Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Just in time for Valentines Day
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
German town to DNA test all dogs in fight against pooch poopA small town in Germany plans to DNA test every dog so it can fine their owners when they foul public places.
Peter Kornell, the mayor of Volkach in Bavaria, said the scheme would involve taking either fur or saliva from each of the 420 registered hounds in town.
'Unfortunately, we have to do it voluntarily because there is nothing in the constitution about a dog DNA databank being enforceable,' he said.
'But we are proceeding to log every pooch.'
Surgeons removed a woman's kidney through her vagina so she could give it to her ailing niece, an unusual operation they hope will encourage others to donate because it reduces pain, scarring and recovery time. Doctors at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine said donor Kimberly Johnson, 48, and her niece, Jennifer Gilbert, 23, were both doing well following operations Thursday.
"It was easier than childbirth," said Johnson, who has three children.
Transvaginal kidney removals have been done before to remove cancerous or nonfunctioning kidneys, and other diseased organs have also been removed through mouths and other orifices. Many donated kidneys are removed laparoscopically, through small keyhole incisions.
But hospital officials think this may be the first time a donor kidney was removed through the vagina.
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Even though she was born 14 months ago, Suraya Brown is still the same size she was when she was a newborn — a mere 7 pounds and 19 inches tall, the Mirror has reported.
The child, nicknamed a "real life baby doll," has baffled doctors, who call her condition a "real conundrum."
Her mother, Atlanta Ruzman, says her older daughter has dolls that are larger than Suraya.
"Doctors consulted international experts about her case but her condition seems to be a complete mystery," said Ruzman.
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Pigeons found down mans trousers
Looks more like a cave man than an Australian man hehe...and how was he going to stop the birds from chirping on the plane?.
Holy cow, talk about a sizzling steak.
In a moo-ving experience, this cow is believed to have been struck by lightning and somehow survived.This is no mad cow story. It's entirely feasible, according to JCU Professor of Geo-Sciences, Jon Nott.
"Cows are susceptible to lightning strikes because of both sets of legs being on the ground, and they're eating grass from where electricity is conducted from the strike so it is possible it happened but, more often than not, cows die from it," Prof Nott said.
"The electricity from a lightning strike would enter the front set of legs and exit out the back legs so, again, based on the picture, it is possible it happened," Prof Nott said.
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That provides "Fresh Meat" a new meaning!
Monday, February 2, 2009
“PUBLIC” Restroom
It is made entirely of one-way glass.
.Get your own Poll!
Rich said...
I wonder what it says about your readers that the poll results are 100% no problem.
“Rich said...I wonder what it says about your readers that the poll results are 100% no problem.” YEAY! I voted, or at least stepped up to the pole :)
More fun than reading a magazine while doing your business, for sure.
Prank 911 Calls
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Doug Bates and his wife, Stacey, were in bed around 10 p.m., their 2-year-old daughters asleep in a nearby room. Suddenly they were shaken awake by the wail of police sirens and the rumble of a helicopter above their suburban Southern California home. A criminal must be on the loose, they thought.
Doug Bates got up to lock the doors and grabbed a knife. A beam from a flashlight hit him. He peeked into the backyard. A swarm of police, assault rifles drawn, ordered him out of the house. Bates emerged, frightened and with the knife in his hand, as his wife frantically dialed 911. They were handcuffed and ordered to the ground while officers stormed the house.
The scene of mayhem and carnage the officers expected was nowhere to be found. Neither the Bateses nor the officers knew that they were pawns in a dangerous game being played 1,200 miles away by a teenager bent on terrifying a random family of strangers.
They were victims of a new kind of telephone fraud that exploits a weakness in the way the 911 system handles calls from Internet-based phone services. The attacks — called "swatting" because armed police SWAT teams usually respond — are virtually unstoppable, and an Associated Press investigation found that budget-strapped 911 centers are essentially defenseless without an overhaul of their computer systems.
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Big Ben said...
I sincerely hope that the people who make these calls get the crap beat out of them by some random stroke of luck..
How about when they actually need 911 help and they don't show up because they (911) thought it was a prank.
The Cave House is Up For Sale
We have some pretty cool cave houses in Australia as well...makes good sense to live underground in harsh conditions.













