moonbuggy

Seems a bit silly, if you ask me.

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`An intruder has been found dead and naked in the house he broke into after apparently overdosing on prescription drugs he had found inside.

The 60-year-old resident of an Adelaide property found the body yesterday after being away for two days.

Police said the dead man appeared to have taken the resident’s diabetes tablets, vomited in the toilet and then used the shower before collapsing.

Detective Senior Sergeant Brian Kimber, of Elizabeth, said the intruder, aged in his 20s, had been known to police.’

`A teenage boy accidentally set himself on fire early Wednesday morning after allegedly trying to siphon gas from a firefighter’s car.

Police first learned of the injury after a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy claimed that someone had thrown gasoline on the 17-year-old at the Common Cents service station and lit him on fire, said Lt. Rod Hauge.

The boy was taken to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns on his legs. Police were called to the hospital to investigate the incident and later learned that the 17-year-old spilled gas on his pants while siphoning gas. He then used a lighter to try to determine how wet his pants were and set himself of fire, Hague said.’

`Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant.

Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. But the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she’s a senior, bans speech that puts down others because of their sexual orientation.

Malhotra sees that as an unacceptable infringement on her right to religious expression. So she’s demanding that Georgia Tech revoke its tolerance policy.

With her lawsuit, the 22-year-old student joins a growing campaign to force public schools, state colleges and private workplaces to eliminate policies protecting gays and lesbians from harassment. The religious right aims to overturn a broad range of common tolerance programs: diversity training that promotes acceptance of gays and lesbians, speech codes that ban harsh words against homosexuality, anti-discrimination policies that require college clubs to open their membership to all.’

`An arrest warrant was issued Sunday for an Allentown man who police say took dominos to a violent extreme.

Reynaldo Nieves, 38, of 25 Cleveland St., allegedly attacked his girlfriend, Ana Alicea, early Sunday after she and her sister won their third game of dominos at 1045 Livingston St., Bethlehem, police said. [..]

According to the police report, Nieves and his friend Danny Ortiz were ”having a nice time” playing dominos with Alicea and her sister Glenda Alicea. but during the fourth game, Nieves, who the report said had been drinking, accused Ana Alicea of cheating. He then cursed at her, threw a domino at her and punched her in the face before jumping on top of her, the report states.’

`Two Catoosa County neighbors got in a gunbattle after one shot the other’s dog, Sheriff Phil Summers said.

One man was transported to Erlanger Medical Center after the gunplay on Sunday night. [..]

During the altercation, the two men exchanged gunfire. McDaniel was not injured, however, Mr. Beyer suffered from gunshot wounds to the head and chest area from McDaniel’s shotgun.

McDaniel was transported to Catoosa County Detention Center and charged with cruelty to animals.

Sheriff Summers said the case is still under investigation. At this time, the Sheriff’s Office is attempting to determine if additional charges should be filed.’

`Two people who police say conspired to get off of work for a few days by filing a fake obituary with a newspaper have been arrested.

James Ralph Snyder, 36, and Mary Jo Elizabeth Jensen, 33, both of Waterloo, participated in the scam by filing an obituary saying Jensen’s 17-year-old son had died, police said.

Snyder was charged with tampering with records. Jensen was charged with being an accessory after the fact.

Snyder, claiming he was Daniel Reddout’s father, submitted the obituary to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier in December, police said.

Snyder, who is Jensen’s boyfriend, said Reddout died at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., after a lengthy illness, police said.

Later in the week, people who know the family and the teenager saw him at a downtown restaurant and called authorities, police said.’

`He could’ve filled three Pepsi cans. Maybe three and a half.

That’s how much blood Talula estimates he lost the first time he tried to castrate himself.

Life had hit an all-time low. Depression hung around his shoulders like a lead suit. His libido had spiraled out of control, and he was masturbating as many as five times a day.

So in June 1994, at 37 years of age, Talula made a decision. He’d had enough. They had to go. He stripped naked and sat in his tub, Betadine solution in one hand, an Xacto knife in the other. He doused his genitals with the antiseptic until they glowed amber, then slowly, carefully, slit open his scrotum.

No anesthesia. No alcohol. Nothing.’

`An Australian federal police officer has been suspended for consulting a clairvoyant as part of an investigation into a death threat made against the country’s prime minister, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The officer, whose identity has not been released, was reported to have consulted clairvoyant Elizabeth Walker after inquiries into the threat against Prime Minister John Howard hit a dead end, the Sunday Age reported.

In a statement to the newspaper, an Australian Federal Police spokesman confirmed an officer was being investigated.’

`If you’re launching yourself as Britain’s FBI and say you will make the lives of organised criminals “hell” then you need a dynamic logo to match the job.

The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has chosen a fierce big cat bearing its fangs and leaping over a stylised silver globe, with a crown capping it all.

It’s bold but bears a striking resemblance to the logo of the 1980s children’s cartoon series Thundercats. So was the comparison to the show – which featured humanoid cats battling evil mutants in the Earth’s distant future – intentional? Soca declined to comment.’

You saw the shots from the front here: Britney Spears gets birthing monument

And now, heres the bits you really want to see.

It’s art, so it has to be safe for work. Maybe. :)

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`Federal investigators said Friday they are preparing to file charges against a Santa Cruz couple suspected of taking a two-day-old harbor seal pup from the beach back to their home.

The pup was found by a volunteer rescuer in the pair’s backyard late last month. The pup died hours later after an unsuccessful attempt to reunite it with its mother, said Doug Ross, a volunteer with the Marine Mammal Center.

Ross believes the pair carried the pup to their Seabright home after spotting it beside the San Lorenzo River mouth. Ross said he found the pup in a dog crate after receiving an early-morning emergency call the couple made to a 24-hour seal rescue hot line.’

`A chiropractor who claims he can treat anyone by reaching back in time to when an injury occurred has attracted the attention of state regulators.

The Ohio State Chiropractic Board, in a notice of hearing, has accused James Burda of Athens of being “unable to practice chiropractic according to acceptable and prevailing standards of care due to mental illness, specifically, Delusional Disorder, Grandiose Type.”

Burda denied that he is mentally ill. He said he possesses a skill he discovered by accident while driving six years ago.’

`A Philippines judge who allegedly claimed to have psychic powers and said he had made a covenant with “dwarf friends” has been removed from his post.

Judge Florentino Floro, who presided in a suburban Manila court, allegedly said he was empowered with supernatural abilities, could read the future and conducted “healing sessions” in his chambers.

“His mental problems for now appear to render him unfit with the delicate task of dispensing justice,” the Supreme Court said in a ruling, stressing that Floro had not been found guilty of misconduct or corruption.’

`Staff at a Japanese convenience store got a shock when they asked an elderly gentleman to stop reading magazines without buying them, media reports say.

The man, 70, left the 7-Eleven store in the Ibaraki prefecture north-east of Tokyo – and returned with a chainsaw, police told AFP news agency.

After threatening to cut staff to pieces he left the chainsaw outside the shop and carried on reading.

“He was still reading when I called the police,” the manager told AFP.’

`A yank on a child’s underwear has a teacher in big trouble.

Albany police have charged 41-year-old Mark Holley of Scotia with endangering the welfare of a child for giving a student a wedgie. Holley’s a teacher at New Covenant Charter School in
Albany.

Police say that during summer school, while a 10-year-old New Covenant student was in the bathroom, Holley grabbed the child’s underwear and pulled it up.’

That sounds like a wedgie to me.

`A Marion County Jail corrections officer was fired after an internal affairs investigation determined he struck his wife in an argument over his buying Dungeons and Dragons fantasy toys.

Investigators say Edward Bonthron and wife Lori Jo Bonthron were arguing at their home last month over whether he was paying too much for the toys.

Lori Jo Bonthron told investigators she was hit, pushed and choked’

A funky remix of the Leprechaun in Alabama video from the other week. Good stuff. :)

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`A textbook used at schools in the Indian state of Rajasthan compares housewives to donkeys, and suggests the animals make better companions as they complain less and are more loyal to their “masters,” The Times of India reported Tuesday.

“A donkey is like a housewife … In fact, the donkey is a shade better, for while the housewife may sometimes complain and walk off to her parents’ home, you’ll never catch the donkey being disloyal to his master,” the newspaper reported, quoting a Hindi-language primer meant for 14-year-olds.’

`Three Singaporeans were found safe on Thursday after getting lost on what they said was a mission to find a legendary karate expert on a snowy mountainside in Japan.

One of the three men told police in Hirosaki, near the northern tip of Japan’s main island, that they had come to Japan after his dying father, a martial arts expert, had ordered them to seek out the karate teacher, TV Asahi said on its Web site.

“Japan looked so small on the world map that we thought we would be able to find him straight away,” one of the group, aged between 25 and 50, was quoted as saying.’

`Karl is a double amputee, but not by accident, birth or disease. He is an amputee by choice.

Six years ago, Karl (who asked that his real name not be used) sat alone in a parked car with 100 pounds of dry ice and an obsession to destroy his legs.

“The first thing I did was I used a wooden flour scoop to scoop some granulated dry ice into the bucket. … It filled the wastebasket with carbon dioxide gas, which was 79 degrees below zero,” he said.

Over the next 45 minutes, Karl put his legs in the wastebasket and then kept adding dry ice until it got to the top. “I spent the next six hours well-packed in the dry ice, and then I’d add more dry ice to keep it topped off,” he said. A chemistry major in college, Karl had done his research well.

“I’d done all the thermodynamic calculations, the mass of tissue, how much heat you had to subtract from that tissue to achieve freezing temperatures,” he said. “And I knew that after six hours I had certainly achieved more than enough to freeze the full thickness.”‘

`Maybe Bush had rising gas prices on his mind when he said he was pleased that Republicans and Democrats were working together to get a bipartisan, comprehensive “energy” bill.

Realizing his mistake, he stopped and called for a Take 2.

“Let me start over,” Bush said, standing next to Air Force One.

Bush, often the first to admit that he’s not a great orator, got it right the second time.

“I’m pleased that Republicans and Democrats in the United States Senate are working together to get a comprehensive `immigration’ bill,” Bush said. “I want to thank the efforts of those involved in the process. …”‘

`A Glens Falls man was charged with burglary early Saturday after he allegedly walked into another man’s home, started cooking pork chops and used the bathroom, police said.

Michael E. Dunlay, 37, of 39D Cherry St. faces a felony charge of second-degree burglary and misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief and petit larceny, Glens Falls Police Capt. Kevin Conine said.

The resident of the Pine Street apartment building arrived home about 12:15 a.m. Saturday to find a man he knew only by a first name in his bathroom with food cooking on the stove, Conine said. Dunlay apparently lived in the same building at one time, he said.’

`A NSW Police blunder has led to a database of email passwords – including those of the anti-terrorism chief and hundreds of journalists – published on the internet.

The names, email addresses and passwords of as many as 800 people who signed up to receive NSW Police media releases are listed on the database.

The list includes the password and email details of two of the state’s most senior counter-terrorism police officers, newly appointed Assistant Commissioner Nick Kaldas and Detective Chief Superintendent Mark Jenkins.

Mr Kaldas is regarded as the foremost terrorism expert among Australia’s police services.’

For the curious, try Google’s cache.

`An Indian movie director said he hopes to persuade Paris Hilton to play the role of Nobel laureate and prospective Catholic Saint, Mother Teresa, in an upcoming film.

“Her features resemble Mother Teresa,” director T. Rajeevnath told AFP from the southwestern coastal state of Kerala.

The filmmaker said Hilton is on his shortlist after a computer-generated image showed a close facial match between the hotel heiress and the Albanian-born nun.’

`Victoria Lundy, 41, in custody in Chillicothe, Ohio, in January for a barroom shooting, apparently smuggled her gun into the jail at the time of her arrest by putting it inside her vagina. A shot was fired in a holding cell, and according to a fellow prisoner interviewed by the Chillicothe Gazette, the gun had gone off when Lundy sat down on a bench in the cell. (No one was hit.)’

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`A naked man suffered burns to one-fifth of his body when he tried to set fire to a spider at a nudist resort in the NSW southern highlands.

The 56-year-old Sydney man tried to kill what he thought was a funnel web spider by pouring petrol down the spider’s burrow and igniting it with a match, the NRMA CareFlight service said.

But the fuel exploded and the man was left with burns to 18 per cent of his body, on the upper leg and buttocks.’

`Part of a teacher’s hand was blown off when a 40 mm round the instructor used as a paperweight on his desk exploded in his classroom.

Robert Colla struck the round with an object Monday afternoon while teaching 20 to 25 students at the Ventura Adult Education Center on Valentine Road.

Part of Colla’s right hand was severed and he suffered severe burns and minor shrapnel wounds to his forearms and torso, fire Capt. Tom Weinell said. No one else was injured. [..]

Colla found the 40 mm round while hunting years ago, Huston [another teacher] said. He used it as a paperweight and “obviously he didn’t think the round was live,” Huston said.’

`A Swedish doctor who has previously been cautioned in Sweden for using a controversial ‘anal massage’ technique to cure various kinds of pain has been fired from his job in Norway – for the second time.

The man, who also runs a private clinic in Gothenburg, described his dismissal as part of a witch-hunt against him, and said that his technique is successful.

Several years ago, the man was warned by Sweden’s Medical Responsibility Board (HSAN) on at least three occasions, after treating an elderly woman’s headaches and back pain with his method. At the time he was working in the Stockholm area.’

‘This crazy kid tries to eat a cactus like it was an apple. I’m trying to figure out what would hurt more, the cactus going in or coming out two days later.’

I tried to eat a cactus once. Well, kinda. And it didn’t have so many spikes.

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