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Thursday, 04 December 2008

3000-year-old cannabis stash found  Comments

Cannabis

1/12/2008 4:11:00 PM. Researchers have found the world’s oldest stash of marijuana in a tomb in the remote north west of China.

Cannabis as medicine or for visionary purposes was supplied. Neurolgoist Dr Ethan Russo

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One-legged man runs from custody  Comments

Prosthetic leg | Getty

25/11/2008 2:15:00 PM. A one-legged man remanded in custody has managed to outrun three security guards - leaping over fences and walls as he made his escape.

He was like a sprinter in the Paralympics… the guards are fat and smoke too much so they couldn’t catch him. Court security officer

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Tree suits! German cops' secret weapon  Comments

Police demonstrate one of the tree suits | bild.de

20/11/2008 12:49:00 PM. German police have gone to new lengths to nab a serial burglar – dressing up in tree suits and waiting in a forest for eight hours.

We were able to recover the stolen laptops. That made spending our own money worthwhile. German police inspector, after a successful tree suit stakeout

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Surgery addict injected oil into her face  Comments

Hang Mioku before and after | Image supplied

20/11/2008 12:10:00 AM. A woman addicted to plastic surgery has been horrifically scarred after injecting cooking oil into her own face in a botched attempt to perform her own cosmetic procedures.

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Hitler 'One Testicle' urban myth confirmed to be true  Comments

Hitler 'One Testicle' urban myth confirmed to be true

19/11/2008 3:00:00 PM. The old song sings “Hitler, has only got one ball…”. Now, it’s been revealed that there was more truth in the ditty than first imagined.

His abdomen and legs were all in blood. Hitler was injured in the abdomen and lost one testicle. His first question to the doctor was: ‘Will I be able to have children?' Johan Jambor, a medic for the German army

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Teen changes name to Captain Fantastic  Comments

3/11/2008 8:36:00 PM. A 19-year-old music graduate “wanted to be unique”, so he changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.

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24 years, 14000 pubs and one amazing hangover  Comments

Beers | Getty

2/11/2008 6:26:00 PM. The world’s longest pub crawl has reached its landmark 14,000th ale house after four men spent 24 years visiting establishments across the UK.

We’ve hundreds of stories from our pub adventures. At times we even slept in a field with sheep after finishing. Peter Hill

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Alcoholic 'superjuice' keeps people drunk for days  Comments

Alcohol bottle | Getty

2/11/2008 4:10:00 PM. An alcoholic ‘superjuice’ has been wreaking havoc amongst the population of a Native American reserve in Canada.

You can hear them screaming in the police holding cells because the stuff is still fermenting in their stomach. Edwin Wood, a local probation officer

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Thief’s generosity lands him in jail  

Mobile | Getty

2/11/2008 2:48:00 PM. A robber has been branded ‘stupid’ after he robbed a teenager then gave him his own phone out of pity.

 

Power cut births  

Baby | Getty

1/11/2008 1:15:00 PM. Births in a Danish community have almost doubled nine months after it suffered a two-day power cut.

Some people must have found heat among themselves! Town spokeswoman Annelies van Eijkeren

 

Cheetah gets loose in plane cargo hold  Comments

Cheetah | Getty

1/11/2008 1:15:00 PM. A Delta airline baggage worker got a bit of a fright before Halloween when she opened a jetliner's cargo door and found a cheetah running loose amid the luggage.

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Wallaby wanders far from home  

Wallaby | Getty

21/11/2008 6:35:00 AM. A young wallaby has wandered onto a road in a small north-western French town where he was caught by a local resident.

Nobody has claimed him so far and we don't know from where he could have escaped. French firefighter

 

Bees attack lawnmowing man in Melbourne  

Bee | Getty

21/11/2008 2:51:00 AM. A Melbourne lawnmowing contractor has been stung at least 40 times by a swarm of bees.

The first crew removed five stings from his face but they were also all through his hair. Intensive care paramedic Ashley Jackson

 

Woman killed by husband's coffin on way to funeral  

Coffin | Getty

21/11/2008 12:40:00 AM. A Brazilian woman has been killed by her husband's coffin on the way to his funeral, police say.

 

Transexual complains of "phantom penis"  Comments

Transexual complains of "phantom penis"

28/10/2008 10:12:00 AM. A 52-year-old – who is now a woman after gender reassignment surgery – believes she can feel her old manhood even after it was cut off, according to the report Phantom erectile penis after sex reassignment surgery.

Trans Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Penis? Off The Wall

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Struggling with CPR? Stayin' Alive might help  

The Bee Gees | poster.net

17/10/2008 4:20:00 PM. New research has shown the Bee Gees song Stayin' Alive is rhythmically perfect as a guideline for CPR and therefore more aptly named than the band could have guessed.

I heard a rumour that Another One Bites the Dust works also, but it didn't seem quite as appropriate. Medical resident Dr Matthew Gilbert

 

Motorist racks up $A2.28 million in traffic fines  

Motorist racks up $1.8 million in traffic fines

30/09/2008 4:08:00 PM. The feeling of being stung for traffic offences is never pleasant – But could you imagine racking up $A2.28 million in fines, like the case of one Brazilian driver?

$A2.28 million? What a lightweight. He obviously has never met Australian parking inspectors. Off The Wall

 

Shell shocked: Two-headed turtle  

Two-headed turtle | europics

25/09/2008 4:01:00 PM. A tiny two-headed turtle was found in China within the area of Choahu, Anhui province.

 

Casanova wannabes at pick-up conference  

Young couple | Getty

25/09/2008 3:15:00 PM. Hundreds of would-be womanisers from more than 25 countries attended the opening of Amsterdam's Real Man Conference on Saturday, billed as the "biggest event on seducing women ever."

 

New Zealand police struggle with mystery phantom picnic  Comments

25/09/2008 3:00:00 PM. New Zealand police are still trying to solve the mystery of the "Mary Celeste picnic" found abandoned in the Rotorua region.

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Longest pins meets pint-sized Pingping  Comments

He Pingping and Svetlana Pankratova | AP

20/09/2008 10:17:00 AM. VIDEO: He Pingping, the world's smallest man, met up with long-legged Svetlana Pankratova in London's Trafalger Square today, posing for a photograph showing him standing up comfortably between her legs.

I heard he was going to be the shortest man, but I didn’t realise he was going to be that small. He seems very happy. World's leggiest woman Svetlana Pankratova

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