SweetieBabie Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 Drug smugglers get creative - by hiding cocaine in Bermuda shorts and courgettes Drug smugglers are coming up with increasingly imaginative ways of trying to get their contraband across borders - with one German man hiding more than 6kg of cocaine under his Bermuda shorts. The suspect had packed the shorts with the drug and the ploy seemed to be going well until he was stopped and searched at Barcelona airport yesterday. Sniffer dogs seemed to take a particular interest in his shorts and the ruse was up, leaving him naked from the waist down and in handcuffs. Another enterprising smuggler took the trouble of stuffing 407 courgettes with 25kg of cocaine. The not-so-healthy haul, which was en route to New York, was intercepted at the airport of Las Americas, Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic yesterday. Meanwhile a more substantial, if unimaginatively packaged loot was rumbled in north Ecuador on the same day. -dailymail.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodKarma Posted August 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 The're really are a million stories in the Naked city. - The New York Post Subway riders were blase when a stripper did a pole dance on the L train, excpet for one woman who started screaming and an elderly man next to her who got the shakes The trouser thief. - The Local sweden If you are denied to enter 'da club' by the bouncer on the grounds of being improperly clad..so what do you do you go out and mug someone for their jeans. Indian stoning festival banned. - News.com.au India bans local stoner festival - like badkarma dude - this is not that funny of an event though.. A CENTURIES-old festival in which residents from rival Indian villages throw stones at each other - often leaving people dead or injured - has been banned. The annual Gotmar festival in an impoverished central region of the country involved teams competing to capture a tree placed in a river running between two villages as crowds pelted rocks and pebbles across the divide. Eternal rest above Marilyn Monroe. - MSNBC Eternal rest above Marilyn Monroe - wait till you read how high the bid went Foot maniac is on the loose. - Cambridge Mass Watch out Admin keep an eye on your feet. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Police are looking for a man they are calling a foot fanatic. The man is accused of walking up to a random woman, and then licking her feet. The woman said it happened around 8 p.m. Saturday. Cambridge Police said the man is middle-aged and that he licked the woman's foot inside the Whole Foods on Alewife Brook Parkway. The Arlington Advocate reported that he told the woman he liked high-heels and asked if he could take a picture of her shoes. He knelt down and proceeded to kiss and lick her foot. Police said they consider this incident assault and are still looking for the man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 "German Engineer Killed By Bomb In Chon Buri CHONBURI: -- The torn-apart body of a German engineer was found in rubber plantation in Banglamung district here Friday morning, police said. Police said the remains of Uwe Keienburt, 45, who was an engineer of a real estate company, was found by a rubber tapper in the morning. Police said the bomb appeared to be C4 explosives tied to the body of the man, whose BMW car was found left about 500 away. Police said the killer used a remote control to detonate the bomb that torn his body into pieces. His wife, Araya, 40, told police that the German engineer left their house on Soi Sukhumvit 24 at 9 am on Thursday and disappeared. She said her husband had conflicts with a group of foreign real estate developers and he sued to receive a death threat." The Nation Can't wait to get back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 ...Can't wait to get back! Why? Are you a foreign real estate developer? :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Cambridge MassWatch out Admin keep an eye on your feet. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Police are looking for a man they are calling a foot fanatic. The man is accused of walking up to a random woman, and then licking her feet. The woman said it happened around 8 p.m. Saturday. Cambridge Police said the man is middle-aged and that he licked the woman's foot inside the Whole Foods on Alewife Brook Parkway. The Arlington Advocate reported that he told the woman he liked high-heels and asked if he could take a picture of her shoes. He knelt down and proceeded to kiss and lick her foot. Police said they consider this incident assault and are still looking for the man This guy always seems to pop up whenever I return to the states...coincidence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympos Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Cambridge MassWatch out Admin keep an eye on your feet. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Police are looking for a man they are calling a foot fanatic. The man is accused of walking up to a random woman, and then licking her feet. The woman said it happened around 8 p.m. Saturday. Cambridge Police said the man is middle-aged and that he licked the woman's foot inside the Whole Foods on Alewife Brook Parkway. The Arlington Advocate reported that he told the woman he liked high-heels and asked if he could take a picture of her shoes. He knelt down and proceeded to kiss and lick her foot. Police said they consider this incident assault and are still looking for the man This guy always seems to pop up whenever I return to the states...coincidence? HAHAHA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodKarma Posted August 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2009 Cambridge MassWatch out Admin keep an eye on your feet. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Police are looking for a man they are calling a foot fanatic. The man is accused of walking up to a random woman, and then licking her feet. The woman said it happened around 8 p.m. Saturday. Cambridge Police said the man is middle-aged and that he licked the woman's foot inside the Whole Foods on Alewife Brook Parkway. The Arlington Advocate reported that he told the woman he liked high-heels and asked if he could take a picture of her shoes. He knelt down and proceeded to kiss and lick her foot. Police said they consider this incident assault and are still looking for the man This guy always seems to pop up whenever I return to the states...coincidence? that is a coincidence Admin I have notified X-FILES Mulder and Skully and they will do a full investigation! :roll: more... WTF?s 9 yr old girl with disability leads police on car chase. - TennesseanT.com Police say a 9-year-old girl with a developmental disability led Metro officers on a high-speed chase in her grandmother's car before stopping on an interstate highway, then driving into a police car. No one was hurt in the incident before dawn Friday on Interstate 24. Police followed the car, which was moving up to 80 mph without headlights on, from a southern Poppy the cat almost gets a bullet. Poppy the cat - farmer says she would have got a wild bullet if she didn't have a id collar.. Poppy the stowaway cat has her lucky red collar to thank after a hair-raising journey and a near miss with a gun-toting farmer. Levin couple Kevin and Sandra Stent noticed four-year-old Poppy was missing after a visit from some friends 3 1/2 weeks ago, but were assured no felines were stashed away in their car. Mrs Stent thinks Poppy must have climbed up under the car and held on all the way to Hunterville, about 100 kilometres from home. She seems to have stayed on board while the car stopped in Palmerston North for about two hours but must have either jumped or fallen off somewhere near Hunterville. For the next three weeks she foraged for food and nursed her injuries until Waituna farmer David Guylee noticed her lurking around his neighbour's property. Mr Guylee said it was lucky Poppy was wearing a tag. "We're trying to get native birds back around here, so we're getting rid of all the feral cats. "Any wild cats get a bullet, and Poppy would have got one too if she hadn't had that collar on." very amazing story...wow how could you shoot a cat?apparently some farmers do... Man fires shotgun at a stray cat, hits two people. Cats apparently have more enemies in the world than I thought - poor little fella - all he was doing was chasing birds. geez.. :oops: serves you right teach em a lesson...thats what you get for not picking on someone your own size... :twisted: LINDON -- Lindon police arrested a man for firing a sawed-off shotgun in his own backyard. When the man missed his original target, the stray pellets hit two people. A driving instructor and a student were filling up at a gas station when they were hit. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt. When police investigated, they tracked the stray pellets back to 52-year-old Kay Fotheringham. Police say Fotheringham told them he was actually aiming for a stray cat that was chasing birds in his yard. The cat escaped, apparently unharmed, but the stray pellets hit a nearby trailer, then the driving instructor, his student and the car, all several yards away. Police say Fotheringham had been heavily drinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodKarma Posted August 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 Tongueless man arrested in emergency room after rape victim bites back. - associated press MURRIETA, Calif - A Southern California man will stand trial in the rapes of four women, including one alleged victim who authorities say bit off the tongue of her attacker. The Riverside County District Attorney's Office said Monday that a judge in Murrieta ordered Ronald Douglas McGowan, 32, to trial after a preliminary hearing on 12 felony counts, including rape, forcible rape, assault with a deadly weapon and assault causing serious bodily injury. Prosecutors say one of the victims bit off part of McGowan's tongue in self-defense during a June 5 rape at her apartment. McGowan, of West Covina, was arrested at an emergency room where he went for treatment. His tongue could not be reattached. Prosecutors say investigators subsequently linked McGowan to three other rapes between 2007 and 2009. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodKarma Posted August 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Not news: soldiers find naked woman in raid of Iraqi house. News: it's Picasso's "Naked Woman," stolen in 1990 and worth $10 million Stolen painting shows up in Iraqi raid. Governator Schwarzenegger wants to'legalize it' and then tax it... California Twitter Ideas sees 'High Times'. The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood Displayed moon rock at Dutch muesuem turns out to be petrified wood. possible break in the 1991 kidnapping case of an 11-year-old girl from South Lake Tahoe. A woman showed up in Contra Costa County yesterday, claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard, who has been missing for 18 years Girl after missing for 18 years shows up!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyTabasco Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 Weird story about the kidnapped girl Supposedly the kidnapper was the father of her two kids. He kept them in the back yard..in the shed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stramash Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ominous_music_heard_throughout_u?utm_source=a-section :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodKarma Posted August 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Weird story about the kidnapped girlSupposedly the kidnapper was the father of her two kids. He kept them in the back yard..in the shed I agree T-Man. when these kind of stories are fully told they are always twisted in some kind of fashion...Like the Elizabeth Smart story.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK heres' todays WTF's?... By Colin Parrott Police combat crime by lonely elderly - reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo police will try to rein in a wave of shoplifting by lonely elderly people by involving them in community service, a police spokesman said on Thursday. One out of four elderly shoplifters in the capital blamed their crime on loneliness, Japanese media quoted a police survey as saying. Another 8 percent said it was because they had "no reason to live." More than half the elderly shoplifters said they had no friends and 40 percent of them lived alone, media said. "Making shoplifters do volunteer work in the community is effective," the Tokyo Shimbun quoted J.F. Oberlin University professor Akihiro Sakai, head of a police research panel set up to tackle shoplifting, as saying. "Instead of increased punishment, I hope we can rehabilitate shoplifters with special care." A police spokesman declined to confirm the details of the survey but said it would be released to the public soon. Elderly shoplifting cases in Tokyo reached all-time highs last year, nearly catching up with the number of cases involving young offenders. People 65 years or older accounted for 23 percent of the 17,800 known shoplifting cases in 2008, more than doubling in the past five years, media said ----------------------- Small Pen*s alert. -CNews Building manager posts pics of man who urinated in lobby, complete with "SMALL PE*IS ALERT" TORONTO -- Unlike the guy who peed all over his hallway, Alex Hess walks softly but carries a big ... tape gun. The building manager has been waging a one-man campaign for three weeks against the anonymous urinator and his small penis -- ever since the 26-year-old walked into the open-air entranceway of his Queen St. W. home early that fateful Saturday and found it had been treated like a very public washroom. Only one problem for that pesky piddler, Hess' lobby security camera had it all on tape. Talk about marking your territory. -------------------- 'The Chicken Whisper' 8 year old boy knows how to pick up chicks 'The chicken whisper'. - The News Times SHERMAN -- The typical chicken spends its time nervously scratching the dirt, pecking at food, flapping its wings or clucking softly and delivering eggs. Except at the home of Wayne McCarthy and his wife, Debbie Corcione, where a visitor might see a hen or two lying motionless on its back, feet in the air and head cocked at an angle, kind of a poultry version of a sunbather on the beach. That's because their son, 8-year-old Joshua McCarthy, has the uncanny ability to pick up a fluttering bird, hold it gently for a few moments, then lay it down on its back, where the chicken will remain for several minutes, usually until Joshua either picks it up or rolls it onto its side. "He's been doing it since he was about 3," Wayne McCarthy said. "We started calling him, 'The Chicken Whisperer.' " Joshua, a third-grader at Sherman School, remembers exactly what he was thinking when he first attempted the trick with a hen he'd named Crooked Beak several years ago. "I was just curious what would happen," he said. Somewhat to his surprise, Crooked Beak held the unnatural position, initially alarming Joshua's mother, who'd been watching from inside the house. "I ran up and yelled at him, 'You killed the chicken,' " Corcione said. "He said, 'No, I didn't. It's fine.' " Sure enough, Crooked Beak was alive, and to this day, remains Joshua's all-time favorite pet, even though she went to the Big Chicken Coop in the Sky a couple of years ------------------- 55 yr old bike riding thong man - a new breed of super hero 55yr old man arrested for riding bike around town in thong. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A 55-year-old man known for biking around Tallahassee wearing nothing but a thong is facing a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct for exposing himself. Richard Irby was booked into the Leon County Jail on Thursday. According to an arrest warrant, Irby allegedly exposed himself three different times. Jail records indicate Irby has been ordered to report to a pretrial office but did not have to post a bond upon his release. It is unclear if he has an attorney. According to the Tallahassee Democrat, an officer who responded to a mobile home park on Aug. 17 was told that a resident saw Irby walking in a thong. The resident said Irby's genitals were exposed. Days later, the mobile home park office manager said two others had reported exposure incidents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iBatch Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Weird story about the kidnapped girlSupposedly the kidnapper was the father of her two kids. He kept them in the back yard..in the shed for 18years. sick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimmyTabasco Posted August 30, 2009 Report Share Posted August 30, 2009 Weird story about the kidnapped girlSupposedly the kidnapper was the father of her two kids. He kept them in the back yard..in the shed for 18years. sick! Yeah Plus, they could have stopped it earlier They were called to the place on several occasions... :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakeGeneve Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 I heard a story from a work colleague that some farang was blown apart recently due to some business dispute. As usual the facts were uncertain as was the location but I was told it was near a beach resort area. A quick internet search lead to , not surprisingly, a case reported in the Pattaya Press. The press report is very poor, and accompanied on the website with a video. A very gruesome death; Mr. Wisoot Sookkasem, a 52 year old rubber tapper discovered a horrific scene whilst out in a rubber plantation in Huay Yai during the morning of the 21st August. There amongst the trees he found the scattered remains of a man, later identified from a driving license as Mr. Uwe Keienburg. The 45 year old German had been blown apart by military grade explosives, which had been strapped to his body and detonated from a remote control. He immediately contacted the police who on arrival with the Sawang Boriboon medics set up a murder inquiry as they do not believe it was suicide. Mr. Keienburg was an engineer working for a real estate company in Bangkok. Nearby a BMW car was found, which on investigation belonged to the victim. On contacting his wife, Mrs. Araya Keienburg, stated that her husband had recently had death threats as he was having tribulations with a group of foreign estate agents. A full investigation is under way and the German Embassy is assisting in the case. http://www.pattayapeople.com/default.asp?Folder=16&IdArticle=18713 This trashy tabloid devotes a wealth of space to the goings on in the cesspool of Pattaya - a place some deluded freaks call paradise; http://www.pattayapeople.com/default.asp?Folder=2089 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodKarma Posted September 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 wow (Lake) thanks for that story I think its very gruesome one I may get nightmares tonight. I agree with you about pattaya beach I have actually only been there once for business invited by an old school friend to talk sh^t and dine at their restaurant. I have no desire to revisit. I told him next time I hook up with him and his wife we have to do it in koh samui or krabi. I love Thailand so I don't want to pass any negative stories that I know of.. but a lot of bad stuff that happens to farangs. ex. the article that maidai posted earlier in this thread are hard to find. never make the major english perodicals. then when you pick up a thai language paper a similiar story is sitting there as clear as day in a little article hidden in the paper. thanks I bookmarked the tabloid perodical that you gave great english reference. thanks again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Few WTF's! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Demolition Derby cash for clunkers hard up for cars. - CNN/TIME There's at least one group of people who are happy Cash for Clunkers is over: demolition-derby drivers. Participants in these events, in which drivers smash into one another until there's only one engine left running, don't enjoy the sight of old cars going out of commission without making a pit stop at the county fairground. "Obama is an anti-demo-derby guy," says Tory Schutte, head of the Demolition Derby Drivers Association. "He's targeting the cars we've been using." Also contributing to the shortage of derby-worthy cars: scrap-metal prices have doubled in the past two years, leading more owners to sell their cars to the junkyard instead of to a local kid with demo-derby dreams ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ British man took his car and traveled around the world with it. - The Canadian press REGINA - Have you ever gotten in your car, started driving and wondered what would happen if you just kept going? Roy Locock knows. A year ago, the greying Brit ditched his life in England, hopped in his convertible sports car and hit the road with no route in mind. He's travelled across Europe and India, took a boat to Australia and then another to South America. "Through the first half of the journey I used road maps, all the way up to Panama," he said. "Then it became so expensive because the countries are so small and you can only get one map per country. I said what the hell, I can just travel north. If I can't find the next country, there's something wrong with my navigation." On Wednesday, he landed in Regina. "I enjoy my own company," he said of his solo journey. "On some of the long drives in the more desolate areas, you end up arguing with yourself. But I normally win." People often seem jealous when he tells them what he's doing, but he says anyone can do the same. He said travelling around the world is no more expensive than staying at home in England and doing nothing. "It's very much an adventure," he said. "That's really what I was looking for and it's certainly lived up to that. But I do enjoy the freedom of just pleasing myself day after day." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Woman 91 her car is 45. - AOL In the Olympics of car ownership, Rachel Veitch of Orlando, Fla., is a marathoner of the first order, with a record virtually impossible to match. For one thing, Veitch is still driving at the age of 91. For another, she has had her 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente for 45 years, racking up about 559,000 miles on it. Together, Veitch and her car have outlasted her three husbands -- a feat surely worth of a footnote in the annals of automotive history. This happened for a simple reason: A retired nurse, Veitch likes to keep things in good working order -- a trait that her patients no doubt appreciated when she cared for them in critical care units after open-heart surgery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle Posted September 4, 2009 Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 LG posted: she has had her 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente for 45 years, racking up about 559,000 miles on it. My uncle Bruce was 79 when he passed and had an old Biscayne station wagon with over 700,000 on it. His Skylark was over 600,000 also. change the oil and have the heads redone once he told me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodKarma Posted September 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 LG posted: she has had her 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente for 45 years, racking up about 559,000 miles on it. My uncle Bruce was 79 when he passed and had an old Biscayne station wagon with over 700,000 on it. His Skylark was over 600,000 also. change the oil and have the heads redone once he told me. wow that is amazing -- just the heads -- eagle what amazes me with all of this mileage on some these cars of how the transmissions don't even go out at all. :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetieBabie Posted September 4, 2009 Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 Iranian couple arrested and fined for having sex on Jomtien beach Pattaya - Police arrested and fined an Iranian couple for having sex on the Jomtien beach early Friday. Hashom Abdli, 28, and his girlfriend, Margam Ziyace, 25, were charged with indecency and were fined Bt500 each and were released. Police Captain Chamrasthong Jinda, deputy inspector of the Pattaya police station, was riding his motorcycle to perform routine checking on the beach at 4:30 am when he spotted a crowd watching something on the beach and some of the tourists were shooting video clips with their mobile phones. Chamrasthong found the couple in the act and stopped them and took them to the police station. The Iranian man told police that he did not know that it was illegal to have sex in public place. The Nation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakeGeneve Posted September 4, 2009 Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 Iranian couple arrested and fined for having sex on Jomtien beachPattaya - Police arrested and fined an Iranian couple for having sex on the Jomtien beach early Friday. Hashom Abdli, 28, and his girlfriend, Margam Ziyace, 25, were charged with indecency and were fined Bt500 each and were released. he spotted a crowd watching something on the beach and some of the tourists were shooting video clips with their mobile phones. Chamrasthong found the couple in the act and stopped them and took them to the police station. The Iranian man told police that he did not know that it was illegal to have sex in public place. The Nation Didn't know it was illegal to have sex in public?!? Yeah right. :roll: Seems that they were having their 5 mins of exhibitionist fame if there was a crowd of voyeurs filming the event. On Youtube already perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted September 4, 2009 Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 I heard on the radio the other morning about an American that robbed a bank in Bangkok. I guess he jumped over the counter, grabbed 150k baht, and took off...then he got caught. What is wrong with these people?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakeGeneve Posted September 4, 2009 Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 What is wrong with these people?! These people?!? Americans or bank robbers who get caught? :wink: Was it in Pattaya by chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodKarma Posted September 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Baby's birth carries cluster of nines.- The Lacrosse Tribune The nines aligned for Henry Michael Berendes' birth. The third child of Polly and Chuck Berendes arrived at 9:09 a.m. on 9/9/09, weighing 9 pounds, 9 ounces. "I don't know how it happened, but it's pretty crazy," said Chuck, 29. The La Crosse couple talked about the possibility of the triple-nine birthdate and chuckled when the doctor selected the date for Polly's C-section, Chuck said. Chuck even brought up the possibility of nailing the time when the surgery was scheduled for 9 a.m. at Franciscan Skemp Medical Center. "I told her the last one went pretty quick, what if it's 9:09?" he said. "She (Polly) said, 'Whatever, Chuck.'" Delivery room staff watched the time for awhile, but Chuck said it slipped their mind until Henry was put on the scale. "They measure in metric and the doctor did the math in his head but to be sure he had the nurse convert it," he said. "When she said 9 pounds, 9 ounces, he started laughing and I started laughing," Chuck said. Ohio State lottery sold out of number 9909. - WTAM News Radio You can no longer pick 9-9-0-9 for Wednesday night's drawing. (Cleveland)- Lots of people are taking a gamble on today's date. Ohio Lottery Spokeswoman Jeannie Roberts says, they are sold out on certain combinations of numbers. You can no longer pick 9-9-0-9 for the evening. That combo also sold out for the midday drawing. However 9-9-9 and 0-9-0-9 are still available. Robert says, the Ohio Lottery has a $6 million dollar liability for each drawing and once they reach that limit they are sold out. She says, they love when the limit is reached because that means lots of people are playing and more money goes to the Lottery Profits Education Fund. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Winston the carrier pigeon 1 - 0 Telkom's ADSL speed If you're not happy with the data transfer speed supplied by your chosen provider, perhaps demonstrating such dismal performance by racing a carrier pigeon against their broadband service will get you some attention. Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom. Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data. Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm's slow internet speeds. . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodKarma Posted September 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 -----------------------------** Unexplained UFO in the night sky was really urine The beautiful trail in the sky looked like a mysterious celestial event. In reality, it was urine. Some skygazers were treated to the unexpected view of a bright sparkling glow Wednesday night, created when astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery dumped the waste out into space. The water dump was a scheduled task for STS-128 pilot Kevin Ford, who poured out urine and waste water stored aboard the shuttle in preparation for a landing attempt Thursday. Weather thwarted that try, but astronauts plan another landing attempt Friday at 5:48 p.m. EDT (2148 GMT) in Florida, though rain and high winds are expected again read more... ------------------------------** toddler falls from 3rd story window and cheats death. WATERBURY -- A toddler cheated death Saturday when she fell from a third-story window at 7 Kenyon St., then amazingly got up and tried to walk upstairs. Letzy Vazquez, 3, fell at least 30 feet to the ground shortly after 9 a.m. Her fall was cushioned by a soft pile of brush layered over a walkway that leads to the rear of the three-family apartment house where she lives with her parents. "I was in the garden, and saw the little girl walking to the stairs," said Ray Hanlon, the caretaker of the house. The girl was scooped up by her mother, Xenia Vargas, 22, who took Letzy upstairs. Police and emergency medical technicians responded, and took Letzy to Saint Mary's Hospital. Waterbury police spokesman Lt. Christopher Corbett said the toddler suffered very minor injuries. He said no charges would be filed against her mother because she was home when the accident happened. Hanlon said Vargas told him her daughter had opened the window before. He said the windows have screens, but they were not in. The girl's father, Carlos Vazquez, 21, said he took them out for the winter, but forgot to put them back in. "I just thank God that she is alive," Vazquez said. --------------------------** 107 year old seeks to divorce 37 year old and no it's not hugh heffner 107 year old seeks to divorce.. ---------------------------** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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