`Stray pellets injured five bank customers when a security guard’s pump gun fell accidentally, triggering a shot at the Maybank branch at Taman Malim Jaya.
The five who were hit in their legs, were rushed to a private hospital where they underwent minor operations to remove the pellets.’
`Neighbours veteran Ian Smith, who plays Harold Bishop, is to release a hip-hop record. [..]
He told The Sun: “I’m working on a track called I Am Not A Pop Star. It has a hip-hop feel.’
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`The Genesis space capsule, which had orbited the sun for more than three years in an attempt to gather clues to the origin of the solar system, crashed to Earth today after its parachute failed to deploy.’
with video, also here.
`A fanatic vegan who kidnapped his 14-month-old son in Brooklyn is hiding in the woods – and vowing to kill the boy if cops come after him, [..]
Screaming that the toddler was not eating healthy food, Raphael Spindell, 34, snatched little Andre from his maternal grandmother in Coney Island Saturday and has been missing with the boy and the child’s mother since.’
`In a freak chain of events, a burning wasp triggered a fire in the attic of a house in an eastern German town [..]
[..] a roofing worker was attacked by a swarm of wasps. To protect himself, he used his blowtorch against the insects, setting one of the wasps on on fire.
The insect then flew back to its nest, which was located in the rafters, setting it on fire.’
`A groom had to stick bits of sock over his eyes after friends shaved his eyebrows off during his stag night. [..]
“I could have killed him – he looked like Groucho Marx. But I see the funny side now,” [the bride] said.’
`[..] former Trade Secretary and Labor Party lawmaker Peter Mandelson successfully applied Wednesday to become steward and bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.
Northstead is under water, and the appointment entails no duties. [..]’
`These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD — part of a test conducted by the US government during it’s dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950’s.’
`Logical fallacies are errors of reasoning, errors which may be recognized and corrected by prudent thinkers. This site indexes and describes all known logical fallacies.’
`Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital’s chic 16th arrondissement.
“The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there.”
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: “Do not,” it said, “try to find us.”‘
`Ever wanted to have your car stolen because the amount of money that you could get from it from your insurance company is more than what it’s actually worth? Maybe you’re planning on selling it, and just wish that it would get stolen. [..]
We are absolutely dead serious, this is no prank or no joke. Autothieves has been servicing people in Melbourne, Australia for more than 12 months, and we are now expanding into capital cities of other states.’
`A man with the habit of inserting odd objects into his rectum was admitted to the emergency room of National Taiwan University Hospital yesterday.
[..] the man’s habit is by no means an unusual one. Other objects retrieved from anuses include flower vases, glass bottles, vibrators and table legs. The largest object ever removed was a bowling pin.’
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`NSW prison inmates kept deadly redback spiders to milk their venom and inject themselves for a hit.
The state opposition also revealed today that some other prisoners managed to cultivate a 40 centimetre marijuana plant in the grounds of another jail.’
`Nordstrand tried to give his attackers a warning. “Do you want karate?” he asked.
One of the robbers did, but it was a bad mistake.
“I kicked him straight under the chin and into the throat,” Nordstrand said.’
`[..] AMS had announced the deployment of Windows on submarine HMS Torbay, together with plans to retrofit Windows to Vanguard class and other attack submarines.
And in case you’re wondering, the Vanguard class boats carry the UK’s Trident thermo-nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. So some people think that’s a heap of responsibility for Windows to carry.’
`Students looking for housing offers sex as payment for lodgings on a Norwegian website.
[The] leader of [the Norwegian student union] said he is surprised by this practice.
“I really hope that the housing situation is not that bad,” he said. “This is terrible. Tragic.”‘
`What is a technological singularity? A moment when runaway ad-vances outstrip human comprehension and all our knowledge and experience becomes useless as a guidepost to the future. [..]
Even if machines remain inert and dumb, we still might provoke a singularity by giving humans a superboost. [However if] the world were full of da Vincis, we’d all be quarrelsome, gay, left-handed Italians who couldn’t finish a painting.’
`In every single one of the 173 cases, both parents scored at least twelve points lower on the second IQ test [compared to a test taken before conception], with the majority of parents losing twenty or more IQ points.
“This explains why every parent thinks their child is the smartest kid in class or the best athlete, even if that child is as dumb as a box of rocks or needs a calendar to time their forty-yard dash. People who before were intelligent and open-minded turn into raving lunatics who want to blame a teacher or coach every time their mediocre child fails,” said [some scientist].’
`[..] a California online retailer is offering children’s “pimp” and “ho” outfits for Halloween.
[Costume House owner Dean Johnson] was shocked to learn that someone is selling the already-controversial outfits in children’s sizes.
“Oh my God,” Johnson said. “Child ho costume that’s bad.”
“That’s just outrageous,” parent Naylecia McNeel said. “That’s just crazy teaching our kids to become pimps and hos. That’s not good.”‘
`Police in Germany have arrested a 19 year-old from Helmstedt for hijacking the site of eBay Germany about a week ago. [..]
The boy admitted he requested a DNS (domain name server) transfer for several high-profile sites, including Google.com, Web.de, Amazon.com and eBay Germany. While most of these transfers were denied, somehow eBay slipped through. It remains unclear how the domain could have been transferred without the consent of the existing holder.’
`China is stepping up its hard line against internet pornography by threatening life imprisonment for anyoner caught peddling porn.
Ne’er-do-wells involved in the production and distribution of online adult content – including “phone sex” – faces a range of punishments including compulsory surveillance and imprisonment. Those behind sites that generate more than 250,000 hits will be treated as “very severe” and could face life imprisonment.’
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