`CMU Police reported a 20-year-old male CMU student attempted suicide Wednesday [..]
The student stabbed himself in the head several times with a fork, police say. [..]
“Nothing ever captured the attention of the cafeteria like this before,” [a student] said.’
`Sri Lanka is trying to solve the mysterious disappearance of its “national handball team” while on tour in Germany, but it is no easy task — the Indian Ocean island doesn’t have one.
The 23-strong “team” managed to dupe the German Embassy in Colombo into issuing visas for a month-long tour beginning on September 8, acting German Ambassador Heidi Jung said on Thursday.
The group vanished soon after arrival and German and Sri Lankan officials have been unable to trace them.’
`Mask, 74, was killed with a concrete block inside a motor home on property that he owned [..]
Mask’s body, nude but for a pair of socks, was found Thursday on a bed in the motor home, [policeman] Jordan said. He died sometime Sept. 7 after he was struck twice on the head with the concrete block, which was found on the bed under a pillow, Jordan noted.
Robbery is believed to be a possible motive for the killing, Jordan said. But that’s not the only possibility, Jordan added cryptically.
[..] Mask would use the motor home to “meet people,” Jordan said, declining to get into further details.
[..] sheriff’s department records indicate that Mask was twice accused of sexual crimes involving men who rented rooms from him.
[..] “I have suspected for some time that this may happen one day,” Jordan said. “Is it bizarre? Yes. Is it a surprise to me? No.”’
`Researchers said on Friday they have invented an antenna that captures visible light in much the same way that radio antennas capture radio waves.
They say the device, using tiny carbon nanotubes, might serve as the basis for an optical television or for converting solar energy into electricity once properly developed.’
`Officials may be in the market for a new garage to go with the fire truck they approved purchasing because the $557,600 aerial truck is too tall and heavy for the garage.’
`Peruvian five-year-old Lina Medina, accompanied by her 11-month-old-son Gerardo, and Doctor Lozada who attended her son’s birth, are shown in this 1940 file photo taken in Lima’s hospital.’
`Former Wham! star George Michael discovered a crazed fan living under his floorboards, he’s revealed.
The woman stalker had been hiding under the floor of his house for an incredible four days. George, 41, only found out she was there when she yelled out his name.’
‘Convinced he needed discipline, David’s father, Ken, felt the solution lay in a goal that he didn’t himself achieve, Eagle Scout, which requires 21 merit badges. David earned a merit badge in Atomic Energy in May 1991, five months shy of his 15th birthday. By now, though, he had grander ambitions.
He was determined to irradiate anything he could, and decided to build a neutron “gun.” To obtain radioactive materials, David used a number of cover stories and concocted a new identity.’
`A Norfolk man spent four hours holding a rusty piece of metal he feared was an unexploded World War Two bomb that would detonate if he let go — only to be told he had been cradling part of an old car. [..]
Page, a father of five, sobbed to the woman operator:
“I told her to tell my parents and the children that I loved them if anything went wrong.”
The drama ended when army bomb disposal experts turned up and told him the “bomb” was actually part of the hydraulic suspension system from a Citroen.’
‘It rubs the lotion on its skin
Or else it gets the hose again
It rubs the lotion on its skin
Or else it gets the hose again
(Yes it does Precious)’
Kinda catchy. :)
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`Police in the western German city of Aachen are searching for an obese couple who have been sneaking into an apartment building to use a woman’s private dryer.
The only evidence police found was an oversized XXL bra and a jumbo pair of men’s underpants left behind in the dryer. [..]’
`This one is hilarious. Supposedly, their is a service for deaf people where they can text message a phone operator and that phone operator then will communicate the message to the other line.’
`With its heady dialog and intricately detailed 3-D animation, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is dense — the kind of film you can spread with a putty knife.’
`Forty-six Brazilian policemen travelling to a sports competition were caught with their guard down this week when four Brazilian thieves robbed the bus carrying them to the event. [..]
“The robbers took their cameras, cellular phones, wallets and even the sports uniforms and sneakers,” a police spokesman said.’
`A human being is capable of changing and impeding time in an emergent situation, in a desperate attempt to stay alive. Nature provided incredible an ability to people, although one can use this ability once in a lifetime. [..] this so-called “time control organ” is always in action, the time of every individual changes, although only highly precise devices can register this change (an atomic clock or synchronized quartz resonators).’
`Yesterday, a judge rejected his petition on technical grounds.
Angered over the decision, Mr Dhilon went to the court of another senior judge and shouted that he was killing himself because “I have not received justice,” said Usman Anwar, another police officer.
He said Mr Dhilon quickly poured gasoline over his body and set it on fire.’
`A grandmother in China died of shock after her 11-year-old grandson gave her a plastic severed head as a joke gift. [..]
She died from a stroke after opening the present, on which her grandson spent all of his pocketmoney.’
`A man climbed into a lions’ enclosure at an Australian zoo Tuesday, pulled out a yellow Bible and asked stunned onlookers whether they wanted him to pat the four animals during feeding time.’
with video (and sound): `Mate, they’re gonna kill ya..’
`Firefighters had to be called after a plan to evict a swarm of bees went up in smoke. Residents used gasoline to start a fire in hopes of smoking out a hive of bees from under their home [..]’
`For at least the 10th time in eight years, Francisco Solomon Sanchez of Duarte attempted a public suicide by threatening to jump from a freeway overpass, tying up traffic on two major freeways for hours, officials said Sunday. [..]
“He’s a previous jumper,” CHP Acting Sgt. Brandon Carter said. “He has two prosthetic legs from previous jumps.”‘
`Zambian police have arrested a man who exhumed, cooked and ate part of his grandson’s corpse, police said Monday.’
`The hydrogen bomb was lost in the Atlantic Ocean in 1958 following a collision of a B-47 bomber and an F-86 fighter.
A group led by retired Air Force Lt. Col. Derek Duke of Statesboro, Georgia, said in July that it had found a large object underwater near Savannah that was emitting high levels of radioactivity, according to an Associated Press report.’
`Instead of injecting an elderly patient with antibiotics, he shot her up with olive oil. The woman was in the hospital to get her appendix removed.
Officials at Steyr Hospital said vials of the medicine and oil had been left at the bedside and the intern picked up the wrong one. The olive oil was supposed to have been used for a massage.’
`A teenager in a Manhattan housing development fell to his death yesterday morning when a rope he was using to rappel to his family’s fifth-floor apartment snapped [..]
Osano Dallas, 16, tied one end of a rope to a 3½-foot metal barrier on the roof of 434 W. 17th St. and the other end around his waist [..]’
`Federal Treasurer Peter Costello today said a little boy dressed as a Ninja turtle who kicked him in Brisbane was “fantastic”. [..]
“He was fantastic, he shot across the room and he put me on my guard, and I sort of tried to cope with him,” Mr Costello said on radio B105.
“He wasn’t in the mood for kissing – Ninja turtles are very tough, karate-type people.”‘
`A 34-year-old man in a wheelchair was arrested Tuesday after attacking and attempting to rob a man who had tried to help him, police said.
[..] a strange detail was that the man who was attacked had also spent years in a wheelchair before being fitted with prosthetic legs.
“They were total strangers. It’s a bizarre case,” [a policeman] said.’
`What if only your imagination limited what you could see outside your windows? Flat panel technology is quickly becoming bigger, better, and more affordable, which will allow for all sorts of fun ways to transport your domicile to wherever tickles your fancy. This is my modest attempt to view something more interesting than my neighbors.’
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