tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25348733896611059282024-03-05T15:09:17.014-08:00Nutty NewsBritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.comBlogger202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-85470847389932206302013-01-18T10:01:00.000-08:002013-01-18T10:01:34.023-08:00GPS Takes Woman Driver On 1,800-mile DetourWhen Sabine Moreau left home to pick her friend up from the
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Unfortunately, the 67-year-old Belgian woman didn’t factor
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Rather than her intended destination of Brussels, Moreau
found herself 900 miles away in Zagreb, Croatia – a two-day detour that took
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Despite seeing traffic signs in multiple languages, refueling
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all kinds of traffic signs. First in French, then in German - Cologne, Aachen,
Frankfurt," she told a Belgium news website.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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faced another 900-mile journey back to her home in Soire-sur-Sambre, Belgium,
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mr Beale wrote: “Your terrace faces 115 windows so you really did have the perfect stage.<br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“I’m sure you’re keen to hear our verdict.”<br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He went on to rank each of their songs out of 10, giving his neighbors’ rendition of Pinball Wizard just three out of 10 and branding it “terrible.”<br /></span><br />
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<br />BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-32802696379100735272012-09-07T11:50:00.000-07:002012-09-07T11:50:58.667-07:00Scientists Develop Remote-Controlled Cockroaches<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A team of researchers has created the ultimate spy technology...cyborg cockroaches.<br /><br />Scientists from North Carolina State University have released a video showing how they are able to manipulate live roaches by attaching a tiny chip to the creatures' backs.<br /><br />The remote micro-controller is wired directly into the bug's nervous system, enabling the researchers to direct the creature's movements via a series of electrical charges.<br /><br />The research team hopes that the technology will ultimately be used to gather information from disaster zones and seek out survivors.<br /><br />Either that or the cockroaches will be stolen by a Russian megalomaniac, fitted with giant laser beams, and used to take over the world.<br /></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2199734/The-Bond-The-remote-control-cockroach-spy-future.htm" title="Read about the latest development in robot technology">Click here for story</a><br />
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BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-33383498953276837452012-09-07T11:03:00.000-07:002012-09-07T11:03:20.014-07:00Sexting Sculpture Displayed in Family Park<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A statue of a young woman 'sexting' a photo of her bare breasts in a family park is causing outrage amongst conservative groups.<br /><br />The bronze sculpture is currently on display in the Overland Park Arboretum in Kansas City - an area popular with families and young children.<br /><br />The American Family Association of Kansas and Missouri has branded the artwork obscene, and is demanding that the work, 'Accept and Reject' by Chinese sculptor Yu Chang, be removed.<br /><br />The group has so far collected 4,700 signatures demanding the statue's expulsion from the park - more than enough to compel a judge to convene a grand jury to assess the situation.<br /><br />We'll be sure to keep you abreast of the matter...</span><br />
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BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-90645499149762814272012-09-07T10:43:00.001-07:002012-09-07T10:43:21.000-07:00Quadruplet Schoolchildren Have Numbers Shaved Onto Heads<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Unable to tell their own children apart, one couple has come up with an innovative way to assist teachers on the first day of school.<br /><br />The Chaoyuns, from Shenzhen, China, took their six-year-old quadruplets to a local barber and had him shave numbers onto each of their heads.<br /><br />Jiang Yunglong, Jiang Yun-Shao, Jiang Yunhan and Jiang Yunlin are now easily identifiable to their elementary school tutors.<br /><br />Given China's one-child policy, we can only imagine how nervous numbers 2, 3, and 4 are feeling right now...</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199605/Hairs-looking-kids-Chinese-quadruplets-numbers-shaved-heads-teacher-tell-apart.html" title="Read about the identical siblings in China with a unique identification technique">Click here for story</a><br />
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BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-53414916304518681382012-08-30T10:25:00.000-07:002012-08-30T10:25:24.161-07:00Tourist Unwittingly Joins Search Party for Herself<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When a tourist in Iceland heard that a member of her bus party had gone missing, she helpfully joined the search party.<br /><br />The night-long operation, involving 50 people in the Eldgja volcanic region in south Iceland, was proving to be unsuccessful when the woman suddenly had a revelation...<br /><br />She was searching for herself.<br /><br />The woman had hopped off the bus to change her clothes on Saturday evening, and when she climbed back on again, her fellow travelers didn't recognize her.<br /><br />When they raised the alert that an Asian woman of around 160cm who was wearing dark clothing and spoke English had gone missing, the woman failed to recognize her description and unwittingly joined the search party.<br /><br />Eventually realizing what had happened, the woman informed police about the mix-up and the search was called off in the early hours of Sunday morning.<br /><br />Oops.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2195642/Asian-tourist-unwittingly-joins-search-HERSELF-failing-recognise-tour-groups-description-missing-woman.html" title="Read about the tourist in Iceland who helped to look for herself">Click here for story</a><br />
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BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-71387081529183272772012-08-29T19:43:00.000-07:002012-08-29T19:43:12.690-07:00Schoolboy Finds Rare Whale Vomit Worth $60,000<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A schoolboy has found a chunk of whale vomit that could be worth up to $60,000.<br /><br />Charlie Naysmith, 8, found the delightful souvenir while walking along a beach near Bournemouth, UK.<br /><br />Whale sick, known as ambergris, is traditionally used by perfume makers to prolong the scent of perfume.<br /><br />Its rarity means that it can fetch prices of up to $10,000 a pound.<br /><br />Before you all start pouring your Chanel No. 5 down the toilet, you'll be pleased to learn that the substance is usually avoided by manufacturers because of its negative association with the whaling industry.<br /><br />Guess the cosmetic industry finally developed a gill-ty conscience.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2195259/Moby-Sick-Rare-whale-vomit-schoolboy-beach-worth-40-000.html" title="Read about the most expensive vomit on the planet">Click here for story</a><br />
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BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-64559792845883529692012-08-29T18:53:00.001-07:002012-08-29T18:53:56.825-07:00Man Posts Self; Narrowly Avoids Suffocation<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A man who attempted to surprise his girlfriend by posting himself in a giant cardboard box narrowly avoided suffocation after a delivery company error.<br /><br />Hu Seng, from Chongqing city in southern China, decided to woo girlfriend Li Wang by posting himself to her office.<br /><br />He asked a friend to tape him inside the box and paid an unsuspecting courier firm to transport it to Wang's office, where another friend was waiting to film the surprise.<br /><br />Unfortunately, Seng's grand romantic gesture nearly ended in disaster when the delivery company mixed up the address and delayed the package.<br /><br />Instead of spending 30 minutes in the sealed box, Seng, who had failed to make an airhole in the container's thick material, was trapped for three hours.<br /><br />By the time his girlfriend received the package, the luckless Lothario had passed out from lack of oxygen and had to be revived by paramedics.<br /><br />Nothing says 'I love you' like sending a loved one your cold, dead corpse.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2195196/Man-posts-girlfriend-prank--dies-couriers-lose-delivery-address-THREE-HOURS.html" title="Read about the prank that went horribly wrong">Click here for story</a><br />
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BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-33895281572128970992012-08-28T17:19:00.000-07:002012-08-28T17:19:38.591-07:00Thief Steals Phone from Ebola Victim; Catches Virus<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In a rare case of karmic justice, a phone thief has gotten exactly what he deserves.<br /><br />Alright, maybe no one actually <i>deserves</i> to catch a disease that causes severe diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding from every orifice, but if ever there was a prime candidate it's the cowardly scumbag who steals a phone from a hospital patient.<br /><br />This particular scumbag, a 40-year-old Ugandan man, took the phone from the isolation ward of a hospital where its owner was being kept in quarantine.<br /><br />The fact that the hospital workers were all wearing big white biohazard suits should have been this guy's first clue, but apparently they weren't enough to dissuade him from stealing a $23 phone during an Ebola outbreak.<br /><br />Fast-forward two weeks and our cerebrally-challenged crook is now back in the same hospital from which he stole the phone, being treated for symptoms of the deadly virus.<br /><br />Sometimes karma's a bitch.</span><br />
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BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-81135138887685194482012-08-23T09:59:00.000-07:002012-08-23T09:59:03.826-07:00Sleeping Beauty Art Exhibit Forces Participants to Marry Visitors<script src="http://player.ooyala.com/player.js?embedCode=Y0bThwNTpVAQ0HQ-mzHviQICkTjCYoW0&width=560&height=315&deepLinkEmbedCode=Y0bThwNTpVAQ0HQ-mzHviQICkTjCYoW0&video_pcode=RvbGU6Z74XE_a3bj4QwRGByhq9h2&playerBrandingId=7dfd98005dba40baacc82277f292e522&thruParam_tmgui[relatedVideo]=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.api.ooyala.com%2Fv2%2Fassets%3Fwhere%3Dembed_code%2Bin%26api_key%3DRvbGU6Z74XE_a3bj4QwRGByhq9h2.WFFAb%26expires%3D1640995199%26signature%3Djy0k5y0KlKnXRvaz8YfB%252Fs1iFHFedXPEda0wTd6P0Fo"></script><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />Disheartened by the disproportionate number of creeps you've been meeting on dating websites? Take a trip to the Ukraine!<br /><br />No, we're not proposing a mail-order bride or an Eastern European sugar daddy this time. The Ukrainians have a much better idea.<br /><br />Take a bunch of attractive young women to an art exhibit, have them pose like Sleeping Beauty, and then encourage numerous desperate perverts to come and stare at them while they slumber.<br /><br />Kissing the defenseless actresses on the lips is actively encouraged.<br /><br />Oh, and by the way, if they open their eyes when you kiss them, they have to marry you. No seriously, it's in the contract.<br /><br />The bizarre exhibit is part of a three-week long art project at the National Art Museum of Ukraine.<br /><br />Visitors, who must be single and over the age of 18, all have to sign a contract upon entry declaring that if they kiss a beauty on the lips and she opens her eyes, they will marry her.<br /><br />Organizer Taras Polataiko hopes the exhibit will produce a genuine love connection between participants and visitors.<br /><br />Guess it's got about as much chance as a drunken grope in a nightclub toilet...<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-88317395049816694902012-08-16T19:31:00.002-07:002012-08-16T19:31:21.821-07:00Kangaroo Escapes Animal Park with Help from Fox and Wild Boar<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">German officials are searching for a sneaky kangaroo who bounded out of an animal park with a little help from a fox and a wild boar.<br /><br />Three kangaroos initially hopped through a hole in the fence of their enclosure made by a helpful fox.<br /><br />Skippy, Jack, and Mick then headed toward the Frankfurt park's exterior barriers.<br /><br />One of them lost interest in the great escape and was recaptured within the park's grounds, but the other two scrabbled to freedom through a hole dug by a wild boar.<br /><br />Vets eventually caught one of the escapees after a long chase, but the third kangaroo is proving harder to track down.<br /><br />Several sightings of the mischievous marsupial have been reported, but he is unlikely to return to the park out of hunger because the area has plenty of grass for him to forage.<br /><br />Zoo officials are reported to be hopping mad...</span><br />
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BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-38321659010275706722012-08-16T18:04:00.000-07:002012-08-16T18:04:16.993-07:00New York Launches Mobile Paternity Van<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Imagine the scene: You're dragging your offspring to the welfare office when you notice the little bugger is considerably taller than all the other children.<br /><br />No one in your family is tall and your common-law wife can barely reach the top shelf in the fridge when she's fetching you a beer. <br /><br />What if... but when would she have... wait, what if I'm spending my cigarette money on Pampers when I could be living it up in Atlantic City?<br /><br />Never fear - mobile DNA testing is here! Yep, if you live in New York, you can simply drag your screaming brat into Manhattan's portable DNA testing truck for immediate peace of mind.<br /><br />Aptly named 'Who's Your Daddy?', the truck provides results on-site or via mail at a cost of between $299 and $575.<br /><br />Owner and driver Jared Rosenthal, who has presumably seen enough drama to script an entire season of Maury, cruises around the city providing suspicious fathers with his services.<br /><br />Mr. Rosenthal, who says he is often flagged down like a taxi, has dealt with numerous situations, including a father who got his daughter's name tattooed on his chest only to later find out that she was not in fact his.<br /><br />Hopefully he took the tattoo removal costs out of his ex-wife's alimony package...<br /></span><br />
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BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-40039076458461077262012-07-18T12:09:00.000-07:002012-07-18T12:09:00.102-07:00Husband Solicits Men to Rape Wife on Craigslist<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This year's top contender for worst husband of the year goes to a chap in Idaho, who decided it would be a good idea to have his wife raped by strangers on Craigslist.<br /><br />The 32-year-old Army serviceman, from Twin Cities, posted a casual encounters ad on the website that was supposedly written by his (presumably estranged) wife.<br /><br />The ad claimed that she harbored a secret desire to be raped and encouraged men to enter her home and forcibly have sex with her 'no matter how much she resisted.'<br /><br />Obviously delighted by the prospect of carrying out their twisted fantasies without consequence, several would-be rapists responded to the advert and were further encouraged to break into the victim's home.<br /><br />The poor woman was targeted on two separate occasions, the first of which involved a violent struggle with an intruder who grabbed her gun and chased her around the house with it, randomly firing shots.<br /><br />It was only after the second rape attempt two days later (which ended with the victim holding the intruder at gunpoint) that police were able to determine the reason for the woman's sudden run of really really bad luck.<br /><br />Tracing the emails from the second attacker's cellphone, they discovered that the advert had been placed from her husband's workplace at the Army National Guard.<br /><br />The couple were subsequently reunited, whereupon the woman passionately embraced her husband and thanked him for 'the best belated Valentine's Day surprise ever.'<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />Just kidding. He's currently in Twin Cities County Jail and his wife is presumably Googling divorce lawyers... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />"You don't even want to know what I do with the cream of chicken soup"</span></div>BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-16031785285852569592012-07-17T12:53:00.002-07:002012-07-17T12:53:47.507-07:00Modern Day Knight Attempts to Bring Back Chivalry in Canada<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A 22-year-old Canadian man is on a quest to bring chivalry back to the modern world.<br /><br />Vincent Gabriel Kirouac, from Quebec, is traveling across Canada on his trusty steed, "Couer de Lion" (Lionheart), dressed in full knight's regalia.<br /><br />Along the way, the pair are performing valiant deeds, lending a hand on the farms and homesteads that they pass, and promoting chivalry and good manners.<br /><br />Mr. Kirouac, who is currently six weeks into his journey, is surviving on donations to his website and the kindness and generosity of strangers he meets along the way.<br /><br />He hopes to reinstate values that have been lost in the modern world, such as devotion, honesty, respect, and goodness.<br /><br />Yeah, that sounds really hard in Canada.<br /><br />If he really wants a challenge, he should trek through the Midwest. Day 1: Gallop through Chicago and teach the Black Gangster Disciples the virtues of chivalry, good manners, and respect. <br /><br />Now that would be a quest worth sponsoring...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />His mother was a hamster and his father smelled of elderberries</span></div>BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-13110578489539170432012-07-17T11:59:00.000-07:002012-07-17T11:59:07.801-07:00Man With World's Largest Penis Frisked for 'Suspicious Package'<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The TSA is not exactly known for competence or tact.<br /><br />So when the man with the world's biggest penis stepped through security at San Francisco International Airport, things were bound to get interesting.<br /><br />As soon as officers saw the bulging package in Jonah Falcon's pants, he was stopped and frisked.<br /><br />The 41-year-old New Yorker, who found fame after being featured on a 1999 HBO documentary, patiently explained that he smuggling nothing more dangerous than what nature gave him, prompting the TSA agent to sensitively ask him whether he had 'some sort of growth.'<br /><br />Missing a prime opportunity to throw in a cheesy porn movie line - "What should we do about this... serious biological threat, officer?"- Mr. Falcon allowed the agents to pat him down and send him on his merry way.<br /><br />It's good to see taxpayers' dollars hard at work.<br /> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">You should have seen the size of the penis that got away...</span></div>BritinLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16166558477704060886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534873389661105928.post-75573878867001805792012-07-16T11:04:00.000-07:002012-07-16T11:04:39.250-07:00Cat Celebrates 15th Anniversary as Town Mayor<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Disappointed by the contenders for town mayor, the citizens of Talkeetna, Alaska, decided to nominate an alternative.<br /><br />Using their voting prerogative to elect a write-in candidate, residents suggested a local named Stubbs as their next leader.<br /><br />Fifteen years later, Mayor Stubbs is still in charge of the 900-person town - although some of the locals complain he's their laziest mayor yet.<br /><br />Stubbs, a ginger part-Manx cat, has done little for local politics, but he's vastly improved the town's tourism prospects.<br /><br />Since his inauguration, around 40 people a day flock to Nagley's General Store, where Mayor Stubbs enjoys his afternoon catnip in a wine glass.<br /><br />The tech savvy feline even has his own Facebook page, which currently boasts nearly 2,000 subscribers - more than the average American teenager.<br /><br />Best of all, the pint-sized politician has yet to embarrass the town with a salacious sex scandal, preferring instead to hang out at the general store and greet his constituents.<br /><br />Neutering politicians? Now that's paws for thought...</span><br />
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