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.
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Melody Morales, former hooters girl and Hispanic-American beauty, is suing a body lotion company behind the racy Hawaiian Tropic Zone bar and restaurant in New York after claims she was shunned for not being “white” enough and being from “the ghetto”.
Her hot pictures and hot, hot video of Hawaiian Tropic Superhotties after the jump….
Felling a little down and out about the economy at the moment??? Never fear, former Football (soccer) star EVA ROOB of Germany is here to cheer you up……With the stage name SAMIRA SUMMER…..
Eva began her pro sporting career with FC Nuremberg in the German Women’s Football league back in 2001, but to make ends meet, she began a part time job as an erotic stripper. Things were all uphill from there, and one thing led to another, and the football star decided the money and the fun was in the porn industry.
Eva Roob, or Samira Summer as she is now known, will be competing for the title of Miss Venus 2008 in Berline this weekend. You can read all about this amazing German beauty Here or Here….Or
Check out her amazingly tantalizing pictures HERE. (WARNING: She has one of the fittest bods you will ever see) The link may also not be safe for work, depending on where you live.
ENJOY!
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Petrified locals in the Argentine town of General Guemes are living in fear inside their homes at night after a string of sightings involving a mysterious and highly freaky ‘creature’ resembling a gnome.
”No joke” : Local teenager Jose Alvarez filmed the “gnome” on his phone when he was hanging with his friends in a poorly lit street in the town. He said that it wears a pointy hat and walks sideways like a crab.
“Suddenly we heard something – a weird noise as if someone was throwing stones,” Mr Alvarez was quoted in London’s Sun Newspaper.
“We looked to one side and saw that the grass was moving.
“To begin with we thought it was a dog but when we saw this gnome-like figure begin to emerge we were really afraid.”
Interestingly, the video cuts as soon as the teens let out a deep shreak when realizing what they are seeing. The report appearing in the Sun newspaper does not stipulate what the teens did in the aftermath.
I was wondering what Danny Devito was doing with himself these days…..
New Scientist magazine wrote last month that 2008 could be “year zero” for the time travell, just maybe they were right. Either that or someone in Finland took the concept of better late than never to an extreme.
Apparently someone, or something, in the city of Vantaa in southern Finland has returned a 1902 borrowed copy of a volume of a religious monthly called Vartija, an article that had been on loan for at least 100 years, reports.
“We are unclear when exactly it was borrowed and who returned it. There weren’t any documents with it,” librarian Minna Saastamoinen told Reuters.
“There is an old note attached to the book which says there is a fine of 10 pennies a week for late returns,” she added.
The library sticker inside the cover, and the old-fashioned handwriting on it, showed the book was last officially loaned out at the beginning of the last century, she said.
Finland is known for a comprehensive library network with more than 900 libraries for its 5.3 million inhabitants. In 2006, each Finn on average visited a library 11 times and borrowed nearly 20 books.
The periodical was borrowed such a long time ago that the Korso branch of the Vantaa library, where the tome was finally handed in, did not even exist when the book was borrowed.
Only in Finland.
A Weapon of Mass Destruction has been found in Iraq, its fukin Chuck Norris, that’s what.
The fly kicking superstar of Walker Texas Ranger and Missing in Action and intended Mike Huckabee US Secretary of Defence has become a icon of the Iraq War for US service men and women.
With a lack of desire for bad news from the Iraq conflict by the American public, our friends at Reuters news decided to visit a cardboard shrine for Chuck at a helicopter landing base.
The actor has visited Iraq several times and was made an honorary Marine last year. Some 20 U.S. military personnel and support staff spoken to by Reuters could recite at least one Norris “fact”, despite many having not visited the Web site.
U.S. troops in Iraq say his support for them and Norris’ invincible image has made him their idol and insist the exaggerated and satirical claims are not meant to mock him.
“The Marines love him. He’s like a mythical legend,” Staff Sergeant Amy Forsythe in Falluja said.
Other Chuck Norris facts thanks to chucknorrisfacts.com
Idiocracy: Father let’s kids hang out car window at 100 miles an hour.
Moma Mia!: Footballing priest sent off in tournament for throwing shirt at the referee.
Dead Alive: Couple turn up at own death news conference in a van, and alive in it.
Firefighter ____ dog, you fill in the blanks.
Siberian jail beauty pageant, no salt mines here, 1st prize is fast track to parol.
Drugs in water cause fish to change sex.
Crazy video: Streakers at the Horse Races.
When 47 year old Jill Martin suspected her husband was having an affair with another woman, she decided to strike back with the oldest trick in the book. Dog poo curry.
…after placing the dinner in front of her husband Donald and watching him start to eat it, Martin had burst out laughing.
At first she claimed she had laced the dish with arsenic but then confessed she had added dog excrement instead.
The court heard that the couple had been married for 21 years but in recent years their relationship “had hit an all time low”.
Speaking in her defence, solicitor Terry Gallanagh said that the case was like ‘an episode of Desperate Housewives’.
Yummmm….
Following her arrest for the incident, Martin was banned from going anywhere near her husband or their home in Scotland.
The couple have now begun divorce proceedings.
How romantic.
Source: BBC
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!
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?
The Crazy News has decided to bring back an old segment.
In this case, it’s the crazy news tool of the month, since it’s been at least 30 days since our last tool awarding.
This time, our tool, comes from lovely Cheshire, England.
Along with the apparently fun act of robbery and vandalism, an 18-year-old burglar thought it would be a fantastic idea to write “Peter Addison was here” on a wall.
And yep, our young friend Peter, actually his real name, was soon nabbed by police.
But it does not end there.
Police who arrived to investigate the incident were stunned to find Addison’s calling card plus other messages saying: “Thanks for the Stay,” according the London’s, The Daily Mail.
They checked his details on a computer system and when they caught up with him, he was also found to be wearing a T shirt stolen during the burglary.
Police were also able to aprehend a number of other offenders with Peter at the time.
Gareth Woods from the local Cheshire Police said: “This crime is up there were the dumbest of all in the criminal league table.
“There are some pretty stupid criminals around but to leave your own name at the scene of the crime takes the biscuit. The dafetness of this lad certainly made our job a lot easier.”
It doesn’t just take the biscuit.
It takes The Crazy News Tool of the Week/Month award too!
Enjoy it Peter, enjoy….
Oh yes, it’s that time….
Time for….
The Crazy News:
And interestingly enough, it’s also that time of the year again, when the world’s evening news-casts conclude with the chaotic scenes from Spain’s Tomatina festival. It’s usually puppies with love hearts in their fur, or crazy Aussie outback ‘bushies’ stuck up trees in croc infested swamps. But we just love watching scenes of half naked humans hurling firm and fresh tomatos across old cobbled European streets at each other, making the crazy world we live in not seem so crazy after all.
Or does it?
Regardless, heres some interesting facts….40,000 people gathered in the town of Bunol this week to hurl 115,000 kilograms of tomatoes at each other, all in the name of fun.
The festival dates back to 1945, when two people at a carnival in Bunol, just outside Valencia, reportedly began hurling tomatoes at each other in a heated argument, as you do.
The festival, which has officially been part of Spain’s national heritage since 2002, takes place on the final Wednesday in August, just thought I would let you know so you know when to book your tickets for next year.
Five massive truckloads of tomatoes were driven into the town’s main square at 11am, an hour earlier than usual in fact, to let the fun begin. Usually participants thoughtfully squeeze the fruit beforehand to soften it up. Like hell they do….
Around the World, around the World…..
Around the World, around the World….
That slappin’ beat can only mean one thing……
It’s time again to go (insert lyric here) for….
UK
Scottish police arrest a teenager after he posted a video of himself speeding at around 140 mph on youtube. I would try and find the video for you, but hey, I’m not getting paid to do this.
Germany
Me too. A spokesman for Duesseldorf police details how a thief stole a 57-year-old Iranian businessman’s brief case containing 10,000 euros ($13,660) in cash, but failed to notice the mega bucks inside, throwing it away. Two words. You and idiot.
China
That’s what a French factory manager in the Pearl River Delta did when he called a staff meeting, pulling out a pistol and shooting at the ceiling all crazy like. This was not the first time Pierre had drawn his pistol and fired. God know what will happen when he really fired someone. Maybe The Trump could use this method in his next TV role.
USA
A new mother from New York says she was expecting to give birth to a healthy 12 fingered baby boy but instead got a healthy 12 fingered and 12 toed baby boy.
Japan
“Apparently, somebody knew how to tell marijuana from other plants.”
Apparently in Japan, marijuana just grows. Abashiri Prison has seen as many as 300 marijuana plants sprout up on its exercise grounds in the past year. Prison officials believe the plants are wild; others are not so wild on the idea. You decide.
Italy
“If there are attacks against people, they have to be stopped.”
Florence, the great Renaissance city of art and history, is taking a hard line on ’squeegee men’. With the local mayor issuing a decree to force the squeegee men- people who wash drivers’ windshields and demand payment – off the streets, imposing fines and detention of up to three months. But who will ever harass me at the lights now?
And that’s another action packed edition of The Crazy News and its famous Quick Quotes.
Around the World, around the…..
The key to success is not forgetting them.
Down she goes!
Lost your keys?
Yes, we’ve all done it (“Have you checked your pockets?”). With the consequences usually being late for work, or whatever people miss out on when they are in a hurry and lose their keys.
But 95 years ago lost keys meant the lives of 1500 people.
David Blair was the original real life second officer of that ship that sunk in that movie we all went to see in 1997, called the Titanic. Lucky for David Blair, no known relation to the former Prime Minister, he was transferred off the fateful Titanic maiden voyage at the last minute.
When he left, he forgot to leave his key behind. Without it, his shipmates were unable to open the crow’s nest binoculars locker. And without access to those binoculars, you guessed it, the crew were unable to look very far ahead and spot the ice berg that eventually led to the ship’s fate. We know this because Fred Fleet, a surviving crew member told the official Titanic inquiry.
Even more luckily, I guess in some ironic way, was that our forgetful mate kept the tiny brass key as a memento, passing it down the family. On September 22 this year it will be auctioned in England, along with a postcard telling of his disappointment at not being on the maiden voyage.
“We think this key is one of the most important artefacts from the Titanic to have come to light,” auctioneer Alan Aldridge said. “It is the key that had the potential to save the Titanic.”
The key and postcard are expected to fetch up to £70,000 (US$140,000)
Not the actual crows nest locker key.
Amazing Special Effects re-creation of the sinking!
Click here to find out more about the Crew of The Titanic.
Click here to find out more about the US Senate Titanic Inquiry and the related transcript including Fred Fleet’s testimony.
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…..
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.
v 
When a children’s toy company takes a porn star to court, you know it’s going to be quite a story.
With the recall of it’s China made toys fresh in the mind, the world’s largest toy company Mattel, is on the front foot with another kind of China.
The company is suing adult entertainer China Barbie for using ‘a domain name containing the word “barbie” in a “bad faith attempt to profit from Mattel’s Barbie trademarks” and had damaged Mattel’s good name’, according to media reports.
As you probably know Barbie is the worlds best selling fashion doll, since 1959 with about US $1.6 billion in sales each year. A personal favourite of mine….
Apparently China Barbie is the porn alias of Terri Gibson, who owns and runs her own adult web site under the company name Global China Networks, where users can access exclusive content for US$19.95 (€14.77). Sounds like a good deal to me.
Before getting into porn Gibson supposedly worked at some of the world’s leading investment banking firms and advertising agencies in New York, but the lucrative world of porn was just too seductive for 29 year old Terri.
Along with appearing in her own web site, Terri who’s father is Jamaican and mother Chinese, has also appeared in a number of hardcore adult films since 2001, according to IMDB.com, including Asian Divas 3, Me Luv U Long Time and Oral Sensations 7.
Mattel is angry at their good name being spoilt, demanding it get it’s hands on the Chinabarbie.com domain name, damages of $100,000 (€74,030) and to order that any profits Global China Networks achieved be given to Mattel.
Our friends at Mattel are no stranger to court action. Cases include:
Memorably in 1997 against the Danish pop group Aqua for their song parody, Barbie Girl, it lost that case.
Mattel successfully sued an artist from Utah in 1999 for profiting from artistic photographs called Food Chain Barbie involving Barbie dolls in a blender. (Click to see the pictures)
An injunction against a British woman who produced a Barbie doll dressed in bondage clothing, that one was dismissed by the Judge, “to the court’s knowledge, there is no Mattel line of S&M Barbie.”
Hideous.
The only question now remains, who does mattel have their sights on now?
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Time to spin that globe and experience yet another edition of….
The Crazy News: Quick Quotes.
Abdul says you aint seen nothing yet.
Serbia
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.
UAE
“In 2015 I will be 68 years old and will have 100 children.”
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.
Australia
“I’d say it’s probably been playing, or it may be even a sexual sort of thing.”
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.
Finland
“It’s particularly significant because well defined tooth imprints were found on the gum.”
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.
UK
“The defendant pointed the vibrator in the bag at Mr Vakani and warned him to back off.”
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.
“Give me all your money or I’ll…”
Go on, tell the world!
Scroll down for Glacier Surfing, dude!
Back in June it was all going off in Amsterdam, and this weekend it was a naked rendezvous with a glacier in Switzerland for famous photographer Spencer Tunick.
Otherwise known as ‘The Naked Photographer’. (He’s not really known as that, but I’m coining the term regardless, such is the power of The Crazy News)
About 600 volunteer nudes braved the Aletsch glacier in the Valais region in southern Switzerland in a photo shoot aimed at drawing attention to the effects of global warming on the world’s glaciers.
Tunick said his photographs were both works of art and political statements.
“I will try to treat the body on two levels. On an abstract level, as if they were flowers or stones.
“I want my images to go more than skin-deep. I want the viewers to feel the vulnerability of their existence and how it relates closely to the sensitivity of the world’s glaciers,” New York native Tunick told media.
Glacier Surfing!
But not everyone is unhappy with the melting of the world’s glaciers.
Totally gnarly thrill seekers are taking advantage of the massive waves created by chunks of glacier falling into the ocean.
Surfers Garrett McNamara and Kealii Mamala posted this epic video on youtube after waiting for several hours at the Child’s Glacier, in south-central Alaska, for a slice of the glacier to give way, with totally awesome consequences.
They even have their own web site GlacierSurfing.com, and they say the phenomenon was first discovered by a photographer in 1995 when filming for IMAX movie
Surfs Up!
Global Warming is totally awesome, man!
Go on, tell the world!
Sly me…
Coz every good blog needs a montage…..Oh it takes a montage (montage)….
As luck would have it….
A small village in the eastern European nation of Serbia, with a reputation for being disaster prone, has erected a statue of the fictional character, Rocky Balboa, made famous by growth hormone loving Sylvester Stallone.
The small town about 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of the capital Belgrade, decided to create the bronze statue in the village centre after a resident suggested the idea after he saw Rocky Six.
“I felt as if Rocky has come from our village, he had to fight to win his place in society,” an excited Bojan Marceta said after seeing the movie.
“Ya know they always say if you live in one place long enough, you are that place.”
Since experiencing serious flooding over the last few years, many locals have left the village in Vojvodina province in search of a better life.
“For years, only negative reports on farm diseases, monstrous murders, floods and landslides, have been coming from our village,” Bojan said.
But Bojan said it was time for some change in luck for his little town, and the hopes were that the new statue would help make the future brighter. Local officials agreed.
“This is the chance to give a better, more positive image to Zitiste.”
“Our idea has really stirred the public,” said local politician Zoran Kasalovic. “Now, no one in Serbia can say they don’t know about Zitiste.”
Yurah!
I’m so inspired (“somehow”) right now! I’m off to jog up some steps while punching the air with my fists. If you know what I mean.
Always fade out in a montage,
If you fade out, it seems like more time
Has passed in a montage,
Montage…(montage)
I pity the fool.
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Not so fast mate…
A 46-year-old man told his family and the local media that he had won the £35.4 million jackpot in the Euro-Millions, despite the fact that he never won a dime.
Fergus Frater was so convincing he promised his son and daughter a large share in the winnings, prompting the son to quit his job, blow a huge slice of his savings on drinks and expensive meals and planned with his girlfriend a new life in Australia.
“One minute I was a multi-millionaire, the next I was back to having nothing. I was going to buy a Bentley and emigrate with my family to start a new life.
“I could kill him. But he’s gone to ground and I’ve no idea where he is,” the man’s enraged son, 25-year-old Jordan told British media.
After spending much of last weekend celebrating with freinds, who even bought him drinks, Frater disappeared from his one-bedroom flat and hasn’t been seen since.
Frater even posed for pictures with a Euro Millions ticket for a local newspaper.
But obviously nobody thought to have a look at the ticket, because it was only realized that the “win” wasn’t a win after all when the real winner of the draw came foward, a 40-year-old postal worker from Scotland, Angela Kelly.
The winning ticket was Britain’s biggest-ever lottery win.
The real winner.
Nip ‘n Tuck.
Boob’s, boobs, boobs!
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.
In the UK, an FM radio station gave away a boob job to jubilant 27-year-old Nadine Pude who said she would buy “loads of new underwear and a bikini that really shows off my assets.”
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.
Controversy Down Under
Jealous old bag, Helen.
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?
Run a boob job competition.
It’s so simple.
Now, I’m off to get my copy of Zoo!
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Can’t name that song?
Don’t know anything about the artist?
You’re so pathetic, you don’t even know the words to the song, yet you still want to track it down so you can purchase it?
Never fear.
An Australian inventor has been working on the problem for a good decade.
The computer science expert from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has developed the technology that will enable you to hum a melody into a microphone attached to you’re computer, and the software program will instantly track down you’re song.
“The singing is stored in the computer as a wave form and then must be converted into note information before it can be matched against the music,” Inventor Dr Sandra Uitdenbogerd said.
“The converted fragment of recorded singing is compared with the note information extracted from the audio files in the online music collection that’s being searched.”
Did you get all that?
I know I didn’t.
But what about the easy task of typing in the words to a song, and hunting down you’re favoured track that way?
Well the Dr Uitdenbogerd admits that is an easy option, but for all those idiots out there who don’t know jack about what words their song has in it; the new technology will do wonders.
“Obviously, there are songs that people will know the lyrics to and Googling the words will generate fast and accurate results,” Dr Uitdenbogerd said.
“However there are categories of music that cannot be searched using text as a method of retrieval.”
Currently, the technology can only search for simple MIDI files, but Dr Uitdenbogerd said MP3 compatible software would be her next goal.
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Yes, that’s right, it’s yet another edition of….
Estonia
“He was drunk. There were three people in the car with him giving him instructions.”
Tartu police talk about the 20-year-old blind man that was caught, not once, but twice for drink driving in southern Estonia.
Italy
“Lots of people are saying, ‘I really need to lose some weight but it’s really tough.’ So I thought, why don’t we go on a group diet?”
The major of the town of Varallo in northwestern Italy talks about his idea for a weight loss campaign which would see men receiving 50 euros ($70) for losing 4 kg (9 pounds) in a month, and women getting the same amount for shedding 3 kg (7 pounds).
USA
“When I reached down to pick up the head, it raised around and did a backflip almost, and bit my finger.”
A Washington man tells how a rattlesnake he thought he killed with his son on their farm, bit him on the finger after it’s head was decapitated. He was taken to hospital when he realised that venom had entered his system.
Germany
“He was German, but he gave the dog the order to attack in French.”
Police spokesmen briefs reporters on a drunk, wheelchair bound man who set his dog to attack shoppers who had apparently verbally abused him, injuring 6.
They can reveal details of the ancient Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe at large. They are meteorites. They are the fragments of meteoroids, that have survived the journey thought the Earth’s atmosphere, and somehow landed on our planets surface and been preserved.
All round mystery….
And one such apparent meteorite from Tunguska, Russia, has made a strange diapering act.
According to media, the meteorite has ‘gone missing’ from the Tunguska Space Event Foundation in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia.
And this meteorite isn’t your normal marble to basketball sized rocks that are most commonly found, as seen above.
This meteorite is a ‘three ton rock’ that mysteriously disappeared recently, right under the noses of the foundation staff. That’s a three ton rock! Over 2 700 kilograms.
According to reports, Russian police are searching for the rock across the northern Siberian city, that foundation director Yury Lavbin apparently bought back from a 2004 expedition to the site of the mysterious ‘Tunguska event,” 100 years ago.
The Tunguska event uprooted and scorched trees for 50 miles around the ‘impact’.
(I say apparently as their appears to be very little evidence a meteorite from this event actually exists)
The Tunguska even/explosion occurred on June 30, 1908. Most scientists and researchers believe that the event was caused by the airburst of a comet fragment a few kilometres above the ground near the Tunguska river, blowing at 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
A blast that set the North Asian and European night skies alight in the hours after the event, according to Time Magazine. A night so bright, even people in London were said to be ‘able to read a paper outside’, where it would usually be pitch black.
The Alien Theory?
However, back in 2004, just after the expedition to the site of the event, Yurty Lavbin also made the claim that he and his team had found the wreck of an ‘alien technical device’ at ground zero of the Tunguska explosion. A claim that was picked up by news wires around the world, as fact.
To add to that, even before Lavbin set off on his expedition he had proclaimed he believed that not a meteorite, but an extraterrestrial spaceship had crashed in 1908.
Whatever the story, meteorite, or no meteorite, Lavbin wants his rock back.
“It winds up that it disappeared…our colleagues are establishing what got lost, where the rock is and why they only came to us about it now,” Lavbin said.
Yes, the mysterious meteorite rock (that may or may not have even existed in the first place), from the mysterious Tunguska event, is nowhere to be seen. Where could it be?
Perhaps the massive meteorite will wind up being sold on an online meteorite market, where daily, thousands of dollars are exchanged by buys and sellers of rocks from outer space.
Who stole my meteor?
And it turns out that missing meteorites in Russia is not a new thing….
Back in June the Sofia news agency reported that a chunk of a meteorite weighing over 7 kilograms has been stolen from a museum in the remote Magadan Region in Russia’s Far East.
Thieves broke into the history museum in the village of Seimchan at night and stole a part of the Seimchan meteorite, found in 1967 near a gold mine.
Apparently the offenders were inspired by a recent TV program, which discussed the high value of meteorites on Russia’s black market.
Meanwhile, in other crazy out of this world news, lucky stargazers in the northern hemisphere and parts of the southern hemisphere for that matter, have been treated to the spectacular display of the Perseid meteor shower, an annual event, which this year coincided with a new moon, allowing for the best star gazing in years.
Prime viewing locations were Western Europe and North America, where 100 meteors or more an hour would have been visible where the sky was clearest and darkest.
The shower has been observed at least for the past 2000 years.
And what of the chances of being hit by a meteorite from the sky?
“There’s been about 21 recorded deaths in around the last 100 years from meteorite strikes,” said Australian scientist Jane Morgan.
“You may remember about three years ago when a house was hit by a meteorite in New Zealand … punched a hole in the roof and ricocheted around the lounge room and came to rest, but the chances of being hit are very slight, but it has been known to happen.”
I like those odds’
Heads up!
Video from the shower last night, the meteor shower that is, I know what you were thinking, sicko….
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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..
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Doggy-Dog Dog…
Legendary, some would say a little crazy, celebrity bounty hunter Duane Lee “Dog” Chapman, is out with a new book on his eventful life. After accusations that he’s a womanizing racist and a hypocritical, “crack head,” the Dog says he wants to set the record strait.
Dog has a well defined macho, cavalier, rough and tumble, tough guy image. Yet, he also paints himself as a good family man, and says he is a ‘devout Christian, who sees his job as a way to help people find the right path’. He will stop at nothing to chase down the ‘bad guys’, and get ‘em off the streets.
But other’s, including some members of his extended family, say his not the guy he makes out to be.
“Everyone is jumping on the ‘hate Dog’ bandwagon. They’re all lying. I’ve made a lot of enemies in my life, and I’m sorry I’ve done that. I guess if one person comes after you, they all come after you,” he angrily told the National Ledger.
The former convict also has a weak spot, and if he ever happens to be on your tale, you might want to find somewhere high up for safety.
Dog and boob’s, AKA his wife Beth.
Dog has a hardcore fear of heights.
When doing interviews for his book in New York City this week, he refused to head out to the roof of a 61-story building for a photo shoot.
So there it is, if ever being perused by bad ass Dog the Bounty Hunter, seek higher ground. Too easy.
In his biography, Chapman talks about his troubled childhood, joining a motorcycle gang, “run-ins” with the law, his five wives (juts like Mit Romney’s relatives), 12 children, and his devotion to God.
Once, after hunting crims in Mexico, he himself was arrested, as bounty hunting there is illegal (as it probably should be in all sane places).
He had gone there to capture Andrew Luster, a heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune who was wanted for rape in the US, not realizing what he was doing was an illegal act. Or did he?
Tough guy behind bars.
He was taken into custody in September 2006 by US authorities, but luckily for him, the charges were dropped.
“I’m going to keep bounty hunting in the U.S., but not in Mexico,” he tells media.
He also said that a book on his life would help clear up misconceptions about his personality.
“I come across sometimes as not the average bloke so this will help people understand me.”
Bloke? Is not that word of the Aussie variety… Trying to sound fair dinkum, ey. (Note: Don’t say the phrase fair dinkum on any US domestic flights, you may be arrested and questioned, for meaning on that word, click here).
The Dog the Bounty Hunter reality TV series is shown in more than 100 counties.
Click to see an excerpt from the book.
Watch an outtake from another wacky episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter.
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Oh YEAH! Its Friday…..You all know what that means…… Yes, it’s time for another instalment of…..
The Crazy News Crazy Video of the Week!
In this Friday’s crazy video, a devious raccoon decides that a 5-finger discount on a nice looking carpet door mat is in order. After slowly sneaking in through a doggy door, the raccoon slowly claws the carpet, and in the blink of an eye, is back off into the night.
Raccoons have an amazing ability to open many closed containers, despite having no opposable thumbs like us humans.
They also have a reputation for being clever and mischievous; in fact, their intelligence and dexterity equip them to survive in a wide range of environments and are one of the few medium-to-large-sized animals that have enlarged its range since human encroachment began.
Raccoon’s are now my new favourite animal! Little devils they are…
UPDATE:
Well, well, well. Good things come in 2’s.
Less than a day after The Crazy News decided to feature a devilish raccoon as the Crazy Video of the Week, shocking news comes out of the US.
40-year-old Denise Morrison was taking a leisurely stroll thought some woods in Connecticut with a group of children, when a raccoon seemingly came out of nowhere and bit one of the children, a 5-year-old boy, on the leg.
“It went right for us, it wasn’t stumbling around,” Denise told local media.
Denise pulled the raccoon off the child, and told the kids to run for their lives and head for home. From then on it was just woman on raccoon. Going toe-to-toe in the woods alone.
She went into full action mode, and instead of using a stick or a foot to beat the rabid creature, Denise chose a more aggressive style, knelling on the raccoon with both legs and then strangled the animal to death.
You go girl!
“It felt like a long time… I knew if I hit it, it might attack someone else, or me,” She said.
Local authorities praised Morrison as a hero.
“She had the presence of mind to choke it…she is one tough lady,” a local animal control officer said.
“She wrestled a 25-pound raccoon and kept her cool.
“She let the kids run away. It was what any mother would do…she is amazing, a pioneer mom,” a local policeman said.
The carcass was taken to a state laboratory where, unfortunately, it tested positive for rabies.
Denise and the boy are undergoing rabies treatment.
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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!
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Through the roof!… You know what they say about men with big feet…
Move over Bao Xishun of China, Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk is the toast of his homeland, after being declared the new world’s tallest man in London by the Guinness Book of Records.
Bao and the new Mrs.
Yep, poor old recently married Bao is now yesterday’s hero, but at least he can now go back to the simple life and Leonid can step into the spotlight, and fascinate the world with his 2.58 m (8 ft 5+1⁄2 inch) frame.
At one with the trees, just do it!
And Leonid has a team of Soviet era Ukrainian surgeons to thank, because back in 1985 he underwent a brain operation, which apparently stimulated his pituitary gland a bit too much, and contributed, to his massive growth.
Didn’t the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster happen around the same time as well? Hrmmm? Makes you think….
Unfortunately for Leonid, his growth continues, even as he heads into his late 30’s.
There is some big hands! Shack will be jealous…
“My two-year-old suit’s sleeves and pants are now 30 centimetres (12 inches) shorter than I need…my height is God’s punishment. My life has no sense,” he told reporters back in 2004.
He had previously laid claim to being the world’s tallest man, however it was only until recently that he allowed the Guinness Records to officially measure him.
He quit his job as a veterinarian in 2001, and now lives with his mother and works on a farm in the small town of Podolyantsi.
“He is a most unselfish, diligent man of a pure soul,” said a neighbour of Leonid back in 2004.
The tallest man in history, however, was Robert Pershing Wadlow from the United States, standing at a whopping 2.72 meters (8 ft 11.1 in) tall. He died in 1940 after he developed an infection of the foot (people died more easily back in those days).
Tallest in medical history.
The world’s tallest woman is Sandy Allen of Indiana, USA. She stands at 2.31 m (7 ft 7 in).
‘Tallest Woman’, Sandy Allen in the late 1970’s.
Click to See more from Guinness!
To help celebrate the passing of the baton of world’s tallest men, from China to Ukraine, 80’s pop singer Yazz decided to drop on by and dedicate her dance hit classic to Leonid Stadnyk and his wonderful achievement….
Well done again, Leonid, well done…
Yes, that’s right. The only way IS up.
While you are here, please, check out more amazing stories on The Crazy News Blog homepage!!!…
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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!
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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!
Who said flying saucers were not from this world?
As NASA launches a US$2 million prize contest for a viable flying car or personal air vehicle (PAVs), a competition called the PAV Challenge, one company says it’s already light years ahead.
The US company called Moller International says it is ready to put a real flying saucer onto the market, so you and I can have a piece of the action.
Inspired by 1960’s cartoon series, The Jetsons, the California-based company has just begun production on the initial six airframes of its M200G Volantor.
Meet George Jetson!
Apparently, the personal flying pod can glide three metres off the ground and carry two passengers. It is powered by eight of the company’s rotary engines and with a maximum flying hight of just 3 meters above the ground, the flying saucer is said to act similar to a hovercraft without the restrictions of a rough surface, and can even “glide over terrain at 50 MPH.”
There are even prototype plans in the works for high-rise rescue pod configurations, and pods that can be equipped with weapons for use in the military, with reports this month that the US Department of Defence is looking at purchasing at least some of the technology.
In the 1997 Sci-Fi/Action movie, The 5th Element, flying cars are the only way to get around…
The prototype has completed over two hundred flights with and without a pilot on board.
For safety, air-bags surround occupants in the cockpit, while the vehicle’s on-board computer system ensures that it does not enter regulated airspace.
But is this the real deal?
The owner of Moller International, Canadian Dr Paul Moller, has been working to sell flying car style products for some 40 years, and while nobody really doubts that his vehicle is able to lift off in the air at least for a few moments, it takes up a lot of energy to get a fully stable and viable, Jetsons style pod to work for transportation.
The same man and company is, or was, behind the well documented Skycar. That made waves in the media back in 2003, but the buzz around that soon subsided when Dr Moller and his company was sued by the US Securities and Exchange commission, a lawsuit that was settled for US$50,000.
The Moller Skycar prototype. It’s noisy, unstable, and doesn’t go very far at all. Couldn’t even sell it on eBay.
As to date, the company has never bought a viable vehicle to market, but Moller insists that this flying pod is going to be different. But with a pricetag of at least US$90-$125,000, evidence of a potentially successful product is still to be seen, so I wouldn’t be holding my breath, just yet anyway.
However, NASA is optimistic about the future prospects of Jetsons style personal air travel, a future that some thought would be a reality today. A future where flying cars are as common as cars on the road.
A recent report predicts that up to 45% of all miles travelled in the future may be in PAVs. The prediction accounts for the need to relieve the future congestion at metropolitan hub airports and the roads and freeways that surround them.
It would also reduce the need to build new highways and save much of the 6.8 billion gallons of fuel wasted in surface gridlock each year.
I’d just like to know who gets to drive these future air cars, and what traffic system is in place to stop deadly accidents. A problem you can bet a flying car future would bring, given the death and destruction the humble car has unleashed on the worlds roads in the last 100 years.
See video of the pod, should I say very dubious as there is a big crane pictured off to the side of the test field. I wonder what that could be for.
Also the video looks to have been taken some time in the 1980’s, maybe even longer ago than that.
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Roadkill…
France
“Many enthusiasts would eat five to seven dozens in a single meal.”
China
“It is not proper to sell soft drinks or snacks right at the toilets.”
Officials in Beijing have decided to move food stalls located near public toilets, just in time for next years Olympic Games. How nice of them.
Germany
“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.”
A report in Sydney shows that fat and heavy corpses are creating safety issues in the nations mortuaries. Pathologists are calling for new “heavy-duty” autopsy facilities to cope. Yipes!.
UK
“The work I do is aggressive and pulls no punches.”
English artist Adam Morrigan who makes sculptures from roadkill has put a 1 million pound price on his latest piece of work. As yet there have been no interested buyers. I wonder why…?
The old crayon in the brain….
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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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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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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 !
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.
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!
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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.
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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: 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.
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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…
I’ve decided to start a new weekly blog segment.
Since it’s Friday, the traditional end of the working week, I thought it would just be great to cap off the week with…
The Crazy News Crazy Video of the Week…
So for our maiden segment, I spent about 15 minutes looking at random youtube videos and have narrowed one down as this weeks, Crazy News Crazy Video of the Week.
It looks to me like a crazy prank by a couple of college students on a dorm buddy who has passed out, by what is presumed to be a heavy night of drinking.
Quite hilarious indeed.
The best part is when he wakes up in the middle of the lake!
Enjoy your weekend!
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!
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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.
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….
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.
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!
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 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!”
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.
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.”
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”.
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.
The British Army sounds like fun.
A 22 (going on 12) year-old man has faced court in the UK after he strolled into a military hanger, jumped into the driver’s seat of warrior tank, pushed the on button and destroyed a small car.
Jack Carroll was staying on base in North Yorks with a friend who is in the British Army when he decided it would be a fun idea to take out a parked car and have the whole thing filmed and put on the internet.
The video shows the warrior tank moving slowly toward a small white car, panning across, as it runs it over, completely crushing it. The tank was not damaged in any way.
Prosecutors told the court that “when the vehicle stops the person holding the camera moves to the front of the vehicle and the recording ends with a picture of the driver in the driver’s seat looking out and quite plainly gleeful at what he has just done.”
Outside court the naughty lad’s mother, Tina, said: “It is lucky he was a good intentioned young lad not a terrorist who got in that vehicle I think the Army must bear responsibility too.”
Carroll was given a one year driving ban, 200 hours community service and a small fine.
Sounds like it may have been worth it.
The video (BBC News video)
When not at war, soldiers just love to crush cars for fun.
Just what you pay your taxes for.
When is comes to a woman’s preference for a male partner, most studies have concluded that desirability was influenced by commitment and offcourse earnings potential, but a new study says physical characteristics matter more.
“Women are predisposed to prefer muscularity in men,” said study author David Frederick of UCLA.
The study was published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and suggests muscles in men are akin to elaborate tail feathers in male peacocks: They attract females looking for a virile mate.
Women were more physically attracted to brawny men, especially for a fling. But when it comes to finding a long-term partner, they tend to pick a regular man over a mate with huge biceps.
“On the one hand, it makes them more sexy to women. On the other hand, it makes women more suspicious about their romantic intentions,” Frederick said.
So, want more one night stands men? Then get into that gym and those protein bars.
Or, if you’re looking for a more long term thing, then the gym can wait, too much muscle and those jealous women might think you’re going to betray them.
A Crazy News classic.
It’s been revealed a woman from Texas, USA, is taking legal action against a former high school classmate for using her name as an alias in the porn industry.
25-year-old porn actress Lara Madden has appeared in at least 15 X-rated sex movies since 2004 using the stage name “Syvette Wimberly”, the name of her former friend from the ninth grade in the city of Houston
Wimberly does not believe it’s a coincidence that her old classmate is now using her name. “I imagine she knew the name and maybe thought it sounded catchy and was unique,” Wimberly said.
Lara Madden and an adult film studio are being sued for invasion of privacy and emotional distress.
“Really on a weekly, if not daily basis, my client has had to deal with odd phone calls, former classmates that didn’t know her that well sending her e-mails about whether she’s now in the adult film industry and just a general lack of safety for her,” her attorney told local media.
Lara Madden appears in videos produced and distributed by Vivid Entertainment, a high quality video producer famous for videos including stars Jenna Jameson, Briana Banks and Tera Partick.
The real Syvette Wimberly is asking for monetary damages and an injunction to stop Madden from using her name.
Lara Madden or Syvette Wimberly?
In a hardening of previous policy, the Chinese government are set to crack down on government officials who have been found to have “kept and supported” mistresses, in a move aimed at ‘raising social morals’.
Mistresses and “second wives” are common among government officials and businessmen in China.
Corrupt officials are a major cause of public outrage in China, and the country’s Communist rulers have warned that if graft is not checked it could threaten the party’s grip on power.
Chinese policy makers found it ”necessary to make a clarification and emphasis” on the punishment for officials who supported mistresses.
“The morality of government officials shown in their management or power operation… directly affects the moral level of the whole society.”
“Therefore, officials should set up good examples, and abide by social morality rules.”
Last year, a Chinese vice admiral was jailed for life on embezzlement charges after one of his many mistresses blew the whistle on him when he refused to give in to her demand for money.
Sloth of a time.
The Crazy News- Tool of the Week
Some people have all the time in the world.
Regular Homer Simpson, Greg Packer, is claiming his 15 minutes of fame for the second time in New York this week. Or is it the 3rd or 4th or 5th time?
The 43-year-old retired highway maintenance worker (retired? how much do they get paid) started lining up to be the first to purchase the new iPhone from Apple’s flagship store in Manhattan, 101 hours before it goes on sale 6pm Friday US eastern time.
Apple Man
Packer has since been joined by about more than a dozen other iPhone fans and opportunists, who have also chosen to join in on the sit in, braving the concrete enhanced heat of the other famous Big Apple.
Packer says he is relying on food donations and the bathroom facilities at the Apple Store, which is open 24-hours a day.
Sitting is fun.
This isn’t the first time our good friend has made headlines waiting for fancy new products to come on sale; he was one of the first to buy a Playstation 3 when that went on sale last November. Indeed, he even has his own wikipedia page, which says he has appeared in mainstrem media more than 100 times, quoted by various media organisations since the mid 1990’s infact.
And according to US TV news host Keith Olberman, this guy is a bit of a pest. The Associated Press even put out a memo to it’s journalists, warning them not to “indulge him”.
The iphone retails between $US499 for a 4GB memory and $US599 for one with 8.
And guess what! Our iPhone friend even has his own wordpress blog!
He’s looking for someone to donate him a comfy chair for all that sitting he’s been doing. It just goes to show, you don’t need to have much talent to be famous in America, just ask Paris Hitlon.
You also have to wonder, could this be a smart marketing stunt from the Jobs’ Apple team? Maybe you should ask..maybe I should ask. Naaa…
Update: Interview with iPhone Greg and fellow lineruperer David.
It’s a circus out there!
Meanwhile, on Friday, just hours before the iPhone went on sale in New York City, a camera crew doing a live interview had a number of those gathered in and near the line taunting and swearing at them. A bloke even tired to grab the reporter’s microphone, before being hammered to the ground by security/teamsters.
In American politics, if your running for office, particularly the Presidency, it appears anything you may or may not have done in the past is fare game. No matter how trivial or serious.
Mitt Romney is a former US State Governor and is now currently seeking the nomination for President from the Republican Party (the one George W. Bush belongs to).
About 25 years ago, on one of his many family road trip holidays, Romney decided it was a good idea to strap the family pet, Seamus, to the car roof for a 12 hour journey from Massachusetts to Canada.
And now, a quater of a century later, animal rights activists are outraged.
Seamus protested in a scatological way, going to the bathroom on the roof of the car.
Animal rights activists said the tale seems a little cruel.
“It is commonsense that any dog who’s under extreme stress might show that stress by losing control of his bowels: that alone should have been sufficient indication that the dog was, basically, being tortured,” Time quoted Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as saying.
Newkirk said it was “a lesson in cruelty that was … wrong for [his children] to witness.”
So, next time you strap your pet dog to the roof of your car for the 12 hour trip, make sure youre not running for President 25 years later, otherwise you might get yourself into trouble.
Lesson learned.
Speaking of PETA.
PETA Pam
Got milk?
A conservative Polish news magazine Wpropst (you need to know Polish if you click that), has gone soft-core porn and stirred up a fuss ,which as you can see, is a little bit of an eye catcher.
The politics and society magazine chose to take the visual dig at the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, and Poland’s ruling twins Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczynski, after complex pole-itical (yes I know, lame) agreements were made between the countries at a European summit recently.
“Germany used to be Poland’s principal partner in the West,” it said. “Now it has become our prosecutor-in-chief,” the mag wrote.
London newspapers reported that the article argued:
Germany was treating its eastern neighbour neo-colonially and refusing to accept it as a European partner and accused Dr Merkel of humiliating Poland at the summit because she was full of complexes.
A Polish media watchdog said the publication “overstepped the limits of good taste”.
“Dont mention the war!”
During the same summit that prompted the magazine cover, the Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that Polands’ population would be a lot larger if so many had not been killed by the Nazis in World War 2.
Errr, awkward.
How do twins become President and Prime Minister of a country anyway?
Speaking of awkward….
Faulty Towers classic.
In a nation renowned for its extremely harsh punishment for drug crimes, Indonesia’s Vice President said it was just fine and dandy for Marijuana to be included in everyday cooking
“It’s alright to use it as a food seasoning,” VP Jusuf Kalla was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Post daily.
The comments come after two Indonesian agencies recommended the government review policy outlawing marijuana for recreational purposes.
One official even reckons national policy should follow counties like the Netherlands, and legalise modest use of the wacky weed.
Indo VP High as a kite?
Local Indonesian dishes like mutton and beef curry are said to be laced with marijuana seeds to give them a distinctive local flavour.
Indonesia imposes very harsh penalties including death for drug offences, with 6 Australians, 5 Chinese, a Dutchman and a Frenchman all on death row for recent offences
For more video, story and trasncript of Hilton CNN interview.
King of talk meets Queen of Celeb on CNN.
The Paris Hilton media circus was in full swing, with serious and soft journalists from around the world descending on Hollywood just to see one woman get out of jail.
Hundreds of photographers, camera and sound operators, reporters, bloggers and general losers bombarded her with questions, camera flashes, and general screaming as she walked a media gauntlet to greet her family in a large SUV outside the jailhouse where she spent the last few weeks.
Hilton stepped to freedom just after 12am local time.
Hilton left the media madness with a major convoy in toe, and TV networks across America went live with an OJ Simpson style news chopper chase as the Hiltons spent about 45 minutes on the road travelling to the Hollywood hills for a stay at the heavily fortified mansion of the Hilton grandparents.
Hilton’s stay cost taxpayers US$1,109.78 a day, more than 10 times the cost of housing inmates in the general population.
Paris will chat to TV talk show host Larry King in an interview sure to be one of CNN’s best rated in history.
Raw VIDEO
Commentary VIDEO
A 73 year old Indian man has failed to get though his high school exam for the 38th time. Every year since 1969 Shiv Charan Yadav has attempted to pass a test normally given to 15 year olds.
The farmer has vowed not to get married untill he can pass the exam seems like he is running out of time.
“Once I pass I want to get married to a girl who’s under 30,” he told media.
Mr Yadav, who lives alone in Kohari village in the western desert state of Rajasthan, was in his 30s when he first decided to better himself through education.
In this years test, he failed everything except Sanskrit, scoring only 103 points out of a possible 600.
He said he found mathematics especially hard, blaming the subject for dragging down his score.
He is now revising for his 39th attempt next year.
Japan is about to have its first aged care facility for mans best friend, the dog.
20 dogs nearing the end of thier lives will be pampered and cared for at a facility set up by Saradi Corporation, cashing in on a demand for dog carers, as many people become too old to care for their own pets.
The facility, located in the resort area of Nasu north of Tokyo, will have a veterinarian on standby 24 hours a day and the dogs will be able to exercise regualarly, eat natural foods and mix with younger dogs to maintain their vitality.
“We see a strong demand for these services, partly because owners are ageing alongside their dogs and also because many women work nowadays, leaving them no time to care for their dogs,” the companies chief executive Nana Uchida says.
Japan is the world’s fastest-ageing nation, with 40 per cent of the population expected to be over 65 in the next 50 years. The average lifespan of Japan’s 13 million dogs has also extended from five years or less in the 1980s, to 15 years or more recently, thanks to improved diet and medical care.
A new Canadian study on what we dream about when we sleep says that men and women dream about sex on an equal level.
The study was based on interviews with 109 women and 64 men who logged their dreams over a period of two to four weeks. The volunteers racked up some 3500 dreams, with 8 per cent of those being of an erotic nature.
It found that women think about doing it with movie and rock stars and politicians or lovers of past, while men dream about making love to multiple partners in public or unknown settings.
The women who took part in the study were twice as likely to have dream scenarios featuring celebrities such as actors Brad Pitt or George Clooney, or Irish rocker Bono, as their male counterparts.
Men, on the other hand, reported dreams featuring multiple sex partners twice as often as the women.
Men almost never had to put their ego on the line and come on to a woman. In about 90 per cent of the erotic dreams males logged, the women made the first move.
“The men had women coming on to them – at least in their dreams,” said author Antonio Zadra, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Montreal in Canada.
The pattern may reflect a certain amount of wishful thinking given the usual social norms that apply in the dating and courtship world, Professor Zadra said.
And finally, when it came to erotic dreams that dealt with sexual disappointments, the genders had very different tales to tell.
The women recounted scenarios where they were turned off by something that happened or the pace of proceedings. For the men, it was more often a case of their virtual partners refusing to engage in certain activities, or their sexcapade plans falling through for some reason.
“Maybe their demands were unrealistic even for their dream characters,” Prof Zadra said.
All the participants in the study were heterosexuals.
It’s unlikely that anybody will copy the Crocodile Hunter, but Steve Irwin would surely approve of Dr Brady Barr — he impersonates crocodiles.
The renowned National Geographic reptile researcher has developed a unique crocodile-shaped protective suit that allows him to get right next to the fearsome beasts in the wild.
As an added defence, Dr Barr smears himself with animal dung to mask his humour odour.
While it lacks the function of Roger Moore’s floating suit in the James Bond film ‘Octopussy’, the croc suit proved effective in letting Dr Barr get right next to some endangered Nile crocodiles in Egypt.
And this croc-man is no newcomer to the animal communing game: he’s been getting to know all manner of wild beasts for the past 15 years, and seeks out the poison of the black mamba snake and the ‘bite force’ of several of the planet’s most frightening predators as part of his latest mission.
Video: Walking with crocodiles
Low cost, no frills, airlines in Europe have been all the rage for some years now. But when passengers boarding low-cost Spanish airline Vueling Airlines Sunday realised that nearly half the seats on their plane were out of use, some began worrying.
No frills air conditioning
The captain told passangers on the intercom: “We will not be able to use that part of the plane because we have a safety problem with the door at the front. Don’t worry, it’s only a safety problem,”
Some passangers where very nervous including one passenger who asked a pesimistic question about whether the plane could tip over in mid-air by flying with a heavier load on one side.
Many passangers who were flying Lisbon to Madrid took photos of the taped-off seats but staff stopped them saying it was against company rules.
The safety problem was with the slide on one of the plane’s eight emergency exit doors, a spokeswoman for Vueling said.
The firm followed aviation guidelines which allow the door to be used but oblige a reduction in passenger numbers because it cannot fulfill its emergency function, she said.
A serious case of toilet humour?
Only in America…..A woman in the US state of Iowa, who is the butt of all jokes, has been charged with stealing toilet paper from a courthouse. And the most halarious part of it all, she is facing “potentially three years of incarceration for three rolls of toilet paper”, that even had the police Chief in fits of laugheter.
Yes, you heard it right, thats one year per roll of toilet paper. The state legislators apparenly really value toilet paper, they used to use poison ivy over in Iowa up unitl recently.
Suzanne Marie Butts insists it was the first time she had stolen the paper, but she declined to answer further questions on advice from her attorney.
The fifth-degree theft charge normally carries a sentence of less than a year in jail. But Butts could face more time if convicted under the state’s habitual offender law because she has prior theft convictions.
Butts, 38, was caught last week after an employee saw her taking three rolls of two-ply tissue from a storage closet in Marshall County.
Video: See the local Iowa news report on Butts, quite a laugh!
No, not a Hugh Hefner style playhouse, but we can keep dreaming…
Any excuse to post a blog with this picture in it really….
Paris Hilton has gushed over the phone Sunday to dinosaur aged American veteran jounalist Barbara Walters about wanting to “make a difference”.
“I used to act dumb. It was an act. That act is no longer cute. It is not who I am nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me,” Hilton said.
When she is back to freedom (the freedom to be hounded by paparazzi), Paris apparently said she would like to help in the field of breast cancer, which her grandmother battled, or Multiple Sclerosis, which her father’s mother suffered from. She also said she’d like to get toy companies to build a “Paris Hilton playhouse” for sick children.
“I’m not that superficial girl. I haven’t looked in the mirror since I got here.”
Paris called Sunday from the Correctional Treatment Center at Los Angeles County’s “Twin Towers” jail facility where she is serving a 45-day sentence for violating her probation stemming from a drunk driving charge last year, as if you didnt know that alreaddy right?
Kathy and Rick Hilton with a poster of their daughter, Paris Whitney Hilton.
Walters said she was talking to Hilton’s mother, Kathy Hilton, at 3 p.m. LA time Sunday when Paris called her mom on another line. Paris Hilton said she wanted to talk to Walters herself, so she did.
“She sounded, first of all, tired but totally aware of what she was saying,” Walter said on the ABC TV daytime chat show, “The View.”
“I’m hanging in there but I feel as if I’m a different person,” Hilton told Walters. “I’ve dropped my appeal. I do not want to cause any more problems.”
“I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. I have been thinking that I want to do different things when I am out of here. I have become much more spiritual.
While inside Hilton said that she had been reading newspapers, including the LA Times and Wall Street Journal as well as books, including “The Secret,” “The Power of Now” and even the Bible.
So, do I belive that all this turning of a new leaf stuff for Paris is for real?…Not really…
And Hollywood image-makers agree with me.
Based on the way the story has been playing out, this is a good move for her,” said Michael Levine, who has served as publicist for dozens of celebrities, including law brushing veteran Michael Jackson, love her or hater her Barbara Streisand and tough guy Bill O’Reilly. “Experience has taught me that celebrities respect wisdom but obey pain. What I mean by that is that when they feel the heat they see the light.”
“When you’re in a hole, it’s generally a good idea to stop digging … from doing the same idiotic stuff that got you in trouble in the first place…I think that the public this time is disgusted with her and probably asking themselves why they even bother,” he said.
“So she’s on the brink of becoming a caricature or a person. The next step is hopefully to reveal by her words and actions that she has taken responsibility for being an adult.”
So is Paris Hilton going to be a changed woman after her prison stay? Or is this all just apart of her ‘image managment’?, only time will tell.
Walters talks about the interview.
”That’s hot”
How will she ever shake this video?
Post World War 2 Japan has had a strict self- defence only policy, but the Land of the Rising Sun is about to declare war on our friends in the animal kingdom
Having debated since March on how to deal with wild animals such as boars, bears and monkeys who attack crops and enter populated areas, a group of Japanese ruling party politicians has agreed to call on the military for help.
Japanese Macaque monkeys, probably the coolest monkeys in the world, besides us ofcourse.
Under the plan, subject to approval from party executives, local leaders will be able to request help from the country’s Self Defence Forces to build fences and set traps. Some in the party are also calling for troops to use guns.
But the defence ministry is cautious on the use of weapons as Japan’s military activities are strictly curtailed by its pacifist constitution.
Oh deer….
Hanging out with Japanese deer
Meanwhile, the ruling parties plans’ seem to be falling on deaf ears. Nearly half of Japanese voters want the ruling coalition to lose its upper house majority in July elections, a Kyodo news agency poll showed on Sunday.
The poll of 1,858 voters found 46.9 percent hoped Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Centrist Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior coalition partner New Komeito would lose, compared with 43.6 percent who wanted the ruling bloc to maintain its majority.
Shinzo Abe, lucky wild animals can’t vote.
A woman in China has been compensated $290 US (2,200 yuan) by McDonalds Corporation after a rat climbed up her leg and bit her thight while she was eating a meal.
The student had made a claim of 20,000 yuan to cover medical and other fees, as well as psycological truama she claimed the incident had caused.
The court ruled that McDonald’s was responsible for maintaining proper hygiene at its restaurants, in line with relevant hygiene standards of China, and should compensate the woman for failing to protect customer safety. The court did not rule on a particular monetray payment sum for the woman.
The unidentified woman said the incident caused her to become frightened by white mice and rabbits.
I wonder how much she would have been awarded if the incedent took place in a county like the United States or the UK?. A lot more I’de say.
See more on the rich and long history of McDonalds in court.
Last week in Amsterdam it was cycling nude for art, this week in cities across Europe and North America they were doing it in the name of the environment, or something.
Under the slogan “As Bare As You Dare,” protesters felt the wind in their hair — and everywhere else — as they pedalled along demonstrating the risks they face on the roads and the impact that cars have on the environment.
Authorities generally turned a blind eye to one of the world’s more outlandish environmental protests, apart from in Paris where five of the unabashed riders were arrested for so-called “sexual exhibition.”
Most of the 400 people, including 160 on bikes, gathered for the Paris event decided that discretion was the better part of valour and fearing arrest redonned clothes and dispersed.
Many had turned their bodies into human placards, writing slogans or humorous messages across their stomachs or on their backs. “Warning: fragile!”, one said, “Warning: flesh!” another.
In London, 700 cyclists in various states of undress were reported to have gambolled through central London in another leg of the World Naked Bike Ride, while similar events happened in Manchester, Southampton and York.
The nude cyclists — and others with strategically-placed body paint, sticky tape or bum bags — began their ride at Hyde Park and finished in Wellington Arch, a route of about six miles (10 kilometres).
“We are seeing an increasing number of stories of melting ice caps and Antarctica crumbling away and no government is doing anything serious about this,” said Martin Ireland, one of the riders.
“They are paying lip service to the problem so people have been taking to their bikes, unclothed, to express their feelings about it.”
Video: Nudist bikers run riot.
View new, updated post ‘Paris “taken screaming” HERE.
Paris Hilton may still yet be screwed around….
A Los Angeles judge has ordered Paris Hilton to appear in court in person today. It was initially understood that she was allowed to phone in, however, the judge ordered her to be physically in court, which will determine whether she should be returned to jail.
The West Hollywood mansion.
As you probably know by know, Ms Hilton has been allowed to leave jail after only serving 3 measly days of a 45 day term. She is now confined to her mansion in West Hollywood. Hilton was given an electronic tag and ordered to remain under house arrest for the remainder of her sentence.
The court apperance was prompted after L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo demanded an explanation as to why the Sheriff’s Department allowed Paris to get out of jail when the judge had expressly ordered her to serve out her entire sentence.
Video: Exclusive video outside the West Hollywood mansion where the media frenzy continues. It is also safe to asume that there will be a massive media scrum at the court where Paris will attend very soon.
“The decision whether or not Ms Hilton should be released early and placed on electronic monitoring should be made by Judge [Michael] Sauer, and not the Sheriff’s Department”-
At the time of Hilton’s release, Steve Whitmore, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said: “After extensive consultation with medical personnel, it was decided this reassignment should be done.”
No details of the medical problem could be given for “privacy reasons”, he said, but insisted she had received no special treatment.
Sick or special treatment?
Civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton condemned the release as showing the “double standards” of the US legal system.
“This early release gives all of the appearances of economic and racial favouritism that is constantly cited by poor people and people of colour,” he said. “There are any number of cases of people who handle being incarcerated badly and even have health conditions that are not released.”
Early release is “unusual”
Assistant City Atty. Dan Jefferies said that the reason given for Hilton’s release made the case unusual and raised questions about special treatment. He said that releasing inmates due to overcrowding was common but said in his 25 years as a prosecutor, he could remember only two or three instances when people were let go early for medical reasons. In each case,he said, the individuals were extremely ill.
Delgadillo, his boss, agreed: “Los Angeles County jail medical facilities are well-equipped to deal with medical situations involving inmates.”
He added that if Hilton’s “medical condition truly warranted a change in her circumstances” her attorney “should have filed an emergency application with the court and provided my office with the opportunity to respond.”
This aintn over yet folks!
El Mug.
I’ll do anything to get out?
US President George Bush has been taken ill at the G8 summit in Germany.
Mr Bush is said to be suffering from a stomach ailment and is resting in his room.
Bush had to skip a morning working session at the Group of Eight summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said.
“President Bush is slightly indisposed this morning and will rejoin the working meeting as soon as he can,” Sarkozy said after an hour-long discussion with Bush, their first bilateral talks since the French leader was elected last month.
Must have been all that pig he ate last night with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Or
Was it that he was sick of all those leaders “talking too long“?
Bush with new French President Sarkozy yesterday
A Polish man who miraculously woke up form a 19 year old coma says he is amazed at the amount of goods available in shops, is taken aback at the way people walk around talking on their mobile phones, and cried when he discovered the communists were no longer in power.
Railway worker Jan Grzebski, 65, fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988. Grzebski credits his amazing tale of survival to his wife Gertruda who moved her husband many times a day over a nearly two decade period to prevent bed sores, and spoon fed him.
Doctors gave him only two or three years to live after the accident, “Those who came to see us kept asking: ‘When is he going to die?’ But he’s not dead…it was Gertruda that saved me, and I’ll never forget it.”
”When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere…what amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning, I’ve got nothing to complain about,”Grzebski said when asked on his thoughts of the Poland of 2007.
“I could not talk or do anything, now it’s much better…I wake up at 7 a.m., and I watch TV,” he said, smiling slightly.
Standing by her man:
“I would fly into a rage every time someone would say that people like him should be euthanized, so they don’t suffer,” his wife Gertruda told local newspaper Gazeta Dzialdowska. “I believed Janek would recover… This is my great reward for all the care, faith and love”.
“He remembers everything that was going on around him,” she said. “He talks about it and remembers the weddings of our children. He had fever around the time of the weddings, so he knew something big was taking place.”
What an amazing story, obviously a very lucky man indeed.
Jan and wife Gertruda Grzebsky
The online availability of free and low-cost pornographic photos and videos has begun to take a toll on the sales of X-rated web sites and DVDs. An article in Saturdays New York Times has revealed that inexpensive digital technology has allowed aspiring amateur pornographers to flood the market, while the rest of the porn industry gives away more material in order to lure and maintain paying customers.
“People are making movies in their houses and dragging and dropping them onto free Web sites…It’s killing the marketplace.”, says a porn executive.
And Companies in the business are even supplying much of the free porn samples. “They think that if they give people enough of a free sample, they’ll come back and pay, but that’s not true, but in reality… people are surfing for free material, getting what they want and then leaving.”
Some companies are experiencing drops in revenue of up to 30%, and there are even claims that there has been a drop in the quality of plot and story lines, (as if they could become any worse). “There’s not a whole lot of story — it’s basically right to the sex, but we’re consistent with the quality”, says one industry insider.
Figures released recently show that the revenue from sales of pornographic videos, rentals and purchases dropped to US$3.62 billion in 2006, down from Us$4.28 billion in 2005.
So people, get your act together, quit filming and showing your home movies online, and let the pros do the work. Your killing the fun for us all, fore-shame!.
As The Crazy News reported a few days ago, new video evidence caught by an Englishman has stirred renewed interest in the existence of the fabled Loch Ness monster.
Something in the water….
And now some in the UK are cashing in on Nessie fever, offering a 1 million pound reward to anyone who can prove the actual existence of the monster.
Bookmakers William Hill are supplying up to 50,000 instant cameras to fans attending a Loch Ness pop festival in Scotland next weekend.
“We are hoping the one million pound bounty will help to solve one of the great enigmas of modern times,” William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said.
The winner will have to offer proof that satisfies experts at London’s Natural History Museum.
The bookmakers are confident the bounty will not be claimed at the Rock Ness music festival on June 9 and 10 — they are offering odds of 250-1 about it happening in 2007
The finger
A breakin at Berlins Technical Museum left a burgular one finger short on Tuesday night.
A 35 year old man set off an alarm at the museum and soon found himself being chased by two securtity guards. He somehow escaped, climbed a 3 meter fence, which snagged a ring on his right hand.
The man managed to free himself — but only after tearing off the finger. The security guards arrested him when he went back to recover the severed digit and ask for medical aid.
“His comment afterwards was: ‘Breaking and entering doesn’t pay,’” said a spokeswoman for local police. Doctors were unable to reattach the man’s finger.
Berlin Technical Museum
Former heavyweight boxing champion and ear eating extodanare Mike Tyson is to star in an action thriller which would see the U.S. boxer imitate real life, India’s Mumbai Mirror said.
The former heavyweight champion featured in a promotional music video of newly released Bollywood film “Fool and Final”, but the cameo received such a positive response from viewers that the director even incorporated the number in the film.
“I had decided to make a film with him later but after the promos featuring him received a great response, I decided to start the film sooner,” said producer Firoz Nadiadwala, who produced “Fool and Final”.
The daily said Tyson is getting a “huge price” for the new film — which will feature three top actors and be directed by a renowned filmmaker — but did not give any figure.
Tyson will play the role of a boxer, in a film expected to have a mix of drama and song and dance you would expect of your usual Bollywood film. The movie will be titled “Licence to Kill”. How original.
“Fool and Final” babes.
See the Tyson Bollywood promo, in all its lispy glory….
And for the “Fool and Final” theatrical trailer…it looks pretty exciting.
yummy ear…
Mix the African Serval
& The Asian Leopard Cat
With your regular domestic cat.
& you’ve got yourself…
“The Cat of the Century”
The ultra-exotic “Ashera” cat.
At a cool $20,ooo plus US dollars, the uber trendy Ashera cat is said to be the largest, rarest and most intelligent domestic cat. US based company Lifestyle Pets Inc. has already sold two of the felines to an unknown Beverly Hills family, as well as a Russian mogul in Moscow.
A proprietary blend of the exotic bloodlines of the African Serval and
the Asian Leopard Cat and subsequently crossing with a domestic cat,
the Ashera is unique in that genetic monitoring is used to standardize breeding and ensure that the defining features and size of the Ashera remain exceptionally consistent.
Fully socialized, the Ashera gets along well with children and other
pets, acting and playing like a regular domestic cat. Unusually for cats,
the Ashera takes well to being walked on a leash (cat walk). The Ashera will be limited to less than 100 per year.
So all you need is just a spare 20,ooo US bucks and you’ll be all set. I think I’ll pass thanks, I’m more of a dog person anyway.
Speaking of Meowing, I thought I might just throw this one in for a cheap feline based laugh.
RIP Xiangxiang
According to CNN the first ever panda to be bred in captivity and released into the wild was killed after falling from a tree, and may have died after being chased by wild pandas. The body of Xiang Xiang, a male panda, was found February 9 this year.
Researchers from the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in Sichuan told CNN that Xiang Xiang had serious internal injuries on his left side and that scratches and other minor marks on the mammals exterior had shown wild pandas previously attacked the 73 kilogram Xiang Xiang, whose name means auspicious.
The news of Xiang Xiangs death was only realesed today by the Chinese authorities who attributed the late notice to a need to fully investigate what happened. Authorites said that the Xiang Xiang case showed that groups of wild pandas were reluctant to accept male outsiders and that the next panda to be released would be female.
There are about 1,600 wild pandas in the mountainous forest areas of China, but the population is heavily threatened by the massive rise of the Chinese economy, adding strain to the natural environment.
This was not XiangXiangs first run in with wild pandas. He was injured back in late 2006, but was again released into the wild. He is seen here in a Chinese language news report
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US socialite Paris Hilton began serving her Los Angeles jail sentence for violating probation Sunday night, her lawyer says.
Hilton turned herself in at the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles just after 10:30 p.m., then was escorted to the all women’s facility in Lynwood, where she was booked, fingerprinted, photographed, medically screened and issued an orange top and pants
Earlier Sunday evening, Hilton attended the MTV Movie Awards near Hollywood, where she was the butt of comedians’ jokes, including a few jabs from Sarah Silverman (video) , which made Paris visibly unnerved, and left Jack Nicholson cracking up. 
Hilton’s booking photo showed the heiress wearing what appeared to be a V-neck shirt, eye makeup and lip gloss that highlighted a slight smile. Her long blond hair was draped over one shoulder.
The photo you will see on the front cover of Tuesdays paper.
Paris will take her meals in her cell and will be allowed outside the 12-by-8-foot space for at least an hour each day to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone. No cell phones or BlackBerrys are permitted in the facility, even for visitors.
The jail, a two-story concrete building next to train tracks and beneath a bustling freeway, has been an all-female facility since March 2006. It’s located in an industrial area about 12 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
“I did have a choice to go to a pay jail,” Hilton said Sunday, without giving details. “But I declined because I feel like the media portrays me in a way that I’m not and that’s why I wanted to go to county, to show that I can do it and I’m going to be treated like everyone else. I’m going to do the time, I’m going to do it the right way.” 
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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.
“You’re one ugly mother f#cker..”
Chin meet Daddy.
The more entertaining the program, the more youre likely to eat. That’s according to research presented in Canada by Dr Alan Hirsch from Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago.
Dr Hirsch explored the impact of smell, taste and eating behaviours on people while watching TV by measuring potato chip consumption.
45 volunteers ate as many chips as they wanted during five-minute intervals over three-week periods while they watched monologues by late-night US talk show hosts David Letterman and Jay Leno.
Dr Hirsch found people ate an average of 44 per cent more chips while watching Letterman and 42 per cent more while viewing Leno, than when they did not watch TV. Clearly proving that David Letterman is more entertaining.
“If you can concentrate on how the food tastes you’ll eat less because you’ll feel full faster… so if that’s the case, let’s look at the opposite. What if you’re distracted? If you’re distracted, in theory, then you’d eat more,” Dr Hirsch said
Many studies have linked obesity to watching television and that link is likely due to inactivity, Dr Hirsch said. But perhaps entertaining shows are also contributing.
“If you want to lose weight, turn off the television or watch something boring,” he said.
So switching off Jay and David for less entertaining programming might just be the new weight loss fad. You heard it here first.
Mmmm, salty snacks.
People are still having sex.
You can add sex to the roster of unlikely sleep behaviors known as parasomnias, which range from sleep driving to sleep eating, say psychological health experts.
“Sleepsex” or “sexsomnia” as it is being called occours during partial arousal from deep sleep, when the brain regions devoted to higher thought, judgment and reasoning are shut down, and areas governing more primitive functions (such as locomotion, eating and sex) are still active.
“One man had been initiating intercourse on almost a nightly basis,” says a psychologist about one case of sleepsex. That was apparently fine with his wife, until “one night he started snoring.” In another case, a female sexsomniac routinely groped her husband. Whenever he responded, “she would wake up and accuse him of forcing sex on her while she slept.”
Not all cases of sleepsex are so amusing. Canadian Jan Luedecke had a history of sleepwalking. One night he’d been drinking at a party and found himself sacked out on the couch with a woman he’d met there. Hours later, she jolted him awake and demanded to know what he was doing. Luedecke claimed he was unaware he was having sex with her. “Under the law, if there’s no intent to commit a crime, you haven’t committed a crime,” says Dr. Colin Shapiro, director of the Youthdale Child and Adolescent Sleep Center in Toronto, who testified for the defense. Luedecke was acquitted (to the outrage of women’s organizations in Canada), and the case is now on appeal.
The condition is highly treatable with the generic anti-anxiety drug clonazepam. Seeking help can only work to a sufferer’s advantage. After all, if you’re going to have sex, you might as well enjoy it.
Don’t worry, be happy.
They have been a source of cheap ridicule by many in society for centuries, and one all red haired family in the UK has reportedly had to move three times to escape taunts, violence and even graffiti. Kevin and Barbara Chapman say they and their four children have endured three years of attacks and abuse.
The chapman kids.
In the latest incident, they came home to find abusive slogans painted on their property. Even as the family discussed another move with social workers last week, they returned to find smashed windows.
Mr. Chapman, 49, said his 10-year-old daughter Ryelle and sons Daniel, 10 and Jordan, 13, had also been badly affected. Each time the family move the hate mob reappears, he says.
He said: “The abuse we get is unbelievable. It started more than three years ago, when the kids started getting bullied by lads over the colour of their hair.
“They’ve been punched and kicked and thrown over a hedge. Every time they go out these gangs get to them.
“We can’t even go to the local shops which are only two minutes away. The kids get all their stuff taken off them.”
Archaeologists in Japan have unearthed a 2,100 year old melon which still has it’s flesh inside apparently preserved underground over the centuries in a vacuum-packed state.
radiocarbon analysis was used to estimate the age of the fruit, believed to be the oldest melon found with flesh still on the rind, said Shuji Yamazaki, a local official in the city of Moriyama, 200 miles southwest of Tokyo.
The melon might have been so well-preserved because it was in a vacuum-packed state in a wet layer below the ground, an environment hostile to microorganisms that might otherwise have broken down the remains, Yamazaki said.
The old melon.
I bet it’s still tasty.
There’s only one way to find out….
A new study in the UK suggests taking Viagra may effect sperm functionality and lead to infertility.
In their experiments, Dr. David R. J. Glenn and colleagues observed that exposure of cultured sperm to Viagra, compared to no exposure, led to a “premature acrosome reaction.” Acrosomes are structures that cover the head of the sperm and contain a variety of enzymes that help the sperm penetrate the outer membrane of the egg.
“Given that the majority of sperm acrosome react on exposure to (Viagra), the drug may cause significant impairment to their fertilizing potential,” they write.
This is a concern, Glenn and colleagues say, given that Viagra and other like-drugs are widely available on the Internet and are increasingly being used “recreationally” by young healthy men of reproductive age as sexual enhancers — not just by older men who have erectile dysfunction.
So if your using Viagra and want kids, I’de stop. But if youre not interesting in having a young one you can train up to become the next Tiger Woods, party on fellas! ;)
Fred the dead hog…too ridiculously massive to fit in frame
An apparently wild 476 kilogram and 2.74 metres long hog, shot by an 11 year old Alabama boy recently, was not so wild after all. It was reported Friday that “Monster Pig” actually used to go by the name Fred, and was bought as a Christmas gift in 2004 by a pig farmer for his wife.
The Blissitt family of Alabama had actually raised the monster on their farm, but sold the pig away to the Lost Creek Plantation four days before Freds’ death, as it was too massive for the pig farm.
“I just wanted the truth to be told. That wasn’t a wild pig,” Rhonda Blissitt, the pig farmers wife said.
Jamison Stone shot the huge hog during what he and his father described as a three-hour chase.
“We were told that it was a feral hog,” Mike Stone, Jamison’s father said, “and we hunted it on the pretense that it was a feral hog.”
The Blissitts said they did not know their hog was dead until they were contacted by a game warden for the Alabama Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. The agency determined that no laws were violated in the hunt.
Phil Blissitt said he became irritated when he learned that some thought the photo of Fred was doctored.
“That was a big hog,” he said.
What a hog wash.
It has been revealed that a Japanese man has stolen about 8,000 pieces of women’s underwear so he could sleep buried in them. Maeyasu Kawamura, 60, was indicted by police in Okinawa on Friday.
Police found 2,400 pieces of lingerie, 600 kimonos and 5,200 items of other clothing all piled up high in his small apartment room.
Kawamura has confessed to stealing the items, which included a wedding dress.
“He seemed to get a thrill out of sleeping covered in women’s clothes,” a police spokesman said. “He seemed to like the smell.”
Source: CNN
Any excuse to show women in lingerie, really……
In a move that is sure to add fuel to the fire about a larger debate on modern Indian society, a court has ruled against a group of overweight female flight attendants who argued that their grounding by national carrier Indian Airlines was an “insult to their womanhood”.
The Delhi High Court has ruled in favour of the airline, saying that with aircraft flying at higher altitudes, the safety of the passengers depended on the crew’s ability to perform.” No airline can afford to remain lax in any department whatsoever, be it the personality of the crew members of their physical fitness,” Justice Rekha Sharma said.
The Indian airline industry has grown rapidly in recent years and new airlines have begun hiring young slim air hostesses, often dressed in short skirts and high heels.
In contrast, Indian Airlines flight crews are dressed in the traditional sari and are allowed to fly until they are 58 years old. The group of air hostesses who had challenged the airline had argued that it was an attempt to replace them with younger crew.
Source: BBC
A man attempting to win a spitting contest against his 12 year old son has fallen off a second story balcony and is in a serious condition Friday.
Police officials in the eastern German town of Cottbus said the 43 year old man appeared to have lost his footing when thrusting forward in an attempt to out-spit his son.
He tumbled over a ledge and landed on a balcony of the ground floor apartment, he was taken to hospital by helicopter.
Knut at just a few weeks of age.
Knut, the world’s most famous polar bear is rapidly growing into a large and shaggy beast. Weighing in at around 28 kilograms, he is still young enough for his handler Thomas Doerflein to play with, but this won’t last for long given the tendency for Polar bears to become more aggressive at an older age.
“He’s just playing and it doesn’t hurt, it just pinches a bit. It only hurts when he gets angry,” the bearded Doerflein told Reuters, who already has a few bruises after spending time rolling around with Knut.
After being cared for night and day as a young cub at the Berlin Zoo Knut was fed porriage and milk, but the young star now tucks into high protien fish, meat and even cat food and is putting on around 200 grams a day.
Last week, he learned how to swim and Doerflein takes Knut for a walk round the Zoo every morning to build up his muscles. His coat is no longer white and fluffy, but yellow and shaggy.
Knut was rejected by his mother, Tosca, and hit the headlines after an animal rights campaigner said hand-rearing polar bears violated animal rights. World media interpreted the comments as a call for Knut to be put down.
Since then, Knut has become a brand. He has his own song, DVD and book deal and features in a range of merchandise from soft toys and T-shirts to sweets.
Knut this week.
Source: Reuters
VOTE: Is Knut still cute despite his size at 6 months?
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A 55 year old Enlgish lab technician claims to have captured the most compelling evidence for the existence of the fabled Loch Ness Monster in history.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this jet black thing, about 45-feet (15 meters) long, moving fairly fast in the water”, said Gordon Holmes who captured a few seconds of shaky video.
The video was captured last Saturday at the world famous loch, where Holmes was carrying out experiments. Holmes took his tape to local experts for further scrutiny.
Legends of Scottish monsters date back to one of the founders of the Christian church in Scotland, St Columba, who wrote of them in about 565AD.
Meanwhile the BBC yesterday reported that local business leaders from around the Loch Ness Region are working to have the 230 meter deep Loch listed as a World Heritage site by the United Nations.
Destination Loch Ness believes its bid fits four of the 10 criteria set by Unesco to qualify. Categories include that it is an outstanding example of land-use, is of exceptional natural beauty and represents major stages of earth’s history.
Vote: Do you believe in the existance of the Loch Ness Monster?
Single women in Japan are loving a new product that replaces the need for men, no not what your thinking. The ‘Boyfriend’s Arm Pillow’, shaped like a man’s torso with one sturdy arm, offers women the ultimate sleeping partner.
“It makes me relaxed… I can hold the arm and feel something warm at my side. It keeps holding me all the way through. I think this is great because this does not betray me,” Junko Suzuki, told the Associated Press
The pillow has been on sale in Japan since December and has so far been snapped up by 1,000 singles and cost around US$85, coming in pink, blue or green.
The crazy things people do….
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The body of a 21 year old Indian man, who died after being bitten by a snake while scouring the jungle near his home for fire wood, has been exhumed by his family in a bid to bring him back to life three days after his death.
Arun Majhi’s mother said that she dreamt that her son could come back to life, so the Majhi family hired a witch doctor and dug up the corpse.
“I am sitting beside my son waiting for him to come back to life,” Bibhisan Majhi, Arun’s father told Reuters. But after two days of waiting the family reburied the body of Arun.
Now thats what I call crazy…
President Putin of Russian was talking tough Thursday. A missile test by the Russian military on Tuesday was directly linked to moves by the United States to walk away from the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty and the implementation of a missle defense system in Eastern Europe, he said.
”We conducted a test of a new strategic ballistic missile with multiple warheads, and of a new cruise missile, and will continue to improve our resources.”
“We are not the initiators of this new round of the arms race…(Our partners) are stuffing eastern Europe with new weapons. A new base in Bulgaria, another in Romania, a site in Poland, radar in the Czech Republic . . . what are we supposed to do? We cannot just observe all this.”
So what is the man who doesn’t know the difference between kissing 7 year olds and 4 month old babies got planned next? A scary thought.
Only time will tell.
The Hindustan Times of India this week reported the story of one very smart elephant harassing the local population. Commuters in the Indian eastern state of Orissa are frustrated at an elephant blocking traffic on a main roadway, only allowing viechles to pass if the occupant gives the elephant food.
“The tusker then inserts its trunk inside the vehicle and sniffs for food,” local resident Prabodh Mohanty, who has come across the elephant twice, was quoted as saying.
“If you are carrying vegetables and banana inside your vehicle, then it will gulp them and allow you to go.”
If a commuter does not wind down his window or resists opening the vehicle door, the elephant stands in front of the car until the driver allows him to carry out his routine inspection.
Now thats using brain over braun!
How about this for crazy….
A 52 year old German woman had the shock of her life today when she mistook a subway entrace for an underground car park. Reports suggest she drove off a road, across a pedestrian side walk, and jammed her Volkswagen Beetle 5 steps down. Police in Dusseldorf where the incident happened estimate the damage at around 1,500 Euros.
The crazy things people do.
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