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Ouch.

I’m sure I’ve told some people about this clip before, but never been able to find it. I doubt the rally car driver expected that.. 🙂

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`A Detroit-area man convicted of sodomizing a dog plans to appeal a ruling that he register as a sex offender after leaving prison.

Delbert John Holliday was sentenced yesterday to three and a half to 15 years in prison. The 35-year-old Eastpointe man pleaded guilty to sodomy and animal torture for an August incident with a pit bull at his brother’s house.

A Macomb County judge ordered Holliday to register with the state’s sex offender registry, though state law currently doesn’t specifically whether animal sodomizers should be on the list.’

I don’t see what that fat guy was hoping to achieve with that twisty thing.

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‘A crazy lowrider competition sees a rim fly off and take out some unlucky dude’

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`Staff at an Irish riding school were forced to postpone festivities after Gus the camel chomped his way through 200 mince pies and several cans of Guinness intended for their Christmas party.

Gus, starring in the riding school’s Santa’s Magical Animal Kingdom show, helped himself to the feast while staff were getting changed for the party. [..]

The 11-year-old camel, originally from Morocco, cracked open six cans of Ireland’s famous stout with his teeth after the door to his stall was left open.’

Seems to be more a matter of luck that stupidity in some cases. Still, funny. 🙂

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`Saying “ho, ho, ho” is practically a Christmas miracle, given the job woes that shopping mall and store Santas face each day, according to a survey released on Monday. [..]

A third of all Santas reported having been wet on by a child, the survey said.

Nearly 90 percent of Santas said children pull their beard every day to see if it’s real, and nearly half said children try to pull their glasses off every day as well, it said.’

`Sheila Kearns had a Christmas tree delivered to her home on Sunday. She says she thought she’d been pricked by pine needles when she reached into the tree while decorating it. But the next morning, she found a bat hanging upside down in her home.

It turns out that the Christmas tree farm Kearns bought from keeps bats around for pest control and that one unwittingly hitched a ride to her home.’

`A train in Germany was brought to a shuddering halt when a soccer ball flew from a nearby pitch and disabled the locomotive’s brakes, police said on Tuesday.

“The ball directly hit the brake pipe between the locomotive and the first wagon and undid it, leading to a loss of pressure,” said a spokesman for police in the western city of Muenster. “This caused the train to brake automatically.”‘

`A woman out walking Monday was swallowed by the sidewalk when it caved in under her.

The woman, 64, fell into a sinkhole about 5 feet by 2 feet wide and about 5 feet deep in front of a house in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn.

Firefighters rushed to the woman’s aid, using metal hooks to pull concrete chunks off her before strapping her to a stretcher and removing her from the hole.’

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`A woman in Fulton County, Ga., who was angry with her boyfriend when the pair went to bed over the weekend, poured gasoline on his genitals and ignited a fire, according to police.

Fulton County police said Bobby Thompson and his girlfriend Cynthia Covington had a fight Saturday morning and Thompson went to bed. However, Covington was still upset, the report said.

Covington then allegedly poured gasoline between Thompson’s legs and ignited a fire. Covington also caught fire, the report said.

Both were transported to Grady Hospital’s burn unit.’

‘JUBILANT car salesman Steve Moseley went berserk and told his boss to stick his job – after MISREADING a £1million scratchcard.

Ecstatic Steve, 36, DANCED on his desk, THREW all the money in his wallet at colleagues and sent a junior out for CHAMPAGNE thinking he had won a fortune.

He then phoned his girlfriend to tell her he had quit and was rushing off to buy an Aston Martin.

But 45 minutes later his celebrations were cruelly cut short when he phoned the National Lottery’s claim hotline – and was told to take another look.

Shocked Steve saw he had mistaken a 16 for a 15 on his 24 Karat Gold scratchcard – meaning he had NOT matched two 15kg ingots.

And instead of becoming an instant millionaire he was broke and jobless.’

‘Sunrise co-host David Koch knows all about piss takes … but there’s one he wishes he hadn’t got involved in.

The TV star has been forced to apologise for retelling a viewer’s joke on air involving John and Janette Howard and a message written in urine in the snow. [..]

The network even got a call from an irate Government minister offended by Koch’s telling of the gag during yesterday’s Joke of the Day segment at 6.50am.

Even his on-air colleagues looked frozen by the time he came to the end of the joke, until co-host Natalie Barr gave an awkward laugh.

“I think that’s actually … Did you vet that with anyone before you … ?” a stunned Barr asked.’

Update: now with video.

(3.9meg Flash video)

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‘A soccer player gets hurt during a game and the medical team is forced to carry the player off the field. They decide to speed things up by trying to jog him off but one of the dudes can’t keep up and ends up dropping the player.’

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`Australian technology users have rated Telstra as the worst tech company in the country, a survey has found. [..]

According to Ross, 1600 Telstra Bigpond customers were surveyed for the best internet service provider (ISP) category, but only 54 per cent said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the company’s customer support.

Further, half of the Bigpond customers surveyed said they wouldn’t recommend the ISP to a friend.

By contrast, the winner of the best ISP category, Internode, received a 97 per cent satisfaction rating and 97 per cent of its customers said they would recommend the ISP to a friend.’

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`A man who was attacked by an alligator this morning was naked and smoking crack at the time, Polk County deputies who rescued him said today.

The alligator had the man in his jaws when deputies arrived at Lake Parker in Lakeland about 4 a.m. today. They were called by nearby residents who reported hearing a man yelling for help. [..]

Apgar, 45, of Polk City, suffered a broken arm, partially amputated left arm and trauma to his left leg. Doctors are trying to reattach the arm at Lakeland Regional Medical Center, where was listed in critical condition. [..]

Judd said Apgar told deputies he was smoking crack-cocaine at the adjacent park, but it was unclear why he was naked or why he was attacked by the alligator.’

.. or not. 🙂

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`The design studio behind the famed Optimus keyboard, Artemy Lebedev, has unveiled the initial price of the cut-back Optimus-103. It will cost US$1,200.

“RIP,” states one participant of the official Optimus keyboard log. “You mean $120?” one hopeful suggests.

Others seem to echo these feelings of doubt, one fan saying “I am in total shock,” and another declaring this as the last straw “That’s it. I’m out.”‘

Followup to Optimus keyboard.

`Police have called for public help in locating three people involved in a Melbourne street assault.

Victoria Police today released images of the trio who targeted a group of men in York Street, South Melbourne, around midnight on Friday last week.

The incident followed a minor argument between the men and an Asian man as they waited in line to enter a nightclub, also in York Street. [..]

The group eventually took refuge in their car, but received injuries including black eyes, cuts, bruising and scratches with the most serious injury being a ruptured testicle requiring surgery.’

So, that new Nintendo Wii apparently comes with some wireless controlling device. Already many people have managed to throw their Wii controller through their television screen or house windows. And here’s some pictures of damage done. 🙂

e.g. `We were playing Wii and drinking at a friend’s house whose parents were out of town. My friend wanted to play. She is a shitty drunk. Only after one drink. Swung the controller in home run derby… lost grip. Strap broke. TV cracked. Remote still works…. I’m impressed.’

`A three-year-old boy was eaten alive by a herd of pigs in a village on the outskirts of New Delhi after family members did not notice him wander outside his home, an Indian newspaper reported today.

Ajay, 3, was clutching a piece of bread when he was attacked by the pigs, the Hindustan Times said.

“We were all having lunch inside the house and did not realise that Ajay had walked out,” Lal Bahadur, Ajay’s uncle, was quoted as saying.

“A few minutes later, his mother noticed a few pigs chewing something.”‘

`A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Treasury Department is violating the law by failing to design and issue currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired people.

Judge James Robertson, in a ruling on a suit by the American Council of the Blind, ordered the Treasury to devise a method to tell bills apart.

The judge wrote that the current configuration of paper money violates the Rehabilitation Act’s guarantee of “meaningful access.”

“It can no longer be successfully argued that a blind person has ‘meaningful access’ to currency if she cannot accurately identify paper money without assistance,” Robertson wrote in his ruling.’

`A botched kidnapping ended with one of the assailants shooting himself in the groin, Wichita police said.

The man had just stuck the gun back into his waistband when it fired, shooting him in the left testicle. He cringed, causing the gun to fire again and strike him in the left calf.

When the shooting ended, the 23-year-old man managed to walk himself into the hospital for treatment, police said. He and his two accomplices, ages 18 and 20, were arrested for aggravated attempted kidnapping and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

The men were attempting to kidnap a teen in a dispute over stereo speakers, police said.’

`The Drug Enforcement Administration agents were near the Philip Burton Federal Building at 1:15 p.m. when a man passed them on the 400 block of Turk Street carrying a cardboard box. The box, emblazoned with the logo of a common brand of hydroponics equipment, reeked of marijuana. [..]

The narcotics agents stopped the man and asked what was in the box. He showed them about 1.5 pounds of marijuana, 12 ounces of hashish and an electronic scale.

Then, in a move that apparently stunned the 20-year-old Eureka resident, the agents took his pot away. While his crime was too minor to prosecute under federal law, the federal government does consider marijuana to be contraband, McEnry said. [..]

Realizing the DEA did not intend to return his stash, the man then called 911 on his cell phone to report the incident to San Francisco police.’

`A constable who took a Taser to a central Auckland domestic dispute wound up shocking himself and a 16-year-old and later pepper-spraying an innocent 21-year-old woman.

The constable accidentally blasted himself with the Taser’s 50,000 volts as he reloaded the weapon while trying to stun a man at the centre of the domestic incident on October 1. One shot accidentally struck the man’s teenage son.

After five attempts to hit the man, the officer eventually used pepper spray. This hit the man’s 21-year-old daughter, also an unintended target.

The man eventually gave himself up. The constable, who had had Taser training, was not injured.’