`A Mattoon man raising money for charity by living in a portable toilet for most of November was assaulted early Saturday morning by a teen-ager who had wanted to use the bathroom facilities. [..]
At approximately 4 a.m. Saturday morning, Craig said, a man knocked on the door of his Port-A-Potty, which is located at the Citgo Gas Station located on Illinois 16 near the Showplace 10 movie theater. Craig said he explained that he was staying in the Port-A-Potty for charity, but the teen, Jordan T. Maxey, 18, of Mattoon, began to argue.
The two yelled at each other for five minutes, ending with Maxey throwing [a] folding chair, Craig said.’
How many headbutts does it take to break a watermelon?
(3meg wmv)
`I want to tell you how much Japanese business man is tired. [..]
I never say that all foreign people is lazy. But I never hesitate to say that Jap is fucking hard worker.
Our priority is not to live, but to work.. It’s true. Every year lots of Japanese businss man tired to death while working. this is famous as overwork death or KAROSHI.’
with pictures of Japanese people sleeping in strange places.
`A Boeing Co.-led team has successfully fired for the first time a powerful laser meant to fly aboard a modified 747 as part of a U.S. ballistic missile defense shield, officials said on Friday.
“It showed they work,” said Kenneth Englade, an agency spokesman, of the laser’s six identical, pickup-truck-sized, modules linked to fire as a single unit. “The rest is fine-tuning.”‘
`Clive authorities confirmed Monday that a Nov. 9 apartment fire was caused by three small, unattended children playing with a butane torch.
Authorities say the fire, which caused an estimated $500,000 in damage to six apartments at 8427 Alice Ave., started on a living room couch in a basement apartment. Fire officials said the blaze was “enhanced,” but not started, by fuel from model rockets kept by the apartment’s chief tenant as a hobby.’
`Hello, and welcome to my homepage. My name is Ulrich Haarbürste and I like to write stories about Roy Orbison being wrapped up in cling-film.’
`Before you start looking for a job as a phone fantasy operator, I would highly recommend that you examine your suitability first. Suitability can be determined by objective evaluation in three categories: environment, speaking voice, and personality.’
`About 6:30 p.m. Saturday, in the parking lot of the mini-mall at Chambers Road and Mississippi Avenue, vehicle doors belonging to Aaron Davis, 39, of Aurora and Glenn Eichstedt, 52, of Aurora banged into each other, sparking the confrontation.
The men began to fight. Davis hit Eichstedt over the head with a metal pipe. Eichstedt pulled a gun and shot Davis and his wife, Benita Coleman-Davis, 36.’
`In principle, both store-bought and do-it-yourself projectors consist of a liquid crystal display backlit by a light source. An old or used flatscreen LCD is ideal for the display; these can be picked up for prices starting at around $100. [..]
Once you’ve settled on a screen, you can turn your attention to getting hold of an overhead projector. Used devices can be had for as little as $50.’
`The auction site eBay canceled bids for half of a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich whose owner claims it bears the image of the Virgin Mary.
Diana Duyser put the sandwich up for sale last week. It drew bids as high as $22,000 before eBay yanked it off the site Sunday night.’
with picture.
UPDATE: eBay has allowed bidding to restart. Make your own bid. 🙂
All the better for fucking the world, I s’pose.
`Officers arrested Andrew McClure Johnson, 23, on Saturday, nearly two weeks after he allegedly dropped DVDs into the bags of two 13-year-old boys who went to his door Oct. 31.
According to a police report, the man who opened the door of Johnson’s home said he would look to see if he had anything to give the boys. When the man returned, he reportedly asked the teenagers whether they had DVD players.’
Warrior bunnies are cool. 🙂
‘Town officials have restored a woman’s business license weeks after accusing her of trying to sell a sex toy – a vibrating yellow-ducky sponge – at a flea market. [..]
Town officials had threatened to cite Williams for violating the sexually oriented business ordinance after she set up a table at the flea market last month, but they could find no witnesses who would testify to seeing her display.’
follow-up to Woman Accused Of Selling Vibrator Disguised As Duck.
`A US hypersonic experimental scramjet, the X-43A, has clocked up a test flight at a world record speed 10 times faster than sound, NASA said today. [..]
“Once again we have made aviation history,” said X-43A program manager Vincent Rausch, who spoke after it was announced that scramjet reached Mach 10, or almost 3.2km per second.’
I don’t understand.
UPDATE: Apparently it’s some Japanese game show where you have to judge how disgusting things are. I still don’t entirely understand. 🙂
`A family have had their karaoke machine confiscated by noise pollution officers – after driving neighbours mad belting out Steps songs.
Police and council officers raided mum-of-three Kim Ridgway’s semi in Polegate, East Sussex, after repeated warnings were ignored about sing-a-longs into the night.’
`Leading internet provider America Online (AOL) has confirmed a stunning statistic leaked by a dissatisfied employee last week, in documents sold to Fox News for an undisclosed sum.
“While we vigorously condemn the illegal theft of internal company documents, we must admit that they are in fact authentic,” said a grim-looking Joe Redley, AOL’s chief marketing officer. “Further, the facts as stated in the memos recently released to news organizations are in fact true; namely, that it does appear that a sizeable percentage of AOL subscribers do not, in fact, possess computers.”‘
`Hundreds of people have been injured in an annual stone throwing festival at a remote mountain village in northern India
Residents of Dhami near Shimla divided themselves into two groups and pelted stones at each other
The group having the least number of wounded were declared winners reports Asian News International.’
`The US pool reporter, who broke to the world the killing of a wounded, unarmed Iraqi prisoner by a marine, further revealed that more prisoners were shot dead though they did not appear threatening in any way.
NBC correspondent Kevin Sites was quoted by the Associated Press Wednesday, November 17, as saying that US Marines killed three more unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoners in a Fallujah mosque Saturday, November 12.’
`The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), led by Bush appointees, is seeking input on a new proposed study in which infants in participating low income families will be monitored for health impacts as they undergo exposure to known toxic chemicals over the course of two years. The study entitled Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study (CHEERS) will look at how chemicals can be ingested, inhaled or absorbed by children ranging from babies to 3 years old.
For taking part in these studies, each family will receive $970, a free video camera, a T-shirt, and a framed certificate of appreciation.’
`The world’s strongest acid, at least a million times more potent than concentrated sulphuric acid, has been made in a lab in California. Perhaps confusingly, it is also one of the least corrosive.
The compound, called a carborane acid, is the first ‘superacid’ that can be stored in a bottle, say its creators.’
`An outraged Dobrev told the court where he is sueing the breeder: “It’s a disgrace, all he was interested in was other male pigs.”
Dobrev has deployed a range of expert witnesses – in the form of fellow farmers – and photographic evidence to prove the 220lb boar’s homosexuality. He lamented that when the pig had been outed he proved impossible to sell, forcing a premature termination and conversion into sausages.’
`Hunters soon may be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet, a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms. [..]
Underwood, 39, said he will offer animal hunting as soon as he gets a fast Internet connection to his remote ranch that will enable hunters to aim the rifle quickly at passing animals.’
`Four Northern California men have been busted for allegedly tattooing the word “thief” in two-inch-high letters on the forehead of a man they suspected of stealing a pound of marijuana.
Authorities in Mendocino County report the four face charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment, conspiracy and mayhem.’
`A fire alarm set off by smoke in the state Capitol caused an evacuation before firefighters located the source of the problem – a toaster and a singed muffin.
“It was not too badly singed,” said Justin Sargent, an aide to Sen. Judy Robson, D-Beloit, after conceding his English muffin apparently was responsible.’
`A Hawke’s Bay woman says she is breastfeeding her staffordshire bull terrier pup because she wants the dog to protect her baby girl as the pair grow up.
Kura “Kat” Tumanako said she started breastfeeding the pup after her own baby stopped taking her milk. Her nipples were too big for the baby and she had to pour her milk away.
“I didn’t want to waste it so I gave it to Honey Boy,” she said.’
`Christmas dinners throughout the UK are under threat this year from a shortage of lard as Eastern Europeans stockpile cheap cuts of pork. [..]
The current crisis has probably not been matched since lard rationing during World War II.’
