“When I came out of the house the cat’s legs were hanging out of its mouth”
That’s what January Clay, a resident of Australians northern state of Queensland said she saw after she let her pet cat explore outside her home for half an hour.
The mouth she was talking about belonged to a 3 meter long python that was clearly in a mood for food around the 5am hour, when Ms Clay let her cat roam outside.
And despite the loss of her beloved pet cat, talking from her Cairns home, February was philosophical about her loss. I mean January.
it’s just nature, he was just doing what he normally does. My cat was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The python eventually left of its own accord.
Ms Clay’s attitude is in stark contrast with some other Cairns residents, who have recently played a role in bludgeoning several native species including pythons and a crocodile to death.
Tropical Wildlife Protection president Anthea McAllan applauded Ms Clay’s actions.
I definitely do commend her for not doing anything to the snake,” Ms McAllan said. “They’ve got their place in the ecosystem and it’s important that we respect that.”
She said the best thing to do was to keep cats indoors or build a snake proof enclosure to avoid such a tragic event.
A director of the Belgrade Zoo discusses the half eaten body of a 23-year-old man found with the bears. It appears the man had stumbled in from the grounds of a nearby beer festival being enjoyed by the local population. Several mobile phones were found inside the cage, as well as bricks, stones and beer cans. Go figure.
Abdul Rahman, a one legged Emirati father of 78, talks up his hopes of hitting the magic century mark. The 60-year-old man whore currently has 15 wives, but wants to knock up at least 2 more in the next few years. Apparently Islam allows men to marry up to four women at a time. Abdul uses government funds to support the family. You can probably thank the oil for that.
A police detective from Queensland state speculates as to why a woman, who had been given a camel for her 60th birthday, was crushed to death by the pet at her family’s sheep station/ranch. It apparently knocked her to the ground, laid on top of her, and displayed a suspicious mating behaviour. Eeep.
A professor to a 23-year-old archaeology student discusses the find of what is being described as the world’s oldest piece of chewing gum, estimated at 5,000 years, yum! The student for the Scotland was on a dig centred in an area frequented by Neolithic era humans when she came across the lump of birch bark tar. She also found an amber ring and an arrow head. How interesting.
A Leicester court prosecutor details to a jury how a man held up a betting shop using his girlfriend’s vibrator as a weapon of intimidation. The manager of the shop handed over more than £600 in cash to the man, who the British media have dubbed The “Rampant Rabbit robber”. He was sentenced to 5 years prison.
What can I say to that? Sex toys as weapons?… it’s a crazy world people, it’s a crazy world.
Recent media competitions in both the UK and Australia in which boob jobs are being given away as prizes have been the target of criticism from plastic surgeon associations and governments alike.
The excited young lady won the competition by the radio station’s web site viewer’s choice, with 22% of the vote. She appeared in a video on a section of the Liverpool based, Juice FM website, jucetube.net
“I couldn’t believe it when I won, it was out of this world.
“I’m happy with my height, my waist, and my weight. But I always thought I was lacking a ’bit up top’.
“My fiance, Paul, was brilliant. He always said that if it made me happy, I should get a good job and save for a boob job”.
I’m sure he would say that.
“But now I’ve won the competition, he can’t wait to get his hands on them,” the ditzy Pude said.
I bet the fiance can’t wait.
Surgeon’s Not Happy
But the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons was not impressed, despite the publicity for their industry.
“The giving of a surgical procedure as a prize is an unbelievable, dangerous and highly unethical practice.
“The decision to perform any surgical procedure must be based on common sense, case selection, good surgical decision making and patient safety,” an angry Adam Searle from the BAAPS told reporters.
The “win a boob job for your girlfriend” competition, held by the Australian arm of weekly men’s magazine Zoo, copped some flack from the Australian Minister for Communications Helen Coonan.
“The minister certainly sees that this is an example of very poor taste and to women it would also be considered to be very offensive and she has directed ACMA to look into the matter,” a spokesperson for the Minister said.
The New South Wales state government, where Zoo Magazine Australia is based in Sydney, said it was looking into the local Lotteries and Art Unions Act, which forbids anyone from offering cosmetic surgery as a prize.
But Zoo denied the competition was illegal, saying it had found a loop hole of sorts.
“The winner will get a cheque for $10,000. If they choose to spend it on surgery they can. We’ve checked out all the legals. It’s not breaking any rules.”
The competition, as in the United Kingdom, was the target for criticism from the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons; who said the competition breached a number of trade practices and ethical guidelines.
The moral of the story?
If you want to successfully publicise your radio station and or magazine, boost your ratings and circulation?
In the true stereotypical Aussie spirit of Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee, a 54-year-old Australian man has spent seven nights up a tree over a crocodile infested swamp in the isolated Cape York Peninsula in Australia’s tropical north.
The man who works and co-owns a massive cattle station (ranch), called Silver Plains, was stalked by two massive crocodiles for the entire ordeal, who were waiting patiently for the man to make a slip and fall into the infested nest below.
“Every night I was stalked by two crocs who would sit at the bottom of the tree staring up at me,” David George told Aussie media.
“All I could see was two sets of red eyes below me and all night I had to listen to a big bull croc bellowing a bit further out.
“I’d yell out at them, ‘I’m not falling out of this tree for you bastards’.”
The cavalier bushman left the station homestead on horseback intending to spend a few nights out in the scrub for maintenance duties, when just before dawn on the second day he had a fall when riding, experiencing a heavy knock to the head.
The stockman managed to get back on his horse, but was too disorientated to know exactly which way to go and his ride ended up taking him into thick croc infested swamp land.
“Doing that I hit my arm and my head and was sort of half-dazed,” Mr George said.
“Then I got back on the horse … I let the horse go, knowing he’d take me home.
But his horse was not as smart as he had assumed.
“When I realised where we were, we were about a kilometre into the swamp.”
Once in the thick of it David decided to get off as the soggy ground was making it tough for the horse to move, and found himself stumbling though the marshy terrain when he came across a croc nest.
When he changed directions to flee, he soon came across another nest, and it was then that he realised that he was in serious trouble.
One tough Bloke.
Deciding that he could not lead the horse out safely without risking his own life, he left the doomed horse and made a be-line for a nearby tree and played the waiting game.
“I took the stirrup leather off and strapped myself to the tree,” he said.
“I knew I could either stay put and wait to be rescued, or venture out and chance being eaten by a croc.
“Every night from the second night on I could hear a bull croc bellowing out, and each night he seemed to be getting closer.”
Later, a search and rescue mission began, where helicopters regularly passed over the top of his position, but the bush was way too thick for crews to spot him.
The scrub was that thick they could not see me through the foliage. It was very frustrating – they flew within 20 feet (6m) of me at one stage,”
He was eventually found by an Australian Army chopper crew, and winched to safety.
He was taken to hospital with nothing but a few scratches and a serious bout of hunger.
It was unkown what happened to the horse, but one can assume it became a tasty treat for the friendly fresh water crocs.
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.
“The pencil went right through my skin — and disappeared into my head.”
A 59-year-old woman finally had a pencil removed from her brain it was lodged there since she was a toddler. At the time no one dared operate, but now technology has improved sufficiently for doctors to be able to remove it. Sounds like an episode of The Simpsons….
Australia
“Failure to provide these might compromise the post-mortem evaluation of markedly obese individuals, in addition to potentially jeopardizing the health of mortuary staff.”
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.
“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.”
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
“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…
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
For years imbibers have been told a big night on the drink wipes out entire sections of human brain cell function with much the same destructive equivalent as a napalm bombing strike.
There is no evidence drinking alcohol leads directly to the death of brain cells, he said.
“Some of the best studies, done in Italy, show a bottle of wine a night can reduce the risk of dementia in old age,” Professor Bartlett said.
In moderation, alcohol has positive benefits for blood vessel health and stroke prevention. And, as an added bonus, new brain cells are generated every day of our lives.
Research by Professor Bartlett and his team has found we all have an inbuilt repair kit replenishing the more than 100 billion cells – or neurons – in our brain.
The new evidence will be presented at a conference in the tropical northern Australian resort city of Cairns.
Speakers at the conference will include distinguished scientists from Oxford, Cambridge and Yale.
So everyone, it’s party time! All the more reason to get into onto the piss, as we say in Australia.
A 31-year-old Australian woman has been arrested in the United States for allegedly trying to kidnap a 17-year-old boy she had met playing role-playing game World of Warcraft on the Internet.
United States investigators say Tamara Broome encouraged the boy to leave his home in North Carolina to join her in Australia.
The chief of detectives in the city of Greenville, Lee Moore, says the pair began a relationship while playing the popular online multiplayer game.
“The best that we can discover is that they wanted to meet,” he said.
“To be honest with you, if someone were to fly from here to Australia or them to here, there’s got to be some kind of romance somewhere.”
Detective Moore says the pair had been communicating for about a year.
“What we understand she was trying to do was to get him to leave the country and go to Australia to meet her,” he said.
Police have seized a laptop computer and charged Broome with attempting to abduct a child.
A survey on the work habits of Australian adults has found that 1 in 5 people claim to have had a sexual encounter in the office.
A survey by online job search website linkme.com.au said that about 20% of Aussies have not only been getting intimate at the office but also admit to doing ‘it’ during work hours.
The findings hinted at several possible reasons for Aussies getting so up close and personal with work colleagues, which also found that almost one in four Aussies had met their long term partner at work.
Possible causes of widespread intimacy may stem from people spending more time in the office than ever before, leading to close freindships and socialising.
And colleagues who work in a similar field are likely to share interests and this is an element many people look for in a partner.
The survey found only 13 per cent of Aussies saw romantic relations in the office as unethical and a mere four percent of workers had a no fraternising clause in their contract.
A strip bar in Victoria state in Australia has awarded the winner of a Texas hold ‘em poker tournament with a voucher to a brothel.
“Some venues offer a drink card or a chicken parma – ours is a free half-hour session at the local bordello,” said the bar owner.
The tournaments are linked to the National Poker League competition.
The prize has outraged local family groups. The President of the Australian Family Association said she was dissapointed.
“We are seriously disappointed that a local business thinks that a brothel voucher is an appropriate prize to hand out in a public venue,”Angela Conway said.
Paris Hilton has been transferred out of a medical ward at a Los Angeles County jail and returned to the all-women’s facility where she began her sentence for a probation violation more than a week ago, a sheriff’s official said Thursday.
After her brief release last week after just three days behind bars caused an uproar, a judge sent Hilton, 26, back into the jail system, starting at a downtown correctional treatment center where she was to undergo medical and psychiatric exams to determine where she should be held.
The official would not elaborate on where in that facility the heiress was housed. When she began her 45-day sentence on June 3, she was confined to a solitary cell in a special needs unit away from other inmates.
Paris Hilton’s new home from now till the end of her jail term.
Paris was moved around 11 p.m. Wednesday, to the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, the women’s prison where she had started out.
Americas’ sweethearts….
Meanwhile,
According to OK! maganzine, the Paris Hitlon about face we all heard about from Barbara Walters earlier in the week, has got more to do with her finances than any real remorce.
“Paris finally saw that her spoiled brat behavior and repeated attempts to escape her sentence would turn fans against her, ruining lucrative endorsement deals,” OK! reckons.
A source tells OK!: “It’s going to be hard to find an organization that actually wants her.”
And to cap off this Paris bulletin, I only do it because my traffic goes through the roof…the Paris Hitlon Music Video Jail Spoof……
Yes,the fantasitc Paris Hilton spoof video is doing the rounds here on the interweb, if you havn’t seen it yet it well worth a laugh. So ladies and gentlemen, here it is…The ‘Paris Hilton Jail Spoof Music Video’
The key to control the plague like population explosion of cane toads in tropical northern Australia is to encourage toads to turn to cannibalism, resarch shows.
A discovered was made recently which showed that cane toads have a healthy appetite for their own young, consuming up to 12 other cane toads in a lifetime. Adult cane toads wave one of the three toes on their hind legs, luring in the young who are fooled into thinking it is an insect. The unsuspecting youngster is then eaten.
“We will modify ponds to encourage cane toads to breed in the same place then the toads can control themselves,” Professor Rick Shine’s of the University of Sydney said.
Adults will eat the young, dramatically reducing the number of offspring and, in turn, the number of cane toads mature enough to breed, he said.
“The aim is to concentrate cane toads to provide a much better situation for Australian fauna.
Since their introduction to Australia in 1932, the toads have been a destructive force, poisoning and killing native wildlife and have enough poison to kill a small dog.
A female cane toad can produce up to 35,000 offspring in one clutch meaning that the number of cane toads has reached astronomical levels.
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