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M GO BLUE!!! 02-05-2011 12:32 AM
This brings a whole new level to "It wasn't me."

BBC News - Malawi row over whether new law bans farting

molson 02-08-2011 09:38 AM
I always enjoy the "animals get revenge" stories.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/0...-by-armed.html

DELANO, Calif. — A Central California man who was at a cockfight died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its own limb, officials confirmed Monday.

Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, of Lamont, was declared dead at a hospital about two hours after he was injured in neighboring Tulare County on Jan. 30, the Kern County coroner said.

An autopsy concluded Ochoa died of an accidental "sharp force injury" to his right calf.

Sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt said it was unclear if a delay in seeking medical attention contributed to Ochoa's death.

"I have never seen this type of incident," Sgt. Martin King, a 24-year veteran of the sheriff's department, told the Bakersfield Californian.

Ochoa and the other spectators fled when authorities arrived at the scene of the fight, King told the newspaper. Deputies found five dead roosters and other evidence of cockfighting at the location, he said.

No arrests were made at the cockfight.

Cockfighting is a sport, illegal in the United States, in which specially bred roosters are put into a ring and encouraged to fight until one is incapacitated or killed.

According to Kern County Superior Court records, Ochoa paid $370 in fines last year after pleading no contest to one count of owning or training an animal for fighting, according to the newspaper.

Attending or organizing a cockfight, or training an animal to participate in one, are all misdemeanors under California law, although a second offense is a felony.

I. J. Reilly 02-08-2011 10:01 AM
Fatally stabbed in the calf? Sounds like Hitman Monkey has some competition.

DataKing 02-08-2011 12:32 PM
This is a little different...

Bless me iPhone for I have sinned | Technology Headlines | Comcast.net

Ksyrup 02-08-2011 01:18 PM
I guess we don't have to ask if she spits or swallows....

Quote:
Shopper Ingested Semen-Tainted Yogurt Sample
Lab tests confirm New Mexico woman’s suspicion

FEBRUARY 7--Confirming the suspicions of a New Mexico woman, a yogurt sample provided to her last month by a grocery clerk contained semen, according to test results that prompted police to secure a search warrant authorizing them to collect blood and DNA samples from the suspect.

The disclosure that the yogurt sample from an Albuquerque market tested positive for “sperm cells” and saliva is contained in a search warrant affidavit seeking blood and DNA samples from Anthony Garcia, the 31-year-old suspect.

The January 28 warrant, which was approved by a District Court judge, notes that the samples were needed to “make sure Mr. Garcia does not have any illness or disease that could harm” the victim, whose name TSG has redacted from court documents due to the nature of the incident.

When police arrived to investigate the January 25 incident at the Sunflower Farmers Market, they arrested Garcia after determining he was the subject of two outstanding warrants connected to a 2009 bust for criminal sexual contact with a minor. Garcia is pictured in the above mug shot.

According to a police report, the 28-year-old victim was shopping with her daughter in the store’s cereal aisle when she was approached by Garcia, who worked in the store’s dairy department. After accepting Garcia’s offer of a yogurt sample, the woman immediately thought the sample tasted “gross and disgusting” and, cops reported, “said it tasted like ‘semen.’”

In a handwritten statement, the woman said, “I spit it out on the floor many times cuz I was upset.” The woman recalled that when she talked to manager Catherine Flores, “she told me was a Greek yoghurt. People love it has lot of protein on it.”

The woman paid for her groceries and returned home, where she told her boyfriend about the incident. She told of how Garcia had “just come with one sample just for me,” and that “he was so pushy to tell me how taste it.” The woman and her boyfriend eventually returned to the market, where they summoned police.

When questioned by cops, an “extremely nervous” Garcia denied putting bodily fluids in the yogurt container, which he admitted discarding in a trash compactor after the woman complained about the sample’s taste.

An Albuquerque Police Department spokesperson said today that blood and DNA samples have been collected from the incarcerated Garcia, and that results from lab tests are expected later this week.

albionmoonlight 02-08-2011 01:28 PM
I wonder if "I jizzed in some lady's yogurt container and tricked her into eating it" gets you more respect in prison, or if it gets you beaten up in prison.

I could honestly see it going either way.

albionmoonlight 02-08-2011 01:30 PM
dola.

Maybe both. "Props to you man, and I am laughing at that dumb bitch that you made drink it. That's awesome. But I am still going to shiv you in the spine because that could have been my sister you sick weirdo fucker!"

Ksyrup 02-08-2011 01:35 PM
On second reading, maybe she shouldn't have been surprised:

Quote:
She told of how Garcia had “just come with one sample just for me,”

Unfortunate choice of words for $1,000, Alex.

Autumn 02-08-2011 01:47 PM
now that's a crazy ass story.

sabotai 02-08-2011 02:10 PM
“she told me was a Greek yoghurt. People love it has lot of protein on it.”

LMAO!

Ksyrup 02-08-2011 02:23 PM
Well, the manager was being truthful about the protein part!

Autumn 02-08-2011 02:38 PM
And maybe that guy was Greek.

molson 02-08-2011 02:52 PM
Nice job for those cops to follow up on what must have seemed like an insane story.

Warhammer 02-08-2011 05:30 PM
To pick something like semen in the flavor of yogurt, she must have quite a bit of experience with the other.

JPhillips 02-08-2011 05:45 PM
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Woman may have died from butt enhancement

The Delaware County Medical Examiner's Office is currently conducting an autopsy on a woman who may have died after receiving a buttocks enhancement procedure at a Philadelphia airport hotel.

Police said the incident happened around 2:46 a.m. at the Hampton Inn on Bartram Avenue, but offered few other immediate details.

An autopsy on the woman is expected to be completed later today. It's unclear whether she was allegedly receiving buttocks implants or a series of silicone injections.

Surgery in an airport hotel?

Chief Rum 02-08-2011 06:08 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JPhillips (Post 2421840)
Surgery in an airport hotel?

Another interesting factoid: 2:46 a.m.?

Ksyrup 02-08-2011 06:14 PM
I like big butts and I cannot die.

molson 02-08-2011 06:33 PM
That's why I never go any cheaper than the Mariott for my ass surgeries.

JPhillips 02-08-2011 08:57 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by molson (Post 2421869)
That's why I never go any cheaper than the Mariott for my ass surgeries.

Nice.

tyketime 02-09-2011 06:21 AM
Raccoon 1, Carrington Wrestling 0

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The Carrington (N.D.) High wrestling team never got a shot to defend it's run of three consecutive Region 2 dual tournament titles, yet the reason they missed out had nothing to do with any ineligible player or poor results. Rather, the team was foiled by an uninvited visitor on their bus to the event: A wild raccoon.

According to the Grand Forks Herald and the Associated Press, among other outlets, Carrington was getting ready to compete at the duals championship when administrators discovered the team had been exposed to the animal on the ride from Carrington to Grafton, N.D., where the event was being held. With no time to assess whether any athletes had been in direct contact with the raccoon -- or whether the animal had rabies -- school officials immediately pulled the team out of the event to ensure that they wouldn't put any other wrestlers at risk. No players were bitten or scratched by the animal, but it was unknown if the raccoon was rabid, meaning that officials couldn't ensure opposing wrestlers would be safe from risk if the event continued as scheduled.

"We (school administrators) found out as the tournament was going on that while our students were on the way to the event, they were exposed to a raccoon," Carrington school superintendent Brian Duchscherer told the Herald. "Once we found that out, we didn't know if there was the potential of spreading anything, if the raccoon had rabies or not, so we decided to bring our kids home."

While the incident certainly provides a new watershed moment for "strangest self-disqualification from a postseason tournament," it actually gets even stranger when details surrounding the encounter are explored. According to the Herald, the team's coaches learned that there was a raccoon on the bus when their athletes picked up the animal, believing it was dead.

The decision to pick up a dead wild animal is questionable enough, but what the team's coaches decided to do next is arguably more bizarre: Instead of immediately removing the animal from the bus, they decided to move it to rear storage area instead.

That's right, the Carrington wrestling team knowingly rolled along to the Region 2 duals championship in the full knowledge that they had a wild animal in the back of the bus, dead or alive. In fact, it was only when the team arrived in Grafton that they discovered the animal was quite alive, as it trotted off the bus calmly after the storage area was opened, eluding capture to prevent any rabies testing that would have possibly cleared the way for the team to compete.

Ksyrup 02-09-2011 06:35 AM
Apparently rabies can be transferred from thumb to butt, so they decided not to risk it.

Passacaglia 02-09-2011 07:34 AM
Quote:
defend it's run

:nono:

Ksyrup 02-09-2011 10:00 AM
Holy crap this one is great! Especially the headline.


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Scratch 'Harry Baals' off list of names for government center
Fort Wayne, Ind., officials against putting former mayor's giggle-inducing name on building

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A former Indiana mayor who won four terms in the 1930s and 1950s is proving less popular with modern-day city leaders, who say they probably won't name a new government center for him because of the jokes his moniker could inspire.

Harry Baals is the runaway favorite in online voting to name the new building in Fort Wayne, about 120 miles northeast of Indianapolis. But Deputy Mayor Beth Malloy said that probably won't be enough to put the name of the city's longest-tenured mayor on the center.

The issue is pronunciation. The former mayor pronounced his last name "balls." His descendants have since changed it to "bales."

Supporters said it's unfair that the former mayor can't be recognized simply because his name makes some people snicker. But opponents fear that naming the center after Baals would make Fort Wayne the target of late-night television jokes.

"We realize that while Harry Baals was a respected mayor, not everyone outside of Fort Wayne will know that," Malloy said Tuesday in a statement to The Associated Press. "We wanted to pick something that would reflect our pride in our community beyond the boundaries of Fort Wayne."

An online site taking suggestions for names showed more than 1,300 votes Tuesday for the Harry Baals Government Center. That's more than three times the votes received by the closest contender.

Jim Baals, 51, who has lived in the city his entire life, said it's unfortunate that his great-uncle's name won't be considered for the building.

"Harry served four terms and was a wonderful mayor. I don't know what the problem is," he said. "I understand people are going to poke fun at it. That's OK. I've lived with that name for 51 years now, and I've gotten through it. I think everybody else can, too."

City spokesman Frank Suarez said the city has no regrets about opening the name selection up to people online.

"It is a new way of reaching out to the community," he said. "The fact that 17,000 votes have come in tell us the buzz created by this is really good. When was the last time somebody could say they had fun with their government? We've had fun with this."

Suarez told The Journal Gazette that Mayor Tom Henry will meet with local groups and choose from up to 10 finalists from the suggestions submitted. Online voting ends Friday.



Suburban Rhythm 02-09-2011 10:04 AM
This title pretty good too

Fort Wayne officials refuse to slap Harry Baals on public building • The Register

molson 02-09-2011 10:09 AM
I wonder if they would have found that as hillarious in the 30s and 50s too - maybe that's the reason he was elected to all those terms in the first place.

JediKooter 02-09-2011 10:37 AM
They just really liked Harry Baals back then.

Ksyrup 02-09-2011 10:38 AM
Quote:
The issue is pronunciation. The former mayor pronounced his last name "balls." His descendants have since changed it to "bales."

There's a female attorney in my firm with the last name Fuchs. She pronounces it fox. I could see fukes, and obviously fucks, but not fox.

JediKooter 02-09-2011 10:53 AM
I would have guessed 'fukes'. Like from the movie The Thing with Kurt Russel.

tyketime 02-09-2011 11:01 AM
But Harry Baals is probably better than Schweddy Balls.

Autumn 02-09-2011 11:05 AM
Vote for Dick Swett!

http://www.nndb.com/people/875/000127494/

JediKooter 02-09-2011 11:09 AM
Nice!!

sterlingice 02-09-2011 07:20 PM
The Harry Baals story has kindof made me chuckle most of today

SI

JediKooter 02-11-2011 05:33 PM
What I want to know is: How fast did he throw the hot dog??

Court: Baseball Fan Did Not Assume Risk Associated With Hot Dog Toss - Lowering the Bar

sterlingice 02-12-2011 09:41 AM
Stupid, stupid, stupid.

So now no more hot dog toss because guy wasn't paying attention and decided to sue

SI

Ksyrup 02-22-2011 09:47 AM
Someone posted these summaries on another board and I thought of this thread:

The Key Underwood Memorial Graveyard near Cherokee, Ala., is reserved as hallowed ground for burial of genuine coon dogs, which must be judged authentic before their carcasses can be accepted, according to a December report in The Birmingham News. The Tennessee Valley Coon Hunters Association must attest to the dog's having had the ability "to tree a raccoon." (In March, a funeral for one coon dog at Key Underwood drew 200 mourners.) [Birmingham News, 12-30-2010]

Safety Harbor, Fla., trailer-park neighbors Joe Capes and Ronald Richards fought in December, with sheriff's deputies called and Capes arrested for assaulting Richards. The two were arguing over whether the late country singer Conway Twitty was gay. [BayNews9.com (St. Petersburg), 12-3-2010]

RendeR 02-22-2011 10:01 AM
At least you weren't dubbed:

Richard Trickle

when you were born.

Thats right, some poor bastard grew up being called Dick Trickle his entire life. He was a stock car driver for decades.


I still giggle when I watch the classic races and teh announcers mention "Dick Trickle slides to the inside and makes his move!"

JPhillips 02-22-2011 12:07 PM
I love that there are two people that passionate about Conway Twitty's sexuality and that they managed to find each other.

terpkristin 02-22-2011 06:23 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by RendeR (Post 2428929)
At least you weren't dubbed:

Richard Trickle

when you were born.

Thats right, some poor bastard grew up being called Dick Trickle his entire life. He was a stock car driver for decades.


I still giggle when I watch the classic races and teh announcers mention "Dick Trickle slides to the inside and makes his move!"

Need I remind you of my nephew Otto Maddock Pilotte (automatic pilot) or my high school classmate Richard Handler III (yes, Dick Handler)

/tk

Critch 02-22-2011 09:07 PM
How could a solid plan like this go wrong?

Quote:
Clydebank man cut boy's penis with plastic loyalty card

A man who cut a child's genitals with a broken supermarket loyalty card in a bungled attempt to reduce swelling has been sentenced to 18 months probation.

Ross McBride, 23, from Clydebank, took the action after accidentally kicking the boy while playing with a football at a house in Glasgow in February 2008.

The toddler needed 11 stitches to repair the damage he caused but has since made a satisfactory recovery.

McBride, who is autistic, admitted using culpable and reckless conduct.

Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how McBride was in a bad mood when the incident happened because his girlfriend had not bought him a Valentine's card.

He was kicking the ball hard out of frustration when he missed and caught the toddler instead.

When he noticed that the child's penis was red and swollen, McBride decided to snap a shop loyalty card and compress it around the injured area.
Police examiner

He then tried to saw at the youngster in a failed attempt to reduce the swelling.

The court heard that when the boy's mother arrived back the accused told her what had happened and she took her son to hospital.

The youngster was examined by doctors and a police child examiner and was found to have bruising, swelling and cuts to his genitals and thighs.

He was operated on and received 10 stitches to one wound and one to another but has since made a satisfactory recovery.

McBride was later charged with injuring the boy.

Defence advocate Laura Reilly told the court that her client suffers from autism which was not diagnosed until he was an adult.

Miss Reilly added that McBride has limited intelligence and suffers from emotional difficulties.

tyketime 02-23-2011 02:11 PM
Is that a chainsaw in your pants, or are you just happy...? (from MSNBC)

Quote:
CHICKASHA, Okla. — A suspected thief was taken into custody after allegedly trying to conceal a stolen chainsaw by stuffing it down his pants as one would a candy bar, according to local news reports.

Police say 21-year old Anthony Black was eyeing an Echo chainsaw, but decided that a grab and dash wasn't in the cards.

The man, who police say appeared intoxicated, took the mechanical saw from the wall and put it down the front of his pants instead, according to NBC affiliate KSHB.

While some employees initially thought Black — who by this point was walking with a noticeable waddle — was handicapped, others were suspicious.

George Graham, an employee at the Ross Seed Company, witnessed the incident, telling NBC affiliate KEOR, "I seen the bar between his legs. It was pretty obvious. Imagine it in the front of your pants."

"This is a little unique, simply because of how large the item was," Chickasha Police Assistant Chief Elip Moore explained.

Paul Horton, the hardware store's manager, told KEOR it was "the first time I've ever seen a chainsaw go down anyone's britches."

A limping Black was eventually chased from the store, ditching the chainsaw in the process.

A short pursuit ensued, with the suspected thief diving headfirst into a creek, police say.

Authorities fished Black from the shallow water, placing him under arrest.

"He could have cut himself up real good. He'd have been walking with a permanent limp," Graham explained.

The chainsaw in question was eventually returned to the store.

DataKing 02-23-2011 02:59 PM
And properly disinfected, one hopes...

Ksyrup 02-23-2011 03:27 PM
Who puts a candy bar down the front of their pants?

Ksyrup 02-25-2011 10:18 AM
I think I might have found the original guy that the semen yogurt guy copycatted. The best part of this story is the fact that they managed to capture a pic of the woman that makes her look like she just took a drink of a semen-flavored water bottle.


Man Found Guilty In Semen Assault Case

February 24, 2011 3:45 PM
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SANTA ANA (CBS) — A Fullerton man has been found guilty of ejaculating into his female co-workers water bottle.

Michael Lallana, 32, was found guilty Thursday afternoon of assault and battery. Jurors also found true the allegation that he did it for sexual gratification.

Lallana admitted in a taped interview submitted to jurors that he ejaculated into an “attractive” co-worker’s water bottle because “her lips had touched it,” but told detectives he never thought she would drink it.

Lallana and the woman — identified only as Tiffany G. — began working together at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Newport Beach. They were both later transferred last year to the company’s office in Orange.

“It was the closest I could ever get to someone as good looking as that without tampering with my marriage or hurting anyone,” Lallana said in the interview with Orange Police Department detectives in explaining why he ejaculated into the woman’s water bottle twice last year.

When the detectives quizzed him on why he didn’t just throw the water bottle away when he was done, Lallana said he figured she would dump the water and was afraid of leaving anything out of place on her desk.

“Can I honestly say I wanted her to drink it? No,” Lallana said in the taped interview. “Why I left it there, I don’t know.”

Tiffany testified that she left her water bottle on her desk in the Newport Beach office on a Friday in January of last year. She said that when she returned the following Monday and drank from the bottle, she tasted what she believed to be semen.

“I had a hunch that’s what it was, but I wouldn’t dream in a million years that’s what it was,” she said.

After being transferred to the company’s office in Orange, the woman said she again tasted semen in her water last April 6. Up to that point, she had been more careful with her water, dumping it when she left, she said.

Tiffany testified she threw the water bottle away that January. But after the second time in April, she kept the fouled liquid and asked her fiancee put his semen in a water bottle to see if that’s what she had tasted at work.

“At the time, I had no idea how else to figure out what this was,” she testified.

Convinced it was semen in the water bottle she had at work, the witness said she approached Orange police but was told they could not do anything based on the suspicion of a crime.

She then went to human resources officials at her workplace. “They heard me out, but they didn’t know what to do,” she testified. The woman said she was told the company’s legal representatives would be consulted but decided on her own to seek out an independent laboratory to test the water.

When she found a lab and got the results back, she had a friend, whose husband is a former Orange police officer, call the department’s investigators and they picked up the case in June, she testified.

Tiffany and Lallana did not have much to do with each other than small talk or an occasional greeting because he did much of his work outside the office, according to testimony.

When pressed by detectives, Lallana said he found his co-worker attractive and that part of the allure was that “her lips had touched” the water bottle, according to the tape played for jurors.

Lallana also gave investigators a DNA sample, and Deputy District Attorney Brock Zimmon told jurors the evidence showed it was Lallana’s semen in the water bottle.

Chubby 02-25-2011 12:29 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by RendeR (Post 2428929)
At least you weren't dubbed:

Richard Trickle

when you were born.

Thats right, some poor bastard grew up being called Dick Trickle his entire life. He was a stock car driver for decades.


I still giggle when I watch the classic races and teh announcers mention "Dick Trickle slides to the inside and makes his move!"

a classmate of mine in HS was Brian Hole, yes, his father's name was Richard...

DataKing 02-25-2011 12:38 PM
Met a guy once named Richard Head.

JPhillips 02-25-2011 12:42 PM
There was a guy in my hometown named Harold Richard Head. He preferred to be called Harry Dick.

sterlingice 02-25-2011 01:04 PM
He's no Harry Baals

SI

JediKooter 02-25-2011 03:01 PM
Charleston Police Blotter | The Post and Courier, Charleston SC - News, Sports, Entertainment


"Charleston Police Blotter
EDWARD C. FENNELL,
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Tweet

Punch unexpected for 'cartoon' character

A man walking downtown at 2 a.m. acting like the "Futurama" TV show's cartoon lobster character, "Dr. Zoidberg," was punched in the face, according to a Charleston police report.

The 22-year-old man, who had a chipped tooth and possible broken nose, drove himself to a hospital, the report says.

The man told police he was "just playing around" Feb. 11 near King and Calhoun streets when he began imitating Zoidberg. The report says the 22-year-old described Zoidberg as "a lobster doctor that walks sideways with his claws out and makes noise."

When "Zoidberg" passed another man on the street, the other man reportedly asked, "What did you say to me?" The 22-year-old's friends pulled him away from the man, "telling him, 'keep going, he said nothing to you,' " according to the report.

The man reportedly followed for about 20 feet and threw the punch. The alleged assailant, who is known by the 22-year-old, reportedly ran away, the report states.

The report says the 22-year-old told officers he wants to press charges."

Autumn 02-26-2011 08:12 AM
You would think these women would be smarter than to say in the public record that they thought they recognized the taste of semen.

tyketime 03-01-2011 07:14 AM
Apparently the local pizza shop competition is heating up:

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Two police officers smelled a rat Monday afternoon when they were eating lunch at an Upper Darby pizza place and watched the owner of a competing pizza restaurant walk into the shop carrying a suspicious bag into the restaurant’s bathroom.

After the man left, the owner of Verona Pizza on West Chester Pike discovered footprints on the toilet in the bathroom and a bag tucked into the ceiling tiles, police say.

Thinking the bag contained drugs, the owner turned the bag over to the officers who were in the restaurant at the time. They found something white -- but it wasn’t drugs.

Three white mice were in the bag left behind by Nina’s Bella Pizzeria owner Nikolas Galiatsatos, police told NBC Philadelphia.

The 47-year-old didn’t stop there with his hairy scheme.

Galiatsatos, whose pizza place is also on West Chester Pike, walked from Verona Pizza to Uncle Nick’s Pizza across the street and dumped another bag into a garbage can inside that pizza shop, according to Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood.

Police discovered that the bag Galiatsatos dumped into Uncle Nick’s garbage contained five living mice and one dead mouse.

Galiatsatos was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, harassment, and animal cruelty.

The mice were all turned over to local animal control.

Police say the motive behind the mice dropping may be the fact that Nina’s Bella Pizzeria has only been open for a short period of time and may not be doing well.

"We believe that he was trying to put the competitive pizza places out of business," Chitwood said.

I. J. Reilly 03-01-2011 08:58 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Autumn (Post 2431280)
You would think these women would be smarter than to say in the public record that they thought they recognized the taste of semen.

Because an adult should be ashamed of that?

Autumn 03-01-2011 03:16 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by I. J. Reilly (Post 2432520)
Because an adult should be ashamed of that?

Well, you could write them a note and see if they're enjoying the attention and reaction they're getting to their comments. I'm guessing they're now wishing they hadn't said it, but YMMV.

Ksyrup 03-03-2011 07:23 AM
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Bare your soul: Meet the naked therapist who solves patients' problems by stripping off during sessions

By Rachel Quigley
Last updated at 6:25 PM on 2nd March 2011


There is something about getting a man to talk about his feelings that usually sends him running in the other direction.

But a 24-year-old psychology buff believes she has the answer - getting naked.

Sarah White has brought a brand new type of therapy to the people of New York.

By slowly peeling away the layers of her clothes during the session, she believes it will allow her to peel away the layers of her clients' subconscious.

She said: 'During the sessions I use the power of arousal to let you gain more control over your life.

'The goal is to use nakedness so you can understand yourself and your world better, so you can feel great and powerful, and so the excitement you feel during the sessions can lead to more excitement outside the sessions.'

The naked therapist's unique approach to helping people has aroused interest from dozens of people.

Unsurprisingly, most of her clients are men.

Miss White, from the Upper West Side, studied psychology as an undergraduate at university but believed there was something missing and uninspiring from the classical training - and that was an open interest in sexuality.

She told the New York Daily News: 'For men especially, who are less likely than women to go to therapy, it is more interesting, more enticing, more exciting. It's a more inspiring approach to therapy.

'I felt early on that something was missing from classical therapy, it seemed to encourage repression as opposed to encouraging people to open up.'

The 24-year-old begins the session with her clothes on, as the hour-long appointment progresses, she takes off every item of clothing until there is nothing left.

The initial sessions, which cost $150, are conducted via a one-way web cam and text chat.

Once she builds a rapport with a client she moves to two-way Skype video appointments and then, in some cases, in-person consultations.

Online: The 24-year-old advertises herself on her website, which also contains a host of modelling shots of her in various stages of undress

Online: The 24-year-old advertises herself on her website, which also contains a host of modelling shots of her in various stages of undress

So far, she has around 30 clients which are an eclectic mix of college students with sexual issues, middle-aged men with relationship problems and even some women who enjoy a chat with a nude peer.

She said of her approach: 'Naked therapy has been very eye opening and worldly for my clients.

'The goal is to show patients I have nothing to hide, and encourage them to be more honest.

'For men in particular, seeing a naked woman can really help them focus, look deeply into themselves and speak their minds openly.

'Freud used free association. I use nakedness.'

Clients schedule appointments through her website, sarahwhitelive.com.

She conceded that naked therapy is not approved by any mental health association. And she is not a licensed therapist.

While Miss White's boyfriend supports her new business, her parents are still in the dark.

She said: 'I should probably tell them before they read it in the paper.'

Not surprisingly, professional psychologists are not sold on her idea.

Diana Kirschner, a New York-based clinical psychologist, told the Daily News: 'She's using the word therapy here, but I don't consider this therapy. I consider this interactive soft-core Internet porn.'

Any sexual interaction between patient and therapist is considered highly unethical by the American Psychoanalytic Association, the largest and oldest such organization in the nation.

Even physical contact violates its code of professional conduct.

But there is no physical contact in naked therapy. And, as Miss White points out: 'It’s not like I’m having relationships with any of my patients.'

Ksyrup 03-03-2011 07:28 AM
Gotta love Europe!


Quote:
An Englishman's home is his castle, so the saying goes.

After squatters moved into John Hamilton-Brown's new £1million five bedroom home he has been forced to beg them to get out through his letterbox.

The group of foreigners were granted legal aid to fight to stay - while he was forced to represent himself.

The father-of-two was having the property renovated for his wife and two young daughters before they moved in when a dozen people from France, Spain, Poland and England sneaked in during the night.

The occupants are part of a growing army of squatters banding together and seeking out empty homes.

It emerged today that squatters, often young people, are swapping information online as they move from property to property before they get evicted.

On a forum details of empty homes are being posted - and squatters are advertising for housemates to move in with them.

Squatting is legal as long as occupants do not use force to break in.

On the Advisory Service for Squatters, users swap tips for getting into properties and bypassing alarms.

One user said: 'i can help u to open/secure buildings. i have my own tools. price up on agreement, quality work.'

Another person asked for assistance getting into a different London home. He wrote: 'I'll be opening a new house in Highgate in the following days, if you can move in immediately and possibly help out opening it as it's kind of tricky, call me...'

The group occupying Mr Hamilton Brown's home qualified for legal aid because they are EU citizens and unemployed.

One of the squatters, who said he was 20, told the Sunday Telegraph: 'There are many empty homes and we should be able to live wherever we want.'

Shoreditch County Court refused to issue an interim possession order forcing them to vacate the property within 24 hours because of a technicality - and it could now be six weeks before they are told have to go.

An eviction order was made by the judge but it could be weeks before they are out.

Mr Hamilton-Brown, who has a wife and daughters aged four and two, bought the home in December and was having the place done up while living in a nearby flat.

‘I was horrified they were given legal representation,’ he said. ‘As I work and pay taxes, I’m at a disadvantage.

‘I’ve saved up for ten years to move into this house and this is what I get. It’s remarkable that they can get away with this.’

The house in Archway, North London, is near the homes of actress Patsy Kensit and comedian Rob Brydon.

A legal notice put in the front window by the squatters states that anybody who enters without their permission could face six months in jail and a £5,000 fine.

A neighbour said: ‘They have more rights than we do.

‘They know what they’re doing on the legal side of things as they’ve been in houses before in the area.’

Neighbours have told Mr Hamilton-Brown that squatters forced entry to his property - although it is almost impossible for him to prove in court.

The father-of-two, who has a business graphics company, has had to appear before a court five times to get the order made.

It is thought that squatting has increased dramatically since the onset of the recession.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman confirmed they are looking whether the law can be strengthened to give homeowners greater protection.

Suburban Rhythm 03-03-2011 09:03 AM
Tot wanders into street while mom's at parenting class

The story not so much, but the title made me laugh

Suburban Rhythm 03-07-2011 10:25 AM
Clogged toilet delays Continental flight to Houston

mckerney 03-08-2011 08:59 AM
Great tits also have age-related defects

sterlingice 03-08-2011 09:07 AM
Looks like a fake news site

SI

mckerney 03-08-2011 10:22 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by sterlingice (Post 2435952)
Looks like a fake news site

SI

Or a science news site.

JPhillips 03-18-2011 02:38 PM
OMG. Even if it's made up it's horrific.

Quote:
Meat Lover! The Scariest (True) NYC Sublet Story You've Ever Heard

In the summer of 2005, I moved to New York to live with a girl I had been dating long distance. And—as "moving across the country to be with a girl" stories usually go—it didn't work out. Our reunion was short-lived, and I needed someplace to stay, quick.

In my experience, finding good housing in New York is largely based on luck, and I had that in low reserve. I tried all the usual avenues—Craigslist, friends, friends of friends, acquaintances of friends… and, after a few weeks of searching, I finally managed to be put in contact with a guy who had a spare room to sublet for a super-low price in the Lower East Side.

The owner of this apartment (we’ll call him Doug) was a heavy-drinking, chain-smoking freelance writer who had also recently split from his girlfriend. His ex-girlfriend's office space was in the apartment, which made the perfect bedroom to rent out. I was in a sort of headspace at the time that necessitated a lot of shut-door boozing and miscellany, and I found it highly attractive that Doug seemed to be into the same kind of mopery that I was. Plus, the room for rent was large (for the Lower East Side), seemed cloistered enough from Doug's area that I would have a decent amount of privacy, and—while it gave off the kind of "dude" funk smell that some might have shied away from—it wasn't that big of a deal considering it was also devoid of rats, mold, and water damage. It seemed perfect.

"This place seems perfect!" I said to Doug. And of course, the follow-up: "What's wrong with it?"

"Nothing's wrong with the room," he said a little too cautiously. "But you're talking about the price right? Why it's so low?"

"Ha," I joked. "Did someone die in here or what?"

"No, nothing like that. But something did happen, and I'd feel like an ass if I rented the place to you and didn't tell you what happened here a few months ago." …Ah, the words every subletter wants to hear. And with that, he launched into the best story I've ever heard about NYC housing.

After Doug's girlfriend left him a few months before I met him, he became unable to afford the rent by himself. He quickly found Jack via Craigslist, a recent Columbia journalism school graduate and fellow writer. Like Doug, Jack was also quiet and a loner, choosing to order Chinese food and chip away at his novel instead of getting drunk like the LES revelers on the sidewalks bellow. But he was courteous and stayed out of Doug's perma-sedated way, which is the exact kind of stranger you want to be living with.

After living with Jack for a few months, Doug was running home through the middle of a raging rainstorm, and noticed that Jack’s window was wide open, water pouring into the room. He rushed up the stairs, still dripping wet, and knocked on Jack’s door. Nobody answered, and Doug figured Jack was out. He found his master key, opened the door, and clicked on the light.

Neatly piled into stacks were Chinese food containers, some 10 boxes high, some already toppled, with their half-eaten contents strewn on the floor. The cartons covered all the available area on the floor except for a narrow walkway to the bed and the desk. Doug stood horrified at the doorway, then noticed the water flooding the floor by the window. He rushed over to close it.

Compulsive hoarders—as anyone who's spent a decent time watching TV will know—are not rare. There are between six to 15 million hoarders living in the United States, with many of them carrying on seemingly normal lives outside of their obsessive disorder. This fact didn't make Doug any more comfortable with the toy city of rotting Chinese food in his spare bedroom. He was going to kick Jack out when he got back to the apartment.

Then he saw the boot.

Doug leaned over to pick it up, knowing what the contents were before his fingers even made contact. Spilled out from the tops were strings of Lo Mein noodles, and hard pieces of dried rice. Doug was sure he could see crusted-over mounds of meat and hardened sauce. Sickened, Doug sat down the shoe, and as he did so, he noticed a shadow in the shape of a human body beneath the twin bed.

With absolute trepidation, Doug lifted the bed and slid it a few feet away, knocking over a pile of takeout boxes. What he uncovered wasn't—to his immediate relief—a real person. But it was a person's shape, with a hooded sweatshirt attached to gloves and a pair of jeans, with the other boot tucked into the leg. Coming out of the seams were remnants of noodles, rice, and meat, grease stains pooling through the fabric and onto the floor, spoiled scraps of food filling the hoodie to the brim. Doug scanned the body—and...yep, there it was. Noodles oozed out of the unzipped fly; a glory hole that Jack had ostensibly been taking advantage of all spring long.

Doug called an emergency locksmith who came and changed the locks within the hour. Jack arrived home not too long afterward and found it locked.

"I just need my laptop," he called through the door.

Doug slid the laptop through the mail slot. He could hear Jack's footsteps click down the hall, and the apartment entrance door slam shut. During the following days, Doug hired cleaners to remove all the food that Jack had left behind. Though the room had been cleared of all the takeout containers (along with the Meat Lover, which I've since started using to describe the effigy), the floors and walls scrubbed clean, and the room aired out for days, the smell still lingered.

Doug paused. "So, yeah. The room is cheap. What happened was fucked up." Doug looked ready to pass out, and I felt faint. "I'm sorry, dude. I can't," I muttered, and headed for the door. I regret leaving in such haste now, as the amount of questions I have are overwhelming—Didn't Doug smell something weird coming from Jack's room before he went in? Didn't he notice that Jack never took out any trash? What did he think was on his laptop? I've considered calling him to tie up those loose mental ends (which would lend this story that I've retold at least a hundred times much more credence), but really, I hate to bother the guy. That summer was an especially damaging one for me, and I wasn't the one who had to clean up a leaking sex toy my ex-roommate had constructed out of decomposing Chinese food.

Young Drachma 03-18-2011 03:04 PM
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps...ont-boys_N.htm

Quote:
Hannah McNulty
more than holds her
own for Vt. boys
team

Posted 3/6/2011 3:42:33 PM |

By Andy Gardiner, USA TODAY

STOWE, Vt. — A senior season that took a
historic turn for Hannah McNulty could end
Tuesday when Stowe plays Thetford in the
opening round of the Vermont Division III
basketball playoffs. The 13th-seeded
Raiders endured a 2-18 regular season
and are heavy underdogs against the No. 4
Panthers (14-6).

But McNulty won't be playing in the girls
tournament; she will be a starting guard for
Stowe in the boys playoffs. Vermont has had
girls play on boys hockey teams and even in
football. Last week Rachel Hale of Mount
Anthony became the first girl to win a state
title in wrestling.

But McNulty is the first girl to play boys
basketball.

McNulty was a three-year starter on Stowe's
girls team, piling up 685 points. She hoped
to reach the 1,000-point career mark this
season at Stowe, one of Vermont's smaller
high schools with an enrollment of 107 girls
and 119 boys.

But a perfect storm of injuries and academic
ineligibilities forced the girls team to
abandon the season after one game.

McNulty had three options: give up her
senior season, petition for permission to
play at a neighboring school or attempt to
play for the boys team at Stowe.

McNulty had friends who played at nearby
Lamoille Union in Hyde Park and Peoples
Academy in Morrisville. But because of
Vermont Principals Association guidelines,
she would have had to play on the junior
varsity at those schools.

Veteran Stowe boys coach Evans Bouchard
had coached both of McNulty's brothers and
known Hannah since she was a sixth grader
tagging along to her brothers' practices. He
offered her a place on his team.

"In my mind, knowing Hannah, it wasn't a
hard decision," Bouchard said. "I knew she
could handle the defensive part. But I
worried that offensively, the boys would be
too fast for her."

McNulty was apprehensive, but determined.
She will play at Suffolk University in Boston
next season and did not want to waste any
chance to improve.

"I wasn't sure I how I would do with the
physical aspect and the speed," she said.
"But my first love is basketball, and I just
couldn't walk away from it. So I decided to try
to earn my spot on the team."

Bouchard inserted her in the starting lineup
after three games, where she has stayed,
averaging 5.2 points.

"Hannah knew she had to earn playing time,
and she came in and went to work,"
Bouchard said. "She has brought a lot of
energy to our team, and opposing coaches
know now she is not just a girl on the boys
team."

McNulty was the goalie on Stowe's girls
soccer team that won its first state title this
year, winning all three playoff games in
penalty kick shootouts. She'll play soccer
and basketball at Division III Suffolk next
year.

"I think she's a great fit and a great catch for
us," said Suffolk women's basketball coach
Ed Leyden. "I give Hannah a lot of credit for
taking the road less traveled. It seems like
I'm getting a kid with confidence, courage
and a sense of humor."

McNulty has pushed the thought that this
might be the end of her high school career
to the back of her mind: "Just being able to
play this year in the sport I love the most is
most important."

Young Drachma 03-21-2011 03:42 AM
World's Youngest Grandmother
 
Woman, 23, Becomes World's Youngest Grandmother - FoxNews.com

Quote:
A woman from Romania said she became the world’s youngest grandmother – at the age of 23.
Ridca Stanescu, who gave birth to her daughter Maria when she was just 12 years old, said she urged her daughter not to follow in her footsteps – but Maria gave birth to her son when she was just 11.
Now 25, Stanescu, said she wanted more for her daughter.
“I am happy to be a grandmother but I wished something else for Maria – and something else for me,” she said.
Stanescu said “marrying young” is a way of life in the Romanian gypsy culture. She was married at the age of 11.
“I did not try to stop my daughter getting married because this is the tradition, it's what happens,” she said.
The youngest British grandmother was an unnamed 26-year-old from Rotheram, Yorkshire, whose 12-year-old daughter gave birth in 1999.


Read more: Woman, 23, Becomes World's Youngest Grandmother - FoxNews.com

CrimsonFox 03-21-2011 05:49 AM
Yes there are 3 events at every renaissance faire. Jousting, dueling, and grandmother-killing. The winner gets the honorary title of dumbass.

RendeR 03-21-2011 07:55 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by CrimsonFox (Post 2443766)
Yes there are 3 events at every renaissance faire. Jousting, dueling, and grandmother-killing. The winner gets the honorary title of dumbass.


Maybe I'm just bleary eyed and tired, but WTF are you on about with this post? I don't understand any correlation to much of anything in what you just posted.

Young Drachma 03-21-2011 11:28 AM
L.A. Marathon: It's official, Kelly Gneiting sets Guinness World Record as heaviest man to finish | The Fabulous Forum | Los Angeles Times

JPhillips 03-21-2011 09:22 PM
Spartanburg Police: Crack Found In Man's Buttocks

http://www2.wspa.com/news/2011/mar/1...ks-ar-1584174/

Suburban Rhythm 03-22-2011 10:40 AM
Man in zombie mask attacks with stun gun

Quote:
LEECHBURG, Pa. -- A man is charged with attacking another man with a stun gun while using a zombie mask to conceal his identity.
Allegheny Township police say 28-year-old Darob Wright was arrested Saturday, a day after the alleged attack.
Police Chief John Fontaine says the victim went to Mr. Wright's apartment to collect money for auto body work but Wright didn't answer the door so the man returned to his car to wait. Investigators say Mr. Wright, wearing a Halloween mask, then suddenly opened the victim's car door and repeatedly discharged the stun gun in the man's face.
Fontaine says the mask fell off during the attack, revealing Mr. Wright's identity. He is free on bail facing charges including aggravated assault and robbery.


Maybe this isn't that strange...more like a horror movie gone bad.

JediKooter 03-22-2011 11:12 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JPhillips (Post 2444181)
Spartanburg Police: Crack Found In Man's Buttocks

http://www2.wspa.com/news/2011/mar/1...ks-ar-1584174/

Oh man, sometimes the headlines just write themselves.

PilotMan 03-22-2011 03:30 PM
Taco Rage: Man upset at burrito price rise fires shots.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...72K4A920110321

Quote:
(Reuters) - A Taco Bell drive-through customer who became enraged because of a price increase on Beefy Crunch Burritos fired a BB gun through the window at a manager on Sunday, police said.
No one was hurt from the shots fired by the man, who also waved a pistol and an assault rifle in the parking lot, Police Sergeant Chris Benavides said.
As the restaurant's employees and customers hit the floor, the manager called police, and when officers arrived, the angry patron fired several shots at the police cars, Benavides said.
The man then barricaded himself inside a nearby motel room, sparking a standoff that lasted until police lobbed tear gas inside and the man surrendered.
Benavides said the burritos had been sold for 99 cents each as a promotion, but the man was apparently angry that the promotion had ended, and the price had gone up to $1.49.
The name of the 'taco rage' suspect has not been released because he had not yet been formally charged early Monday. Benavides said that the man will be charged with three counts of attempted capital murder, and that additional charges are possible.
The man never did get his burritos.

sterlingice 03-22-2011 05:53 PM
Ah, memories:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/foo...as_chalupa_ap/

Quote:
Originally Posted by SportsIllustrated
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A 270-pound University of Kansas football player got stuck in the drive-thru window of a Taco Bell when he tried to charge employees who left the chalupa out of his order, authorities said.

Dion Rayford, a 6-foot-3 senior defensive end, was suspended for the game Saturday against Iowa State, the last game of his college career. He was released on his own recognizance after appearing in court Wednesday on charges of disorderly conduct, having an open container of alcohol and misdemeanor damage to property.

An innocent plea was entered for Rayford, who had started all 11 games this season.

Rayford, 24, allegedly became angry about 2 a.m. Wednesday when he didn't get the chalupa.

He tried to climb through the 14-by-46-inch drive-thru window, said Lawrence police Sgt. George Wheeler. But the window couldn't support Rayford and broke, Wheeler said. Rayford was stuck hanging halfway.

"When you take a big guy and put him through a small space, something's got to give," Wheeler said.

The night manager, Tiffany Holly, and three other employees locked themselves into an office, said restaurant manager Tito Lopez.

None of the employees was injured.

"I'm disappointed for the young man, and frustrated as a coach to be put in the position to suspend someone from the final game of their career," said Kansas coach Terry Allen. "But we can't tolerate that type of behavior in our program."

SI

cartman 03-23-2011 08:26 AM
Hugo Chavez theorizes that capitalism might have ended life on Mars.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...72L61D20110322

JediKooter 03-23-2011 07:14 PM
A New Yorker Is Suing His Boss For $2 Million Because Working In New Jersey Caused Him "Anguish"

sterlingice 03-23-2011 07:27 PM
Stupid people cause me anguish. If he wins, I want $2,000,001 and a kick to his nuts from a little girl. $2M goes to charity, he owe me a dollar, and he gets what he deserves

SI

DataKing 03-30-2011 02:46 PM
Giving new meaning to the term "Die Hard Fans"

NASCAR may let fans stay forever - News

DataKing 03-30-2011 03:08 PM
Stranger than fiction.....

http://jalopnik.com/#!5787316

DougW 03-30-2011 03:25 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by DataKing (Post 2448984)
Stranger than fiction.....

Jalopnik - Drive Free or Die

haha

the Youngquists were members of the "nation of Kansas" and that "outlying minion islands" did not have dominion over them

Ksyrup 03-30-2011 03:32 PM
The American Pickers guys just had a coronary.

Young Drachma 03-30-2011 05:54 PM
Kappa Sigma suspends University of Southern California student over sex photos on campus roof

Quote:
Birds do it. Bees do it. USC college students do it, too, on the roof of a school building in full view of the entire campus.

The all-too public sex act atop Waite Phillips Hall at the University of Southern California was captured in a series of photos that spread around the campus this weekend, then on the Internet.

The male student was suspended from his fraternity, Kappa Sigma, and could face similar punishment from the school.

The woman involved does not attend USC.

"While the actions that were taken did involve a member of our chapter we, in no way, support this kind of behavior," Zach Timm, president of USC's Kappa Sigma, said in a statement.

"The member in question has been suspended from Kappa Sigma for conduct unbecoming of a Kappa Sigma and a gentleman until a more detailed investigation can be conducted."

USC refused to comment on what actions it may take concerning the student, citing privacy concerns. It did say, however, that his behavior was "a violation of our code of conduct and of our most basic community standards."

"To say that we are disappointed in this type of behavior does not begin to capture the seriousness with which we regard this type of activity," Denzil J. Suite., USC's associate vice president for student affairs, told the LA Weekly.

He also noted that access to the roof was restricted and going up there was a violation of university policies.

This is just the latest incident to befall the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Earlier this month, an unidentified member embarrassed the frat when he sent a memo that ranked women (referred to as "targets") for their sexual skills and beauty.

M GO BLUE!!! 03-31-2011 12:15 AM
BBC News - Puppy thrown at German biker gang

Puppy thrown at German biker gang
A German student "mooned" a group of Hell's Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.

The man drove up to a Hell's Angels clubhouse near Munich, wearing only a pair of shorts and carrying a puppy.

He dropped his shorts and threw the dog, escaping on a bulldozer from a nearby building site.

He was arrested later at home by police. The 26-year-old is said to have stopped taking depression medication.

After making his getaway on the bulldozer, he had driven so slowly that a 5km tailback built up behind him on the motorway.

After driving about 1km, he had abandoned the bulldozer in the middle of the motorway, near Allershausen. He continued his journey by hitchhiking.

"What motivated him to throw a puppy at the Hell's Angels is currently unclear," a police spokesman said.

The puppy is now being cared for in an animal shelter.

sterlingice 03-31-2011 06:48 PM
I don't know where to start with that story, but I like it

SI

DataKing 04-05-2011 03:53 PM
I don't live in Texas. I'm not from Texas. And I don't hunt. But this is still awesome.

Texplainer: How Real Is the Feral Hog Menace? — Texas Legislature | The Texas Tribune

Ksyrup 04-05-2011 04:07 PM
Quote:
Odd reports from last week’s blotter


La Grange, IL —

Two unusual reports showed up in La Grange’s police blotter in the past week, both products of the time of the year.

In the first incident, police responded about 2 p.m. Friday to a report of an intruder in an apartment in the 900 block of South Eighth Avenue.

The report was called in by the resident’s sister, according to records. Upon arrival, police learned the resident had been playing an April Fools prank on her sister. She received a warning.

In the second incident, police received a report about 7:15 p.m. Saturday of a teenage boy who had been at Borders, 1 N. La Grange Road, four straight days for at least 10 hours a day. The caller was concerned he could be neglected.

According to reports, police found the boy was “well dressed, well spoken and appeared to be well cared for.” He told police he was at the bookstore to read over Spring Break.

Police confirmed with his mother that he loves to read, according to reports.

HA!

M GO BLUE!!! 04-05-2011 11:12 PM
MY NEW HERO!

BBC News - Naked soldier smashes window to stop Salford car thief

Any bloke who takes on three burglars, chases one stealing his car, punches through the glass & beats the masked thief at 6am without caring that he is in fact naked... I'll buy him a beer!

Passacaglia 04-06-2011 08:48 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ksyrup (Post 2451901)
HA!

Kid was probably just trying to figure out why there are two La Granges in Illinois.

Rizon 04-07-2011 09:03 AM
Maryland man glued to Wal-Mart toilet seat - CNN.com

Ksyrup 04-07-2011 09:08 AM
An April Fools day prank at Wal-Mart on March 31st. Awesome.

Passacaglia 04-07-2011 09:12 AM
Maybe the idea was for the dude to be stuck there overnight, and found in the morning on April 1.

Ksyrup 04-09-2011 10:24 AM
Quote:
Short Anus-to-Scrotum Length Predicts Poor Sperm Count
7-Fold Higher Risk of Low Sperm Count With Below-Average Anogenital Distance
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

March 9, 2011 -- Men whose anus-to-scrotum distance is shorter than average are 7.3 times more likely to have low sperm counts than men with a longer anogenital distance.

The finding comes from Shanna Swan, PhD, of the University of Rochester, N.Y., and colleagues. In earlier studies, Swan found that pregnant animals exposed to phthalates -- commonly used chemicals suspected of hormone-disrupting effects -- had infertile male offspring with short anogenital distance.

In a 2005 study, Swan's team found that male infants with prenatal exposure to phthalates had decreased anogenital distance.

In their current study, the researchers found poor sperm quality in men with short anus-to-scrotum distance. They tended to have low sperm counts, low sperm motility, low sperm concentration, poor sperm morphology, and low total mobile sperm count.

"The associations we observed between these sperm parameters and anogenital distance were stronger than those for most [other factors] known to be associated with semen quality," Swan and colleagues note. "If our results are confirmed, anogenital distance may provide a useful adjunct to these traditional measures of male reproductive function."

Swan's team studied 126 young men (most were 19 years old) who volunteered for the Rochester Young Men's Study. Their anogenital distance was measured in two ways: from the center of the anus to the base of the scrotum, or from the center of the anus to the top of the penis at the point where it intersects with the abdomen. Only the scrotal measure turned out to be linked to subpar fertility.

One surprise from the study was that nearly a fourth of the young men in the study had low sperm counts.

Swan and colleagues did not report on whether the men's mothers reported exposure to phthalates during pregnancy, and they did not report data on the men's hormone levels.

"Poorer semen quality and shorter anogenital distance in adulthood may reflect a common origin, including a disruption of testicular development in utero," they suggest.

Although there may be many reasons for this, they note, it "may be caused by exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals" in the womb.

Swan and colleagues report their findings in the March 4 online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives.


Curiously, most males' research indicates that the distance between penis and vagina is a far greater factor in failed reproduction.

Suburban Rhythm 04-09-2011 11:56 AM
Anogenital Distance would be a great name for a band.

Ksyrup 04-09-2011 12:06 PM
Ha, I said the same thing on another board!

sterlingice 04-09-2011 07:43 PM
Didn't Dave Barry popularize that phrase?

SI

molson 04-14-2011 01:07 PM
America gets a bad rap nowadays, and China is almost willing itself towards world acceptance through a quickly growing economy - so it's always nice have a litttle reminder, that in a lot of ways, America rules and China is run by weirdo crazies:

China bans time travel on the tube - The Source - Latest news and updates from Boston.com

If you're living in China right now and want to enjoy a nice quiet evening on the sofa watching the classic 1960 film version of "The Time Machine," you may be out of luck.

The New York Times recently reported that China's State Administration for Radio, Film & Television has issued new guidelines as to how TV shows should treat the issue of time travel, saying that shows that involve rocketing through time and space lack meaning and promote an unhealthy belief system.

The Times reports that a press release in Chinese says that these shows "casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation."

While plots involving time travel have been part of western culture for centuries – from "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," to "Back to the Future" – TV dramas with plot twists involving time travel have apparently been on the rise in China. One such show, "Palace," involves woman traveling back in time to the Qing Dynasty and falling in love with several princes.

Such shows are deemed by the Chinese media administration as insulting because they are "treating the serious history in a frivolous way, which should by no means be encouraged anymore," according to a Time magazine article.

This news comes as no surprise considering China's recent history with censorship. Besides flagging some keywords and blocking certain topics on the Internet, the country's government has also banned online games featuring mafioso and has blocked popular websites like Youtube and Twitter on quite a few occasions.

What else has the Chinese government censored? See a list of just a few of the items restricted and monitored by the government.

JediKooter 04-14-2011 01:13 PM
Read that this morning. Don't let their economic status fool you (ubiquitous you) into forgetting they are still a dictatorial communist government and are not supporters of free speech, workers rights, human rights, etc...

Ksyrup 04-14-2011 01:38 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by molson (Post 2455662)
The Times reports that a press release in Chinese says that these shows "casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation."

....

"Back to the Future" .

[Insert Chicago Cubs winning the WS joke here].

Wolfpack 04-14-2011 06:53 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ksyrup (Post 2455672)
[Insert Chicago Cubs winning the WS joke here].

Hey, it could happen. They've got until 2015...well, that and the Marlins would have to switch leagues and turn their mascot into an alligator, but still....

Suburban Rhythm 04-19-2011 08:36 AM
Missing bull semen package located

JPhillips 04-19-2011 08:51 AM
One of these?

Ksyrup 04-19-2011 09:25 AM
In other !SHOCKING! news...

Quote:
Playboy Mansion illness traced to hot tub bacteria


– Fri Apr 15, 10:27 pm ET

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County health officials say the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease was found in a hot tub at the Playboy Mansion where scores of people became ill after attending a fundraiser in February.

The Los Angeles Times says health officials presented their findings Friday at an annual conference at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

The legionella bacteria also causes a milder illness called Pontiac fever. Symptoms include fever and headache.

Many people who attended a fundraiser party at the Playboy Mansion came down with a respiratory illness after the DomainFest conference in February.

Officials contacted 439 people and found that 123 had fevers and at least one other symptom with 69 falling ill on the same day. Epidemiologists used social media to contact the conference attendees.

molson 04-19-2011 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Ksyrup (Post 2457602)
In other !SHOCKING! news...

Ha. There was a snl weekend update bit about this a while back:

"It was reported this week that Los Angeles County health officials discovered the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease at the Playboy Mansion. [ sarcastically ] Oh, did they find a weird old-timey disease at that bastion of health and cleanliness? The home of the world’s oldest man and his stripper collection, its grounds crawling with weird zoo animals that you know aren’t being looked after by any kind of a zookeeper? Just a bunch of sick peacocks and gimpy llamas running around, using the badminton court as a toilet while a 19-year-old runaway in a bikini Googles what you’re supposed do when a spider monkey has a cough? And they just found Legionnaire’s disease? Keep looking, county health officials, that’s probably just the tip of the petri dish!"

JediKooter 04-20-2011 12:36 PM
It's a Jersey thing, you wouldn't understand...

NJ woman chides NYC smoker, gets stabbed with pen - Yahoo! News


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