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thanks for the sharing

[Stramash]

Like seriously, WTF

SKorea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press – 6 hours ago SEOUL

South Korea (AP) — South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday.The capsules were made in northeastern China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said.Customs officials refused to say where the dead babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing. Chinese officials ordered an investigation into the production of drugs made from dead fetuses or newborns last year.The customs office has discovered 35 smuggling attempts since August of about 17,450 capsules disguised as stamina boosters, and some people believe them to be a panacea for disease, the customs service said in a statement. The capsules of human flesh, however, contained bacteria and other harmful ingredients.The smugglers told customs officials they believed the capsules were ordinary stamina boosters and did not know the ingredients or manufacturing process.Ethnic Koreans from northeastern China who now live in South Korea were intending to use the capsules themselves or share them with other Korean-Chinese, a customs official said. They were carried in luggage or sent by international mail.The capsules were all confiscated but no one has been punished because the amount was deemed small and they weren't intended for sale, said the customs official, who requested anonymity, citing department rules.China's State Food and Drug Administration and its Health Ministry did not immediately respond to questions faxed to them Monday. Chinese media identify northeastern China as the source of such products, especially Jilin province which abuts North Korea.The Jilin food and drug safety agency is responsible for investigating the trade of such remains there. Calls to the agency and to the information office of Jilin's Communist Party were not answered Monday.The South Korean customs agency began investigating after receiving a tip a year ago. No sicknesses have been reported from ingesting the capsules.

Associated Press researcher Yu Bing in Beijing contributed to this report.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvQ9Yb-BB5bQh02D-Dt708eQJhPA?docId=6299b86353f64011a8ea5c46a9e6bff2

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Like seriously, WTF

SKorea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press – 6 hours ago SEOUL

South Korea (AP) — South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday.The capsules were made in northeastern China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea Customs Service said.Customs officials refused to say where the dead babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing. Chinese officials ordered an investigation into the production of drugs made from dead fetuses or newborns last year.The customs office has discovered 35 smuggling attempts since August of about 17,450 capsules disguised as stamina boosters, and some people believe them to be a panacea for disease, the customs service said in a statement. The capsules of human flesh, however, contained bacteria and other harmful ingredients.The smugglers told customs officials they believed the capsules were ordinary stamina boosters and did not know the ingredients or manufacturing process.Ethnic Koreans from northeastern China who now live in South Korea were intending to use the capsules themselves or share them with other Korean-Chinese, a customs official said. They were carried in luggage or sent by international mail.The capsules were all confiscated but no one has been punished because the amount was deemed small and they weren't intended for sale, said the customs official, who requested anonymity, citing department rules.China's State Food and Drug Administration and its Health Ministry did not immediately respond to questions faxed to them Monday. Chinese media identify northeastern China as the source of such products, especially Jilin province which abuts North Korea.The Jilin food and drug safety agency is responsible for investigating the trade of such remains there. Calls to the agency and to the information office of Jilin's Communist Party were not answered Monday.The South Korean customs agency began investigating after receiving a tip a year ago. No sicknesses have been reported from ingesting the capsules.

Associated Press researcher Yu Bing in Beijing contributed to this report.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvQ9Yb-BB5bQh02D-Dt708eQJhPA?docId=6299b86353f64011a8ea5c46a9e6bff2

Woah baby!!

[funky_house]

That is one sick story.

[FarangFarang]

Another one that is less WTF and more WOW!!

[GoodKarma]

Mom Puts Boob in Preschooler’s Mouth on Cover of Time - Gawker - WTF?

Meet Aram Grumet. He is one month shy of four years old and he breast feeds. His 26-year-old mother Jamie Lynne Grumet really breastfeeds him and his five-year-old brother. read more...

Was Jack the Ripper really a woman? "Jill the ripper really doesn't have the same ring to it"

A new book about the most celebrated unsolved murder mystery in the history of

crime reporting proposes that investigators have long overlooked the real

killer. Simply because he was a she. read more...

[GoodKarma]

Hey I know that voice...

An inside look at famous voice actors. watch video

[FarangFarang]

Buddhist monks caught in high stakes poker game in S. Korea

They were caught during a 13 hour marathon poker session in which $875,300 changed hands.

[FarangFarang]

Police investigate monk murder mystery at Alabama Buddhist temple

(CBS/WKRG) IRVINGTON, Ala. - Police are now investigating the murder of a monk at the Wat Buddahrakha Temple in Alabama, CBS affiliate WKRG reports.Detectives believe two monks got in an argument around 10:30 a.m. Friday that led to senior monk Chaiwat Moleechate's death.

Moleechate, 45, appears to have been beaten to death by a blunt object.The Mobile County sheriff's office now has suspect Veun Phdsamay, 32, in custody until further investigation.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57432910-504083/police-investigate-monk-murder-mystery-at-alabama-buddhist-temple/

[luckyphil247]

Buddhist monks caught in high stakes poker game in S. Korea

They were caught during a 13 hour marathon poker session in which $875,300 changed hands.

What's the big deal, at least they weren't caught doing drugs and hookers !!!
OR receiving oral pleasures from interns, lol

[FarangFarang]

I guess we can call off the 12.12.12 TF event since the world won't be ending on that date :-(

Mayan calendar discovery suggests world might not end in 2012

Astronomical records were key to the Mayan calendar, which has gotten some attention recently because of doomsday warnings that it predicts the end of the world this December. Experts say it makes no such prediction. The new finding provides a bit of backup: The calculations include a time span longer than 6,000 years that could extend well beyond 2012.

"Why would they go into those numbers if the world is going to come to an end this year?" observed Anthony Aveni of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., an expert on Mayan astronomy. "You could say a number that big at least suggests that time marches on."

[luckyphil247]

I guess we can call off the 12.12.12 TF event since the world won't be ending on that date :-(

Never trust a man from a university named after a toothpaste company, lol
We'd like to show you his face, but because he's a dentist blah blah blah

[FarangFarang]

[FarangFarang]

Yet another pic which is less, WTF and more, Cool!

This was reposted on Twitter by the US ambassador to Thailand. Here a farang man is feeding a homeless Thai man.

@chocoopal ฝรั่งซื้อข้าวมาป้อนHomeless ที่นอนอยู่หน้าเซเว่นศุภาลัยรัชโยธิน น่าประทับใจมากคับ โลกสดใสขึ้นเยอะเลย : ) http://pic.twitter.com/rHHRKHma

[FarangFarang]

Cool video (for the geeks out there) of what happens to your email when you use Gmail.

[funky_house]

NOT WTF, but still: People lucky enough to be in Southeast Asia and the western U.S. this weekend will have the chance to view the first annular solar eclipse of its kind since 1994, according to NASA. Rather than a complete blocking out of the sun, as seen in a total eclipse, a "ring of fire" will radiate from behind the moon as it passes in front of the fiery globe.

The transformation will begin on Sunday as the moon makes its voyage across the sun; at one point, as much as 94 percent of the sun will be covered, according to NASA."Hundreds of millions of people will be able to witness the event," NASA Science's Tony Phillips wrote on

NASA's Science News Web page. "The eclipse zone stretches from southeast Asia across the Pacific Ocean to western parts of North America."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57435919-76/solar-eclipse-blazes-a-ring-of-fire-this-weekend/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

[funky_house]

RIP Donna Summer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57436280-10391698/donna-summer-dead-at-63/

[FarangFarang]

RIP Donna Summer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57436280-10391698/donna-summer-dead-at-63/

Posted one of her vids on the homepage.

[FarangFarang]

WTF?!? dress

[Stramash]

[h=1]Thai police arrest man with babies' bodies for black magic[/h]By Amy Sawitta Lefevre | Reuters – 3 hours ago

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• View PhotoThai police show the remains of six foetuses wrapped in gold leaf at a news conference in Bangkok following the arrest of a British citizen of Taiwanese origin at a hotel in the city’s Chinatown May 18, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer
  

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police arrested a British citizen on Friday after the bodies of six babies thought to have been used in ablack magic ritual were found stuffed into travel bags in a Bangkok hotel room.

Chow Hok Kuen, 28, a British citizen born in Hong Kong of Taiwanese parents, was arrested in Bangkok's Chinatown and was being held for possession of human remains, police said.

Authorities believe he was trying to smuggle the corpses to Taiwan.

"The bodies are of children between the ages of two and seven months. Some were found covered in gold leaf," Wiwat Kumchumnan, sub-division chief of the police's Children and Women Protection unit, told Reuters.

It was not clear where the bodies came from. Kuen was staying at a hotel in Khao San Road, Bangkok's backpacker area, but the bodies were found in a separate hotel.

Police had received a tip-off that infant corpses were being offered to wealthy clients through a website advertising black magic services.

The corpses were bought from a Taiwanese national for 200,000 baht (4,051 pounds) and could have been sold for six times that amount in Taiwan, police said.

Black magic rituals are still practised in Thailand, where street-side fortune tellers offer ceremonies to reverse bad luck.

Kuen faces one year in prison and a 2,000 baht fine if he is found guilty.

(Reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Alan Raybould and Robert Birsel)

[FarangFarang]

Uhm, no f'ing way.

[Stramash]

Skydiver Becomes First To Land Without Chute

By Roddy Mansfield, Sky News reporter | Sky News – 56 minutes ago

The incredible moment Gary Connery became the world's first skydiver to land without a chute.

A stuntman has entered the history books to become the first skydiver to land safely without using a parachute.

Gary Connery , 42, leapt 2,400ft from a helicopter while wearing a specially made "wing suit" and swooped towards a "runway" of 18,600 cardboard boxes in an Oxfordshire field.

Five seconds before he hit the target he flared his suit to decrease his descent and glide angle before plunging into the boxes to break his fall.

"It was so comfortable, so soft," Mr Connery told Sky News afterwards.

Gary Connery prepares to land among cardboard boxes in Henley-on-Thames.

"My calculations obviously worked out and I'm glad they did."His flight lasted approximately 50 seconds, during which he was cheered on by hundreds of supporters, including his son Cali, 14, and wife Vivian, who said she was "relieved it's all over".

The jump, which was recorded by dozens of journalists and camera crews, is expected to be watched all over the world.

It had taken 100 volunteers and friends six hours to build the landing strip, which was 350ft long, 40ft wide and 12ft high.

The daredevil jumped from a helicopter at 2,400 feet.

On the approach to the runway the words "Go Gary" were spelt with cardboard boxes.

The stunt had originally been planned to take place in April, but weeks of wet weather forced Mr Connery, from Oxfordshire, to postpone the jump.

His team had to obtain special permission from the Civil Aviation Authority .

Following Mr Connery out of the helicopter was fellow wing suit pilot Mark Sutton, who filmed the stunt up until the last moment before deploying his parachute and landing safely.

As part of the preparations, Mr Connery, who has performed stunts in films such as Batman Begins and The Beach, studied the flight of kite birds and how they use their tail to control flight

[FarangFarang]

The end to Rickrolling as we know it?

It was one of the Internet’s most popular memes. But as of Wednesday, the Rickroll is no more.

Rickrolling is the practice of promising victims one link but directing them instead to Rick Astley’s 1987 music video, “Never Gonna Give You Up,” instead. It’s a bait-and-switch that has been embraced by everyone from the New York Mets to the White House.

However, the collective joke ground to a halt when AVG Technologies took the original video down from YouTube with a copyright complaint, TorrentFreak reported.

“Taking down a five-year-old video with tens of millions of views is strange enough, but it is far from clear why AVG Technologies—the people behind AVG Anti-Virus—would want to do so at all,” enigmax wrote.

For its own part, YouTube has shown tacit approval of the music video in the past. On April Fools’ Day in 2008, it rickrolled viewers by redirecting every video on the front page to Astley’s video. However, the network is required to comply with copyright complaints.

Still, it’s hard to imagine how an ’80s music video would infringe on an anti-virus software. We’ll be following the story to see if it turns out to be a legitimate complaint or perhaps the buildup to the ultimate Rickroll.

Photo by Michael Alø-Nielson

Editor’s note: The Rickroll video was blocked from YouTube for 24 hours, but now it’s back. We’re contacting YouTube for an explanation.

http://mashable.com/2012/05/23/rickroll-killed/

According to the kool kids, YMCA'ing is the new Rickrolling.

[CiaranM]

sometimes words fail me .... grandparents accused of sexually assaulting their handicapped granddaughter leaving her with injuries which lead to her death ... sometimes .... just sometimes i do think the death penalty may be justified !!!

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/rebecca-suffered-severe-injury-16163013.html

Professor Jack Crane was giving evidence at Belfast Crown Court yesterday at the trial of David and Sarah Johnston, from Carwood Drive in Glengormley. They are accused of the manslaughter of granddaughter Rebecca McKeown (14). Mr Johnston (88) and his wife (86) deny the charges.

[Teddy]

That is fkn grim.