moonbuggy

This series of pictures is just hilarious. 🙂

`Pupils were left in tears after a teacher told them that an asteroid was about to hit Earth and kill them all. [..]

The head of year behind the assembly “stunt” later moved to reassure them.

He had told the year nine students that the asteroid was on a “collision course”.

It is also believed that the students were told that they should go home and say “final farewells” to their families.’

`Authorities say two young girls were walking to a coffee shop Friday when they were flashed by a man wearing a dark bathrobe. [..]

“It’s semi-weird, but I’ve seen weirder,” said Det. Al Nikitin of Halton regional police.’

`A shopping mall security camera videotaped the apparent kidnapping of a woman who was chased through a parking structure by two men, grabbed and stuffed into the trunk of a car as shoppers seemed to notice but took no action. [..]

A handful of shoppers visible in the foreground of the scene appeared to turn their heads and watch the incident. In addition, several motorists drove through the scene.’

with video.

`While Meloy, an anesthesiologist and pain specialist in Winston-Salem, was putting an electrode into the spine of a female patient with chronic back pain, the woman reported a decrease in her pain and a delightful, but very unexpected, side effect. [..]

“When we turned on the power in this case, she let out a moan and began hyperventilating,” Meloy said on ABC News’ Good Morning America. “Of course we cut the power and I looked around the drapes and asked her what was going on. Once she caught her breath, she said ‘you’re gonna have to teach my husband how to do that!'”‘

`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.’