TagsTagsHere's some non-political news to start the week, as the multi-millionaire British owner of the Segway company dies after riding one of his machines off a cliff. Former miner Jimi Heselden, 62, plunged into the River Wharfe while riding around his West Yorkshire estate in Boston Spa on a rugged ...
The week’s best deadpan photo/caption convergence, from UnionLeader.com: Two fires hours apart destroy beach house. Firefighters wrap up at the scene of a fire at 15 M. St. in Hampton this morning, where a home was gutted by two fires this morning. Right, Wayne McGowen, who was sleeping in the basement ...
Egyptian reportedly severs penis for love.
Official: Bride, groom stopped in Iraq actually terror suspects. BAGHDAD (CNN) — Soldiers manning a checkpoint near Baghdad stopped a wedding convoy to find that the purported bride and groom were wanted terror suspects, an Iraqi Defense Ministry official said Monday. The Army set up the checkpoint last week in the ...
I should have known that The Manolo would be all about the European stiletto heel races. Here we see what must inevitably happen when the laws of nature are so hideously abused.
Driving and striving, and hugging the turns. Competitors in a stiletto high-heels race run in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Aug 18, 2007. The winner was rewarded with a 10,000 euro voucher. (AP Photo/Miguel Villagran) (Hat tip: JammieWearingFool.)
Giant badgers terrorise Iraqi port city. BASRA, Iraq (AFP) - The Iraqi port city of Basra, already prey to a nasty turf war between rival militia factions, has now been gripped by a new fear — a giant badger stalking the streets by night. Local farmers have caught and killed several of ...
When you least expect it, when you’re carefree and footloose and friendly, and all’s right with the world, that’s when you’ll see it. On the horizon. Getting bigger. And bigger. A yellow spot on the horizon slowly approaches the coast. People have gatherd and watch in amazement as a giant yellow ...
Gigantic pinching claws, ripping apart an F-14 fighter jet. What’s not to like? “There were things getting to the bad guys, so to speak,” said Tim Shocklee, founder and executive vice president of TRI-Rinse Inc. in St. Louis. “And one of the ways to make sure that no one will ever ...
A pickpocket who picked the wrong pocket to pick. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Bill Barnes says he was scratching off a losing $2 lottery ticket inside a gas station when he felt a hand slip into his front-left pants pocket, where he had $300 in cash. He immediately grabbed the person’s wrist ...
The Associated Press takes a break from promoting the world’s terrorist organizations to show us the world’s ugliest dog. What can I say. We should just be grateful it’s a slow news day.
Our creepy Japanese toddlerbot of the day. The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, looks at Shuhei Ikemoto, an Osaka University student, when its hand is clasped by him during a demonstration of the toddler robot at a lab of the university in Osaka, western Japan, Friday, June 8, 2007. CB2, ...
I think I’ve discovered my own personal version of sheer hell. Yours may differ. 1,683 guitarists play ‘Smoke on Water’. KANSAS CITY, Kansas - More than 1,680 guitar players turned out, tuned up and took part in what organizers say was a world record rendition of Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” ...
Who would have thought we’d see this kind of Islamophobia in Belgium, of all places? I am aghast. No Jihad street. On Wednesday Filip Dewinter (Vlaams Belang) intends to visit the Turnhoutsebaan street in Borgerhout to hang up street signs saying “No Jihad Street”. The local store association reacted with shock. ...
In Baqouba, Iraq, Al Qaeda has warned street vendors of the dangers of improper vegetable mixing. American commanders cite al-Qaida’s severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders, Col. David Sutherland ...
Nobody trains like Palestinian police. When last seen demonstrating their astounding ninja-like martial arts abilities, they were identified as Fatah policemen. This time the media says they’re “Hamas security forces.” Either way, they are fearsome indeed. Gaza City must be really, really secure.
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New Jersey doctor Ahmed Rashed is always willing to lend a hand to a stripper in need: Hand-Stealing Doctor Is Fined. (Hat tip: WriterMom.) A young doctor who admitted to severing a hand from a cadaver as a medical student, then giving it to a stripper, was fined Thursday and told ...
Today’s cognitive whiplash is courtesy of the samba exhibition in Rio de Janeiro: A dancer performs next to revelers dressed with clothing that resemble Afghan burqas and holding copies of the famous picture of the Afghan girl taken by photographer Steve McCurry during the parade of ‘Unidos da Tijuca’ samba school ...
We have an update on the story of Martin Strel, who’s swimming the length of Amazon, braving the piranha and the candiru (shudder) for world peace. He’s been at it for a little less than two weeks, has 8 weeks to go, and he’s got a major sunburn: Blistering sun ...
Martin Strel plans to swim the length of the Amazon River for world peace. But this peace mission is different than most; it requires buckets of blood. Ironic enough? LIMA (Reuters) - Few would even dare swim the Amazon river bank to bank but Slovenian Martin Strel plans to swim 3,375 miles ...
Fear the mad skillz of Mahmoud Abbas’s ninja holy warriors: Very very sneaky camouflage! Male bonding, mujahideen-style! Braving the heinous ring of fire!
They must have held a bandsaw to the poor bastard’s head: Pinocchio and friends converted to Islam. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer and other characters have been converted to Islam in new versions of 100 classic stories on the Turkish school curriculum. “Give me some bread, for Allah’s sake,” Pinocchio ...
In the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian security officers demonstrate their state of the art security officering techniques, including ... The mastery of camouflage! Kidnapping by fern people! And last but definitely not least... The leap of flaming doom!
Palestinian security officers demonstrate their mad skillz at: Camouflage! Kicking the jars of fire! And the ever-popular... flaming hoop leaping! Tremble, oh infidel, before their majesty.