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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Blood sucker leech attaches self to woman’s eye ball
A leech which had attached itself to a woman's eyeball while she was gardening has been removed by doctors who had to think "outside the box."
The 66-year-old woman was gardening in the backyard of her Sydney home, when she accidentally flicked some moist soil and the leech into her left eye.
Her husband watched in alarm as the leech wriggled across her cornea to feed on the eye's mass of delicate blood vessels.
The unusual case report is published in the journal Emergency Medicine Australasia.
"It was tucked up underneath her upper eyelid," says emergency doctor Toby Fogg.
"Our little fellow started off at about half a centimeter and by the time we removed it it was about 2cm long. It had quite a good lunch."
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Library book 145 years overdue
A book that was 145 years overdue has been returned to a college library in the US state of Virginia. Luckily for the borrower's descendant, the fee was waived.
The book, taken by a Union soldier from the Lexington college library in 1864, was returned in February by its inheritor, All Headline News reports.
It was the first volume of W.F.P. Napier's History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France.
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Bus lane u-turn
City of Manchester could end up paying back tens of thousands of pounds of fines after a driver turned loophole-lawyer to get a bus lane penalty quashed.
Derek Brocklehurst, 38, refused to pay the £30 on the grounds that the sign was wrong.
The blue-circle sign is supposed to state that only buses, cyclists and black cabs can use the lane - but the word 'only' was missing.
Manchester council admitted there had been a mistake and later corrected the sign.
But Mr Brocklehurst's success could now open the floodgates for other drivers to challenge fines they have already paid after being caught using the lane, outside Victoria railway station.
And the council could be faced with a bill running into hundreds of thousands of pounds after it emerged that in the four month period since the sign was first erected on December 15, a staggering 10,185 notices of prosecution have been sent out.
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A leech which had attached itself to a woman's eyeball while she was gardening has been removed by doctors who had to think "outside the box."
The 66-year-old woman was gardening in the backyard of her Sydney home, when she accidentally flicked some moist soil and the leech into her left eye.
Her husband watched in alarm as the leech wriggled across her cornea to feed on the eye's mass of delicate blood vessels.
The unusual case report is published in the journal Emergency Medicine Australasia.
"It was tucked up underneath her upper eyelid," says emergency doctor Toby Fogg.
"Our little fellow started off at about half a centimeter and by the time we removed it it was about 2cm long. It had quite a good lunch."
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Library book 145 years overdue
A book that was 145 years overdue has been returned to a college library in the US state of Virginia. Luckily for the borrower's descendant, the fee was waived.
The book, taken by a Union soldier from the Lexington college library in 1864, was returned in February by its inheritor, All Headline News reports.
It was the first volume of W.F.P. Napier's History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France.
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Bus lane u-turn
City of Manchester could end up paying back tens of thousands of pounds of fines after a driver turned loophole-lawyer to get a bus lane penalty quashed.
Derek Brocklehurst, 38, refused to pay the £30 on the grounds that the sign was wrong.
The blue-circle sign is supposed to state that only buses, cyclists and black cabs can use the lane - but the word 'only' was missing.
Manchester council admitted there had been a mistake and later corrected the sign.
But Mr Brocklehurst's success could now open the floodgates for other drivers to challenge fines they have already paid after being caught using the lane, outside Victoria railway station.
And the council could be faced with a bill running into hundreds of thousands of pounds after it emerged that in the four month period since the sign was first erected on December 15, a staggering 10,185 notices of prosecution have been sent out.
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Monday, April 20, 2009
I’m sure am a Stupid-Son-Of-A-Bitch for doing this.
Remember when you were a kid and your parents told you not play with fire?
Apparently, this guy never got the message.
This genius uses gasoline to spit fire to impress his friends.
As you can expect, it don’t go as planned.
Apparently, this guy never got the message.
This genius uses gasoline to spit fire to impress his friends.
As you can expect, it don’t go as planned.
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Getting Stuck with Freeloader
A Spokane Washington man built a new garage beside his home to work on old cars.
Now a stranger is living there, rent-free, and he can't legally kick her out.
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Koreans predict shorter skirts this summer South Korean fashion mavens said miniskirts in the country are likely to shrink to no longer than 9.8 inches long during the coming summer season.
Chung Il-chae, chief merchandiser for Shinsegae Department Store, said skirt length is tied to the state of the global economy, The Korea Times reported Friday.
"Women's skirts are going to get shorter as the economy continues its downswing cycle," Chung said.
He said the trend in women's fashion will likely not stop with miniskirts.
"Everything is going to shrink," he said.
Kim Sun-ae, a shop manager at Lotte Department Store, said the coming of shorter skirts is likely to increase the sales of shoes with heels more than 4 inches high.
"Don't think about lowering those heels," Kim said. "There's nothing that complements a miniskirt better than a pair of power heels."
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More Drugs Found During Strip Search
A Thursday afternoon traffic stop resulted in the immediate discovery of one baggie of suspected drugs, and the eventual discovery of a second baggie.
According to a Lincoln police report, officers stopped a car that ran a stop sign at 17th and Y streets. When the front passenger door was opened, a bag that pretested positive for cocaine salts fell onto the ground.
Neither the passenger, Michael Dale Riley, 29, of Kansas City, Mo., or the driver claimed ownership of the bag, which weighed 3.2 grams, according to the report.
Riley was jailed Thursday and charged Friday in Lancaster County Court with possession of a controlled substance.
Before he made his initial appearance, Riley was searched at the jail, where corrections officers found a baggie containing a white powdery substance in his rectum. According to the report, Riley quickly grabbed the baggie and tried to chew it. Officers retrieved the evidence before Riley could eat it.
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Texas elementary school gets noise citation
A fed-up San Antonio Texas homeowner has managed to get a noise citation issued against his neighbor - an elementary school.
Police in suburban Universal City say they had to issue the citation after Butch Armstrong complained about the noise coming from Olympia Elementary School during the school's Family Fitness Day on March 20.
Principal Terri LeBleu says the school has already built a fence, removed loudspeakers and installed noise-reducing backing on basketball goals in response to Armstrong's previous complaints.
According to a police report, Armstrong told an officer that "police, fire, ambulances and the (air force) training jets are not unreasonable, but the noise coming from the elementary school was."
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Bogus waiter tricks customers at 2 NJ restaurants
Police say a man posing as a waiter collected $186 in cash from diners at two restaurants in Hoboken New Jersey and walked out with the money in his pocket.
Diners described the bogus waiter as a spikey-haired 20-something wearing a dark blue or black button-down shirt, yellow tie and khaki pants.
Police say he approached two women dining at Hobson's Choice in Hoboken, N.J. around 7:20 p.m. on Thursday. He asked if they needed anything else before paying. They said no and handed him $90 in cash.
About two hours later he approached three women dining at Margherita's Pizza and Cafe. He asked if they were ready to pay, took $96 and never returned with their change.
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