tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77309856181890898692024-03-13T16:22:23.086-05:00Small Bits & PiecesKEEPING IT SHORT AND SIMPLE
I post the stuff I find interesting, funny or just weird in one way or another.
You may not always agree, but hopefully you'll find enough you like here that you come back.The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.comBlogger8117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-87918219531512054192011-08-29T15:58:00.000-05:002011-08-29T15:58:21.441-05:00Do not try this stupid stunt<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/H0kxyGAubzM" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-4376469843387842032011-08-29T15:56:00.000-05:002011-08-29T15:56:23.584-05:00Runaway Truck Tire Hits Taxi<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/K_16uDIr9vM" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-39466832737178021872011-08-25T12:32:00.002-05:002011-08-25T12:32:29.632-05:00Hula hoop rope climb<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bwnwa_vABe4" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-16163313801787757212011-08-25T12:30:00.000-05:002011-08-25T12:30:14.453-05:00Weird and the Beautiful<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lyV1ENmD57s" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-2016705384543362842011-08-25T12:24:00.000-05:002011-08-25T12:24:07.374-05:00Scaredy Cat<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pMUUIisvnjY" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-51406831130046481172011-08-23T13:33:00.000-05:002011-08-23T13:33:36.329-05:00Women demand equal topless rights<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The Raelian Movement, which teaches that life on Earth was created by aliens, had its fourth-annual "GoTopless Day" protests in several <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">U.S.</place></country-region> cities.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-twgT4M7j2Bw/TlPxfWSF-RI/AAAAAAAAmGA/CQo8HvNf80s/s1600/allowed10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qaa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-twgT4M7j2Bw/TlPxfWSF-RI/AAAAAAAAmGA/CQo8HvNf80s/s1600/allowed10.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://gotopless.org/"><span style="color: blue;">GoTopless.org</span></a><span id="goog_1772875742"></span><span id="goog_1772875743"></span>, founded by the movement's spiritual leader, Rael, organized protests Sunday in locations including <city w:st="on">Los Angeles</city>, <city w:st="on">San Francisco</city> and <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Chicago</city></place>. Women participating in the protests were urged to go topless while men were encouraged to cover their chests to illustrate the slogan, "Topless equal rights for all or none."</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"It's no more ridiculous than women having to wear tops at all times in this double-standard topless battle that's being waged in public and in the courts," said Nadine Gary, a Raelian priestess and president of GoTopless.org based in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Las Vegas</place></city>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"After four years, our national protests are starting to bear fruit, for a growing number of women across the country are reaching out to us. They're beginning to feel empowered by our demonstrations and the constitutional message we bring."</div><span style="color: white;">.</span>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-86490013912353150782011-08-23T13:25:00.000-05:002011-08-23T13:25:13.828-05:00Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thieves’ net trout catch at fish hatchery</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Someone in <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">California</place></state> has a truck load of stolen merchandise that probably is starting to stink.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">State Fish and Game wardens are investigating what they believe to be the first large-scale theft from a state fish hatchery after as many as a <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/22/2370566/slippery-thieves-net-trout-catch.html"><span style="color: blue;">thousand trophy-sized trout</span></a> were taken from a facility near <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Fresno</place></city>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Workers at the San Joaquin State Fish Hatchery found the gate pried open and blood covering the floors. Department spokesman Patrick Foy says the trout were 3 years old and weighed approximately three pounds each. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The trout were part of a program paid for by fishing license fees to stock lakes for fishing enthusiasts.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Wardens are now scouring <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">California</state></place> fish markets for signs of them. Trout sells for up to $7 a pound. </div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Guards' Fired Over Genitals Prank </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A federal judge says <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Franklin</placename> <placename w:st="on">County</placename></place> officials are not responsible for the actions of two guards who fed a prisoner a bologna sandwich that had been rubbed against another inmate's genitals.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost has ruled the county, its commissioners and its late sheriff did not foster a culture of rule-breaking that encouraged the deputies to act out of line.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Court documents say two deputies were handing out bologna sandwiches in 2009 when they made an inmate put his genitals on one while they took a picture with a cell phone. <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2011/08/22/20110822ohio-prank-sandwich-genitals.html"><span style="color: blue;">They fed the sandwich to another inmate and showed him the picture.</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Both deputies were fired.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">One deputy pleaded guilty to health code violations. His attorney called the incident a "prank."</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The other deputy wasn't charged.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Mom humiliated son in public by wearing I’m a theft sign</div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Residents of an Australian city said a mother forced her young son to sit in public wearing Shrek ears and a sign proclaiming him to be "a thief."</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Witnesses said the boy, who appeared to be about 10 years old, spent nearly an hour sitting near a Townsville water park wearing the ears and the sign while his family ate lunch nearby, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"Do not trust me. I will steal from you as I am a thief," the boy's sign read.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Diane Mayers, said she was so "horrified" when she saw the boy that she immediately notified the Child Safety Services.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"A lot of people walked past laughing at him, including boys who would have been his age," Mayers said. "At one point, the boy had taken off the Shrek ears. My daughter walked past and heard the mother say, 'Put them back on or <a href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/08/23/Watercooler-Stories/UPI-28691314095400/"><span style="color: blue;">I'll smack your head in</span></a>.'"</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Mayers said she feared the long-term effects from the public humiliation would be worse than the potential effects from physical abuse.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Preteen boy named town's drag queen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">British boy has been named the top drag queen at his village's annual contest after wearing women's clothes and singing pop hits for the crowd.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">12-year-old Redvers Stokes of Sticker, <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">England</place></country-region>, beat other local men in the drag contest by doing his "Naughty Nora" persona and singing tunes including “Michael Jackson's "Thriller" for the judges.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The boy said he started wearing his mother's clothes for fun when he was young and he now frequently attends village events in women's clothes and makeup.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I think it's really funny. I've always been open to new things. I might like dressing up in women's clothes but <a href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/08/22/Boy-12-named-towns-drag-queen/UPI-25471314040646/?spt=mps&or=2"><span style="color: blue;">I still like girls.</span></a> It's just a little hobby of mine," Stokes said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Organizers of the drag contest said they started the annual event two years ago when they did not find enough girls that were willing to participate in the carnival queen pageant.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The boy's mother, Georgia Stokes, 43, said she "couldn't be more proud" of her son.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"His Naughty Nora routine is very convincing. I've never been concerned. Redvers just loves being the center of attention. He has no plans to make it a career," she said.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-31694399658908787362011-08-22T22:07:00.000-05:002011-08-22T22:07:05.012-05:00My What !!!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">John Carew</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HW_db-tFNY0/TlMYjfopz6I/AAAAAAAAmF8/VwYNraKHvQo/s1600/My+Menstruation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qaa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HW_db-tFNY0/TlMYjfopz6I/AAAAAAAAmF8/VwYNraKHvQo/s1600/My+Menstruation.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Because of a misplaced 'é' accent, his tattoo means <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/pictures/photos-10888/pictures-misspelt-tattoos/2"><span style="color: blue;">'My life, My menstruation'.</span></a> His tat was apparently supposed to read 'My life, My rules'.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-48213739251966279662011-08-22T17:45:00.001-05:002011-08-22T17:46:50.848-05:00Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crews clean up soggy toilet-papered river</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><placename w:st="on">Idaho</placename> <placetype w:st="on">State</placetype> environment officials say crews finished removing massive rolls of <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/17/2363378/officials-clean-up-toilet-papered.html"><span style="color: blue;">unprocessed toilet paper</span></a> that fell off a truck and were lodged for weeks in the upper <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Lochsa</placename> <placetype w:st="on">River</placetype></place>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Earlier attempts to pull out the paper was called off when it began disintegrating, creating an even bigger mess. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Department of Environmental official John Cardwell says teams yanked out the remnants last weekend when lower river flows made the work more manageable.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Crews wrapped the rolls with a reinforced mesh before they were pulled out by a tow truck.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The rolls landed in the water after the truck hauling the load along U.S. Highway 12 slid into the river. The driver was cited for inattentive driving. </div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police set-up nets 22 arrests</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Police put up a sign in south <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Gainesville</place></city> to let drivers know there was a checkpoint ahead, but what was really going on was a ruse. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">There was no checkpoint, just several Gainesville Police Department officers watching for drivers who saw the sign and then turned around or who appeared to throw something out of their vehicles. Those vehicles were pulled over.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Police spent nearly eight hours on the detail near the intersection of South Main Street and 16th Avenue. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gainesville.com/article/20110819/ARTICLES/110819400/1182?Title=Police-trickery-nets-22-arrests"><span style="color: blue;">“This was a ruse detail,”</span></a> said Lt. David Rowe. “Officers stopped 58 vehicles and most of the 22 arrests were for felony drug charges but there were also a few people arrested on warrants.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Police said they planned the ruse because of drug and burglary complaints in the area.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police issued more than 100 citations at checkpoint</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The Gainesville Police Department made four DUI arrests and issued more than 100 traffic citations during a roadside safety/DUI checkpoint reported Cpl. Tscharna Senn.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The checkpoint was conducted at 3300 W. University Ave. from 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. and involved GPD’s traffic safety team and personnel from the Alachua County Sheriff’s office, Florida Highway Patrol, <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">University</placetype> of <placename w:st="on">Florida Police</placename></place> and the Alachua Police Department.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In addition to the DUI arrests, police made one drug arrest and one warrant arrest. <a href="http://www.gainesville.com/article/20110820/ARTICLES/110829992?tc=obinsite"><span style="color: blue;">They issued 88 non-moving traffic citations,</span></a> 17 moving traffic citations and six criminal traffic citations. Police also issued four warnings.</div><br />
<span style="color: white;">.</span>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-60444627246825684392011-08-22T17:20:00.000-05:002011-08-22T17:20:08.383-05:00Friends Alive and Dead<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Every Friday night for 23 years, Zeli Rossi has traded his bed for a coffin.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Rossi tells that his weekly sleeping habit became public last month when his 14-year-old grandson wrote a story about him for his school's newspaper.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8QDl5aBuSP0/TlLVfF8ZOqI/AAAAAAAAmF4/2tYIcFnc0Ms/s1600/coffin-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qaa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8QDl5aBuSP0/TlLVfF8ZOqI/AAAAAAAAmF4/2tYIcFnc0Ms/s1600/coffin-1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"> .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Rossi says <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44195562/ns/world_news-americas/t/brazilian-sleeps-coffin-honor-his-friend/"><span style="color: blue;">he sleeps in the coffin to honor a deceased friend.</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Long ago, the two promised each other that whoever died first would have his casket bought by the other. Rossi's friend bought him a coffin when he mistakenly thought Rossi had died in a 1983 car crash.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">When the friend died in 1988, Rossi started sleeping in the coffin to honor his memory.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">And he also kept his promise to buy the dead friend a "brand new" casket. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-60267365336124457582011-08-20T10:21:00.001-05:002011-08-20T10:24:06.875-05:00Man tries to use his feet as brakes<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A 24-year-old Detroit-area man who tried using his feet to stop a runaway pickup truck with faulty brakes caused multiple collisions and exhibited <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2011/08/18/20110818michigan-man-uses-feet-no-brakes-car.html"><span style="color: blue;">"moronic decision making,"</span></a> a <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Roseville</place></city> police official said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">After the vehicle's brakes failed on a busy street in <city w:st="on">Roseville</city>, just north of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Detroit</place></city>, the man continued driving and stuck his feet outside the truck to stop it, Roseville Deputy Police Chief James Berlin said.<span style="color: white;"> .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">Witnesses said the man reached speeds of about 40 mph and wasn’t able to stop the truck on at least two occasions. The truck eventually struck four vehicles.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">He struck two vehicles after being unable to stop at a red light, and continued on. An officer who pulled next to the man's car told him to shift into "park," but that didn't work and he rolled into two other vehicles before the truck stopped.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">"He said he was going to fix the brakes when he got home," <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">Berlin</state></place> said.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_hFW3Pp3sJ4" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-88191840661839844462011-08-20T09:59:00.002-05:002011-08-20T09:59:51.757-05:00Cooling Off<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OMFRZn6HpyA" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-79162793203993528192011-08-20T09:57:00.000-05:002011-08-20T09:57:50.096-05:00Woman wants to be the world's fattest woman<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Susanne Eman aims to balloon from 330 kg = 728 pounds to a record 730kg =1610 pounds – and beyond – <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/872701-why-susanne-eman-wants-to-be-the-fattest-woman-ever"><span style="color: blue;">by gorging on 20,000 calories a day.</span> </a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--8mHo3wz4UM/Tk_Kmpu7ZQI/AAAAAAAAmF0/9IKF2HoF8Ds/s1600/Susanne+Eman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qaa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--8mHo3wz4UM/Tk_Kmpu7ZQI/AAAAAAAAmF0/9IKF2HoF8Ds/s1600/Susanne+Eman.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The 32-year-old, who is a hit among fans of ‘super size big beautiful women’, said: ‘The bigger I get, the better I feel. I feel more confident and sexy. Why shouldn’t I push the limits and see how fat I can get and stay healthy? I’d love to find out if it’s humanly possible to reach a ton.’ </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The single mother of two, from <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Arizona</place></state>, aims to hit her target weight in ten years. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">She visits the supermarket once a month with sons Gabriel, 16 and Brendin, 12, and spends up to eight hours filling six trolleys.’ It’s like a full day's work,' she said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">She uses a motorized scooter, but astonishingly believes she can stay healthy.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">'If I was to get sick, I've arranged for my sister to take care of my kids,' she said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">She is ‘playing Russian roulette with her life’, said GP Dr Patrick Flite. </div><span style="color: white;">.</span>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-11405516899504760802011-08-20T08:56:00.000-05:002011-08-20T08:56:45.131-05:00Horn Pranks<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Train Horn Pranks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/icnRMW6P9nc" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Horn wired to Brake Lights</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-lsZ5BNbH8s" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Guy mounts and blows a trains airhorn from his <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Durango</place></state></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2eptqTii74s" width="640"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-62713785716245567802011-08-11T18:11:00.001-05:002011-08-11T18:14:43.089-05:00Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wal-Mart bathroom eater jailed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">While rest rooms are known as places to relieve yourself a 22-year-old man may have pioneered an alternate use. A loss prevention officer at a <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Wal-Mart</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Supercenter</placetype></place> stated that Taylor Allen Dresia was "eating food" on the bathroom floor. Dresia's apparent <a href="http://blogs.tcpalm.com/off_the_beat_will_greenlee_blog/2011/08/accused-bathroom-eater-jailed-in-vero-beach-walmart-flap.html"><span style="color: blue;">picnic in the potty blocked the commode for patrons</span></a>, and a store manager asked him to leave. "After a few minutes Dresia left and then returned in another entrance yelling that an employee stole something from his backpack while he was in the bathroom." </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A deputy told Dresia to leave immediately. Dresia said he wasn't leaving and that he wanted to write something down. "Deputy advised Dresia not to play games and leave the store now," "Dresia again refused."</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Dresia was arrested by an Indian River County Sheriff's deputy, was described as argumentative. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Deputies got Dresia, listed as homeless, out, arresting him on misdemeanor charges of trespassing after warning and resisting an officer without violence.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">An Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputy spotted the man trespassing at a Destin park, <br />
reports the <a href="http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/deputy-42582-hands-behind.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Northwest Florida Daily News</span></a> in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Fort Walton Beach</city></place>.</span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">That's when the man, Edmund Berkeley Barksdale, tried to explain his ‘business’ to the deputy.</span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">And the proof was in the pudding: Barksdale then reached into his shorts with his hand. When the 55-year-old man removed his hand, the deputy noted it had fecal matter on it, according to the arrest report.</span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">Unfortunately, Barksdale isn't the only person that has faced a messy arrest.</span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">1. Police: Woman, 73, <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2010/01/another_panhandle_lesson_in_th.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">'defecated without warning'.</span></a>She had an open bottle of vodka in a cooler in the vehicle’s back seat.</span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">2. Bad aim: <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2009/02/bad_aim_he_tinkled_in_a_cop_ca_1.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">He tinkled in a cop car</span></a></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">3. <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2009/07/her_friend_were_worried_so.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Loaded mom unloads</span> </a>-- alas, look where she decided to.... <br />
She put her unlicensed minor daughter in the driver's seat. She was too busy dumping a can of Bud Lite out the window as the cop approached. </span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">4. <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2009/09/robert_stark_higgins_21_of.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Nude dude covered with feces skinny dips in neighbor's pool</span></a></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">5. Report: <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2010/06/report_woman_threw_her_feces_o.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Woman threw her feces on deputy</span></a></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">6. <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2009/11/man_throws_darts_at_bar_patron.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Man throws darts at bar patrons, defecates</span></a></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">7. <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2009/12/teacher_urinates_on_curb_after.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Teacher urinates on curb after nearly running over cop</span></a></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">8. <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2009/07/shawn_suzanne_lutz_43_must.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Tinkle time for Mom. Do we really want to watch?</span></a></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">9. Asked to leave, <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2009/05/asked_to_leave_man_urinates_on.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">man urinates on bar</span></a></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">10. A naked man. A Taser. And feces. <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2009/06/tase_me_naughty_word_here_anot.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">No happy ending here</span></a><span style="color: blue;">. </span></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">11. Take aim: <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2009/01/woman_turns_target_changing_ro_1.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Woman turns Target changing room into a bathroom</span></a></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">12. Busted: <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2010/04/woman_urinates_on_clothes_in_w_1.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Woman pees on clothes in Walmart</span></a></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">13. <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2009/09/whats_going_on_in_mary.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Why don't people publicly urinate at our grocery store?</span></a> Oh, because we don't live in the Panhandle </span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">14. <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2010/02/a_man_was_outside_a.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Panhandler caught with 'stream of urine still in progress' </span></a></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">15. What a load of crap! <a href="http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2011/05/what_a_load_of_crap_woman_bust.html" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">Woman busted for DUI</span></a></span></div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Man in rehab caught with child porn</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Sarasota Police say a nurse caught a 55-year-old bedridden man in a rehabilitation facility with child pornography on his computer.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Detectives arrested Robert Martin, a permanent resident of Harmony Healthcare and Rehab because of a motor vehicle accident, on a possession of child pornography charge this past weekend.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A nurse reportedly saw an image of a naked child on Martin’s computer and called police.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Martin reportedly admitted to downloading images of nude children from the Internet. <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20110809/BREAKING/110809567/0/FRONTPAGE?tc=ar"><span style="color: blue;">“I’m the person your mother warned you about</span></a>,” Martin told detectives.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Police say they found roughly 20,000 child porn images before the computer crashed.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Judge who demands punctuality but often he’s late</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A Canadian judge with zero tolerance for lateness in his Toronto-area court has a poor record of returning to the bench on time.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Last month, Justice Howard Chisvin of the Ontario Court in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Newmarket</place></city> threw out 12 criminal cases when a Crown prosecutor was late in returning to court. Among the cases dismissed were people who had pleaded guilty and were awaiting sentencing.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Since that incident, prosecutors and defense attorneys have been lining up outside his courtroom doors before they open.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">However, a reporter took a stopwatch to Chisvin's courtroom and discovered <a href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/08/11/Judge-who-demands-punctuality-often-late/UPI-85251313069393/"><span style="color: blue;">the judge has a poor record of punctuality.</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The judge was late returning from every break, from a few seconds to as long as 19 minutes, 22 seconds.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">After that lengthiest absence, he apologized to everyone who had been on time and cited a number of reasons he was running late.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-25153809191971326202011-08-11T17:12:00.000-05:002011-08-11T17:12:52.765-05:00Last laugh was on the store owner<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">When three men were found huffing nitrous oxide -- also known as laughing gas -- from balloons in a parking lot, officers were led to a store called Purple Haze, police said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c10Q15UvZKY/TkRSyIJsP9I/AAAAAAAAmFw/Dk6yyIq6gIw/s1600/Purple+Haze.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c10Q15UvZKY/TkRSyIJsP9I/AAAAAAAAmFw/Dk6yyIq6gIw/s400/Purple+Haze.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"> .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">That's because the huffing trio told investigators that <a href="http://www.news-journalonline.com/breakingnews/2011/08/daytona-beach-shores-police-arrest-novelty-store-owners-for-selling-nitrous-oxide.html"><span style="color: blue;">the owner of Purple Haze sold them the painkilling</span></a> substance and taught them how to sniff it from the balloons, said Sgt. Mike Fowler.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Nitrous oxide has several uses, including to numb pain from dental work, as well as for making whipped cream and in auto racing to speed combustion.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Two undercover <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Daytona Beach</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Shores</placetype></place> investigators went to Purple Haze and asked to purchase nitrous oxide and the paraphernalia used to inhale it. At that point, the store owner, Yohan Cohen, gave the investigators instructions on how to use the paraphernalia to inhale the gas, Fowler said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Police recovered $600 worth of nitrous oxide and paraphernalia from the shop, Fowler said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Cohen and employee Aline Elakayam were arrested and charged with sale of harmful chemicals and possession of drug paraphernalia.</div><span style="color: white;">..</span>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-70477360449526509672011-08-11T05:58:00.000-05:002011-08-11T05:58:25.899-05:00How to win a bet!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pAmDuQeUcxI" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-17157125157218504582011-08-11T05:56:00.000-05:002011-08-11T05:56:36.299-05:00Someone will be pissed off<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><object height="345" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.funvid.hu/swf/player.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="flashvars" value="vid_id=106940&MainURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funvid.hu&em=1"><embed src="http://www.funvid.hu/swf/player.swf" flashvars="vid_id=106940&MainURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funvid.hu&em=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" width="420" height="345" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object><br />
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She had been planning to toss the device out the front door, thinking it would make enough noise to wake her boyfriend.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Instead, the device exploded in her hand, <a href="http://lawandorder.blogs.gainesville.com/10452/woman-looses-3-fingers-trying-to-wake-boyfriend/"><span style="color: blue;">tearing off her thumb, middle and ring fingers</span></a>. The blast was so powerful that police said they found one bone remnant embedded in the ceiling.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The woman was taken to Shands at the <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">University</placetype> of <placename w:st="on">Florida</placename></place>. Her boyfriend told police he did not realize that the couple had any fireworks left over from the Fourth of July. He also said the woman’s actions were out of character.</div><span style="color: white;">..</span>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-71516888772423013202011-08-10T12:14:00.003-05:002011-08-10T14:44:51.629-05:00Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bat causes plane to turn around</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">It sounds like the plot to a sequel of Samuel L Jackson's action film, Snakes on a Plane, but during a flight in <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">America</country-region></place> a bat caused panic among the passengers on-board.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The animal was filmed flying through the cabin during a Delta Airways flight causing so much distress that the pilot was forced to return to the departure airport in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Madison</city>, <state w:st="on">Wisconsin</state></place>. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Passenger Mike Schmidt filmed the bat flying over passenger’s heads as they ducked and screamed. The animal was finally contained when it flew into the onboard toilet and a passenger shut the door.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8693432/Bat-on-a-plane-causes-panic-on-US-flight.html"><span style="color: blue;">VIDEO</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rescuers end up being rescued</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Authorities in <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">Massachusetts</state></place> said three rescuers searching for a lost woman in the forest ended up lost themselves when they found the woman.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><city w:st="on">Fall River</city> police said two officers and an environmental officer began searching in the <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Freetown</placename> <placetype w:st="on">State</placetype> <placetype w:st="on">Forest</placetype></place> when a 25-year-old woman was reported lost in the forest.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The officers found the woman safe, but the group soon discovered <a href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/08/10/Watercooler-Stories/UPI-28481312972200/"><span style="color: blue;">they did not know the way out of the woods.</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The group was found by a Massachusetts State Police helicopter and they were guided to safety.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Woman awakes to strange teenager in bed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Des Moines</city> <state w:st="on">Iowa</state></place> woman woke up to find a drunken teenager in her bed, police say.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Carla Kraninger, 47, of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Des Moines</place></city> woke up Monday to find someone in her bed with her, and initially thought it was her son. She quickly realized it was not her son and called police. Kraninger and her son tried to wake up the trespasser, but the teen was too intoxicated to respond.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Police said the youth, a <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Southeast</placename> <placename w:st="on">Polk</placename> <placetype w:st="on">High School</placetype></place> student, said he had a beer with some friends earlier and they dropped him off at what he believed to be his mother's house.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The teen, which had a <a href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/08/10/Watercooler-Stories/UPI-28481312972200/"><span style="color: blue;">blood-alcohol content of 0.115 at the time,</span></a> was released to his mother and received a delayed referral on charges of trespass and public intoxication.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police retrieve ring from stomach</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A home repairman working in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Cicero</city>, <state w:st="on">Ill.</state></place>, stole a diamond ring and swallowed it but its owner got it back anyway, law enforcement officials said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Wilfredo Gonzalez, 30, of <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Chicago</city></place> has been charged with felony theft.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Gonzalez was doing remodeling work in the victim's home when he asked to use the bathroom, the <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Cook</placename> <placetype w:st="on">County</placetype></place> state's attorney's office said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Prosecutors said when he finished; the homeowner noticed her diamond ring was missing. She told her husband. Gonzalez denied the theft and began struggling with the husband, prosecutors said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">During the struggle, Gonzalez <a href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/08/10/Watercooler-Stories/UPI-28481312972200/"><span style="color: blue;">took the ring from his pocket and swallowed it.</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Police took Gonzalez to a nearby hospital, where the ring showed up in an X-ray of his stomach.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Cicero</place></city> police recovered the ring -- but didn't say how they did it.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who gets the $150,000 payout?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Shortly after a young inmate killed her prison guard husband, Julia Ann Hesson filed for survivor's benefits. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">But the <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Ohio</place></state> woman didn't expect the response from the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Office, a national program that dispenses death benefits to families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The office denied Hesson's claim, saying another woman deserved the benefit award of more than $150,000.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">That woman's name is Julie Keady Hesson. She's 41 and lives in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">St. Petersburg</place></city>. She had been married to William Hesson, too. In fact, <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/civil/two-women-with-the-same-husband-fight-legal-battle-over--survivors-benefits/1184931"><span style="color: blue;">officials said, the two never divorced.</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The <state w:st="on">Ohio</state> woman, 29, is appealing the board's decision, and the intriguing case is now making its way through civil court in <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Pinellas</placename> <placetype w:st="on">County</placetype></place>.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pictures of the day</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Want to make your eyes really sparkle? A company is offering contact lenses fitted with real diamonds and gold. Dubbed 'eye jewelry', the bling eyewear sees 18 diamonds studded onto an 18-carat gold plate on a special lens. Created by Shekhar Eye Research in Mumbai, the 'La SER' brand lenses can be custom-made at a cost of $15,000 a pair in four designs of diamonds on white gold, diamonds on yellow gold or just gold or yellow gold.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/8692980/Pictures-of-the-day-10-August-2011.html"><span style="color: blue;">PICTURES</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Woman let 6-year-old niece drive car</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Police say a <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Pennsylvania</place></state> woman endangered her 6-year-old niece by having the girl back the woman's car out of a tight parking spot, wrecking two other cars in the process.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Police charged 55-year-old Rebecca Beatty, of <place w:st="on">Aliquippa</place>. Beatty picked up her niece from a dance program at <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Ambridge</placename> <placename w:st="on">Area</placename> <placetype w:st="on">High School</placetype></place>. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">When Beatty found another car parked so close that <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/10/2353043/cops-pa-woman-let-niece-6-drive.html"><span style="color: blue;">she couldn't get in her vehicle.</span></a> Police say that's when she had her niece back the car out.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Police say the child hit a parked car, pushing it over a curb until it hit another car parked on the street.</div><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Arizona</place></state> man shoots penis</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A suburban <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Phoenix</place></city> man is recovering after police say he accidentally shot himself in the penis while putting his girlfriend's gun in the waistband of his pants.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Chandler</city></place> police say 27-year-old Joshua Seto and his fiancee, Cara Christopher, were walking toward a grocery store when the shooting happened last week. The gun fired, striking Seto's penis and continuing through his left thigh.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The 911 operator told Christopher to apply direct pressure to the wound with a dry towel or T-shirt.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Chandler Police Detective Seth Tyler says it's unclear if Seto has been released from the hospital or suffered any permanent damage</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In the wake of the shooting, <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Tyler</city></place> warned residents to use holsters, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/08/09/national/a073650D12.DTL"><span style="color: blue;">not waistbands,</span></a> if they're going to carry a handgun.</div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-17586172394511420562011-08-10T09:04:00.000-05:002011-08-10T09:04:15.033-05:00Invisible Obstacle<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><object height="345" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.funvid.hu/swf/player.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="flashvars" value="vid_id=106929&MainURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funvid.hu&em=1"><embed src="http://www.funvid.hu/swf/player.swf" flashvars="vid_id=106929&MainURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funvid.hu&em=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" width="420" height="345" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Shocked driver Lin Hu was counting his lucky stars when he escaped without a scratch, but his pride and joy - a yellow and green taxi - felt the full force of the delivery truck when it lost control and tipped over on the car. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">As the truck careered around the corner toward him, <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/871731-car-crushed-under-tonnes-of-instant-noodles"><span style="color: blue;">Lin said he was powerless to do anything but sit and wait for the impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-38345869404720104222011-08-08T15:28:00.000-05:002011-08-08T15:28:37.658-05:00The Devil Dog<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/H103F-FaSaU" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-91173766903498772962011-08-08T15:22:00.000-05:002011-08-08T15:22:52.652-05:00Forklift truck wedding parade for couple<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Forget booking a Rolls Royce limousine or a horse drawn carriage for your wedding ride - it's now all about the forklift cavalcade. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8NvSUisE-ks/TkBFI9qWPWI/AAAAAAAAmFk/QHojsQONBoM/s1600/wedding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8NvSUisE-ks/TkBFI9qWPWI/AAAAAAAAmFk/QHojsQONBoM/s1600/wedding.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"> .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">That's what one couple in <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">China</country-region></place> opted for in a bid to celebrate their shared love for each other and the humble warehouse workhorse. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Newlyweds Kong Qingyang and Shen Likun first met when groom Kong was working as a forklift driver and bride Shen was working as a forklift salesperson. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">To commemorate their special connection they chose to commandeer a forklift parade in their home town of <city w:st="on">Xintai</city>, <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Hebei</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Province</placetype></place>. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Starting at 8am the brightly decorated forklifts motored from the groom's house and then broke with tradition to pick up the bride-to-be. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Naturally it took a while for them to arrive at the church, with a <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/871709-forklift-truck-wedding-parade-for-couple-with-special-connection"><span style="color: blue;">top speed of eight miles per hour</span></a> limiting progress, but the vows were exchanged just after the couple arrived at 11:30am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Following her unusual entrance, the blushing bride Shen said: 'I love him (Kong) as a person. No matter what vehicle he picks me up in I would marry him. I will remember this parade forever.'</div>.The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730985618189089869.post-24458305333843073872011-08-08T15:13:00.000-05:002011-08-08T15:13:18.361-05:00Watch Out For The Mother Bear<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/A7zU2YDNHeo" width="640"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div>The Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17793287196095747463noreply@blogger.com0