Theme parties drive women to drink

Women drink more than men at fancy dress parties, scientists say. Previous research into alcohol consumption in social gatherings has almost universally found men drink more than women. However researchers who attended 66 American student parties found this to be true, except when they involved guests wearing fancy dress - especially with a sexual theme.

Lead author Dr John Clapp, director of the Center for Alcohol and Drug Studies at San Diego State University, said that as his team was unable to explain the surprise finding it would be necessary to carry out further field work. Dr Clapp said: "One of the more interesting findings was that young women drank more heavily than males at themed events.

"It is rare to find any situation where women drink more than men, and these events tended to have sexualized themes and costumes. Given that some theme parties can be highly sexualized, future investigation of the mechanisms that may explain this effect is warranted."

Small Bits of News

Man Took $20 In Kid's Piggy Bank
A man has been charged with sneaking into a toddler's bedroom and stealing $20 from a piggy bank while the 2-year-old girl slept.
Authorities say DNA evidence linked Ryan A. Mueller, 30, of Sheboygan Falls to the crime that occurred Aug. 10 in Wilson.
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Massage Therapist Gets 2 Years in Jail for Secretly Taping Clients
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A massage therapist will spend two years in jail for secretly videotaping female clients as they undressed for sessions and then dressed.
Richard Filbin originally was charged with 114 counts of criminal invasion of privacy. He pleaded guilty Wednesday in Kanawha County Magistrate Court to 12 counts. The other counts were dropped as part of a plea bargain.
Magistrate Kim Aaron also ordered Filbin to pay more than $6,000 in court costs and fines and sentenced him to two years of probation.
The 52-year-old Filbin operated Body and Soul Massage Therapy in Cross Lanes. According to the criminal complaint, police began investigating late last year after his wife discovered the tapes and notified authorities.

Road Rage Comes to the Bike Trail
California man admits digging 50 concealed holes along riding path to punish bikers out of revenge

Forget Tupperware: Taser Parties Are the New Craze
GILBERT, Ariz. — Before she lets them shoot her little pink stun gun, Dana Shafman ushers her new friends to the living room sofa for a serious chat about the fears she believes they all share.
"The worst nightmare for me is, while I'm sleeping, someone coming in my home," Shafman says, drawing a few solemn nods from the gathered women.
Shafman, 34, of Phoenix, says she knows how they feel. She says she used to stash knives under her pillow for protection.
Welcome, she says, to the Taser party.
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Wife takes ‘divorce by text’ to court
A woman is seeking clarification from a court on whether her husband’s declaration of divorce by text message is legally valid. After missing a call from her husband on her mobile phone Iqbal Abul Nasr received a text message from him which read: “I divorce you because you didn’t answer your husband,” it was reported in the state-run daily newspaper al-Akhbar. In line with Sharia, men do not need to go to court to file for divorce. A unilateral declaration of divorce by a man, repeated three times, formally ends a marriage. It was the third time that Mrs Abul Nasr, an engineer from Cairo, had received such a text message.

Weird Converter

I stumbled upon this and realized how much fun you can have with it.

Weird Converter is like a currency converter, but for completely unrelated items.

Some interesting conversions:

1 male polar bear weighs as much as 9 Jennifer Anniston's.
1 NASCAR tire weighs as much as 368 human eyeballs.

The Golden Gate Bridge is as long as 12,600 human tongues.

384 cans of beer fit inside an average bathtub.

The Empire State Building is as high as 205 Shaquille O'Neal's.

This has been making the rounds for a couple of years now.

You maybe going to Hell for laughing at this.

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Why do videos like this always end at the moment of impact?
Am I the only one who wants to see if the cat walks away, runs away, or just lies there?

Another day another idiot... There seems to be an endless supply.

Hmmmm why didn’t it fire? Let’s take a look inside!

Cheers......

It's called Hofbrauhaus Catastrophe.

A sweet half pipe made to look like a basketball court

Whopper Freakout - Ghetto Version (NSFW)

Girl gets punched in Vagina outside L.A. Night Club

A boyfriend gets tired of his girlfriend's crap so he decides to end the argument with a bullz eye punch to her vagina.
I don't think they're going to get back together anytime soon.

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Kapow - Pussy Punch!

And much more.

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Man prescribed one Viagra a week claims infringement of human rights

A divorcee has accused medics of infringing his human rights after they prescribed him just one Viagra tablet a week.George Fryer, 54, has a bend in his penis, which causes erection problems. The security guard says he is a “stallion” when on the drug and romping with girlfriend Janice Roberts, 39, in Stoke, Staffs. But he was heartbroken when he found NHS guidelines restricted him to four tablets a month. George – whose marriage broke up due to his problem – fumed: “This is a ban on my sex life.” A North Staffs Primary Care Trust spokesman said: “GPs would be expected to prescribe according to an individual’s clinical needs.”
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Man stabbed with pork chop bone during scuffle
An Oklahoma man was arrested after police say he stabbed another man in the neck with a pork chop bone during a food fight. Police in Ardmore, Oklahoma responded to call of a fight outside a local business New Year's day. When they arrived, they found the victim covered in blood with a puncture wound to his neck. Police arrested the suspect, 38-year-old Tony Willis a few blocks from the crime scene. According to authorities, Willis had blood on his clothes and they found the bone used in the attack. The victim was treated at a local hospital and released.

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Britney Spears Hospitalized After Denying Kevin Federline Access to Children
LOS ANGELES — A child custody standoff between Britney Spears and employees of ex-husband Kevin Federline at her California home lasted three hours and ended with an intoxicated Spears releasing the children before she was carted away in an ambulance Thursday night.
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3-Hour Custody Standoff at Britney Spears' Home Paramedics load intoxicated singer into an ambulance after showdown between her, K-Fed employees in L.A.


Man Who Complains To Police Ends Up In Jail
A Des Moines man called police several times to complain about relatives who were staying at his house. In the end he finally went to jail.
Police said William Foster, 64, was arrested on charges of simple assault on a police officer and false reports to law enforcement authorities.
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Chaplain Shoots Brother-In-Law During Practical Joke
Police believe that a practical joke led to the shooting of a 23-year-old Ste. Genevieve police officer Tuesday.
The rookie officer allegedly faked a break-in around 9:45 p.m. at his brother-in-law's home in Festus, said Festus Police Chief Tim Lewis.
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Man stabs barber over bad haircut
A man was detained for allegedly stabbing an Otay Mesa barber who had given him a haircut he considered unacceptable. Joshua Robert Schwartz, 20, allegedly attacked the 60-year-old shop owner shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday as the victim was closing his Coronado Avenue business for the night, according to the San Diego Police Department. After slashing the barber twice in the face, the assailant ran off, SDPD Sgt. Rich Nemetz said. "The motive for the attack appears to be that the suspect was unhappy with a previous haircut," Nemetz said.

A witness followed Schwartz to the 900 block of Outer Road, where patrol officers took him into custody. Medics took the victim to a hospital for treatment of apparently non-life-threatening wounds. Schwartz, who was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and held on $30,000 bail, is expected to be arraigned this afternoon.