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I hope that this tight rope walker didn’t fall!

Chris — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:40:30 +0000

I don’t know about you but I have a fear of heights! You wouldn’t catch me walking a tight rope high above a mountain even if you paid me a million dollars! So I have to give this guy credit for what he’s doing!

I hope that this tight rope walk was successful! I wouldn’t want to see the results of an accident.

Woman sets off riot in coat store

Chris — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:01:42 +0000

An Ohio woman, being driven around in a limousine, set off a riot shortly after she announced in a coat store that she’d won the lottery and would pay for everyone’s purchased.

The riot resulted not out of the sheer happiness of the stores customers, but over the fact that the woman was lying about having won the lottery. It was all a hoax.

She had announced on Tuesday after entering the store that she’d spend $500 on everyone at the Burlington Coat Factory. This prompted customers to gather at the cash registers and call their relatives.

When police arrived, 500 people filled the store and another 1,000 were outside.

Cashiers rang up sales before discovering the woman had no money. Angry customers grabbed clothes without paying.

The limo driver turned the woman in.

Police say she was arrested on three outstanding warrants but wasn’t charged for the coat store chaos pending a mental health evaluation.

Well .. that’s an interesting way to start a riot!

Man finds Rocket launcher on his property

Chris — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:01:56 +0000

A Comal County Texas man found a green metallic tube when he was out cutting trees on his property. He says he thought it had a military look to it, like a rocket launcher. As it turns out – he was right.

Oddly enough he took his find back to his home and displayed it on his dinning room table! A decal on the equipment discovered by Jarrette Schule said: “Guided Missile and Launcher, Surface Attack.”

“I had never seen it before,” said Schule, 34. “I looked at it, and it kind of looked like a missile launcher.”

The device was confiscated on Wednesday afternoon by an ordnance disposal team from Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.

Schule discovered the unarmed anti-tank weapon on Tuesday on his land miles away from a military installation.

“I don’t know if it fell out of something or if somebody just dumped it,” he said.

Schule did not want to leave the launcher on his vacant property, so he loaded it in his truck and took it to his house. He’s said to have spent Tuesday afternoon calling the FBI, Homeland Security and other agencies to report his find.

Military officials are trying to track who last had the launcher in their possession via the serial number that was found on it.

Thousands married in mass wedding ceremony – largest in world in last 10 years

Chris — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:01:33 +0000

Reverend Sun Myung Moon, 89, married tens of thousands of couples in the Unification Church’s largest mass wedding in a decade.

More than 20,000 people gathered at Sun Moon University campus in Asan, south of Seoul, for the “blessing ceremony” on Wednesday while some 20,000 more joined simultaneous ceremonies in the U.S., Brazil, Australia and elsewhere.

Some were new couples in unions arranged by the church; others were renewing their wedding vows. The brides wore wedding dresses or their national dress; the men wore black suits with red ties, with white scarves around their necks.

The global ceremony is meant to mark key anniversaries in the leader’s life: his 90th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his marriage to Han Hak-ja, church officials said.

Critics say the weddings show the church operates like a cult, brainwashing adherents into turning their lives and salaries over to Moon. In the past, Moon routinely paired off couples, with many first meeting on their wedding day.

These days, arranged couples usually meet several times beforehand, church officials said. But they’re not expected to skip off to a honeymoon; couples are required to observe a 40-day waiting period before living together.

Dead man appointed to local committee by Alabama State Democratic party

Chris — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:01:13 +0000

Oops!

Reynolds Smith Jr. was a stalwart Democratic voter, however, the Alabama Democratic Party overlooked a very important fact when it appointed Smith to an interim party panel:

He died in November at age 83.

The mistake was caused by outdated records according to Party executive director Jim Spearman.

He said the party received Smith’s name from a 2006 list of candidates for the Mobile County committee and then used a voter list to verify him as an active voter.

The panel was charged with replacing the local party’s executive committee.

Uh … I think they need to updated their records before they appoint anyone else to any committees!

Please use the restroom before your flight – asks Japanese Airline

Chris — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:00:46 +0000

A Japanese Airline has started asking passengers on some of it’s flights to use the restroom prior to boarding the plane.

This strange request is one of the measures the airline is taking to reduce fuel consumption.

All Nippon Airways has estimated that if half it’s passengers went to the bathroom before boarding they could reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 4.2 tons per month.

The airline also plans to recycle paper cups, plastic bottles and use chopsticks that were produced from wood from forest thinning projects in order to become more environmentally friendly.

These measures are being taken on 38 domestic flights and four international flights throughout October.

The move follows earlier steps by airlines to reduce the weight of flights by trimming the size of in-flight magazines, slimming the handles of forks and spoons and using lighter drink trolleys and porcelain.

It is not the only airline looking to the lavatory to save money. Irish budget airline Ryanair has previously said it is considering charging passengers to use on-board toilets.

What? No Kangaroo’s at the Airport?

Chris — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:31:25 +0000

Actress Kristen Bell (currently of the hit movie Couples Retreat) said she was disappointed where no kangaroos met her at the Sydney airport when she arrived to start a promotional tour.

She went on to say that not only had she expected Kangaroos at the airport but she also expected a welcoming hug. (from the kangaroos or Aussies?)

“I, like every other stupid American, assumed the kangaroos would meet us at the airport and they would want to hug us as much as we wanted to hug them,” she told AAP news agency in an interview in Los Angeles.

“That’s really the perspective we have here. Going there kind of opened my eyes that that’s not the case.”

Please tell me that this isn’t true … that all Americans expect Kanagroos when they arrive at the airport in Sydney?

A car inside a car – tight fit!

Chris — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:08:44 +0000

Hmmm I wonder if the car that’s squeezed tightly into that SUV is a Smart Car or something even smaller!

It’s a tight fit but they made it!

I wonder how they managed to get it out as it looks jammed in there.

I wonder if the owner of the cars did this just because they could or if there was a real reason to put the smaller car into the back of the other one? Either way it’s strange!

Rats with Backpacks

Chris — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:01:53 +0000

You know … I live in Toronto and a 39 day garbage strike just ended – Thankfully! Believe me, with everyone piling up garbage at the side of their houses and filling public garbage cans to overflowing the rat and raccoon population around here was growing!

I wouldn’t have been surprised to see one dressed like the one above – little back pack and all! LOL

The other day I opened up the compost bin that we have in our backyard to dump some kitchen scraps into it, and as I lifted the lid I saw movement! I threw the lid down and stepped back.

After stealing my nerves and getting a pitchfork, I walked back over to the compost bin and lifted the lid very carefully and slowly with the pitchfork. Whatever was in there was gone … probably out the newly chewed hole at the back of the composter!

I think it was a rat. Arghhhh!

Thank god our garbage strike is over! Unfortunately the pests who love garbage probably increased during this period so we’ll have to live with them for a while.

Some people take Monopoly too seriously

Chris — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:58:36 +0000

Did you hear this story?

A Michigan man has landed in jail all because a game of Monopoly went awry!

The 54 year old man was playing the game this past Saturday night with a female friend.

During the game he tried to buy Park Place and Boardwalk from her, but when she refused he got angry and hit her in the head and broke her glasses!

Chill out man! It’s just a game.

He’s been arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and battery.

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