WTF?--- News hot off the press that makes you say--- WTF?

[StevieJR]

Passer-by pushes suicide man off bridge

Footage has emerged of an angry passer-by pushing a suicidal man off a bridge in Guangdong province.

Retired soldier Lai Jiansheng, 66, reached out to shake the hand of Chen Fuchao before pushing him off.

The heavily-indebted Chen Fuchao fell eight metres onto a partially-inflated emergency air cushion. He was hospitalised with wrist and back injuries.

Chen Fuchao may be charged with disturbing public order. Lai was accused of causing intentional injury.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8069686.stm

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Porn Found at Osama Bin Laden’s Compound

U.S. officials have confirmed that a stash of porn was found in Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound.

The porn, which consists of “modern, electronically recorded video,” is “fairly extensive,” the officials told Reuters, which broke the initial story Friday. The officials could not confirm exactly where the porn was discovered in the compound. They also could not confirm whether bin Laden himself had bought or viewed the stash. Though bin Laden’s compound had televisions, it did not have an Internet connection or hard-wired communications network.

The porn cache isn’t the only disclosure to come out of the May 2 raid by Navy SEALS. On May 7, the Pentagon released five videos featuring bin Laden. Those videos, released without audio, show a gray-haired bin Laden watching himself on TV, and on another occasion, rehearsing a speech in front of an armoire. The raid yielded 2.7 terabytes of data and is the “largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever collected,” officials told the AP.

http://mashable.com/2011/05/13/bin-laden-porn/

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British woman beheaded in front of tourists on Spanish holiday island Tenerife.

A British woman has been beheaded in front of horrified tourists in a supermarket on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife.

The woman, who was described as being in her 60s, was in shop in the town of Arona, about 10 miles from the popular beach resort of Los Christianos, when she was brutally stabbed to and then decapitated.

According to witnesses, the attacker, who is thought to be a homeless man of Bulgarian origin, entered the store, grabbed a knife and launched a frenzied and unprovoked attack on the woman.

He then decapitated her before leaving the store carrying her head.

Holidaymakers and locals on the Spanish island described their complete shock and horror after witnessing the scene, which took place at around 10.30am local time (9.30am GMT) on Friday.

British journalist Colin Kirby, 50, who lives in Tenerife, was walking past the store when he saw the attacker emerging.He said he saw the man walking away carrying what he thought was a joke head and only realised the true horror of what he was witnessing when members of the public and security officers apprehended the man.

Mr Kirby said: “It looked like he was carrying a prop from the Clash of the Titans but then I realised it wasn’t a joke.

“He went to walk across the road and then some security spotted him and managed to grapple him to the ground. They had to fight off some of the locals who were trying to get to him.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8513028/British-woman-beheaded-in-front-of-tourists-on-Spanish-holiday-island-Tenerife.html

[Teddy]

British woman beheaded in front of tourists on Spanish holiday island Tenerife.

A British woman has been beheaded in front of horrified tourists in a supermarket on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife.

The woman, who was described as being in her 60s, was in shop in the town of Arona, about 10 miles from the popular beach resort of Los Christianos, when she was brutally stabbed to and then decapitated.

According to witnesses, the attacker, who is thought to be a homeless man of Bulgarian origin, entered the store, grabbed a knife and launched a frenzied and unprovoked attack on the woman.

He then decapitated her before leaving the store carrying her head.

Holidaymakers and locals on the Spanish island described their complete shock and horror after witnessing the scene, which took place at around 10.30am local time (9.30am GMT) on Friday.

British journalist Colin Kirby, 50, who lives in Tenerife, was walking past the store when he saw the attacker emerging.He said he saw the man walking away carrying what he thought was a joke head and only realised the true horror of what he was witnessing when members of the public and security officers apprehended the man.

Mr Kirby said: “It looked like he was carrying a prop from the Clash of the Titans but then I realised it wasn’t a joke.

“He went to walk across the road and then some security spotted him and managed to grapple him to the ground. They had to fight off some of the locals who were trying to get to him.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8513028/British-woman-beheaded-in-front-of-tourists-on-Spanish-holiday-island-Tenerife.html

Copy cat, copy cat, don't know what you're staring at. lol

[Stramash]

Copy cat, copy cat, don't know what you're staring at. lol

How old are you? Lol.

[Stramash]

Tenerife? I wont beheading there then...

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Tenerife? I wont beheading there then...

I see what you did there...

[Stramash]

I see what you did there...

Good.

: )

[iBatch]

Probably an old one but Yeah, have a peek.

Dad works as daughter's porn and prostitution manage

http://www.collegeslackers.com/video/creepy_dad

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Probably an old one but Yeah, have a peek.

Dad works as daughter's porn and prostitution manage

http://www.collegeslackers.com/video/creepy_dad

That's truly fucked up...at least they are both comfortable about it and it's not like he is forcing her into this (or so it seems).

Especially as a father now, I just can't fathom how someone could go through with any of that.

[Stramash]

Brazilian Woman Wins Right To Masturbate At Work

Ana Catarian Bezerra is a 36-year-old Brazilian woman who suffers from a chemical imbalance that triggers severe anxiety and hypersexuality. Ana, an accountant by day, began to have problems at work because the only way to relieve said anxiety is by masturbating. A lot. Now, after winning a court battle and seeking professional medical help, Ana is allowed to masturbate and watch porn — using her work's computer, no less — legally.

Ana wasn't always like this, she was worse:

"I got so bad I would to masturbate up to forty seven-times a day. That's when I asked for help, I knew it wasn't normal."

Carlos Howert, Ana's doctor, prescribes Ana with a "cocktail" (read: an entire medicine cabinet's worth) of tranquillizers. We're not sure how that "cocktail" doesn't knock Ana out (half a Claritin feels like an elephant tranquillizer to us), but thanks to Dr. Howert's concoction, Ana only has to masturbate around eighteen-times a day.

So, like, a little less than Elvis Crespo.

Of course all of this sounds absurd and hilarious to most us but for Ana it's probably anything but. Last April she had to take her employer to court in order to be allowed to masturbate during work hours. Ana won.

Still, imagine an office full of of scandalized and perverted stares as you exit the bathroom or bend down to pick up a pencil — awkward? Very. Also, as a woman, having a bunch of men knowing you're a clinical nympho probably doesn't help deter unwanted sexual advances.

http://barbara.guanabee.com/2011/05/brazilian-woman-wins-right-masturbate-work/

(Can see Ciaran heading to his doctor's to claim this condition) ; )

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I used to masturbate at work. But I did it at my desk. Now I work from home.

Brazilian Woman Wins Right To Masturbate At Work

Ana Catarian Bezerra is a 36-year-old Brazilian woman who suffers from a chemical imbalance that triggers severe anxiety and hypersexuality. Ana, an accountant by day, began to have problems at work because the only way to relieve said anxiety is by masturbating. A lot. Now, after winning a court battle and seeking professional medical help, Ana is allowed to masturbate and watch porn — using her work's computer, no less — legally.

Ana wasn't always like this, she was worse:

"I got so bad I would to masturbate up to forty seven-times a day. That's when I asked for help, I knew it wasn't normal."

Carlos Howert, Ana's doctor, prescribes Ana with a "cocktail" (read: an entire medicine cabinet's worth) of tranquillizers. We're not sure how that "cocktail" doesn't knock Ana out (half a Claritin feels like an elephant tranquillizer to us), but thanks to Dr. Howert's concoction, Ana only has to masturbate around eighteen-times a day.

So, like, a little less than Elvis Crespo.

Of course all of this sounds absurd and hilarious to most us but for Ana it's probably anything but. Last April she had to take her employer to court in order to be allowed to masturbate during work hours. Ana won.

Still, imagine an office full of of scandalized and perverted stares as you exit the bathroom or bend down to pick up a pencil — awkward? Very. Also, as a woman, having a bunch of men knowing you're a clinical nympho probably doesn't help deter unwanted sexual advances.

http://barbara.guanabee.com/2011/05/brazilian-woman-wins-right-masturbate-work/

(Can see Ciaran heading to his doctor's to claim this condition) ; )

[GoodKarma]

George Soros Dumps Nearly $800 Million In Gold

NEW YORK/BOSTON (By Frank Tang and Aaron Pressman) - Billionaire financier George Soros, who called gold "the ultimate bubble," dumped almost his entire $800 million stake in bullion in the first quarter, well before a commodities slump blamed partly on reports he was liquidating his holdings read more...

"Police found a stew made from a human liver in the fridge at the suspect's apartment in east Moscow." WTF?

Strip club texts 13-year-old boy, asking if he wants to "come and celebrate Osama bin Laden's death with free cover and free drafts".

Surprisingly, some people have a problem with this <---I'm being sarcastic of course...LOL) of course it's a WTF?

...Rusty cars that could be worth millions

For car buffs, it's an almost mythical concept. But, unlike Big Foot and Mermaids, barn finds really do exist.

very interesting article a 1937 Bugatti Type 57S: worth $4.4 million

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Jon Stewart vs. O'Reilly and FOX News

FIST PUMP!

[GoodKarma]

Jon Stewart vs. O'Reilly and FOX News

FIST PUMP!

...ouch!!!

[CiaranM]

Jon Stewart vs. O'Reilly and FOX News

FIST PUMP!

O'Reilly got ******* owned !!!

[Admin_2]

O'Reilly got fucking owned !!!

Hells yeah, and you can see Jon Stewart itching to do it for a few minutes beforehand. He had it all ready to go, but wanted to find the perfect entrance through O'Reilly's loudmouth offense. Awesome.

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519 migrants from Mexico, Japan, Guatemala, China, and other countries were found packed into *two* trucks headed for the United States to enter illegally.

X-ray photo of one of the trucks:

Illegal immigrants are caught everyday at the borders, but finding hundreds packed into trucks like this is alarming. WTF?!

Pics of the sardines and containers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110518/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_migrants_rescued

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Boy, 9, nicked for drunk driving

"A SCHOOLBOY aged just nine has been arrested for drink-driving but had to be let go by cops -because he was TOO young.

The lad was breathalysed by police and taken into custody after they spotted him behind the wheel in Cumbria. But they were forced to let him back on the streets as his age meant he was not old enough to be held accountable for his actions. The child, who has not been named, was among thousands of under 18s arrested in the north of England over the past two years.

These included four 11-year-olds and a ten-year-old arrested in the Northumbria force area for car theft, and seven 12-year-olds arrested in Cleveland for the same crime.During the same period, Durham Police arrested one 12-year-old for aggravated vehicle taking and North Yorkshire Police arrested one ten-year-old for car theft.They were included in 2,467 juveniles arrested for crimes including car theft, aggravated vehicle taking, drink driving and underage driving.

Safety campaigners demanded more action to be taken about warning children about the dangers of drinking and driving.Brake spokesman Kath Hartley said: “It is incredibly concerning that young people are risking their own and other people’s lives on the road.”This has to be addressed as a matter of urgency.”Young people must be taught the dangers of getting behind the wheel without proper training.”

Northumbria Police tried to play down the shocking figures and insisted child car crime and motoring offences had dropped since last year.A spokesman for Cumbria Police, where the nine-year-old was arrested, said it was working hard to try and curb bad behaviour.He said: “It is of particular concern when young people drive under the influence of alcohol, but we are working hard to keep the roads safe.”"

[Stramash]

What a bet!!!!!!!!!!!

Single dad wins £353,000 with £1 bet at bookies

19 May 2011

A man who picked up more than £300,000 on a £1 horse bet said his brain was a “wreck” as he realised how much he had won.

Bookies William Hill said the Glasgow-based man, who wishes to stay anonymous, scooped £353,000 after winning a seven-horse accumulator.

The single father has not worked in five years after he had heart surgery, and admitted he was struggling. He said: “I’m shocked.

“My brain was a wreck and I couldn’t understand the balance on my account. I first thought it would pay about £21,000 and had to get my son to come and translate that the numbers meant I’d actually won £353,000.”

He said he would spend his winnings on buying his own home, and planned to visit his sisters abroad.

He placed his 50p each-way accumulator on seven horses running at Brighton, Nottingham, Towcester and Kempton.

A spokesman for William Hill, who took the bet, said: “He’s our luckiest ever punter.”

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/single-dad-wins-353-000-with-1-bet-at-bookies-1.1102351

[Stramash]

Cannabis Science Announces Planned Thailand Business Partnership and Clinical Trials for Medical Marijuana

Cannabis Science, Inc. (OTCBB: CBIS), a pioneering U.S. biotech company developing pharmaceutical cannabis products, is pleased to announce meetings with Thai Cannabis Corp. and senior government officials and advisors regarding environmental and commercial benefits of medical cannabis.

Cannabis Science and our associates in Thailand are constructing a business relationship that will allow for the necessary clinical trials to take place in Thailand with approval of the Thai governmental. The intent is to formalize a mutually beneficial partnership in the medical cannabis tourism industry. Concurrently, Thailand will serve as a staging ground for Cannabis Science to test and develop our products as we move toward our ultimate goal of U.S. FDA approved cannabis extract based medicines. The Thai people will benefit from our collaborative efforts in that income and knowledge generated by medical cannabis tourism will offset medical costs for the Thai people. It should be noted that Thailand ?? with a population of approximately 68 million ?? has a first class medical system that draws patients from around the world, so everyone can benefit from its integration of medical cannabis into modern health care.

Robert Melamede, Ph.D., Cannabis Science’s CEO stated, “It was amazing to meet with enlightened government officials who recognize the health, environmental, and commercial benefits of hemp and medical cannabis. Thailand now leads the world in having created intelligent policies so that the Thai people, and others from around the world, will benefit from the health promoting properties of the cannabis plant that have been so foolishly suppressed by American led policies of fear and ignorance.”

About Cannabis Science, Inc.

Cannabis Science, Inc. is at the forefront of pharmaceutical grade medical marijuana research and development. The Company works with world authorities on phytocannabinoid science targeting critical illnesses, and adheres to scientific methodologies to develop, produce and commercialize phytocannabinoid-based pharmaceutical products. In sum, we are dedicated to the creation of cannabis-based medicines, both with and without psychoactive properties, to treat disease and the symptoms of disease, as well as for general health maintenance.

http://www.pharmiweb.com/pressreleases/pressrel.asp?ROW_ID=41199

Boom time for street food vendors and 7/11s??

Though after Toxin's War on Drugs and the draconian treatment of users of soft drugs, does this not seem a little hypocritical?

Edited May 19, 2011 by Stramash

[GoodKarma]

The Southern Accent in Danger? whutch'all think??

A new dialect is forming in Raleigh, and Scarlett O'Hara it ain't.

There's a gradual shift toward a less distinctive regional accent, and our vowel sounds are leading the way.

"Language is always changing, always in flux," said Robin Dodsworth, an associate linguistics professor at N.C. State University. "Over time in Raleigh, the Southern variant is disappearing."

Since 2008, Dodsworth has collected recordings of native Raleighites, analyzing their vowel sounds to uncover how the local accent has changed through time.

The major difference is in something linguists call the "Southern vowel shift," the way of speaking that makes words like "bait" sound more like "bet," and turns "bed" into a two-syllable word. Those Southern quirks of speech are less noticeable with each generation Dodsworth interviews.

You could try blaming the influx of Yankees over the past couple decades, but the regional quirks of, say, New York- or Chicago-area speech patterns aren't being picked up locally, Dodsworth said. Rather, the Raleigh dialect is becoming less traditionally "Southern," smoothing out into an accent that is recognizably American but difficult to place.

Raleigh resident Bob Tomb, 70, grew up around Raleigh, then lived in California for 40 years. When he returned to the city as an adult, his ear caught the change in diction between the generations - the younger they were, the less pronounced the accent.

"It's very pleasant to run into an older person who sounds like they're from Raleigh," Tomb said. "The accent gives the place a little style."

Lifelong Raleigh resident Jim Stronach, 83, chalks up some of the change to improved schools during the area's economic boom, plus the increased mobility of modern culture.

"The speech changes to the degree that you don't really sound like you're from Dixie anymore," Stronach said.

It doesn't bother him. Change is always a good thing, Stronach said.

"You can't lose your heritage, just because your speech changes," Stronach said.

A mere reconfiguration

Walt Wolfram, NCSU's William C. Friday distinguished professor of English linguistics, says the South isn't losing its identity in terms of speech - it's reconfiguring. The South, particularly in urban areas, has transformed itself during the past 30 years, Wolfram said. Cities have been more influenced by outsiders, and this vowel shift is partially a product of that change. And it's more subtle than natives might realize.

"If a Southern person goes north, people are still going to say you sound Southern," Wolfram said.

Dodsworth has recorded hours of speech from people who grew up in Raleigh, which she runs through software that breaks down the way each person pronounces each word, turns that into numbers, then runs a statistical analysis to determine patterns of change over time and across groups.

Her work is ongoing - this kind of study can last decades. She's always on the watch for new interviewees who grew up in Raleigh, an increasingly difficult category to locate in a city of transplants.

Is the Southern accent an endangered species? Only within city limits, and mostly in the middle and upper classes, Dodsworth said. Rural areas still have a strong regional twang, as do many working-class folks.

For those who are worried the Southern accent may die out, the solution is simple, Dodsworth said.

"The best way to preserve it is to keep talking that way," she said.

Some key elements of Southern speech are still going strong across Raleigh - "Y'all is still fairly robust," Dodsworth said - but other things are changing, and that's normal.

"It's not realistic to talk about 'saving' a dialect or accent because the fact of life is that dialects change," Dodsworth said. "The Southern accent the way we think of it now is different than the way people in the South talked 50 years ago, 100 years ago, and so forth."

Dodsworth said what we all recognize as a Southern accent today probably didn't gain its current trademark sound until after the Civil War.

A Very interesting CNN Video Lost Generation of Workers?

an eyeopening fact 'Facebook only employs 2,000 people and is a 50 billion dollar company'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TKbIidbyhk&feature=related

Edited May 20, 2011 by GoodKarma

[GoodKarma]

Macho Man Dies After Car Crash.. WTF?

He suffered a heart attack behind the wheel, forcing him to lose control and crash into a tree.

R.I.P. Oh Yeah...Oh yeah...

Sporting News

Edited May 21, 2011 by GoodKarma
added link

[Teila]

STUNNED Tom Tantony told yesterday how cash-strapped police have hounded him for two months - because a woman claims he made her jumper dirty.

Tom, 24, says two cops have TWICE made a 15-mile round trip to his house, phoned him up to 15 times and threatened to arrest him for criminal damage over the £40 hoodie.

Full Story......

I just HAD to laugh when I read

A police spokesman said: "We are investigating the theft of a hooded jumper which was reported in March. The damaged jumper has been seized and enquiries are continuing."

It's a 40 quid hoodie FFS!!! Waste of time is an understatement!

[Teddy]

Macho Man Dies After Car Crash.. WTF?

He suffered a heart attack behind the wheel, forcing him to lose control and crash into a tree.

A sad loss. But that video did make me laugh. He was a weird one. Loved the end bit "no more questions" lol