`The only cure for what ails Mark DelCore is sunbathing stark naked beside his rat terrier named Cheekies, he said in a federal lawsuit against officials on Fire Island.
The Forest Hills man said he suffers post-traumatic stress disorder and “an acute skin condition” resulting from exposure to toxins after the terror attacks on Sept. 11, according to a suit DelCore filed in U.S. District Court in Central Islip this week.
“Since my skin condition is all over my body,” DelCore said in the suit, he needs the healing rays to touch every square inch of his skin — hence his frequent 48-mile trips to Fire Island’s clothing-optional beach near Kismet. But Fire Island National Seashore says Cheekies should be like DelCore’s clothes on the beach — gone.’
This seems to be from a Japanese show that teaches how to speak English. In this episode, we see how to deal with a mugger and learn how to say “Take anything you want” and “Spare me my life”, among other things.
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`Teenage girls who get pregnant are deliberately “planning” to become mothers in the belief that a baby will improve the quality of their lives.
An extensive study published today reveals that girls as young as 13 are making a “career choice” by deciding to have children, since they see parenting as preferable to working in a dead-end job.
The findings from the Trust for the Study of Adolescence challenges the assumption that schoolgirl mothers are all irresponsible adolescents who are ignorant about using contraception. The revelation that teenage girls are actively choosing motherhood is backed up by official figures obtained by this paper which show that nearly a quarter of pregnancies to under 18s are second children.’
Snakes on a Plane meets Zero Wing.
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`In a move reminiscent of U.S. efforts to drive former Panama strongman Manuel Noriega from the Vatican Embassy where he took refuge in 1989, the local council in Rockdale, in Sydney’s southern suburbs, started a six-month trial of high-volume hits by Manilow and Doris Day to chase away car enthusiasts who were gathering on weekend nights at Cook Park Reserve. [..]
But some people living near the park are less than enthralled. They say the barrage of “Copacabana,” “Could It Be Magic” and “Que Sera Sera,” blasting from 9 p.m. to midnight every Friday, Saturday and Sunday is driving them crazy.’
Star Wars with Darth Vader’s voice taken from other James Earl Jones films. Kinda amusing.
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`The little boy began running across the rooftops of several homes and neighbors could not believe what they were seeing.
“I saw a baby running across the window, then I said that can’t be true, but then I saw a dog,” said neighbor and block captain, Tina Mitchell.
The dog was Alfie who followed little Philip out of the window and it was the dog’s barking that got the attention of neighbor’s and his parents.
Not only did the dog run outside but she actually ran along the outside edge of the roof to make sure the toddler did not fall off.’
`Japanese students succeeded on Sunday in making a manned flight in a plane powered only by household batteries.
The group from the Tokyo Institute of Technology flew the plane a distance of 391 metres (1,283 ft) at an airfield north of the capital, in what was the first such battery-powered flight, said a spokesman for Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, the project’s sponsors.’
`It’s one way to assure order in the court.
The New York state Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics has ruled that it is permissible for judges to pack a pistol beneath their robes while on the bench.
“From an ethical standpoint, there is no prohibition … barring you from carrying a firearm while performing your duties on the bench,” the committee said in a decision published in this week’s New York Law Journal. [..]
“This committee believes that keeping your firearm concealed and safeguarded on your person while you are on the bench is advisable,” the ruling said.’
`When the death of 60-year-old Roger “Syd” Barrett was announced on Tuesday, the media raised an astonishing last hurrah for the founder of Pink Floyd, the “crazy diamond” who had shunned the public gaze for decades.
The descriptions of him as a “mad genius”, “recluse” and “acid casualty” were far off the mark, however, according to his sister Rosemary.
When I wrote Barrett’s biography, Madcap, four years ago I had off-the-record guidance from Rosemary — his junior by two years and closest friend. Last week, after his death, we spoke again and this time she went on the record — the first time she has given a press interview for more than 30 years.’
‘New South Wales Labor MP Peter Breen has penned a sickening tribute to the killers of Janine Balding in which he talks about his realisation one night “under the stars” that he loved two of them. [..]
He declares the oldest of the three killers – “Shorty” Jamieson – to be innocent of the murder. Mr Breen calls “blue-eyed” Jamieson by his nickname Jamo. He bought him a television for his cell.
“Jamieson is gazing out the high-barred window behind me, his eyes reflecting blue sky,” Breen describes one jail meeting in his bizarre paperback, researched mainly in parliamentary time.
“I love Shorty Jamieson and I’m not afraid to say so.”‘
Update: Killer love remarks: MP resigns
‘A NSW upper house state MP who said he loved two of the killers of Janine Balding has resigned from the Labor Party, Premier Morris Iemma says.’
`It took five police officers, three hits with a Taser gun, leg straps and a spit bag to subdue a 5-foot tall, 105-pound woman who entered a Waukesha home and attacked a couple she didn’t know with a metal pooper scooper and scissors, authorities said.
Still kicking after being strapped and handcuffed, the woman was carried by police out of the home in a bag, and she looked “like a sack of potatoes,” the homeowner said.
Leisa K. Reed, 47, who told authorities she smoked crack cocaine before the incident, was charged Monday with two felonies [..]’
`A Tasmanian man had to convince police he had not been drinking when he reported finding a 180kg seal wandering with his horses in a paddock on Sunday. [..]
The man lived in Cambridge, east of Hobart, and about 400 metres from the ocean’s edge.
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He discovered the seal in a paddock with his horses but had no idea how long it had been there, Sgt Lee said.
“When it (the seal) was found so far from the ocean, it makes us wonder what it had on its mind,” he said.’
` A 14-year-old Pen Argyl boy accidentally plunged a steak knife five inches into his leg Wednesday after becoming angry with his mother when she asked him to put away the clean dishes, Pen Argyl police said.
The knife was still imbedded in the boy’s leg at 2 p.m. when police arrived at the home in the 700 block of William Street, police said.
The boy told police he accidentally stabbed himself when he grabbed a steak knife and tried to throw it into the floor so it would stick.’
`A doctor allegedly told a patient she is so fat she might only be attractive to black men.
He also allegedly advised another to shoot herself to end her suffering after brain surgery.
Rude and offensive? Yes, said a New Hampshire judge. But worthy of discipline from the New Hampshire Board of Medicine? No, the judge ruled in ordering the board to stop disciplinary proceedings against Dr. Terry Bennett.
The judge made clear that while he doesn’t condone the remarks, Bennett has the right to speak bluntly to patients.’
‘US President George W Bush has been caught on microphone using an expletive to show frustration with Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel.
Mr Bush was heard telling UK Prime Minister Tony Blair privately that Syria should press the Lebanese militants to “stop doing this shit”.
The remarks were picked up by closed-circuit TV at the G8 summit which both leaders are attending.’
Update: now with video of George Bush swearing.
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‘Poisonous mud and gas is erupting from kilometres below the earth and 8,000 people are displaced and hundreds hospitalised on the Indonesian island of Java.
The calamity has been caused by a gas exploration project near Surabaya in East Java that has gone horribly wrong, and for the past six weeks, has unleashed hundreds of tonnes of hot toxic mud. [..]
An area of 12 square kilometres has now been covered and four entire villages have been affected, displacing almost 8,000 people.’
A cool little illusion that makes a black and white picture appear to be coloured after you stare at a dot for a while.
`A 4-year-old boy survived a fall from an 11-story window after being left alone at home, bouncing off a metal awning into a concrete courtyard and then trying to stand up, officials said. He was able to chat with doctors.
“I’m amazed the kid’s alive,” Police Chief James Tuffey said.
Hasim Townsend remained in serious condition Saturday, a day after his fall, with a broken skull, a broken leg and other injuries.’
`Amar Shreiteh is charged with attempted murder and false imprisonment. Police say he was working at the store Monday morning when 14-year-old Jeremius Howard came in with his sister.
As the girl browsed for snacks, Howard played with a yo-yo.
After she paid for the items, Howard put down the toy and tried to leave the store. Police say Shreiteh demanded the boy pay for the yo-yo, but Howard told him it was already opened and he didn’t want it. Shreiteh then reportedly punched the boy.
Police say he pulled Howard behind the counter and stabbed him on the back of his arm with a butcher knife.’
`Success, which spoils things, has most surely changed the time-honored menu of the great Testicle Festival.
“It’s not the same anymore,” moped Bob Zeier, a 75-year-old retired cattle rancher, sitting in the Ryegate Bar and Cafe and dragging on a Camel filter. “Not the same at all. A bull testicle is just not the same as a calf testicle.” [..]
“A fresh calf testicle tastes like lobster,” said Zeier. “You never had anything like it.” [..]
“Bull nuts taste like shoe leather,” said Zeier. “You can have ’em.”’
`As the police officers took Hibbs, 19, into custody he allegedly insisted he was a troll and claimed the bridge as his own, reports state.
Several witnesses noted that Hibbs and companion Bradley Boville, 19, were confronting joggers and bikers attempting to cross the bridge, demanding a dollar. [..]
Boville told police he had taken a single tab of LSD, and Hibbs had taken two tabs. The two had rolled a big joint, he allegedly told police and found themselves without either a lighter or a dollar with which to buy a lighter and had subsequently begun asking people for money who were crossing the bridge.’
`Forget cute, cuddly marsupials. A team of Australian palaeontologists say they have found the fossilised remains of a fanged killer kangaroo and what they describe as a “demon duck of doom”. [..]
“Because they didn’t hop, these were galloping kangaroos, with big, powerful forelimbs. Some of them had long canines (fangs) like wolves,” Archer told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio. [..]
The species found at the dig had “well muscled-in teeth, not for grazing. These things had slicing crests that could have crunched through bone and sliced off flesh”, Hand said.’
Also, there’s an image of the demon duck of doom skull.
`Police in the Northern Dutch city of Groningen are investigating a man who rummages though rubbish bags in search of used tampons and sanitary towels.
The 40-year-old local man is particularly interested in tampons used by students and young women, a police spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The fetishist has been active for at least the last six months and has been regularly spotted searching through garbage outside student dorms. It is not known what he does with the items he collects.’
This page has a bunch of information about quinine, as well as a fully little limerick:
`A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain
The cause of his sorrow
Was paradichloro
Diphenyltrichloroethane.’
`They can sniff out drugs, find lost people and track down suspects, but K-9s are not trained to drive.
So people in Ogden are wondering how one police dog slipped a truck into gear Tuesday and ran over a woman, seriously injuring her.
“I’ve been here for almost 30 years and this is the first time I’ve heard it happening,” said Ogden police Lt. Loring Draper, who was a K-9 officer for nine years.’
`’Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, what’s all this, then? Police are telling booze-fuelled British women to wear nice knickers and wax their bodies, newspapers reported Thursday. [..]
“If you fall over or pass out, remember your skirt or dress may ride up. You could show off more than you intended — for all our sakes, please make sure you’re wearing nice pants and that you’ve recently had a wax. [..]”
Officers felt they had to talk to women in a language they might understand.’
`A group of teens attacked a 15-year-old boy, removed his artificial leg and hit a friend who tried to come to his rescue, police said.
“It was just mean,” Burbank police Capt. Joe Ford said. [..]
Friends who were nearby tried to come to the 15-year-old’s aid, police said.
But one of the attackers wielded the prosthetic leg like a weapon and struck a 20-year-old Oak Lawn man in the head, police said.’
Without any drugs and with the witch doctor stopping occasionally to drink some beer, what better way to pass time in the jungle than have you brain operated on?
`A chicken in a Kazakh village has laid an egg with the word “Allah” inscribed on its shell, state media reported on Thursday.
“Our mosque confirmed that it says ‘Allah’ in Arabic,” Bites Amantayeva, a farmer from the village of Stepnoi in eastern Kazakhstan, told state news agency Kazinform.
“We’ll keep this egg and we don’t think it’ll go bad.”‘
