I'd be stealing mail just to have the bunny open them.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
World's Cutest Envelope Opener
I'd be stealing mail just to have the bunny open them.
Never Ending Supply Of "DUMBASS" People
Cow collect its farts in a plastic tank
Scientists are examining cow farts and burps in a novel bid to combat global warming. Experts said the slow digestive system of cows makes them a key producer of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide. To understand the impact of the gas produced by cows on global warming, scientists collected gas from their stomachs in plastic tanks attached to their backs.Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Inmates at one central Florida jail won't be eating quite as well thanks to budget cuts. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced Wednesday that inmates will no longer get chocolate milk, coffee and juice as he strives to cut $200,000 from the jail budget.
Guests of the county will also get frozen egg patties for breakfast instead of fresh eggs and just one piece of bread instead of two. Peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches are also off the menu and fresh milk will give way to the powdered stuff. The jail has already substituted crackers for cornbread. Jail officials made the changes with the help of a dietitian. Judd says if inmates want fancier fare, "they need to behave, quit violating the law, and stay out of the county jail."
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Woman lying in driveway gets run over and killed by police officer
Authorities say a 33-year-old woman was lying in a private driveway when she was accidentally run over and killed by an Alachua police officer. The Florida Highway Patrol says Officer Chad Scott was responding to a report of a disturbance early Sunday morning.
The report says Angela Tanner was lying on the unpaved driveway when the officer tried to swerve his car to avoid hitting her. Tanner was declared dead at the scene. Scott is on administrative leave, and it is unknown why the woman was lying in the driveway.
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Are you missing any money?
$55,000 found in St. Louis County Jail bathroom. Someone at the St. Louis County Jail was flush with money. A correctional officer at the intake facility at the St. Louis County Justice Center last week found $55,000 stuffed behind a toilet paper dispenser.
The bundle of money was in $100 and $50 bills, said Clayton Police Chief Thomas Byrne.
Officials interviewed inmates about the money, but none admitted knowing anything about the stashed cash. The money was placed in a special bank account until the owner can be determined, Byrne said.
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Dallas police unaware of cocaine in the car used by officers
Police didn't have to go far to find $400,000 worth of cocaine - it was in an undercover car they'd been driving for two months.
An officer cleaning the car at a patrol station Wednesday discovered the nearly 50 pounds of cocaine carefully hidden in hydraulically controlled compartments.
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Being worked to death
A Japanese labor bureau has ruled that one of Toyota's top car engineers died from working too many hours, the latest in a string of such findings in a nation where extraordinarily long hours for some employees has long been the norm.
The man who died was aged 45 and had been under severe pressure as the lead engineer in developing a hybrid version of Toyota's blockbuster Camry line, said Mikio Mizuno, the lawyer representing his wife. The man's identity is being withheld at the request of his family, who continue to live in Toyota City where the company is based.
In the two months up to his death, the man averaged more than 80 hours of overtime per month, according to Mizuno.
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Caught in the act
BRIT Michelle Palmer was caught romping on top of her lover on a Dubai beach, police said yesterday.
She was arrested after a cop said he saw her having sex on the sand in the Arab emirate.
The officer said she was sitting astride sozzled businessman Vince Acors, who lay on his back, and that she was moving up and down.
Michelle, 36, faces up to six years’ jail in Dubai as she awaits trial for public indecency, drunkenness and assaulting the arresting cop.
And yesterday brunette Michelle was called in by the publishing firm where she had worked for three years in the Muslim state – and sacked (Fired) on the spot.
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The Borrowing Bandit!
A man accused of checking out hundreds of books and DVDs from libraries around the Denver area and then trying to sell them will be doing all his library borrowing from now on behind bars. Denver prosecutors say 34-year-old Thomas Pilaar was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered Tuesday to pay $53,549 in restitution. He pleaded guilty in May.
Of an estimated 1,400 books and DVDs that were taken, about 500 have been recovered. Denver Public Library estimated it had lost $35,000, while Douglas County said it had $11,000 worth of overdue items.
Authorities were tipped off by a woman who recently bought books on Craigslist and noticed the library identification stamps.
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Ark. suspect leaves behind cell phone for police
Forrest City police weren't able to catch their man after a high-speed chase through town, but the cell phone he left behind gave away his identity.
The chase started just before 11 p.m. Monday after officers received a call about people "fighting in the street with guns," police said. When police arrived, they managed to block one car from getting away. The man in that car spoke briefly with officers before speeding away - and the chase was on.
The man crashed his Toyota Camry into a house and ran away, police said. But as officers searched the car, the man's cell phone rang and the caller asked for the suspect by name.
Officers said a search of the car uncovered a set of scales and two plastic bags, one containing marijuana and the other containing crack cocaine.
Police declined to name the man Tuesday but said they were still searching for him.
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India beggar coin fortune
When 60-year-old Laxmi Das recently deposited her earnings in an Indian bank in Calcutta, it was a bit more than the usual mundane money transfer.
Ms Das handed over (200lb) of coins - the produce of 44 years of hard begging - enabling her to open an account and qualify for a credit card.
Laxmi began begging near Hatibagan, a busy road junction in northern Calcutta, at the age of 16.
Officials say she could have saved as much as 30,000 rupees ($692).
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Just Another Day In New York
15 pairs of twins create a human mirror on a New York subway car.
Human Mirror
Are You Guilty Of Illegal Sex In USA?
America is a country of many freedoms and at the same time, ridiculous legal limitations of the citizens` sex lives.
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Oral sex is illegal in 18 states, including Arizona.
It is illegal to have sex with the lights on in Virginia.
Willowdale husbands, Oregon, are not allowed to talk dirty during intercourse.
Unwed couples are not allowed to have sexual intercourse in Georgia.
It is illegal to have sex in any other pose than the missionary position in Washington DC.
It is illegal to fire a gun when your partner is having orgasm in Connorsville, Wisconsin.
Having sex with a truck driver in a tool shed is illegal in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
It is illegal to have sex with a porcupine in the state of Florida.
It is illegal to marry a first cousin before the age of 65 in Utah.
The state of Washington allows sex with animals if they weigh less than 40 pounds.
These laws were studied and singled out by law students.
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
A teenager is suspected of delivering baskets of drug-laced treats to about a dozen police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to police who charged him Tuesday with LSD possession. At least three officers have gotten sick.
The 18-year-old man was arrested after taking cookies to the Lake Worth police station, said Brett McGuire, the suburb's police chief. Officers there had been tipped off that someone was falsely claiming to deliver treats on behalf of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
"Our officers took a good whiff and thought they smelled like marijuana," McGuire said, adding that preliminary tests detected traces of LSD.
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Woman Shoots Herself While Trying to Kill Mice
A Mendocino County woman who was trying to kill mice in her trailer with a gun ended up shooting herself and another person.
The 43-year-old woman pulled out her .44-caliber Magnum revolver after she saw the mice scurrying across the floor of her trailer on Highway 20 in Potter Valley, sheriff's officials said.
But she accidentally dropped the gun, which went off as it struck the floor. The bullet went through the woman's kneecap, bounced off the keys sitting on the belt loop of a 42-year-old man in the trailer and grazed the man's groin before ending up in his coin pocket.
Authorities did not release the shooting victims' names.
The mice escaped the shooting unharmed.
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Just a bit late
A holiday weekend flight from Miami to New York never got off the ground after the crew arrived more than an hour late and angry passengers intimidated them so much that they refused to work.
American Airlines Flight 1908 was scheduled to leave Sunday evening from Miami en route to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. But the flight crew arrived an hour and 15 minutes late, prompting impatient and irate passengers to boo — and worse.
One witness said some people used "harsh language" with the gate attendants and were "really kind of like being a mob about it. It was scary."
When a few of the crew-members refused to work because of the "hostile environment," American tried to find replacements — but to no avail . The airline had to put everyone up in a hotel and fly them out Monday afternoon.
Adding insult to injury? Flight 1908's passengers flew into LaGuardia, but their bags arrived at JFK.
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Man used a cheese grater to rob a gas station
James Plante Jr. was charged Monday after he tried to rob a Hammond bar using a cheese grater underneath his shirt and successfully robbing a nearby gas station a couple minutes later, Lake Criminal Court records allege.
The 39-year-old man faces felony counts of robbery and attempted robbery for the Sunday incidents. Police said Plante, address unknown, demanded money about 1:30 a.m. from the bartender of Hoosier Buddy Tavern, 839 169th St., in Hammond, threatening to shoot the bartender and a patron if the victim failed to comply. The patron realized Plante didn't have a gun and used a bar stool to push him out of the bar, court records state. Plante fled, dropping a cheese grater on the ground, court records allege.
A couple of minutes later, Plante showed up at a Speedway gas station in the 6800 block of Calumet Avenue, records state. He told the attendant he had a gun, so she turned over all of the money from the register, court records state.
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" Betcha they'll make him say "CHEESE" for his mug shot. "
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" What a cheesy way to commit a crime?? "
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" Glad nobody got hurt.....but now there's going to be a five day waiting period to buy a cheese grater. "
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What a dumbass criminal
Man robbed buying crack, calls cops
An East Hartford man called police to report he had been robbed while trying to buy crack cocaine.
Max Minnefield called police Monday to tell them he had paid a man and a woman $8 for drugs he never received. Police charged him with criminal attempt to commit possession of narcotics. During his arraignment Tuesday, Judge Bradford Ward asked Minnefield, "Did you really think the police were going to go after the people?" He added that his question was rhetorical. Prosecutors later dropped the charges.
Laura Weslund, Minnefield’s public defender, said no drugs were ever found.
