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‘Heres what happens when an airbag is placed in a bucket and it is ignited while a guy sits on top. Check out the air he gets.’

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‘A woman eating from a bowl and talking on a cell phone walked past a railroad crossing gate and into the path of a freight train, police said Monday. She later died.

Investigators suspect the incident Sunday was an accident but have subpoenaed the 26-year-old woman’s cell phone records to find out whom she was talking to.

“She wasn’t paying attention,” Lt. Mark Duke said.’

‘A man’s plans to bail himself out after a drug bust went more than a bit awry over the weekend.

With the aid of a drug-sniffing dog, police found 48 grams of cocaine on the 32-year-old man after pulling him over for speeding, police said.

The suspect then arranged for his aunt to bring a small safe which he claimed contained money for his bail. But when his aunt opened the safe in front of a state trooper, they found cash, drug paraphernalia and another 16 grams of cocaine, police said.

Additional drug charges were filed against the man and his bond was increased to $125,000. He was later bailed out by another relative, police said.’

‘A therapist from North Somerset has admitted showing a client a picture of his penis on his mobile phone because he thought she was “broad-minded”.

Julian Midda of Eastcliffe, Portishead is alleged to have inappropriately touched the pensioner twice while treating her at home in south Wales.

Mr Midda denies two counts of sexual assault on 24 April 2006.

He admitted showing the picture was inappropriate, but added: “She seemed quite amused by it.”‘

‘A bill introduced to the US House of Representatives would require ISPs to record all users’ surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely.

The bill, dubbed the Safety Act by sponsor Lamar Smith, a republican congressman from Texas, would impose fines and a prison term of one year on ISPs which failed to keep full records.’

‘That’s when they say two fourth grade girls, one nine-years-old, the other 10-years-old, spotted Donatelli repeatedly dipping a pen cap into a small green plastic bag filled with white powder, and bringing it up to her nose. [..]

Lewiston-Porter Central Schools has an intensive drug and character education program for its students beginning in Kindergarten. School officials confirm Donatelli taught full-time during the 2003-2004 school year. That curriculum, say school officials, would have included a drug-education curriculum.’

‘US preparations for an air strike against Iran are at an advanced stage, in spite of repeated public denials by the Bush administration, according to informed sources in Washington.

The present military build-up in the Gulf would allow the US to mount an attack by the spring. But the sources said that if there was an attack, it was more likely next year, just before Mr Bush leaves office. [..]

But Vincent Cannistraro, a Washington-based intelligence analyst, shared the sources’ assessment that Pentagon planning was well under way. “Planning is going on, in spite of public disavowals by Gates. Targets have been selected. For a bombing campaign against nuclear sites, it is quite advanced. The military assets to carry this out are being put in place.”

He added: “We are planning for war. It is incredibly dangerous.”‘

‘US immigration officials insisted the sufferer of an anal infection remove a small piece of medical thread which was being used by doctors to treat the condition. The man required treatment under general anaesthetic as a result.

The man had an anal fistula, which is a painful channel that can develop deep into the anus, caused by infection or digestive conditions such as Crohn’s disease. [..]

The seton was made of a blue braided medical suture material knotted and passed into the hole where the fistula surfaced. After one baffled immigration officer pulled “very hard” on the seton, the patient was given the choice by the baffled immigration officers of either getting on the next plane home, or submitting himself to a procedure to have it removed. [..]

The seton was duly removed by an airport doctor, who claimed to have no idea what it was. The man now requires treatment under general anaesthetic to have a replacement inserted.’

‘A 39-year-old North Little Rock man has been charged with one count of felony child endangerment after a toddler was taken to Arkansas Children’s Hospital with super glue in his eyes and chemical burns on his face. [..]

The Child’s father, Bryen Robison, says his son was blind for a day and a half before receiving medical treatment. He says doctors are hoping the toddler will not have to undergo plastic surgery, but they’re not sure.

Robison told Channel 7 the injuries are the result of super glue, and acetone that was used to remove the glue.’

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‘”We got a complaint about this play The Vagina Monologues,” said Bryce Pfanenstiel, of the Atlantic Theater.

The Hoohah Monologues is a replacement title for The Vagina Monologues — a well-known play about that part of the female body.

“We decided we would just use child slang for it. That’s how we decided on Hoohah Monologues,” Pfanenstiel said.

They did this after a driver who saw it complained to the theater, saying she was upset that her niece saw it.’

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‘Fifteen 17-year-old British soldiers were inadvertently sent to Iraq despite a UN convention to keep children away from armed conflict, it has emerged.

In a written answer, defence minister Adam Ingram said the deployments took place between June 2003 and July 2005.

He said most soldiers went just before being eligible at 18 or were taken off duties less than a week after arrival.

Lib Dem education spokeswoman Sarah Teather said the government had shown a “shocking level of incompetence”.’

‘An Australian couple enjoying a campervan holiday in New Zealand relaxed so much they accidentally left their eight-year-old daughter at a tourist stop.

The couple, who thought the girl was asleep in the back of the vehicle with their two other children, were surprised when police pulled them over in the Te Anau area of the South Island to tell them she wasn’t, the Southland Times newspaper reported today. [..]

Kiwi Discovery manager Tim Barke said the driver noticed the crying girl, who told him her family had driven off without her.’

This woman really likes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She also eats a lot of pizza.

‘Some people keep pets. I have a little sister.’

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‘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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‘This dude jumps onto a pogo stick and his foot slips off causing the pogo to snap back into his face.’

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‘Six girls at a rural high school were charged with homicide conspiracy after their principal found a list of 300 names and officials discovered online postings suggesting they kill people, authorities said Thursday.

School officials said the list, discovered in a classroom trash can, mostly named students and faculty members but also included Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey and the Energizer Bunny.

Sequatchie County High School Principal Tommy Layne said that he initially considered it a joke, but that authorities then found the ninth-graders’ online MySpace pages and postings that included the word “kill.”‘

‘A teacher has been barred from classes for having his seventh-grade students draw male genitalia on the blackboard during health class, school officials say. [..]

Pierorazio said the teacher opened a lesson on human anatomy and sexuality by asking students in a class of boys and girls to volunteer to come to the board to draw male anatomy. [..]

At least one parent said he did not believe the material was inappropriate.

“This is biology, it’s anatomy, it’s human sexuality,” said Jon Klibonoff, who has a child at the school but not in the class. “They’re in puberty. They’re aware of it on one level or another.”‘

Pictures of hot chicks with douchebags. And amusing descriptions to go with the pictures. For example:

‘I’ve seen ass chin before.

I’ve seen butt chin. I’ve seen chin pubes. I’ve even seen chin crack.

But this is beyond all of that. This is “Chin Ass.” One of the rarest forms of anus manifestation in the douche-face, Chin Ass conquers all previous ass chin aspirants. [..]’

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`Madison lawyer Rick Petri says he hopes there’s a lesson for others in what happened to him early Thursday.

Petri found himself in the embarrassing position of going to the Madison Police Department to pick up a client who had been arrested for drunken driving, only to be arrested himself for the same offense.

“I did not think I was intoxicated, and I was wrong,” Petri said.’

What happens when you put a firework in a cupboard, light it, then hold the door closed?

It seems obvious, but apparently not obvious enough for these kids. So they give it a try. :)

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`A hospital building program in South Africa has been delayed to help pay for the country’s hosting of the 2010 football World Cup.

The construction of two hospitals in the remote Northern Cape has been held up for a year while funds are diverted to pay for the tournament.

Speaking to the BBC, the South African Treasury said spending on health was increasing but did not deny that the money had been transferred.’

‘Police said they arrested a South Charleston man for driving under the influence after he flipped his middle finger at Kanawha County Sheriff Mike Rutherford and then crashed his car. [..]

Rutherford said Vickers took the exit and as he did, he extended his middle finger toward the sheriff.

Vickers then crashed the right side of his station wagon along the exit’s guardrail, Rutherford said.

“He was looking directly at me, giving me the finger and just ran into the guardrail,” Rutherford said. “There’s no question in my mind he was not paying attention.”‘

This woman is a bit on the crazy side. Maniacal eyes.

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`The Princeton Diebold Virus Hack, if you’ve been living in a cave, found that a single person with 60 seconds of unsupervised access to the system, who either picked the lock (easy in 10 seconds) or had a key, could slip a vote-swapping virus onto a single machine which could then undetectably affect every other machine in the county to steal an entire election. [..]

This idiotic company has had a photograph of the stupid key sitting on their own website’s online store! (Screenshot at end of this article.)

Of course, they’ll only sell such keys to “Diebold account holders” apparently — or so they claim — but that’s hardly a problem. J. Alex Halderman, one of the folks who worked on the Princeton Hack and tried to keep the design of the key secret for obvious reasons, revealed Tuesday that a friend of his had found the photo of the key on Diebold’s website and discovered that was all he needed to create a working copy!’

`Mr Ruddock continues to assert that the Australian Government is doing all it can for David Hicks, and that it is working to ensure safeguards are in place for him to be given a fair trial. It is, however, difficult to imagine an outcome that could be more politically embarrassing or damaging for the Government than for David Hicks, after all this time, to be found not guilty of the charges suggested. It is surely of major importance to the Government now that he be tried and convicted of serious offences, and before this year’s election takes place.

All the evidence suggests that far from receiving anything like a fair trial, Mr Hicks will be charged and tried under procedures amounting to a kangaroo court of the most noxious kind. The fact that our Government continues to support this travesty gives the community every justification for reassessing the Government’s publicly stated view. In reality, it wants Mr Hicks convicted, and as soon as possible.’

I just like the way you can hear the music again at the end. :)

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