`A former church minister and Boy Scout leader [Rogers] who cut off another man’s genitals in a makeshift gender reassignment surgery in a hotel room pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree assault and practicing medicine without a license. [..]
Abercrombie, now known as Madison, says she didn’t feel like a victim at first, but changed her mind after prosecutors presented her Rogers’ checkered criminal history, peppered with allegations of cannibalism and a pornography collection that included photographs of severed genitals.
`When the party was in full swing, bodyguard Ali Suleiman began to let off a traditional volley of gunfire, killing Mr Abu Okail in the process.
On realising what he had done, he let out a hysterical cry of grief and shot himself in the head.’
`PLEASE NOTE: This is strictly a novelty item, and is NOT intended to be worn or used like a normal condom! It will not prevent pregnancy or the transmission of STDs, and will most likely cause injury to one or both parties involved.’
‘The Bush administration has received recent intelligence reports that some experts believe could indicate North Korea is preparing to conduct its first nuclear weapons test explosion, [..]’
I wonder if this is related to the previous link.
‘A mushroom cloud up to 2.5 miles in diameter was seen after an explosion in a remote area of North Korea near the border with China, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday, quoting sources in Beijing.
The South Korean news agency said Thursday’s blast in Kimhyungjik county in Yanggang province appeared to much worse than a train explosion that killed at least 170 people in April.’
`A man from the New York City area was arrested Sunday after his party of nine failed to leave an 18 percent tip, the restaurant’s mandatory gratuity for parties of six or more people, which had been added to his bill.
The diner, Humberto A. Taveras, 41, was arrested, fingerprinted and photographed for a mug shot in this resort village an hour’s drive north of Albany, N.Y., but he did not produce the $13.73 tip to the $77.43 cost of his meal.’
`”Visitors experience great annoyance from people having sex in public and apparently the presence of the cows turns the people off having sex,” the mayor said.
The idea of using cows to cool passions in the park originated from another nature reserve south of Amsterdam, which saw an unexpectedly serendipitous reduction in sex prowlers after allowing the cows to graze in its fields.’
`My name is Stokie Jaye, and I work in a group home for emotionally disturbed boys.
As I drive into work every day, I pass a battered old road sign that was probably erected when the place was built. To me, the sign means absolutely nothing about traffic; it encapsulates what I experience and what I have come to know as the god-awful truth about these kids.
It says simply, “SLOW: Children at Play.”‘
This fellow has built a 3D printer that uses chocolate as the ink.
with descriptions and video (offline at post time).
`A man who once weighed more than half a ton has lost 321 pounds under the care of a team of doctors and hopes to lose 450 pounds more.’
with picture.
The Safest Rest You’ve Ever Had
It’s like that Fishy game.
`The girls, 13 and 14, described searches in which they were forced to lift their breasts and spread out rolls of fat. The 13-year-old girl cried throughout one of the searches. Another was conducted with other inmates present.
[A court will] hear further argument about whether officials inappropriately searched one of the girls while looking for a missing pencil.’
`A man who swung an alligator at his girlfriend during an argument was sentenced to six months in jail.
David Havenner, 41, of Port Orange, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and possession of an alligator, [..]’
`[The] Elektron generator uses electrical power to split water molecules into breathable oxygen and waste hydrogen. [..]
The three Elektron units on board the space station are the last of their kind. The company that manufactured them has gone out of business, and the engineer who almost single-handedly made the final adjustments of flight units died several years ago. Reportedly he retained some “trade secret” about the final adjustments of the devices — and it died with him.’
`[some scientists] announced that they have discovered a bacterial strain that uses styrene, a toxic byproduct of the polystyrene industry [..], as fuel to make a type of biodegradable plastic, polyhydroxyalkanoate, known as PHA.’
`Compose your thoughts.
Relax.
When you have a question, type it in the box, and click on the “Ask I Ching” button below:’
`Educated cubeless stupid, you think stupid. Why worship a dumb 1 day god when I demonstrate 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single 24 hour rotation of Earth? Linear, singularity and trinity equate to evil math within Nature’s Cubic Creation
My wisdom so antiquates known knowledge, that a psychiatrist examining my behavior, eccentric by his academic single corner knowledge, knows no course other than to judge me schizoprenic.’
more at Time Cube Central, including video.
`Now, the human head has four corners. Nose, two ears and a back corner.’
`Hundreds of angry farmers seized Guatemala’s largest hydroelectric dam Tuesday, threatening to shut off power to large parts of the country unless the government agrees to return nearby lands to them. [..]
The takeover of the plant, which supplies about 60 percent of the country’s electricity, comes on the eve of a deadline set six months ago by various peasant groups for the solution of the problem.’
Changing Faces One Slap at a Time
` Playing is easy:
1. We show you pairs of real people, chosen at random from our lists of virgins and non-virgins.
2. You guess who the virgin is.
3. We tell you how you did.’
`A planned training exercise at Fort Carson has drawn fire from animal welfare groups because it involves soldiers injuring an undisclosed number of goats.
Later this month, medics from the 10th Special Forces Group will learn battlefield medical techniques at the post by treating the goats, which will be sedated and then injured to simulate combat wounds, the Army confirmed Tuesday.’
‘Doctors at a Romanian hospital want police to help them find a man who fled after being told he’d have to have his penis cut off.
Staff at the hospital in Pitesti in the south of the country say gangrene had set in.’
`A robber who used a rusty pitchfork to stick up a bank got away — and so far, finding him has been like looking for a needle in a haystack.’
with picture.
`A Dutch driver was covered in hundreds of liters of manure when a tank burst on a lorry carrying fertilizer, [..]
“It was a nice night … so he probably opened his window when he stopped at a traffic light, and then — (it) happened,” said [some police person].’
`Researchers may have found a new use for Viagra, after conducting tests on mountain climbers scaling Mount Everest, the world’s highest summit.
The drug, which promotes erections by opening the tiny veins and arteries leading to the penis, performs similarly in the lungs of men and women at high altitudes, a new study has found.’
`5. My ‘up-time’ is better than BSD.
6. You must be Windows 95 because you gots me so unstable.’
`Officials say the trailer park manager had a stove installed in the home, but it wasn’t hooked up properly and was leaking gas. The manager told 24 Hour News 8 that he wanted the woman to stay out until it was fixed. The manager went to go shut the propane tank off, and that’s when the woman lit a cigarette and the trailer exploded.’
