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‘A couple of friends go cruisin around in atruck. They try to jump a small hill and end up tossing one of the buddies out of the back of the truck.’

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`I used to work cashier at a supermarket. One day a typical overburdened mom with $300 worth of groceries and a cranky kid in the cart comes on my line, nothing out of the ordinary. The mom’s trying to put her stuff on the belt, the kid wriggling in his seat, trying to get to the candy shelf, despite his mom repeatedly yelling at him not to. I’m just doing my job, scanning the groceries, ignoring the little monster. He manages to grab a pack of Skittles off the shelf and toss it on the belt, his mom sees, grabs them, and puts them back on the shelf, telling him no candy. He grabs it again, she tries to grab it from him, and the bag rips open during the tug of war between them.

He takes a handful of Skittles, throws them into his mom’s face, and shouts “TASTE THE RAINBOW, MOMMY!”

I don’t think he got any candy for a long time after that.’

`Man: Yo, the other day I see the F arriving as I’m coming down the stairs so I run in, just making it in on time. I hold the door for this girl behind me but I slipped and her head got caught in the closing door. She turned her head like The Exorcist and just looked at me for a second and then starting screaming. And then other people started screaming while I tried to open the doors again. The conductor finally opened up the doors and she stepped in…and stood right next to me…and stared at me until Roosevelt Island. I just got out there and waited for the next train.’

`According to a police report, the Shrocks said they asked the Castles to keep their dogs at home, worried the animals would try to attack rabbit hutches on their property. When the dogs returned, Shrock told police he shot one of the animals. No charges have been filed.

Unsatisfied with the response from police and his neighbors, Ron Castle used red paint to write on 4-foot-by-8-foot plywood board: “My Neighbor, Larry Shrock, House on Left up on Hill (arrow) Shot My Dog, Then Burned It.” [..]

On June 7, after a second neighbor complained Shrock shot another dog, Castle took out the paint again.

“Mowrey Road Dog Killer Ahead On Left, Two Shot and Killed, One Burned.”‘

`Staff at a restaurant were treated for burns after the owner was mistakenly sold a sunbed bulb for an insect repellant light.

Five workers, the owner and his wife were left with streaming eyes, flaking skin and headaches because of the UV rays from the kitchen light.

It took experts over two weeks to find the cause.

Mauro Mingotti, 63, who owns La Pergola in Carlisle, Cumbria, said: “Every time we went in front of it we were frying.”‘

‘If you dont watch The Colbert Report you are missing out on one of the funniest shows on TV. My favorite part of the show is Better Know A District where he interviews a congressman from a random US district. Watch as Colbert makes this Georgia representative look like a total fool.’

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`A couple of paws and blood on rocks is all that remains of wallabies barbecued at East Point Reserve.

Darwin City Council rangers discovered the remains of five wallabies barbecued at the popular tourist spot during the past week.

The wallabies had been beaten to death with rocks and smoked with gum leaves on the fire.

Darwin City Council chief executive Allan McGill said police and Parks and Wildlife had been notified of the offences.

“It’s a bit unusual,” he said.’

This fellow can take his clothes off in a bit over seven seconds.

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`The Sponås family in Strande, Molde had a hen that managed to lay an egg weighing 122 grams (4.3 oz), compared to the norm of 50-60 grams, newspaper Romsdal Budstikke reports. It was the last thing the bird did.

“I couldn’t believe my own eyes when she laid an egg that was more than twice the size of a normal hen’s egg. It looked completely unreal, with a 122-gram egg,” Solveig Sponås told the newspaper. [..]

The story ended sadly. As the newspaper put it, it is no joke laying an egg twice normal size, and the hen suffered injuries so serious that it had to be put down.’

This woman doesn’t seem to like mice very much.

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‘Local lunatic David Thompson complains to Charlotte, NC city council during a community access forum, which is conveniently captured on tape and broadcast live on the local community access channel. There aren’t enough tags to cover his rant against ice in the arena, rogue helicopter pilots, and “terrorist pussies”‘

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`Jewel has apparently gone from clean-living songbird to Robitussin-swilling lush. The Alaskan hottie, 32, reveals she recently started hitting the happy juice – and is loving every minute of her drunken bliss. “I didn’t start drinking until I was 30,” Jewel tells Blender. “I grew up singing for alcoholics, and it never really seemed like alcohol fixed anything. I was afraid that it would get me. Around 30, I kind of realized that alcohol really does solve all your problems. Whoever said drinking doesn’t help lied. You live and you learn.”‘

‘A dude gets picked up for drunk driving. He is strugling at the police station proving he is not drunk. Watch him reach for his license after dropping it on the floor.’

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`Two polar bears have starved to death and two others were found dead this year in the region where scientists previously discovered unprecedented cannibalism within the population.

Scientists were stunned to discover that two mother polar bears had been stalked, killed and eaten near their Beaufort Sea dens, and that much larger male bears cannibalized a young male during the spring of 2004.

Now, four more dead polar bears have been found in the Alaskan and Canadian regions of the Beaufort Sea, and researchers are getting very worried.

What was initially thought to be a curious event could indicate a radical shift in the behaviour of polar bears as they battle dangerous drops in nutrition levels, said the lead author of a report into the 2004 deaths.’

`Workplace safety officials say they’re planning a visit Wednesday to the Montclair home of a man who dug a 60-foot-deep hole in his front yard while digging for gold. [..]

They’re coming to determine how to shore up and fill the hole that 63-year-old Enrique Mora says he began digging ten days ago after his gold detector reported a positive hit near his front patio.

He says he only planned to go down three or four feet but got “carried away.”

Fire officials called to the scene Tuesday found two men that Mora hired inside the unreinforced hole, using a bucket and rope to remove dirt.’

‘A police pursuit ended when the suspect’s dog, not happy about being bounced around in the car, bit its owner on the face. [..]

“Deputies could see the dog in the passenger seat getting slammed into the window,” he said.

The dog, which is partly pit bull, “became so agitated that he bit his owner in the face,” Edwards said. “And this is what ended the chase.”

The bite removed part of Galanis’ nose, and he stopped.’

`[..] political interest in nuclear power is reviving across the world, thanks in part to concerns about global warming and energy security. Already, some 441 commercial reactors operate in 31 countries and provide 17% of the planet’s electricity, according to America’s Department of Energy. Until recently, the talk was of how to retire these reactors gracefully. Now it is of how to extend their lives. In addition, another 32 reactors are being built, mostly in India, China and their neighbours. These new power stations belong to what has been called the third generation of reactors, designs that have been informed by experience and that are considered by their creators to be advanced. But will these new stations really be safer than their predecessors?’

`A contractor late last week discovered two 50-pound “bricks” of marijuana wrapped in plastic bags inside a bathroom vanity he had purchased at a Home Depot store in Tewksbury, said Chief of Detectives Lt. Dennis Peterson.

The estimated street value of the marijuana is around $145,000, Peterson said.

Similar incidents have occurred in other parts of the state.

A plumber purchased a vanity in western Massachusetts on Monday in which he later found 3 kilograms of cocaine and around 40 pounds of marijuana, with a total estimated street value of $250,000, according to the Southwick Police Department.’

`People in European and Muslim countries see US policy in Iraq as a bigger threat to world peace than Iran’s nuclear programme, a survey has shown.

The survey by the Pew Research Group also found support for US President George W Bush and his “war on terror” had dropped dramatically worldwide.’

`Since 9/11, 283 World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers have been diagnosed with cancer, and 33 of them have died of cancer, says a lawyer for the ailing responders. [..]

Doctors say the cancers can strike three to five years after exposure to toxins such as benzene, a cancer-causing chemical that permeated the WTC site from burning jet fuel.

“One in 150,000 white males under 40 would normally get the type of acute white blood-cell cancer that strikes a healthy detective,” said Worby, whose first client was NYPD narcotics cop John Walcott, now 41. Walcott spent months at Ground Zero and the Fresh Kills landfill. The father of three is fighting leukemia.

“We have nearly 35 of these cancers in the family of 50,000 Ground Zero workers. The odds of that occurring are one in hundreds of millions,” Worby said.’

`It looks like a giant cup of red wine or even blood.

Late last month villagers on Ambae, one of the chain of islands making up the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, made a startling discovery. The previously blue-green water in a three-kilometre-wide lake, perched at the top of a 1500-metre-high active volcano, had suddenly turned bright red.

“It’s quite red, like red wine,” said Esline Garaebiti, the geo-hazards manager for Vanuatu’s Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources. But exactly why remains a mystery, she said, adding that water samples were being sent to Belgium and New Caledonia for analysis.’

`A 28-year-old woman has been cited for lewdness for exposing herself inside a store. The woman was riding a motorized cart inside Lin’s Market Place on Thursday with her pants around her ankles and not wearing underwear.

Customers didn’t notice the woman until she would stand up from the cart and bend over to look at items on the shelf, exposing her buttocks.

The woman told police she arrived in Cedar City with a circus but was left behind.’

`It turns out that Microsoft is getting even more from your Windows-powered PC than I thought they were. It figures, doesn’t it? [..]

In short, Microsoft is admitting to pulling even more information from your PCs — such as your IP address and date and timestamp data “relating to systems’ booting and continued operations.” In addition, Jones shows how Microsoft essentially tricks users into agreeing to all this without giving them any chance to say no to the entire process.’

`A computer hacker got into the U.S. agency that guards the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile and stole the personal records of at least 1,500 employees and contractors, a senior U.S. lawmaker said on Friday.

The target of the hacker, the National Nuclear Safety Administration, is the latest agency to reveal that sensitive private information about government workers was stolen.’

`On April 16, the New York Times ran a full-page ad from contact lens producer Bausch and Lomb, announcing the recall of its “ReNu with MoistureLoc” rewetting solution, and warning the 30 million American wearers of soft contact lenses about Fusarium keratitis. This infection, first detected in Asia, has rapidly spread across the United States. It is caused by a mold-like fungus that can penetrate the cornea of soft contact lens wearers, causing redness and pain that can lead to blindness—requiring a corneal replacement.

That same week, the House of Representatives passed a provision to a bill requiring that the very same fungus be sprayed in “a major drug-producing country,” such as Colombia. The bill’s sponsor was Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) and its most vocal supporter was his colleague Dan Burton (R-Ind.), who has been promoting the fungus for almost a decade as key to winning the drug war.’

`A man trying to hang himself from the Adams Avenue Bridge fell and died early today, and a bicyclist who later hit the body was injured, police reported. [..]

“The rope broke and he fell” to the riverbed about 30 feet below, Ginther said.

The man then slit his wrists, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department reported, and the bicyclist later hit the body and fell off the bike.’

`In the Cold War arms race, scientists rushed to build thousands of warheads to counter the Soviet Union. Today, those scientists are racing once again, but this time to rebuild an aging nuclear stockpile.

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are locked in an intense competition with rivals at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Bay Area to design the nation’s first new nuclear bomb in two decades. [..]

By law, the new weapons would pack the same explosive power as existing warheads and be suitable only for the same kinds of military targets as those of the weapons they replace. Unlike past proposals for new atomic weapons, the project has captured bipartisan support in Congress.’

followup to: Lab officials excited by new H-bomb project

‘Prof: It has to be something that grabs people’s attention. Like, which would you rather see: how a painter paints a masterpiece or two dogs having sex? It would be the two dogs having sex – right?’

‘Prof: I don’t like finals, but I’m required to give you one. So I’ll give you the questions. And I’ll give you the answers. And, during the final, if you don’t know the answer to a question, come up and ask me, and I’ll tell you. I believe finals are a learning experience. If you don’t know the answer on the test and I tell you, you’re learning.’

‘Guy #1: They never said I had to take that class. They just said it was pre-something.
Guy #2: Prerequisite?
Guy #1: Yeah, whatever that means.’

`Police raided a huge marijuana plantation in northwestern Bosnia and found it guarded by a family of wolves and 150 dogs, Bosnian media said Saturday.

They seized 2,300 plants intended for the production of at least 800 kg (1,760 lb) of the drug, as well as hunting guns and rifles Friday, the Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA quoted regional Interior Minister Stanislav Cadjo as saying.’

`A 21-year-old suspect accused of spraying satanic graffiti on the Holy Hill National Shrine says he has no remorse. [..]

Trevey asked him why he sprayed satanic graffiti on these holy shrines.

Groth said, “’cause I’m a punk – that’s what I do.” [..]

Trevey: “Do you know you spelled Satan wrong?”
Groth: “No – I’m not aware of that.”
Trevey: “You spelled it satin – like the fabric.”
Groth: “See – if I was big into the devil, I would have spelled it right.”
Trevey: “Do you think that’s funny?”
Groth: “That I spelled it wrong? No – I’m a bad speller.”‘