`As the police officers took Hibbs, 19, into custody he allegedly insisted he was a troll and claimed the bridge as his own, reports state.
Several witnesses noted that Hibbs and companion Bradley Boville, 19, were confronting joggers and bikers attempting to cross the bridge, demanding a dollar. [..]
Boville told police he had taken a single tab of LSD, and Hibbs had taken two tabs. The two had rolled a big joint, he allegedly told police and found themselves without either a lighter or a dollar with which to buy a lighter and had subsequently begun asking people for money who were crossing the bridge.’
`Forget cute, cuddly marsupials. A team of Australian palaeontologists say they have found the fossilised remains of a fanged killer kangaroo and what they describe as a “demon duck of doom”. [..]
“Because they didn’t hop, these were galloping kangaroos, with big, powerful forelimbs. Some of them had long canines (fangs) like wolves,” Archer told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio. [..]
The species found at the dig had “well muscled-in teeth, not for grazing. These things had slicing crests that could have crunched through bone and sliced off flesh”, Hand said.’
Also, there’s an image of the demon duck of doom skull.
`Police in the Northern Dutch city of Groningen are investigating a man who rummages though rubbish bags in search of used tampons and sanitary towels.
The 40-year-old local man is particularly interested in tampons used by students and young women, a police spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The fetishist has been active for at least the last six months and has been regularly spotted searching through garbage outside student dorms. It is not known what he does with the items he collects.’
This page has a bunch of information about quinine, as well as a fully little limerick:
`A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain
The cause of his sorrow
Was paradichloro
Diphenyltrichloroethane.’
`They can sniff out drugs, find lost people and track down suspects, but K-9s are not trained to drive.
So people in Ogden are wondering how one police dog slipped a truck into gear Tuesday and ran over a woman, seriously injuring her.
“I’ve been here for almost 30 years and this is the first time I’ve heard it happening,” said Ogden police Lt. Loring Draper, who was a K-9 officer for nine years.’
`’Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, what’s all this, then? Police are telling booze-fuelled British women to wear nice knickers and wax their bodies, newspapers reported Thursday. [..]
“If you fall over or pass out, remember your skirt or dress may ride up. You could show off more than you intended — for all our sakes, please make sure you’re wearing nice pants and that you’ve recently had a wax. [..]”
Officers felt they had to talk to women in a language they might understand.’
`A group of teens attacked a 15-year-old boy, removed his artificial leg and hit a friend who tried to come to his rescue, police said.
“It was just mean,” Burbank police Capt. Joe Ford said. [..]
Friends who were nearby tried to come to the 15-year-old’s aid, police said.
But one of the attackers wielded the prosthetic leg like a weapon and struck a 20-year-old Oak Lawn man in the head, police said.’
Without any drugs and with the witch doctor stopping occasionally to drink some beer, what better way to pass time in the jungle than have you brain operated on?
`A chicken in a Kazakh village has laid an egg with the word “Allah” inscribed on its shell, state media reported on Thursday.
“Our mosque confirmed that it says ‘Allah’ in Arabic,” Bites Amantayeva, a farmer from the village of Stepnoi in eastern Kazakhstan, told state news agency Kazinform.
“We’ll keep this egg and we don’t think it’ll go bad.”‘
Lots of trivia and randomly interesting things.
`Wiggle jiggle, yellow middle.. That’s the best of what you are..’
I wouldn’t want to drive on it.
‘A host with the Shop at Home channel apparently has trouble telling the difference between a horse and a butterfly. The best part is when he actually starts trying to identify differnt parts of the horse in the picture.’
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`An Indian born scientist in the US is working on developing DVD’s which can be coated with a light -sensitive protein and can store up to 50 terabytes (about 50,000 gigabytes) of data.
Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston has claimed to have developed a layer of protein made from tiny genetically altered microbe proteins which could store enough data to make computer hard disks almost obsolete.’
`Malevolent ghosts stealing your chickens and torturing you in the night? Who you gonna call? For farmer Sunil Das, his first call was the police, who laughed at what they thought was a joke, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported Tuesday.
But a judge in India’s northeastern state of Assam saw little humor in Das’ allegation that ghosts controlled by his neighbors were making off with his poultry at night. Instead of laughing, the judge ordered police to get to work and find the culprits, the newspaper reported.’
`Fifteen dollars can get you a lot at The University Center. You can shoot pool with a friend for three hours at the Side Pocket game room, or you can drop your pants and receive oral sex from a stranger in the bathroom. [..]
There is a “glory hole” drilled in the wall between the two stalls in the first floor men’s bathroom in The University Center. And it has been there for a while. “Glory holes” are fist-sized holes, through which people anonymously perform various sexual acts.
“I noticed it last September,” said a student, who asked to remain anonymous. The junior English major said that while he was using a urinal in the first floor men’s room, a man in the first stall slipped him a note, asking if he wanted oral sex. “I thought it was a joke, until I read the writings on the walls and saw the hole.”‘
`Health officials said Manuel Uribe weighed 1,235 pounds when he made a desperate plea for help on national television in January.
Unable to leave his bed for five years, the 41-year-old mechanic in the northern industrial city of Monterrey longed to move again.
His plea was answered by doctors and nutritionists who prescribed a high-protein diet, helping him lose about 200 pounds since then.’
followup to Man weighing 1,200 pounds seeks life-saving surgery in Italy.
`It’s still not a good time to be a bird in the Compton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis.
“The lizard is on the lam,” says Shelley Donaho, whose son Zane, 17, owns the missing crocodile monitor that is presumed to be still roaming the area.
The 4-foot-long lizard, which feasts on birds and rodents, resembles a cross between an iguana and a dinosaur. Its aggressiveness is matched by sharp teeth, dangerous claws and deft climbing skills. It escaped last month from the family’s home on Russell Boulevard after breaking out of a cage.’
`Only 20 years ago, what you weighed was mainly your own concern. That was before statistics showed that six out of 10 adult Americans weigh too much, and 17 percent of American children and teens are overweight or obese, too.
With such a large percentage of the population weighing more than is healthy, the public health implications of being overweight have taken on greater importance.’
`More than 20 desperate students in Vietnam paid up to 50 million dong ($3,125) to don elaborately wired wigs and shirts that allowed them to cheat on their college entrance exams, police said Monday.
During a weekend raid, Hanoi police confiscated 50 mobile phones, 60 earphones, 150 SIM cards, eight shirts and five wigs, an officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.’
`Syd Barrett, the troubled Pink Floyd co-founder who spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, the band said Tuesday. He was 60.
A spokeswoman for the band said Barrett died several days ago, but she did not disclose the cause of death. [..]
He reverted to his real name, Roger Barrett, and spent much of the rest of his life living quietly in his hometown of Cambridge, England. Moving into his mother’s suburban house, he passed the time painting and tending the garden. His former bandmates made sure Barrett continued to receive royalties from his work with Pink Floyd.’
`A dog that was removed from an assisted-living home after it was found licking flesh off an elderly woman’s arm has been found suitable for adoption. [..]
Ninety-one-year-old Nina Borseth, died May 24, four days after Cosita caused the wounds that a Pima County Medical Examiner’s report said contributed to her death.
Borseth’s death was mainly due to Alzheimer’s disease. [..]
Investigators say Cosita was likely licking Borseth’s arm as a way of being sociable.’
`An apparently intoxicated Jackie Chan disrupted a concert by Taiwanese singer-songwriter Jonathan Lee in Hong Kong and exchanged insults with the audience, a news report said Tuesday.
Ming Pao Daily News said Chan suddenly jumped on stage at the concert Monday night and demanded a duet with Lee. He then tried to conduct the band but stopped and restarted the music several times, Ming Pao said.
As the awkward interruption dragged on, audience members started to heckle Chan and the actor replied with an insult, according to the report.’
`The Bush administration, bowing to court edict and political pressure, guaranteed the basic protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives in the war on terrorism and asked lawmakers Tuesday to restore the military tribunals now in limbo.
As senators took up the prickly question of how suspected terrorists should be treated and tried, the administration disclosed it had ordered a review of military detention practices to make sure they comply with Geneva standards.
The administration has refused to grant Geneva status to the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere, saying they were not from a recognized nation, were not captured in uniform and did not observe traditional rules of war.’
`The Manhattan building collapse that injured 11 people, including 5 firefighters, and snarled New York City’s morning rush hour was linked to a man’s attempt to commit suicide, police officials said to ABC News.
Nicholas Bartha blew up his Manhattan townhouse today as part of a suicide attempt that he had engineered in order to also prevent his estranged wife from obtaining the proceeds from the sale of the multimillion-dollar building.’
A funny prank involving a hole in the ground and some water.
`British motorist John Hopwood concocted a novel scheme to avoid payment when he was given a speeding fine — simply switch the road signs.
Hopwood, 44, had been snapped by a speed camera breaking the 30 miles per hour limit.
So he went to a 40 mph area, removed a red “40” warning sign, drove back to the 30 mph area, attached it to a lamp post and took a photo as “proof” that his offence of driving at 48 mph had not been so bad.
However, suspicion soon arose when other drivers started querying the sign.’
