Australian politician Pauline Hanson is in a nude picture scandal after naked pictures she posed from in the 1970’s emerged just days before an election.
Some have suggested that it is a political stunt by a desperate former national politician.
More from Hotties in the News
18-year-old actress, star of popular teen vampire romance film Twilight, Kristen Stewart has been pictured by entertainment news websites with smoking from a marijuana pipe.
CHECK out the picture of the “avid surfer” and pot head HERE.
Ohh yeah, looks inviting doesn’t it?
If there ever was a easier and more comfortable way to join the famous mile high club, this would be it. On one of the 12 private suites containing double beds, tucked away in the first class area of the new Airbus A380.
I mean surley if you are going to pay the $14,320 price tag for two tickets in one of the suggestive suites, a little hanky panky here or there with a fellow traveler could be tolerated? A blind eye could be turned perhaps?
Well, according to the ultimate kill joys, the owners of the first delivered superjumbo’s, Singapore Airlines, sex on the plane is banned without question.
“All we ask of customers, wherever they are on our aircraft, is to observe standards that don’t cause offence to other customers and crew,” the airline said in a statement.
Outrageous!
Indeed, one of the first passengers to fly the superjumbo from Singapore to Sydney recently was amused that the airline had created such a suggestible atmosphere in the luxury cabins.
“So they’ll sell you a double bed and give you privacy and endless champagne and then say you can’t do what comes naturally?” Tony Elwood, who travelled with wife Julie in a suite aboard the inaugural flight, told the Times of London.
“They seem to have done everything they can to make it romantic, short of bringing round oysters,” Julie said. “I’d say they shouldn’t really complain, should they?”
What the hell else are oysters for? Geeze.
See the Singapore Air A380 experience here, not that you would want to fly with them after this outrage.
And if you happen to score an A380 first class seat some time, be sure to make the most of it, what are they gonna do throw you off….
Speaking of men and dogs….
They say when a dog bits a man it’s not likely to make the news, but when a man bites a dog, it makes headlines.
When a man shoots a dog, it’s very sad news.
But when a dog shoots a man, well, you can’t help but laugh (as long as everyone lives to tell the tale that is)
For 37 year old James Harris from Iowa in the US, the first day of pheasant season was one not to remember.
After his party shot a bird north of Grinnell on Friday, 37-year-old Harris put his gun down and crossed a fence to retrieve it. That’s when things went to the hunting dogs, who stepped on the weapon and bang!
Harris was hit in the lower left leg. He was treated at a nearby medical centre and then airlifted to Iowa City.
Authorities are investigating. No word on whether the dogs have been interrogated.
If it’s good enough for Dick, its good enough for Dog.
What?
Source: USA Today.
Video: So, what is Pheasant Shooting?
Panty Power!
The goal: Democracy for Burma.
The plan: Flood the country’s foreign embassies with women’s underwear.
“The Burma military regime is not only brutal but very superstitious. They believe that contact with a woman’s panties or sarong can rob them of their power,” the Lanna Action for Burma group said on its website.
The group based in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai is urging people all over the world to “post, deliver or fling” their undergarments to Myanmar’s international embassies.
So far, Myanmar embassies in Thailand, Australia and the United States had been targeted by the Panty Power campaign, which began last week.
Click: Send your panties to an Embassy?
That’s freedom!
According to British hotel company Travelodge, incidents of sleepwalking in hotels rose seven-fold in the past year, and 95 percent of the culprits are scantily clad men.
Which means men staying in hotels in Britain have serious psychological disorders, or there is something more sinister happening.
To manage the steep increase in naked sleepwalking incidents, Travelodge has decided to implement a new training program to deal with the phenomenon.
One tip in the company’s newly released “sleepwalkers guide” tells staff to keep towels handy at the front desk in case a customer’s dignity needs preserving.
The company said naked wanderers often ask receptionists such questions as “Where’s the bathroom?,” “Do you have a newspaper?” or “Can I check out, I’m late for work?”
Click: What causes sleepwalking?
Argentinians have been spooked by a mysterious playground swing that rocks backwards and fowards for up to 10 days without being touched.
Police and local families of in the north-eastern town of Firmat believe that the playground must be haunted.
In an attempt to explain the swing’s mysterious movement, police called in physics professors. But even they have been unable to explain the why the swing keeps moving.
Teacher Maria de Silva Agustina said one child had nicknamed the area the “Blair Witch Playground”, after the 1999 cult horror film.
Yes indeed.
Well, if you watch the video below, you too can see the Blair Witch Playground in action.
Got wind?
Consumer advocacy groups in Italy are urging Italians to protest rising food costs with a one day pasta boycott.
Boycott groups are urging all Italians to forgo all forms of pasta on September 13 to demonstrate displeasure over pasta prices soaring 30 percent, with organisers saying the average Italian family will spend nearly $1,500 more on food this year compared to 2006.
“Giving up pasta for the day will be a symbolic gesture,” said a spokesman for the consumer groups behind the strike. “Italians should not buy any pasta that day, and try their best not to eat it at home.”
Most Italians eat pasta at least once a day, and consume around 54 kilograms over the course of the year.
Emergency stands offering free bread and milk will be set up in all major Italian cities for those in need of carbohydrates.
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said the strike is unnecessary.
“There is no justification for the alarms over price rises,” he said, adding prices “are in some cases going down substantially.”
Hard work pays off…. when you are a nerd.
When I was 17…..
Some computer hackers go to jail for a very long time, some get hired by major technology corporations and make millions, while others go to jail and then get hired by major technology corporations, and make millions.
But for 17-year-old whiz kid George Hotz (remember that name), hacking the new Apple iPhone device so it could be used on a non AT&T network connection, has seen him land a brand new, “sweet Nissan 350Z and 3 8GB iPhones,” the unlikely celebrity boasted on his blogspot page Saturday.
Yes, that’s a 350Z
And mind the French, but f*#k me people! This kid looks like he’s going to have one hell of a future.
Not only has young George made headlines on TV news programs, radio, magazine, online news, etc across the globe the past few days (just read the comments from around the world on his blog), he now has gigs working as a consultant for major communications companies. Not forgetting to mention all the time he has spent fielding interviews from journalists calling from Prague to Port-au-Prince.
George, like all good nerds should be doing, spent ”most of the summer” indoors with some online pals working out how to crack open the exclusive iphone connection, before heading to college at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. He posted a ‘ten easy steps guide’ on his blog, so you too can do away with the dictatorial wrath of AT&T.
Hard Jobs…..
The job took 500 hours, or about eight hours a day since the IPhone’s June 29 launch.
When asked by a local journalist, when moving into his college dorm, why he wanted to crack the i code, Hotz explained in some uber cool 2000’s style dialect.
“It was a cool phone I saw it on the commercials I was like yo! They show the skate boarding dog. I want to make my phone show the skate boarding dog. But I have T-Mobile and my parents didn’t want to pay for it and so I cracked the iPhone.”
The deal to exchange the hacked phone was made with Terry Daidone, the co-founder of CertiCell, most likely as a publicity stunt. A fine job he has done indeed.
Much to our disappointment, the company is not planning on commercialising George’s discovery.
Party poopers.
Good luck to you George, you aren’t going to need it.
Just thow it!
Meanwhile in other mobile/cell phone news……
On the same day that our boy George was swapping his phone for a new Nissan, the World Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship were being held in the spiritual home of mobile technology, Finland, in a contest that reflects “people’s love-hate relationship with the mobile phone.”
Every August for the last 8 years contestants, athletes if you will, from around the planet have descended on the little town of Nyslott to test their skills in the categories of distance and freestyle.
It was an all local affair with engineer Tommi Huotari taking the gold medal by projecting his device 89.62 metres in the men’s, with the silver going to another local Kia Paajanen at 76.68 meters and Mikko Haikala went 3rd with a competitive 73.36meters.
Tommi had no past training in phone throwing, preferring the more civilised sporting spectacle of potato throwing.
“I have never thrown a phone before but have been participating in potato-throwing … surprisingly, a potato flies further. I am sure everyone would like to throw their phone away every once in a while.”
Finland also claimed the women’s crown, with world record holder Eija Laakso clocking up 44.49 metres.
In the freestyle category, a non Fin managed to take a medal.
Tasty Taco Cohen used acrobatics and juggling in his performance which was judged on aesthetics and artistic impression. The 19-year-old told media that years of playing with his balls had equipped him with the means to win the category honour.
“Juggling I have done for many years with balls. (But) these are irregular shapes and weights, it is difficult.”
Rumour has it that the IOC is thinking of including Phone throwing as a demonstration sport at the 2050 Summer Games.
See all the results and excitement from the Championships at the web site here.
Or……
Check out some of the fun from the 2005 Championships, those 2005 phones are bricks compared to those of 2007…
This all gets me wondering….wouldn’t it be more therapeutic to just smash the living shit out of the phones?
I guess that’s for an angrier day…..
Friday!
You know what that means?
……………………..
Yeahhh….
They get big, baby!
This snake is a Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus), the longest known snake speices.
Reticulated pythons can make great and extremely rewarding captives, but the keeper should have previous experience with large pythons to help ensure safety to both animal and keeper.
They do not attack humans by nature, but will bite and possibly constrict if they feel threatened or mistake a hand for food. While not venomous, large pythons can inflict very serious injuries, sometimes requiring stitches.
This species of snake is one of the few that have documented, but not verified, cases of eating people in the wild.
And let’s have another edition of…
This spiky little bloke’s sex life may lead to clues about human evolution…
Germany
“Eventually she ended up stuck in a grave and couldn’t get out, so we had to pull her out.”
Police in the town of Mitterteich speak to media after a woman who went to pay her respects to a dead relative, drove across a cemetery drunk, smashing up headstones and tombs before she ground to a halt in someone’s open grave. Police estimated the total damage to graves and the 53-year-old’s car at around 18,000 euros (US$24,000).
Australia
“We are really focussing on trying to find out more about the sex life of the echidnas”
A scientist from the University of Adelaide is looking for volunteers to observe the spiky little egg laying mammal’s sexual adventures. The findings of the Echidna study will be used to improve captive breeding programs and could also enhance information about human evolution.
USA
Michigan forensic scientist Ann Chamberlain testifies to a court about what she found when she tested her husband’s underwear for DNA using police resources. She was fired for using department supplies, materials and equipment for non-departmental purposes.
Egypt
That’s what a German man believed had occurred to his stepfather after he stole several pharaonic carvings in Egypt some time back. Over a number of years after stealing the ancient carvings, the stepfather was stuck down by inexplicable fatigue, fever, paralysis and cancer followed by death. The stolen carvings were handed to the Egyptian embassy in Berlin before being flown back to Cairo.
Russia
“It was monstrously painful…I was burning like a torch. I don’t know what I did to deserve this.”
A wounded man tells reporters in Moscow about the experience of having his ex-wife set his penis on fire. It was not known exactly how this occurred, but apparently he was drunk on vodka and watching TV when it happened. Hot rod!
Nepal
Protesters outside the national parliament in Kathmandu take drastic measures in order to get their message across about the issue of the decades old practice of child prostitution. They were members of the poor Badi community who are one of the most disadvantaged groups in the country. For generations, many have been forced into the sex trade because of a lack of other options.
Japan
A spokeswoman from a Japanese arcade company explains the reasons behind the recall of 100 arm wrestling machines. Three players broke their arms while wrestling with the machine’s mechanized appendage. Weaklings.
New Zealand
A Queenstown taxi driver tells police about a automatic cash machine that was handing out double the requested money. A dim witted bank worker stacked the machine with the wrong notes, with $20 notes in the $10 box and vice versa. Most people cashing in were overseas travellers taking advantage of the areas ski resorts. Some have all the luck.
Crazy Russian Times….
Why has this photo of tough guy, former KGB agent etc etc, Russian President Vladimir Putin caused such a stir?
It was taken while he was holidaying with Monaco’s Prince Albert (not the piercing) II in the Tuva region of Siberia, as a thanks for getting Russia to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. (Albert is a powerful member of the International Olympic Committee)
It’s a photo that has seen the nation go Putin half naked crazy!
Russia’s most read newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda ,posted a step-by-step guide to building a body like the President and Radio talk back speculated that the photo showed signals that he doesn’t plan to relinquish power.
But most hilariously, Russian gay chat rooms and blogs were buzzing about the official picture, comparing the tough guy Putin photo to gay cowboy spectacular Brokeback Mountain.
And offcourse not to forget the women of Russia, who were apparently “screaming with delight and showering (him) with compliments.” Via the Guardian.
So what can explain such a ruckus made by one simple Kremlin propagandist photo? Micheal Grove from the Times of London put it best, from what I can tell at least, with this post-modern/masculinist/whateverist analysis.
On one level Vlad is showing us all that he’s a remarkably fit man for his age (54) and that, unlike in the decadent West, Russia’s leaders remain the physical embodiment of their nation’s vigour – classical champions in the manner of those Roman emperors who would renew their mandate to rule on the battlefield or even in the gladiatorial ring. His bare-chested peacockery is, in that respect, in line with the broader cult of Putin as his nation’s silverback – the leader of the band.
Baring your torso on holiday, whether in Ayia Napa or on the deck of your yacht, means setting aside the expected norms of modesty and thus, in its way, involves you staking a claim to attention, and occupying more space than if you were clothed. It is an act of assertion, a waving of the coxcomb.
Offcourse, “waving of the coxcomb”. Ahh, yes, I couldn’t have put it any better myself really.
The photo who-ha comes at a very interesting time for our pals in Russia.
Let’s see what else they have been up to:
It has unvieled the world’s largest known Russian flag, covering 400 square metres, on the banks of the Moskva to celebrate “the authority of our country”. Ah, O-K.
She has planted a flag at the bottom of the ocean under the north pole, claiming the area for it’s extensive natural resources, for a future date (once all that nice ice has melt sometime mid-late this century), despite it likely breaking international law.
Hold me, I’m scared!…
If your not Vladimired out enough yet, you can see a lovely slide show of Putin’s holiday in the sun here, from the International Herald Tribune.
For the record Putin didn’t catch a thing. Except maybe a weak southern Russian tan.
Believe it or not?
First it was Emirati Abdul Rahman whose aim it was to father 100 children by the time he was 68, but today it’s Indian Nanu Ram Jogi whose aim it is to be fathering at the age of 100.
Oh, yeah..He’s still got it. Nanu and the new addition, baby Girija Rajkumari.
And old Nanu, a farmer from remote Rajasthan, is not exactly modest with his years of luck with the ladies.
“Women love me,” Mr Jogi yelps. “I want to have more children. I can survive another few decades and want to have children till I am 100 – then maybe I will stop.”
You pimp daddy Nanu!
Oh, what a life!
Nanu claims to have had his first child way back in 1943. His latest wife 50-year-old Saguri, who has given him seven children, was first married to his eldest son Shiv Lal but he died 10 years ago. Go figure.
“At first I didn’t want to stay here after my husband died. But Nanu promised to look after me and now we have seven children,” Saguri said.
Must be quite a smooth talker, yeah, yeah…
“I have a perfect life – with so many children and grandchildren all around me, it keeps me young.”
The ladies man attributed his long and happy life to long walks, and a good diet of meat of all kinds and a daily dose of camel milk.
“I eat all kinds of meat – rabbits, lamb, chicken and wild animals.”
None of that processed stuff…
But, can we trust the wife?
Well just before we crack open the champagne and light those cigars, some authorities in India are suggesting a paternity test to confirm the news.
“It is rare for someone to have a child at 90. If it is true, it is a matter for detailed study. We should conduct a medical test to determine the paternity,” said a local medical practitioner.
I believe you Nanu! Who would ever doubt your extremely old, yet obviously healthy sperm?
Mover and shaker….
Check out a video of the proud father from OneIndia News here.
Oh what a thing to have done!
Coldplay, one of the most successful commercial bands in history, you either love them or you hate them…
Or do you? Well, most people probably don’t have an opinion.
But one woman from Washington,USA, obviously has an extreme hatred of the band; either that or she was experiencing the worst karaoke singing in history. Probably both.
Male Karaoke Singer: “Look at the stars, look how they shine for you…”
Crazy woman in crowd: “Oh, no, not that song. I can’t stand that song!”
Karaoke man continues: “and everything that you do…yeah, they were all yel-…”
Crazy Woman in crowd: “You suck! “
…Crazy woman gets up on stage, pushes man singing coldplay….
Karaoke Man continues singing: “-ow…I came along.. I wrote a son-”
Bam!
Crazy woman: Takes a round house swing at karaoke man, lands one in the face.
Oh boy…. Where’s Jerry Springer when you need him. Where’s Steve? (Got his own show, that’s what)
“It took three or four of us to hold her down,” a bartender from the Seattle Karaoke bar ‘Changes’, told local media.
“A little hippie girl,” the bartender referred to the woman as.
And when staff escorted the 21-year-old woman outside, things just got worse.
She “went crazy”. Throwing punches left, right and centre at anyone, including an off duty police officer.
When police finally arrived, she went even more crazy, head butting the off duty police officer.
Wow! What a night!
And according to the bartender’s statement to police, she had only bought a single shot of Jagermeister before her crazy rant.
Sounds like someone needs to lay off the Jager, and stay away from karaoke bars, with shit singers in them, which would be every karaoke bar in the known universe….
The Crazy News would like to dedicate this next ballad to our friend, the Crazy “little hippy girl”, from Seattle…. Look how they shine for you….
The Changes Bar website here! only $8.75 for a prime rib dinner on Friday’s, pretty good…
Extremely irrelevant, yet extremely sexy, picture of Gwyneth Paltrow…Cos you were all yellow..
Go on, tell the world!
Yeah baby!
Watch out ladies, err and ah gents, amid all the current stock market turmoil and uncertainty, shares in British condom maker Futura Medical have ballooned to new heights with expectations the company’s new CSD500 condom will revolutionise the male sexual experience, media reports.
How exciting!
“I am delighted by these highly statistically significant study results, which give us confidence that the CSD500 product will gain marketing approval and, once launched, be a commercial success,” the chief executive, James Barder, said.
A statement on the company web site details how the revolutionary condom will work, touting an amazing Viagra like ability to allow for maximum pleasure for both sexual partners. Human trials on 108 healthy couples recently came to a climax.
The new product will “incorporate an erectogenic compound to help men maintain a full erection during intercourse…a pharmacological dose contained within the teat of the condom will be delivered to the penis.
“This will result in increased local blood flow which in turn should lead to improved rigidity, tumescence and duration of an erection.”
The “pharmacological dose” they speak of is a chemical compound called glyceryl trinitrate, otherwise known as nitroglycerin, a chemical most famous for its use in explosives. Yes, explosives.
Talk about more bang for your buck!
It is used in other medical products, primarily for its ability to widen blood vessels.
Shares did a roaring trade after the announcement, skyrocketing 14.5 percent, just shy of a whopping 60 British pounds. Oh behave!
“We expect to get regulatory EU approval later this year and then it is a question of launching the product soon after, so the revenues are really going to hit us in 2008,” the CEO of the company moaned.
Market research had shown that “up to 80 percent of existing condom users would be interested in trying the product and, more importantly, 49 percent of non-condom users would be interested in using it as it will help them maintain an erection.” Yeah, baby!
The amazing new condom will be marketed by SSL International under the Durex brand.
I just can’t wait, till 2008! There’s nothing like increased blood flow, nothing!
Right ladies?
Right!
I’m sure all the man loving ladies of England will be happy with this product, especially if TV comedy Family Guy’s version of high class British porn rings true….
Well done, indeed!
Go on, tell the world!
We scour the planet for crazy news…
And go around it! with….
Holland
“We saw something bobbing about in the sea and we decided to take it out of the water.”
Workers from a drinks stall in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort tell a tall tale about a giant Lego man that washed up on the beach.
You can even buy one of these ridiculously oversized Lego men on eBay right now! Bidding at 80 bucks US.
Germany
“In the countryside we’re used to people going at police with muck spreaders, but this was something else.”
A police spokesman discusses how a crazed farmer used his tractor and a muck spreader to ram and spray squad cars, and eluding capture for seven hours by hiding in the nearby woods, he was finally arrested by an elite police unit.
India
“Sindhudurg has the lowest decadal population growth rate of 4. Our aim is to reduce the decadal population growth rate by at least by 10 by 2010.”
Authoriies in the Indian State of Maharashtra are taking desperate measure to curb massive populating growth, offering a 5000-rupee “honeymoon package” to any couple who delays the birth of their first child by two years, and a 7500-rupee package if they can hold off for three years.
UK
“The noise just went on and on. Not for weeks but for months.”
Neighbours of Diane Duffin from Leeds, England, complain about the inccessant and very loud playing of country and western hits like 9 to 5 and Stand By Your Man at all hours of the day and night. Oh the humanity!
USA
“I know what I did was wrong.”
A Catholic priest from a small town in Colorado confesses to police about the naked late night jogging he had been doing. He had been running nude at a high school track and didn’t think anyone would be around at that time of day, but was apprehended by an off duty officer with no sense of humour.
Columbia
“It was the way he moved, the shape of the hair he was using, all of this prompted suspicions.”
A regional police chief talks about the arrest of a man dressed as a woman, who was posing as the wife of another man in an attempt to allude the authorites. He was wanted for murder and ”planning terrorist acts against the security forces.” ¡Ahora, eso está loco!
And that was yet another crazy edition of, The Crazy News: Quick Quotes…..
I need a breather after that!
Go on, tell the world!
First it was the 7-legged-lamb, and the crazy stories out of New Zealand keep on coming…
It’s the land of the long white cloud, a destination for thrill seekers, a country with a do nothing bird as it’s national symbol, and a land famous for its natural beauty featured in the Lord of The Rings blockbuster movie trilogy. But for all its pluses, well, there sure are a lot of crazy people in New Zealand.
At first, I really did think it was the negative bias I hold towards Kiwis. Given the natural rivalry between my homeland (Australia) and our English speaking neighbour to the south east.
But then, there it is the evidence….
Pat and Sheena Wheaton are the proud parents of a healthy baby boy, who they named……
” 4Real “
Yes that’s right they named their baby boy 4Real.
Yes, I am for real!
However, when they went to register the name with the New Zealand government authorities, they were denied the ability to use the name because it included a digit.
So instead of taking the decision on the chin, getting on with life, and giving their boy a normal name like Michael or Chris or Apple, not Apple, they decided on a name just as ridiculous.
Superman.
Yes, I am being for real.
They want to call their boy Superman, as in look up in the sky, is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s…
And this time, they will be allowed to have the name. Because it doesn’t include a digit.
“It doesn’t make a lot of sense: I can call him Superman but I can’t call him 4Real,” Pat Wheaton told New Zealand media.
But despite the ineligibility of 4Real, the babies’ family will continue to refer to him as 4Real, and let Superman Wheaton be the name displayed on his birth certificate, drivers licence, school bag, etc.
“If we have to register him for the Government or the system or whatever, then we’ll register him as Superman . . . to friends and family he’ll stay 4Real.”
Pat even said that the controversy surrounding his choice of name, which got heavy coverage here on the www, was hard to take.
“I did go online and Google some of the stories and as tough as I am, it does get to you, but there’s no point getting upset.
“It could be a 10-year-old school girl making those comments.”
Well, Mr Weaton I hope your reading, (AND NO I’m not a 10-year-old school girl, although I probably could be.)
Because I would just like to say to you, that…… you’re a dickhead!
In fact, you’re such a dickhead, I’m even awarding you and you’re wife the most stupendous of all awards…
Congratulations Mr and Mrs Weaton…
You’ve earned yourselves
The Crazy News: Tool of the Week.
Well deserved…
If you would like to see the Weatons and 4Real in video form click here. It’s the 3rd video story down.
Be warned, heavy Kiwi accents involved.
If Superman and 4Real don’t do it for you, here are some more ridiculous baby names, courtesy London’s Daily Telegraph.
1. Kal-el Coppola (Son of actor Nicolas Cage)
2. Audio Science (Son of actress Shannyn Sossaman)
3. Bluebell Madonna (Daughter of Singer Geri Halliwell)
4. Daisy Boo (Daughter of chef Jamie Oliver)
5. Pilot Inspektor (Son of actress Beth Riesgraf and actor Jason Lee)
6. Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily (Daughter of television presenter Paula Yates and Singer Michael Hutchence)
7. Dixie Dot (Daughter of television presenter Anna Ryder Richardson)
8. God’Iss Love Stone (Daughter of Singer Lil’Mo)
9. Jermajesty (Son of Singer Jermaine Jackson)
10. Apple (Daughter of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and singer Chris Martin)
Funeral turns into car disaster!
Next up in our Crazy News double of Crazy happenings in the nation of New Zealand…..
This time its the Kiwi police force, and we go to the town of Te Anau.
It all started when the officer parked her police vehicle on the other side of the road and gestured to the funeral director, who was driving the hearse, to pull over. So he did.
But instead of serving and protecting the community, the policeman’s actions caused a car pileup!
“Here we are taking dad to the cemetery and we are all pulled over and there are accidents behind us. It was just like dominoes. People go to a funeral to send off a good mate and a good father and this bloody happens,” said the son of the dead man.
Amazing!
The pileup involved multiple cars, and the policewoman even had to take a number of the mourners back into town.
What is going on New Zealand? What is going on….
And what’s all this stuff about this strange thing called the Haka?
Scary stuff, that is!
When a German fox wondered into a meadow looking for a nice meal, he got a hell of a lot more than he bargained for…
What’s that in the tree you ask?
With a juicy young lamb in his sights, Mr. Fox thought he was home sailing, but one of the rams in the field that day had other ideas.
The aggressive sheep, not interested in having one of the flock’s younger members doing a disappearing act, unexpectedly charged at the stunned fox, and hunter became hunted.
The fox took flight, literally, scuttling up a nearby tree where it remained for quite some time, before making a quick dash back to the den.
They don’t make them as tough as they used to be.
Source: Bild
Old Yellow the Fox…..
Go on, tell the world!
As The Crazy News reported a few months back….
They fell for each other playing online role-playing game World of Warcraft, but society was not ready for their woman on teen love, now the 31-year-old Aussie once caught trying to ‘abduct’ her young lover, says her desire for a 17-year-old boy from North Carolina is undying.
Tamara Broome (pictured below) was arrested for child abduction when she arrived in the United States to wisk the boy, who wanted to escape pressure to join the military, back to Australia. She has spoken publicly for the first time about her ordeal.
Freed, after a plea bargain with US Federal authorities , she says that she would “be crazy” to let her teen lover go and that their online relationship “was so much more than just infatuation.”
The University student and part time supermarket worker from Adelaide, South Australia, spoke to Australia’s Nine Television Network, Australian news media reported:
The pair tried many times to break off the internet relationship, Broome said, but their bond was too strong.
“It was so much more than just infatuation,” she said.
“I do love him dearly.”
During their online affair the pair discussed the possibility of a sexual relationship, as well as the prospect of marriage.
“We did talk about all the legal ramifications of him coming over here and what I’d heard, what was legal here and what was legal there etcetera etcetera, so yeah, it was brought up.”
Broome was freed after she agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
She is forbidden from contacting the victim in any way until he turns 18 on June 9, 2008.
“I’m going to miss him dreadfully over the next couple of months,” Broome said.
She also indicated the pair may seek to restore the relationship once they are allowed.
“I think I’d be crazy to let him go,” she said.
Down Under weirdo…
Meanwhile, all you World of Warcraft fans should be getting excited. The World of Warcraft movie is set to hit cinemas in the near future, and is rumored to have a Water World style budget of around US $100 million.
The film would be released sometime in 2009 and is targeted for a PG-13 rating. The film will be set approximately a year before the start of World of Warcraft, and interweaves the story of various races, lands and a new hero into a two and a half hour feature told from the Alliance perspective, says The Hollywood News.
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Where’s my lasagna biatch!
In the true spirit of Garfield, pet cats in the UK are starting to get the same diseases as their owners, relishing on the lazy 21st century western lifestyle.
“The lifestyle of cats, just like their owners, is changing. They are tending to eat too much, gain weight and take less exercise. Unfortunately, just like people, cats will overeat if they are offered too much tasty food, particularly if they are bored and have little else to do.
“While cats would naturally exercise outside, many cats are now house-bound — perhaps because they live in a flat or because their owners feel that it is too dangerous to let them out — so they have little to do all day but eat, sleep, and gain weight,” said Professor Danielle Gunn-Moore from the University of Edinburgh.
The fattening of the UK population of cats parralels that of the human population and has led to a sharp rise in the cases of diabetes in felines.
Among the breeds, Burmese cats are three times more likely to develop the disease.
Tips for all you cat keepers in having a healthy pet cat include:
Choose a healthy, natural cat food
Lots of foods are full of artificial additives, sugars and cereals and not enough meat. Look for natural dry foods with at least 26 per cent meat and wet foods that have more than 80 per cent meat
Feed the correct amount
Follow the guidelines on the packaging rather than just feeding to your cat’s appetite
Small regular meals
Don’t leave food down all day. Instead, give your cat small regular meals when it is hungry
Avoid titbits and treats
Leftovers tend to be very fatty and treats are usually rich in sugars, so avoid letting your cat snack between meals
Make your cat work for its food
Rather than serve the food openly in a dish, hide it. You can buy specially designed toys in which to hide dry or wet foods, or you can improvise Exercise
Introduce exercise gradually
If you have a fat cat it will need to be eased into it. Cats are not like dogs. There are no set targets and you cannot force them to exercise
Playtime
Rubber balls, a ball of wool or any toy with catnip in it should really get them going. Activity centres with scratching posts and hanging toys are a good way of interesting them in exercise
Walkies
You can buy harnesses to take your cat out for a walk. It is not for every cat, but some will benefit
The RSPCA has a website with advice for animal lovers about how to keep their pets in shape: www.petsgetslim.co.uk .
Source: timesonline.co.uk
Hey, after all that, maybe even you can get in shape just like your pet cat.
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Hello Coppy!
Bad cops, bad cops, what are we gonna do with you…..
Officers who are late, park in the wrong place or commit other minor transgressions will have to wear a large armband that is bright pink and has a Hello Kitty motif with two hearts embroidered on it.
“This is to help build discipline. We should not let small offences go unnoticed,” Police Colonel Pongpat Chayapan told Reuters news agency.
“Guilty officers will be made to wear the armbands in the office for a few days, with instructions not to disclose their offences. Let people guess what they have done,” he said.
The Hello Kitty brand is mainly marketed toward the pre-adolescent female market and the ploy by the Bangkok police department will no doubt smash any notions of masculinity in a force comprised mostly of male police officers.
Yep, doesn’t get much girlier and pink than Hello Kitty, who, according to her website, has a twin sister called Mimmy and loves eating “yummy cookies” and making new friends.
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Bananas!
A 35-year-old Indian man was nabbed by local residence in Kolkata. He initially denied having swallowed the 45,000 rupee necklace, but x-rays showed it was indeed in his stomach.
Police threatened to put Sheikh Mohsin under the knife if he didn’t go along with his new banana diet.
“Mohsin was initially reluctant to eat the bananas, but we told him that doctors would cut him open to recover the chain. He immediately wolfed down the bananas at one go,” said the deputy commissioner of police.
However, the bananas did not work. So police then decided they would cook up a feast for Mohsin, feeding him rice, chicken and bread.
After a long wait, the necklace was finally retrieved.
Hilarious!
Meanwhile, in other crime and banana related news….
Authorities in California, USA, are on the hunt for a bank robber nicknamed The Banana Bandit.
The man has been hitting a number of banks since May, and robbed his tenth on Friday. He earned the name from media because he was casually eating a banana when robbing a bank May 16; he has also been seen eating potato chips in another robbery.
And now, for the crazy adventures of 80’s British cartoon superhero…Banana Man!
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Let’s talk about sex!
“The less sex you have, the more work you seek”, and those who are not getting any action “often take on more commitments and work.”
Or in the words of the studies author, Ragnar Beer of the University of Göttingen:
“Sexual frustration prevents you from being able to reduce your stress”
“One commonly takes on obligations out of sexual frustration that aren’t easy to let go of, like leadership positions in a club, for instance. That takes away from the time spent on the relationship, which again negatively contributes to sexual satisfaction. Unobserved, the frustration often becomes deeply ingrained.”
Beer’s team found that 36 percent of men and 35 percent of women who have sex only once a week take on extra work to compensate for their wanting sex life. It’s even worse for the hapless couples who have altogether lost their eye for one another. Forty-five percent of men and 46 percent of women who no longer have sex with their partner seek out other activities to salve their wanting libidos.
So, you could conclude that the more active participants in an economy getting no or little sex, the more productive that nation’s economy would be.
How could economic policy makers use this information to their advantage?
I blog, you decide.
Meanwhile….
In other studies of sex related news…
A world-wide study on women’s sexual satisfaction has found that Saudi Arabian women were the most sexually fulfilled, followed by Mexican, Spanish, Italian and Venezuelan women.
How nice.
Now, lets talk about sex…
Quick, watch it before Universal records deletes it!
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Ouch!
How embarrasing!
Like something out of a classic Hollywood thriller…
A self portait painting supposedly created in 1886 by legendary artist Vincent van Gogh, purported to be worth Australian $25 million (US $21.5 million), has been proven to be a fake.
The painting called ‘Head of a man’ was bought to Australia by the father of media billionare Rupert Murdoch, Sir Keith Murdoch, and has been with the National Gallery of Victoria collection since just before World War 2.
But when the painting went on a tour to Europe, experts in Amsterdam tested the painting regarded as “offbeat” and an “oddity”, by Van Gogh specialists.
Last year The Sunday Times in London published claims by Van Gogh specialists that the work had been incorrectly attributed.
And today, it was announced that those claims have proven accurate.
The gallery said there would be a “downwards adjustment” in the painting’s value when the Victorian state gallery revalues its collection next year.
Downward adjustment indeed!
Not so stary, stary anymore…..
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The Crazy News: Shot of the Week 
A leg for every day of the week.
When farmer Dave Callaghan was walking the green pastures of his farm near the town of Ashburton on New Zealand’s south island, he got the shock of a lifetime when he realized that one of his little lambs had 3 more legs than usual.
“I have never seen anything like that,” said Dave in a deep Kiwi accent.
Vets believe the lambs condition is a result of an error during embryo formation, which meant he was born a polydactyl – or with many legs, and occurs in one in every few million.
The animal is also a hermaphrodite and missing some of its bowel, and it will have to be put down.
A wee lamb
“To keep it alive is probably inhumane really,” was a vets assesment.
“It’s quite a happy bright wee lamb, he’s just slowly going downhill really,”
Poor fella.
See the original article HERE.
Note: I see now that CNN has picked up this story, I was trying to think of a creative headline for this one for some time, but this takes the cake…
“Lamb with 7 legs faces the chop”
Oh CNN, your so funny….
Speaking of New Zealanders and meat… Have you read the story about Vegans refusing to have sexual relations with meat eaters?
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The Crazy News: Quick Quotes.
UK
“It’s beginning to sink in, we are going on holiday first…and then think about what we are going to do for the rest of our lives.”
A British man tells a news conference about how he won the lottery twice. He thought he had been one of four people to share in 2.4 million pounds, when he realised he had another ticket in his wallet, taking his winnings to nearly a million pounds.
Columbia
“If you get a call telling you to turn off your handset, contact the authorities.”
A local Bogota news program advises viewers after a wave of incidents involving telephone users being duped by criminals who pose as phone operators and instruct users to turn off their handsets just long enough to demand ransom from their families.
Italy
“My son does not respect me, he doesn’t tell me where he’s going in the evenings and returns home late…He is never happy with the food I make and always complains. This can’t go on.”
The Sicilian mother of a (get this) 61-year-old man has cut off his allowance and hauled him to the police station because he stayed out late.
Apparently most Italian men still live at home late into their 30s, enjoying their “mamma’s” cooking, washing and ironing. You learn something new every day!
“He offered special worship at the temple this morning. After the worship, he chopped off his right hand and offered to the temple of Goddess Kali”
23-year-old Hindu man gives his hand the chop.
Finland
“It removes the foil carefully, eats the chocolate and leaves the store with the toy.”
A manager in Helsinki explains how a very naughty squirrel with a sweet tooth has been stealing kinder surprises on a regular basis from his grocery shop.
He’s even named the little devil ‘Kinder-squirrel’.
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In what could be a major breakthrough, scientists from the United States have been able to wake a man from a near vegetative state, and he can now talk to his family, watch TV and chew.
The 38-year-old from Ohio had been in a coma like state for 6 years, after being mugged and bashed, but when neuroscientists from New York and News Jersey used a pacemaker and two electrodes to send impulses into a part of the brain regulating consciousness, the mans quality of life was dramatically improved.
Unable to chew or swallow, the Cleveland patient, who has been identified only as an artist with two brothers, was fed by tube and could communicate solely through slight movements of his eyes and fingers.
Although he still does not initiate conversation, the surgery has allowed him to respond to questions with answers of up to three words. Several weeks ago, he recited the first half of the U.S. oath of allegiance without help.
The patient has also regained some movement in his limbs.
Electrodes were inserted into his thalamus, the region believed to be key in consciousness, to boost its speech and movement signals.
His mother said: “My son, as well as the entire family, had little hope of further recovery. Now he can eat, express himself and let us know if he is in pain.
“He can cry and he can laugh and, most importantly, he can say, ‘Mommy’ and ‘Pop’ and he can say, ‘I love you Mommy’. I still cry every time I see my son but it is tears of joy.”
The story is detailed HERE in the journal of Nature.
See related story on Jan Grzebski who suddenly woke up from a 19 year coma earlier this year.
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You’re all crazy!
Ask yourself this highly philosophical question…
Why do we have sex?
Is it for the procreation of the species? Is it because everyone else is doing it?
Or is it because ‘it feels goooood?
Well someone has taken the time to get to the bottom of this; researchers from the University of Texas and elsewhere in the US have had sex on the brain for quite some time now.
Teams of Psychologists have come up with some new studies on sexual behaviour, finding that the ‘hormone pumping’ young get their freak on for all the same reasons… “I was attracted to the person, ” But when it came to the older demorgaphics they do it ”for all sorts of reasons”.
In a compilation from 237 reasons for sex, answers ranged from “The person smelled nice” to “I wanted to burn calories”, “I wanted to get out of doing something, and “‘I wanted to give someone else an STD”.
How can a woman get a man to take off his clothes? Ask him.
In all the list compiled from questions asked of hundreds of people, which was then given to college aged students, and that study concluded that ’20 of the top 25 reasons given for having sex were the same for men and women.’
Wacky reasons young people had sex included, “someone offered me money to do it,” “I felt sorry for the person,” “I wanted to punish myself” and, “Because of a bet.”
The findings can be found in the August issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior, published by the International Academy of Sex Research.
More interesting reading on this crazy topic from the New York Times.
And won’t someone feel sorry for me….?
Other hilarious reasons for having sex include;
13. I wanted to improve my sexual skills. 34. I was curious about my sexual abilities. 41. The person was a good dancer. . 65. I wanted to relieve ‘‘blue balls.’’ 90. I wanted to gain access to that person’s friend. 110. The person had too much to drink and I was able to take advantage of them. 119. The person was famous and I wanted to be able to say I had sex with him/her. 181. I felt like it was my duty. 7. I was ‘‘horny.’’
See the full ’periodic table of why we have sex’ list HERE!
Or you can read the entire 31 page journal report HERE!
Or just talk about the list, here. Like right here.
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“Harry who?”
In the classic 1999 movie Office Space there is a character named Michael Bolton, a situation with hilarious consequences.
But in real life it sure would suck sharing the same name with someone well known.
Particularly if that someone is a fictional character, a character so popular that you couldn’t escape being asked the same question by almost everyone you met.
It might even be so bad that you might want to consider changing your name, if it wasn’t for the fact that you had your name first, years before a certain wealthy British author was even conceived!
In this case it’s a man sharing the same name as boy wizard Harry Potter.
Each time a new Harry Potter book or movie comes out, Florida resident Harry Potter gets phone calls from children, interview requests from TV networks and autograph requests.
“The kids want to know if I’m Harry Potter,” he said with a chuckle. “I tell them I’ve been Harry Potter for darn near 80 years!”
The real Harry Potter said he has not had time to read any of the J.K. Rowling books or see the hit movies. But the retired U.S. Defense Department employee gets his fun out of Pottermania.
“When Harry talks to the kids, they’ll ask about the owl and he’ll say, ‘Oh, he came by and brought the mail,’” said his wife, Jan. “Then, when they’re done, the mothers come on and say thank you for talking to the kids. He gets a big kick out of it.”
But meeting a real Harry Potter can be a little puzzling for the kids.
“They look at you, give you the once-over,” he said, laughing. “They can’t relate the one in the book to the one they see here. I guess I could buy me a pair of Harry Potter glasses.”
I wonder what he thinks of the petition to save Harry Potter?
Meanwhile, in Harry Potter related crazy news…
A headmistress at a school in England is in big trouble with the pupils.
At a end of school semester assembly 400 children aged under 12 were shocked as Carolyn Banfield took the latest Harry Book, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, and read from the last page.
Parents and kids alike are now outraged, as many had intended to read what is expected to be the last in the series of books to have swept the world.
Louie Swift, nine, said: “I don’t know why she read it. She’s not usually a spoilsport. She didn’t even mention she had the book.
“She just picked it up and started reading it to us.”
Jordan Ashton, ten, complained: “It has spoiled the book for me.”
The parent of an 8-year-old was fuming when she talked to the tabloid.
”He’s read the last three books but there’s no point reading this one now.”
Another mother, who declined to be named, said: “It’s appalling. My son was going to read a book instead of playing on his computer and I was going to have some peace and quiet. “
Those poor kids, they’ll be scared for life!
Oh, the humanity.
No word as to the motivation of reading the final page to the kiddies, but I suspect she had one of two reasons.
1- She wanted to be seen as ‘cool’ by all the kids, which has clearly backfired, in spectacular fashion.
OR
2- She wanted all those kids to have a miserable holiday break, forcing them to go outside and get exercise in the dreaded outdoors.
What an evil woman…..
Sounds like something out of a Harry Potter novel!
Maybe the kids could occupy themselves with the craziness of the Potter Puppet Pals !
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New evidence emerges 10 years after the death of a Princess.
“There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge”
That’s what Queen Elizabeth told Paul Burrell the butler of late Princess Diana of Wales who died 10 years ago this month.
What on earth did that statement mean?
It’s a quote that arose in news reports back in 2002 and it stirred up the already speculative conspiracy theories that have circulated since much of the world mourned one of the most high profile figures in history.
And now, the conspiracy theorists may have fresh meat to add to the speculation that Diana did not die in a tragic accident, but was murdered.
According to the London tabloid, The Daily Express, French fire-fighter Christophe Pelat claims to have evidence linking the Diana car accident in a Paris tunnel in 1997 to a paparazzi photographer who was believed to have been driving the mystery car that collided with Diana’s Mercedes before it crashed.
Pelat claims that he found the burnt body of James Andanson with a gunshot wound to the head. According to the report in the Daily Express, Andanson was an informer to MI6, the UK’s special intelligence agency, and he followed the Princesses “every move” in the day’s before her death.
Diana died along with her lover Dodi Al Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul August 31, 1997.
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Smirk of a killer- Lithuanian native Rolandas Milinavicius dosn’t seem to like pesky employees much at all.
Asking your boss for a pay rise can be a daunting task at best, and it seems especially so for those working in the car dealership industry.
So if you thought your boss was a bit of a psycho, spare a thought for Inga Contreras and Martynas Simokaitis.
Police in Georgia, USA, have charged Rolandas Milinavicius with the murder of his two employees after they questioned him over not being happy about the pay.
He has confessed to shooting the pair.
Milinavicius, who was having financial problems, told police he shot the two Thursday after they kept asking for more pay.
“As I understand, the employees were not really happy about the pay, and they had questioned him about it over the course of time,” a police spokesman said. “That morning he said he just snapped.”
Contreras and Simokaitis were cremated and an informal memorial service was held at Simokaitis’ cousin’s apartment over the weekend. The remains were to be flown to Lithuania on Tuesday.
“It doesn’t make any sense,” the cousin, Jaunius Simokaitis, of Fayetteville, said Monday. “If he was having money problems, these two would have been the ones to help him get out of debt. They would have helped him make that money.”
He was denied bail by a judge.
Video story from local Atlanta News..
Let this be a lesson to us all….
Never work in a car dealership.
Better yet, join a union before you ask for a pay rise.
Even better yet, don’t ask for a payrise at all.
Who needs money right?
Better yet, take some good advice on how to handle workplace politics from our friends at CNN Living: Four co-workers you should befriend.
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Back to school! back to school!
Sounds like somebody still thinks he’s on the racing circuit!
Brazilian Nelson Piquet Snr., famous for his F1 Championship wins in the 1980’s has been forced to go to a driver education course after receiving too many speeding and parking tickets.
“I think we have to pay for our mistakes,” Piquet, 54, told local news agency G1. “It’s not even just a speeding problem. I got tickets for all kinds of reasons, for things like parking where I shouldn’t.”
The man with an addiction to speed has apparently been seen racing round the streets of Brasilia behind the wheel of a number of high-performance machines, including a BMW convertible and a customised roadster fitted out with a Porsche engine.
Piquet will have to spend 30 hours at driving school and pass a written test in order to get his licence back.
Nelson Piquet- The Glory Days.
Sex?
‘Yes please! But not with you carnivores’
Talk about taking the term ‘you are what you eat’ a little too far.
A new phenomenon among vegetarians in New Zealand takes a very extreme stance on that concept, because apparently an exchange of body fluids with meat eaters would violate the philosophies of Veganism.
Annie Potts from Canterbury University in New Zealand has coined the term “Vegansexual” to describe people, “who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.”
In her research she quizzed 157 Kiwis on issues ranging from battery chickens to sexual preferences.
Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.
“It’s a whole new thing – I have not come across it before,” said Potts.
One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: “I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually.”
Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them.
“I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance,” she said.
Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years.
She would not describe herself as vegansexual, but said it would definitely be a preference.
She could understand people not wanting to get too close to non-vegan or non-vegetarians.
“When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals,” she said.
Kidnapped!
Oh oooooh!
Can we fix it?
The Teletubbies and Bob the Builder have been kidnapped!
They were among a number of figures stolen from Irelands National Wax Museum in Dublin recently.
The kidnapping of the wax figures appears to have occurred after or during a rave concert at a nearby warehouse.
Other figures stolen include film villains like Hannibal Lector and Dictators Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin.
They were being stored in the warehouse while a new wax museum home is being sort.
More from the BBC.
The Teletubbies were last spotted enjoying their new found freedom on a crazy! Japanese TV show….
Yeah baby, that’ll hit the spot!
Taking its name from the iPod craze that’s been sweeping the world for the past few years, the ‘gPod’ has the potential to revolutionise society in unimaginable ways.
The gPod is a phallic-shaped vibrator that consists of a handset that can connect to a music player (like your iPod), television or mobile phone and vibrates to the sounds it picks up.
How groovy.
Ichiro Kameda is the brain behind the invention which was showcased at Japans first ever sex toy expo in suburban Tokyo.
“You can use it in many ways, for example hooking it up to your mobile phone… so one of the ideas is that you can use it here in Tokyo when your boyfriend in New York is talking to you on the phone,” Kameda told media.
Kameda said he had spent four years trying to design a product when he hit upon the concept.
When asked on how he came about the idea, Kameda declined an answer.
Nearly 160 companies or groups were exhibiting products and services during the weekend Adult Treasure Expo 2007, including sex toys, sex machines, costumes and videos.
The sex toy is set to retail at ¥25,000 or about US$200 and is marketed by Japanese sex toy company Joymind.
There are some mourmours that Apple may want to legally take on Joymind in court over trademarks to the naughty device.
No word yet as to when it will be avaliable for order. But if I were to take a guess, I’de say it’s going to be the top gift for Christmas 2008.
You think I’m joking?
Think again. Female sex toys are more popular than ever, and growing at a huge rate.
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World’s Biggest Condom?
The Weekend that was…
The mysteries of the ocean, the lust and oddities of the sky feature in this edition of…..
The Crazy News: Quick Quotes.
UK
“We got chatting and it went a bit further. And it was every man’s dream, to be honest.”
Entrepreneur and Virgin boss Richard Branson on his joining of the ‘mile high club’ at the ripe old age of 19.
Indonesia
“It was an enormous fish. It had phosphorescent green eyes and legs. If I had pulled it up during the night, I would have been afraid and I would have thrown it back in.”
Indonesian fisherman Justinus Lahama on his astonishing catch of a rare coelacanth fish. Oceanic scientists want him to reconstruct his lucky haul so they can understand the species that is at least 360 million years old and was once thought to have become extinct with the dinosaurs.
Holland
“This is a playful way of asking for attention to the problem of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV and AIDS.”
The director of Dutch Health Services explains the motivation behind a giant condom shaped hot air balloon drifting lazily across the sky at a music/motor cross festival in Lichtenvoorde.
UK
“It was horrifying. If I’d have known it was a great white at the time I would have panicked.”
A British woman shocked to have caught a Great White Shark on film in British waters. The British media are now in a ‘Jaws frenzy’.
Italy
“The people were offloaded because they failed to comply with safety instructions when the aircraft was taxiing. Two passengers stood up and refused to sit down.”
A spokesperson explains why three Qatari princesses were kicked off a flight from Milan after they refused to sit next to male passengers they did not know.
For the record it wasn’t a Virgin flight….
“I knew that giant condom would come in handy….”
All right, besides high tech vibrators revolutionising the world, what the hell is going on in Japan?!
Someone, or some people, are getting way too happy and or way too crazy!
A few weeks after we reported the mysterious appearance of envelopes containing hundreds of dollars in men’s toilets across Japan, more startling news has reached us about Japan’s weird money mystery.
On Saturday residents in an apartment building in Tokyo have received a total of 1.81 million yen or $US15,210, with unmarked enveloped delivered to 18 letterboxes.
On Wednesday an envelope with one million yen was left in the mailbox of a 31-year-old woman in the western city of Kobe, and that same day, bills worth 960,000 yen were inexplicably seen “falling” in front of a convenience store.
So what the hell is going on in Japan?
Is one sole person responsible for these weird and random acts of ‘charity’?
Or are there various copy cat money givers?
And how do I get free money?
What the hell is going on?
So many questions, so few answers.
It’s Friday, and you know what that means!
Its time for…
The Crazy News Crazy Video of the Week
And no, its not Beyonce falling off stage!
It’s the popular Turkish sport of Camel Wrestling!
Apparenlty it works like this…
Two male camles enter the ring and wrestle in response to a female camel packing heat being lead before them.
There are an estimated 1200 camel wrestlers (or Tulu) in Turkey, bred specially for the competitions.
Camels wrestle with others in their same weight class. Camels have different tricks, and contest organizers match camels with different skills.
Some camels wrestle from the right and some from the left; some trip the other with foot tricks (“çengelci”), and some trap their opponent’s head under their chest and then try to sit (“bağcı”); some push their rivals to make them retreat (“tekçi”).
And its good fun for the crowd too, camels are known to let spray urine and saliva into the first few seats in the more hardcore fights.
Beats a day at the aquarium!
Enjoy!
The Crazy News: Tool of the Week.
If all criminals were like this guy, police forces would probably never really exist.A 30-year-old man decided that he would do a little bit of shop lifting at his local supermarket Thursday. As he was leaving the store he couldn’t help but feel guilty for what he just did.
So instead of turning around and placing his stolen goods back, an act which would surely avoid any problems for thief, police and shop workers alike, the man thought it would be a good idea to pass a note to a shop assistant, and leave the store with stolen goods in hand.
Call the police, I’ve just stolen,” the note read, according to a spokesman for the police in the town of Nienburg.When officers called at his address, the man immediately admitted his crime.
“You don’t come across criminals like this every day,” the spokesman said. “The man wouldn’t say why he tipped us off.”
Congratulations unnamed man originally from Liverpool, England. You’ve received the honour of this week’s Crazy News Tool of the Week. Ahh…Well done. Yes, that’s it.
Just gone.
“I just want to know what the heck they did with the water”
Daisy Valadivia woke up one morning to find that her family’s inflatable pool, hip high, 10 feet in diameter and filled with water, had been stolen from her backyard in the middle of the night.
The weirdest part of all she says, is that there is no evidence at all that the water was poured out, pumped out, evaporated or drunk.
“I’ve never heard of a pool being stolen, let alone one with water in it,” Valdivia said
The story from New Jersey, USA.
The Grim Reaper looks nothing like what we we’re lead to believe.
The Grim Reaper looks like this.
The face of death?
A 2-year-old cat called Oscar has become a medical celebrity after being identifed as a furry harbinger of death.
The cat lives in a third-floor dementia unit in a nursing home in Rhode Island,USA and has displayed an uncanny knack for predicting when patients are going to die by curling up next to them in their final hours.
So far, according to an article in today’s New England Journal of Medicine, he has presided over the deaths of 25 patients at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre.
“His mere presence at the bedside is viewed by physicians and nursing home staff as an almost absolute indicator of impending death, allowing staff members to adquately notify families,” the Journal reported.
From the New England Journal of Medicine.
Oscar arrives at Room 313. The door is open, and he proceeds inside.
Mrs. K. is resting peacefully in her bed, her breathing steady but shallow. She is surrounded by photographs of her grandchildren and one from her wedding day.
Despite these keepsakes, she is alone. Oscar jumps onto her bed and again sniffs the air. He pauses to consider the situation, and then turns around twice before curling up beside Mrs. K.
One hour passes. Oscar waits. A nurse walks into the room to check on her patient. She pauses to note Oscar’s presence. Concerned, she hurriedly leaves the room and returns to her desk. She grabs Mrs. K.’s chart off the medical-records rack and begins to make phone calls.
Within a half hour the family starts to arrive. Chairs are brought into the room, where the relatives begin their vigil
See the full journal article here.
Around the World with…
The Crazy News: Quick Quotes!
United Kingdom
“I have been in the nightclub business for 20 years and this is an all-time record.”
A barman discusses the US $210,000 (£105,800) drinks bill racked up by a mystery ‘Middle Eastern businessman’ at a London nightclub on the weekend. About 30 people partied from midnight on drinks like Dom Perignon and Belvedere Vodka.
Australia
“I can’t believe I’ll see my little fellow again.”
A dog owner expresses her relief that her lost pet had been found, 3000 (1 900miles) kilometres from home. Rusty disappeared in May from a town just outside of Sydney, and was found roaming the streets of Darwin, in Australia’s tropical north.
Germany
“The replica I created is 15 feet high and it took me 56 hours in seven days to complete it.”
Indian sculpture artist Sudarsan Patnaik talks about his sand replica of the Taj Mahal at the Berlin International Sand Sculpture Championships.
Columbia
“Here the cats play with the rats instead of attacking them.”
Veterinarian Luisa Mendez on how rats are being locked in caged with cats as part of training for a landmine detection program. Colombia is home to the world’s largest number of land mine victims. Last year, there were 1,108 victims.
The Crazy News: Only in America
So many weird and wacky stories come out of the US every day, but this is the craziest of them so far.
A political fundraiser in the US state of New Hampshire aims to promote gun ownership in America by letting supporters fire powerful military-style weapons — from Uzi submachine guns to M-16 rifles.
The Manchester Republican Committee is inviting party members and their families to a “Machine Gun Shoot” where, for $25, supporters can spend a day trying out automatic weapons, said organizer Jerry Thibodeau.
“It’s a fun day. It’s a family day,” said Thibodeau of the August 5 event. “It’s quite exciting.”
A family fun day of gun shooting madness! Good fun for young and old.
I mean, young children with automatic weapons designed to kill on mass, what harm could it do?
Now excuse me while I go throw up…
And now for some more family entertainment, Playboy models with automatic machine guns.
I don’t know if that European heat wave is affecting parts of Scandinavia, but it sounds like the 4th in line to the Norwegian throne is going a little bit….crazy.
Princess Martha Louise of Norway has claimed that she is a clairvoyant, saying that she realised as a child that she could read people’s inner feelings, and that she owes her ability to make contact with angels to her experiences with horses.
“It was while I was taking care of the horses that I got in contact with the angels,” she says.
“I have lately understood the value of this important gift and I wish to share it with other people, maybe with you.”
The 35-year-old Princess – the daughter of King Harald and Queen Sonja, is a trained physical therapist – and made the claims on a web site for her alternative education centre.
The Norwegian Royal Palace confirmed that the Web site accurately reflected the Princess’s views, but declined further comment.
Sounds like somebody has been spending way too much time in the Royal Palace.
6th sense or publicity stunt?
A Canadian health club is attracting huge interest after opening up a workout station dedicated to the world-wide exercise-gaming phenomenon, the Nintendo Wii.
Trendy Studeo 55 in Vancouver has incorporated the system in its workout circuit and users can punch, run and jump with the system’s movement-sensitive controller
“It’s pleasing to see people play video games who would have never played video games before.” Farjad Iravani, marketing manager for Nintendo Canada, told media.
He estimates that one session of Wii boxing, tennis or bowling equates to going for a brisk walk and can burn between 75 to 125 calories.
Since the Wii was released late last year, various studies have highlighted its ability to improve fitness and even lead to weight loss by getting armchair athletes moving.
A study conducted by researchers at the Liverpool John Moores University in England found that regular use of the console could burn up to 1,830 calories a per week — the equivalent to almost four Big Macs.
Nintendo is also currently developing Wii Fit, a 2008 video game with an array of activities, from yoga to aerobics.
Could Nintendo have come up with a much needed solution to the obesity epidemic sweeping the western world?
Only time will tell.
Wiiiiii……!
Haahahahahahahahahha!
I sure hope they come in peace!
For about half an hour on Saturday night a very strange sight occurred in the skies over the English town of Stratford-Upon-Avon, the birth place of William Shakespeare.
People poured onto the streets from pubs, restaurants and houses. Cars driving through the streets pulled over or slowed to a snail pace, as hundreds looked up into the starless night to witness what some observers said was the most extraordinary thing they had ever seen.
What the? The scene from southern England.
The Daily Mail reports:
Hotel Chef Kern Griffiths, 26, said: “I saw five lights, we all thought they were hot air balloons at first because the glowing spheres looked like a burst of flames. But I couldn’t see any outline of the balloon itself and they were travelling far too fast.
“Suddenly someone shouted ‘look’ and there were these bright dots fizzing across the sky.
“It was weird, they way they moved did look alien. Some people reckon they’re fireworks but they were lit up in the sky for far too long, the local rugby club say they were lanterns that blew loose over the weekend but these objects were far too fast and too high up.
“They were unlike any aircraft I’ve seen. It’s a mystery.”
The British paper quoted a UK military spokesperson who said the phenomena had nothing to do with government activity and that it was not the Ministry of Defence’s role to investigate the sightings.
“The MoD does not have any expertise or role in respect of UFOs or flying saucer matters or to the question of the existence of extra terrestrial life forms, about which we remain totally open minded.”
CLICK: Video of the England UFO
Meanwhile Chinese newspaper The Shainghai Daily reported that a audio tape recording of a civilian pilot witnessing a UFO in 1991 had been released.
The recording has been kept by Wu Jialu, former senior engineer with the Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute. He said equipment needed to analyze the report wasn’t available until now.
The following is a transcript of the conversation.
Airport dispatcher (A): 3603, what did you see?
3603: I took off, flying about seven sea miles (13 kilometers) at the Course 28 degrees. I found an unidentified flying object right at my front. It was three meters to five meters in length. It’s red and it looks like it is spraying fire. It’s flying to the northeast. I turned slightly to the north and the object was farther and farther from my plane. It’s moving fast and suddenly it turned around.
I flew about 20 sea miles (37 kilometers). It is moving southeast. It’s flying lower and lower. I turned a little to the west. It turned around suddenly to the north again. It turned black.
It separated into two, one ball on the upper side and one cube below it. The two objects flew northeast for a while and then they turned to the northwest. They climbed up and disappeared. They came out, and disappeared again.
A: I got it.
The truth is out there people!
A discussion on the UFO phenomenon sweeping the world since 1947 on CNN (Larry King Live)
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Around the World on Wednesday with;
The Crazy News: Quick Quotes!
USA
“Good thing I seen it. I got it all the way up to my mouth, I felt the fur, I brought it back down and just looked at it and threw it behind my back.”
Jack Hines, a 66-year-old former laborer from rural Montana, USA on his finding of a deep-fried mouse in his bag of barbecue potato chips.
Hungary
“Do you agree that the Parliament of the Republic of Hungary should make a law about introducing the siesta?”
That’s the question 8 million Hungarians will be faced with if a referendum on whether or not there should be a national siesta law. Vote should take place in 2008 if 200,000 signatures are collected.
USA
“Although adidas makes some shoes using kangaroo leather, a common practice in our industry, adidas does not make shoes from any endangered or threatened kangaroo species.”
Spokesperson for sports product Adidas responds after a California’s Supreme Court rules that the company could not sell shoes made from kangaroo leather in the US State.
Germany
“The pair were loudly engaged in ensuring the continuity of their species”
A German Police officer discusses the discovery of two horney hedgehogs making a disturbing amount of noise in the front garden of a house.
The Crazy News: Celeb Goss
Drink driving is fun!
Looks like America’s number 2 most famous for being famous/movie starlet/singer etc has not been listening to her good pal Paris Hilton’s warning”to be responsible and have a designated driver!”
21-year-old Hollywood wild child Lindsay Lohan was arrested just hours ago by Los Angles police on suspicion of drunken driving and cocaine possession, days after she completed a 45-day rehabilitation program.
Police said they had received a report of a car chase and that Lohan and two companions were in the pursuing vehicle.
She was taken into custody after failing a field sobriety test. A subsequent search yielded some cocaine in her pocket, police said.
Lohan was booked on suspicion of drunken driving, cocaine possession and driving on a suspended license. She was held in the Santa Monica jail.
Lohan was released on $25,000 bail. According to police, she will be arraigned on Aug. 23.
The actress recently spent more than a month at Promises rehabilitation facility in Malibu and she’s already facing a drunken driving charge in Beverly Hills.
Lohan agreed to wear an alcohol-detecting anklet upon her release from the Promises treatment center in Malibu, but it was unclear if that played a role in the traffic stop.
The latest news is sure to do wonders for her world-wide celebrity profile. Just look how much attention Paris got!
You go sister!
The Crazy News: Shot of the Week
Yeah baby, she’s got it!
Well, well, well…What’s all this then?
German media are reporting on some very unusual activity occurring in the German town of Doemitz.
A 30-something naked blonde woman, as pictured above, was snapped on a digital camera by a stunned local as she left a petrol station convenience store wearing nothing but golden stilettos and a bracelet.
Nothing else….
And as you can see, she appears to be tattooed. Do tattoos count as clothing?
NO!
Or is she wearing some kind of body paint/body stocking? Either way, she’s looking mighty hot, on what was a mighty hot day in continental Europe.
The mystery blonde bought 6 packets of cigarettes from petrol station employee Ines Swoboda late on the sweltering Sunday afternoon and then returned to a waiting Ferrari F430, before zooming off.
“I wasn’t surprised because she’s come in naked before — she’s a very nice woman,” Swoboda said, adding none of the other customers were bothered.
Although some of the males in the store at the time were seen mysteriously despairing into the toilets afterwards, must have drunk too much beer on Saturday night…
Whatever the case, this naked blonde sure likes showing off her skin and those lovely tattoos, or whatever that is (help me out here).
Whatever the facts, it sure does look like she might have gained a hell of a lot more attention than she bargained for.
The Crazy News will keep you updated on any further naked developments…
Hot in Europe! Literally…
Meanwhile in Serbia, three tourists were arrested for cycling in the nude in a bid to beat the sweltering and deadly heat wave sweeping parts of the European continent.
Surprise, surprise one of the three nudes was a German, the other two Austrian.
All three men were fined 250 Euros each for disrupting public peace.
They must have thought the World Naked Bike Ride was on. One month too late fellas.
Got Naked Cycling?
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The unlikely hero.
The most famous Chihuahua in the world is probably our friend Paris Hilton’s 3,000 Euro pet/fashion accessory Tinkerbell.
Move over Tinkerbell
But an unlikely hero has emerged to take that most famous Chihuahua spot away.
And it has the hallmarks of an epic battle of David and Goliath proportions.
A puppy Chihuahua named Zoey is being hailed as a hero after taking on an aggravated rattlesnake who threatened a 1-year-old boy in the backyard of a town in Colorado, USA.
Zoey was in her master’s back yard, July 12, in the foothills west of Loveland.
Her master, Monty Long, was sitting on his back patio watching his grandson, Booker West.
The toddler was playing by the birdbath when Zoey darted between him and a rock on the other side. The rattlesnake was on the rock.
“As soon as she went in she yipped and came running back out,” Long said.
The grandfather said he ran over and grabbed the toddler, then took him out of harms way. Then, he said, he grabbed a pipe and took care of the snake.
“It was up in the position to strike again,” Long said.
Zoey still has a one inch scar from the attack.
“Her head was the size of a large grapefruit,” said Denise Long, the boy’s grandmother. “You couldn’t tell where her eyes were… just this little button that you could tell was her nose.”
The vet treated Zoey with antivenin and blood plasma. She has since recovered from the snakebite.
Denise Long said she hated to see her dog get bitten, but she’s glad it was the dog and not her grandson.
So is the toddler’s Mom. “I was terrified,” said Lynsie West. “I used to go out on my 4 Wheeler all the time and I’d see them constantly (snakes), but it never scared me as much as it does now. Oooh, it just gives me the chills.”
Monty Long said after everything settled down and the dog was treated by the vet, he had time to stop and think about what happened, and what almost happened. “That’s when the cold chills went up my neck, for about two hours.”
Long said he’ll be keeping a closer eye on his own back yard from now on.
He said this isn’t the first time there’s been a snakebite on his property.
“About four years ago a rattler bit Cherokee (his painted horse) on the nose.”
The quick thinking Long placed a hose in the horse’s nose before it swelled shut. That action, and another call to the vet, helped save the horse.
The Longs said they understand that snakes are part of the landscape where they live.
They said they’re glad that Zoey lives there too.
“She’s not your typical Chihuahua,” Denise said, “she’s not mean; she’s just a sweet little dog.”
Yipes!
One brave little puppy dog…
Oh yes, the joys of alcohol consumption.
On the Australian mainland, jokes about our Tasmanian cousins are regularly the ‘butt’ of many jokes, but this story is just plain ridiculous.
A man from Tasmania, Australia has been given a 6 month jail sentence after he rammed a pool cue up his freinds rectum with such force it snapped off, leaving 31 centemters stuck inside his bowel.
A local court was told that 21 year old Matthew Triffett had drunk alcohol at various locations around the Tasmanian capital Hobart, to celebrate the birthday of one of two friends with him at the time.
The Judge in the case said the trio ended up at the Village Green Tavern, east of Hobart, where the complainant crashed to the floor with his buttocks exposed while his friend ran around the pub in the nude.
He said Triffett had used considerable force to thrust the cue into the man’s anus, including lateral force, because it snapped in two.
“What he (Triffett) did excites disgust and horror,” Justice Crawford said.
He said Triffett thought it was a big joke until the full extent of what he had done was revealed.
In crippling pain, the complainant went home and removed the cue from his rectum.
Unable to tolerate the agony any longer, he went to Royal Hobart Hospital three days later and underwent immediate surgery for a perforated colon.
His body waste had been emptying into his body cavity, which could have killed him, Justice Crawford said.
The injured man was discharged from hospital three weeks later but he had to return later for further surgery to have a colostomy bag removed.
The pain!
Naughty dog!
“She’s eaten lipstick, so lipstick gets all over the carpet, ball point pens all over the carpet, toothpaste, shampoo…she’ll eat a whole box of Kleenex if she can get it.”
Ahh yes, the humble dog.
One of the greatest, most loyal companions in human history. Well, in most cases. Some people choose to eat dogs rather than be their friends, sometimes both.
Pepper Ann is an eight-year-old black Labrador-German shorthair from Wisconsin, USA. And she eats everything she can get her jaw into.
On a trip to her owner’s mother’s house, Pepper Ann decided she would get on into an unguarded purse of a family friend. Poking her nose inside, she was lucky enough to come across $500 in fresh US paper bills.
Bad Doggy!
Pepper Ann’s owner, 50-year-old Debbie Hulleman was then forced to play the waiting game and sort through the naughty dog’s faeces and vomit. Amazingly she managed to recover $700, taping up the dozens of torn pieces and taking them to the bank for a refund.
You go girl!
Just wonder if Pepper Anne’s appetite subsided after chewing down on all those dollar bills. Why would Pepper Anne lose her appetite you ask?
Well, studies of US dollar bills over the years have come up with a surprising amount of evidence to suggest that up to 2/3rds of US paper money in circulation may contain traces of the recreational drug cocaine. Source: Urban Legends Reference.
Not that there would be enough of the stuff on the bills to have an effect, or would there? Apparently, cocaine effects can include loss of appetite. Not that I would know.
Maybe I should ask all round wild child Lindsay Lohan…She’s tanking faster than Enron stock that girl.
Party time!
See the story in video form.
Du’h, yeah boss!
Could this guy be the dumbest man in the world?
He was surrounded by police with guns drawn in the town of Largo, Florida in the US.
Instead of putting his hands on his head and coming out quietly, like everyone else does, he decided a call to emergency hotline 911 was in order.
A 38-year-old man was arrested after he called 911 and told a dispatcher he was surrounded by police officers and needed help, authorities said.
Police officers met Dana Farrell Shelton after being called to investigate a disturbance at a bar on Sunday but had found no problems and told him to move along.
Shelton, who officers said appeared intoxicated, then called 911 to report he was “surrounded by Largo police,” according to an arrest affidavit.
It was a story that made for very interesting headlines around the world (The Crazy News didn’t report it, it sounded a little suss at the time).
A Chinese TV current affairs program ran a story last week that claimed an unlicensed food vendor in Beijing had been selling stuffed dumplings, using not fresh pork like usual but old cardboard with pork flavouring, and selling the food to unsuspecting locals.
But today authorities in the Chinese capitol have detained the China Central TV reporter behind the story, claiming that the journalist story was a fabrication aimed at securing “higher audience ratings”.
The detention of the reporter comes as China experiences a small trading war with countries like the United States, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Panama and Australia.
A series of tainted food and drug scandals that included poison dog food, toothpaste and drugs that resulted in dead pets and humans in the case of Panama.
China even took the shocking step of executing the former head of the countries food and drug regulator after “taking bribes to approve untested medicine”, a very sick stunt by the Chinese government to say the least.
Then again, you can get executed for pretty much anything in China, undertaking more court-ordered executions than the rest of the world combined.
The detention of the reporter really makes you wonder if the fake story about cardboard in food was actually real, or if the detention was just another stunt to assure us that the slogan ‘made in China’ means quality, yeah right.
In any case we’ll probably never know.
Fat the new skinny?
Fashion USA 2015?
Forget your worries about Global Warming, Al Qaeda, Bird Flu, hurricanes, earthquakes and stupid Presidents…
Apparently, America is eating itself to death. Yep, that fat epidemic we all keep hearing about is set to define our era like the plague defined the middle ages.
And just when you thought it was safe to take that next trip to McDonalds, they come out with this!
Scientists and researchers from the Johns Hopkins University have concluded that if Americans keep stacking the pounds on at the current rate of pace, 75% of people in the good old US of A will be overweight in just 8 years time.
That compares to 66% of US adults considered overweight in 2004, says The Daily Mail:
“Obesity is a public health crisis. If the rate of obesity and overweight continues at this pace, by 2015, 75 per cent of adults and nearly 24 per cent of U.S. children and adolescents will be overweight or obese,” Dr. Youfa Wang, who led the study, said in a statement.
They defined adult overweight and obesity using a standard medical definition called body mass index. People with a BMI of 25 or above are considered overweight, while those with BMIs of 30 or above are obese and at serious risk of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.
The report comes as 11 of America’s largest food and beverage companies agreed to take the token step of ‘limiting’ junk food advertising during children’s TV shows.
Meanwhile, in other fat news, Mexican Manuel Uribe Garza, otherwise known as the fattest man in the world, will undergo surgery in Italy, according to ABCnews.com:
Italian surgeon Giancarlo DeBernardinis told Agence France-Presse, “We will hold a meeting in the coming days to work out the details of the hospitalization and to prepare the operating theater and the appropriate surgical tools.”
Uribe drew worldwide attention when he appeared on the Televisa television network in January.For the past five years, Uribe has been bedridden. He keeps a television and a computer he uses to update his Web site near his iron bed.
“People think that I can eat a whole cow, but it’s not just overeating, it’s also a hormonal problem,” Uribe said
Manuel has reportedly weighed in at 1,235 pounds, that’s about 560 kilograms for metric lovers like me.
Good luck to him, I say!
And good eating to you all.
World’s fattest man,
An interview with Guillermo…
Here’s a lovely list of some of the more serious effects obesity can have on human health!
As in most cultures, families in India are very important part of life.
So when I found this article, I thought it was a rather bizarre moment in family disunity.
A family squabble over who should look after an ill relative has left a grandmother dumped in a rotting heap of garbage, The Hindustan Times of India reports:
A local couple, Periaswamy and Mohanasundari, found the semi-paralyzed Chinnammal Palaniappan. She told them she had been living with the family of the youngest of her three daughters, who would quarrel incessantly over who should take care of their infirm mother.
On Saturday night, Sarasa, the daughter, allegedly told her two sons to take their grandmother to a spot from where she could never return. The boys bundled Chinnammal into an autorickshaw and threw her on the dump.
Crazy Solution:
Perhaps someone could invent some sort of Futurama style old people facility.
Just a thought….
Sweden may be ranked number one in The Economist Intelligence Units Index of Democracy (who would have guessed), but now it can lay claim to another big hand waving #1 honour.
75-year-old Swede Sigbritt Lothberg is the owner of “what is believed to be” the fastest residential internet uplink in the world.
She uses technology so fast that it can download a movie in just 2 seconds by allowing the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between.
Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit and Lothberg’s son, Peter, worked together to install the connection.
“We wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed,” he said.
Peter Lothberg, who is a networking expert, said he wanted to demonstrate the new technology while providing a computer link for his mother.
“She’s a brand new Internet user,” Lothberg said by phone from California, where he lives. “She didn’t even have a computer before.”
His mother isn’t exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers.
Så njuta av din långsam så helvete Internet tjänst förloraren!
It seemed like the perfect car crime.
A smartly dressed man in an expensive looking suit strolls into a classy car dealership in Penang, Malaysia.
He’s acting pretty cool, a little too cool. He could almost be Nicolas Cage Gone in 60 Seconds cool, almost.
In fact, by the sounds of it this guy actually thought he was Nicolas Cage in the movie Gone in 60 Seconds. Randall ‘Memphis’ Raines was the character.
He’s soon met on the showroom floor by an unsuspecting saleswoman and soon he has got his eye on a brand new, shiny black Porsche.
Malaysian Newspaper The Star reports:
Flashing a cheque book, a smartly-dressed man coolly asked for the keys to a sports car at a showroom here yesterday.
He got into the RM963,000 Porsche 911 Targa 4, started the engine, and to the horror of the salespersons there, crashed the car through the showroom’s glass pane and drove off at top speed.
But he had not factored in one thing – fuel. The car ran out of petrol just 2km away and police found the car within 30 minutes at Hujung Perusahaan Dua in Prai.
A salesgirl, who declined to be named, said the man, who wore a suit, came into the showroom at about 1.50pm, holding a cheque book as he viewed the car.
“He then asked for the keys to start the engine. Before I knew it, he drove the car through the glass pane and sped off,” she said.
Wow! Almost had it buddy. $280,000 US dollars worth of machine could have been all yours.
But, wait a minute!
The story doesn’t just end there folks.
According to The New Straits Times our car thief was so dam cool, he decided to try again.
When local police found the car ditched, they took it back to the local district headquarters for safe keeping.
But what a shock it would be when it was discovered that the thief had kept the keys, organised himself a canister of petrol, somehow snuck into the police headquarters, and managed to start her up.
He even got the car to the edge of the HQ perimeter, only being spotted as he pulled out onto the roadway.
However, the thief was not second time lucky.
Roadblocks were somehow hastily set up and police believe the thief had himself a case of cold feet.
The 911Targa 4 was quickly recovered and put under lock and key, this time with sufficient security.
Investigators have managed to get their hands on a photo of the tenacious thief, who is still at large.
Amazing!
Crazy Quote:
“Having sex or boosting cars?… Um, oo! Uh. How about having sex WHILE boosting cars?”
Hope you haven’t finished a large meal recently.
Crazy things happen in 2’s.
A day after we found out about that rugby player who discovered his opponents tooth embedded into his forehead, a much more stomach curdling story along similar lines has emerged.
Look away now if you fell squeamish at the mere thought of an infestation of fly larvae INSIDE YOUR HEAD! Oh wait, I just told you right there.
Eeeep!
Yes that’s right.
A man in the United States who had recently been on a trip to the Central American nation of Belize discovered five active bot fly larvae living near the top of his skull, which were living in a 2mm to 3mm-wide pit under his skin.
“I’d put my hand back there and feel them moving. I thought it was blood coursing through my head”
“I could hear them. I actually thought I was going crazy.”
Aaron Dallas from Colorado was initially told that he was suffering from the shingles, but after a continuation of unusual feelings within his head, he went back for a further examination, and his doctor Kimball Spence made the spine shivering discovery.
“It was pretty obvious that something was going on”.
“There was an open pit. You could see a little activity, not necessarily the larvae, but a fluctuation of the fluid in the pit,” Dr Spence told media.
Yipes! watch a man have a South American bot fly removed from his back!
Just imagine having those living in your skull…
Off target
Irony, a word derived from the French language, a word that popped into my head when reading about what happened at a prison in south-east France.
A daring, and arrogant, flying escape from a very tenacious French crook.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp reports:
French criminal jailed for having organised a helicopter-assisted prison break has again escaped from a French prison using a helicopter.
Pascal Payet, 43, escaped from Grasse prison, in south-east France, after a helicopter hijacked by four masked men landed on the roof of the prison, said a source close to the investigation.
The helicopter landed some time later at Brignoles, 38 kilometres north-east of Toulon, on the Mediterranean coast.
Those French dudes sure know how to escaping prison in style.
More detail from expatica.com
Now, just a thought, could it be possibly that Pascal Payet and his gang got the idea from an unlikely source…?
This is a clip from an old Australian TV soap called Prisoner, aired from 1979-1986.
You might want to skip to about half way through, otherwise you’ll have to sit through some really horrible Australian accents the generation of Aussies up from me seems to have acquired.
As you’ll see its really lame stuff, but could this story be a case of art imitating life?
Fun times for all.
And since we’re speaking of prisons and air travel…
It’s been reported that in Colorado, USA, a squad of 25 military paratroopers mistakenly landed inside the perimeter of a state prison in the early hours of the morning.
Prison guards quickly escorted the clearly disorientated troopers off the grounds “without violence”, glad to know.
Apparently the US Air Force is keeping a lid on it, officially saying that they are unaware of any such incident.
Update: The US military finally commented today, CNN reported, but were not generous with the details.
“Those were Special Operations Command forces conducting routine training,” Army Col. Hans Bush, a spokesman for the command at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, said Monday. He declined to identify the units that landed at Fremont Correctional Facility but said the target was Fremont County Airport.
More from The Washington Post
As most people in the Northern Hemisphere fry in the heat, it’s quite the opposite where I am, Down Under way.
Australia’s most highly populated area, the south east where cities like Melbourne and Sydney lie, is experiencing some of the coldest weather on record.
Sydneysiders woke up to their coldest July morning in 21 years.
Meanwhile to the south of Sydney, in the state of Victoria, roads were closed due to freezing and the city of Melbourne was hammered with high winds.
The tooth is where the head is….
For 15 weeks Australian rugby player Ben Czislowski had been wondering why he had been experiencing incessant headaches, an eye infection and constantly feeling lethargic.
With a well overdue trip to the local doctor, Ben discovered that he had been holding the missing tooth from an opposition opponent just above his left eye, after a match played back on April 1, in Queensland State.
He told Australian media:
“We (me and my opponent) had a bit of a head clash and I realised he’d lost some teeth, but I just assumed they were on the ground,” he said.
“I never thought they were lodged in my head. I just got it stitched up and that was about it.”
The 24-year-old says he was shocked when his doctor discovered an infected tooth beneath his skin.
“I probably need his address, I’ve got his tooth at home,” he said.
“It’d probably be the right thing to send it down to him. It was a pretty impressive collision.
“It wasn’t intentional from him and it was just sort of a head clash, and he probably didn’t see it coming. I didn’t see it coming.
“It looked pretty dramatic.”
“It’s a story I can tell for the rest of my life. It will get a bit more exaggerated over the years, but it’s a good laugh.”
Australians are tough people, especially Queenslanders. Steve Irwin was a Queenslander. And Australian rugby players are tough guys, but this is just ridiculous! How did he not realise for 4 months that he had someone else’s tooth lodged into your forehead!
So….
Ben Czislowski, congratulations, you’ve earned yourself the honour of…
The Crazy News Tool of the Week.
Kazakhstan’s favourite son delighted commentators, TV viewers and cyclists alike yesterday during le Tour de France.
Sporting his famous mankini, the world famous Borat was seen running up a steep hill attempting to keep up with the peloton with all his might.
Very Nice!
Update 2:
Well, well. The drama and excitement and general craziness of Le Tour continued yesterday. This time TV news bulletins the world over were carrying pictures of mans best friend being ploughed into by a rider.
What was that French dog doing on the course? We may never know.
Too dam sexy for the bus!
Oh, she’ll stop traffic….
A 20-year-old German woman was threatened to be thrown off the bus she was riding because she was too dam hot.
In particular her cleavage was apparently too much to handle for the distracted driver, who was clearly having a bad day. Poor bloke.
The woman named Debora C told German tabloid Bild that without warning the driver stopped the bus, opened the door, and started shouting at her.
“He opened the door and shouted at me ‘Your cleavage is distracting me every time I look into my mirror and I can’t concentrate on the traffic. If you don’t sit somewhere else, I’m going to have to throw you off the bus.”‘
The German beauty said that she moved to another seat but was left humiliated by the bus driver.
A spokesman for the bus company defended the driver.
“The bus driver is allowed to do that and he did the right thing,” the spokesman said. “A bus driver cannot be distracted because it’s a danger to the safety of all the passengers.”
Here’s the storty: From Bild online. (you need to know German to read it)
Oh, and her is her photo.
Debora C, too sexy for that bus!
I really was expecting something a little skanky. You know, sort of like 2002 Christina Aguilera skanky.
I think that bus driver was just having a really bad day. A really, really bad day.
Hey Mr Bus driver, here’s something that might cheer you up, which ever way you might swing….
This is from band Right Said Fred, a re-launch of their 1992 hit, “I’m Too Sexy”..hit it!
I’m too sexy for my blog!
”Hungry for more than just pizza?”
Sex sells, it’s the old cliché, but its true.
Some smart entrepreneurial moves in western Canada sees every box of pizza coming with a free erotic picture “that would make Larry Flynt blush”.
Porno Pizza in Winnipeg has been doing brisk business since opening last week, titillating the hungry with racy pictures at the bottom of every pizza box.
“They range from softly-lit, lube-on-the-lens pictures like in Playboy, to raunchy, hardcore photos,” owner Corey Wildeman said.
“The image is revealed as you eat the pizza.”
The “ultra erotic” marketing gimmick has attracted “scowls” from some observers, “hooting and hollering” from others and at least one “drive-by flashing” of breasts, he said.
“We live in a society that is so steeped in porn that people have it delivered to the dinner table,” Roz Prober of child advocacy group Beyond Borders lamented in the Winnipeg Free Press.
Indeed, Mr Wildeman, 30, is already in talks with potential partners to open franchises across Canada after selling hundreds of pizzas in one week.
“You’ll never go broke appealing to the lowest common denominator,” he explained.
“Everyone knows – sex sells.”
Wildeman said he came up with the idea for the naughty pizzeria while talking with friends about classic porn flicks in which “pizza delivery guys meet lonely ladies and deliver more than just pizza”.
Unexpectedly, more than 75 per cent of his customers turned out to be women.
Pizza Porn, coming to a pizza box near you. Yum, yum!
Update: I’ve just discovered the web site of this fantastic concept!
Combos include: ‘Missionary Position’ (sounds boring), ‘Mr. Big’ (obviously named after me), and ‘Climax’, which includes every topping.
If your in Canada you have to try it and tell me all about it!
I would if I could!
Oh, yes indeed. How exciting!
It’s not yet official, but a research team visiting the deep jungles of Papua New Guinea believe that an echidna named after British naturalist Sir David Attenborough, thought to no longer exist, is actually still alive, reports the BBC:
The month-long expedition by scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) involved travelling to parts of the mountain range, covered by thick jungle, which had remained unexplored for more than 45 years.
Jonathan Baillie, ZSL’s Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (Edge) programme manager, said: “We hope that Sir David Attenborough will be delighted to hear that his namesake species is still surviving in the wilds of the Papaun jungle.”
The creature had not been recorded since a Dutch botanist collected the only known specimen in the cloud forest of the Cyclops Mountains in 1961.
As a result, it was widely assumed that the shoe box-sized species (Zaglossus attenboroughi) was extinct.
But while the Edge team were in the area, they spoke to local tribespeople who said that they had seen the creature as recently as 2005.
The scientists also discovered “nose pokes”, holes in the ground made by the echidnas as they stuck their long noses into soil to feed.
Yummy rat!
A few days back I wrote about the estimated 2 billion rats that have been plaguing a rural are of China after flooding of the giant Dongting Lake (includes Reuters video).
The unbelievable scene of rats pilled on top of each other and havoc local farmers had many crops ruined.
Well, now it turns out, in the true spirit of China’s new found capitalism that some people have been cashing in on the misfortune.
Live rats are being captured by locals, and trucked into the counties south, where fresh rat seems to be a culinary delight for thousands of wealthy restaurant goers.
Yes, with the new found wealth of many Chinese, it is customary to eat “exotic things” as a way of showing off your riches. And the consumption of rat is the latest in an extravagant eating trend, which also sees the consumption of other interesting creatures such as snakes and owls.
“Recently there have been a lot of rats … Guangzhou people are rich and like to eat exotic things, so business is very good,” the China News Service quoted a vendor as saying.
Some vendors had asked people from a village in Hunan province, near Dongting Lake, to sell them live rats, the Beijing News said today.
“The buyers offered 6 yuan (9c) for a kilo, but as to where they will sell the rats, they would not say,” the newspaper quoted a local resident as saying, adding that villagers had to catch the rats live.
“If we want to do that, there is no problem. We could catch 150 kilos of rats in one night .. .but we will not do this against our conscience,” the villager was quoted as saying.
Some Guangdong restaurants were promoting “rat banquets”, charging 136 yuan ($20.70) for one kg of rat meat, the newspaper said.
Chinese media reported last week that some internet users from Guangdong had offered rat recipes as a way to deal with the problem.
Scientists have also blamed China’s massive Three Gorges Dam project and climate change for the Hunan rodents’ flight to dry land.
Eat up!
Consumerism gone crazy?
Haven’t yet finished the shopping you wanted at Ikea, and the store looks like it’s about to close. Oh no! Guess you better head for the exits…Or do you?
No need to worry folks, you can stay in the store overnight, not a problem.
“It will be like an alternative hostel,” said Frode Ullebust, a company spokesman. “There will be the regular dormitory with lots of beds stacked up together. We will also have a bridal suite, with a round bed and a hanging chandelier, and the luxury suite, where customers can enjoy breakfast in bed.”.
Every night the 30 customers permitted to sleep over will be able to stock up on meatballs, Norwegian salmon and cranberry mousse as Ikea is offering free dinner and breakfast. “The shop opens at 10am so if they are lazy, people might get woken up by shoppers testing out their mattresses,” Ullebust said.
Customers will also be able to take their bedsheets home. “It’s a nice souvenir,” he added. “We will also give them bathrobes with the Ikea Hostel logo on, and some slippers, so they won’t get cold at night.”
Now that’s just plain awesome. How much for the luxury suite I should wonder? Sounds like one hell of an idea for a honeymoon.
The crazy new idea will be tested in two Oslo, Norway warehouses. No word yet on the concept catching on in other parts of the world.
Sure hope it does!
It all begs the question, where did this sleep over Ikea idea come from?
Well, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion it must have been from this recent Aussie comedy sketch…
A newly crowned Bolivian beauty queen was stripped of her title after judges discovered she had worn fake braids during a pageant celebrating Aymara Indian fashions.
Mariela Mollinedo was chosen from 14 contestants Friday night for the title of Cholita Pacena 2007, an annual event that features the elaborate style favoured by La Paz’s Aymara women, known as “cholitas.”
But after the contest ended, judges discovered Mollinedo’s long black braids — an essential part of the cholita look — were extensions.
An absolutely disgraceful act on the behalf of Mariela, totally deserved to be stripped of her title. I mean, how dare she wear hair extensions?! A truly abhorrent act.
“Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic”
Meanwhile, in the home of the modern day beauty pagent
It was announced that Miss New Jersey was allowed to keep her title, despite photos arising that show her acting “not in a ladylike manner.” Oh dear!
See photo’s here! (you’ve likely seen worse)
Sweetheart Amy Polumbo said that she wanted “to thank God for getting me through this.”
Sigh…Life’s tough being beautiful.
A despicable act:
A farm with llamas, lemurs and camels has become to scene of a callous act of animal murder.
Zambi the zebra was shot dead as he grazed on lush green pastures in rural Texas, USA, earlier this month, it was alledged.
Joshua Romano and four friends were swimming in a creek but had to leave because of rain. They spotted the zebra as they were driving down a road near the farm. That’s when Romano pulled out a deer rifle and shot Zambi dead. The animal was worth about US$10,000.
Romano’s friends tried to prevent him from shooting the zebra, and the driver sped up to make the shooting more difficult.
Meanwhile, there was an unrelated incident in the same US state, where another native African mammal decided to have some vengeance on the humans:
A tiger mauled zoo keeper in the Texas city of San Antonio.
The zookeeper, who specializes in large cats, was flown to a hospital and was in critical condition, a hospital spokeswoman said. The keeper was in his 20s.
The male Sumatran tiger was 4 or 5 years…The zoo was closed after the attack
A man went on a crazy rampage though suburbs of Australia’s largest city, Sydney, in the early hours of the morning local time, taking out infastructure and sending police on a wild chase.
John Robert Patterson, 45, allegedly led officers on a 90-minute chase through six suburbs in Sydney’s west as he crashed the privately-owned APC through fences, mobile phone towers, telecommunication relay sheds and an electrical substation.
The man from Dharruk, in Sydney’s west, was arrested after the APC stalled on its way to damaging a seventh property, police said.
He was refused bail in court.
Defence lawyer Ivan Bertoia told the court that Patterson claimed “that certainly he had authority to behave in such a manner”.
In refusing bail, the magistrate recommended that Patterson, who had facial lacerations and a swollen left eye, receive medical and psychiatric attention.
The hearing was adjourned to local court on July 16.
Mobile phone services where the chase occurred were disrupted while technicians waited to gain entry to the crime scenes, police said.
Police on patrol had noticed the APC allegedly being used to destroy an electricity substation and followed the carrier through the suburbs of Mt Druitt, Dharruk, Emerton, Glendenning and Plumpton.
The pursuit ended in Dean Park when the vehicle stalled as it was being driven towards another mobile phone tower, police said.
Police arrested Patterson and charged him with numerous offences including malicious damage, break, enter and steal, predatory driving, possession of a prohibited drug, use of a weapon to avoid apprehension and driving in a dangerous manner.
A farm in England is offering to marry your pets.
The ceremonies, which include a cake and a minister, cost from £100, about US$100.
It is thought to be one of the first services of its kind in the country.
The farm’s owners said they had already booked in seven animal weddings at the venue.
Sarie Goldstraw, who runs the farm, said: “One of the things that I’ve found is that if people are getting married and they both have a dog then if they are all going to have to live together, which includes the dogs.
“We therefore have a service to celebrate those people’s unions and that of the pets also in the home.”
Perhaps these two dogs, making headlines recently, would like to get married?
Wendy the Whippet, the most muscly dog in Canada…
&
Reluctant media star
Sampson the “biggest dog” in Britain?
I wonder what their babies would look like ?
Better yet, I wonder if Tori Spelling (“90210″) will be carrying out the ceremonies?
That’s right, she’s an ordained minister now, apparently…
The actress says she completed the program online and already performed her first wedding ceremony at the bed and breakfast she owns with her husband.
After the ceremony she said it was the scariest thing she’s ever done.
Maybe I should change the blog name to The Scary News!
The Crazy News blog- Random Event of the Week.
So, here’s the scene.
A group of friends and family in Washington D.C, USA, are just finishing a meal consisting of marinated steaks and prawns (shrimp), as we call them Down Under.
The group are now sitting on a back patio discussing life and the universe and such, sipping on fine red wine, making the most of a warm summer’s eve.
Suddenly, out of the darkness, a hooded man bursts in through an open gate and puts the barrel of a handgun to the head of a 14-year-old guest.
What happens next is weird at best…..
Masked Gunman: “Give me your money, or I’ll start shooting”
Dinner Guest: Well “we were just finishing dinner, why don’t you have a glass of wine with us?”
(Now, unmasked gunman takes sip of wine)
Masked Gunman: “Damn, that’s good wine.”
(Masked Gunman looks around at the faces of the group, then takes a bite of Camembert cheese, and another sip of wine)
Masked Gunman continues: “I’m sorry… I think I may have come to the wrong house, can I get a hug?”
One dinner guest, a children’s school worker takes the initiative, giving the now relaxed gunman a nice big warm hug.
Four other guests take their turns at a hug.
Masked Gunman: “That’s really good wine,” taking another sip. “Can we have a group hug?”
The man then walked out, with the crystal wine glass in hand offcourse, filled with Chateau Malescot.
He is yet to be caught.
Read more from The Seattle Times via Washington Post.
It really is nice to know that deep down in side, most criminals just want to be loved.
So next time your dinner party is interrupted by a masked gunman looking for quick cash, offer him some wine and a good hug and maybe everything will turn out all right…. after all, all you need is love
Only in America indeed.
Looks like someone hit the jackpot!
A regular Pizza Hut customer named Becky, and her family, decided to use inheritance dollars to tip a 20-year-old waitress in the United States a ridiculous amount of money because, “She was sweet and bright and cheerful and never complained”.
“It’s unbelievable. It doesn’t happen to people every day,” she said. “I mean, I work at Pizza Hut!”
Jeffrey Lee is one Australian not interested in becoming the world’s next billionare.
As the last living member of an Indigenous Australian clan, he is the custodian to a sacred piece of land near the world famous Kakadu National Park, called Koongarra. A swath of land in Australia’s Northern Territory that French nuclear energy giant Areva would love to mine for pricey uranium.
At a potential Australian $5 billion (US$4.5B) plus windfall, Jeffrey isn’t interested in the temptation of riches; he’s much more interested in preserving this amazing part of the world for the future.
But he may be running of time. He has no partner and doesn’t have any children.
Although the Australian Government has promised the land won’t be mined unless the traditional land owners give the green light, if Lee doesn’t have any children before he dies and the land doesn’t become world heritage listed, then his wishes may be denied.
“I’m not interested in money. I’ve got a job; I can buy tucker; I can go fishing and hunting. That’s all that matters to me.”
Sydney Morning Herald has more on the last of the Djok clan.
Quintuplets baby! That’s five, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!
A 32-year-old Mexican woman has given birth to quintuplets in an extremely rare occurrence of the multiple births without fertility treatment.
The three boys and two girls, each born about one minute apart, were in “stable” condition and doing well, the Mexico City public hospital said yesterday.
The mother had two earlier miscarriages and one prior Caesarean section, medical officials said.
Medical experts estimate the chance of having “natural” identical quintuplets, without fertility treatment, is about one in 55 million.
You’ve got a better chance of winning the lottery!
source- news.com.au
A number of people from around the world have been seriously injured in Day 6 of the annual running of the bulls festival.
Report from San Jose Mercury News:
The pack of six 1,300-pound bulls and six steers—meant to keep the bulls running in a single pack—disintegrated shortly after the animals set off on the dash through the cobblestone streets of Pamplona in the sixth of eight planned runs.
One stray bull turned around and ran the wrong way. Herders with long sticks smacked it in the rump to get the animal pointed in the right direction.
The loose bull charged and tossed several runners—some of them clad in the traditional red-and-white garb of San Fermin—on its way to the bullring.
Several runners were trampled and seven runners were injured by bulls’ horns. One 48-year-old man from Pamplona was gored in the chest and was reported to be in very serious condition. A 23-year-old Mexican was gored in the stomach and was also reported as very serious.
The other runners who were gored were from Poland, Norway, Spain and the United States, with ages ranging from 23 to 50, officials said. They were all reported to be in serious condition.
Crazy Video of day 6:
Ahh yes, a love story to concur all heights.
China’s Bao Xishu, the world’s tallest man, has gotten himself hitched to a woman who only just stands up to his elbow.
Colourful wedding ceremony- Boa is nicknamed Xi Shun or “The Mast”
He had been searching for love for about a decade when he came across sales clerk Xia Shujun, the two had only spent one month together before they decided to get hitched.
Bao Xishu, a herdsman, is a huge celebrity in China, and has travelled to various parts of the world to be greeted with rock-star like crowds. But he isn’t just famous for his height.
Last year authorities in his homeland called him up to achieve something only a superhero could do, using his 1.06 meter long arms to reach into the stomachs of two dolphins who were dieing after they swallowed plastic.
The wedding was attended by hundreds of people and sponsored by more than a dozen companies hoping to cash in on the attention. Those new found capitalist Chinese sure know how to get in on the act.
At 29 Bao’s new wife stands at 1.68 meters (5ft 6) and at 29 is half her husbands age.
Xia said she was madly in love.
“You need to have feelings for someone to be in love. Even if he is a big shot, you can’t love him without feelings,” Xia said.
Mnaaa, makes you all warm and fuzzy inside….
Superhero Bao?
Big Ben indeed!
Video: Bao saves the day in China, Sky News UK, 2006.
Video: International celb, Bao treated like a rockstar in Vienna
See an interesting ”list of famous tall people” from Wikipedia.
Now we all have our troubles with work colleagues throughout our working lives and some people will do absolutely anything to get out of work for various reasons, but this is just ridiculous.
A man has faked his own kidnapping in a truly bizarre attempt to avoid going to work.
The 22-year-old Japanese navy officer was found on Tuesday with his mouth gagged and hands tied in the bushes off a road in Kanagawa prefecture near Tokyo, police said.
He initially said he was assaulted and kidnapped by a robber.
But questioned further by police, who found his story suspicious, he admitted to have made it up, a spokesman said.
The man apparently thought that if he feigned being the victim of a robbery, he could avoid work, where he was having trouble with co-workers. “He said he was getting tired of work as he was caught between his superiors and subordinates,” the police spokesman said.
Apparenlty you’re allowed to be Hitler, but don’t even try being Gay on social networking site Facebook.
It’s been revealed that the popular website – which boasts it has over 30 million members from around the world – does not allow people with the common Anglo Saxon surname Gay to join, assuming it is not a legitimate name.
After a story in New Zealand’s Dominion Post about 30-year-old Rowena Gay, who was denied entry to site because of her last name, smh.com.au undertook a test and found a person with the last name Gay was indeed not allowed to join.
“Please enter a legitimate name,” the website stated during our attempt. And while the website refused Gay, it had no problem allowing us to join with the last name Hitler.
What are you doing Facebook!? I can be Hitler but not Gay? Shame on you Facebook, shame!
What’s going on in Japan?
A mysterious and generous individual has been leaving gifts of 10,000 yen ($US 80) in male toilets across Japan, urging them to “do good deeds and not think of evil”.
So far there are estimates that up to 400 of the gifts have been left across Japan since September.
Each of the gifts is wrapped in a traditional Japanese envelope with a note in traditional calligraphy telling the recipient to use the money for personal development and to only take one envelope.
The generosity came to light because many of the Japanese who have found the envelopes have handed them over to authorities as lost property.
“It’s a strange thing to find,” a security guard said. “I’m surprised it’s not a isolated case.”
A handwriting expert, Hideho Kindaichi, said the money might have been left by a person familiar with Buddhism.
“It might be a bit of an exaggeration but it might be this person is thinking people are having a hard time one way or another.
“Therefore he’s offering this money to help people in this very uncaring society.”
Taryn Southern
The candidates.
US Presidential politcs is like, so hot right now.
First there was “Obama Girl”, a youtube hit from June, and now a former American Idol contestant and actress Taryn Southern, is looking for some cheap exposure; cashing in on election 2008 mania.
“Hot4Hill” is the latest video sweeping the internets, and it’s gotten saucey, with Taryn going for a girl on girl feel, professing her love for the Senator from New York, Hillary Clinton.
The story:
The full ‘Hot4Hill’ video:
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“I’ve got a crush on Obama”
Rats! Wheres’ that dam Pied Piper when you need him!
An estimated 2 billion rats have infested farm crops and villages after flooding in China’s east.
Farmers armed with ferrets and shovels had killed 90 tonnes of rats in the country’s eastern province of Hunan, where 1.6 million hectares (6,200 sq miles) of cropland have been laid to waste by rats fleeing rising flood waters in the giant Dongting Lake.
The rodents, whose island habitats in the lake were submerged by the rising tide from heavy summer rains, migrated in huge numbers to dry land, leaving a trail of destruction in about 20 counties, local farmers and officials told Wednesday’s China Daily.
“It’s like the mopping up by enemy troops in wars. We have nothing left,” 65-year-old farmer Yin Xinjin said.
He’s either crazy or knows how to live life to the fullest.
A 47-year-old man from Oregon, USA, has bravely taken to the skies in his own lawn chair in an act known as Cluster Ballooning- carrying a parachute, snacks and some water as ballast, reports CNN.
Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks — and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons.
With instruments to measure his altitude and speed, a global positioning system device in his pocket, and about four plastic bags holding five gallons of water each to act as ballast — he could turn a spigot, release water and rise — Couch headed into the Oregon sky.
Nearly nine hours later, the 47-year-old gas station owner came back to earth in a farmer’s field near Union, short of Idaho but about 193 miles (310 kilometers) from home.
“When you’re a little kid and you’re holding a helium balloon, it has to cross your mind,” Couch told local journalists.
“When you’re laying in the grass on a summer day, and you see the clouds, you wish you could jump on them,” he said. “This is as close as you can come to jumping on them. It’s just like that.”
He took off at 6:06 a.m. Saturday after kissing his wife, Susan, goodbye and petting his Chihuahua, Isabella. As he made about 25 miles an hour, a three-car caravan filled with friends, family and the dog followed him from below.
Couch said he could hear cattle and children and even passed through clouds.
“It was beautiful — beautiful.”
Couch decided to stop when he was down to a gallon of water and just eight pounds of ballast. Concerned about the rugged terrain outside La Grande, including Hells Canyon, he decided it was time to land.
He popped enough balloons to set the craft down, although he suffered rope burns. But after he jumped out, the wind grabbed his chair, with his video recorder, and the remaining balloons and swept them away. He’s hoping to get them back some day.
See more from local TV news KTVZ.COM
Local news story “Balloon Man”.
Here’s a joke for you.
Three guys and a lady were sitting at a bar talking about their professions.
The first guy says ” I’m a Y.U.P.P.I.E, you know… Young, Urban, Professional, Peaceful, Intelligent, Ecologist.”
The second guy says “I’m a D.I.N.K, you know… Double Income, No Kids.”
The third guy says, ” I’m a R.U.B, you know… Rich, Urban, Biker.”
They turn to the woman and ask her, ” What are you? “
She replies: ” I’m a WIFE, you know…
Wash, Iron, Fuck, Etc.”
Laughter
Didn’t get it? Well, yes it was a little sexist and lame but…
A new study suggests that an individual’s comprehension of humour actual decreases the older you get, well duh’.
The research indicates that because older adults may have greater difficulty with cognitive flexibility, abstract reasoning and short-term memory, they also have greater difficulty with tests of humor comprehension.
Researchers at Washington University tested about 40 healthy adults over age 65 and 40 undergraduate students with exercises in which they had to complete jokes and stories. Participants also had to choose the correct punch line for verbal jokes and select the funny ending to series of cartoon panels.
Test showed that the younger adults did 6 percent better on the verbal jokes and 14 percent better on the comic portion than did older participants.
“There are basic cognitive mechanisms to understanding what’s going on in a joke. Older adults, because they may have deficits in some of those cognitive areas, may have a harder time understanding what a joke is about.”
In June we reported that Hustle Magazine publisher Larry Flynt was on the hunt for a new Washington political sex scandal.
An advertisement in the Washington Post from Flynt was seeking individuals who have had “a sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official”.
And now it appears that Flynt, a Democratic Party sympathiser, has got his meat.
Earlier in the week a Republican US Senator from the state of Louisiana, David Vitter contacted media and apologized for what he said was “a very serious sin” and that he had “asked for and received forgiveness from God and from my wife in confession and marriage counseling.”
Senator Vitter
This was apparently tied to the so called DC Madam scandal that has been rocking the US Capital for some months now, leaving resignations from various US government officials in it’s wake.
DC Madam
Now, Hustler is claiming credit for the outing, saying Vitter confessed after one of it’s journalist reported finding the senator’s number in the escort service’s phone records.
“Larry Flynt’s ongoing investigation into the dirty secrets of prominent elected officials has exposed another hypocrite,” Hustler said.
Some questions remain; will there be more political sex scandals to come? And, was someone payed the US $1million to uncover this latest sex scandal?
CNN has more goss on the juicy political scandal.
Love it?
Or
Hate it?
An Australian researcher claims to have discovered why singers like Barbra Streisand and Barry Manilow; make people (like me) feel either angry and irritated, or happy and uplifted, Australian Broadcasting Corp reports.
Dr Emery Schubert says he had a gut instinct aboeut why some people found some songs schmalzy, while others found the tunes uplifting and inspiring.
But he decided to find out for sure by studying people’s reactions to songs.
“We know, psychologically, that one of the things that makes people like music is simply familiarity,” Dr Schubert said.
“So if you know a piece of music well enough you will start to like it.
“You may well attribute it to the features of the music – something about the melody and the harmony and so forth, but we also do note there’s a psychological effect.
“The other issue that [I was] interested in [was] the emotional effect.
“The new research that’s just come out is identifying a new measure, a new feature. Basically it comes down to this – if you can measure the emotion that a piece of music is trying to convey, and if you rate that by the particular listener, you [can] also measure the emotion that the listener is experiencing as a result of listening, and you take the difference of those two you get what’s called the ‘Differential Affect Gap’.
“The bigger that gap is – so, for example, if the piece of music expresses a lot of emotion but you are left unmoved by it, it’s a big Differential Affect Gap.
“What seems to happen is that when that’s big, people don’t like the music as much. When the two measures are connected, if they’re congruent between the expressed emotion and the felt emotion, people tend to like the piece more.”
The Crazy News Tool of the Week
Talk about unfashionably early.
An expat Welshman flew across the Atlantic from Canada, expecting to attend a wedding, only to find out when he arrived that it wasn’t to occur in 2007 but in 2008, British media reports.
David Best sent friend David Barclay an email at the start of 2007 which mentioned his wedding date of July 6.
Despite receiving no invitation, and thinking it was a bit odd to have a wedding on a Friday, expat teacher Barclay nonetheless booked his flights and jetted the 5600km from Toronto to Cardiff, in Wales.
“I booked my ticket, paid $1175 to fly into Cardiff, got the old suit cleaned, the goatee trimmed, the head shaved – I was going to be the belle of the ball,” Mr Barclay told BBC Radio.
“I called his mum to find his number and then I called him up and I said, ‘When and where is this wedding? It’s in a couple of days and I’d just like to know where I’m going.’
“He said to me, ‘Mate, it’s not this year, it’s next year. 2008 not 2007.”
Only then did a whole list of other strange occurrences start to make any sense.
“I called his mum up and she didn’t mention it at all. I didn’t get an invitation, it was just on an email and I mentioned it to a friend we’re both friends with and he didn’t know what I was talking about,” Mr Barclay said.
“All these things came together and I thought, ‘Oh no, you berk.’ I’m a year early and my mates are loving it, aren’t they?
“At least it has assured me a mention in the speech next year, I reckon. Same time next year – I’ll be there.”
The white mushroom, macrocybe titans, measured a towering 70cm tall, was found near Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, according to the Southern Border University Centre.
El mushroom.
The British Army sounds like fun.
A 22 (going on 12) year-old man has faced court in the UK after he strolled into a military hanger, jumped into the driver’s seat of warrior tank, pushed the on button and destroyed a small car.
Jack Carroll was staying on base in North Yorks with a friend who is in the British Army when he decided it would be a fun idea to take out a parked car and have the whole thing filmed and put on the internet.
The video shows the warrior tank moving slowly toward a small white car, panning across, as it runs it over, completely crushing it. The tank was not damaged in any way.
Prosecutors told the court that “when the vehicle stops the person holding the camera moves to the front of the vehicle and the recording ends with a picture of the driver in the driver’s seat looking out and quite plainly gleeful at what he has just done.”
Outside court the naughty lad’s mother, Tina, said: “It is lucky he was a good intentioned young lad not a terrorist who got in that vehicle I think the Army must bear responsibility too.”
Carroll was given a one year driving ban, 200 hours community service and a small fine.
Sounds like it may have been worth it.
The video (BBC News video)
When not at war, soldiers just love to crush cars for fun.
Just what you pay your taxes for.
When is comes to a woman’s preference for a male partner, most studies have concluded that desirability was influenced by commitment and offcourse earnings potential, but a new study says physical characteristics matter more.
“Women are predisposed to prefer muscularity in men,” said study author David Frederick of UCLA.
The study was published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and suggests muscles in men are akin to elaborate tail feathers in male peacocks: They attract females looking for a virile mate.
Women were more physically attracted to brawny men, especially for a fling. But when it comes to finding a long-term partner, they tend to pick a regular man over a mate with huge biceps.
“On the one hand, it makes them more sexy to women. On the other hand, it makes women more suspicious about their romantic intentions,” Frederick said.
So, want more one night stands men? Then get into that gym and those protein bars.
Or, if you’re looking for a more long term thing, then the gym can wait, too much muscle and those jealous women might think you’re going to betray them.
You really have to admire the crazy lengths the Chinese will go to tackle a problem.
Media reports that a Chinese city is paying people to hand in dead flies in a bid “to push residents to do more for their living environment”.
Xigong, a district of Luoyang in the central province of Henan, paid out more than 1,000 yuan (US$125) for about 2,000 dead flies on July 1, the day it launched the scheme with the aim of encouraging cleanliness in residential areas.
The payment scheme is the first of its kind in Luoyang, a city of 1.55 million people which is striving to earn the title of “state-level hygienic city”.3
China has a history of using unorthodox means to eradicate pests. When Mao Zedong launched the “Four Pests” campaign during the Great Leap Forward in the 1950s, citizens were ordered to kill flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows.
Pest control efforts included banging pots and pans to scare sparrows into flight and have them eventually drop to earth dead from exhaustion.
Kung foo master Shulin (AKA Flyman)
After spending years honing his fly hand catching skills with his lightning fast reflexes, Master Shulin has invented a machine that efficently attracts flies and then deposits them into a clear plastic tank.
It’s like a nightclub for flies,” said Mr Hu. “They just party themselves to death.”
Mr Hu’s factory makes 100,000 ‘Highly Effective Fly Slaying Machines’ a year, that are exported to South Korea.
Mr Hu keeps his victims corpses — all 30 million of them— in a large bag in his office.
Could this be the cutest puppy known to mankind?
A chihuahua has been born in Japan with a large love-heart shaped pattern on it’s fur coat.
The chihuahua was born in May as one of a litter to a breeder.
Owner Emiko Sakurada said it was the first time a puppy with the marks had been born out of a thousand she had bred.
She had no plans to sell the puppy, which has been named “Heart-kun”.
The 12th annual Wife Carrying Championships have been held in rural Finland.
The race commemorates Rosvo-Ronkainen, Finland’s answer to Robin Hood, who made men who wanted to join his gang run through a forest carrying heavy sacks on their backs. In the modern version, contestants race along a 250-metre track, tackling a pool and several hurdles, carrying women, to whom they are not necessarily married, on their backs.
Uusorg, who had Inga Klauson upside down with her legs around his neck, finished in 61.7 seconds – not quite beating the record of 56.9 seconds set by his brother Margo Uusorg last year. The winning couple received plasma televisions and Klauson’s weight – 49 kilograms – in beer.
Good news everyone!
For years imbibers have been told a big night on the drink wipes out entire sections of human brain cell function with much the same destructive equivalent as a napalm bombing strike.
According to Queensland Brain Institute director Professor Perry Bartlett, this is not true.
There is no evidence drinking alcohol leads directly to the death of brain cells, he said.
“Some of the best studies, done in Italy, show a bottle of wine a night can reduce the risk of dementia in old age,” Professor Bartlett said.
In moderation, alcohol has positive benefits for blood vessel health and stroke prevention. And, as an added bonus, new brain cells are generated every day of our lives.
Research by Professor Bartlett and his team has found we all have an inbuilt repair kit replenishing the more than 100 billion cells – or neurons – in our brain.
The new evidence will be presented at a conference in the tropical northern Australian resort city of Cairns.
Speakers at the conference will include distinguished scientists from Oxford, Cambridge and Yale.
So everyone, it’s party time! All the more reason to get into onto the piss, as we say in Australia.
As you may know, the Spanish town of Pamplona is in the middle of it’s world famous running of the bulls festival— a nine day celebration that honors the city’s patron saint, San Fermín.
A few days before the annual festival started a semi-naked ”running of the nudes” protest took place by PETA, demanding an end to the event.
And now a group of feminists are demanding, not the end of the bull running events, but a running of the cows to make the festival more gender equal.
The women are demanding that they get thier own version of the festival made world famous by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.
A local student web site, www.estudiln.net, is demanding “equality for men and women”, arguing that its only logical that women should have their own bull run, despite the fact that women have been allowed to participate in the death defying race for many years.
”Cows, as well as bulls, have four legs and a natural instinct to run,” says their manifesto. “An encierro for cows, would put Pamplona at the vanguard of traditional fiestas with equality for men and women.”
Organizers of the festival, which runs from July 7-14, have not responded to the suggestion.
But, do cows have massive horns on their heads which can be used to spear the flesh of an adrenalin pumped human?
Not that I know of.
But perhaps a running of the cows would result in much less death and injury than a running with the bulls, but less fun offcourse.
Bull Running 2007- Yeeha!
A case of only in America?…
Sleepy Orem town.
A 70-year-old woman from Utah, USA, was thrown in jail after refusing to co-operate with local police who arrived at her home to caution her for, wait for it…… not watering her lawn.
Betty Perry, a retired US military and government worker, says she was visited by a police officer who hit her with handcuffs and cut her nose, after she initially refused to give her name.
“As far as I’m concerned, he really abused me – he brutally abused me, for what?”
The policeman even called for backup to help deal with Betty, who was taken to the local holding cells, fingerprinted and booked.
Betty was greeted at her door last week by an officer from the local Orem police force asking about her scruffy, brown grass in her front yard.
When she said she couldn’t afford to water her lawn the cop started to write her a ticket for violating the city’s nuisance ordinance, which requires residents to keep a maintained, live yard.
“I couldn’t believe what went on, it was so bizarre,” she said. “I wasn’t even prepared for it. Once you’re in handcuffs, you can’t do anything.”
She was only released when police administrators learned about the situation.
The craziest thing I’ve heard all week.
Betty’s castle
Not so happy feet.
A case of mistaken smells…
This weekend German police broke into a darkened flat fearing they would find a dead body after neighbours complained of a nasty smell seeping out onto the staircase.
The shutters of the apartment had been closed for more than a week and the postbox was filled with uncollected mail.
But instead of a corpse police found a tenant with badly smelling feet asleep in bed next to a pile of foul-smelling laundry, police in the southwestern town of Kaiserslautern said today.
Wow, that guy must be one hell of a dirty human being.
A spanish hotel chain recently gave some frustrated individuals the rock star treatment.
The NH Alcala hotel, part of a chain of 335 hotels on three continents, said it decided to forgo hiring professional demolition companies and let selected “highly stressed out” customers start its facelift as a way to generate some headline-making publicity.
“Who hasn’t dreamed, in the middle of a stress attack, of breaking everything around them?” NH hotels said in a statement.
Psychologist Laura Garcia Agustin explained, “After a few blows comes exhaustion and with it the release of pain-relieving endorphins which make us feel much better.”
Those picked for the stress-relieving smash-up will be invited back to admire the hotel’s new interior in September, the chain said.
Witness the carnage!
G’day baby!
Sick of the usual 9-5 working day?
How about a job as a condom tester?
And the only catch is that you need to have regual sex. That couldn’t be so hard, could it?
The Australian arm of British condom company Durex is on the prowl for males to help them test their new range of protection.
Local marketing manager Sam White said any Australian over the age of 18 could apply for one of 200 positions as a condom tester.
Unfortunately the position is not paid, but successful applicants will receive a free $60 selection of Durex products and will be required to provide the company with honest feedback about the products’ performance.
One of the lucky 200 testers will win a $1000 bonus.
Applicants must explain why they would make an expert condom tester, Mr White said.
“With this job on your CV, it really will be a chance to brag to your mates about the special skills you possess, not to mention that your new role will work wonders with the opposite sex,” he said.
“Who wouldn’t want to have a chance with an actual authorised professional?”
“We see this tester position as a great opportunity to get deeper, more penetrating feedback from our customers.”
Anyone interested in the offer can apply online by visiting the Durex Australia website.
This gets me thinking…
I’m an Australian! Maybe I should apply, although I am in need of a sex partner, due to recent lady troubles. (You don’t believe me do you?)
Any takers?
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A GERMAN motorist surprised by euro notes swirling in the air around her car hit the brakes and collected a “substantial amount of money” before turning it over to police, authorities in Worms said.
A police spokesman in the small western town said the 24-year-old woman saw the money flying through the air in her rear view mirror late on Wednesday.
She pulled over and tried to collect all the notes, unsuccessfully.
When police went with her to the scene they could not find any more cash.
A spokesman at Worms city hall said police were withholding details on the exact sum and location of the find in the hope of learning more about the money’s origin.
Yowzers!
Now, this story brings a whole new meaning to the term eye for an eye.
A Hong Kong woman who partly blinded her boyfriends’ eye six years ago has been jailed after poking the other eye with a chopstick.
Po Shiu-fong, 58, accused long-time boyfriend Kwok Wai-ming, 49, of having an affair, and a row quickly erupted.
During the heated arugment, Po stabbed a plastic chopstick into Kwok’s left eye, the same eye she wounded just years earlier.
“Po became hysterical when she saw the wound and mopped it with a towel. The pair then went to bed,” reports said.
“The next morning they had another argument in which she grabbed a chopstick and stabbed Kwok’s right eye.”
Two days later, he sought medical treatment and filed a police report against Po, whom he had dated since 1993.
Apparently he didn’t report the attack six years ago, telling the court his silence was “a love sacrifice.”
“If I forgive her, God would not forgive me,” Kwok was reported as saying. “No matter what, nothing could compensate for the loss of my eye.”
Po was jailed for six months.
As The Crazy News reported last month the dual between Joey Chestnut of the United States and Takeru Kobayashi of Japan was hotting up.
Today the rivalry crescendoed as America celebrated Independence Day with the famous Nathan’s hotdog eating contest in New York.
The American food extraordinaire beat the reigning six time Japanese champion in a thriller, breaking a new record. The nut scoffed down 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes. That’s a rate of one dog every 10.9 seconds.
Kobayashi finished second with an amazing 63 hot dogs consumed, despite the fact that he was suffering from a jaw injury and a pulled wisdom tooth.
Here’s the exciting video:
You really get the feeling that one day someone is going to die pushing the limits of food scoffing….
It is 60 years ago this week since the Roswell Army Air Field released a press statment that said it had recovered a crashed “flying disc” from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, a statement quickly retracted a few hours after.
With a 60th Anniversary festival planned for the town reliant on the UFO tourist dollar, the mystery, which has inspired movies, TV shows and documentaries has deepened, with witness testimony shining light about what happend at the old air base just south of the site of the first ever atomic bomb test.
A sworn affidavit from the deceased 1947 Roswell Army Air Field public relations officer.
News.com.au reports the story:
Last week came an astonishing new twist to the Roswell mystery.
Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the base in 1947 and was the man who issued the original and subsequent press releases after the crash on the orders of the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard.
Haut died last year but left a sworn affidavit to be opened only after his death.
Last week, the text was released and asserts that the weather balloon claim was a cover story and that the real object had been recovered by the military and stored in a hangar.
He described seeing not just the craft, but alien bodies.
He wasn’t the first Roswell witness to talk about alien bodies.
Local undertaker Glenn Dennis had long claimed that he was contacted by authorities at Roswell shortly after the crash and asked to provide a number of child-sized coffins.
When he arrived at the base, he was apparently told by a nurse (who later disappeared) that a UFO had crashed and that small humanoid extraterrestrials had been recovered.
But Haut is the only one of the original participants to claim to have seen alien bodies.
UFO pieces handed around
Haut’s affidavit talks about a high-level meeting he attended with base commander Col William Blanchard and the Commander of the Eighth Army Air Force, General Roger Ramey.
Haut states that at this meeting, pieces of wreckage were handed around for participants to touch, with nobody able to identify the material.
He says the press release was issued because locals were already aware of the crash site, but in fact there had been a second crash site, where more debris from the craft had fallen.
The plan was that an announcement acknowledging the first site, which had been discovered by a farmer, would divert attention from the second and more important location.
The clean-up operation
Haut also spoke about a clean-up operation, where for months afterwards military personnel scoured both crash sites searching for all remaining pieces of debris, removing them and erasing all signs that anything unusual had occurred.
This ties in with claims made by locals that debris collected as souvenirs was seized by the military.
Haut then tells how Colonel Blanchard took him to “Building 84″ – one of the hangars at Roswell – and showed him the craft itself.
He describes a metallic egg-shaped object around 3.6m-4.5m in length and around 1.8m wide.
He said he saw no windows, wings, tail, landing gear or any other feature.
Haug ’saw the alien bodies’
He saw two bodies on the floor, partially covered by a tarpaulin.
They are described in his statement as about 1.2m tall, with disproportionately large heads.
Towards the end of the affidavit, Haut concludes: “I am convinced that what I personally observed was some kind of craft and its crew from outer space”.
What’s particularly interesting about Walter Haut is that in the many interviews he gave before his death, he played down his role and made no such claims.
Had he been seeking publicity, he would surely have spoken about the craft and the bodies.
Did he fear ridicule, or was the affidavit a sort of deathbed confession from someone who had been part of a cover-up, but who had stayed loyal to the end?
The US government came under huge pressure on Roswell in the ’90s.
In July 1994, in response to an inquiry from the General Accounting Office, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force published a report, The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction In The New Mexico Desert.
Weather balloon ‘cover story’
The report concluded that the Roswell incident had been attributable to something called Project Mogul, a top secret project using high-altitude balloons to carry sensor equipment into the upper atmosphere, listening forevidence of Soviet nuclear tests.
The statements concerning a crashed weather balloon had been a cover story, they admitted, but not to hide the truth about extraterrestrials.
A second US Air Force report concluded claims bodies were recovered were generated by people having seen crash test dummies that were dropped from the balloons.
Sceptics, of course, will dismiss the testimony left by Haut.
After all, fascinating though it is, it’s just a story. There’s no proof.
But if nothing else, this latest revelation shows that, 60 years on, this mystery endures.
Wearing a burqa as a clever undercover disguise is the new in thing these days, with the head to toe Islamic garment used as a convenient cover by everyone from European bank robbers to Indian pop stars.
On Tuesday it was reported that a group of armed men in Bosnia stormed into a Sarajevobank bank branch, ordering customers to hand over belongings and emptied out the day’s takings, getting away with around US $40,000.
Last week Indian composer and music star Himesh Reshammiya created an uproar after he visited a 13th century Islamic shrine in the traditional women’s clothing to avoid thongs of fans mobbing him.
Himesh likes it under-cover.
And today it was reported that a radical Islamic Pakistani cleric tried to give security forces the slip after a mosque siege in Islamabad.
A survey taken just days out from the Canadian national day of celebrations, has revealed that 60% of Canadian natives would fail to pass a citizen exam given to new migrants to the country.
However, an “outstanding majority” or 70 percent of newcomers scored a passing grade when administered the same quiz.
The results are “frankly disheartening,” said Rudyard Griffiths of the Dominion Institute.
“Immigrants to Canada have accumulated more knowledge about the workings of the Canadian government, key moments in Canada’s past, and the geography of Canada than the general Canadian public.”
In 1997, only 45 percent of respondents failed an identical test, indicating that Canadians’ knowledge of themselves also appears to be sliding, Mr Griffiths lamented.
To pass the test participants had to correctly answer 12 of 21 questions on Canadian history, politics, culture and geography.
A survey on the work habits of Australian adults has found that 1 in 5 people claim to have had a sexual encounter in the office.
A survey by online job search website linkme.com.au said that about 20% of Aussies have not only been getting intimate at the office but also admit to doing ‘it’ during work hours.
The findings hinted at several possible reasons for Aussies getting so up close and personal with work colleagues, which also found that almost one in four Aussies had met their long term partner at work.
Possible causes of widespread intimacy may stem from people spending more time in the office than ever before, leading to close freindships and socialising.
And colleagues who work in a similar field are likely to share interests and this is an element many people look for in a partner.
The survey found only 13 per cent of Aussies saw romantic relations in the office as unethical and a mere four percent of workers had a no fraternising clause in their contract.
Casual sex Friday?
Sloth of a time.
The Crazy News- Tool of the Week
Some people have all the time in the world.
Regular Homer Simpson, Greg Packer, is claiming his 15 minutes of fame for the second time in New York this week. Or is it the 3rd or 4th or 5th time?
The 43-year-old retired highway maintenance worker (retired? how much do they get paid) started lining up to be the first to purchase the new iPhone from Apple’s flagship store in Manhattan, 101 hours before it goes on sale 6pm Friday US eastern time.
Apple Man
Packer has since been joined by about more than a dozen other iPhone fans and opportunists, who have also chosen to join in on the sit in, braving the concrete enhanced heat of the other famous Big Apple.
Packer says he is relying on food donations and the bathroom facilities at the Apple Store, which is open 24-hours a day.
Sitting is fun.
This isn’t the first time our good friend has made headlines waiting for fancy new products to come on sale; he was one of the first to buy a Playstation 3 when that went on sale last November. Indeed, he even has his own wikipedia page, which says he has appeared in mainstrem media more than 100 times, quoted by various media organisations since the mid 1990’s infact.
And according to US TV news host Keith Olberman, this guy is a bit of a pest. The Associated Press even put out a memo to it’s journalists, warning them not to “indulge him”.
The iphone retails between $US499 for a 4GB memory and $US599 for one with 8.
And guess what! Our iPhone friend even has his own wordpress blog!
He’s looking for someone to donate him a comfy chair for all that sitting he’s been doing. It just goes to show, you don’t need to have much talent to be famous in America, just ask Paris Hitlon.
You also have to wonder, could this be a smart marketing stunt from the Jobs’ Apple team? Maybe you should ask..maybe I should ask. Naaa…
Update: Interview with iPhone Greg and fellow lineruperer David.
It’s a circus out there!
Meanwhile, on Friday, just hours before the iPhone went on sale in New York City, a camera crew doing a live interview had a number of those gathered in and near the line taunting and swearing at them. A bloke even tired to grab the reporter’s microphone, before being hammered to the ground by security/teamsters.
Let’s get it on!
Yeah, baby!
And I thought mules were hilarious creatures.
A steamy sexual encounter between an Italian stallion zebra and a German female horse has resulted in an amazing anomaly of nature. An animal that is half horse and have zebra. And they are calling it a Zorse, of course.
Last year the mother of the zorse was taken from her German safari park home to visit a ranch in Italy, where she was left to roam freely with a number of other zebras, when one, Ullysses took a shine to her.
Now Eclypse is a major attraction at her home safari park at Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, near the German border with Holland.
Hybrids are not easy to create, however. The mating pair’s different number of chromosomes – the “packets” of DNA in each cell – makes a pregnancy hard to achieve.
A horse has 64 chromosomes; the zebra has 44. The zorse that results from cross-breeding will have a number of chromosomes that is somewhere in between.
The zorse can only result where the sire is the zebra.
“The smaller number of chromosomes has to be on the male side,” said Lesley Barwise-Munro, a veterinary surgeon in Alnwick, Northumberland, and a spokeswoman for the British Equine Veterinary Association.
“If it had been the other way around there would have been no pregnancy. It’s how nature works.”
And hybrids were invariably sterile.
In American politics, if your running for office, particularly the Presidency, it appears anything you may or may not have done in the past is fare game. No matter how trivial or serious.
Mitt Romney is a former US State Governor and is now currently seeking the nomination for President from the Republican Party (the one George W. Bush belongs to).
About 25 years ago, on one of his many family road trip holidays, Romney decided it was a good idea to strap the family pet, Seamus, to the car roof for a 12 hour journey from Massachusetts to Canada.
And now, a quater of a century later, animal rights activists are outraged.
Seamus protested in a scatological way, going to the bathroom on the roof of the car.
Animal rights activists said the tale seems a little cruel.
“It is commonsense that any dog who’s under extreme stress might show that stress by losing control of his bowels: that alone should have been sufficient indication that the dog was, basically, being tortured,” Time quoted Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as saying.
Newkirk said it was “a lesson in cruelty that was … wrong for [his children] to witness.”
So, next time you strap your pet dog to the roof of your car for the 12 hour trip, make sure youre not running for President 25 years later, otherwise you might get yourself into trouble.
Lesson learned.
Speaking of PETA.
PETA Pam
A few years ago all the rage in fashion was 70’s and then 80’s inspired looks, and now after more than 9 years since splitting, the quintessential 90’s pop band, The Spice Girls are back. Oh shit!
Yes, Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh and Sporty are set to make a comeback and introduce themselves to a new generation of uber cool 00’s kids, after a press conference in London.
Video from press conference.
The ladies will play 11 live shows in 8 countries around the world to support a greatest hits album which comes out later this year.
The tour dates are as follows:
2007
December 7 – Los Angeles
December 8 – Las Vegas
December 11 – New York City
December 15 – London
December 20 – Cologne
December 23 – Madrid
2008
January 10 – Beijing
January 12 – Hong Kong
January 17 – Sydney
January 20 – Cape Town
January 24 – Buenos Aires
The girls promised to perform all their classic hits during the show.
But they refused a challenge to sing live at the press conference in response to a report that their voices will be digitally enhanced on the tour.
“We don’t need to prove anything,” Mel C said.
The tour will be supported by a documentary which claims it will show the definitive story of the Spice Girls.
Halliwell said: “It’s going to be the most honest story that you’ve ever heard. You get to see the dark side of the Spice Girls, the gritty side, the tears.”
“I like to think our songs are universal and they are timeless. Hopefully, the young’uns will like it too,”Geri Halliwell,the oldest of the group gushed.
They sold more than 55 million records around the world, and even starred in a film, Spice World, after forming in 1994.
Melanie Chrisholm (Sporty Spice)
Spanish King Juan with happy communist Chinese poltician.
King Juan Carlos of Spain will be presented with two cute and furry mammals as he departs a visit to Beijing, Chinese authorties said.
A pair of endangered pandas will be given as a gift of mutual freindship to Spains head of state, who is in China to ‘develope a strategic partnership’.
“It will be a lovely present for the Spanish people, and we hope this pair of pandas, as the friendly envoys of the Chinese people, can help promote mutual relations,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a news conference.
Beijing presented a pair of pandas to the Chinese territory of Hong Kong in 1999 and another pair this year. It has also offered pandas several times to Taiwan, the independently governed island which China considers its own. Taipei has turned down all offers so far.
It is estimated that their is only about 2,000 Giant Pandas left in the world.
If the Chinese keep this up most of those won’t be located in the world’s 4th largest economy.
Testicle for dinner anyone?
What a nut case!
A woman has been jailed after she ripped off her former boyfriend’s testicle with her bare hands. The woman apparently went into a frenzied rage after her ex rejected her advances at the end of a house party in Liverpool, England.
24 year old Amanda Monti pulled off 37 year old Geoffrey Jones’ left testicle and then tried to swallow it, not a misprint. After deciding not to devour the fresh man sack, she spat it out. Then amazingly a friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: “That’s yours.”
Jailed.
Amanda Monti admitted wounding and was jailed for two-and-a-half years by Judge Charles James.
The court heard that Mr Jones had ended his long-term but “open relationship” with Monti towards the end of May 2007.
The pair remained freinds and on 30 May this year she picked him up from a party where they went back to the man’s house for drinks with other friends.
An argument ensued and Mr Jones said there was a struggle between them.
In his statement, Mr Jones said Ms. Monti grabbed his genitals and “pulled hard”.
“That caused my underpants to come off and I found I was completely naked and in excruciating pain.”
The court heard that a friend saw Monti put Mr Jones’s testicle into her mouth and try to swallow it.
She choked and spat it back into her hand before the friend grabbed it and gave it back to Mr Jones. Doctors were unable to re-attach the organ.
In a letter to the court, Monti said she was sorry for what she had done.
She said: “It was never my intention to cause harm to Geoff and the fact that I have caused him injury will live with me forever. I am in no way a violent person.”
The letter added: “I have challenged myself to explain what has happened but still I just cannot remember. This has caused much anguish to me and will do for the rest of my life.”
Very, very disturbing stuff..
Real human testicle. University of Utah.
More fun with balls…
Got milk?
A conservative Polish news magazine Wpropst (you need to know Polish if you click that), has gone soft-core porn and stirred up a fuss ,which as you can see, is a little bit of an eye catcher.
The politics and society magazine chose to take the visual dig at the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, and Poland’s ruling twins Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczynski, after complex pole-itical (yes I know, lame) agreements were made between the countries at a European summit recently.
“Germany used to be Poland’s principal partner in the West,” it said. “Now it has become our prosecutor-in-chief,” the mag wrote.
London newspapers reported that the article argued:
Germany was treating its eastern neighbour neo-colonially and refusing to accept it as a European partner and accused Dr Merkel of humiliating Poland at the summit because she was full of complexes.
A Polish media watchdog said the publication “overstepped the limits of good taste”.
“Dont mention the war!”
During the same summit that prompted the magazine cover, the Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that Polands’ population would be a lot larger if so many had not been killed by the Nazis in World War 2.
Errr, awkward.
How do twins become President and Prime Minister of a country anyway?
Speaking of awkward….
Faulty Towers classic.
For more video, story and trasncript of Hilton CNN interview.
King of talk meets Queen of Celeb on CNN.
The Paris Hilton media circus was in full swing, with serious and soft journalists from around the world descending on Hollywood just to see one woman get out of jail.
Hundreds of photographers, camera and sound operators, reporters, bloggers and general losers bombarded her with questions, camera flashes, and general screaming as she walked a media gauntlet to greet her family in a large SUV outside the jailhouse where she spent the last few weeks.
Hilton stepped to freedom just after 12am local time.
Hilton left the media madness with a major convoy in toe, and TV networks across America went live with an OJ Simpson style news chopper chase as the Hiltons spent about 45 minutes on the road travelling to the Hollywood hills for a stay at the heavily fortified mansion of the Hilton grandparents.
Hilton’s stay cost taxpayers US$1,109.78 a day, more than 10 times the cost of housing inmates in the general population.
Paris will chat to TV talk show host Larry King in an interview sure to be one of CNN’s best rated in history.
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A judge in Colorado, USA, granted a defendent his wish to go to jail after he confesed to breaking into womens homes’ and stealing their underwear.
Prosocuters had recommended that 40 year old Steven Quatkemeyer be put under probation, as several misdemeanors and six other felony counts were dropped in exchange for a guilty plea from the thief. But probation was not enough for the drug addict, so he demanded he be put in the big house.
“I apologize to the families affected from the bottom of my heart,” a weeping Quatkemeyer told the court. “After a couple of weeks of incarceration, I realized what I had done was very wrong.”
After pleading with the Judge to be locked away, Quatkemeyer was then given a sentence of 4 years.
Defense attorney Mark Rue said Quatkemeyer felt he needed the treatment programs offered by the state prison system.
Police arrested Quatkemeyer for stealing hundreds of pairs of lingerie and panties after a victim who had been subjected to repeated break-ins installed video surveillance equipment.
Quatkemeyer said a methamphetamine addiction led him to his clandestine life of stealing, then wearing, women’s underwear.
Police found night vision goggles when they arrested him.
Thats right, he could have got off with probation, but instead he insisted he go in the big house. He got himslef 4 long years in the slamma. If this isn’t the definition of tool, I dont know what is. I trust you enjoyed the pictures.
Paris Hilton has been transferred out of a medical ward at a Los Angeles County jail and returned to the all-women’s facility where she began her sentence for a probation violation more than a week ago, a sheriff’s official said Thursday.
After her brief release last week after just three days behind bars caused an uproar, a judge sent Hilton, 26, back into the jail system, starting at a downtown correctional treatment center where she was to undergo medical and psychiatric exams to determine where she should be held.
The official would not elaborate on where in that facility the heiress was housed. When she began her 45-day sentence on June 3, she was confined to a solitary cell in a special needs unit away from other inmates.
Paris Hilton’s new home from now till the end of her jail term.
Paris was moved around 11 p.m. Wednesday, to the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, the women’s prison where she had started out.
Americas’ sweethearts….
Meanwhile,
According to OK! maganzine, the Paris Hitlon about face we all heard about from Barbara Walters earlier in the week, has got more to do with her finances than any real remorce.
“Paris finally saw that her spoiled brat behavior and repeated attempts to escape her sentence would turn fans against her, ruining lucrative endorsement deals,” OK! reckons.
A source tells OK!: “It’s going to be hard to find an organization that actually wants her.”
And to cap off this Paris bulletin, I only do it because my traffic goes through the roof…the Paris Hitlon Music Video Jail Spoof……
Yes, the fantasitc Paris Hilton spoof video is doing the rounds here on the interweb, if you havn’t seen it yet it well worth a laugh. So ladies and gentlemen, here it is…The ‘Paris Hilton Jail Spoof Music Video’
I just can’t wait for the spoof of the spoof.
“That’s hot”
Shawskank Redemption?
No, not a Hugh Hefner style playhouse, but we can keep dreaming…
Any excuse to post a blog with this picture in it really….
Paris Hilton has gushed over the phone Sunday to dinosaur aged American veteran jounalist Barbara Walters about wanting to “make a difference”.
“I used to act dumb. It was an act. That act is no longer cute. It is not who I am nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me,” Hilton said.
When she is back to freedom (the freedom to be hounded by paparazzi), Paris apparently said she would like to help in the field of breast cancer, which her grandmother battled, or Multiple Sclerosis, which her father’s mother suffered from. She also said she’d like to get toy companies to build a “Paris Hilton playhouse” for sick children.
“I’m not that superficial girl. I haven’t looked in the mirror since I got here.”
Paris called Sunday from the Correctional Treatment Center at Los Angeles County’s “Twin Towers” jail facility where she is serving a 45-day sentence for violating her probation stemming from a drunk driving charge last year, as if you didnt know that alreaddy right?
Kathy and Rick Hilton with a poster of their daughter, Paris Whitney Hilton.
Walters said she was talking to Hilton’s mother, Kathy Hilton, at 3 p.m. LA time Sunday when Paris called her mom on another line. Paris Hilton said she wanted to talk to Walters herself, so she did.
“She sounded, first of all, tired but totally aware of what she was saying,” Walter said on the ABC TV daytime chat show, “The View.”
“I’m hanging in there but I feel as if I’m a different person,” Hilton told Walters. “I’ve dropped my appeal. I do not want to cause any more problems.”
“I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. I have been thinking that I want to do different things when I am out of here. I have become much more spiritual.
While inside Hilton said that she had been reading newspapers, including the LA Times and Wall Street Journal as well as books, including “The Secret,” “The Power of Now” and even the Bible.
So, do I belive that all this turning of a new leaf stuff for Paris is for real?…Not really…
And Hollywood image-makers agree with me.
Based on the way the story has been playing out, this is a good move for her,” said Michael Levine, who has served as publicist for dozens of celebrities, including law brushing veteran Michael Jackson, love her or hater her Barbara Streisand and tough guy Bill O’Reilly. “Experience has taught me that celebrities respect wisdom but obey pain. What I mean by that is that when they feel the heat they see the light.”
“When you’re in a hole, it’s generally a good idea to stop digging … from doing the same idiotic stuff that got you in trouble in the first place…I think that the public this time is disgusted with her and probably asking themselves why they even bother,” he said.
“So she’s on the brink of becoming a caricature or a person. The next step is hopefully to reveal by her words and actions that she has taken responsibility for being an adult.”
So is Paris Hilton going to be a changed woman after her prison stay? Or is this all just apart of her ‘image managment’?, only time will tell.
Walters talks about the interview.
”That’s hot”
How will she ever shake this video?
In Thailand two ace sniffer dogs who were once street mutts ran riot at an airport and have been fired. The dogs often urinated on peoples luggage and even sexually harassed female passengers.
The devilish pair, Mok and Lai, were pulled off the streets under a program initiated by King Bhumibol Adulyadej to turn strays into police dogs.
The naughty dogs who worked at northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai airport, near the border with Laos and Myanmar, were guns at sniffing out drugs, however so many passengers complained about their outrageous attitude that authorites had no choice but to have the dogs fired.
“He liked to pee on luggage while searching for drugs inside,” Mok’s former handler, Police Lieutenant Colonel Jakapop Kamhon, said. “He also liked to hold on to women’s legs.”
“Both were just as good as foreign dogs trained for use in drug missions,” he added. “But they were stray dogs, so their manners were worse than those of foreign breeds.”
Apparenlty Mok and Lai now work on a farm, herding chickens and pigs.
A group of Italian senators want ice cream in their cafeteria to “improve the quality of life” in the Senate, astonishing observers as Italy’s political class faces a growing backlash over its handsome pay and perks.
In a letter to the Senate building’s administrators, Italian senators Rocco Buttiglione and Albertina Soliani said serving “gelato” could be considered serving the needs of people’s daily life.
“The cafeteria is not supplied with ice cream,” said the letter, published by Italian newspapers on Friday. “We think it would be useful if it were and we are certain that it can be interpreted as the desire of many.”
This is not the first gastronomic request by Italy’s senators either, La Repubblica newspaper said.
They had previously asked for — and succeeded in getting — regional specialties on the menu such as meat of white buffalo, and also partook in a wine sommelier course in March.
Not all senators were not impressed with the latest request.
“At a time in which there is an emergency in public spending, requests of this type can only further deteriorate the image of government representatives,” Del Pennino said.
“I myself like gelato a lot, but I leave the Senate building and buy it in Piazza Navona.”
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Paris Hilton may still yet be screwed around….
A Los Angeles judge has ordered Paris Hilton to appear in court in person today. It was initially understood that she was allowed to phone in, however, the judge ordered her to be physically in court, which will determine whether she should be returned to jail.
The West Hollywood mansion.
As you probably know by know, Ms Hilton has been allowed to leave jail after only serving 3 measly days of a 45 day term. She is now confined to her mansion in West Hollywood. Hilton was given an electronic tag and ordered to remain under house arrest for the remainder of her sentence.
The court apperance was prompted after L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo demanded an explanation as to why the Sheriff’s Department allowed Paris to get out of jail when the judge had expressly ordered her to serve out her entire sentence.
Video: Exclusive video outside the West Hollywood mansion where the media frenzy continues. It is also safe to asume that there will be a massive media scrum at the court where Paris will attend very soon.
“The decision whether or not Ms Hilton should be released early and placed on electronic monitoring should be made by Judge [Michael] Sauer, and not the Sheriff’s Department”-
At the time of Hilton’s release, Steve Whitmore, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said: “After extensive consultation with medical personnel, it was decided this reassignment should be done.”
No details of the medical problem could be given for “privacy reasons”, he said, but insisted she had received no special treatment.
Sick or special treatment?
Civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton condemned the release as showing the “double standards” of the US legal system.
“This early release gives all of the appearances of economic and racial favouritism that is constantly cited by poor people and people of colour,” he said. “There are any number of cases of people who handle being incarcerated badly and even have health conditions that are not released.”
Early release is “unusual”
Assistant City Atty. Dan Jefferies said that the reason given for Hilton’s release made the case unusual and raised questions about special treatment. He said that releasing inmates due to overcrowding was common but said in his 25 years as a prosecutor, he could remember only two or three instances when people were let go early for medical reasons. In each case,he said, the individuals were extremely ill.
Delgadillo, his boss, agreed: “Los Angeles County jail medical facilities are well-equipped to deal with medical situations involving inmates.”
He added that if Hilton’s “medical condition truly warranted a change in her circumstances” her attorney “should have filed an emergency application with the court and provided my office with the opportunity to respond.”
This aintn over yet folks!
El Mug.
I’ll do anything to get out?
A Chinese couple now in their 80’s have such a bad relationship they can only communicate with terse notes, despite the fact that they still live in the same house as one another.
Mr Toa and Mrs Yang married back in 1954 after falling in love, but soon Mrs Yang said she discovered that Mr Yang had ”too many faults”, and as time went on their relationship deterorated signifantly.
Her husband, Mr Tao, said things got particularly bad in 1989, a time when the couple would start arguing after just a few words with each other.
The old couple have now taken themselves to court, with Mrs Yang demanding that her husband give her an allowance so she can enjoy greater independence from him. Mrs Yang, 80, has never worked and so has no income of her own.
She told the court that if she wants something she leaves her husband a note saying such things as “no toothpaste”, which he then buys.
Mrs Yang, who arrived at court separately from her husband, is demanding he give her a 450 yuan ($59) monthly allowance out of his 1,000 ($130) pension.
The court, in Beijing’s Chaoyang District, is due to make a ruling next week.
Not Mr Tao and Mrs Yang.
The Yangs have never divorced due to the notion being socially unacceptable and taboo among the older Chinese generation.
A man has cut off his own leg with a pocket knife after being trapped under a fallen tree.
66-year-old Al Hill was alone in the California woods cutting down trees when one apparently fell his way, pinning him for almost 12 hours before he made the drastic decision to part ways with his leg.
“He had a cell phone that couldn’t get out and he started cutting his own leg off,” said longtime friend Cathy Morgan.
Hill had nearly severed his leg by the time a prospector looking for gold nearby heard his cries for help.
“He was in a position where he could not move four inches. I mean he was stuck,” said the Gold digger.
The prospector and another man were able to use Hill’s chainsaw to remove the tree. A medical helicopter flew Hill to a nearby medcial center where doctors completed the amputation below the left knee.
A hospital spokeswoman said Hill was in serious condition on Wednesday, and that he was declining interviews.
News of Hill’s ordeal has captivated the tiny isolated town of Iowa Hill about 100 kilometres north-east of the California capital, Sacramento, where there is no electricity and few services for its 150 or so residents.
“Everybody has just kind of pulled together,” The town’s volenteer fire chief told media. “Anything he needs, we’ll be there for him.”
Residents described Hill as a private man, serious and reserved but well-respected. He is a remnant of the sawmill industry that once dominated their town.
The story is reminicent of a May 2003 incident when 27-year-old Aron Ralston used a pocket knife to amputate his own arm below the elbow in a desperate bid to free himself after being trapped for five days under an 360-kilogram boulder in a national park in Utah.
But Aron Ralston was trapped for 5 long, hard days. This Al Hill fella was only trapped for about 12 hours. Was this a drastic measure, what would you do if you were pinned and had the chance to get out by cutting yourself free? Would you cut or wait?
The worlds richest supermodel (she raked in US$33 million in 2006 according to Forbes Magazine) , Gisele Bundchen, has thrown herself into the birth control and sexual behavior debate, telling reporters that Church opposition to condom use was ridiculous and women should have the right to choose on abortion.
Bundchen, who is the face of over 20 brands worldwide, said that when the Church made its laws centuries ago, women were expected to be virgins.
“Today no one is a virgin when they get married … show me someone who’s a virgin!”
Asked about abortion, she said a woman should have the right to choose what is best for her.“If she thinks she doesn’t have the money or the emotional condition to raise a child, why should she give birth?”
Gisele, who has also appeared in Hollywood movies ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and ‘Taxi, also expressed her opposition to the Vatican’s views on ‘fidelity and abstinence’ in combating the spread of STD’s such as AIDS. “It’s ridiculous to ban contraceptives — you only have to think of the diseases that are transmitted without them. I think it should be compulsory to use a contraceptive.” 
Gisele is idolized by many young women in Brazil, the world’s largest Roman Catholic country, where debate over sexual issues has intensified around a visit by Pope Benedict last month.
It’s Gisele mania today on The Crazy News. And no supermodel story would be complete without a sexy video montage to go with those delicious pictures…you know it! Enjoy…
A Polish man who miraculously woke up form a 19 year old coma says he is amazed at the amount of goods available in shops, is taken aback at the way people walk around talking on their mobile phones, and cried when he discovered the communists were no longer in power.
Railway worker Jan Grzebski, 65, fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988. Grzebski credits his amazing tale of survival to his wife Gertruda who moved her husband many times a day over a nearly two decade period to prevent bed sores, and spoon fed him.
Doctors gave him only two or three years to live after the accident, “Those who came to see us kept asking: ‘When is he going to die?’ But he’s not dead…it was Gertruda that saved me, and I’ll never forget it.”
”When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere…what amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning, I’ve got nothing to complain about,”Grzebski said when asked on his thoughts of the Poland of 2007.
“I could not talk or do anything, now it’s much better…I wake up at 7 a.m., and I watch TV,” he said, smiling slightly.
Standing by her man:
“I would fly into a rage every time someone would say that people like him should be euthanized, so they don’t suffer,” his wife Gertruda told local newspaper Gazeta Dzialdowska. “I believed Janek would recover… This is my great reward for all the care, faith and love”.
“He remembers everything that was going on around him,” she said. “He talks about it and remembers the weddings of our children. He had fever around the time of the weddings, so he knew something big was taking place.”
What an amazing story, obviously a very lucky man indeed.
Jan and wife Gertruda Grzebsky
A 56 year old man in Mexico City has lost his life after a lion and tiger kept as exotic pets on the roof of a Mexican meat processing plant attacked while being fed.
Caretaker Angel Aguilar was feeding chicken to the cats when the lion swiped through the bars of a steel cage used to keep the animals, pulling him inside. The tiger then joined in the attack.
The man was still alive when paramedics arrived on scene in the neighborhood of Iztapalapa, but they could not get past the animals to treat him.
The two big cats, which had separate living quarters but came together to eat, were kept by the plant’s owner as pets and were in good health.
After the attack, which left scraps of bloodstained clothing on the floor of the cage, the animals were sedated and the tiger’s jaws tied around a chunk of wood.
The tiger later died, apparently of suffocation, after being transported by animal protection authorities to a nearby zoo in a small container. The lion survived the journey.
Mexico city is the second largest city in the world.
As The Crazy News reported a few days ago, new video evidence caught by an Englishman has stirred renewed interest in the existence of the fabled Loch Ness monster.
Something in the water….
And now some in the UK are cashing in on Nessie fever, offering a 1 million pound reward to anyone who can prove the actual existence of the monster.
Bookmakers William Hill are supplying up to 50,000 instant cameras to fans attending a Loch Ness pop festival in Scotland next weekend.
“We are hoping the one million pound bounty will help to solve one of the great enigmas of modern times,” William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said.
The winner will have to offer proof that satisfies experts at London’s Natural History Museum.
The bookmakers are confident the bounty will not be claimed at the Rock Ness music festival on June 9 and 10 — they are offering odds of 250-1 about it happening in 2007
Not crazy, its f*#king nuts!
Passionate fans of TV show Jericho have launched, and may be winning, a campaign to have the show put back on the air by sending millions of nuts to CBS TV executives across the United States.
In May, when CBS Television cancelled the show about life in a small rural town after a nuclear holocaust, legions of fans were incenced, and plans were soon hatched to have the show re-instated. The idea to send nuts was soon chosen, and with a little help of some smart marketing from nutsonline.com, the campaign took off, and now some rumours say the show may get 8 more episodes.
Quoting an anonymous source, The Associated Press Tuesday said CBS is reconsidering its decision to cancel the show. A decision on whether to bring the show back, probably for a mid-season run, is imminent. Is this a PR stunt to stem the flow of nuts, or is it genuine? Only time will tell Jericho fans.
Jericho cast and babes…
Why nuts?
In the final episode of “Jericho,” the town is under siege from a neighboring community. When asked to surrender, lead character Jake Green, played by Skeet Ulrich, has a one-word response: “Nuts.”
The response is a reference to Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, a U.S. Army general who in World War II was surrounded by Germans demanding his surrender. His response: “Nuts.”
All I have to say is, what a waste of food.
See what all the fuss is about, 2006 Jericho promo.
Former heavyweight boxing champion and ear eating extodanare Mike Tyson is to star in an action thriller which would see the U.S. boxer imitate real life, India’s Mumbai Mirror said.
The former heavyweight champion featured in a promotional music video of newly released Bollywood film “Fool and Final”, but the cameo received such a positive response from viewers that the director even incorporated the number in the film.
“I had decided to make a film with him later but after the promos featuring him received a great response, I decided to start the film sooner,” said producer Firoz Nadiadwala, who produced “Fool and Final”.
The daily said Tyson is getting a “huge price” for the new film — which will feature three top actors and be directed by a renowned filmmaker — but did not give any figure.
Tyson will play the role of a boxer, in a film expected to have a mix of drama and song and dance you would expect of your usual Bollywood film. The movie will be titled “Licence to Kill”. How original.
“Fool and Final” babes.
See the Tyson Bollywood promo, in all its lispy glory….
And for the “Fool and Final” theatrical trailer…it looks pretty exciting.
yummy ear…
“Have you had a sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official?”
That was what readers of the Washington Post were confronted with Sunday, as Hustler magazine launches a bid to uncover any Washington sex scandal it can get its dirty hands on. A toll free number and email address was provided for anyone willing to come forward with documented evidence of illicit intimate relations with a congressman, senator or other prominent officeholder.
The last time Flynt made such an offer was in October 1998 during the drive to impeach President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
In the following months, the pornographic publishing mogul threatened to expose one or two members of the Republican Congress pushing for the impeachment, according to media reports at the time.
Anyone who comes forward with a compelling story will receive a cool US 1million dollars. So any one out there got the goods? Is it you? I sure hope so.
Mix the African Serval
& The Asian Leopard Cat
With your regular domestic cat.
& you’ve got yourself…
“The Cat of the Century”
The ultra-exotic “Ashera” cat.
At a cool $20,ooo plus US dollars, the uber trendy Ashera cat is said to be the largest, rarest and most intelligent domestic cat. US based company Lifestyle Pets Inc. has already sold two of the felines to an unknown Beverly Hills family, as well as a Russian mogul in Moscow.
A proprietary blend of the exotic bloodlines of the African Serval and
the Asian Leopard Cat and subsequently crossing with a domestic cat,
the Ashera is unique in that genetic monitoring is used to standardize breeding and ensure that the defining features and size of the Ashera remain exceptionally consistent.
Fully socialized, the Ashera gets along well with children and other
pets, acting and playing like a regular domestic cat. Unusually for cats,
the Ashera takes well to being walked on a leash (cat walk). The Ashera will be limited to less than 100 per year.
So all you need is just a spare 20,ooo US bucks and you’ll be all set. I think I’ll pass thanks, I’m more of a dog person anyway.
Speaking of Meowing, I thought I might just throw this one in for a cheap feline based laugh.
MORE! MORE MORE!
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US socialite Paris Hilton began serving her Los Angeles jail sentence for violating probation Sunday night, her lawyer says.
Hilton turned herself in at the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles just after 10:30 p.m., then was escorted to the all women’s facility in Lynwood, where she was booked, fingerprinted, photographed, medically screened and issued an orange top and pants
Earlier Sunday evening, Hilton attended the MTV Movie Awards near Hollywood, where she was the butt of comedians’ jokes, including a few jabs from Sarah Silverman (video) , which made Paris visibly unnerved, and left Jack Nicholson cracking up. 
Hilton’s booking photo showed the heiress wearing what appeared to be a V-neck shirt, eye makeup and lip gloss that highlighted a slight smile. Her long blond hair was draped over one shoulder.
The photo you will see on the front cover of Tuesdays paper.
Paris will take her meals in her cell and will be allowed outside the 12-by-8-foot space for at least an hour each day to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone. No cell phones or BlackBerrys are permitted in the facility, even for visitors.
The jail, a two-story concrete building next to train tracks and beneath a bustling freeway, has been an all-female facility since March 2006. It’s located in an industrial area about 12 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
“I did have a choice to go to a pay jail,” Hilton said Sunday, without giving details. “But I declined because I feel like the media portrays me in a way that I’m not and that’s why I wanted to go to county, to show that I can do it and I’m going to be treated like everyone else. I’m going to do the time, I’m going to do it the right way.” 
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A Croatian man rode on a tram for nearly 6 hours before the driver discovered he had died. The 61-year-old man boarded the vehicle around midnight Friday night, and soon fell asleep.
The tram went on picking up and dropping off passengers throughout the night, a Croatian daily newspaper reported.
The driver, separated by a glass partition from the rest of the tram, tried to wake him up at the end of his shift and realized he was dead.
The police put the death down to natural causes but are still awaiting post-mortem results of the man identified as Tomislav K.
A California man has smashed the world record for hot-dog eating, gobbling up more than 59 franks in 12 minutes. Joey Chestnut surpassed the record of 53 3/4 hot dogs — held for six years by Takeru Kobayashi of Japan.
The 22-year-old set the record Saturday in Arizona in a regional qualifier for Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island, N.Y. Chestnut will now be able to face off against Kobayashi at the July 4 championship.”These guys’ numbers have just been going up at a tremendous clip,” said contest spokesman Ryan Nerz.
”I always thought there was a limit — a limit to the human stomach and a limit to human willpower.
Chestnut admits he will have to strain his body to win at the New York title event. “I’m going to keep pushing my body and maybe I can beat him (Kobayashi),” Chestnut said
Chestnut ready to blow in a previous hot dog eating comp…”Bbbluu..”
Judging by the way Kobayashi slams down those dogs, the strain is going to have to be severe.
A vicious attack has left an 8 year old Indonesian boy dead over the weekend in an attack rare in its kind .
”The Komodo attacked him, bit him and tossed him around, and only released him after villagers came and threw stones at it,” Manggarai barat district police chief Buce Hello said.
The boy, named Mansur, was having a toilet stop in a bush area on Saturday when he was attacked .
The island, one of the largest in the Komodo national park, has no medical clinic and the boy, a local villager, died shortly after the attack, he said.
The park and the western and northern coastlines of neighbouring Flores island are the natural habitats of the giant Komodo dragon, which is the world’s largest monitor lizard.
The lizard can grow up to 3m long and weigh up to 140kg.
There are an estimated 3000 Komodo dragons in the park and surrounding areas.
Komodo island
A robot is to be deployed as a security guard at a South Korean school in what its creators claim is a world first.
The robot, dubbed OFRO, will be posted at a Seoul middle school to test its potential before going on sale.Makers DU Robo said it could be used to alert staff to attempts by outsiders to seduce students.
“One possible scenario is that OFRO will alert officials when it detects someone trying to seduce a student,” the firm’s CEO Kang Jung-Won said.
Teachers could then either warn the offender through a loudspeaker or send human security guards.The firm claims it is the first time a robot has been used to guard an educational institution.“After going through the feasibility test, we (will) look to commercialise the feature-rich OFRO that retails at around $US100,000 as a school guardian,” said Kang.
OFRO moves at a leisurely maximum of five kph (three mph) and can either patrol pre-programmed routes or be manually controlled. It has a camera and microphone link to teachers or a security firm.
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in the UK has banned the word cock from its website. Visitors to the site found that cock had been replaced with asterisks, however the species, tit, remains.
“As bird lovers will know, a Parus Major is a great tit and while cocks do not get past the forum censor, tits do not cause offence. I’ve heard of PC but that is taking things too far,” said one web site user.
A worker claimed the word had been replaced because of software filters but an RSPB spokesman said it preferred to describe birds as either male or female.
Chin meet Daddy.
The more entertaining the program, the more youre likely to eat. That’s according to research presented in Canada by Dr Alan Hirsch from Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago.
Dr Hirsch explored the impact of smell, taste and eating behaviours on people while watching TV by measuring potato chip consumption.
45 volunteers ate as many chips as they wanted during five-minute intervals over three-week periods while they watched monologues by late-night US talk show hosts David Letterman and Jay Leno.
Dr Hirsch found people ate an average of 44 per cent more chips while watching Letterman and 42 per cent more while viewing Leno, than when they did not watch TV. Clearly proving that David Letterman is more entertaining.
“If you can concentrate on how the food tastes you’ll eat less because you’ll feel full faster… so if that’s the case, let’s look at the opposite. What if you’re distracted? If you’re distracted, in theory, then you’d eat more,” Dr Hirsch said
Many studies have linked obesity to watching television and that link is likely due to inactivity, Dr Hirsch said. But perhaps entertaining shows are also contributing.
“If you want to lose weight, turn off the television or watch something boring,” he said.
So switching off Jay and David for less entertaining programming might just be the new weight loss fad. You heard it here first.
Mmmm, salty snacks.
Phillip Wellman in saner (and by the looks of it slimer) times.
The manager of a United States Minor League Baseball team, The Mississippi Braves, has gone on a crazy tirade. Phillip Wellman apparently had enough of the umpires, springing out of the dugout to let his temper flare. After a nose-to-nose argument with the home plate ump, Wellman completely covered home plate in dirt. He then made his way up the third base line, where he ripped third base out of the dirt and hurled it into the outfield.
As if that wasn’t enough retribution for Wellman, the manager then got on all fours and crawled toward he pitcher’s mound like a special ops commando, grabbing the pitcher’s rosin bag, holding it to his mouth and tossing it toward the home plate umpire as if it were a grenade. Scooping up the bases, Wellman walked toward the center field exit, taking a bow for the crowd before leaving the field.
Here’s the video…I hope you enjoy it, I know I did!
A day of a thousand moons! At the Europarking building in Amsterdam.
Residents of Amsterdam, famous to many for its red-light district, have taken it all off in the name of art. World renowned photographer Spencer Tunick was doing what he does best last night, photographing women on bicycles, men at a service station, as well as models posing at one of the city’s famous bridges in Amsterdam’s historic centre.
Around 2,000 brave Amsterdam residents posed for Tunick who has orchastrated mass nudist shoots previously in Belgium, France, Australia, Britain, Canada and the United States.
”It was very hard to find space in a city meant for such a small amount of people,” Tunick said. “I was very lucky to get almost 2,000 to fill a massive car park.”
“I get people to shed their inhibitions basically because the people shedding their clothing are interested in contemporary art,” Tunick said.
Photos from Sunday’s session were to be exhibited at an Amsterdam club Sunday night, and will be reproduced on billboards in the city later in the summer.
Tunick was once arrested for his work in New York City after a female model posed nude for him in Manhattan during the middle of the day.
Tunick herding the nudists.
Don’t worry, be happy.
They have been a source of cheap ridicule by many in society for centuries, and one all red haired family in the UK has reportedly had to move three times to escape taunts, violence and even graffiti. Kevin and Barbara Chapman say they and their four children have endured three years of attacks and abuse.
The chapman kids.
In the latest incident, they came home to find abusive slogans painted on their property. Even as the family discussed another move with social workers last week, they returned to find smashed windows.
Mr. Chapman, 49, said his 10-year-old daughter Ryelle and sons Daniel, 10 and Jordan, 13, had also been badly affected. Each time the family move the hate mob reappears, he says.
He said: “The abuse we get is unbelievable. It started more than three years ago, when the kids started getting bullied by lads over the colour of their hair.
“They’ve been punched and kicked and thrown over a hedge. Every time they go out these gangs get to them.
“We can’t even go to the local shops which are only two minutes away. The kids get all their stuff taken off them.”
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Amber Lee Ettinger 
