Finn takes gold at mobile phone throwing contest

iWon News:

"Anyone wanting to throw away their mobile phone can do it in style and may even win a medal -- at the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship, Finland's latest contribution to offbeat athleticism.

Originally a local event in this small town close to the Russian border, the seventh annual contest Saturday drew some 100 throwers from as far afield as Canada, Russia and Belgium.

Founder Christine Lund describes the event as a good source of light exercise with an environmentally friendly twist. 'There are a lot of mobile phones on the second-hand market, and we are recycling them (before they become toxic waste),' she said."

iWon News - Prosecutors Drop Case in Ramsey Slaying

iWon News - Prosecutors Drop Case in Ramsey Slaying:

"Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case Monday against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his insistence he sexually assaulted and strangled the 6-year-old beauty queen.

Just a week and a half after Karr's arrest in Thailand was seen as a remarkable break in the sensational, decade-old case, prosecutors suggested in court papers that he was just a man with a twisted fascination with JonBenet who confessed to a crime he didn't commit.

'The people would not be able to establish that Mr. Karr committed this crime despite his repeated insistence that he did,' District Attorney Mary Lacy said in court papers."

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How To Tell If You've Been Abducted By Aliens

Weekly World News:

"MOST people have been abducted by aliens, say some UFO experts -- so odds are you're one of them.

'Extraterrestrials possess the ability to wipe human memory clean,' said Dr. J. Albert Longneck, a UFO investigator from Houston, Texas. 'You could be kidnapped once or twice a week and you wouldn't remember a thing.'

But there are detectable signs that you've been taken aboard a spacecraft and examined, according to Dr. Longneck. Here is a revealing excerpt from his upcoming book Did I Forget I Was Kidnapped By Aliens?"

Dutch funeral proves fatal

Dutch funeral proves fatal | NEWS.com.au:

"Lightning killed two musicians and injured three more standing under a tree during a funeral in the eastern Dutch town of Vorden today, police said.

One of the victims died instantly, while the other was resuscitated in the churchyard but died shortly afterwards.

The musicians were part of a group performing at the funeral of an elderly man, which drew around 100 mourners, when the storm suddenly struck, police said."

UK firefighters suspended for tumble dryer stunt

tbs.com - odd news:

"Four British firefighters were suspended by their force Wednesday over a stunt which saw one of the men spun around in a tumble dryer at their fire station.

The prank, which was filmed on a mobile phone and later broadcast on the Internet, shows one of the officers at Blackley fire station in Manchester climbing into the dryer and padding it with clothes.

The machine is then turned on and he spins around inside a few times while his laughing colleagues look on."

Robber hid for 20 years as policeman

Robber hid for 20 years as policeman - Yahoo! News:

"A convicted Vietnamese robber who escaped from prison 20 years ago chose a sly way to hide from the law -- inside the police force and as a member of the ruling Communist Party.

A police newspaper reported Friday that Ngo Thanh Tam, 51, was re-arrested Tuesday, two decades after joining the police under a false identity in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong.

The An Ninh Thu Do (Capital Security) newspaper described Tam as a 'dangerous criminal' on the national wanted list. After his arrest he was purged from the party, which he joined in June."

Accused Connecticut Toilet Bomber Denied Bail

WCBS NEWSRADIO 880 - Accused Connecticut Toilet Bomber Denied Bail:

"A Weston man once called one of the Internet's most notorious pirates of music and movies is too dangerous to be released from prison following charges that he blew up several portable toilets, a federal judge ruled.

U.S. Magistrate Holly Fitzsimmons ordered Bruce Forest to undergo a medical evaluation and rejected efforts by his family to release him on bond.

Forest was charged in May with seven counts of using explosives to destroy property and seven counts of discharging a firearm in connection with the explosions from last October through March.

No one was injured."

Warsaw mermaid has chest covered for Miss World

iWon News:

"Warsaw's symbol, a half naked mermaid, will have her chest covered on a poster promoting the Miss World competition after the original version was judged too erotic.

'The way the artist drew it first, one of her breasts was covered and one wasn't,' said Tadeusz Deszkiewicz, director of Warsaw's promotion bureau. 'The combination was very erotic.'

The artist redrew the poster to include a sash over the mermaid's exposed breast. The Miss World pageant will be held in Warsaw on September 30.

The mermaid, central to Warsaw's founding legend, is depicted in two statues in the capital and appears on the city's crest as naked from the waist up."

Police investigate theft of weather vane

USATODAY.com - Police investigate theft of weather vane:

"Thieves stole a valuable antique weather vane from the top of barn and replaced it with a replica, Vermont State Police said.

The theft was the fourth time in three years that an antique weather vane had been stolen in Vermont.

The weather vane was the image of Black Hawk, a famous Morgan horse. Elaine and Dennis Thomas, who own the barn, noticed a difference in the weather vane on July 16.

'My husband said he thought the tail wasn't right and then my daughter said something was wrong with the tail,' she said. 'I looked up, and I screamed 'That's not our horse!''"

Priest gets parking ticket while giving last rites

Middle East Times:

"A New York priest this week said that he was saddened by a judge's decision not to waive a parking ticket that he received while administering the last rites to a dying woman.

Reverend Cletus Forson was called to a Brooklyn hospital last month and left his car in a no-parking zone with a 'Clergy on Call' badge in the window, only to find on leaving 20 minutes later that he had been slapped with a $115 ticket.

'If the sanctity of the law won't bend for the needs of a dying person, I feel really sad,' the New York Post quoted Forson as saying.

His appeal was rejected by a traffic judge earlier this month. "

Worker trapped waist-deep in tank of chocolate

USATODAY.com - Worker trapped waist-deep in tank of chocolate:

"It might sound like a chocoholic's dream, but stepping into a vat of chocolate became a two-hour nightmare for a 21-year-old man Friday morning.

Capt. Randy Berner said the worker said he got into the tank at the Debelis Corp. to unplug it and became trapped waist deep in the chocolate.

'It was pretty thick. It was virtually like quicksand,' Berner said, and co-workers, police and firefighters were not able to get him out until the chocolate could be thinned out."

Bombay restaurant owner agrees to change name of his Hitler's Cross eatery

USATODAY.com - Bombay restaurant owner agrees to change name of his Hitler's Cross eatery:

"The owner of a restaurant named after Adolf Hitler said Thursday he will change its name because it angered so many people.

Puneet Sablok said he would remove Hitler's name and the Nazi swastika from billboards and the menu. He had said the restaurant's name — 'Hitler's Cross' — and symbols were only meant to attract attention.

Sablok made the decision after meeting with members of Mumbai's small Jewish community."

Porn parade Down Under outdraws Santa Claus - Aug 23, 2006

CNN.com - Porn parade Down Under outdraws Santa Claus - Aug 23, 2006:

"Thousands of people, many of them clicking away with cell phone cameras, lined the street for the parade by male and female porn actors, most semi-clad in black leather, to publicize an erotica show which opens in Auckland later this week.

The crowd -- four deep in some places -- was reportedly bigger than that for the city's annual Santa Parade at Christmas time.

Organizer Steve Crow, a local multimillionaire porn movie distributor and producer, earlier had won approval for the parade from the city council, infuriating the conservative mayor and several councilors."

Tom Cruise, Paramount end production deal

iWon News:

"Paramount Pictures and actor Tom Cruise called an end to their 14-year production deal on Wednesday as the chairman of the studio's parent company took a parting shot at the movie star's off-screen behavior.

'As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal,' Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone told the Wall Street Journal in an interview posted online. 'His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.'

Paula Wagner, the actor's longtime partner in his movie company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, struck back at Redstone, calling his comments about the three-time Oscar nominee 'offensive' and 'undignified.'"

Nude fountain bather defies police

iWon News:

"A homeless woman refuses to stop bathing naked in Munich's public fountains despite being repeatedly fined for breaking public nudity laws.

Bild newspaper reported Thursday the 44-year-old woman named 'Bille,' who weighs more than 300 pounds, can be seen almost every day with her bottles of soap and shampoo bathing in one of the Bavarian capital's 183 public fountains."

Two Heads Are Better Than One?

iWon News:

"An Indian businessman born with two penises wants one of them removed surgically as he wants to marry and lead a normal sexual life, a newspaper report said Saturday.

The 24-year-old man from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh admitted himself to a New Delhi hospital this week with an extremely rare medical condition called penile duplication or diphallus, the Times of India said.

'Two fully functional penes is unheard of even in medical literature. In the more common form of diphallus, one organ is rudimentary,' the newspaper quoted a surgeon as saying."

Can We Keep This Between Us?

iWon News:

"Two German women complaining on office email about their partners' poor sex drive found the details of their private lives broadcast to thousands after one of them hit the wrong button, Bild newspaper said Saturday.

'Everyone stares at us now and whispers behind our backs,' Anica G., a 21-year-old worker at the Federal Labor Office, told Bild.

The emails between Anica and colleague Christina S., with descriptions on how the women try but fail to arouse their partners, were first sent by accident to other colleagues in their department at the Labor Office."

No Cutting In Line At Feeding Time

Kansas City Star | 08/17/2006 | Weird News: Nasty times at the fast-food joint:

"Police arrested a University of Georgia student for allegedly running into two other McDonald’s customers with her car after a dispute over who was next in line.

Ruth Driscoll-Dunn, 24, was taken into custody at her home and charged with two counts of aggravated assault, Athens-Clarke County Police Detective Jeff Clark said.

Melinda Ann Thomas, 34, and her mother, Linda Ann Thomas, 51, were standing in a crowded line around 8:30 a.m. Saturday as they waited to order breakfast, police said. A cashier opened a new line and they stepped to the front of it — a move that angered another customer who was waiting to order."

Nothing But The Kitchen Sink

Lake Sun Leader:

"In this robbery, thieves stole almost nothing but the kitchen sink.

The stainless steel, restaurant-style sink was left behind a building during renovations to a fellowship hall, and the Rev. Wilbert Simpson said someone noticed it was missing over the weekend. A cake warmer was also taken.

‘‘We were just giving the painters enough room to work,’’ said Simpson, of the Calvary Grove Baptist Church. ‘‘It’s sad to think ... that someone would come on God’s grounds to steal something.’’

Simpson said two weeks ago someone threw rocks through church windows.

‘‘We’ve been having a time lately,’’ he said. ‘‘We are in a secluded-type area, but there are houses all around us. I think (the stolen sink) is more mischief than anything else.’’

The church is offering a reward for information on the theft.

Fishing gone wrong"

Now With New Whitening Agents

San Mateo Daily Journal -

Urine trouble
An inmate at Wisconsin’s toughest prison could face more time for allegedly hiding urine in a tube of toothpaste and squirting it at a guard.

Jonathan M. Krueger, a 23-year-old inmate at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility, faces charges of assault by a prisoner in the May 29 incident.

According to a criminal complaint, Krueger admitted to spraying a guard with urine he had put in a toothpaste tube when the guard came to his cell to pick up his food tray.
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John Edwards Wants Backbone

Grand Forks Herald -

MINNESOTA POLITICS : Edwards boosts Klobuchar's bid
Former vice presidential candidate John Edwards urged Minnesota Democrats to be confident in their political beliefs Thursday as he joined U.S. Senate candidate Amy Klobuchar in a Capitol rally.

"I want to live in an America where my party shows some backbone," he said.

Edwards called on fellow Democrats to get things done by having the late Sen. Paul Wellstone's fearlessness.

About 1,000 people gathered in front of the Capitol for the rally, where Klobuchar, current Hennepin County attorney, spoke in front of a fire truck used in rescue efforts after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City. Klobuchar touched on the need for change in health care, the war in Iraq and renewable energy. (more...)

I Got Your Imperial Ambitions Right Here

IranMania via Fark -

Iranian Pres. demands US change 'behavior'
According to an AFP report, hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the United States of harboring imperial ambitions and demanded the administration change its behavior, in an interview with a US television network.

The Americans "want to build an empire," said Ahmadinejad, according to excerpts of the interview published by the CBS network on its website Wednesday.

"And they don't want to live side-by-side in peace with other nations. The American government, sir, it is very clear to me they have to change their behavior and everything will be resolved," said Ahmadinejad. (more...)

From The Department of Redundancy Department

August 11 is . . . .




Presidential Joke Day
From BizarreNews

Collection Plates and G-Strings

iWon -

Church in unholy row with strip club
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's strippers.

An Australian church is trying to stop the proprietors of a nightclub from going ahead with plans to feature nude shows when it opens in a building owned by the church Friday.

The dean of St David's Anglican Cathedral in Hobart, capital of the southern island state of Tasmania, is upset that the nightclub next door has been handing out flyers promising full frontal nudity when it opens.

The church has served the bar with a notice demanding an undertaking that no such activity takes place, and has threatened legal action if the opening night show goes ahead.
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August 7, 2006

Today is Sea Serpent Day.



What else could follow up a post about Janet Jackson's breasts?

Janet Shows More of Her ... ah.. Versatility

iWon -

Janet Jackson has never been afraid to expose some skin. The 40-year-old singer, newly svelte after losing some 60 pounds, appears on the cover of Vibe magazine wearing a skimpy bikini bottom and a necklace made of large shells. Her right arm covers her breasts.

Will she ever stop posing for sexy photos? "Of course. When I'm 80," she tells Vibe. "That's when I'll call it quits."

Two years ago, Justin Timberlake pulled off a part of Jackson's bustier, briefly exposing one of her breasts, during the Super Bowl halftime show.

In an interview in the magazine's September issue, on newsstands Aug. 15, Jackson says the incident - variously referred to as "Nipplegate" and the "bra-ha-ha" - is history.
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