‘A rubber penis and fake severed head have been stolen from the set of new horror film ‘Hannibal Rising’.
The movie’s director Peter Webber revealed the theft and is convinced the guilty party is planning on selling them.
He said: “There’s a character called Dortlich whose head is severed during the course of the movie. It was stolen by someone. There’s also a scene with a body that Hannibal Lecter is working on. It’s a full-size replica human body, including the genitals. Somebody took the genitals – they had to cut them off. So someone somewhere has got a large rubber penis and a rubber head.”
Webber is going to check internet auction site eBay to see if they turn up.’
‘Indonesia will drop hundreds of concrete balls into a mud volcano in a bid to brake the flow of hot liquid that has displaced more than 10,000 people and inundated entire villages in Java, an official said on Friday.
The torrent of hot mud has been flowing since an oil drilling accident in May in Sidoarjo, an industrial suburb of East Java’s Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city.
Numerous attempts to cap or curb the flow since it started have failed.
But now the government plans to try concrete balls linked by metal chains.’
Followup to Poisonous mud wreaks havoc on Java.
‘NSW transport Minister John Watkins has apologised to train commuters who had to wet themselves or ask for toilet stop because of a lack of facilities on trains.
A number of passengers on the south coast service have suffered the humiliation of wetting themselves due to the lack of facilities on board, The Sydney Morning Herald reported today.
The toilet-equipped cars previously used on the service have been removed for safety reasons and replaced with cars used on the Sydney network that don’t have toilets.
Passengers have reportedly been forced to urinate in cars or wet themselves before the end of their trips of up to two hours.’
‘In an attempt to destroy an indestructible nalgene bottle, this guy uses it to create a dry ice bomb.’
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‘A senior Thai Buddhist monk has been charged with raping a Vietnamese Australian teenager during a ritual he claimed would protect her from bad luck, police said today.
“The victim did not know at first she had been raped because she thought it was part of the rite, until she called her parents and they told her to report to the embassy and the police,” Colonel Thanit Ratanopast said.
The 18-year-old woman went to the police, who told her to plant a camera in her bag when she went back to see Phra Wimonmunee, the 59-year-old abbot of a Bangkok temple, they said.
Police then arrested the monk while he was trying to rape the woman again, they said.’
‘A brewery here has succeeded in producing a low-malt beer with milk, after the drink was suggested as a product that would help use up surplus milk.
The drink, called “Bilk” will go on sale on Feb. 1. It reportedly has a fruity flavor that its brewers hope will be popular among women.
The idea for the drink was conceived after dairy firms threw out a huge amount of surplus milk in March last year. The son of the manager of a liquor store in Nakashibetsu, whose main industry is dairy farming, suggested the idea of producing the milk beer to local brewery Abashiri Beer.’
‘The intimate medical history of hundreds of people has been provided by one of the country’s largest private health funds to a company that uses it to sell its services to vulnerable patients.
HCF has handed over to McKesson Asia Pacific the contact details, gender, age, the broad type of mental illness, and the recent number of hospital admissions for 370 people without their consent. [..]
HCF also rejected the claim that it was in breach of privacy laws, although it admitted that it was providing McKesson Asia Pacific with patients’ contact details, sex, age, a broad mental health category, and the number of recent admissions.’
This little kid doesn’t seem to like donkeys.
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‘The Best Toes on the net!’
People will rate anything. It’s fucken great. :) I should start a website called rateyourmothershairyanus.com. People with start submitting pictures of hairy arseholes within hours.
‘A group of Greek nuns abandoned their convent and went into hiding after running up debts of more than 600,000 euros ($A1.01 million) from a knitting business that went bust, authorities said. [..]
The nuns are believed to have taken refuge at another monastery in central Greece and the Greek press has reported that the Church of Greece has offered to help them pay their debts and come out of hiding.
The church’s representative was not available for comment.’
”She tried to secretly give me a bit of extra “motivation” in bed with two pills of Viagra in a glass of wine.’
He was treated by doctors who confirmed he had suffered a massive heart attack.
Di Angelino added: ‘I’m not angry with her over it.
‘In fact, the whole episode of having a heart attack has made me cut down the stress in my life and pull back at work. And because of that our sexual relationship has got better.”
‘A German court has ordered the arrest of 13 people in connection with the alleged CIA-backed kidnapping of a German citizen, regarded as one of the most notorious US “renditions” of a terror suspect, prosecutors said.
The prosecutor’s office in Munich, southern Germany, said the city’s administrative court had issued the arrest warrants against individuals thought to be CIA agents on suspicion of abduction and grievous bodily harm.
Authorities are probing allegations by Khaled el-Masri, a Lebanese-born German, that he was abducted by US agents in the Macedonian capital Skopje on New Year’s Eve 2003.’
‘With the rising use of radioisotopes in medicine and the growing use of radiation detectors in a security-conscious nation, patients are triggering alarms in places where they may not even realize they’re being scanned, doctors and security officials say.
Nearly 60,000 people a day in the United States undergo treatment or tests that leave tiny amounts of radioactive material in their bodies, according to the Society of Nuclear Medicine. It is not enough to hurt them or anyone else, but it is enough to trigger radiation alarms for up to three months.’
‘This is just another reason why Stephen Colbert rules. For those of you who don’t know, last week Stephen Colbert made a hockey game bet with Oshawa, Ontario Mayor John Gray. If Colbert’s team lost, he would have to wear the opposing team’s jersey. If Mr. Gray’s team lost, he would have to declare his own birthday, March 20, to be “Stephen Colbert Day” in his city of Oshawa, Ontario (that’s in Canada btw).
Colbert’s team won. March 20th is officially “Stephen Colbert Day” in Oshawa, Ontario. Here’s Colbert’s victory phone conversation with Mayor John Gray.’
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‘A New Zealand postal worker who is in trouble for scrawling abusive comments on school exam results says it was all supposed to be a joke.
The arrival of final year exam results can be fraught enough without free and frank character analysis scrawled by a mischievous postie.
Daniel Zeigler recognised the names of students at his former Christchurch secondary school while he was sorting their exam results.
The 18-year-old offered a somewhat blunt critique of their leaving certificate efforts in blue marker pen.
New Zealand Post, embarrassed by the incident, is promising to review its procedures but apparently cannot charge the temporary worker because under the law, sorting and stuffing exam results in envelopes is not regarded as tampering with the mail.
Mr Zeigler says everyone should lighten up – it was just a joke.’
‘Village of Kewaskum Police Chief Richard Knoebel said he was driving to work when he became distracted by a truck stopping on one side of the street.
He said he didn’t see a school bus with its lights flashing and a stop sign out on the other side of the four-lane road.
The chief said he didn’t know he had passed the stopped bus until it was too late.
When he realized what he had done, he issued himself a $235 ticket.
“When we get someone for not stopping for a flashing school bus we give them a citation. So I shouldn’t be any different so I did,” Knoebel said.
Not only did the chief have to pay a hefty fine, he gave himself a four-point penalty on his license.’
‘Elementary School Teacher allows two kids to fight class in Syria as he captures it on camera.’
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‘A woman who lost her premature baby a day after she was thrown in jail is suing the police department and two arresting officers who repeatedly ignored her pleas for medical help.
A police videotape released Tuesday shows Sofia Salva telling officers numerous times last Feb. 5 that she was pregnant, bleeding and needed to go to a hospital.
After the ninth request, the tape shows, a female officer asked: “How is that my problem?”’
Update: now with the video.
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‘Joined by his dog Yoda, Paul Woods travels by day and sleeps in a tent at night. His vehicle: a riding mower. “You’ve got to be pretty strange and pretty weird to be driving a tractor mower across country,” Woods, 44, said. [..]
Woods’ ultimate destination is Virginia, where he claims his late mother left him a house. He said he took care of her in Alaska until her death.
Woods said he left Alaska in 2005 and has been riding his mower or getting rides from sympathetic pickup drivers who hoist his vehicle in the back of the truck.
The mower’s maximum speed is 15 mph, but it’s weighted down by tools, snacks and the dog. [..]
“This is not cold,” he told the Herald Journal. “Alaska can be cold. … You have to wear goggles or your eyeballs will freeze.”‘
‘A college student who told police she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.
While she was behind bars, a jail worker refused to give her a second dose of the morning-after contraceptive pill because of the worker’s religious convictions, the college student’s attorney said.
The 21-year-old woman was released Monday only after attorney Vic Moore reported her plight to the local media.’
‘Edward Cowal, a registered sex offender in Florida, was the sole winner of a $14 million lottery drawing, officials said.
He elected to take a lump sum settlement of nearly $8 million before taxes.
State records show that Cowal has an extensive record of arrests for alleged offenses beginning in 1993, including burglary, lewd and lascivious or indecent assault upon a child, trespass, aggravated assault and driving under the influence.’
Ricky Gervais talking about the morals behind nursery rhymes. He’s pretty funny. :)
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‘It was supposed to be college day for the students of Ware Shoals High School in South Carolina, a chance to learn about educational prospects at a local institution. But according to police, two of the school’s cheerleaders ditched the event (the exact date hasn’t been made public) and instead headed to a motel with Jill Moore, their coach. There, they met up for a tryst with two National Guardsmen who recruited at their school. Moore loosened things up by allegedly providing the girls with vodka. Then, the cops say, she repaired to a room with one of the soldiers and set up a different room for the two cheerleaders and the other soldier to “hook up.” According to authorities, the second Guardsman and one of the girls later admitted that they had a sexual relationship.’
‘This is a pretty funny prank. The best part of it is what he asks the toll booth attendant at the very end of the video.’
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‘An alleged plot to kidnap and murder a British Muslim soldier in a ‘Ken Bigley-style’ execution was foiled by security forces in Birmingham today.
Eight people were arrested during a series of pre-dawn raids in the city as part of a major nationwide anti-terror investigation.
Sources said it marked a “new departure” for terrorism in the UK and that a major “close quarters” terror strike had been thwarted. [..]
The intended hostage – said to be a young Muslim soldier in the British army who had served in Afghanistan – would have been filmed, made to plead for his life and ultimately executed, sources alleged.’
‘A suspicious package alert that shut down downtown Boston Wednesday afternoon was actually part of an elaborate marketing campaign by the Cartoon Network to spark interest in its “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” show.
After state and local officials said they were launching an investigation into a series of “suspicious packages” found around the city, the Cartoon Network released a statement saying the packages were magnetic lights that pose no danger.
“They are part of an outdoor marketing campaign in 10 cities in support of Adult Swim’s animated television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” the statement said.’
‘A commercial Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket disintegrated in a fiery catastrophe aboard its oceangoing platform Tuesday, destroying a sophisticated telecommunications satellite payload in a dramatic launch pad explosion reminiscent of the space program’s early days.
The Ukrainian/Russian booster was igniting its main engine when the 20-story vehicle inexplicably fell, triggering a hellish fireball that engulfed the floating Odyssey platform.’
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In parts of India, for one day a year women are allowed to beat men with sticks.
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‘Divested of his clothes, not to mention the lightning scar on his forehead, this is Harry Potter a million miles from Hogwarts.
Between filming the fifth and sixth Potter movies, 17-year-old Daniel Radcliffe is appearing on the West End stage in a revival of Peter Shaffer’s controversial play Equus.’
