

She suspects, as have many rural denizens over the years, that a chupacabra may have killed as many as 26 of her chickens in the past couple of years.

"I've seen a lot of nasty stuff. I've never seen anything like this," she said.

What tipped Canion to the possibility that this was no ugly coyote, but perhaps the vampire-like beast, is that the chickens weren't eaten or carried off — all the blood was drained from them, she said.

Chupacabra means "goat sucker" in Spanish, and it is said to have originated in Latin America, specifically Puerto Rico and Mexico.

Canion thinks recent heavy rains ran them right out of their dens.

"I think it could have wolf in it," Canion said. "It has to be a cross between two or three different things."

She said the finding has captured the imagination of locals, just like purported sightings of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster have elsewhere.

But what folks are calling a chupacabra is probably just a strange breed of dog, said veterinarian Travis Schaar of the Main Street Animal Hospital in nearby Victoria.

"I'm not going to tell you that's not a chupacabra. I just think in my opinion a chupacabra is a dog," said Schaar, who has seen Canion's find.

The "chupacabras" could have all been part of a mutated litter of dogs, or they may be a new kind of mutt, he said.

As for the bloodsucking, Schaar said that this particular canine may simply have a preference for blood, letting its prey bleed out and licking it up.

Chupacabra or not, the discovery has spawned a local and international craze. Canion has started selling T-shirts that read: "2007, The Summer of the Chupacabra, Cuero, Texas," accompanied by a caricature of the creature. The $5 shirts have gone all over the world, including Japan, Australia and Brunei. Schaar also said he has one.

"If everyone has a fun time with it, we'll keep doing it," she said. "It's good for Cuero."

[Andres]

Man cuts off his penis ‘to stop him sinning’ (http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=43445)


SALAMANCA – A man cut off his own penis and threw it in a toilet ‘so he would stop sinning’.

The 30-year-old was recovering in the Hospital Clinico Universitario in Salamanca in western Spain.

Doctors said his condition was ‘stable’ and he was not in danger of losing his life.

The man, from Salamanca, cut off his penis with a knife on Thursday morning.

The local newspaper La Gaceta reported when relatives called emergency services, he told ambulance workers he did it “so would not sin any more”.

A relative found the man, who has not been named, in the house where they lived in the city and raised the alarm.

He was bleeding heavily.

The newspaper said it was not known if the man’s penis could be sewn back.

There was also a suggestion he may be suffering from psychological problems.

[InsaneApache]

There was also a suggestion he may be suffering from psychological problems.

Really! :laugh4:

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Really! :laugh4:

I thought that was par for the course when a guy cuts his manhood off too.

Maybe there are some cases where the guy doesn't have psychological problems? I can't imagine it myself, but who knows?:shrug:

[ShadesPanther]

I thought that was par for the course when a guy cuts his manhood off too.

Maybe there are some cases where the guy doesn't have psychological problems? I can't imagine it myself, but who knows?:shrug:


Well there was one rugby fan in a pub who said that if Wales beat England he would cut his penis off.


Wales won.

[English assassin]

And here he is: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005530066,00.html

Looking remarkably cheerful, under the circumstances

[ShadesPanther]

No more Shrimps on the Barby? how about wild cat casserole? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6974687.stm)

[Crazed Rabbit]

Man Sues Police to Get His Porn Back
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) - A man recently released from jail after being convicted of secretly videotaping a woman and a teenage girl has sued a Marin County police department for the return of a massive porn collection taken during the investigation.

Dennis Saunders, 59, filed suit against San Rafael police in Marin County Superior Court after the department refused to give back some 500 pornographic movies and 250 magazines his lawyer described as unrelated to the peeping case.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8REP2Q80&show_article=1

CR

[Andres]

'Chicken without sexual life' off menu in Beijing. (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/2007-09/04/content_6078420.htm)


If you fancy "chicken without sexual life", "husband and wife's lung slice" or even "bean curd made by a pock-marked woman" then you will have to look elsewhere.

"Spring chicken", "pork lungs in chili sauce" and "stir-fried tofu in hot sauce" are the correct translations of dishes at some Beijing restaurants, according to an initiative designed to help visitors navigate bilingual menus.

Currently, odd translations of food served up in the capital's eateries are causing food for thought.

The Beijing Speaks Foreign Languages Program, and the Beijing tourism administration, is about to change all that.

The project is part of Beijing's municipal tourism administration's preparation for the Olympic Games next year, when at least 500,000 foreigners are expected to visit.

Beginning March 2006, the translation project gathered a database of dishes and drinks from 3-star rated hotels and large restaurants. A draft list was put online at the end of last year seeking public feedback.

Subsequently, a second draft added more than 400 common dishes at restaurants in Beijing's Houhai and Wangjing districts, where foreigners like to gather.

The recent draft has been online since last Saturday, at www.bjenglish.com.cn and www.bjta.gov.cn.

The finished draft is likely to be published in October, said an official with the Beijing Speaks Foreign Languages Program, quoted by the Beijing News.

The final version will be published online and "recommended" to restaurants.

Restaurants will not be forced by the government to use the suggested translations, the newspaper quoted an unnamed tourism administration official as saying.

[Csargo]

:sweatdrop:

[drone]

Accused D.C. Madam Cites National Security (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090400858.html?hpid=topnews)
Palfrey Asks for Closed Door Hearing to Discuss Muslim Clients

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 4, 2007; 12:34 PM

The woman accused of being the D.C. Madam now argues that the fact that Muslim men used her elite, Washington-based escort service before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks might have played a role in the government's effort to prosecute her.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey says she might need to divulge classified information that has sensitive national security implications -- perhaps including the identities of Middle Eastern customers -- to defend herself against the charges. She is asking a federal judge for a hearing behind closed doors to discuss the information as it relates to the government's charges.
This city is so much fun! ~D

[Don Corleone]

Stuck on an extended layover at an airline hub, due to a mechanical issue? Why not take a cue from Nepal and Sacrafice a goat or two to the sky god. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070904/od_nm/nepal_airline_odd_dc;_ylt=AqYmlzq_1t1FqHS08w6Jd7ouQE4F)

[Gregoshi]

So Nepal Airlines has found a couple of scapegoats for their mechanical problems...

[InsaneApache]

That reminds me. I havn't had a goat curry for a couple of weeks. I love goat curry. :2thumbsup:

[InsaneApache]

Police found him after entering his name in a computer system.

Inspector Gareth Woods, of Cheshire Police, said: "This crime is up there with the dumbest of all in the criminal league table.

"There are some pretty stupid criminals around, but to leave your own name at the scene of the crime takes the biscuit.

"The daftness of this lad certainly made our job a lot easier."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6981558.stm

:laugh4: As daft as a brush! :laugh4:

[HoreTore]

"Hum, what's dem dang missles under there?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070905/pl_afp/usmilitarynuclear_070905201259;_ylt=AhElyf359vQSg_e_qEuqocyFOrgF

[discovery1]

Popcorn Lung Patient Inhaled Fumes

Microwave popcorn fans worried about the potential for lung disease from butter flavoring fumes should know this: The sole reported case of the disease in a non-factory worker involves a man who popped the corn every day and inhaled from the bag.

"He really liked microwave popcorn. He made two or three bags every day for 10 years," said William Allstetter, a spokesman for National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver where the man's respiratory illness was diagnosed.

"He told us he liked the smell of popcorn, so he would open and inhale from freshly popped bags," Allstetter said. And the patient said he did this for a decade.

The patient, Wayne Watson, 53, of Centennial, Colo., has been treated since February at National Jewish. Dr. Cecile Rose, a lung specialist at the hospital, said in an interview Wednesday that until Watson's condition was diagnosed, it had deteriorated, despite a CAT scan, steroid treatment and a biopsy.

Finally, Rose said, "I turned to the patient and said, 'This is a very weird question ... but have you been around a lot of popcorn?' And his jaw dropped and he said, 'How could you know that about me? Popcorn is my exclusive snack food preference. I am popcorn. I'm at least a two-pack a day user.'

"I was really surprised and relieved," Rose said.

There are no warnings from federal regulators, nor is there medical advice on how consumers should treat news of the rare, life-threatening disease, bronchiolitis obliterans, also known as popcorn lung.

The popcorn flavoring contains the chemical diacetyl, which has been linked to lung damage in workers inhaling its fumes in food manufacturing plants. The chemical is a naturally occurring compound that gives butter its flavor and is also found in cheese and even wine, according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.

It's been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a flavor ingredient, but hundreds of workers have sued flavoring makers in recent years for lung damage.

Dr. David Weissman, head of NIOSH's division of respiratory diseases, said the key difference between homes and the factories where popcorn lung has been found is in the level of exposure to diacetyl. For example, he said, sickened quality control workers at a Jasper, Mo., popcorn factory popped hundreds of bags a day in their testing, not just one or two.

The first apparent case of lung damage from a home popcorn maker came to light Tuesday in a recent letter to federal regulators from Rose.

In the interview, Rose said that no definite link has been established between Watson's heavy popcorn consumption and his lung disease, but that "the possibility raises public health concerns."

Doctors tested Watson's home for levels of diacetyl fumes and found that while popcorn was microwaved in the kitchen, peak levels of the fumes were similar to those measured in factories, she said.

While Rose said she still lets her kids microwave popcorn at home, she is concerned that the high levels of fumes measured at Watson's home could be present anytime consumers microwave popcorn, and that these high levels - and not just the cumulative effect of exposures in the factory - could be a factor in causing the disease.

"We don't know yet. We think it's a possibility," said Rose, who recommended the popcorn bags be tested further.

On Wednesday, the nation's largest microwave popcorn maker, ConAgra, said it would stop using diacetyl within a year out of concern for its workers - not because of risks to consumers. ConAgra makes Act II and Orville Redenbacher brands.

The Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association said that Rose's finding does not suggest a risk from eating microwave popcorn.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/thrive/2007/sep/05/090506718.html

[Banquo's Ghost]

Vicar bans toddler yoga for being un-Christian. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/6972070.stm)

You know, I'm sure the teacher would have been fine if she'd called it "Pontius Pilates"...

[Hepcat]

:laugh4: Those are all great.
Here is one I found, they must have been pretty confident to be able to sell things to customers without them noticing anything was up.

Sporting Uruguay thieves wait on customers (http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSGOR66327920070907)

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Three thieves robbing a sporting goods store in Uruguay spent half an hour waiting on customers before making their getaway with merchandise and the money from the till, police said on Wednesday.

The armed gang held up the store in an upper-middle-class neighborhood of the capital, Montevideo, on Tuesday. They locked up one store employee in a back room and forced another clerk to hand over money and sporting goods.

Then some customers came in, and the robbers sold them goods for about 30 minutes before jumping into a truck where a driver was waiting for them.

A police spokesman told Reuters that detectives were investigating the case but did not yet know how much was stolen.

[Lemur]

Invasion of the Leeches! (http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSGOR66472720070906)

Leech invasion makes residents see red

Thu Sep 6, 2007 4:56PM EDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Long confined to the mountains, Japanese leeches are invading residential areas, causing swelling, itching and general discomfort with their blood-thirsty ways.

Yamabiru, or land leeches, have become a problem in 29 of Japan's 47 prefectures, according to the Institute for Environmental Culture, a private research facility in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo.

The little suckers are riding into towns and villages, hitching lifts on deer and boar whose numbers have grown due to re-forestation and dwindling rural populations.

Once there, the leeches, which measure in at about 1.5 cms before a meal, take to feasting on warm human flesh.

"Yamabiru will climb into people's socks and stay for about an hour, growing five to 10 times in size. Unlike with water leeches, people don't immediately realize they've been bitten. Only later when they see their blood-soaked feet, do they realize what has happened," said Shigekazu Tani, the institute's director.

"The real problem is that the bleeding won't stop and the affected area swells up and really itches," he added.

The best way to deal with the tiny vampires?

"We can cut down trees and mow long grass to dissuade wild animals from coming too close, and create sunny habitats that are inhospitable to leeches. We can also spread pesticides that kill the leeches," Tani said.

"Or we can just tough it out."

[Marshal Murat]

Land leeches + Squids?

ALL HAIL the OCTOLEECHSQUID OVERLORDS!

[edyzmedieval]

Apart from the laughing part, we have Dracula in Romania, no need for his younger brothers to come and visit us too. :inquisitive:

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Since when were there land leeches?!?:no:

Things are a lot worse than I thought!:surrender2:

[Lemur]

Since when were there land leeches?!?:no:
They're coming, oh, they're coming ...


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

[Husar]

Are they lower or higher in the food chain than Lemurs?

[Fragony]

Since when were there land leeches?!?:no:

Things are a lot worse than I thought!:surrender2:

MAJOR yuckage http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/20774/fa968fae/index.html

DISGUSTING

[ShadesPanther]

The leeches are actually the Black Oil from the X-Files!


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/pantherv/black-oil-s.jpg

[Fragony]

LOL! Neo-nazi's active in Israel

http://endandit.nl/regionaal/2007/09/09/neonazis-actief-israel <-soz is dutch

Russians, hopeless :laugh4:

[ShadesPanther]

LOL! Neo-nazi's active in Israel

http://endandit.nl/regionaal/2007/09/09/neonazis-actief-israel <-soz is dutch

Russians, hopeless :laugh4:


In English
Israeli 'neo-Nazi gang' arrested (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6985808.stm):laugh4:

[Marshal Murat]

Hsu's That? (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/08/MN9IS19EH.DTL)

Fugitive political fundraiser Norman Hsu was behaving erratically as he fled the Bay Area on Amtrak's California Zephyr, at one point stripping off his shirt and shoes, before paramedics were called to take him off the train in western Colorado, passengers said Friday.

Hsu, 56, on the run for the second time from a 1992 grand theft conviction in San Mateo County, was arrested Thursday after the paramedics took him to a hospital from the train station in Grand Junction, Colo. A spokesman at St. Mary's Hospital said Friday night that Hsu was in fair condition but would not say what was wrong with him.

Hsu boarded the train in Emeryville about 7 a.m. Wednesday, Amtrak said, two hours before he was to have appeared in a Redwood City courtroom in connection with his grand theft conviction. He had touched down earlier that morning on a charter jet flight to Oakland, his lawyer told prosecutors. Amtrak said he boarded the Zephyr with a ticket for Denver.

Passengers interviewed Friday when the Zephyr reached its final destination of Chicago said it appeared that something was wrong with Hsu.

Alberto Dee, 21, who boarded the train in Truckee, said Hsu "freaked out" when Amtrak personnel approached, and was roaming a train car "without shoes and no shirt. ... I thought he had a suitcase full of crack or meth."

Another passenger disembarking in Chicago, who declined to give his name, said Hsu appeared disoriented and was having trouble opening a door on the train. Several other passengers said they were told Hsu was behaving oddly but did not witness it themselves.

Hsu's attorney, Jim Brosnahan, said Friday, "a great many friends of Norman Hsu have expressed concern about his mental health and physical well-being" since he disappeared. Paramedics were called to the Grand Junction station about 10 minutes after the Zephyr pulled in Thursday at 11:05 a.m. with "a request for a backboard to assist someone who had fallen on the train," said Mike Page, a spokesman for the Grand Junction Fire Department.

Paramedics helped Hsu off the train and took him to St. Mary's Hospital. "He was assessed on the train but was able to get off the train on his own with assistance," Page said, adding that the backboard ultimately was not needed.

Dan Roberts, 57, a furniture maker from Grand Junction, said Hsu had been sitting up on a stretcher on the station platform and appeared to be moving.

"We just figured he had a heart attack or something," said his wife, Cheryl Roberts, 52, a nurse.

Federal agents arrested Hsu at St. Mary's Hospital about 7 p.m. Thursday. Hospital officials would not say how authorities had been alerted that Hsu was there.

Brosnahan said he was "pleased and relieved" that Hsu was now being cared for at the hospital. "We will be getting him the best medical care available."

"The strain he has been under during the last week has been enormous and, perhaps, unbearable," Brosnahan said in a prepared statement.

On Wednesday, after Hsu failed to show up for his court hearing, Brosnahan said he was concerned about his client. But when asked whether Hsu posed a danger to himself, Brosnahan replied, "I have no basis for that speculation."

Hsu was under armed guard at the hospital on federal charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. California Attorney General Jerry Brown's office sought federal authorities' help after Hsu failed to appear at Wednesday's hearing to surrender his passport.

Hsu had been a fugitive for 15 years since skipping his sentencing on the grand theft conviction, transforming himself during that time into one of the Democratic Party's more prolific donors.

The federal charges will be dropped once Hsu is returned to California to face sentencing in state court in the grand theft case, FBI spokesman Joseph Schadler said. A timetable for his return to California has not been established.

Hsu was facing up to three years in state prison and restitution payments after pleading no contest to a single count of grand theft in 1992 in what prosecutors described as a $1 million fraud scheme involving the supposed resale of latex gloves.

In fact, prosecutors said, Hsu was running a Ponzi scheme, in which early investors get returns on their money through funds that subsequent investors put in, and the later investors lose their shirts.

After he fled sentencing in San Mateo County, Hsu appears to have spent time in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Taiwan, before emerging in recent years as a New Yorker who donated generously to Democratic political campaigns, regularly attended fundraisers and was photographed with party leaders.

Hsu has given an estimated $600,000 to Democratic political campaigns since 2003, money that many candidates are now pledging to donate to charity.

Hsu surrendered to San Mateo County sheriff's deputies last week after press accounts linked him to the grand theft case. He spent a few hours in county jail before posting $2 million bail and agreeing to relinquish his passport.

After Hsu failed to show up in court Wednesday, a judge issued a no-bail warrant for his arrest.

[Husar]

Woman faces charges for oversalted burger (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_fe_st/odd_salty_burger)


UNION CITY, Ga. - A McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer's burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick.
[...]
Police said samples of the burger were sent to the state crime lab for tests.
:dizzy2:

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Woman faces charges for oversalted burger (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_fe_st/odd_salty_burger)


:dizzy2:

Dude can't you just ask for a new burger?????

You have to be really angry at a fast food joint to take legal action....

[Lemur]

City public information officer George Louth said Bull was charged because she served the burger "without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it."
These people seem to be unclear on the concept of fast food ...

[Papewaio]

Dude can't you just ask for a new burger?????

You have to be really angry at a fast food joint to take legal action....

If it has enough salt to make someone vomit, then why not?

Makes far more sense then suing for hot coffee or slipping over liquid in a shop that one of your friends has split..

[Uesugi Kenshin]

If it has enough salt to make someone vomit, then why not?

Makes far more sense then suing for hot coffee or slipping over liquid in a shop that one of your friends has split..

That is true...But from what my dad says the hot coffee case actually made legal sense, the woman is still an idiot, but hey at least it makes LEGAL sense.

[Lemur]

This is a bit of a follow-up to the German bus thread: Woman told to leave plane because her outfit is too revealing (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20644329/). I don't see what the big deal was:


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/14068062_320X240.jpg

Southwest Airlines Tells Woman Her Attire Is Too Revealing

SAN DIEGO - Kyla Ebbert says she wants an apology from Southwest Airlines after being told to get off a plane and change her clothes because what she was wearing was too revealing.

Ebbert, 23, told the Today Show's Matt Lauer that an airline employee asked her to come up to the front of the plane just before the crew closed the plane's doors.

"He told me, 'I'm sorry but you're going to have to catch a later flight because you are dressed inappropriately, this is a family airline and you are too provocative to fly on this flight'," Ebbert said. "I said, 'What part is it? The shirt? The skirt? Which part?' He said, 'the whole thing.'"

Ebbert said she was on a day trip from San Diego to Tucson for a doctor's appointment and had no luggage, so she had nothing to change into. She was allowed to stay on the flight, she said, after agreeing to pull up her tank top and pull down her skirt.

Ebbert wore the same outfit on the Today Show that she was wearing at the time of the incident, she said.

Southwest Airlines released the following statement about the incident:

"Southwest Airlines was responding to a concern about Ms. Ebbert's revealing attire on the flight that day. As a compromise, we asked her to adjust her clothing to be less revealing, she complied, and she traveled as scheduled. When a concern is brought to our employees' attention, we address that situation directly with the customer(s) involved in a discreet and professional matter. Fortunately, as an airline that carries approximately 96 million customers a year, those situations are extremely rare."

[Papewaio]

I thought it was weird... then see how far down she has to pull her skirt so it is covering her self properly (note the position of the top of the skirt and her hips)... so she might have been on display so to speak.

But given the way it appears to those outside the US, it seems that nudity is a big issue there and even the hint of it makes big news.

I wouldn't be surprised if showing nipple rates hire then dog fighting as far as moral outrage and net access as a barometer.

[mightilyoats]

I know I don't contribute to this thread, but I read it every day. It has had over 900 posts and has been viewed more than 10 000 times.

This thread is starting to feel sticky don't you think? Maybe it is time to promote News of the Weird to Sticky Status?

[Ronin]

what is wrong with that dress?

you guys over there are just too uptight.

[Geoffrey S]

Couple stays in Travelodge for 22 years (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/6988927.stm).

Dedicated customers huh?

[Gregoshi]

what is wrong with that dress?

I think Pape has a good point - it is the skirt's hmmm-line. It is a revealing story about a Southwest Airlines coverup though.

[Lemur]

This thread is starting to feel sticky don't you think? Maybe it is time to promote News of the Weird to Sticky Status?
The sticky section of the Backroom is pretty crowded. (Must ... resist ... obvious ... joke ...) I like to think that News of the Weird is the one thread that will never need a sticky.

[Gregoshi]

I'm with Lemur. This thread doesn't need to be punned in the sticky section - we're stuck with it for a long while me thinks. This thread usually stays as high in the Backroom as that Hooter's girl's skirt...it doesn't need any more exposure. :laugh4:

[Lemur]

It's not as though the Chinese reserve toxic, poisonous materials for children's toys. They're also choking their own chickens (http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSGOR05220820070910)!


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

Chicken chokes after testing the water

Mon Sep 10, 2007

BEIJING - Think a bottle of mineral water might have poisoned you? Then test it on a chicken.

One Chinese family on the southern island province of Hainan had just that idea when one of their number started vomiting blood after drinking a bottle of water, a newspaper said.

They fed the luckless chicken the rest of the water to see what would happen, the Beijing News said, citing a report in a local paper. "The result was the chicken died within a minute," it said, showing a picture of a man holding a plastic bottle squatting over the crumpled body of the bird.

The province's authorities were investigating, it added.

Barely a day goes by without some new scandal over a made-in-China product, be it toys, toothpaste or fish, which has raised safety concerns in major export markets around the world.

[InsaneApache]

LOL. Now you have to go offski into cyberland to find a man spanking a monkey. :sweatdrop: :laugh4:

[English assassin]

This is a bit of a follow-up to the German bus thread: Woman told to leave plane because her outfit is too revealing (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20644329/). I don't see what the big deal was:


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/14068062_320X240.jpg



"He told me, 'I'm sorry but you're going to have to catch a later flight because you are dressed inappropriately, this is a family airline and you are too provocative to fly on this flight',"

Surely, dressed like that, she was ready to start a family at any moment? :yes:

[Gregoshi]

Surely, dressed like that, she was ready to start a family at any moment? :yes:
Hehehe - she sure was ready for a layover... :laugh4:

[FactionHeir]

Bin Laden for President! (http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/11/poll.pakistanis/index.html)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf -- a key U.S. ally -- is less popular in his own country than al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a poll of Pakistanis conducted last month by an anti-terrorism organization.

Additionally, nearly three-fourths of poll respondents said they oppose U.S. military action against al Qaeda and the Taliban inside Pakistan, according to results from the poll conducted by the independent polling organization Terror Free Tomorrow.

"We have conducted 23 polls all over the Muslim world, and this is the most disturbing one we have conducted," said Ken Ballen, the group's head. "Pakistan is the one Muslim nation that has nuclear weapons, and the people who want to use them against us -- like the Taliban and al Qaeda -- are more popular there than our allies like Musharraf."

The poll was conducted for Terror Free Tomorrow by D3 Systems of Vienna, Virginia., and the Pakistan Institute for Public Opinion. Interviews were conducted August 18-29, face-to-face with 1,044 Pakistanis across 105 urban and rural sampling points in all four provinces across the nation. Households were randomly selected.

According to poll results, bin Laden has a 46 percent approval rating. Musharraf's support is 38 percent. U.S. President George W. Bush's approval: 9 percent.

Asked their opinion on the real purpose of the U.S.-led war on terror, 66 percent of poll respondents said they believe the United States is acting against Islam or has anti-Muslim motivation. Others refused to answer the question or said they did not know.

"We failed in winning hearts and minds in Pakistan," Ballen told CNN. "In fact, only 4 percent said we had a good motivation in the war on terrorism."

Seventy-four percent said they oppose U.S. military action against al Qaeda and the Taliban inside Pakistan.

After American relief efforts following the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan's Kashmir region, 46 percent of Pakistanis had a positive opinion of the United States, according to the poll. But as of last month, only 19 percent reported a favorable opinion.

Meanwhile, al Qaeda has a 43 percent approval rate; the Taliban has a 38 percent approval rate; and local radical extremist groups had an approval rating between 37 percent to 49 percent.

Views of U.S. could improve, responses indicate

There were a few bright spots in the poll results, however. Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto -- a relatively moderate and progressive figure, as well as a woman -- had a 63 percent approval rating.

Seventy-five percent of poll respondents said suicide bombings are rarely or never justified.

And a majority of Pakistanis said their opinion of the United States would improve if, among other things, there were increases in American aid to Pakistan, American business investments and the number of visas issued for Pakistanis to work in the United States.

Terror Free Tomorrow is a non-partisan, nonprofit group in Washington, D.C., and according to its Web site is "the only organization dedicated to a new strategic vision: Leading the fight against terror by winning the popular support that empowers global terrorists."

[InsaneApache]

It's from The Sun, but still...:sweatdrop:


A THIEF made the biggest mistake of his criminal life when he nicked a laptop — because it belongs to super-tough SAS veteran Andy McNab.


The Bravo Two Zero hero has years of experience of tracking the most elusive and dangerous enemies — and wants his computer back.

oh dear...


The culprit will be sweating when he finds the man he targeted is a trained killer who served ten years in the crack SAS — motto Who Dares Wins.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007420689,00.html

Hasta la vista baby. :laugh4:

[Geoffrey S]

Smart letter by McNabb, too. He makes a good point well.

[naut]

Good letter, I love the bit at the bottom. :laugh4:

[Banquo's Ghost]

Insect attack leaves woman feeling deflated (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/13/bee_attack/). At least she didn't get hives.

[Gregoshi]

Insect attack leaves woman feeling deflated (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/13/bee_attack/). At least she didn't get hives.

She must have been a b-cup...

Edit: hte old - I see the b-cup pun was already used in the comments section of the article. My bad.


How about this one then: the offending insect must have been a brazilian bee...

[Banquo's Ghost]

She must have been a b-cup...

Edit: hte old - I see the b-cup pun was already used in the comments section of the article. My bad.


How about this one then: the offending insect must have been a brazilian bee...

As many of the commentators note, the subtitle "Swarm in a b-cup" is worthy of the great Gregoshi himself. :bow:

[Tribesman]

Smart letter by McNabb, too. He makes a good point well.
Bollox
Imagine what it’s like on the frontline right now. That’s where the real men and women are. Imagine being constantly hated and under attack from forces who literally want you dead.

Imagine waking up and wondering if today is the day you get shot. Imagine not seeing your families or girlfriends for months.

Imagine not being able to share a pint with your mates on a Saturday while watching the footie.


Is he trying to encourage the thief to keep on stealing laptops from idiots who leave them on the front seat of parked cars or what ?
Sell the laptop , pay your family avvisit , go down the pub with your mates , watch the game and then go give your woman a portion ......or be a real man and go and be hated attacked and possibly shot....difficult choices eh .:dizzy2:
Then again it is the sun....The Bravo Two Zero hero has years of experience of tracking the most elusive and dangerous enemies
...didn't McNabb screw up and spend his time running away in Iraq

[InsaneApache]

Not to this thread you don't Tribes old mate, bugger off!

:whip: :wall:

[Tribesman]

Not to this thread you don't Tribes old mate, bugger off!

Don't you find the news wierd enough ?
The Suns security correspondant gets his computer nicked while leaving it unsecure...what a muppet.....he....wants his computer back.:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

[Gregoshi]

DiaTribesmanship in the New of the Weird thread isn't allowed, is it?

[Lemur]

High definition is too much for porn (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/21/business/porn.php)!


"The biggest problem is razor burn," said Stormy Daniels, an actress, writer and director. "I'm not 100 percent sure why anyone would want to see their porn in HD."

The technology's advocates counter that high definition, by making things clearer and crisper, lets viewers feel as close to the action as possible.

"It puts you in the room," said the director known as Robby D., whose films include "Sexual Freak."

X-rated industry finds high definition is too graphic

By Matt Richtel, Monday, January 22, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO: The X-rated industry has gotten too graphic, even for its own tastes.

Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic movie studios are staying ahead of the curve by releasing high-definition DVDs.

But they have discovered that the technology is sometimes not so sexy. The high-definition format is accentuating imperfections in the actors — from a little extra cellulite on a leg to wrinkles around the eyes.

Hollywood is dealing with similar problems, but they are more pronounced for pornographers, who rely on close-ups and who, because of their quick adoption of the new format, are facing the issue more immediately than mainstream entertainment companies.

Producers are taking steps to hide the imperfections. Some shots are lit differently, while some actors simply are not shot at certain angles, or are getting cosmetic surgery, or seeking expert grooming.

"The biggest problem is razor burn," said Stormy Daniels, an actress, writer and director. "I'm not 100 percent sure why anyone would want to see their porn in HD."

The technology's advocates counter that high definition, by making things clearer and crisper, lets viewers feel as close to the action as possible.

"It puts you in the room," said the director known as Robby D., whose films include "Sexual Freak."

The pornographers' progress with HD may also be somewhat slowed by Sony, one of the main backers of the Blu-ray high-definition disc format. Sony said last week that, in keeping with a longstanding policy, it would not mass-produce pornographic videos on behalf of the movie makers.

The decision has forced pornographers to use the competing HD DVD format or, in some cases, to find companies other than Sony that can manufacture copies of Blu-ray movies.

The movie makers assert that it is shortsighted of Sony to snub them, given how pornography helps technologies spread.

"When you're introducing a new format, it would seem like the adult guys can help," said Steven Hirsch, co-chief executive of Vivid Entertainment Group, a big player in the industry. Hirsch added that high definition, regardless of format, "is the future."

Despite the challenges, pornographers — who distributed some 7,000 new movies on DVD last year in the United States alone, selling discs worth $3.6 billion — are rapidly moving to high definition.

One major company, Digital Playground, plans to release its first four HD DVD titles this month, and plans four new ones each month. In March, Vivid plans to release "Debbie Does Dallas Again," its first feature for both HD DVD and Blu-ray.

Vivid, like Digital Playground, has been shooting with high-definition cameras for two years to build up a catalog of high-definition movies. Both studios have released the movies in standard definition but plan to make the high-definition versions available as compatible disc players and televisions become more popular.

The studios said their experience using the technology gives them an advantage in understanding how to cope with the mixed blessing of hypercrisp images. Their techniques include using post-production tools that let them digitally soften the actors' skin tone.

"It takes away the blemishes and the pits and harshness and makes it look like they have baby skin," said the director known as Joone, who made "Pirates," one of the industry's top- selling videos. It will be available this month in high definition.

Joone does not use a last name, but he does use a number of techniques to keep his films blemish- free. They include giving out lifestyle tips.

"I tell the girls to work out more, cut down on the carbs, hit the treadmill."

Within the industry, the issue seems to have created a difference in perspective that cuts roughly along gender lines. Some male actors have begun using makeup to mitigate wrinkles or facial flaws, but generally they, and the male directors, are less worried about high definition's glare and more enamored of the technology.

Daniels said that attitude was just so typical of men.

"Men are all about outdoing each other, being up with the times, being cool, having the latest technology," she said. "They're willing to sacrifice our vanity and imperfections to beat each other" to high definition, she said.

Other female actors say they generally like working with high-definition — except for the cosmetic-surgery part.

Jesse Jane, one of the industry's biggest stars, plans to go under the knife next month to deal with one side effect of high definition. The images are so clear that Jane's breast implants, from an operation six years ago, can be seen bulging oddly on screen.

"I'm having my breasts redone because of HD," she said.

The stretch marks on Jane from her pregnancy are more apparent. But she deals with those blemishes in a simpler way: by liberal use of tanning spray.

Still, Jane likes the technology, as does her close friend Kirsten Price, who appeared in "Manhunters" and "Just Like That."

"HD is great because people want to see how people really look," Price said. "People just want to see what's real."

Price is allowing them to do so, mostly. She had laser treatments to diminish tiny purple veins on her thighs that weren't visible to viewers before.

"You can see things you cannot see with the naked eye. You see skin blemishes; you see cottage cheese," Robbie D said. "But some cellulite is not necessarily a bad thing. It's kind of sexy."

The technology makes the experience more intimate, he said. "People look to adult movies for personal contact, and yet they're still not getting it. HD lets them see a little bit more of the girl."

That's not necessarily good, said Savanna Samson, an actress who last December directed her first movie, "Any Way You Want Me." During a scene in which she played a desperate housewife, she ran into a problem: the high-definition camera revealed she had a tiny ill-placed pimple.

"We kept stopping and trying to hide it. We put on makeup and powder, but there was no way," Samson said. Finally, they tried another approach: "We just changed positions," she said.

[English assassin]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6994415.stm


The Indian government has withdrawn a controversial report submitted in court earlier this week which questioned the existence of the Hindu god Ram. The report was withdrawn after huge protests by opposition parties.

The report was presented to the Supreme Court on Wednesday in connection with a case against a proposed shipping canal project between India and Sri Lanka.

Hindu hardliners say the project will destroy what they say is a bridge built by Ram and his army of monkeys.

Surely the solution is simple? Get Ram and his army of monkeys back to build the canal, and everyone is happy.

[Zaknafien]

Czech speedway rider knocked out in crash wakes up speaking perfect English
By CHRIS BROOKE - More by this author &#187; Last updated at 00:53am on 14th September 2007
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=481651&in_page_id=1770

When Matej Kus's teammates heard him talking after he was knocked out in a speedway accident, they were relieved he was conscious.

But they were also a little surprised.

For although the 18-year- old Czech knew only the most basic English phrases, he was conversing fluently in the language with paramedics.

Peter Waite, the promoter for Kus's team, the Berwick Bandits, said: "I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

"It was in a really clear English accent, no dialect or anything. Whatever happened in the crash must have rearranged things in his head.

"Before his crash Matej's use of the English language was broken, to put it mildly.

"He was only just making a start on improving it and struggled to be understood, but was keen to learn.

"Yet here we were at the ambulance door listening to Matej talking to the medical staff in perfect English.

"Matej didn't have a clue who or where he was when he came round. He didn't even know he was Czech.

"It was unbelievable to hear him talk in unbroken English."

Alas, Kus's new-found language skills didn't last.

The teenager, who injured a knee in Sunday's accident in Glasgow, is once more struggling to make himself understood in English.

After flying home to the Czech Republic to recover, he said - through an interpreter - that he remembered nothing of the accident or of the following two days.

Yesterday he added: "It's unbelievable that I was speaking English like that, especially without an accent.

"Hopefully I can pick English up over the winter for the start of next season so I'll be able to speak it without someone having to hit me over the head first.

"There must be plenty of the English language in my subconscious so hopefully I'll be able to pick it up quickly next time."

After the accident, team spokesman Lawrence Heppell said: "He was out cold for 45 minutes and he has been told by the medics to rest for at least a month.

"Matej could only string two or three words of English together and now he can speak it like a native, it's incredible."

Mr Waite added: "I've heard of other people getting knocked out and waking up talking fluent Italian or in one case even developing a Welsh accent.

"I never really believed it was possible but this incredible thing was happening in front of us."

[InsaneApache]

Urban myth.

Mind you.....:sweatdrop:

:laugh4:

[Gregoshi]

Matej Kus obviously took a crash course in English.

[Caius]

I need a crash.

[Gregoshi]

I need a crash.
Of course.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Matej Kus obviously took a crash course in English.

:wall:

[ShadesPanther]

Missing sitters in football can kill! (http://allafrica.com/stories/200709160275.html)

A diehard supporter of the British Premiership side Arsenal collapsed and died in Jinja yesterday afternoon when his team conceded a goal 15 minutes into the game against Tottenham Hotspurs.

The incident happened at Attitude Bar on Jinja's Lubas Road where the deceased, whom police identified as Patrick Kyaka, had gone with his female companion to watch the game.

According to eyewitnesses, Kyaka went silent soon after Gareth Bale put Spurs ahead with a 15th minute free kick, in a game that Arsenal went on to win 3-1. "And the subsequent failure by Arsenal's [Emmanuel] Adebayor to score an equaliser when he hit the post is what killed the man.
e collapsed and died there and then," a boda boda cyclist, who preferred to be identified as Wasiwasi and was seated next to Kyaka, said.

The body was taken to Jinja Hospital Mortuary where a post-mortem examination will be carried out to establish the cause of death.

Jinja District Police Commander Chris Barugahare said, however, that Kyaka could have died of shock. "But we expect a post-mortem [report] by Monday and that is when we shall have a conclusive [idea] on the cause of his death," he said.

Kyaka had travelled from Busowa in Bugiri District to meet up with his companion for a weekend of fun in Jinja. The companion, whom police declined to name, had come in from Kayunga.

A while back a Manchester United supporter in Luwero died under similar circumstances. A brace from Adebayor and 30-yard shot by Cesc Fabregas gave Arsenal the win.

[Gregoshi]

I didn't know football had sudden death.

[InsaneApache]

Hotspurs

From Tottingham no doubt! :laugh4:

[Gregoshi]

Moral of the story regarding Lord Ram's Bridge and the Indian government: the government should not get involved in religious monkey business.


I wonder if Ram's
army hung out in
monkey bars when
they were on
leave...
:thinking2:


I wonder if a Sgt
in Ram's army
ever tried to inspire
his troops by saying
"Do you apes want
to live forever?"
:thinking2:

[Lemur]

Mad cow disease getting you down? Just get your cattle to light up a fat spliff (http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22430980-5001028,00.html).

Pot-smoking cows could stop BSE, maybe

A NEW Zealand pro-cannabis groups says it has scientific evidence that cannabis can stop the development of mad cow disease.

It was not clear whether the findings applied to both cows and humans.

The National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (Norml) said a French study showed cannabidiol might be effective in preventing bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known as mad cow disease, the New Zealand Press Association reported tpday.

Scientists at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France found cannabidiol - a non-psychoactive ingredient - may prevent the development of prion diseases (progressive neurodegenerative disorders), the most well known of which is BSE, Norml said.

Researchers found cannabidiol inhibited the accumulation of prion proteins in infected mice and sheep.

Norml spokesman Chris Fowlie said the discovery added to the scientific evidence supporting a bill from a New Zealand Greens MP to legalise the medicinal use of cannabis.

"(It) should be supported by any MP with a clear head. Unfortunately most politicians act like mad cows whenever cannabis is mentioned," Mr Fowlie said.

[Gregoshi]

And the cows will protest, chanting, "Smoke pot, end up in a pot!"

[InsaneApache]

Now I know why I'm Insane! Not enough THC's...god knows I've tried though. :laugh4:

[Gregoshi]

It is just a token insanity IA. ~:smoking:

[Marshal Murat]

Gerbils...in....SPACE.... (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6996671.stm)

[FactionHeir]

Something wrong? Blame god and sue him! (http://www.ketv.com/news/14133442/detail.html)


OMAHA, Neb -- State Senator Ernie Chambers is suing God. He says it to prove a point about frivolous lawsuits.

Chambers says senators periodically have offered bills prohibiting the filing of certain types of suits. He says his main objection is the constitution requires that the doors to the courthouse be open to all. Chambers said, "Thus anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody - even God."

Chambers said he decided to file this lawsuit after a suit was filed in early September in federal court against Lancaster County Judge Jeffre Cheuvront. He's the judge who was hearing a sexual assault case, where the woman wants to use the words "rape and victim" during her testimony.

Chambers lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in Douglas County Court, seeks a permanent injunction ordering God to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.

The lawsuit admits God goes by all sorts of alias, names, titles and designations and it also recognizes the fact that the defendant is “Omnipresent”.

In the lawsuit Chambers says he’s tried to contact God numerous times, “Plaintiff, despite reasonable efforts to effectuate personal service upon Defendant (“Come out, come out, wherever you are”) has been unable to do so.”

The suit also requests that the court given the “peculiar circumstances” of this case waive personal service. It says being Omniscient, the plaintiff assumes God will have actual knowledge of the action.

The lawsuit accuses God “of making and continuing to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons, including constituents of Plaintiff who Plaintiff has the duty to represent.”

It says God has caused, “fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects, and the like.”

The suit also says God has caused, “calamitous catastrophes resulting in the wide-spread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction.”

Chambers also says God “has manifested neither compassion nor remorse, proclaiming that Defendant “will laugh” when calamity comes.

Chambers asks for the court to grant him a summary judgment. He says as an alternative, he wants the judge to set a date for a hearing as “expeditiously” as possible and enter a permanent injunction enjoining God from engaging in the types of deleterious actions and the making of terroristic threats described in the lawsuit.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Gerbils...in....SPACE.... (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6996671.stm)

My fellow Americans we must view this as a personal attack on our dominance of space. The Russians are clearly gearing up to launch other larger and less "space-exposed" animals into space in a bid to trump us by conducting research on a larger variety of space-born organisms than we are. Clearly we must proceed with what I have named "Operation NOAHS ARK" (NOAHS ARK is an acronym and the subtitle is "IN SPACE" also an acronym). To initiate this operation we must first gather, a blue whale, a tiger shark, five gorillas, seven llamas, twelve emus, six sea snakes, four black mambas and a chupacabra. We will then launch them into space and conduct research upon them, merely to show the Ruskies who's boss!

Who's with me!~:thumb:

[ShadesPanther]

Trying to smuggle an iguana? Put it in your Bra (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6999470.stm)


Woman tries to hide iguana in bra



An iguana which was smuggled into Blackpool Airport in a woman's bra has found a new home at the resort's zoo.

The green reptile was discovered when a police officer noticed something was moving under a woman's dress at the airport on Friday.

She was stopped and after a security guard found the iguana peeking out of her bra, she admitted it was hers.

Police said the woman, who agreed her pet could go to a new home at Blackpool Zoo, would not be prosecuted.

Sue Kendrick, of the airport, said: "Due to the security measures in place at the airport, we are used to confiscating many items. But we never expected to see an iguana."

Wild iguanas live in Central and South America and the smaller West Indian islands.

[Gregoshi]

I guana be that iguana.

[Lemur]

Husband and wife cheat on each other by having online romances. With each other (http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22439156-5012895,00.html), as it turns out.

Online couple cheated with each other

By staff writers, September 18, 2007 12:00am

A married couple who didn't realise they were chatting each other up on the internet are divorcing.
Sana Klaric and husband Adnan, who used the names "Sweetie" and "Prince of Joy" in an online chatroom, spent hours telling each other about their marriage troubles, Metro.co.uk reported.

The truth emerged when the two turned up for a date. Now the pair, from Zenica in central Bosnia, are divorcing after accusing each other of being unfaithful.

"I was suddenly in love. It was amazing. We seemed to be stuck in the same kind of miserable marriage. How right that turned out to be," Sana, 27, said.

Adnan, 32, said: "I still find it hard to believe that Sweetie, who wrote such wonderful things, is actually the same woman I married and who has not said a nice word to me for years".

[Papewaio]

I was just about to post that... beaten by minutes!

Seems aussie news sites are great for weird stuff...

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Husband and wife cheat on each other by having online romances. With each other (http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22439156-5012895,00.html), as it turns out.

Online couple cheated with each other

By staff writers, September 18, 2007 12:00am

A married couple who didn't realise they were chatting each other up on the internet are divorcing.
Sana Klaric and husband Adnan, who used the names "Sweetie" and "Prince of Joy" in an online chatroom, spent hours telling each other about their marriage troubles, Metro.co.uk reported.

The truth emerged when the two turned up for a date. Now the pair, from Zenica in central Bosnia, are divorcing after accusing each other of being unfaithful.

"I was suddenly in love. It was amazing. We seemed to be stuck in the same kind of miserable marriage. How right that turned out to be," Sana, 27, said.

Adnan, 32, said: "I still find it hard to believe that Sweetie, who wrote such wonderful things, is actually the same woman I married and who has not said a nice word to me for years".

That's just perfect...

[FactionHeir]

I think there was something like that in China a few years back too. Quite funny really.

[Lemur]

Weird dining. Extremely weird dining. I'm willing to believe the first one, but the second story ... I just don't want it to be true.

Faux-cannibalism banquet (http://inventorspot.com/articles/cannibal_banquet_pushes_limits_d_6619).

Feast Like a Cannibal at the Human Banquet

by Steve Levenstein, September 04, 2007

Just when you thought you'd seen enough Japanese weirdness, something like the so-called "Cannibal Banquet" comes along to shock us anew. The photos pretty much say it all but I will comment anyway - hey, that's what I do!


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/036A.img_assist_custom.jpg

Here's how the Cannibal Banquet works... a pinata-like "body" is carefully crafted, then stuffed with edible goodies in a red sauce. More "sauce" is somehow embedded into the outside covering - "skin" as it were - of the body so that it will appear to bleed when cut into. By this time, most of us would have lost our appetites, but I digress... Anyway, the prepared body (who appears to be wearing a wedding ring!) is wheeled into the dining room on a hospital gurney and a courteous host wielding a scalpel begins the operation. From the looks of it, plenty of alcoholic beverages are required to keep the patrons in the mood to chow down, cannibal style!


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/036B.img_assist_custom.jpg

You know, I love Japan and even the more unsavory examples of weirdness I uncover just add spice to the culture's charm. The Cannibal Banquet pushes the limits, though, and I have to wonder if the bizarre scene actually takes place in Japan. Other commentators have speculated that the buffet is actually a Taiwanese stunt - wouldn't surprise me in the least. I find it both interesting and amusing that declaring something odd to be from Japan seems to give it an aura of believability in the weird wide world!
The second story (http://inventorspot.com/articles/new_bestiality_restaurant_caters_6934), from the same source, is the one I'm really, truly hoping is a fake. I know there are people plenty depraved enough to do this, but here's hoping they don't have the opportunity.

New Bestiality Restaurant lets you Pork your Pork

by Steve Levenstein, September 17, 2007

Lurking underground in the heart of Tokyo's trendy Roppongi is a true heart of darkness - a members-only club that combines forbidden sex practices with the art of fine dining.

Now, I know what you're thinking - if I didn't read about this in Japan's respected Mainichi Daily News, I would not have believed it - and I'm not sure I want to believe it *.

The gist of it is, members pay a hefty fee at the door to be allowed to... have sex with the animal of their choice - which is subsequently killed, cooked and served to the violator and his party for dinner!

Many readers were shocked by my recent article titled "Feast Like a Cannibal at the Human Banquet" in which a faux human body is prepared from dough, stuffed with the main course and then "operated" on to extract each diner's portion. Weird, huh? Well, the Bestiality Restaurant makes that look like tea and scones at your Aunt Bertha's. As to the question on everyone's lips... WHY???... the answer is, as always, money and what it will buy.

Whether it's in Japan, China or anywhere else, enough people with enough money create a critical mass that results in somebody providing the "ultimate" decadent experience. Tiger penises, monkey brains (spooned from live monkeys), and more - if you've got the right amount of cash then anything's possible. Anything. To quote a source who was a guest at the restaurant, "the appeal of the place just came about because when people have got money and done everything else, they turn toward bestiality." I did not know that! Still sure you want to get rich? Anyway, patrons pay up to 800,000 yen (around $7000) for the entire experience and must have an income of 20 million yen (about $175,000) to even get that far. Once inside, through multple secured doorways, your dating & dining choices include chickens, dogs, pigs and goats - of either sex (just when you thought it couldn't get any worse).

So, if you're bored with the cuisine and ambiance of the neighborhood restaurants, make a staggeringly high income and feel there's nothing left to impress (or disgust) your friends with, the Bestiality Restaurant may be what you've been looking for.

Where else can you truly have your cake, eat it too, and earn a one-way pass to Satan's cocktail bar for flaming drinks afterward - and for eternity?

* (from Jitsuwa Knuckles via Mainichi News) This article is based on a transcribed story from the Mainichi Daily News that originally appeared in a Japanese language publication. Both InventorSpot and the Mainichi Daily News cannot be held responsible for the contents of the original article, nor can any assurances be made as to its accuracy or authenticity. Views expressed in this article are not necessarily those held by InventorSpot or the Mainichi Daily News.

[Lemur]

This is very bad news for Orgahs. A Japanese corporation is offering a new certification -- The Order of the Octopus (http://www.tako-kentei.com/). Details in English here (http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/09/16/japans-ten-strangest-qualifications/). I, for one, welcome our accredited octosquid expert overlords.


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/tako-kentei.jpg

[ShadesPanther]

This is very bad news for Orgahs. A Japanese corporation is offering a new certification -- The Order of the Octopus (http://www.tako-kentei.com/). Details in English here (http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/09/16/japans-ten-strangest-qualifications/). I, for one, welcome our accredited octosquid expert overlords.


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/tako-kentei.jpg


They are the Heralds of our Doom!

[InsaneApache]

Kalamari....no, we are!:clown:

[drone]

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/tako-kentei.jpg
Looks a lot like Hello Cthulu. :inquisitive:

[Blodrast]

Looks a lot like Hello Cthulhu at graduation from the School of the Great Old Ones from Miskatonic.

There, fixed it for you. ~D

[Ironside]

This is very bad news for Orgahs. A Japanese corporation is offering a new certification -- The Order of the Octopus (http://www.tako-kentei.com/). Details in English here (http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/09/16/japans-ten-strangest-qualifications/). I, for one, welcome our accredited octosquid expert overlords.


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/tako-kentei.jpg

If I'm reading the English snippet correctly, they are probably the main reason why the octo-squids has started to see us a threat... :inquisitive:

[Gregoshi]

I'm starting an anti-octosquid group and I'm going to call it Octo-gone.

[Papewaio]

This is very bad news for Orgahs. A Japanese corporation is offering a new certification -- The Order of the Octopus (http://www.tako-kentei.com/). Details in English here (http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/09/16/japans-ten-strangest-qualifications/). I, for one, welcome our accredited octosquid expert overlords.



Hmmm takoyaki....

[InsaneApache]

Supermarket staff refused to sell alcohol to a white-haired 72-year-old man - because he would not confirm he was over 21.


Mr Ralls, a retired insurance firm regional manager, said he expected the store manager to resolve the situation but he was disappointed.

"I felt like saying 'What do I look like? Are you a fool?'

"He picks up the wine and, in the manner of a child taking home his ball, says 'Well, we won't serve you'

Are you 21? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7003325.stm)

Before you ask, it wasn't me. :beam:

Since when was 21 the legal age to purchase alcohol? :inquisitive:

[Mikeus Caesar]

Are you 21? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7003325.stm)

Before you ask, it wasn't me. :beam:

Since when was 21 the legal age to purchase alcohol? :inquisitive:

The legal age is still 18, but if you don't look over 21 you have to give proof of age.

Quite ridiculous really - either raise the drinking age to 21 or just scrap the silly rule. Preferably the latter.

EDIT: Just noticed which Morrison's they're referring to - the one in West Kirby. I've been there a fair few times on my trips to the grandparents - bunch of muppets they've got employed there.

[Crazed Rabbit]

This biker had an electrifying experience with nature:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2517312.html

Key quote:

"Thankfully, the doctors said that there would be no lasting effects, and my penis will function normally eventually."

CR

[InsaneApache]

"Thankfully, the doctors said that there would be no lasting effects, and my penis will function normally eventually."

That's siggy material, that is. :2thumbsup:

[Gregoshi]

A wiggy siggy. Interesting.

[Lemur]

:skull: :skull: News of the weird, special death edition. :skull: :skull:

Seven men die in septic tank rescue (http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22447050-5001028,00.html). I think we can all agree that this stinks. Wouldn't you stop sending relatives in after a certain point? Say, somewhere around dead man number three or four?

Seven die in rural septic tank rescue

From correspondents in Cairo, September 19, 2007 08:09pm

SIX Egyptian men died one after another as they descended into a rural septic tank in a failed attempt to rescue a 17-year-old who had entered the tank to fix a drainage problem, security sources and a family member said.

The youth, Ayman Mohamed Gumaa, also died yesterday after he succumbed to fumes and fell into sludge at the bottom of the tank in the village of Rifa near the southern city of Assiut, the sources said.

Gumaa's mother, Zeinab Mohamed Ali, said she had sent her son into the tank because water was backing up into the family home, but panicked when he didn't return.

"I called out, Ayman, Ayman, Ayman, but he didn't respond. So I called for his uncle," she said at a municipal hospital where the bodies were taken after the incident.

Security sources said that Gumaa's 45-year-old uncle entered the tank to try to save him, but also succumbed to the fumes.

A neighbour, his brother, another neighbour and his two brothers all proceeded to enter the tank to rescue others in the group. But they all died after exposure to noxious gases in the tank, a health official said.

"They couldn't bear the fumes and they suffocated and died," ms Ali said.

Security sources said civil defence forces later retrieved all seven bodies. They said it was not immediately clear if the men died from exposure to noxious gases in the tank or drowned after possibly losing consciousness.
If septic tanks aren't your thing, how about eleven people being killed at a kite festival (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E5D81E3EF934A15751C0A9619C8B63). By kites.

World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: 11 Die In Kite Festival

At least 11 people died in an annual two-day kite festival in Punjab Province. Officials said two died after their throats were cut by kite strings made of wire, used to damage rival kites. Five died after being hit by celebratory gunshots, and two people were electrocuted trying to untangle kites from overhead power cables. Two others fell from roofs. The police arrested more than 700 people for using sharpened kite strings or firing guns. The authorities had temporarily lifted a ban on kite-flying that was imposed after deaths at last year's festival.

[Papewaio]

Rope?

[macsen rufus]

The authorities had temporarily lifted a ban on kite-flying that was imposed after deaths at last year's festival.

Classic :laugh4: 'Last year was a death-trap, so we'll ban it ... until the next festival.... '

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

:skull: :skull: News of the weird, special death edition. :skull: :skull:

Seven men die in septic tank rescue (http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22447050-5001028,00.html). I think we can all agree that this stinks. Wouldn't you stop sending relatives in after a certain point? Say, somewhere around dead man number three or four?

Seven die in rural septic tank rescue

From correspondents in Cairo, September 19, 2007 08:09pm

SIX Egyptian men died one after another as they descended into a rural septic tank in a failed attempt to rescue a 17-year-old who had entered the tank to fix a drainage problem, security sources and a family member said.

The youth, Ayman Mohamed Gumaa, also died yesterday after he succumbed to fumes and fell into sludge at the bottom of the tank in the village of Rifa near the southern city of Assiut, the sources said.

Gumaa's mother, Zeinab Mohamed Ali, said she had sent her son into the tank because water was backing up into the family home, but panicked when he didn't return.

"I called out, Ayman, Ayman, Ayman, but he didn't respond. So I called for his uncle," she said at a municipal hospital where the bodies were taken after the incident.

Security sources said that Gumaa's 45-year-old uncle entered the tank to try to save him, but also succumbed to the fumes.

A neighbour, his brother, another neighbour and his two brothers all proceeded to enter the tank to rescue others in the group. But they all died after exposure to noxious gases in the tank, a health official said.

"They couldn't bear the fumes and they suffocated and died," ms Ali said.

Security sources said civil defence forces later retrieved all seven bodies. They said it was not immediately clear if the men died from exposure to noxious gases in the tank or drowned after possibly losing consciousness.
If septic tanks aren't your thing, how about eleven people being killed at a kite festival (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E5D81E3EF934A15751C0A9619C8B63). By kites.

World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: 11 Die In Kite Festival

At least 11 people died in an annual two-day kite festival in Punjab Province. Officials said two died after their throats were cut by kite strings made of wire, used to damage rival kites. Five died after being hit by celebratory gunshots, and two people were electrocuted trying to untangle kites from overhead power cables. Two others fell from roofs. The police arrested more than 700 people for using sharpened kite strings or firing guns. The authorities had temporarily lifted a ban on kite-flying that was imposed after deaths at last year's festival.


yucky poopie!! lol

[InsaneApache]

Classic :laugh4: 'Last year was a death-trap, so we'll ban it ... until the next festival.... '

Indeed. :sweatdrop:

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Why would you think after the sixth guy went in and succumbed to the fumes and died that you would be the exception???

Next time one of my relatives falls into a septic tank I'm lowering a rope in and tying it to a tree. If he gets out alive I'll show him the story and let him know I'm not quite as suicidal as those seven Egyptian men.

[Lemur]

Addendum to the :skull:death:skull: edition:

Man urinates on dying woman and covers her with shaving cream, shouting, "This is YouTube material! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7002627.stm)"

Man admits urinating on ill woman

A Hartlepool man is facing jail after he urinated on a disabled woman who lay dying in the street.

The 27-year-old shouted "this is YouTube material" as he degraded Christine Lakinski, 50, who had fallen ill, magistrates heard.

Miss Lakinski, who suffered a number of medical conditions, died from natural causes, an inquest found.

Anthony Anderson, of Raby Road, who admitted outraging public decency, will be sentenced at Teesside Crown Court.

Hartlepool magistrates heard how, on 27 July, Miss Lakinski was making her way home with a box of laminate flooring when she fell ill and stumbled into a doorway.

Anderson had smoked a cannabis joint and been drinking when he and two friends spotted her.

He tried to rouse her by throwing a bucket of water over her, before urinating on her and covering her with shaving foam. The incident was filmed on a mobile phone.

She was later declared dead at the scene, the cause of death being given as pancreatic failure.

Lynne Dalton, prosecuting, said: "Although his actions did not contribute to her death it was appalling behaviour that robbed her of any dignity in the last hours of her life."

She urged magistrates to transfer the case to crown court for sentencing, claiming their maximum powers were insufficient.

Anderson's solicitor did not oppose the application and his client will be sentenced at Teesside Crown Court on 22 October.

After Wednesday's hearing, Miss Lakinski's brother, Mark, said: "We will await the outcome and just hope he gets what he deserves."

[Caius]

Why there are some stupid people in this world?

[Watchman]

"Some" ? Now there's an understatement...

[Gregoshi]

Seven men die in septic tank rescue (http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22447050-5001028,00.html).
Didn't something like 11 Egyptians die a year or two ago trying to rescue a goat or chicken that fell into a well? As I recall the animal got out alive. You have to admire the determination, but it seems a little more forethought is required than appears to be given in these rescue situations.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Didn't something like 11 Egyptians die a year or two ago trying to rescue a goat or chicken that fell into a well? As I recall the animal got out alive. You have to admire the determination, but it seems a little more forethought is required than appears to be given in these rescue situations.

I remember reading about that in the Darwin Awards at some point.

I guess it has to be pretty horrible to watch your kinsmen succumb to a septic tank, but I wouldn't have tried to do anything for the chicken without help from the authorities and I think after the second or third guy dies pretty much anyone should get the idea that the septic tank means business.

[Lemur]

Looks as though Marcia Brady and Jan Brady (http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/09/21/brady_bunch_star_reveals_all_about_lesbi) had a little thing going on. Yikes!


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/marciabrady.190.jpg

'Brady Bunch' Star Reveals All About Lesbian Fling With TV Sister?

Wholesome former The Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick is set to reveal the beloved 70s TV series' most shocking secret in a new book - she and her on-screen sister had a lesbian fling.

McCormick's tell-all, "Here's The Story," won't hit bookstores until 2008, but publishers are already buzzing about the big reveal.

As well as talking candidly about her well-documented eating disorder and drug problems in the book, TV's Marcia Brady will come clean about a romance she had with co-star Eve Plumb, who played her sister Jan on the hit show.

A source tells the National Enquirer, "The most explosive comments will be how the then-blonde, blue-eyed cutie developed a crush on Eve Plumb, which led to some sexual play. This book will certainly come as a shocker. While Maureen is not a lesbian, she reveals there were some sexual hijinks going on behind the scenes. It's bizarre because she played such a virginal character on the show."

[Hepcat]

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSEIC95394620070919

Man hides sex toys in the wurst way...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Staff at a German butcher's shop were shocked to discover a customer had hidden two sex toys in their sausages for transport to Dubai, police said Wednesday.

"It was two latex dildos with a natural look," said a spokesman for police in the southwestern city of Mannheim.

After shopping there earlier in the day, the man, who spoke broken English, returned to the butcher's with two large "Schwartenmagen" sausages. He asked a shop assistant to wrap and cool them until he departed for Dubai the next day.

But the assistant noticed the goods had got heavier and alerted police. Officers discovered the man, who was about 50, had removed some of the meat and packed the dildos inside.

"He could have used a loaf of bread," the spokesman said. "It's not against the law here. But obviously I can't speculate on what customs in Dubai will have to say about it."

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Maybe he was trying to flavor them???

[KukriKhan]

"To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making." — Otto von Bismarck

[Husar]

"To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making." — Otto von Bismarck
:2thumbsup: :laugh4:

[Pannonian]

Even in the sausage making industry, there are dildos and dildon'ts.

[Papewaio]

Addendum to the :skull:death:skull: edition:

Man urinates on dying woman and covers her with shaving cream, shouting, "This is YouTube material! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7002627.stm)"

Man admits urinating on ill woman

A Hartlepool man is facing jail after he urinated on a disabled woman who lay dying in the street.

The 27-year-old shouted "this is YouTube material" as he degraded Christine Lakinski, 50, who had fallen ill, magistrates heard.

Miss Lakinski, who suffered a number of medical conditions, died from natural causes, an inquest found.

Anthony Anderson, of Raby Road, who admitted outraging public decency, will be sentenced at Teesside Crown Court.

Hartlepool magistrates heard how, on 27 July, Miss Lakinski was making her way home with a box of laminate flooring when she fell ill and stumbled into a doorway.

Anderson had smoked a cannabis joint and been drinking when he and two friends spotted her.

He tried to rouse her by throwing a bucket of water over her, before urinating on her and covering her with shaving foam. The incident was filmed on a mobile phone.

She was later declared dead at the scene, the cause of death being given as pancreatic failure.

Lynne Dalton, prosecuting, said: "Although his actions did not contribute to her death it was appalling behaviour that robbed her of any dignity in the last hours of her life."

She urged magistrates to transfer the case to crown court for sentencing, claiming their maximum powers were insufficient.

Anderson's solicitor did not oppose the application and his client will be sentenced at Teesside Crown Court on 22 October.

After Wednesday's hearing, Miss Lakinski's brother, Mark, said: "We will await the outcome and just hope he gets what he deserves."


Surely failure to give assistance, as he obviously had a mobile phone that could have been used to call emergency services, could have resulted in the women living. What he deserves is a bullet in the back of the head and his brother can pay the bill.

[Boyar Son]

Wow....

[Watchman]

What he deserves is a bullet in the back of the head and his brother can pay the bill.A great fan of "Chinese Democracy", I take it ?

[Papewaio]

Not really, but I don't have much time for scum of the earth.

I just hope they throw the book at him. 3 to 5 years would be fine.

[spmetla]

I just hope that 'karma' helps him find him in the position of the peed on at some point in his life.:furious3:

[Lemur]

Can someone from the Netherlands confirm whether the image below is real? 'Cause I would sure as heck be distracted taking a written driving test like this ...


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/Dutch-Driving-Test.jpg

[seireikhaan]

Can someone from the Netherlands confirm whether the image below is real? 'Cause I would sure as heck be distracted taking a written driving test like this ...


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/Dutch-Driving-Test.jpg
:laugh4: No kidding.

[InsaneApache]

I can answer this.

You stay behind the bike, no mater what it takes. :sweatdrop: :2thumbsup:

[Papewaio]

Question Number 2
How long did it take for you to realise that there is a McDonalds nearby?

[Gregoshi]

Question Number 2
How long did it take for you to realise that there is a McDonalds nearby?
Where there are buns, can a McDonalds be too far away?

As to the question in the image, you stay behind because you don't pass when dangerous curves are ahead.

A safe following distance would be close enough to 1) still see she's wearing a thong, and 2) not be able to avoid a rear-end collision. :eyebrows:

[Fragony]

Can someone from the Netherlands confirm whether the image below is real? 'Cause I would sure as heck be distracted taking a written driving test like this ...


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/Dutch-Driving-Test.jpg

It's quite possible.

[Lemur]

Boy survives two-hour flight to Moscow hanging onto plane wing (http://www.en.rian.ru/russia/20070924/80694850.html)

MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday.

After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukova Airport, the boy, named Andrei, collapsed onto the tarmac. His arms and legs were so severely frozen that rescuers were at first unable to remove his coat and shoes, the radio station said.

The airport did not confirm the report. "We have no information on this," the Vnukovo press service told RIA Novosti.

However, Moscow's air and water transport control department said the radio's claim was true. A department spokesman said the incident occurred on Friday, and that the boy's parents were immediately informed, and flew to the capital the same day.

Doctors said it was nothing short of a miracle that Andrei survived the flight, with temperatures hitting minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit), the radio station said. The Boeing-737 has a cruising speed of 900 kmh (560 mph).

The boy reportedly made the journey after a commonplace domestic dispute. Angry with his father, who reportedly has a drinking problem, and with his mother for siding with her husband in family rows, Andrei ran away to the neighboring village, where his grandmother lives. On reaching the village, he decided to go on, and hitched a 220-km (137-mile) ride to the regional center, Perm, where he was dropped off at the airport.

It remains unclear how Andrei was able to climb on a plane wing un-noticed, and the Perm Airport security service is being asked some serious questions, the radio station said.

Andrei is now being treated in a Moscow hospital, Radio Mayak said.

[seireikhaan]

Now that's a REAL survivor man.

:creep:

[Marshal Murat]

In Russia, plane fly on you!

[TB666]

That's one cool kid
:tumbleweed:

[Andres]

Missile base on sale as ideal home (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7012020.stm)

Missile base on sale as ideal home

It is the ideal home for an aspiring James Bond villain, or an anxious survivalist seeking a refuge that can withstand an atomic bomb.
A former US intercontinental ballistic missile base - with a network of underground tunnels and silos, but no nuclear warheads - is on sale on eBay for $1.5m (£750,000, 1.06m euros).

Located in a remote corner of Washington state and still ringed by its original barbed-wire-topped fence, the 56-acre site is being marketed as a "gorgeous" property and potential resort.

Bari Hotchkiss bought the former base 10 years ago from owners who obtained the property in the 1970s, after the US government deemed obsolete the Titan missiles it was built to launch.

"We used to use it as a summer camp, for our kids and their friends," he told news agency AFP.

"The only limit is imagination. We've always wanted to see it turn into a summer camp or resort camp," he said.

20th Century castles

Mr Hotchkiss says there are 18 former Titan bases, most of which were sold off.

But his base, he says, is one of the best preserved.

"Most of those former bases are much much smaller, and most all of them have water problems with water leaking in them. So they're filled with water or so wet there is terrible rust, and ours is dry. Portions of our missile base look like it's built last year," he said.

Much of the Cold War era technology was stripped from the site by the military, and to make much of the underground network useable would require several million dollars.

"If you only need one or a couple of the buildings to begin with, several hundred thousand dollars might do it," Mr Hotchkiss told AFP.

A number of other former US missile bases are also on the market.

The website missilebases.com describes the buildings as "castles of the 20th century".

Designed to withstand nuclear attack, these unique properties "bring new meaning to the word 'shelter'," it says.

The vendor says the base would make an ideal summer camp.

[Husar]

Might also be useful in case of nuclear winter.

Oh and that really is a cool boy, though I hope he will defrost again.:sweatdrop:

[ShadesPanther]

He must have bit down hard to survive that frosty cold.

[Whacker]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm-h1NZZVys

Hilarious and wierd beyond words, for my fellow Americans who ate that Showbiz Pizza in our youth.

[InsaneApache]

Paediatrician Luiz Sena Azul said Ademilton "could truly be considered a giant baby, for he was born weighing what a six-month-old-baby normally weighs".

Ouch! :sweatdrop:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4191765.stm

All I can say is that I bet she thanks god for caesar. :laugh4:

[Fragony]

Feel sorry for her husband, must be like throwing a salami in a tunnel