God Orders Children’s Death, Invasion of Iraq
A woman who claimed God ordered her to make a human sacrifice chose to throw her three children into San Fransisco Bay… In a related story…
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Japanese man survives 3 weeks in ‘hibernation’
A man who went missing in western Japan survived in near-freezing weather without food and water for over three weeks by falling into a state similar to hibernation, doctors said.
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Sleeping man causes flight cancellation
A flight from Raleigh to Cincinnati was canceled this morning after it was discovered that a man had fallen asleep on the plane sometime overnight.
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Alive after two mile fall
A skydiver from Jersey in the British Channel Islands fell over two miles to the ground during a routine skydive after both parachutes failed. He survived with only a punctured lung and broken ankle. He fell on to a blackberry bush (I nearly put the title as Bush Saves the Day but changed my mind).
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Hidden message in american clothing sold in France
Well that explains why every time the President of France Jacques Chirac is always smirking when you see him around or talking to President Bush
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Can you tell the difference between “its” and “it’s?”
A Notorious Confusable quiz.
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How to never ever ever get a date again: neckwear edition
I know how it is. You’re really, really, ridiculously good-looking, aren’t you? And you seemingly can’t stop the influx of people who are desperate to provide you with their cell phone numbers? Doesn’t it get a little annoying?
Don’t worry. There are lots of things that you can do to ensure that you never score another date again.
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N.W. storm leaves 1 million in the dark
The worst windstorm in more than a decade tore through the Pacific Northwest, leaving more than a million people without power Friday and killing at least six.
Winds gusted to a record 69 mph about 1 a.m. at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, breaking the old mark of 65 mph set in 1993. Winds were clocked at 90 mph near Westport on the coast.
Power was knocked out at one of the airport’s concourses until late Friday morning. Dozens of flights were canceled, including all American Airlines service through the morning hours. Flights were also canceled at Portland International Airport in Oregon, and Amtrak canceled service between Seattle and Portland after downed trees and mudslides blocked the tracks.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer went unpublished for the first time since a 1936 labor strike, because electricity was knocked out at its printing press, managing editor David McCumber said. The Seattle Times, which shares the press, had only about 13,000 copies available Friday morning. Late Friday, a Times’ spokeswoman said Saturday editions of both papers would be printed and delivered.
Seattle public schools were closed Friday, as were numerous smaller school systems and The Evergreen State College in Olympia.
A 41-year-old Seattle woman died Thursday after she became trapped in her basement while it flooded. Neighbors had called for help after they heard screaming.
A 28-year-old man was killed while he slept when the top of a tree snapped off and crashed into his home in a trailer park in McCleary, 18 miles west of Olympia.
Elsewhere in Washington, two people died in traffic accidents involving windblown trees.
And on the Oregon coast, an elderly couple died in a house fire caused by candles they were using during a power outage.
A family of six was sickened by carbon monoxide from a generator set up in a garage after the storm knocked out power, police said Friday. Four children and two adults were hospitalized. Three of the children were listed in critical condition late Friday, while the other child and parents were in good condition.
Puget Sound Energy, Washington’s largest private utility, had 700,000 customers without power on Friday. Some won’t have their lights back on for days, spokesman Roger Thompson said.
In Oregon, about 350,000 customers lost power, and repairs to restore all of them could stretch into next week, utility officials said.
The Oregon Department of Transportation closed three major highways crossing the Cascade Range because of fallen trees or downed power lines.
The Evergreen Point floating bridge, which links Seattle and its eastern suburbs, was closed early Friday for minor repairs, but reopened before the evening commute. The Hood Canal floating bridge, which links Washington’s Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas, and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge were reopened early Friday after being closed Thursday evening because of heavy winds.
It was the most intense storm to hit the region since the Inauguration Day storm of Jan. 20, 1993, which killed five people and caused about $130 million in damage, said Clifford F. Mass, a University of Washington atmospheric sciences professor.
Where the statues are the spitting image?
India hopes to shame its citizens out of spitting and littering at tourist sites with an advertising campaign showing schoolchildren looking dismayed and disapproving of the dirty habit.
The walls of countless buildings in India are streaked with dried red spit generated by people chewing paan, a mildly intoxicating preparation wrapped in a leaf and often containing betel nut and tobacco.
The tourism ministry wants to convince people to think of more discreet places to deposit their phlegm, and is spending 50 million rupees ($1.12 million) on a campaign to instill civic pride it says is widely lacking.
“Unfortunately spitting paan is considered an art in India,” the ministry’s Amitabh Kant told Reuters, adding that it was off-putting to many of the nearly 4 million foreign tourists that visit the country each year.
One of the adverts running in national newspapers shows four children looking distressed at the sight of a paan-splattered monument strewn with litter and covered with graffiti.
“What a shame that people like him have no respect for our heritage,” one child says in a speech bubble, pointing an angry finger at a paan-chewing man on the brink of spitting.
The slapstick television and cinema campaign shows an Indian family tossing litter around the Taj Mahal and other famous tourist sites before being admonished by Shah Rukh Khan, a popular Bollywood actor.
Weird Stories of the Year - 2006
These are some of the strange, weird and wacky stories of 2005:
A taxi driver in Dallas, Texas, was prosecuted for sprinkling dried faeces on pastries in a grocery shop. Customers had complained that the fresh-baked items smelled and tasted like manure.
A 29-year-old woman in the UK admitted that she had not washed her hair in 11 years.
A traffic warden slapped a parking ticket on a car which had its dead driver slumped at the wheel outside a shopping mall in Sydney, Australia. The warden failed to notice the man inside and issued the parking fine two days before the body was discovered.
Odd fish with human faces caused a sensation in South Korea. They were actually mutants born of carp and leather carp - but they looked really scary and spooky.
A straying couple in Jordan both started sizzling affairs in cyberspace. But the bad news for both is they found out they were married to each other.
A British bank had to apologise to a customer after they sent him a debit card bearing the name “Mr Dick Head”. Very embarrassingly for the card owner, he did not spot the mistake until he tried to buy something at a supermarket.
A parcel that vibrated and made strange noises sparked off a bomb alert in a German post office. Workers contacted the owner, who was forced to explain the contents - they turned out to be an inflatable sex doll.
A cat chewed the toes off the right foot of an elderly woman with senile dementia while she was asleep at a home for the aged in Japan. Workers found the 88-year-old woman bleeding from her feet, with all the toes missing from her right foot. Paw prints of a cat were found on the floor of the room.
A giant 13-foot (3.9m) python exploded after attacking and attempting to eat an alligator. Rangers in the Everglades National Park, Florida, found the snake lying dead with the 6-foot (1.6m) alligator protruding from its middle.
Dog lovers mourned the death of Sam, the world’s ugliest dog. Sam became a celebrity after winning an ugly pet contest in the US twice. When Sam died, its owner said: “I don’t think there’ll ever be another Sam. Some people might think that’s a good thing.”
A sparrow nearly ruined a world record attempt at dominoes when it flew in through an exhibition centre window and knocked down 23,000 tiles. Organisers shot the little bird, causing an outcry. As a tribute, the bird’s body will be displayed in a museum.
A court in Ontario acquitted a man of sexual assault charges because he suffered from “Sexsomnia” and was, as he claimed, asleep at the time of the incident.