`Officers used a stun gun to take a Michigan man into custody after he attempted to fight them off with medieval weaponry, according to police. [..]
“One of the statements that he made is that, ‘I got 1,000 years of power. Come and get me,'” said Deputy Chief Chris Jahnke, of the Royal Oak Police Department. “And they looked down and he has this metal chain (and a) mesh guard (or) vest on, along with these leather gauntlets on his arms.”
After dodging swords, chains and the mallet — which were being thrown up from the basement — officers used a stun gun to subdue McClain and arrest him [..]’
`Drunk husband John Cole faced the scales of justice for hitting his wife Elaine with a fish.
A court heard the hung-over former fork-lift driver woke up in a rage thinking she had hidden two cans of beer.
He punched the ex-barmaid after hitting her with the 8lb pike from their kitchen during Tuesday’s row. [..]
After Wednesday’s hearing, regretful Cole said he couldn’t bring himself to eat the pike.
He revealed: “I fed it to our cats and dogs.”
Elaine, 49, said she forgave him but added: “I could’ve been seriously hurt or killed by that fish.”‘
`A Worcester man who appeared naked in public with a padlock fastened to his private parts has been given a two-year anti-social behaviour order.
Geoffrey Hughes, who lives on Astwood Road, was served with the order after Worcester Magistrates heard how the 51-year-old had committed a series of anti-social acts which had caused distress to his neighbours.
The court was told last Friday (July 29) how Mr Hughes’ behaviour had become increasingly bizarre during the past three years as a result of alcohol and drug abuse which had caused amphetamine-induced psychosis.
In one incident Mr Hughes appeared publicly wearing nothing but a hat and a padlock fixed to his penis which needed removing by a locksmith who was called to the scene along with emergency services.’
`In the new report, Amnesty has urged the US to reveal where its alleged secret detention facilities are, stop using them and name the detainees held there.
The two Yemeni men, Muhammad Faraj Ahmed Bashmilah and Salah Nasser Salim Ali, were arrested separately but reported almost identical experiences to Amnesty. [..]
Both say they were tortured for four days by Jordanian intelligence services.
Alleged methods include being beaten on the feet while bound and suspended upside-down. One of the men claims he was threatened with sexual abuse and electric shocks.
Each says he was then flown to an unnamed underground jail, where he was held in solitary confinement for six to eight months with no access to lawyers.’
`Scottish courts are dealing with an ever growing collection of fetishists.
In September 2003, pervert Ian Curtis was caught having sex with a frozen chicken.
When he was discovered by his wife Jean, the former military policeman, 42, of Glasgow, was dressed in a skirt, silk blouse and rubber stockings.
Jean, who later divorced him, shouted at her hubby: ‘You dirty bastard, that’s my Sunday lunch.”
`Astronaut Steve Robinson turns the camera on himself during his historic repair job “underneath” Discovery on August 3. The Shuttle’s heat shield, where Robinson removed a pair of protruding gap fillers, is reflected in his visor.’
Looks kinda cool. The high res versions are pretty impressive.
`A University of Florida scientist has grown a living “brain” that can fly a simulated plane, giving scientists a novel way to observe how brain cells function as a network.
DeMarse experimental “brain” interacts with an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator through a specially designed plate called a multi-electrode array and a common desktop computer.
“It’s essentially a dish with 60 electrodes arranged in a grid at the bottom,” DeMarse said. “Over that we put the living cortical neurons from rats, which rapidly begin to reconnect themselves, forming a living neural network – a brain.” [..]
“Initially when we hook up this brain to a flight simulator, it doesn’t know how to control the aircraft,” DeMarse said. “So you hook it up and the aircraft simply drifts randomly. And as the data comes in, it slowly modifies the (neural) network so over time, the network gradually learns to fly the aircraft.”
Although the brain currently is able to control the pitch and roll of the simulated aircraft in weather conditions ranging from blue skies to stormy, hurricane-force winds, the underlying goal is a more fundamental understanding of how neurons interact as a network, DeMarse said.’
This is along the same lines as the link to a photo of Your Mother that I posted earlier.
But kinda slightly more sickening. Your boss really won’t need to see this. :)
Collage of old people doing things old people shouldn’t do.
And some guy with a baseball.
This is not safe for work. Unless you work where I work, in which case you’d better not leave your laptop unguarded or you’re gonna see this picture whether you want to or not. :)
Some guy: That’s not a good idea. You should take it out of your pocket.
Some guy with a gun in his pocket: It’s alright dude.
Some guy: I’m serious.
Some guy with a gun in his pocket: Aargh!
(1.2meg Windows media)
see it here »
`A 30-year-old Darwin man is recovering in hospital after falling twice from a multi-storey building – the second time on his head.
It appears the man was scaling the building after locking himself out.
In his first attempt to climb to his upstairs unit about 4am (CST), the man fell from an unknown height on to a car parked below in Finniss Street.
“His fall was cushioned by landing on the car roof that smashed the windscreen,” said Senior Sergeant Andrew Cummins, from Darwin Police.
Undaunted, the man tried to climb the building again and it was believed he had reached the third floor before again falling.
“Unfortunately, the second time he landed on his head and was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital suffering head injuries,” Snr Sgt Cummins said.’
`The Bush administration is planning the government’s first production of plutonium 238 since the cold war, stirring debate over the risks and benefits of the deadly material. The substance, valued as a power source, is so radioactive that a speck can cause cancer.
Federal officials say the program would produce a total of 330 pounds over 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling site outside Idaho Falls some 100 miles to the west and upwind of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Officials say the program could cost $1.5 billion and generate more than 50,000 drums of hazardous and radioactive waste.
Project managers say that most if not all of the new plutonium is intended for secret missions and they declined to divulge any details. But in the past, it has powered espionage devices.
“The real reason we’re starting production is for national security,” Timothy A. Frazier, head of radioisotope power systems at the Energy Department, said in a recent interview.’
Just so long as Iran and North Korea don’t make any. Because rogue states like that can’t be trusted not to invade other countries and start wars and kill lots of innocent people.
`God alone knows what NatWest customer Chris Lancaster has done to offend the bank’s card issuing department, but it recently sent him a new cash card on which he is gloriously identified as “Dick Head”.
Or rather, his new title in full is Mr C Lancaster Dick Head, prompting the 18-year-old Essex man to lament to UK tabloid the Sun: “I know I’ve been overdrawn a few times and got a few £30 charges but I’ve done nothing to deserve this.”
Mr Lancaster is, of course, merely the latest victim of the great British pastime of “Let’s stick something abusive on the cash card/electric bill/council tax demand”. We are reminded of the outraged old chap – quite possibly a highly-decorated war hero if the Sun was reporting it – who got a bill from his local town hall addressed to “A Cunt”.’
`Western Cape police are investigating an allegation of sex with a corpse at Salt River Mortuary, and the amputation and theft of a foot from another body.
And a reliable mortuary source said the sexual assault on a young male was “just the tip of the iceberg” and “several more young male corpses have been violated”. [..]
[Some spokesman] said that in [one case] the victim’s family would be contacted after police had established “beyond all reasonable doubt” that the corpse had been sodomised “post mortem”.
A long-serving police officer attached to the mortuary said that in an incident in 1989 mortuary staff had caught a half-naked policeman on top of a female corpse.’
`An Orange County sheriff’s reserve deputy was arrested after he allegedly showed his badge and pulled a gun on a group of golfers in Chino Hills over the weekend. [..]
The brothers said Yi approached them and then came back and flashed his badge. Yi asked that they get his ball and when they began driving away in a golf cart, they said Yi pulled his gun and yelled, “‘Freeze'” and “‘I will kill you,'” Javier Bautista said.
“It was a scary feeling,” Marcelo Bautista said. “He was acting so erratic and odd it was like he was in a road rage. His behavior was completely out of line.”
A short time later, the dispute started up again and the brothers told authorities that Yi pulled out his gun for a second time and threatened to kill them.’
If you like my site, buy me one of these to show your appreciation. :)
`Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his American captors, and a series of intense beatings and creative interrogation tactics were not enough to break his will. On the morning of Nov. 26, 2003, a U.S. Army interrogator and a military guard grabbed a green sleeping bag, stuffed Mowhoush inside, wrapped him in an electrical cord, laid him on the floor and began to go to work. Again.
It was inside the sleeping bag that the 56-year-old detainee took his last breath through broken ribs, lying on the floor beneath a U.S. soldier in Interrogation Room 6 in the western Iraqi desert. Two days before, a secret CIA-sponsored group of Iraqi paramilitaries, working with Army interrogators, had beaten Mowhoush nearly senseless, using fists, a club and a rubber hose, according to classified documents.’
`The following is a large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users. It’s a baffling phenomenon that in today’s society an individual, who might in other circumstances be considered smart and wise, can sit down in front of a computer screen and instantly lose every last shred of common sense he ever possessed. Complicate this phenomenon with a case of “computerphobia,” and you end up with tech support personnel having phone conversations that are funny in retrospect but seem like perfectly valid motives for wild machine gun shooting sprees at the time. You will read stories in this file that will convince you that among the human race are human-shaped artichokes futilely attempting to break the highly regarded social convention that vegetables should not operate electronic equipment. And yet, amidst the vast, surging quantities of stupidity are perfectly excusable technological mishaps — but that are amusing nonetheless. After all, even the best of us engages in a little brainless folly every once in a while.’
`Village council candidates in India should be allowed to stand for election only if they have a toilet at home, the rural development minister says.
In a letter to all chief ministers, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said the toilet rule should be set out in law.
He said too many elected members “do not have toilet facilities in their own houses and defecate in the open”.
Mr Singh said this activity was the main cause of the high incidence of diarrhoea in rural areas. ‘
`Wind power is the world’s fastest-growing energy source. Existing capacity worldwide is approaching 50,000 megawatts—roughly equivalent to that of 50 nuclear power plants. But there are problems with this seemingly benign wellspring of pollution-free electricity. Aside from being noisy, the whirling turbines interfere with television reception and are generally considered terrestrial eyesores rendered useless when the wind stops. Bryan Roberts, an engineer at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, has a solution: Instead of erecting wind turbines on the ground, float them in the jet stream, a screamingly fast current of air that circles the globe, fluctuating between altitudes of 15,000 and 45,000 feet.’
I still reckon we need to build some more nuclear plants in a hurry or we’re gonna be fucked.
Links to a bunch of disposable email providers. Combined with bugmenot, makes a good way to get around the web.
`Eagle County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Singletree subdivision Friday night in response to a report of a person dressed as Batman entering a home.
According to Kim Andree, spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office, the individual is a 14-year-old boy who adapted the guise of the fictional crime fighter.
“He believes he’s on a mission to help people get off drugs,” Andree said. “He really believes he’s helping. I think the family is working on getting him some assistance.”‘
`Dog Condoms, Inc. is announcing a voluntary recall of its Dog Condoms® canine prophylactics, due to an unacceptable failure rate reported during preliminary release in test markets. Use of these recalled condoms may result in unwanted canine pregnancies. Additionally, meat-scented Dog Condoms® may present a choking hazard, especially for smaller dogs.
These condoms were sold to consumers in limited test markets after May 1, 2005. The Dog Condoms® affected by this recall include all Dog Condom® products released to market, including Small, Medium, and Large Canine sizes, in both the lubricated and meat-scented varieties.’
`Bryan told KMBC’s Donna Pitman that she returned home after work and saw strangers loading up her belongings into their vehicle. When she asked what they were doing, they showed her a classified ad in the newspaper. The public notice stated that all things at 1319 Tennessee St., Apt. 3 would be thrown away if unclaimed.
“It was just a real shock!” Bryan said. “I was freaking out. I told them that’s my apartment — there’s been some mistake.”
Pitman reported that it was a one-digit mistake — the newspaper ad should have read 1339 Tennessee St. The ad was placed because a woman in that home passed away and no one had claimed her belongings.
Bryan said the people she confronted returned her things, but unfortunately, her TV, DVD player, movies, furniture and a 7-week-old kitten had already been taken from her apartment..’
`An Australian bus driver who called police after he found a package on his bus which emitted a strange sound when touched was left red-faced when it turned out to be a novelty store cushion. [..]
The driver found the package on the rear seat of his bus after completing his route around the Sydney beachside of Coogee on Sunday.
Fearing it could be an explosive device of some kind, he called the police.
“It was an unattended item, emitting a popping sound,” a police spokesman said.
“Just as a precautionary measure, police went and investigated. It’s a whoopee cushion,” he said.’
`The designers of some elevators include a hidden feature that is very handy if you’re in a hurry or it’s a busy time in the building (like check-out time in a hotel). While some elevators require a key, others can be put into “Express” mode by pressing the “Door Close” and “Floor” buttons at the same time. This sweeps the car to the floor of your choice and avoids stops at any other floor. This seems to work on Most elevators that I have tried! Most elevators have the option for this to work, but on some of them the option is turned off by whoever runs them. This is a rather fun hack, so the next time you are on an elevator, give it a try, you have nothing to lose, And this concludes Hacking Elevators 101!’
`To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories.
Except Utah, which she does not fancy.’
`Isn’t life a bitch? The world is going to end. You don’t even have to be a religious fundamentalist to see that’s true.
Some people collect postal stamps; Exit Mundi collects scenarios of what could go wrong with the world. Sure, our planet could get hit by an asteroid. But hey, that’s nothing. Did you know we could all be munched away by hungry molecules? Or that our physicists could unintentionally wipe us all out while tinkering with particles? `Oops, sorry…’
Exit Mundi isn’t in it for doom preaching, but strictly for fun. It’s a fascinating thought: if that &*%#-comet didn’t wipe out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, we wouldn’t be here pondering about apocalypses and armageddons in the first place. The dinosaurs roamed our planet millions of years longer than we did. If it wasn’t for the comet, they still would.
That’s why this site is a tribute to floods, quantum explosions and awfully big chunks of space rock falling out of the sky. If there’s a lesson to be learnt, it should be that within every end looms the dawn of a new beginning.
Sounds good, doesn’t it?’
Some cool optical illusions.
`All day Friday and through the night Team PAD braved rain, lightning and winds over 30 mph to setup and test their equipment at their mountaintop base outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. On Saturday July 30 at 11am they successfully made a 125 mile link using 802.11b and ran network applications with their remote team in the mountains West of St. George, Utah.’
