`A taxi driver has been given a speeding ticket for allegedly driving at 420mph (676km/h) on a city street.
Tom Matthews was photographed while carrying a fare in his 12-year-old diesel Vauxhall Cavalier in Newport.
When a notice of the £60 fine and three penalty points arrived, it said he was clocked at 420mph in a 30mph zone. [..]
Mr Matthews, 38, of Newport, said: “I could not believe it. I was a bit shocked because there was no way I was going that fast.’
‘This is hilarious. This amateur boxer cant figure out how to get in and out of the ring. Kinda funny how he finally enters but his exit is hilarious.’
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`China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women by 2020, making it difficult for them to find wives, according to a national report.
The gender imbalance could lead to social instability, the report by the State Population and Family Planning Commission warned.
It found that around 118 boys were born to every 100 girls in 2005.
A traditional preference for boys, in a country with a one-child policy, is the root of the problem, the report says.’
`Within minutes of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s arrival on Capitol Hill yesterday, it became apparent that the Bush administration had, after four divisive years, finally succeeded in uniting Congress on the war in Iraq.
Unfortunately for Rice, the lawmakers were unified in opposition to President Bush’s new policy.
“I have to say, Madam Secretary,” a seething Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) told Rice, “that I think this speech given last night by this president represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam.”
“Madam Secretary,” added Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, a moderate Democrat, “I have supported you and the administration on the war, and I cannot continue to support the administration’s position. . . . I have not been told the truth over and over again.”‘
`A New Jersey teenager was hit by a car and ended up in a 10-day coma. While comatose, the teen received in the mail a ticket for jaywalking for the night she was hit. Her outraged family went to court to have the ticket dismissed. [..]
“At first, they didn’t think she was going to make it at all. Then they thought she was going to have severe brain damage,” Robin Van Brunt said.
After the accident Ryan slipped into a 10-day-long coma. While she was unconscious in bed, the teen received in the mail a ticket for jaywalking on the night she was hit.
Ryan woke up with severe pain and a date in court. [..]
Others agreed that the ticket issued by a West Orange Police officer was in poor taste.’
`NASA is investigating whether incorrect software commands may have doomed the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, which abruptly fell silent last year after a decade of meticulously mapping the Red Planet.
The space agency said that theory is just one of several that may explain the probe’s failure. NASA on Wednesday announced the formation of an internal review board to investigate why the Global Surveyor lost contact with controllers during a routine adjustment of its solar array. [..]
The software was aimed at improving the spacecraft’s flight processors. Instead, bad commands may have overheated the battery and forced the spacecraft into safe mode [..]’
I always thought they used cap guns to start races and things. Apparently, in the Dakar Rally they use real bullets and aren’t too concerned about ricochet.
I went to sleep in class once. My teacher was nice enough not to disturb me, and I woke up halfway through lunch time in an empty room. 🙂
`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.’
A few short clips of old people falling off boats and dogs licking people in the mouth. Funnily enough. 🙂
`A US nuclear submarine has collided with a Japanese ship in the Arabian Sea, Japanese and US government officials have said.
The collision took place in the Arabian Sea, south of the Straits of Hormuz, although no details were available about the submarine’s exact location.
A Pentagon spokesman confirmed that a collision had taken place, AFP reports.
There was no immediate information about any possible casualties or the exact nature of the collision.’
`A traditional circumcision ceremony in South Africa went awry over the weekend when a policeman had his nose bitten off.
The policeman had tried to put paid to an argument between a man and his family during the ceremony in the Eastern Cape province, when the man attacked him, biting off his nose.
The aggrieved policeman then shot the 30-year-old man in the chest, the SAPA news agency reported.’
‘These guys decide it would be funny to scare the garbage man during his pickup by hiding in a seemingly empty cardboard box. I guess he didn’t find it that funny.’
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I’ve seen still photos of this sorta thing before, never a video tho. Give me a lever big enough and I can move anything, even a donkey.
`Three people were killed, at least two of them decapitated, and one seriously injured when a helicopter crashed into a restaurant carpark in the Camargue region in southern France, a local source said Sunday. [..]
The incident happened in the hamlet of Villeneuve when the Alouette 2-type aircraft carrying four people crashed Sunday afternoon.
“It was 15h30. The helicopter crashed onto parked cars close to the restaurant. The victims were the parents of a five-year-old girl. At least two of them were been decapitated,” said the source, a former AFP journalist.
“The little girl cried out ‘My daddy doesn’t have a head anymore’. Everyone is in a state of shock,” he added. ‘
‘Although tales about men suffering severe burns to their genitalia (or even being electrocuted) through urinating on electric fences or electrified train rails are common in urban legendry, such occurrences are exceeding unlikely (if not outright impossible). Accordingly, the story accompanying the photograph reproduced above about a “Texas redneck” who met with an unfortunate injury after drinking too much and then “peeing on a 3-phase electric fence” — is a fanciful invention that has nothing to do with the picture’s actual origins.
This image accompanied an article authored by five Chinese doctors (from the Department of Urology at the Third Military Medical University in Chongqing) and published in the Asian Journal of Andrology, a case report from 2003 about a 38-year-old man who sought medical attention at a clinic for genital herpes simplex. A circumcision was performed and the patient was treated with short-wave diathermy that proved excessive, producing a severe burn to the penis that resulted in necrosis and gangrene.’
‘Professional man giving a power point presentation had a technological miss-hap which showed one of his particular fetishes.’
`An English women’s rugby team have had a strip torn off them after performing a topless haka.
The girls from the Canterbury women’s rugby team in Kent went topless in their version of the sacred war dance for their raunchy 2007 calendar.
But Maori academics have labelled their interpretation of the All Blacks’ Ka Mate haka as racially ignorant.
“It looks like misuse of the haka to me,” said Dr Poia Rewi, senior lecturer in the School of Maori Studies at Otago University.
“I think Maori would be offended by this,” he said.’
‘Home video of a costumed Tigger character apparently punching a boy in the face and knocking him back at a Walt Disney World theme park has prompted an Orange County Sheriff’s investigation into the incident and led to the suspension of the cast member, according to a Local 6 News report. [..]
“The general manager apologized to me,” Monaco Sr. said. “Everybody will come up and apologize to me but Tigger. He won’t be a man about it and get out of the costume and come out and apologize to my son. I didn’t want VIP treatment. I didn’t want an extra day at Disney. I didn’t want any of that. I wanted him to apologize and that is the one thing that they won’t do.”‘
`A devoted mother is battling a rare medical condition that puts her into a coma every time she tells her children: ‘I love you.’
Wendy Richmond, 53, slips into a ‘waking sleep’ that leaves her almost paralysed every time she becomes emotional or wants to laugh or cry.
But drugs to treat the condition are expensive and not funded by her local NHS trust, meaning she has to shut off her emotions to avoid collapsing.’
‘Simple physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thats why you dont hold the butt of a shotgun close to your face when shooting. The same is also true for less powerful objects like this potato gun launcher.’
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‘The government of Dubai installed a rather large speed bump on a street that locals had developed a habit of traveling on at very high speeds. Only one minor problem, the government didn’t tell anyone it had installed the speed bump. Including a Lamborghini Gallardo.’
This might be a repost, but it’s pretty funny. 🙂
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