`A local man was shocked last week to find a bag of frozen mice with his to-go meal from Pizzas 2 U, a fast-food restaurant in Hampstead. [..]
The baby mice were sealed in a knotted plastic bag and never touched the salad or sandwich, which were also covered, according to a report by the Pender County Health Department.
After talking to his employees, Woody Sullivan said he suspects one of them bought the mice at a pet shop to feed a pet reptile, though he is unclear how the dead animals ended up with the order.’
`he partially mummified body of a baby, wrapped in 1950s newspapers, was found Monday by a woman going through her deceased parents’ belongings in a southeast Florida storage facility, according to police.
“It was a baby boy, partially mummified,” said Delray Beach police spokesman Jeff Messer. “The woman was pretty upset when she found it. You could make out the features pretty clearly.” The child had hair, he said.
The body was in a small suitcase, which was placed inside a larger suitcase, said Messer, who viewed the remains.
“It was spooky,” Messer said.’
`The world of marine biology is scratching its collective head after a female shark gave birth to a pup even though it had apparently been nowhere near a male of the species.
The bonnethead shark has been swimming in a tank at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska, US, with two female companions for the past three years. [..]
The pregnancy could be a case of parthenogenesis – or asexual reproduction – which, although common in some amphibians, has never been reported before in sharks.
More likely, say the zoo’s scientists, the shark was impregnated before she came to the center and retained a male’s sperm in her reproductive tract until she was mature enough to conceive.’
‘Reversing itself, the Defense Department says an espionage report it produced that warned about Canadian coins with tiny radio-frequency transmitters was not true.
The Defense Security Service said it never could substantiate its own published claims about the mysterious coins. It has begun an internal review to determine how the false information was included in a 29-page report about espionage concerns.’
Follow up to: Canadian coins bugged, U.S. security agency says
`A group of men had forced their way into a house and were ransacking the place when passing plain-clothes officers were alerted by a woman inside screaming.
The criminals outnumbered them and were armed with a hammer, knives and chains and attacked the Police officers.
As one of them stabbed at a Policeman with his knife, a mysterious do-gooder appeared from nowhere and attacked him with a samurai sword.
One of the burglars began running away but was stopped by the stranger who struck him on the arm with the sword.
Two of the criminals were arrested, but in true hero style the samurai disappeared before police could speak to him.’
`A naked construction worker fell about four stories to his death early yesterday at the work site for a new downtown museum, D.C. police and fire officials said.
Joseph Oliver, 23, of La Plata was discovered about 6 a.m. in the basement elevator shaft area of the Newseum, which is being built at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, officials said. Authorities said it was unclear why he was naked.
“It appears he may have fallen from the fourth floor because there were clothes and personal belongings on that level,” said Assistant Fire Chief Larry Schultz.’
`Residents of a neighborhood next to the University of Arizona say small white rats have been swimming through sewer pipes and into their toilets.
Laura Hagen Fairbanks, spokeswoman for the county’s Wastewater Management Department, said she doesn’t know where the rodents come from, however they are the kind that researchers use in labs.
University representatives point out that the same type of white rats are sold in pet stores as food for snakes and other animals. [..]
Hagen Fairbanks said no one knows why the rats are found in only one small area of town or why they show their faces only once or twice a year.’
`British police said Friday they were hunting a man who stole a urinal from a pub toilet.
The suspect walked into the Royal Oak pub in Southampton, on the English south coast, ordered half a pint of beer and then made several visits to the men’s toilet.
There he carefully removed a white urinal from the wall, stuffed it into a rucksack and was captured on closed circuit television walking out with the bulging sack on his back.
“He made a very, very expert job of dismantling it from the wall and turning the water off. A very professional job,” landlord Alan Dreja said in a video posted on the Southampton Daily Echo newspaper’s Web site.’
‘Who is that mysterious, elegant man? And why is he sitting on a dead horse?
Such are the questions sparked by a black-and-white photograph taken in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, between 1876 and 1884 that has led to nationwide curiosity, speculation and jokes.
It’s a picture of a mustachioed man in a suit and top hat who sits rakishly on the side of an expired horse in the middle of a dusty street. [..]
Some of the ideas about what the picture depicts include the thoughtful — it was staged for a political campaign perhaps related to sanitation issues — to the bizarre — the horse is being helped to relieve “excess flatulence.”‘
`An hour after Adam Air Flight KI-574 took off on New Year’s Day with 102 passengers and crew for what should have been a short hop between islands, the pilot reported heavy winds. Then, the plane disappeared, seemingly into thin air.
Thousands of soldiers battled rugged jungle terrain, a fleet of aircraft took to the skies, and ships scoured the sea for a third day Thursday in a search of an area roughly the size of California.
By nightfall, there was still no trace of the missing Boeing 737, its six crew members and 96 passengers — including an Oregon man and his two daughters.
“It is kind of strange,” said Febrizal Lubis, a pilot for another Indonesian airline. “The plane was going along at 35,000 feet, and then with no mayday or distress signal, it disappeared like that.”‘
`Federal officials say it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon, but a group of United Airlines employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O’Hare Airport in November.
The workers, some of them pilots, said the object didn’t have lights and hovered over an airport terminal before shooting up through the clouds, according to a report in Monday’s Chicago Tribune. [..]
“Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon,” Cory said. “That night was a perfect atmospheric condition in terms of low (cloud) ceiling and a lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the clouds, sometimes you can see funny things.”
The FAA is not investigating, Cory said.’
Followup to: ‘UFO’ spooks pilots over Chicago
`Federal officials in the US say it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon, but a group of United Airlines employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.
The workers, some of them pilots, said the object did not have lights and hovered over an airport terminal on November 7 before shooting up through the clouds, according to a report in today’s Chicago Tribune.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) acknowledged that a United supervisor had called the control tower at O’Hare, asking if anyone had seen a spinning disc-shaped object.
But the controllers did not see anything, and a preliminary check of radar found nothing out of the ordinary, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said.’
Apparently due to digital remastering of old movies, you can now see Sean Connery’s penis in what looks to be a James Bond movie.
Underwater stiffy. Haha!
I’m not entirely convinced it’s legit, and I don’t have access to the Something Awful forum where it orginated, so I don’t have any more details at the moment. It’ll be a mystery for now. 🙂
`Someone slipped a little something extra into a batch of cookies brought for a holiday party.
Earlier in the week, 15 workers at the Weyerhaeuser plant in Stayton were hospitalized after complaining of dizziness and light headedness.
Investigators determined that the illness was caused by employees eating homemade cookies they believe were intentionally baked with a foreign substance. They suspect the substance to be marijuana.
The Stayton police are offering a $500 reward for information that leads to an arrest in the case.’
with video.
`That was what worried her co-workers at Accelerated Solutions in Franklin. It was the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and the 35-year-old health-care claims adjuster hadn’t showed up for work in two days.
It wasn’t like Tracy to miss work, and on those rare occasions that she took a sick day, she always called in to explain.
After repeated calls to her apartment went unanswered, her co-workers called her family. They were the ones who found her dead in her home, apparently of natural causes.
It took them another week to find the other three bodies.’
`What’s it for? Good luck answering that question. There is scientific research to be done on the moon, but this could be accomplished by automatic probes or occasional astronaut visits at a minute fraction of the cost of a permanent, crewed facility. Astronauts at a moon base will spend almost all their time keeping themselves alive and monitoring automated equipment, the latter task doable from an office building in Houston. In deadpan style, the New York Times story on the NASA announcement declared, “The lunar base is part of a larger effort to develop an international exploration strategy, one that explains why and how humans are returning to the moon and what they plan to do when they get there.” Oh–so we’ll build the moon base first, and then try to figure out why we built it.’
`Garrett Anderson told a 911 dispatcher he arrived home to find his wife stabbed in her chest, a knife still beside her, and that he didn’t know what had happened, according to the tape released by police Tuesday.
Anderson placed the call shortly before midnight Nov. 21 from a pay phone a few blocks away from his east Mesa home.
When police arrived to the house, in the 1100 block of East Abilene Avenue, they found the front door open, Anderson’s wife, Chanel, dead, and the couple’s four children inside, safe. [..]
“I need an ambulance really quick to my house,” Anderson told dispatchers. “My wife’s hurt. She needs an ambulance. . . . She got stabbed, please hurry.”
When police asked how his wife got stabbed, Anderson replied, “I don’t know. I wasn’t home.”‘
Various strange signs from around the place.
Like this mystery left.
`* This was painted by a person with a rare and severe mental disorder. He was constantly seeing his own fantasies all around him. He also had a certain phobia (undisclosed).
* His (the poster’s) psychiatry professor showed this painting in a lecture, and said there was one tell-tale sign in it that showed the painter’s insanity.
* The professor didn’t say what that sign was, leaving the students to do the guesswork. The only clues he gave was, “don’t look for small details, look at the whole; if you figure out what the phobia was, you’ve got the answer; ask yourself what could have preceded this scene; think of what the place would look like with all the objects removed“.
* The professor said that during the 15 years of his teaching, only one student had figured it out.’
‘By the time doctors finally discovered what had poisoned Alexander Litvinenko, he had only three hours to live.
As he lay unconscious, his wife Marina holding his hand and his ten-year-old son, Anatoli, stroking his forehead, a laboratory test on a urine sample identified the lethal element polonium-210 as the silent killer ravaging his body. [..]
The revelations about polonium-210 provoked a new rush of conspiracy theories. Security experts said this was no crude grudge killing but was the work of assassins with likely access to a nuclear installation, not just to a radioactive isotope that could be acquired from medical waste.’
I used to work a bit with polonium-210. Never did me any harm. But I s’pose I was playing with only nanograms at a time and definitely not eating it. 🙂
I came across this on a torrent search engine. A 699meg video (apparently) file called Anus Magillicutty.avi. That’s all the information available on the file, and there’s no clue at all to what it might actually be a video of.
I don’t know what it is, and I don’t really want to spend time downloading it to find out. So, it’s going to have to remain a mystery for now.
The Mystery of Anus Magillicutty, I call it. What could it be?
I’m guessing it’s either a full length movie about Mr Magillicutty who’s having sphincter troubles, or it’s a very short, very high resolution video of an anus.
Possibly involving an endoscope.
If anyone has bandwidth to spare, why don’t you download it and let me know what’s inside? 🙂
`These pictures were taken in the Port of Ilwaco on the Washington State coast. The crew wore civilian clothes but guarded the boat closely and would not answer any questions. It was suggested it may be something Boeing is working on. The pontoons appear to be made of very thick rubber and may be fuel cells. Note that each of the steel spider-like legs are jointed in three places. Perhaps the boat can be lowered in calm seas and raised when it is rough. The boat had no name or number…’
`A warning: If the thought of tens of millions of tiny spiders spinning a web 24 hectares – 60 acres – in size and crawling all over it scares the wits out of you, you might want to tread carefully over the following. Because that’s exactly what happened last month on a farmer’s field near McBride, about 220 kilometres east of Prince George. For reasons that area scientists don’t really understand, millions and millions of tiny black spiders called Halorates ksenius – they have no common name – became trapped in Russell Jervis’ clover field and started spinning webs.’
`Police have shot and killed a 45kg, 1.5-metre emu that tormented drivers on a busy American highway.
Police in Illinois shot the bird on Monday out of fear that it could cause a fatal accident, after six reports that the big bird had wandered onto the highway.
Authorities said they had no idea where the bird came from.’
`A death-row inmate held in solitary confinement in Vietnam for almost a year is pregnant and is seeking a pardon to give birth, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
The Lao Dong newspaper quoted a police doctor as saying tests in September confirmed that convicted heroin trafficker Nguyen Thi Oanh, 39, was then 11 weeks pregnant.
The report said it was the first time that a death-row prisoner had become pregnant in Vietnam and that police were investigating how it had happened.’
`In this day and time when terrorism is a threat, you just can’t be too careful.
A suspicious-looking black bag was sitting close to 20,000 gallons of jet fuel at the Somerset Airport Tuesday, prompting an employee to dial 911.
Airport Manager Ron Swartz looked at the bag through binoculars and said he couldn’t spot anything that would help identify it. Somerset Police officers responded to the scene, and after carefully approaching the black bag, opted to peek inside.
Fortunately, the only thing nefarious about the bag was its odor. The contents included a vomit-stained shirt and some empty beer cans.’
`Officials may have solved the mystery of a tree that has gurgled water from its trunk for months, attracting a steady stream of pilgrims who consider it holy water.
Officials with the San Antonio Water System shut off water service to Lucille Pope’s modest East Side home and found that the tree stopped leaking, according to Wednesday’s online edition of the San Antonio Express-News.
“They think the roots have gotten into the waterline,” said Lloyd Pope, Lucille’s 47-year-old son. “They don’t know where yet, though.” [..]
Despite officials’ explanation Wednesday and despite the “Do Not Enter” sign outside, the visitors kept on coming for the water, which they believe has healing properties.’
`A Romulus man whose wife mysteriously lost an arm early Sunday has been arrested and is expected to be arraigned today on several charges, including drunken driving causing serious injury, police said Wednesday.
Stephen Humphrey, 39, was being held in the Monroe County Jail. His wife, 34-year-old Brenda Humphrey, arrived at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Superior Township missing her right arm.
Police searched for the limb and for a possible crime scene for days, but found neither.’
`This friend confirmed her suspicions by telling her that yes, she was being haunted–by the spirits of all those killed by the Winchester rifle over the years. The medium suggested that she move far away and build a house. The key, the medium added, would be to have the house in a perpetual state of construction. If Sarah were ever to complete the house, it would leave her vulnerable to the curses of the vengeful spirits.
Frightened and still grieving, Sarah Winchester believed every word. In 1884 she moved to what was then a rural area near San José, California. There, she purchased an eight-room farmhouse on more than 160 acres of land. Very shortly, a work crew began a perpetual construction project which would ultimately last for nearly forty years.’
There’s lots of images of the place at the Mystery House blog.
