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`Firefighters had to be called after a plan to evict a swarm of bees went up in smoke. Residents used gasoline to start a fire in hopes of smoking out a hive of bees from under their home [..]’

`For at least the 10th time in eight years, Francisco Solomon Sanchez of Duarte attempted a public suicide by threatening to jump from a freeway overpass, tying up traffic on two major freeways for hours, officials said Sunday. [..]

“He’s a previous jumper,” CHP Acting Sgt. Brandon Carter said. “He has two prosthetic legs from previous jumps.”‘

`Zambian police have arrested a man who exhumed, cooked and ate part of his grandson’s corpse, police said Monday.’

`The hydrogen bomb was lost in the Atlantic Ocean in 1958 following a collision of a B-47 bomber and an F-86 fighter.

A group led by retired Air Force Lt. Col. Derek Duke of Statesboro, Georgia, said in July that it had found a large object underwater near Savannah that was emitting high levels of radioactivity, according to an Associated Press report.’

`Instead of injecting an elderly patient with antibiotics, he shot her up with olive oil. The woman was in the hospital to get her appendix removed.

Officials at Steyr Hospital said vials of the medicine and oil had been left at the bedside and the intern picked up the wrong one. The olive oil was supposed to have been used for a massage.’

`A teenager in a Manhattan housing development fell to his death yesterday morning when a rope he was using to rappel to his family’s fifth-floor apartment snapped [..]

Osano Dallas, 16, tied one end of a rope to a 3½-foot metal barrier on the roof of 434 W. 17th St. and the other end around his waist [..]’

`Federal Treasurer Peter Costello today said a little boy dressed as a Ninja turtle who kicked him in Brisbane was “fantastic”. [..]

“He was fantastic, he shot across the room and he put me on my guard, and I sort of tried to cope with him,” Mr Costello said on radio B105.

“He wasn’t in the mood for kissing – Ninja turtles are very tough, karate-type people.”‘

`A 34-year-old man in a wheelchair was arrested Tuesday after attacking and attempting to rob a man who had tried to help him, police said.

[..] a strange detail was that the man who was attacked had also spent years in a wheelchair before being fitted with prosthetic legs.

“They were total strangers. It’s a bizarre case,” [a policeman] said.’

`What if only your imagination limited what you could see outside your windows? Flat panel technology is quickly becoming bigger, better, and more affordable, which will allow for all sorts of fun ways to transport your domicile to wherever tickles your fancy. This is my modest attempt to view something more interesting than my neighbors.’

`Using the f-word among your colleagues may not necessarily be offensive, can even be considered polite and helps to reinforce team morale [,,]

In the appropriate context, swearing was not offensive and demonstrated the fact that language was constantly evolving, she said.’

Saying “cunt” all day long at work no doubt has an even greater benefit. 🙂

Various realtime stats for a bunch of things.

`Australia appears ready to adopt U.S-style copyright laws, courtesy of a Free Trade Agreement deal negotiated between the two countries. [..]

Under the new laws, copyright owners will be able to subpoena user information from ISPs in infringement cases. The use of modified consumer electronics, such DVD players that allow consumers to play multi-zone movies, will be outlawed. And copyrights will be extended by another 20 years.’

`The suit was filed by a two-time drunken driving convict who passed out and crashed his car while blowing into an ignition interlock, a small machine that measures alcohol on the breath and won’t allow a car to start if the driver has been drinking. [..]

Jason Reali, 29, of Telford, claims in his suit that he had to blow into the machine so hard to make it work that it often left him dizzy.

A heavy smoker, Reali said he blew so hard during one test that he fell unconscious and crashed into a tree, severely injuring his hand. He was sober at the time.’

`When news of Pearson’s disappearance hit the airwaves, one of his captors got scared and took off, leaving Pearson with the other kidnapper.

“He said ‘Man, when you all were praying, I had smoked some crack and you all touched me, ’cause I see what kind of life you are living. I’m going to work with you. I’m going to get you out of here,'” Pearson said.’

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`The Evolution of a Volvo Racing Car’

The article about all the things they pulled out of the car to make it lighter is kinda cool.

‘A huge explosion rocked North Korea three days ago but U.S. and South Korean officials said on Sunday it was unlikely to have been a nuclear weapons test despite a report the blast produced a mushroom cloud.

[..] in Washington, U.S. officials said there was no definitive explanation yet, although Thursday’s blast did not appear to be nuclear.’

more here:

‘North Korea is believed to be developing nuclear weapons. International experts would likely have been able to detect a test if one had occurred several days ago.

“We understand that a mushroom-shaped cloud about 3.5 to 4 kilometers (2.1 to 2.5 miles) in diameter was monitored during the explosion,” the source in Seoul told Yonhap.’

followup to Report: Mushroom Cloud Seen After N.Korea Explosion and Reports May Indicate N.Korea Nuclear Test.

`A South Florida businessman says he’s going to try to reduce the strength of Hurricane Ivan by flying a Boeing 747 into the edge of the hurricane and dumping thousands of pounds of an absorbent material into the storm. [..]

Cordani is chief operating officer of Dyn-O-Mat, a company that sells environmental absorbent products such as mats for mechanics. He believes his product, SK 1,000, would cause a shearing action and a 15 degree cooling of the storm.’

Dyn-O-Mat homepage here.

‘A police report concerning the dog that apparently bit off a man’s genitals says that the man may have been using force against the animal.

Rudolfo Ramirez, 25, might have been trying to forcibly open the pit bull’s mouth. [..]

“As soon as he hit the dog, the dog yelped and the guy got up,” Chacon remembers. “He was still alive but his inner thighs, genitalia, and lower stomach was all ripped away.”

Chacon said Ramirez didn’t say a word and ran away as police approached, but he was caught at a nearby park.’

followup to Dog Bites Off Man’s Genitals.

A new Knight Rider movie is being planned, starring David Hasselhoff.

`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.