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Post by Aedh on Sept 14, 2009 21:42:30 GMT -5
Only out here in the Wild West ...
Cattle Stampede In Convenience Store!![/b] I don't know what's funnier .... the cattle shopping the aisles, or the cowboy who rides right in, fully mounted, to see them out again!! This happened not very far from where I live actually. And if you're wondering, it's pronounced ... "Pyew-ALL-up."
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Post by Aedh on Sept 21, 2009 0:03:58 GMT -5
"What is that beautiful glow in the night sky ... is it stardust? Northern Lights? A meteor shower? A UFO comtrail??"
"Errrm ... "
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Post by Aedh on Jan 27, 2010 14:55:14 GMT -5
Had to post a link to this one ... Man arrested after trying to sneak in the dressing room of a Seattle strip joint. As someone said ... what was he after a peep of? Ladies with their clothes on? Police catch Peeping Tom ...
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Post by Aedh on Apr 5, 2010 23:22:17 GMT -5
Florida police say a homeless man stole a live ferret by stuffing it in his pants. Thirty-eight-year-old Rodney Bolton is charged with theft over the $129 animal that police say he took from a pet store in Jacksonville Beach, The Florida Times-Union reported. A 17-year-old witness confronted Bolton in the parking lot and was bitten by the animal after the man allegedly shoved it in the teen's face. That confrontation makes the ferret a special weapon under Florida law. So Bolton also faces battery charges for dangerously wielding the animal.
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Post by Aedh on Jul 26, 2010 8:19:03 GMT -5
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Post by Aedh on Aug 14, 2010 23:57:31 GMT -5
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Post by Aedh on Aug 19, 2010 8:51:49 GMT -5
An interesting tidbit from Port Angeles, Washington State, where summer must be driving people slightly bonkers ... Police Arrest Banana!
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Post by Aedh on Aug 19, 2010 8:54:57 GMT -5
An interesting tidbit from Port Angeles, Washington State, where summer must be driving people slightly bonkers ... Police Arrest Banana!Not just an ordinary banana, mind you. This one appears to have been armed.
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Post by Aedh on Sept 22, 2010 19:23:05 GMT -5
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Post by Aedh on Sept 25, 2010 9:36:18 GMT -5
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Post by Aedh on Oct 21, 2010 8:39:37 GMT -5
Preston, take note--keep an eye on that puppy ...
Dog Eats Pensioners' Cash!!
A couple painstakingly pieced their pension money back together after it was eaten by the family dog.
Mike and June Hopkins' five-year-old dog Macan scoffed the £20 notes before vomiting it up later that day.
But Mr Hopkins, of Sefton Avenue, Aldwick, near Bognor, refused to admit defeat and spent a weekend sticking the six notes back together wearing a pair of rubber gloves and using sterilising solution to clean the money and a pair of tweezers.
Mr Hopkins presented 90% of the notes, worth £120, in tact to Barclays bank in exchange for some new notes.
The couple have vowed to keep their cash out of paws reach in future.
Macan, a Bedlington Terrier-cross, was unharmed.
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Post by Aedh on Oct 21, 2010 8:56:51 GMT -5
'The law is an ass,' any further proof needed ... ?
Cops told to switch off radios, they cost too much!
Police officers have been told they will no longer be able to pass the time by listening to radio when on duty in pairs.
Copyright laws mean if more than one officer is in a car when a song comes on the radio the force needs to pay for a performance licence.
Sussex Police now plans to save £23,000 a year by ceasing to pay for a licence and asking officers and staff to stump up themselves if they want to listen to tunes.
Desk-based officers and staff are expected to be most affected by the decision not to pay the Performing Rights Society fees.
Bob Brown, chairman of Sussex Police Federation, which represents officers, said the spending cut was necessary to make the cuts demanded by the Government.
He said: “At the end of the day, would we rather be able to keep an extra bobby on the beat or listen to the radio? It has got to be an extra bobby on the beat.”
He said some officers were making their own arrangements to pay the £54.16 cost of a licence for an office of less than five people, or £60 for a vehicle.
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Post by Aedh on Oct 30, 2010 9:19:32 GMT -5
It will be an unhappy Halloween for one Englishman involved in an unusual pumpkin accident ...
Man Loses Foot In Pumpkin Machine Incident![/b]
A man has lost his foot after his leg became stuck in a machine used to de-seed pumpkins.
The 28-year-old was airlifted to hospital after the incident in Binderton, near Chichester, West Sussex, but was not thought to have suffered life-threatening injuries.
Friend Simon Sprackling said: "He is alive, but he's lost his foot."
Mr Sprackling said he had been trained how to use the machine but believed he had gone behind it and slipped.
A West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said firefighters used a variety of small tools to dismantle the machine while the man was tended to by medics.
A specialist technical rescue unit was sent to the incident just before 11am yesterday and spent nearly two hours extricating the man.
The spokeswoman added: "The machine is thought to be the only one of its kind in the country.
"It was certainly a very unusual call-out."
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Post by Aedh on Nov 21, 2010 8:21:57 GMT -5
Apparently a monstrous infestation of German cities is being dealt with ...
Beer Bikes to be banned?Seems a bit unfair really ... I mean, if you can't drink while pedalling your bar down the street, when can you drink??
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Post by BlackDragon on Nov 24, 2010 6:06:48 GMT -5
Ha I didn´t even know that this cool bar/bikes existed!! But you are right Aedh... it is unfair!
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Post by clericjay on Nov 24, 2010 13:18:17 GMT -5
I've seen some of these bikes in Berlin city.
Quite funny concept and you are really surprised, when you see them pass by out of nowhere for the first time. ;D
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Post by Aedh on Nov 24, 2010 14:22:55 GMT -5
I've seen some of these bikes in Berlin city. Quite funny concept and you are really surprised, when you see them pass by out of nowhere for the first time. ;D Gives a new meaning to the phrase, "drinking and driving" I warrant!
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Post by Mirabilis on Nov 24, 2010 14:23:11 GMT -5
I can only imagine the carnage that would have resulted if these had ever been introduced in Britain!! ;D Actually, beer bikes versus logging trucks might prove entertaining around here too!! ;D
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Post by Aedh on Nov 24, 2010 14:34:15 GMT -5
Weren't these things invented in the Netherlands? Why stop at beer bikes? Cannabis bikes seem like an idea invention ... keep moving to avoid the cops.
Around here, crank bikes would soon rule the day. A barful of customers hopped up on crystal meths could probably out-pedal a police car!!
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Post by BlackDragon on Nov 24, 2010 16:26:09 GMT -5
Weren't these things invented in the Netherlands? Why stop at beer bikes? Cannabis bikes seem like an idea invention ... keep moving to avoid the cops. Around here, crank bikes would soon rule the day. A barful of customers hopped up on crystal meths could probably out-pedal a police car!! hehe very good one ;D ;D
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Post by Mirabilis on Nov 24, 2010 18:10:53 GMT -5
LOL! Pot-bikes would simply wind down to a halt! ;D
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Post by Aedh on Dec 3, 2010 12:41:23 GMT -5
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Post by Aedh on Jan 13, 2011 9:35:54 GMT -5
And in the world of science ...
... Scientists plan to probe Uranus!!So keep your trousers up!! Especially if you see any scientists around!! They're not probing Mianus I can tell you that!!
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Post by clericjay on Jan 15, 2011 10:18:13 GMT -5
And in the world of science ...
... Scientists plan to probe Uranus!!So keep your trousers up!! Especially if you see any scientists around!! They're not probing Mianus I can tell you that!! Nice! I'm quite interested in Uranus... uhm... not what you think... I mean... I'm... I'm very interested in planetary science and therefore I hope that such projects will be successful and am happy that the ESA/Europeans are doing more and more of these. ;D
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Post by Aedh on Mar 18, 2011 10:07:03 GMT -5
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Post by Aedh on Apr 9, 2011 8:20:48 GMT -5
Sandstorms in the Middle East and Africa are common enough, and in parts of Asia as well. In the Western United States they are not unknown. But to our knowledge they are exceedingly uncommon in Germany. Sandstorm in Germany causes massive pile-up!Any news from our Cleric on the ground on this?
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Post by clericjay on Apr 10, 2011 14:03:47 GMT -5
Ground crew report: There's been some sand awhirled by the strong wind we had on Friday from large fields in the federal state of "Meckelenburg-Vorpommern" and therefore the nordic neighbour of the state I live in. It's a very flat and rural area close to the Baltic Sea and having only few trees, so the wind and sandstorm wasn't slowed by anything. A friend of mine went through the storm by car on the Autobahn ( I guess you Americans would call it highway... ) and about half an hour before the crash happened at the spot, he had just passed. When I saw it on the news I thought that he and his gilfriend might have been involved in the crash as well, but luckily nothing happened to them. They told me that they had to drive very slowly and carefully, because they couldn't see anything in front of their car... The area has some dangerous wheather conditions in store for drivers (though the highway is awesome fun to drive on without speed limit in summer ). I remember last December, when I drove there in the deep night and could not see far because of unbelievably heavy fog. Was a bit scary, but it went without incidents for me. Fog, snowstorms, heavy wind and now sand storms... I'm curious what this route surprises us with next time... maybe a tornado?
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Post by Aedh on Apr 18, 2011 8:40:21 GMT -5
Not news of the weird, really, but off the beaten track. It turns out that impending Royal bride Katherine Middleton's family tree includes good old honest coal miners. Middleton has coal miner kinBrings to mind the old song (with apologies) ... Well I was born a coal miner's great-granddaughter, In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler, We were poor, but we had love, That's the one thing my great-granddaddy made sure of, He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar.
My great-granddaddy worked all night in the Van Lear Coal Mines, All day long in a field a-hoein' corn, Great-grandmommy rocked the babies at night, and read the Bible by the coal-oil light, And everything would start all over come break of mornin'.
Great-granddaddy loved and raised 8 kids on a miner's pay, Great-grandmommy scrubbed our clothes on a washboard every day, Why, I seen her fingers bleed, to complain, there was no need, She'd smile in great-grandmommy's understanding way.
In the summertime we didn't have shoes to wear, But in the wintertime, we'd all get a brand new pair, From a mail-order catalog, money made from sellin' a hog, Great-granddaddy always managed to get the money somewhere.
Yeah, I'm proud to be a coal miner's great-granddaughter, I remember well the well where I drew water, The work we done was hard, at night we'd sleep 'cause we were tired, I never thought of ever leavin' Butcher Holler.
Well, a lot of things have changed since way back then, And it's so good to be back home again, Not much left but the floor, nothin' lives here anymore, 'Cept the memories of a coal miner's great-granddaughter.
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