A British adventurer is on the verge of becoming the first person to skateboard across Australia.David Cornthwaite will complete his 3,600-mile journey in Brisbane on Monday, having started his journey in Perth, in August.
Archive for January, 2007
Skateboard Wizard of Oz
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Zeus worship resumes in Greece
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Modern Pagans Honor Zeus in Athens
A clutch of modern pagans honored Zeus at a 1,800-year-old temple in the heart of Athens on Sunday the first known ceremony of its kind held there since the ancient Greek religion was outlawed by the Roman empire in the late 4th century. Watched by curious onlookers, some 20 worshippers gathered next to the ruins of the temple for a celebration organized by Ellinais, a year-old Athens-based group that is campaigning to revive old religious practices from the era when Greece was a fount of education and philosophy.
Underwater Moped!
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Scuba-Doo – The Underwater Moped
This has got to be the laziest way to SCUBA dive, the Scuba-Doo (where are you!). It looks like a cross between a moped and yellow submarine and promises to give people the thrills of SCUBA diving without the inconvenience of wearing a mask and having to swim.
Wreck of USS Perch discovered
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Sunken WWII sub found by accident near Java
The wreck of a World War II submarine was discovered by accident near Java on Thanksgiving Day, according to officials of the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum. Charles Hinman, the museum’s education director, said the 300-foot diesel submarine USS Perch was discovered in 190 feet of water in the Java Sea by an international team of divers and photographers who were hoping to photograph the wreck of the British cruiser Exeter.
Associated Press Meltdown continues
Sunday, January 21st, 2007WELL, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior says disputed Associated Press source Jamil Hussein does exist. But at least one story he told the AP just doesn’t check out: The Sunni mosques that as Hussein claimed and AP reported as “destroyed,” “torched” and “burned and [blown] up” are all still standing. So the credibility of every AP story relying on Jamil Hussein remains dubious.
21st century activism
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Guns For Hire: Need a Demonstrator? Now You Can Rent Them Online
A German Web site has come up a novel niche market — renting out demonstrators for public protests. Good-looking protestors can help an organization get its political message to the public for as little as €145 a day.
Fart filtering pillow
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Comfy cushion doubles as flatulence filter
Flatulence — it may cause uncontrollable giggling among kids, but for the rest us, it’s no laughing matter. Now two entrepreneurs have come the rescue with a seat cushion that also silences the sound and stanches the stink of breaking wind.The GasBGon, conceived by husband-and-wife team Jim and Sharron Huza — he’s an air-quality and filtration engineer and she studied nursing — is designed to “clear the air, not the room” according the product’s Web site.
Sound travelling faster than light?!?
Sunday, January 21st, 2007‘Mach c’? Scientists observe sound traveling faster than the speed of light:
For the first time, scientists have experimentally demonstrated that sound pulses can travel at velocities faster than the speed of light, c. William Robertson’s team from Middle Tennessee State University also showed that the group velocity of sound waves can become infinite, and even negative.Past experiments have demonstrated that the group velocities of other materials’ components—such as optical, microwave, and electrical pulses—can exceed the speed of light. But while the individual spectral components of these pulses have velocities very close to c, the components of sound waves are almost six orders of magnitude slower than light (compare 340 m/s to 300,000,000 m/s).
We’re all doomed!
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Think back to the hottest summer you can remember. Now imagine a summer like that every year. For those of us who are still around by the end of the 21st century, this is what we can expect, according to a new index that maps the different ways that climate change will hit different parts of the world. The map reveals how much more frequent extreme climate events, such as heatwaves and floods, will be by 2100 compared with the late 20th century.
The duck that refused to die
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Shot duck survives 2 days in refrigerator
Neither gunfire nor two days in a refrigerator could slay this duck. When the wife of the hunter who shot it opened the refrigerator door, the duck lifted its head, giving her a scare.
Women attracted to men who are liked by other women
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Catching the lovebug…Why beauty is infectious:
The first evidence that beauty is infectious is published today by scientists who have shown that when women see a rival smiling at a man, he becomes more attractive as a result.The research, published in a prestigious scientific journal, gives objective credence to a common practice among American men of asking a female friend to be their “lady wingman”, or even hiring a beautiful woman to flirt with them in a bar, party or club to make them appear more attractive to others.
“There’s someone in my head, and it’s not me”
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Girard’s description of himself is matter-of-fact, until he explains what’s in the bag: documents he believes prove that the government is attempting to control his mind. He carries that black, weathered bag everywhere he goes. “Every time I go out, I’m prepared to come home and find everything is stolen,” he says.The bag aside, Girard appears intelligent and coherent. At a table in front of Dunkin’ Donuts inside the train station, Girard opens the bag and pulls out a thick stack of documents, carefully labeled and sorted with yellow sticky notes bearing neat block print. The documents are an authentic-looking mix of news stories, articles culled from military journals and even some declassified national security documents that do seem to show that the U.S. government has attempted to develop weapons that send voices into people’s heads.
I guess now is not the time to buy an HD-TV
Sunday, January 21st, 2007But man cannot live on nature shows and sports forever. And neither cable nor satellite offers more than 12 channels of HD programming.That’s right. I paid $1,399 for my HD television, $99 for an upgraded receiver, $110 for the proper cables and an extra $10 a month to a satellite provider that offers me more than 200 channels — and only 12 of those are in HD.
That’s 6 percent. Six!
Vodka and Tigers and Crisps, oh my!
Saturday, January 20th, 2007Tiger rejects drunken man’s crisps
Among the many entertaining things that alcohol can do to a person, one of its most persistent and notable effects is its ability convince drunk people visiting the zoo that the extremely angry wild animal in that cage really just wants a hug.
Another party-mom busted
Saturday, January 20th, 2007Mom In Trouble For Boozy Slumber Party
Meet Sherry Herzner. The Kentucky woman, 31, is facing criminal charges for allegedly arranging an alcohol-soaked slumber party for her 15-year-old daughter and six of the girl’s friends. According to police, underage attendees were told to bring $5 to the party, which occurred last Friday at Herzner’s Newport home. According to a police report, a copy of which you can find here, Herzner used the money to purchase vodka, which she served to her minor guests.
Yet another reason to avoid anti-aging treatments
Saturday, January 20th, 200715 years for injecting cooking oil
“Vasquez had charged clients up to $1,400 for each injection of Mazola corn oil, claiming the “French polymer” treatment would reduce wrinkles, prosecutors said. Maria Olivia Castillo, 46, of Castroville died in November 2005 of multiple organ failure caused by a fat blockage brought about by a cooking oil injection, prosecutors said. Similar injections caused medical complications for others and put one patient into a coma, prosecutors said.”
Poe grave visitor gets away with it again!
Saturday, January 20th, 2007 Mystery of Poe Toaster intact for another birthday:
FOR the 58th year in a row, a mysterious visitor left birthday cognac and roses at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave yesterday, watched by more onlookers than ever.Jeff Jerome, the curator of the Poe House and Museum, said 55 people braved a chilly morning to glimpse the annual ritual of the mysterious visitor known as the Poe Toaster.
As in years past, the visitor placed a half-empty bottle of cognac and three red roses at the grave on Poe’s birthday, Mr Jerome said.
Stalin’s “socialist realist” monstrosity to haunt Poles forever
Saturday, January 20th, 2007Stalin’s architectural ‘gift’ to Poland to become historic monument
Critics called for it to be razed when Poland threw off communism, but the towering Palace of Culture, which was built in central Warsaw on the orders of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, was poised to become a historic monument.Conservation officials in the Polish capital declared that the 230 metre (700 foot) tall building with a surface area equivalent to 16 soccer pitches should be given the status to protect its “socialist realist” architecture from any arbitrary changes
Having been to Warsaw many a time for work, I can assure all of you that this is an utterly hideous monstrosity that should have been razed long ago. One can only hope that this decision will be reversed.
Shih Tzu’s on the loose in Georgia!
Saturday, January 20th, 2007Feral Shih Tzus roam Ga. condo complex:
A small pack of feral, and very small, Shih Tzus has been evading capture at a Georgia condominium complex. The group of four dogs first showed up at the Covered Bridge complex in Cobb County in the Atlanta suburbs around Thanksgiving. Since then, two of them have disappeared, including one believed to have been killed by a car.
Not too clever
Saturday, January 20th, 2007“I am going to be typing all my thoughts instead of writing all day,” wrote Bauer, according to portions of the journal that were entered into evidence at a recent state hearing dealing with Bauer’s request for unemployment benefits. “That way, there isn’t any way to tell for sure if I am working really hard or I am just goofing off.”
Snakes invading Oz
Saturday, January 20th, 2007Australians face snake invasion:
Australian wildlife officials warn that a serious drought is driving tens of thousands of snakes into urban areas. Many venomous reptiles are moving into residential and business areas in search of moisture. Last week a 16-year-old boy in Sydney died from a bite by an Eastern Brown, one of the world’s deadliest snakes.
Our modern-day Marie Antoinette
Saturday, January 20th, 2007Cherie: It’s my human right to get perks
Cherie Blair shocked Britain’s most senior civil servant by claiming she was entitled to cut-price designer clothes worth thousands of pounds – because she was protected by European human rights laws. She lashed out when the Cabinet Secretary challenged her for accepting the clothes, telling him: “You are infringing my rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Hunting for Alien radio
Saturday, January 20th, 2007If aliens tens of light-years away have radar and FM radio, we may finally be able to hear them. Scientists say piggybacking detection software onto new radio telescopes designed primarily to observe the early universe could allow astronomers to eavesdrop on everyday sounds from distant, Earth-like civilisations. “The key is to really identify something that looks suspicious and follow up on it,” says Avi Loeb, a professor of astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Yet another reason not to horse around on the 17th floor
Saturday, January 20th, 2007A 29-year-old man who was apparently horsing around with some friends crashed through a window and fell 16 stories at the downtown Minneapolis Hyatt Regency early Saturday morning. His most severe injury? A broken leg.
Nice job if you can get it!
Saturday, January 20th, 2007SYDNEY councils are paying private detectives thousands of dollars to have sex with prostitutes so they can gather sufficient proof against illegal brothels. Nine councils across Sydney have forked out $25,000 in fees to private investigators over the past three years. The Sunday Telegraph has learned that Ku-ring-gai Council spent $7000 in the past month employing detectives to have sex with prostitutes.
They may have captured Jungle Woman, but Jungle Man is still on the loose!
Saturday, January 20th, 2007Search on for ‘feral man’ as mystery deepens over woman lost in jungle for 19 years
Yesterday, however, as further intriguing reports emerged of a mysterious naked man who had been spotted with the woman but ran off when challenged, the family began to close ranks. They have withdrawn permission to take DNA samples to confirm the woman’s identity, and police have thrown a cordon around their isolated home, in an effort to keep at bay curious neighbours and the world’s media.
Yet another reason to avoid marriage!
Saturday, January 20th, 2007NY couple build wall through home:
A bickering New York couple have had a dividing wall constructed inside their home as part of an acrimonious divorce. Chana and Simon Taub, both 57, have endured two years of divorce negotiations, but neither is prepared to give up their Brooklyn home. Now a white partition wall has been built through the heart of the house to keep the pair apart.
“This is the weirdest case I’ve seen in 18 years”
Saturday, January 20th, 2007Sex offender applies for school as a boy
A charter school alerted authorities to a 29-year-old sex offender who tried to enroll there, pretending he was just 12, in what sheriff’s officials said Friday may have been an attempt to lure children into sexual abuse.The Yavapai County sheriff’s office also said Neil Havens Rodreick II conned two men he was living with and having sex with into believing he was a young boy. One of them, 61-year-old Lonnie Stiffler, called himself Rodreick’s grandfather when he tried to enroll him at Mingus Springs Charter School as “Casey Price.”
How to fight those damned bank charges!
Saturday, January 20th, 2007Customer sends bailiffs in to seize bank’s computers
A man who was fed up with paying massive bank charges decided to give one of the high street giants a taste of its own medicine. When Royal Bank of Scotland refused to refund £3,400 charges that Declan Purcell believed he was owed, he sent in the bailiffs. Stunned customers at his branch of RBS watched as debt collectors seized four computers, two fax machines and a till filled with cash. The branch manager was told that the items would be sold unless RBS came up with the money owed to Mr Purcell.
Artery-travelling microbot on the way
Friday, January 19th, 2007 Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009:
An international team of scientists is developing what they say will be the world’s first microrobot — as wide as two human hairs — that can swim through the arteries and digestive system. The scientists are designing the 250-micron device to transmit images and deliver microscopic payloads to parts of the body outside the reach of existing catheter technology.
Tax rebel hunkered down in NH
Friday, January 19th, 2007Tax Fugitive Barricaded in House: ‘Show Us the Law, and We’ll Pay’
I want people to realize that there is no such thing as an obligation to pay income tax,” said Edward Brown. “It has nothing to do with the Constitution.”A jury ruled Thursday that Brown and his wife, Elaine, plotted to hide their income and avoid taxes on Elaine Brown’s income of $1.9 million between 1996 and 2003. Over 10 years, they also used $215,890 of postal money orders broken into increments just below the reporting threshold to pay for their hilltop compound and for Elaine Brown’s dental offices.
I think this wedding will be called off!
Friday, January 19th, 2007Fiance of Memphis Judge Accused of Paying Woman for Sex With 8-Year-Old Daughter
A sheriff’s department employee is charged with paying a woman for sex with her 8-year-old daughter, and a special judge was called from out of town for a bond hearing Wednesday because the accused is engaged to a Memphis judge.
Keep yer cows on yer own property!
Friday, January 19th, 2007Man shoots cows that wandered onto his property:
State police are investigating whether animal cruelty charges should be filed against a man who shot several cows, two of which later died, because they wandered onto his property. “I shot them because it’s my legal right to shoot them because they were destroying my property,” Dennis McElwain of Perry Township told the New Castle News.
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Mr. McElwain said he fired a .357 caliber handgun at the cattle, which had damaged his yard several times over the past few years.
Hat tip to Kara!
Jungle Girl wants to go back to jungle
Friday, January 19th, 2007Let me go back to the jungle, says girl missing for 18 years
She speaks in grunts, crawls instead of walking —and now she wants to go back to live in the jungle. This is the first picture of the Cambodian jungle girlwho was found last week 18 years after she went missing as a little girl. Filthy and naked when she was discovered, with long matted hair and a furtive, hunted expression, she was caught stealing food left under a tree by a villager.
Yet another reason to avoid Romanian hospitals!!!
Friday, January 19th, 2007Angry doc cuts off patient’s penis
In a fit of rage, a Romanian doctor cut off a patient’s penis during surgery and then proceeded to mutilate it. The 36-year-old Romanian man had gone into Bucharest hospital to have corrective surgery on one of his testicles. During the operation, surgeon Naum Ciomu lost his temper, picked up a scalpel and hacked off the man’s penis.
Hat tip to Kara!
Politically Incorrect in Ukraine
Friday, January 19th, 2007Moslem Tartars And Christian Slavs Brawl In Ukraine City
Hundreds of Moslem Tartars brawled with Orthodox Christian Slavs in the centre of a Ukrainian provincial city on Thursday, the Interfax news agency reported.
A long-simmering conflict in Simferopol, the regional capital of the Black Sea peninsula Crimea, turned violent after more than 100 security personnel hired by a real estate company attempted evict Tartars living in an encampment built on a choice city lot.
More than a dozen persons were injured in fighting throughout the morning, four severely enough to require medical treatment. Police made six arrests, and suffered minor injuries themselves, said Oleksander Dombrovsky, a Simferopol police spokesman.
Yet another brawl in the Taiwan legislature
Friday, January 19th, 2007Taiwan legislature dissolves into chaos over reform
A ruling party law maker threw a shoe at the speaker of Taiwan’s Legislature on Friday and assorted colleagues engaged in protracted pushing and shoving, as the final day of the winter legislative session dissolved into disarray. The scenes were reminiscent of past Taiwanese legislative brawls, and represented another low point in the island’s sometimes stormy transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Bridge Leaper Update
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Fatal jumps from bridge rise sharply:
At least 34 people leapt to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge in 2006, a sharp increase from the average of 19 people who commit suicide from the majestic span each year, authorities said Wednesday.
Electromagnetic Weapon Update
Thursday, January 18th, 2007‘Star Wars’ Weaponry Gets a Trial Run in Dahlgren:
A flashy demonstration of the futuristic and comparatively inexpensive railgun weapon Tuesday at the Naval Surface Warfare Center had Navy brass smiling. The weapon, which was successfully tested in October at the King George County base, fires nonexplosive projectiles at incredible speeds, using electricity rather than gun powder.
Chinese getting ready for Space War
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Chinese Satellite Test Draws Sharp Protest From Other Nations
The Chinese military used a ground-based missile to hit and destroy one of its aging satellites orbiting more than 500 miles in space last week, an apparent test of anti-satellite technology that raised concerns about a possible arms race in space and drew sharp protests from other space-faring nations.
Look for the union label!
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Hookers kept VW’s production rolling
THE architect of Germany’s radical labour reforms confessed yesterday to cheating Volkswagen, the biggest European car-maker, by using a slush fund to pay for prostitutes and luxury holidays for top trade unionists. Peter Hartz, who was the company’s personnel director, is accused of paying E400,000 ($658,000) to the Brazilian mistress of the former works council chief of VW. Unauthorised bonuses were paid to union leaders’ nightclub visits and escort girls became part of the business culture to ensure that worker representatives who were given boardroom directorships played along with unpopular management decisions.
19 years in the jungle
Thursday, January 18th, 2007‘Half-Animal’ Woman Is Discovered After Spending 19 Years Alone in Cambodian Jungle
A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police said Thursday. The woman — believed to be Rochom P’ngieng, now 27 years old — cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her saga have been difficult to confirm. “She is like half-human and half-animal,” said Mao San, police chief of Oyadao district in Rattanakiri province. “She’s weird. She sleeps during the day and stays up at night.”
Anarchy in Greece
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Greek police clash with anarchists
GREEK riot police clashed with self-styled anarchist youths in Athens overnight, turning the city centre into a battleground of billowing smoke for hours. The youths hurled hundreds of petrol bombs at police, burning four cars and one shop. Police retaliated with several rounds of teargas that choked up the capital’s streets.
Lost Civilizations Update
Thursday, January 18th, 2007‘Cloud warrior’ ruin may hold clues to lost civilization
An unusual archeological site discovered in Peru’s mountains may hold clues to the history of the Chachapoya people, known as “cloud warriors,” who fought the Inca Empire before the Spanish conquest. Keith Muscutt, a British-born Chachapoya researcher with the University of California Santa Cruz, said Wednesday the site was “strikingly anomalous” because of its size, shape and remote location in the dense forest full of spider monkeys and toucans. The unfortified, possibly ceremonial structure is located in an area previously considered on the periphery of the Chachapoya domain in the upper Amazon region.
Our parents are about to screw all of us!
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Fed chief warns about fiscal strains of aging population
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke bluntly warned the U.S. Congress Thursday that failure to act soon to deal with the budgetary strains posed by an aging U.S. population could lead to serious economic harm.”We are experiencing what seems likely to be the calm before the storm,” Bernanke told the Senate Budget Committee as he acknowledged projections that the U.S. budget deficit could hold steady or even narrow in the near-term.
“However, if early and meaningful action is not taken, the U.S. economy could be seriously weakened, with future generations bearing much of the cost,” he added, citing worrisome long-term projections on the cost of programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
Nice job if you can get it…
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Executives Take Company Planes as if Their Own
Richard D. Parsons, chairman and chief executive of Time Warner, owns a small vineyard in Tuscany that produces a Brunello di Montalcino selling for $80 a bottle, adorned with a crest of the Parsons family.Twice a year, he boards one of his company’s four jets to visit his 20 acres in Italy. When he does, Time Warner shareholders pick up the bill.
So do shareholders of General Electric when Robert C. Wright, a vice chairman, flies to his vacation home in Palm Beach, Fla., and Bank of America shareholders when Charles K. Gifford, the chairman emeritus, flies among his homes in Boston; Nantucket, Mass.; and Key Largo, Fla.
Hurricane Kyrill Smacks Europe
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Hurricane sweeps across Europe:
Germans were told to stay indoors and many schools across the country closed early on Thursday as a rare hurricane bore down on the country, cutting air traffic at its biggest airport by half. Germany’s DWD meteorogical service said the storm “Kyrill” could generate winds of up to 180 km/h (112 mph) in high and exposed areas and as much as 130 km/h in lower-lying regions. “What’s unusual about this storm is that it will affect the whole country and not just certain zones,” said Christoph Hartmann, a spokesman for the DWD in Offenbach.
Meanwhile in N. Korea….
Thursday, January 18th, 2007DPRK Advances with Might of Single-minded Unity:
A fresh leap forward and innovation are being effected in different parts of the DPRK which is vigorously advancing to usher in a great heyday of Songun Korea full of confidence in victory. The single-minded unity is the proud tradition of the Korean revolution.The servicepersons and people have overcome all the difficulties arising in grim annals of the revolution, rallied rock-firm around the Workers’ Party of Korea.
It is entirely ascribable to the struggle they have waged in firm unity, believing in and following only their leader and Party that they beat back the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces and safeguarded their country in the 1950s and created miracles and feats in revolution and construction in the 1970s and 1980s.
In particular, the victory and success made by them in the struggle for defending socialism in the 1990s are the proud fruits of the ideological might, the might of the single-minded unity of the servicepersons and people who heroically fought under the guidance of Kim Jong Il.
He was only following orders
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Obedient motorist crashes on satnav command
A 46-year-old German motorist driving along a busy road suddenly veered to the left and ended up stuck on a railway track — because his satellite navigation system told him to, police said Sunday.
The motorist was heading into the north German city of Bremen “when the friendly voice from his satnav told him to turn left,” a spokesman said.
Bad Kitty
Thursday, January 18th, 2007The passerby was caught by surprise when the animal leapt out at him, sinking its jaws into his arm. The leopard went on the attack in the village of Nashik in western India, after It had escaped from a local nature park.
Jeb Corliss Gets Away With It!
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Planning a Leap? The Constitution Protects You
The First Amendment protects the right to jump from the Empire State Building with a parachute, a Manhattan judge ruled yesterday. In an eight-page decision, state Supreme Court Judge Michael Ambrecht dismissed a felony charge of reckless endangerment against a California stuntman, Jeb Corliss, because his conduct, “while dangerous and ill-conceived, does not rise to the level of depraved indifference” and is, in fact, “constitutionally protected freedom of expression.”
The Gore Effect Strikes Again!
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Okay, actually just as (contrary to media treatments) a spell of hot weather doesn’t prove global warming, cold weather doesn’t disprove it. But I think that the real cause of this cold snap in the L.A./Hollywood area is that Al Gore has been shortlisted for an Oscar. Al just can’t catch a break.
Aliens above Arkansas
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Air Force colonel reports lights ‘not of this world’:
In the wake of reports of unidentified objects flying over Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, a retired Air Force pilot has his own mystery with a rash of bright, colorful lights he photographed hovering in skies over western Arkansas last week. “I believe these lights were not of this world, and I feel a duty and responsibility to come forward,” Col. Brian Fields told WND. “I have no idea what they were.”
Yet another reason not to spy on your neighbors
Wednesday, January 17th, 20072 cleared in hot-tub case sue neighbors
A Cook County sheriff’s lieutenant and her boyfriend filed a defamation lawsuit Friday against sheriff’s officials and neighbors who accused them of having sex in a back-yard hot tub in 2005.Lt. Kelly Mrozek of Lockport and her boyfriend, Mark Sumner of Orland Park, were found not guilty of public indecency in September.
In the lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court, Mrozek and Sumner accused their neighbors of defamation and invasion of privacy. They alleged that the defendants joined in a “scheme to maliciously harass Lt. Mrozek” and agreed to “do anything possible, including contacting the news media, to bring about criminal charges.”
Journo wants Humane Society to kill pit bulls it holds as prisoners
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007It’s time to kill the pit bulls:
The Dane County Humane Society says it is spending nearly $6,000 a week to care for 47 pit bulls authorities believe were bred for fighting. Half the available space in the humane society shelter is devoted to the dangerous dogs. The organization has cut back on its efforts to protect other animals because of the costs incurred by the pit bulls. In addition, the humane society has to hire guards to protect the shelter during off hours because unknown terrorists have threatened to harm society employees should they harm the pit bulls.
A well trained chimp!
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Escaped Chimp Gets Snack, Cleans Bathroom
Keeper Ann Rademacher says Judy went into the bathroom, picked up a toilet brush and cleaned the toilet. Rademacher says the 37-year-old Judy was a house pet before the zoo acquired her in 1988, so she may have been familiar with housekeeping chores. Judy wrung out a sponge and scrubbed down the fridge.
Rottweilers munch boy
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Boy mauled by three rottweilers
A nine-year-old boy is in hospital after an attack by three rottweilers, who chased him into his home. The pets were meant to be secured in a neighbour’s kitchen, but escaped from the house and attacked the boy in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
Yet another reason to keep toddlers on a leash
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Toddler Dies After Head Crushed in Florida Car Wash
Jaharra Brown slipped out of her aunt’s car while her mother and aunt vacuumed their cars Thursday. She wandered into the car wash, which was about 35 feet from the car, police said.
There goes the neighborhood…
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007ANGRY homeowners called on the police yesterday to stop a house on their “lovely” estate being used to make porn films. They claim adult filmmaker James Edwards has shot sex movies in full view of his neighbours. They say women have exposed themselves on the drive of his £400,000 house in Bradley Stoke, Bristol.
Evil Animal Sex Update
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Reward Offered in Sodomy of Puppy in Newark
Police are looking for suspects in the apparent sexual assault of a pit bull puppy in Newark. The Associated Humane Societies of Newark was notified at 7 a.m. Tuesday by the Newark Police Department that a pit bull puppy had been sodomized by a local resident. An ambulance was dispatched to 321 Seth Boyden Terrace in Newark to rescue the injured animal.
Today’s WTF story
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Cops: Man taped wife’s rape, hung her from tree
A 30-year-old man kidnapped, raped and tortured his wife, then hung her from a tree to film a two-hour bondage pornography video, authorities said.
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It appeared the man was following a computer printout describing the crime in detail that was found at the scene, Buggs said.
Politically Incorrect in Europe
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Hindus opposing EU swastika ban:
Hindus in Europe have joined forces against a German proposal to ban the display of the swastika across the European Union, a Hindu leader said. Ramesh Kallidai of the Hindu Forum of Britain said the swastika had been a symbol of peace for thousands of years before the Nazis adopted it. He said a ban on the symbol would discriminate against Hindus.
Fidel facing nasty, stinky death of his own choosing
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Castro decided to avoid colostomy
Cuban leader Fidel Castro chose to avoid a colostomy and opted for riskier intestinal surgery that led to serious complications, the Spanish newspaper El Pais said in its Wednesday edition. The shortcut involved sewing the colon to the rectum but did not heal properly and broke apart, releasing gastric fluid with feces that caused serious infection, El Pais said on its Web site.
Yet another reason to avoid French military food
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007French food ‘helped kill Napoleon’
NEARLY 186 years later, a scientific study has cleared Britain of the calumny that it murdered Napoleon, declaring instead that l’empereur was felled by stomach cancer – and French military food was a possible cause.
Jimmy may hate Jews, but he loves Nazis too
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Jimmy Carter interceeded on behalf of Nazi SS Guard
A former U.S. Justice Department official disclosed to Arutz-7 that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s advocacy extended beyond the Palestinians, when he interceded on behalf of a Nazi SS man.
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“We had an extraordinary piece of evidence against him – a book that was kept by the SS and captured by the American armed forces when they liberated Mauthausen,” Sher said. “We called it the death book. It was a roster that the Germans required them to keep that identified SS guards as they extended weapons to murder the inmates and prisoners.”
More can be found here, including in photograph of the document in question with his writing.
Could this new cancer drug be the magic bullet?
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers
It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe. It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.
Going for a joy ride
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Boys escape detention, take train joy ride
Two boys walked out of an unlocked juvenile detention home and took an early morning joy ride on a train — until authorities tracked them down. The boys managed to start up the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway locomotive early Tuesday morning after breaking through a side door into the building that houses the engine, said Sgt. Edward Kurtz of Nelsonville police. No cars were attached to the engine, which usually hauls tourists.
It’s been a quiet week for pirates
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007From this week’s Weekly Piracy Report:
08.01.2007 2335 LT at Lagos Roads, Nigeria. Robbers armed with guns and knives boarded a product tanker during STS cargo operations. They attacked duty crew, tied him up and asked for key and security lock code for the cargo control room. Duty Officer noticed the robbers and raised alarm. Robbers stole personal belongings from the duty crew, ship’s stores and escaped. Duty crew sustained injuries on his left hand. Port control informed.
Al Qaeda bails on Baghdad, now setting up shop in Diyala province
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007The apparent evacuation of Baghdad by al Qaeda forces comes from direct orders issued by al-Masri, the former soldier who took control of the Iraqi wing of al Qaeda following the June 2006 bombing death of Zarqawi.Initially, the intelligence officer informed Pajamas, the Baghdad-based AQ fighters did not want to leave. Al-Masri had to send unequivocal orders for their retreat, adding that one of the lessons from the Fallujah campaign was that Americans have learned how to prevail in house-to-house fighting. Masri said that remaining in Baghdad was a ‘no-win situation’ for the terrorists.
“In more than ten years of reading al Qaeda intercepts, I’ve never seen language like this,” the intelligence officer said. Usually, al Qaeda communications are full of bravado and false confidence, he added.
Al-Masri’s evacuation order – assuming that it is authentic – reveals that al Qaeda in Iraq leader has a good grasp of a tactical situation. “He is far more formidable than Zarqawi was,” the intelligence officer said, because of his training at Soviet special warfare schools.
The Age of The Terminator has arrived!
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Pint-sized soldier with a big wallop
The Army’s newest recruit can’t speak or climb stairs well. And at 3 feet tall and a whopping 200 pounds, it wouldn’t pass a physical. But it fires a machine gun with half-mile accuracy and doesn’t flinch. The latest infantryman is electronic — a gun-slinging robot developed at Picatinny Arsenal. Engineers at the Army weapons research post in Rockaway Township hope to send the machine, the first of its kind, into combat this year.
5 minutes til Doomsday
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007‘Doomsday Clock’ to Move Nearer Midnight:
The world has nudged closer to a nuclear apocalypse and environmental disaster, a trans-Atlantic group of prominent scientists warned Wednesday, pushing the hand of its symbolic Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight. It was the fourth time since the end of the Cold War that the clock has ticked forward, this time from 11:53 to 11:55, amid fears over what the scientists are describing as “a second nuclear age” prompted largely by atomic standoffs with Iran and North Korea.
Hat tip to Joey!
Time for him to get a lawyer
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Attorney Found Naked In Courthouse With 14-Year-Old
A criminal defense lawyer was arrested after a sheriff’s deputy found him naked with a 14-year-old girl in a courthouse conference room, authorities said Tuesday. Larry Charles, 49, has been charged with solicitation, attempted statutory sexual assault and related counts, said Lt. Dan Bagnell of the Police Department’s Special Victims Unit.
More proof Trump is a chump
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007Back in 2003, when Trump was planning his downtown residential tower, he gave about 40 insiders an attractive deal: They could sign contracts to buy condominiums in the Trump International Hotel & Tower at a discount. In some cases they agreed to pay about $500 a square foot. But units in the building, still under construction, are on the market for as much as $1,343 a square foot. That would represent a tidy profit for these early purchasers. Except that Trump has notified them that their agreements are “null and void.”
Politically Incorrect in Connecticut
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007A Connecticut toymaker is hoping to strike a chord with its “Dope on a Rope” doll, a figure depicting former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his last moments, with a noose around his neck.
New Shoplifting Evasion Technique
Monday, January 15th, 2007Alleged Shoplifters Create Blast to Escape, Injure Four in Georgia Wal-Mart
Four men evading arrest for shoplifting at a neighborhood Wal-Mart triggered a small blast in the store using swimming pool chemicals in an incident that left four others hospitalized, authorities said.Authorities said one of the men was seen by a store employee placing a toy inside his pants. As the employee went for help, the men headed to the section where the pool chemicals were stocked and mixed a chlorine-based chemical with another item, said Lt. Jason Bolton of the Henry County Police. The chemical reaction created a small explosion and filled the store with white smoke.
Is W a geopolitical genius?
Monday, January 15th, 2007It was the hugely ambitious project of the Bush administration to transform the entire Middle East by remaking Iraq into an irresistible model of prosperous democracy. Having failed in that worthy purpose, another, more prosaic result has inadvertently been achieved: divide and rule, the classic formula for imperial power on the cheap.
They’ll transplant anything these days!
Monday, January 15th, 2007First U.S. Uterus Transplant Planned
First came kidney, liver and heart transplants. Then a few doctors started transplanting hands. French surgeons even did a face.Now, doctors are planning the first womb transplant in the United States.
A team based in Manhattan has begun screening women left barren by cancer, injuries or other problems who want a chance to bear their own children.
A hanging and a beheading all in one
Monday, January 15th, 2007Hussein’s half-brother, other co-defendant hanged
The only unusual aspect was that Hassan’s head became completely separated from his body by the hangman’s noose, he said. He called it “an act of God.”
Just a good old boy, never meaning no harm…
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Kidnapping Suspect: ‘Low-Key, Regular Guy’
Bill Romer, the landlord of Devlin’s suburban St. Louis apartment, said on “Good Morning America Weekend Edition” Sunday that he never suspected anything was amiss. Romer said that for a man who was allegedly holding a boy against his will, Devlin aroused no suspicions. “It’s strange, because frankly he’s one of my best tenants,” Romer said. “He was a very pleasant, kind of low-key, regular guy.”
Women, boars – really now, just who can tell the difference?
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Shot boar turns out to be woman
Hunter Jens Gruber, 26, was in a hide in the Zwentendorf forest in Lower Austria when he thought he heard ‘distinctive boar sounds’ and saw something ’snuffling along the ground in the distance’. After taking his shot he burst through the bushes to discover forester Brigitte Zoch, 49.
Ball lightning created in lab!
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Lightning balls created in the lab
Ball lightning could soon lose its status as a mystery, now that a team in Brazil has cooked up a simple recipe for making similar eerie orbs of light in the lab, even getting them to bounce around for several seconds.Thousands of people have reported seeing ball lightning, a luminous sphere that sometimes appears during thunderstorms. It is typically the size of a grapefruit and lasts for a few seconds or minutes, sometimes hovering, even bouncing along the ground.
Can we have your kidney?
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Probe of tsunami victims organ sales
The impoverished fishing community of Tamil Nadu, hard hit by the disaster, was being specially targeted by “organ brokers”, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported today, quoting an unnamed official in the state capital, Chennai. “These women were offered up to 100,000 rupees ($2850) for their kidneys by the organ brokers, who took them to far-off places like Madurai city to perform surgery to remove their organs,” an official said.
Is it now safe to bathe in the Ganges?
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Ganges flushed for Hindu bathers:
India’s Ganges river at the city of Allahabad has been flushed with fresh water from upstream to improve bathing for millions at a key Hindu festival.Some holy men, or sadhus, had threatened to boycott bathing in waters they considered too polluted.
Five million devotees have already gathered on the banks of the river for the 45-day Ardh Kumbh festival.
Yet another reason not to hold your wee for a Wii!
Sunday, January 14th, 2007US woman dies after water contest:
A Californian woman who took part in a water-drinking contest to win a video game system has died of water intoxication, tests have shown.Jennifer Strange had taken part in the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” game run by KDND 107.9 radio in Sacramento, which promised the winner a Nintendo Wii.
More graffiti taggers squished by trains
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Two graffiti vandals killed by Tube train
Two young men were killed after being caught spraying graffiti on a London Underground train and then running into the path of another Tube train as they tried to escape.The men, aged 19 and 21, died instantly. They were two of four “graffiti artists” seen by a train driver spraying paint on empty carriages on a District line train in sidings at Barking station in east London shortly before midnight on Friday.
