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‘Draw your way to the finish, get through level after level of mazes with this addicting paint ‘ball’ game.’

‘The mystery owner of a fingertip found by a woman in Greater Manchester has come forward.

The 57-year-old man, from Wigan, was delivering charity bags to a house in Farnworth, Bolton, when it is thought that a dog bit him.

His fingertip was found by a woman on Balmoral Road on Friday evening, prompting a police appeal.

The man, who received treatment at Hope Hospital in Salford, contacted officers after hearing the appeal.’

‘An Upper Dublin man with what a Montgomery County prosecutor labeled a “disturbing” sexual fetish involving dirty diapers will remain under the close eye of county probation officials for the next three years.

Judge William J. Furber this week sentenced C. D. A., of the 400 block of Hutchins Drive, to a three-year probationary sentence for prowling about a home in the 400 block of West 10th Avenue in Conshohocken and removing and/or rooting around in trash bags containing a child’s dirty diapers.

A condition of the probation will require that the probation department’s intensive supervision unit closely monitor A.’s activities.

Another condition of the sentence requires A. to continue to receive outpatient therapy. A third condition bars A. from having any unsupervised contact with children under the age of 13 other than his niece.’

‘A man who became the subject of a book called “The Radioactive Boy Scout” after trying to build a nuclear reactor in a shed as a teenager has been charged with stealing 16 smoke detectors. Police say it was a possible effort to experiment with radioactive materials.

David Hahn, 31, was being held Friday on a $5,000 bond in the Macomb County Jail after he was arraigned Thursday on felony larceny charges. Clinton Township police Capt. Richard Maierle said Hahn denied the charges. [..]

Investigators say Hahn was arrested Wednesday after a maintenance worker saw him stealing a detector from a ceiling in an apartment complex where he lived. They later found the other detectors in his apartment in the Detroit suburb of Clinton Township.

Police say that Hahn’s face was covered with open sores, possibly from constant exposure to radioactive materials.’

Followup to The Radioactive Boy Scout.

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‘China has banned the use of slogans like “Raise fewer babies but more piggies” to promote family planning, worried crude language may hamper its message in the world’s most populous country, state media said on Sunday.

The slogans are painted on walls and houses across China, but many are too coarse or even mis-written, the official Xinhua news agency cited a notice from the National Population and Family Planning Commission as saying.

Others judged offensive include “Houses toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected” and “One more baby means one more tomb”, it said.’

‘Scientists have explained mathematically why the famous silly walks of Monty Python’s John Cleese have never caught on in the long history of homo sapiens.

The giant, leg-twirling strides of silly walks may enable an individual to leap around swiftly but are simply too expensive in metabolic energy compared with conventional locomotion, according to a paper published by Britain’s Royal Society. [..]

“Inverted pendulum walking is energetically optimal at low speeds and step lengths, and impulsive running is energetically optimal at higher speeds,” they say.

Silly walks gathered cult status in the British television comedy show Monty Python’s Flying Circus, when the gangling Cleese, dressed in a pin-stripe suit and bowler hat, cavorted around as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Silly Walks. ‘

‘A library patron suspected of selling hundreds of books, tapes and DVDs he had borrowed has cost Denver-area libraries tens of thousands of dollars, officials said.

Thomas Pilaar, 33, was suspected of using different names to obtain seven library cards from the Denver Public Library, then checking out 300 items per card and selling at least some of the items, KCNC-TV in Denver reported.

“It appears his intent was to sell 2,100 (items) from the Denver Library collection,” Denver Public Library spokeswoman M. Celeste Jackson told the station. She estimated the losses at about $35,000.’

‘A special council ‘dog fouling squad’ described today how an undercover surveillance operation caught a serial offender – but it wasn’t a dog. It was a man.

The CCTV operation was set up after a member of the public made a complaint to the environmental health service at Kirklees Council, West Yorkshire.

She was suspicious that the offending individual, who regularly left a mess in the same place in Cleckheaton, was not a dog.

Councillor Martyn Bolt, cabinet member for the environment, said: ‘An investigation confirmed the suspicions and concluded that the pile of excrement was not from a dog, but was of the human variety. [..]”

‘The enormous difference between male and female sexual behaviour may be explained, in animals at least, by a tiny organ in the nose rather than by any gender difference in brain circuitry. [..]

In a study published by the British journal Nature, the team engineered female lab mice so that the rodents lacked a gene called TRPC2, effectively short-circuiting the so-called vomeronasal organ. [..]

The findings are important, because they amount to a massive blow to those who for decades have looked for underlying differences in brain structure to explain why sexual behaviour between males and females is so dissimilar.

The answer appears to be this: in the mice at least, there is no difference. The hard-wiring of the brains is the same.

“In the big picture, it suggests that the female brain has a perfectly functional male behaviour circuit” which is repressed by signals from the vomeronasal organ, Professor Dulac says.’

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‘An Indian suspect was forced by police to eat 50 bananas as a laxative, to retrieve a necklace he was accused of stealing and swallowing.

When the bananas failed to produce the desired effect, police fed Sheikh Mohsin rice, chicken and local bread.

Finally the necklace, which appeared on an X-ray taken on the suspect, was excreted and retrieved.

Mr Mohsin will appear in court on Monday in the eastern city of Calcutta, and could face a prison sentence.’

‘Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people.

“The so-called reincarnated living Buddha without government approval is illegal and invalid,” according to the order, which comes into effect on September 1.

The 14-part regulation issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs is aimed at limiting the influence of Tibet’s exiled god-king, the Dalai Lama, and at preventing the re-incarnation of the 72-year-old monk without approval from Beijing.’

‘A 21-year-old who has been accused of having sex with minors was arrested on more sex assault charges today.

David Holden of Manchester, who police say thinks of himself as a werewolf, was arrested on a warrant charging him with one count each of second-degree sexual assault, sale of marijuana, providing tobacco to a minor and public indecency. He also has been charged with four counts of impairing the morals of a minor. [..]

Investigators have received reports that Holden had been intentionally scratching minors and consuming their blood, other warrants say. He follows the Gothic culture and refers to himself as a “Lycan werewolf,” they say.

The latest warrant says he is also into Paganism and devil-worshipping.’

‘A mentally ill man was able to roam a busy emergency department, masquerading as a doctor and “consulting” patients, in a serious security breach that exposes the worsening staffing crisis in Australia’s hospitals.

In the recent incident at Wyong Hospital on the NSW central coast, the intruder was able to examine five patients before being challenged while trying to escort one of them outside for a cigarette. He then ran off.

While none of the five patients was harmed, hospital sources describe the incident as a near miss. They say emergency department rosters are now dominated by “transients” such as locums – making it all but impossible for regular staff to spot someone who should not be there.’

Where can you see lions? Only in Kenya.

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I don’t know that I’ve seen the Top Gear crew flee for their lives very often. :)

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‘State Representative Bob Allen told police he was intimidated and just playing along when an undercover officer suggested the lawmaker give him $20 and oral sex in a public restroom.

That’s according to a taped statement and other documents released in the case Thursday.

The Republican lawmaker has repeatedly declared his innocence.

In the tape-recorded conversation with police after his arrest, Allen indicates he was scared when approached in the Veterans Memorial Park men’s room. He said –quote– “This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park.”‘

‘All in all, it hadn’t been a good day. Bad traffic, a malfunctioning computer, incompetent coworkers and a sore back all made me a seething cauldron of rage. But more importantly for this story, it had been over forty-eight hours since I’d last taken a dump. I’d tried to jumpstart the process, beginning my day with a bowl of bowel-cleansing fiber cereal, following it with six cups of coffee at work, and adding a bean-laden lunch at Taco Bell. As I was returning home from work, my insides let me know with subtle rumbles and the emission of the occasional tiny fart that Big Things would be happening soon.’

‘A West Bend mother faces charges including child abuse after police said her 2-year-old daughter ate LSD-laced candy that her mother left out.

According to the criminal complaint, 23-year-old Donielle Maki bought 10 hits of LSD on Tuesday that came in the form of Sweet Tarts.

It says Maki took the LSD home with her, put her daughter to bed and passed out on the couch.

The complaint said when Maki woke up the next morning, her daughter was holding one of the LSD-laced Sweet Tarts in her hand and said, “I like these, Mommy.”

That’s when Maki grabbed them from the toddler’s hand, the complaint says, and saw that only eight of the 10 candies were left.’

‘Manuel Cordero’s final booty call cost him his life.

The charming mechanic loved snapping Polaroid photos of the oversized posteriors of neighborhood women. But when Amanda Barrett came over for a ”photo shoot,” a pal named Perry Bailey tagged along — to rob Cordero, Miami police say.

He shot Cordero dead, stealing cash and a credit card, police say.

That’s the story outlined in an arrest warrant released Friday. Bailey, 20, was arrested two days earlier, charged with first-degree murder.

‘Sadly, his love of womens’ physiques cost him in the end,” said Miami Detective Delrish Moss, a spokesman.’

‘One of the Jackass nutballs pretends to be retarded and eats a pigeon in front of some folks on the street.’

This is apparently a deleted scene from one of the movies.

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‘Australia’s top heart specialists believe they have found a treatment to stop heart disease in its tracks, potentially saving millions of lives worldwide.

Experts from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital will today unveil the groundbreaking discovery which involves using adult stem cells from patients to repair their own hearts.

The world-first treatment has been shown to generate new blood vessels and repair dead tissue in the heart.

Importantly, the changes appear to be permanent.’

‘This holidaymaker found herself stranded in her deckchair as the tide came in and started lapping at her feet. The woman, estimated by some onlookers to weigh as much as 20 stone, had been unable to get out of the chair after its legs became firmly wedged in the shingle. [..]

But it took coastguards in yellow jumpsuits and wellington boots to rescue the turbanwearing tourist, said to be 49 and from Belgium. Two of them prised her free just as the water came up the beach, watched by a crowd of onlookers.

Ronald Coleman, 74, one of those who witnessed the distressing scene at Westcliffon-Sea, Essex, said: “The tide was racing in. She was lucky.”‘

‘A rural Basehor man reported to authorities that he’d been injured in the groin by a drill during a fight with another man, according to a report from the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office.

The incident was reported to the sheriff’s office Wednesday, but is said to have happened July 21, at 15458 Meyer Road.

A Leavenworth man, who was said to be in his 20s, was at the victim’s house working on a car owned by the victim’s sister. The Leavenworth man and the 41-year-old victim became involved in an argument, according to the report.

The altercation became physical and the Leavenworth man allegedly grabbed a drill and pushed it to the victim’s groin area.’

‘A flying saucer which glides up to 10 metres off the ground and carries two people could be yours for £65,000.

The saucer is powered by eight engines and can reach speeds of over 50mph as it moves gracefully through the air.

The bizarre flying pod, which is the size of a small car, is even able to land on skyscrapers – should the need arise.

It can take off and land vertically, like a helicopter, but it is almost noise-free and has been described by passengers as being “like a magic carpet ride.”

US company Moller International has begun manufacturing the flying saucer and says it has completed more than 200 successful test flights.’

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‘International terrorism and the threat to Britain from Al-Qaeda would probably be deemed by most as unlikely subject matter for a musical.

After all, suicide bombing, mass bloodshed and fundamental Islam do not exactly lend themselves to singing and dancing.

But Jihad the Musical by the Silk Circle Production company has forged on regardless and is already being performed on stage at the Edinburgh Festival.

The controversial satire about Islamic terrorism includes such classic tunes as “Building a bomb today, what does the manual say” and “I wanna be like Osama”.’

‘Former Australian Rules star Warwick Capper is now the star of an X-rated porn film.

The 44-year-old former high-flying Sydney Swan appears in the film with his 25-year-old girlfriend Kristy, News Limited newspapers say.

The 69-minute film has been bought by a Melbourne distributor and could feature on an American website and make up to $1 million, News Limited says.

A confessed sex icon, Capper says it is every man’s fantasy to star in a porn movie.

“I’ve had a lot of practice being a sex symbol, so if you’ve got it, flaunt it,” Capper said.

“I’ve done everything else, so it’s something a bit different. It’s every man’s fantasy.

“I think I’m Australia’s answer to Paris Hilton. Someone also said I’m like David Beckham.

“I’m a good looking footballer with the same quick wit.”‘

Followup [kinda :) ] to Former AFL star to run for mayor.

‘Tom Green has on the guitarist from Jackyl and he comes out and slices up Toms desk with a chainsaw. Tom ends up trying to keep his cool at first but is seriously pissed off about the desk and the rest of the interview is almost uncomfortable to watch.’

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