"Two French trade unions have filed legal complaints against Ikea for allegedly spying on employees by fraudulently obtaining police files."
-seriously warped!
-only in "Yankistaniland"
"The 550-pound bear that was found hiding out in a New Jersey basement had been living there for weeks."
"Tommaso, a four-year-old, one-time stray from Rome, is thought to have become the world's richest cat.
Since the death of his 94-year-old mistress last month, he has become a property magnate — or perhaps mognate — with flats and houses worth an estimated €10m scattered from Milan in the north to Calabria in the south."
"Allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia would cause rampant sex, porn and homosexuality, according to some of the country's scholars. "
-this is just wrong!
"There is no card in Monopoly that advises a player to stab another."
-"Aquarium staff were baffled when the 8.8lb giant gourami called Gary rejected normal food after being donated to them.Then the previous owners of the exotic Asian freshwater fish admitted feeding it only with the chocolate-covered wafers. "
"The results show that angry crows don't just recognize individual tormentors, but they share that information with friends and family. Most notably: They remember it for years and years and years -- even when the person in the caveman mask appears far away from the scene of the original crime."
-another indictment of the Yankistani health care system!
-"in 1971 a corrupt bank occupied a building that straddled the border, which permitted it to avoid being searched by the authorities of either state. The Belgian tax department couldn’t reach the safe, which lay behind “Dutch” counters. And the Dutch authorities could pass the counters but couldn’t open the safe, which was “Belgian.” Finally, authorities from both states undertook to search the premises in a joint effort, and the bank was eventually declared bankrupt after investigations into the laundering of drug money."
"Apparently corpsy (that’s my new name for him) was homeless *GASP* for some time which is nothing less than shocking considering
A) the employment rate in Montreal is so freaking fantastic and
B) Who in God’s name wouldn’t give a job to a dude with rot-face permanently etched into his visage?"
A) the employment rate in Montreal is so freaking fantastic and
B) Who in God’s name wouldn’t give a job to a dude with rot-face permanently etched into his visage?"
"Erstikaitis was once a self-professed admirer of Paul Bernardo and even stalked the convicted schoolgirl killer.In 1999, her obsession drove her to call -- and threaten to kill -- Debbie Mahaffy, the mother of Leslie Mahaffy, who was brutally murdered by Bernardo almost a decade earlier"
“We venture no comment on the evidence,” the editors write. “Our readers will appreciate it for themselves. Whatever be their interpretation of the facts, they will, at least, allow that in them there is something of the marvellous.”
"PHOENIX - In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border"- nice try ;)
"He said, “I never did like that bird.”-;)
-"a wife saver" it says! ;)
-more sheer brilliance from the "tea party!"
"A barracuda jumped out of the water and bit a 45-year-old woman kayaker in the chest in the Florida Keys"
-OMFG!-it's soup for Christ's sake! ;)
"SAO PAULO - Voters the world over complain about having clowns for politicians, but Brazilians embraced the idea Sunday by sending a real one to Congress with more votes than any other candidate."- ;)
"Police were able to easily track Welychka to his home after witnesses got his licence number while he searched, in a panic, to find something to smash his way into his getaway vehicle.Welychka, 54, had locked his keys in his car before entering the Husky and robbing the clerk at knifepoint."
-geez,cops as voyeurs!?!-who woulda thunk it?
"The first authentic Klingon opera on earth will be hosted in the Netherlands at the Zeebelt Theater, The Hague from the 9th to the 12th of September 2010."
"Trash Can Source, a division of Highland Products Group, announced today its offer of a $177 billion bailout package to the federal government to provide commercial trash cans at two-year, 0% financing in order to aid in the cleanup of excessive government waste." -;)
"A stylish Manhattan bank robber is saying it with flowers. "- ;)
-some wild lookin' sharks!
"Wearing a "Free Kobi" T-shirt, Kobayashi tried to force his way onto the stage during the awards ceremony, climbing over the Coney Island crowd and struggling with cops who tried to stop him."
""It's exceptional to see a psychologically disturbed person say: I have to be treated," said defense lawyer Fabien Picchiottino, noting the "failure of the psychiatric, penitentiary and social system."-no shit!
Items prohibited from carry-on baggage by the Transportation Security Administration, as of June 2010:
* Meat cleavers
* Spear guns
* Sabers
* Hatchets
* Cattle prods
* Swords
* Brass knuckles
* Nunchakus
* Throwing stars
* Blasting caps
* Dynamite
* Hand grenades
And “snow globes … even with documentation.” ;)
"This is a portrait of a dog living at Les Praz, near Chamonix, who, in the summer of 1908, distinguished himself by climbing Mont Blanc. His master, a workman, was employed on repairs to the observatory on the summit, and one morning, after having been seen by his owner’s wife at eight o’clock, the dog disappeared. He must have rapidly tracked his master by scent, for he arrived at the summit at half-past two in the afternoon, having accomplished in six and a half hours what usually is estimated to require thirteen hours for a man."
"Ottawa – The Canadian government announced that it is putting the alternative rock band The Pixies on its list of “terrorist organizations” after the group cancelled its upcoming trip to Israel in the wake of the Gaza Flotilla affair."-this is just so totally stupid!
"Up to 24 million Chinese youths are addicted to the internet – and half of those are “obsessed” by online games. Treatment centres have popped up around the country, aiming to ‘cure’ these young people from their terrible affliction."
"John Raymond Godley (1920-2006), Lord Kilbracken, was a respected writer and journalist, but he’s remembered mostly for a peculiar talent: He dreamed the winners of horse races."
"EDINBURGH, Ind. -- A knife-wielding man was arrested earlier this week in what police called a meat massacre at a south-central Indiana supermarket."
-when in Dubai.....
-some odd stuff here!
Farks top 20 of 2009
Mr. McNair was a man of few words, and wrote to his nephew at Pittsburg the following laconic letter:
Dear Nephew,
;
To which the nephew replied by return of mail:
Dear Uncle,
:
The long of this short was, that the uncle wrote to his nephew, ‘See my coal on,’ which a se-mi-col-on expressed; and the youngster informed his uncle that the coal was shipped, by simply saying, col-on.
– Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, June 1855
South African baboon gangs grow more aggressive; opening car doors, leaping through windows for food
-let the football hooligan jokes begin!
"What does it take in Toronto to capture a deer that is sitting still?
Start with a dozen police constables. Add another dozen police from the Emergency Task Force in grey jumpsuits and bulletproof vests -- armed with dart guns, Tasers and a big sort of fishing net -- plus two vans from Animal Services and a senior veterinarian from the Toronto Zoo. Give them four hours: they will get the job done."
"Police in Peru have arrested four suspected members of a gang that allegedly killed people to steal their body tissue and fat.The authorities are searching for several more suspects. The group allegedly sold the body fat to be used in cosmetics in Europe."
"A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left a bar in the northern Minnesota town of Proctor on his chair after drinking eight or nine beers."
"SYDNEY — Blood taken from a leech found at an Australian crime scene was used to catch an armed robber eight years after his crime, in what officials on Tuesday claimed to be a forensic world first."-Quincy would be proud!
-abducted by aliens? -on a more serious note, i do hope the boy is found unhurt
"Was copying and pasting a Wikipedia graph drawn by a non-climatologist the best that the United Nations, with all the resources at its disposal, could do? Evidently it was."
-and just where is a cop when you need one? apparently he's in your house!
-Holy eyebrows Batman!
-a buzzard attacks a lawyer!! justice!! ;)
"There was no snow in the forecast."-LOL!
"Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said."-the comments are as fun as the story, if not more so!
"BEIJING - A woman in China who boiled a man's head in a soup because she believed it would cure her daughter's psychiatric problems has been given a suspended one-year jail sentence, a local newspaper said Tuesday."
"VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canadian police were on the search on Monday for a brazen thief who snatched a take-away meal while making a naked run past a fast food restaurant's drive-though window."
I want one! Not sure why, but, still i want one!!
"A commercial fisherman in Florida had a lucky escape after netting an unusual catch - a live air-to-air missile."
"One of Couche-Tard's online ads has a multi-coloured clown giggling uncontrollably as he is hacked to pieces.
The other sees another clown just as ecstatic as he gets shredded to pieces by a mechanical saw and coming out the other end in the form of balloons and pieces of confetti. "-sounds funny to me!
The other sees another clown just as ecstatic as he gets shredded to pieces by a mechanical saw and coming out the other end in the form of balloons and pieces of confetti. "-sounds funny to me!
-0h yeah!-well, here in British Columbia we have a Premier who was arrested in Hawaii for driving drunk and also had two teenage women in the truck with him! Came home, was re-elected,(of course), and is about to be again! Now, that's bizarre!!-maybe not for B.C. come to think of it! ;)
"The edict, issued by officials in Hubei province in central China, threatens to fine officials who "fail to meet their targets" or are caught smoking rival brands manufactured in neighbouring provinces."-stupid!
"The dog belongs to the groom's neighbors and was set free to roam around the area after the ceremony. No dowry was exchanged, the witness said, and the boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce."
"The paper solemnly reports that Dwina, a "bisexual former druid priestess," has more recently been connected with the Daughters of Brahma, said to be "a Hindu sect" whose members "are meant to be celibate." Perhaps that's why she was OK with Robin having an affair with Claire these last eight years. But the pregnancy was too much."-ah, those beegees eh!!!
-real life "slapstick' comedy caught on film
-this really isn't so surprising anymore, but does make you wonder how much "classified" stuff is out there
-another tasty way of getting sloppy
-see previous post
25days?maybe...but?
-why confess? getting caught once in about 200 times is not a bad record!(no pun intended)
"The 47-year-old, nearing the end of his prison sentence, allegedly stabbed his cellmate six times in the neck for scaring the feral cat." -um, maybe he won't be out as soon as expected!!