`A college student who mistakenly submitted a compact disc loaded with child pornography images to his professor last week is now facing felony kiddie porn possession charges.
Andrew Erickson, 18, of 57 Lee’s River Ave., Swansea, was arrested by Fall River and Swansea police late last week. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released after a family member posted his $500 cash bail. [..]
Police reports quote an e-mail Erickson sent to his professor, in which he appears to attempt to shift ownership of the disc from himself to an unnamed friend.
“Oh snap, I am sorry. I accidentally gave you my friend’s mixed music CD that I meant to keep here and install the music on my computer,” Erickson said in an e-mail to his professor. “I found the CD with the (final exam) on it. If there’s some way I could send it to you, that would be great. [..]’
This boy has some sorta magical bionic joints, or something. [shrug]
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`Carlos nonchalantly asks whether his drink was made with whole or skim milk. He takes a moment to slurp on his grande Caffe Mocha in a crowded Starbucks, and then he gets back to explaining how much he wants HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. His eyes light up as he says that the actual moment of transmission, the instant he gets HIV, will be “the most erotic thing I can imagine.” He seems like a typical thirty-two-year-old man, but, in fact, he has a secret life. Carlos is chasing the bug.’
`The Colorado Springs Gazette reported that Gregory Lynn Burr, 28, is accused of regularly hitting players in the groin, exposing them to pornography, and pouring water on them when the weather was cold. [..]
The paper reported that one boy had scrotal surgery for an injury he attributed to the coach’s strikes. Police said other students said the strikes to the testicles were “the kind of hits that made you lay down” or “made you stop for a minute to catch your breath,” according to the Gazette. [..]
One student said Burr would ask the boys what the capital of Thailand was and when they would answer, “Bangkok,” he would hit their groin area.’
`That’s what happens when a llama and a penis crossbreed…’
Works best in IE.
`You are looking at pictures of our family home in Wales. It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).
The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings.’
`A laundry engineer was trapped in a washing machine in chest-high hot water after he got stuck while trying to repair it.
Raymond Bloomer, 42, suffered burns and torn ligaments when he became tangled in clothing and was pinned to the back wall of the washer.
Sheffield JPs heard he was caught for 20 minutes before a colleague heard his cries.
Laundry firm Abbey Glen admitted breaching Health and Safety regulations and was fined £5,000 for having no rescue procedure in place.
A spokesman said: “We learned a serious lesson.”’
`A New Zealand yachtie clung to his sinking 31-foot trimaran for five hours after the vessel collided with a humpback whale.
Lindsay Wright was airlifted to safety just before 6pm (1600 AEDT) on Tuesday.
He says his new yacht was worth $NZ38,000 ($A33,675) and the New Plymouth yachtie is now appealing for someone to lend him a boat to race in. [..]
“He (the whale) was maybe sleeping on the surface and I hit him and he sort of woke up with a start and did a bit of a flick and knocked a big hole in the hull,” he said.’
‘Male Camel Toe, or MCT, is an embarrassing spilttage of ball-matter into two lobes.’
The ballgonda is amusing. 🙂
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`Bay Area residents use more drugs than any other metropolitan area in the country, and medical marijuana could be part of the reason, according to officials.
The percentage of people interviewed who had used marijuana, cocaine or heroin in the Bay Area, which included Fremont and Oakland, was 12.7 percent — 3 percent higher than Seattle, the second highest-ranking area with 9.6 percent. [..]
The Bay Area’s drug results were higher than expected, according to Jim Stillwell, San Francisco County’s Alcohol and Drug Program administrator.
“San Francisco has always been high, but I’m surprised that it’s that much higher than the others,” Stillwell said.’
That’s nothing. I’m sure there was a survey recently that put Australians closer to 50%. 🙂
`Possibly the neatest piece of kit we’ve run into at CES so far is a simple keyboard with coloured lights behind it. It is called the Luxeed by a small Korean company named Luxiium.
There are two versions, a semi-transparent key model and a black one with lit letters. They both have the same software, basically a keyboard layout and a color picker. You pick your color, paint the keys, and click apply and it lights that color.’
Apparently. babies born with tails are incarnations of Hindu gods.
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‘As Mariana Todorova stares at the ugly scar running down her side, her eyes fill with tears.
It is an agonising reminder of how organ traders tricked her into selling her kidney.
Now Mariana is ill and ashamed at being conned into losing her organ for just £689. [..]
Last night Mariana, 27, said: “I wanted to buy a home and clothes for my two children. All I got was a colour TV. We have nothing. I was desperate but I was tricked. [..]
“Every day I look down at the eight-inch scar and I�m reminded I sold my kidney. I have cried and cried with frustration.” [..]
Mariana is one of an ever-growing number of victims preyed on by organ traders who are selling body parts to the wealthy.’
`A San Mateo woman is getting messages from God and painting them in five-foot-tall letters on the roof of her house.
The city wants her to stop doing it. Her neighbors want her to stop doing it. But Estrella Benavides says she can’t do that.
“I am going to keep going, because it is all I can do,” she said. “God chose me to be His servant. There is such a thing as freedom of speech.”
Benavides, a 48-year-old woman who lives alone in her yellow house on Cottage Grove Avenue, began painting the giant messages about a year ago, about the time her husband moved out and she lost custody of her son. Last month, she had two large pins inserted through her lips, to keep her from eating as part of a religious fast. God told her to do that, too.’
`This is a pretty cool trick with Corona beer. These guy put it in the freezer but it does not freeze until they tap it against a table and then you can watch it freeze near instantly.’
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`Australian geoscientists and mining experts have labelled a US report linking the 1989 Newcastle earthquake to coal mining in the area as “far fetched”.
The study by Dr Christian Klose from Columbia University in New York claimed 200 years of coal mining under Newcastle triggered the earthquake, which killed 13 people and injured 160. [..]
Geoscientist Professor Stephen Cox from the Department of Earth & Marine Sciences at the Australian National University, said Dr Klose had drawn a “very long bow” in linking the earthquake with coal mining in the area.’
Follow up to: Coal Mining Causing Earthquakes, Study Says.
`A man who took a cannabis plant into a Brisbane court to use as “evidence” in his drugs case racked up more charges as a result. [..]
Mr Till says he will fight his drug charges as part of his long-running campaign to have marijuana legalised.
Security officers said they seized the 50cm cannabis plant at a screening machine in the Brisbane Magistrates Court’s foyer yesterday.
Mr Till said the plant was “evidence” for a court appearance.’
A few short clips of old people falling off boats and dogs licking people in the mouth. Funnily enough. 🙂
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`Helicopter gunships attacked suspected al Qaeda fighters in the south Tuesday after U.S. forces staged airstrikes in the first offensive in the African country since 18 American soldiers were killed there in 1993, witnesses said.
Witnesses said 31 civilians, including two newlyweds, died in the assault by two helicopters near Afmadow, a town in an area of forested hills close to the Kenyan border 220 miles southwest of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. The report could not be independently verified.
A Somali Defense Ministry official described the helicopters as American, but the local witnesses told The Associated Press they could not make out identification markings on the craft. Washington officials had no comment.’
`A 2-year-old boy was killed in Charles County over the weekend when the child-size all-terrain vehicle he was operating overturned on him, according to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office said the boy was operating a Baja Wilderness 50 four-wheeler, which is designed for children 6 to 12 years old and equipped with a remote cutoff switch. When the boy’s mother turned the ATV off by the remote, the vehicle stopped but the front wheels turned, causing it to overturn on the boy, sheriff’s deputies said. He was wearing a helmet.’
It sucks that the kid died, but those ATV things can be pretty dangerous even for adults, let alone two year old.
‘Erik Estrada, Jack Osbourne, La Toya Jackson and Wee Man get tasered during training on Armed & Famous’
That’ll teach ’em.
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`Crafty Paul Bates sent a Christmas card to a long-lost pal in this envelope with NO street name, NO town, NO postcode — yet it arrived!
The steel worker, 48, had forgotten the name of the town workmate Peter O’Leary moved to from Neath, South Wales, three years ago.
But he recalled Peter had pointed it out on a map. So he put a dot on a sketch of the South West Peninsula, wrote “somewhere here” and hoped for the best.
Amazingly the card arrived at Peter’s home in Bude, North Cornwall, nine days later — after his postie recognised the name in a local sorting office.’
With a picture of the map.
`A shamefaced thief caught on CCTV as he walked out of a Hampshire pub with a urinal in his rucksack has handed himself in.
The 42-year-old man, who has not been named, handed himself in to police in Salisbury on Monday evening.
The man, from Salisbury, Wilts, told police he had taken it from the Royal Oak pub in Southampton as a “souvenir”.’
Followup to: Police hunt pub urinal thief
`Sweden’s northernmost town of Kiruna will move its centre a few kilometres away to save it from sinking into the ground due to underground cracks created by iron ore mining, officials said on Tuesday.
In order to continue to operate the lucrative mine, in the next few decades, the town centre will need to be moved, including all major buildings, the railroad, the railroad station, the terminal, the newly-built highway, homes, water and sewage systems and electrical systems.’
Apparently she’s falls into the “super super morbidly obese” category, based one her body mass index of more than 100.
Lucky Texas is a big state. 🙂
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‘A man under arrest for dismembering the body of his sister sliced off her hair and breasts in an apparent attempt to hide his victim’s gender, said police.
Yuki Muto, 21, from Tokyo’s Shibuya-ku, told officers that he disposed of the breasts by putting them in the garbage disposal in his kitchen sink.
Muto is under arrest for slicing the body of his 20-year-old sister Azumi into more than 10 separate parts, mostly at the joints. He put the other body parts into four plastic bags and hid them in his room.’
More here: Man admits to brutal murder of sister in Tokyo
`Residents of a neighborhood next to the University of Arizona say small white rats have been swimming through sewer pipes and into their toilets.
Laura Hagen Fairbanks, spokeswoman for the county’s Wastewater Management Department, said she doesn’t know where the rodents come from, however they are the kind that researchers use in labs.
University representatives point out that the same type of white rats are sold in pet stores as food for snakes and other animals. [..]
Hagen Fairbanks said no one knows why the rats are found in only one small area of town or why they show their faces only once or twice a year.’
`Egg Cuber is the device to make eggs have bizarre cubic form. It will not make the chickens lay square eggs. It only make warm, peeled, hard boiled egg to square form.’
