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.
Amber Lee Ettinger 
