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Allershausen
I knew religion was good for something: Prayer group claim responsibility for falling oil prices.
Yeti
Kite-surfer who hit building improving, mom says.

Obviously his accuracy had been in question up to now with buildings being missed left, right and center.
James_Runner
An online beauty pageant . . . for nuns
timezoner
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080827/tod-...at-7f81b96.html

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - An elderly woman misunderstood instructions while checking in at Sweden's main airport and was whisked down a baggage chute after she placed herself instead of her luggage on the belt, media reported Wednesday.

The 78-year-old woman, who was not named, was preparing to fly from Stockholm's Arlanda airport to Germany on Tuesday when she lay down on an unmanned baggage belt in the belief she was following check-in instructions, the Upsala Nya Tidning local daily reported on its website.

She was quickly swept off to the baggage handling centre, where staff members helped get her back on her feet.

The woman suffered no serious injury and caught her flight as planned.

sometimes reality is just un-frigin-believable
mgr
BBC News: Man's 'pants' password is changed

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A man who chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to "no it's not"
Allershausen
DR Congo frees goats from prison

"A minister in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered a Kinshasa jail to release a dozen goats, which he said were being held there illegally."
Mapleleafdude
Cockatoo Cries 'Wolf' from MSNBC

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NEW YORK - Police responded to a New Jersey home Wednesday with guns drawn after hearing what they thought was a female voice inside, pleading for assistance.

Police in Trenton said they could clearly hear the voice inside the home repeatedly yelling “Help me! Help me.”

After a knock on the door, police kicked it in around 9:50 a.m. Wednesday.
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Inside, officers found the distress calls were coming from a caged bird.

Luna, a spunky cockatoo, greeted the officers with a “hello.”

According to the Star-Ledger, the 10-year-old cockatoo has a history of police encounters.

The owner told the newspaper police were also summoned to the house about seven years ago after it cried all day, imitating a baby. Neighbors became alarmed and called the authorities, who brought the Division of Youth and Family Services to the house.

It’s unclear where Luna is learning her vocal stylings.

The Cockatoo apparently learns its words/sounds watching TV.

I can just see SWAT going thru the door, helicopter's circling above and 6 TV trucks on the street and the whole neighborhood on the street.

Ruthie
http://news.aol.com/article/trained-dog-ca...ve-owner/173238

Buddy, an 18-month-old German Shepherd, saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure. The man, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, has been having seizures since sustaining a head injury in a military maneuver about ten years ago. He got Buddy when the dog was just 8 weeks old, and this is the third time the dog has called the cops and saved his master's life. Goes to show how far a little training will go.

perdido
Hey where in the hell is sin?
sarabyrd
Victoria Beckham Waits Three Months For Haircut
Looks even more like an Auschwitz survivor now!
jozhik
Man Stabs Brother Over Hot Pocket

Strangely, this makes me want a Hot Pocket. But maybe I'll wait until my brother goes back to the US - can't be too careful...
bohemka
This is truly horrible.

Couple run over by train while having sex.

And it was in a disused station, with nothing around. That is some ridiculously bad luck.

EDIT: Wait...

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According to South Africa's Beeld newspaper

Beeld? Sounds familiar.
howsthat
Surprisingly it's the Daily Telegraph that picked up on this. Pretty scary, all the same: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...om-patient.html
Guy
Transgender lavatory row

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A row has broken out at the University of Manchester after its student union lavatories were stripped of their genders so as not to offend transgendered people.

The ladies' lavatory is now simply labelled "toilet" while the mens' has become "toilets with urinals".
Deccie
The head size shrinking belts in Japan

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Women in Japan wear the £5 belt around their bonces while sleeping.

Makers of the Kogao Meiku Beruto — the “Small Face Make Belt” — claim it will shrink the size of heads over time.
UrbanAngel
I feel sick!
Orla_inka
Ever felt you are banging your head against a stone wall? Or just banging the wall? How about being married to one .. hahaha.
FuzzyTony
Elephants March Through Hotel Lobby After It Was Built On Their Migration Trail

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Mail Online: October 1, 2008 - Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia happens to have been built next to a mango tree that one family of pachyderms have always visited when the fruit ripens.
When they returned one year and found the luxury accommodation in the way, they simply walked through reception.

JOB
Allershausen
Wine flows from the taps in Italy!
Deccie
Heavyweight soothes fists with wet nappies

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Vitali Klitschko used his son's wet nappies to keep his fists from swelling up after winning his WBC heavyweight title bout against Nigeria's Samuel Peter, the Ukrainian boxer told a German newspaper this week.

Mr Klitschko said he wrapped them around his hands and it helped him recover.

'Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell,' the 37-year old boxer told Bild after he won back the WBC title on Saturday.

Do toddler piss not smell? ohmy.gif
Corcaigh
Cannabilism is alive and well...

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/displ...g_his_lover.php
aero
It's odd and interesting in the same time...

X-rays detected from Scotch tape
minga
High BP? Stress? Fart and you'll get better... (BBC Link)

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The gas best known for being used in many stink bombs may also control blood pressure, say US researchers. Small amounts of hydrogen sulphide - a toxic gas generated by bacteria living in the human gut - are responsible for the foul odour of flatulence. But it seems the gas is also produced by an enzyme in blood vessels where it relaxes them and lowers blood pressure.

The findings in mice may lead to new treatments for high blood pressure, the Science journal reported. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, in Maryland, found that the gas is produced in the cells lining blood vessels by an enzyme called CSE.
Allershausen
Man traps his arm down a train toilet!
brownie
Vienna tram driver in Nazi salute . Could be jailed for 10years for saying 2 words. Retards!
Allershausen
QUOTE (brownie @ Oct 28 2008, 5:28 pm) *
Vienna tram driver in Nazi salute . Could be jailed for 10years for saying 2 words. Retard!

Fixed that for you.
HellesAngel
Nice work if you can get it: Drinkers on longest ever pub crawl reach 14,000th pub

I noticed this bit:

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He said there have been up to twenty drinkers in their team but most have fallen by the wayside after getting married.
perdido
Large lego man found on beach. Same thing(not same lego) found on Dutch beach last year.
Allershausen
Lost in Translation. A road sign written in English and Welsh has a completely different sentence in the Welsh version!
Kay
Using the loo is becoming more dangerous by the day, it seems: Man is found glued to toilet seat

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A man had to be taken to hospital still attached to a steel toilet after super-glue was deliberately smeared on the seat.

Firefighters were unable to free the man and were forced to remove the entire toilet with the man attached.

The 35-year-old was in a public toilet cubicle in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands when he became stuck.

He was taken to hospital where doctors were forced to get into the ambulance before using chemicals to free him.
FuzzyTony
Vicar Went to Hospital With Potato Stuck in Bottom

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Oct 31, 2008: A vicar attended hospital with a potato stuck up his bottom - and claimed it got there after he fell on to the vegetable while naked. The clergyman, in his 50s, told nurses he had been hanging curtains when he fell backwards on to his kitchen table.
He happened to be nude at the time of the mishap, said the vicar, who insisted he had not been playing a sex game.
Kay
How unlucky can you get? Woman killed by husband's coffin:

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A Brazilian woman has died after being struck by her husband's coffin when the hearse they were travelling in was involved in a car crash.

The 67-year-old woman was on the way to the cemetery to bury her husband, who had died the day before.

The hearse was struck from behind by an Alfa Romeo car, police said.

The coffin slammed into the head of the woman, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the hearse, killing her instantly (...)
Deccie
Fake New York Times edition announces end of Iraq war

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A fake edition of the New York Times announcing the end of the Iraq war has been handed out to commuters in the US.

More than one million free copies of the 14-page "special edition" newspaper were distributed, mainly in the cities of New York and Los Angeles.

The paper was seeming dated 4th July 2009, I would hve thought that 1st April would be more appropriate!
veronicavonn
Cologne brothel offers tattoo discount

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One die-hard customer, 46-year-old Herbert Manske, told the paper he didn’t hesitate long to get the six large blue letters tattooed on his arm. "My wife doesn’t mind. I save five euros entry, plus the thirty euro cost of a lap dance," he said. "And apart from that I get free drinks all night and can look at all the pretty girls. She knows that me and my friends go once a month to party in the Pascha.”

Ahahahah! Wow. Just wow.
righter
Grilled Puppy
Katrina
Man caught with penis in pasta jar ... near Nobbys Beach

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A man caught near Nobbys Beach with his penis in a pasta sauce jar led police on a 20 kmh car chase, Newcastle Local Court heard yesterday.
Police drew their weapons when they suspected Keith Roy Weatherley, 46, was armed.
Instead, they found him partially clothed with his genitals in a jar, a police statement said.
Weatherley, of Promontory Way, North Arm Cove, attracted attention parked in a no-stopping zone before noon on October 26.
Police believed Weatherley was doing something with his hands in his lap and thought that he might have a weapon.
Weatherley saw the police and drove away, despite them flashing their lights.
The chase lasted five to 10 minutes, with a top speed of just 20 kmh, before Weatherley was stopped at Centenary Drive, Newcastle. He refused to leave the car.
Four officers used batons and capsicum spray to remove him.
They found a 750-millilitre jar around his penis and noted that Weatherley attempted to continue "pleasuring himself in between bouts of wrestling".
A search of his car uncovered pornography, a home-made sex aid, women's stockings and a Jack Russell terrier.
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