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http://hamptonroads.com/2012/01/athlete-blames-antihangover-pills-naked-rampage

 

A professional skateboarder says his naked spree of tearing paintings off the walls of a hotel hallway was spurred by drinking and what he thought were anti-hangover pills.

 

"I became something that wasn't myself — something like the Hulk," Jereme Rogers said Wednesday as he left a Manhattan courtroom after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor criminal mischief charge. His case will be closed without further jail time or probation if he pays $2,850 in restitution and appears for a Jan. 31 sentencing.

 

Rogers, 26, had been held on $10,000 bond since his arrest last week. He admitted he went down a hall, naked, at the Affinia Shelburne hotel, pulling three paintings off the walls and throwing them to the ground. Their glass shattered, and he tore some canvases with his hands.

 

Rogers, who's also a rap artist, said he'd worked on some music at a recording studio and went to a bar. A woman he met there gave him the pills, saying they'd combat a hangover.

 

He said he couldn't entirely remember what ensued but recalled feeling he was acting with an inspired purpose. "Although I was doing something destructive, I thought I was saving the world."

 

Bolding mine. This fool is definitely on Darwin's short list.

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(CNN) -- A man suspected in a series of buttock slashings in Fairfax, Virginia, has been captured in Peru, authorities said.

Johnny D. Guillen, known as the "Corta Nalgas" -- or "butt cutter" -- was captured Friday in Lima, according to Jair Quedas, system operator for Interpol Peru.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/14/justice/peru-virginia-buttocks-slashings/index.html

 

 

Penis tattoo gives guy permanent erection

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/penis-tattoo_n_1195324.html?ref=weird-news?hpweird=y

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:o Holy rectum Batman!

 

Cops Believe North Carolina Inmate Hid 10-Inch Revolver In His Rectum. Luckily, It Was Unloaded.

A man arrested this week in North Carolina may have stashed a .38 barrel revolver in his rectum, according to police, who reported that the unloaded 10-inch weapon was not discovered until after the suspect had been booked into a cell in the county jail.

 

Michael Leon Ward, a 22-year-old Georgia resident, was arrested Monday after a trooper spotted him speeding. Ward, who resisted arrest, was subdued with the help of a stun gun. A subsequent search of his vehicle resulted in additional charges for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

 

But it was only after Ward--who is a fugitive on a murder warrant out of Atlanta--entered the Onslow County jail that sheriff’s investigators discovered what else he possessed.

 

According to cops, Ward, pictured at right, summoned jailers to his cell, claiming that someone was trying to kill him, and that he discovered a gun inside his cell. The weapon was found in the toilet, where Ward claimed he tossed it after finding it in his bunk.

 

The recovered gun is pictured in the above police evidence photo (click to enlarge).

 

Sheriff’s investigators say they are investigating how Ward got the weapon into the jail, since he had been “strip searched prior to being booked into a cell block.” The inmate, a press release notes, was taken today to a local hospital “for possible injuries that may have occurred to Ward’s rectum where it is believed Ward may have concealed” the revolver.

 

The gun, deputies reported, was test fired and found to be operational.

 

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:o Holy rectum Batman! [Wacky article]

 

Translation to English : cops fucked up search and unless this guy belts out show tunes like Liza, came up with totally plausible excuse. <_<

 

RALEIGH — A Cumberland County man has been arrested after his neighbor says she saw him having sex with her dog.

 

Read more: http://www.gastongazette.com/articles/sex-65798-accused-dog.html#ixzz1jWxr56ZQ

 

CONCORD — “Bigfoot” can roam Mount Monadnock with a camera in tow free of any permit because the National Natural Landmark is so well known it constitutes a “traditional public forum” where free speech is protected, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled Friday.

 

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120114/NEWS/120119959

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Mr Morgan, who pointed out that the engineering and safety rules of modern ships mean that icebergs now pose no danger to the cruise...

 

Now where did I hear that before?

 

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/watch-out-for-the-icebergs-cruise-recreating-titanics-fateful-voyage-is-sold-out-6281801.html

And the history taps us on the shoulder and says "remember me?"

 

Prosecutor says captain left ship early

By Laura Bly, USA TODAY

Updated 6m ago

 

In a chaotic scene eerily evocative of the Titanic — which struck an iceberg and sank a century ago this April — at least five people have died and 15 remained missing Sunday after a state-of-the-art cruise ship hit an unidentified reef or rock and toppled over just off Italy's Tuscan coast on the evening of Friday the 13th.

 

The Italian Coast Guard said its divers found two more bodies aboard the ship Sunday.

 

An Italian prosecutor confirmed allegations from passengers that the Italian captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia abandoned the stricken liner before all the passengers had left the Costa Cruises' 6-year-old ship, which was carrying 4,200 passengers and crew.

 

The captain, Francesco Schettino, is in custody and being investigated for manslaughter in addition to abandoning ship.

 

Authorities reduced the number of people still unaccounted for. An Italian who worked in cabin service was pulled from the wreckage in shallow water off the tiny island of Giglio. A South Korean couple on their honeymoon were rescued late Saturday in the unsubmerged part of the liner when firefighters heard their screams.

 

There are now six crewmembers and 11 passengers who haven't been located, Tuscany's regional president Enrico Rossi said. Two French tourists and a crewmember from Peru died.

 

As confusion swirled over the cause of the dramatic accident, questions about ship safety, crew preparedness and evacuation procedures are roiling the waters of a booming industry that drew an estimated 16 million passengers last year. Italy's Costa, a mass-market line that caters to an international clientele, is owned by Miami-based Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company.

 

The U.S. State Department says 125 Americans were on board, but there were no reports of injuries after the ship, in calm seas and good weather, struck an object and took on water from a 160-foot-long gash, causing the vessel to list and keel over.

 

Cruise experts emphasized the rarity of the accident, which is the worst major cruise ship incident in modern history.

 

But survivors described a panic-filled evacuation as plates and glasses crashed and they crawled along darkened, upended hallways trying to reach safety.

 

There was no lifeboat drill after the ship's departure from Citavecchia (Rome), and passengers complained that the crew failed to give instructions on how to evacuate and delayed lowering the lifeboats until the ship was listing too heavily for many of them to be released.

 

Some passengers jumped into the sea while others waited to be plucked to safety by helicopters, and some lifeboats had to be cut down with an ax.

 

Under U.S. Coast Guard and the International Maritime Organization's Safety of Life at Sea regulations, cruise ships must conduct a safety drill within 24 hours of sailing with instructions on the use of life jackets and how and where to muster in an emergency.

 

But passengers are not required to attend, and cruise lines vary in how quickly they hold the drill and how stringently they enforce passenger participation.

 

In the U.S., for example, Royal Caribbean and sister lines Celebrity and Azamara, like most U.S.-based lines, conduct all lifeboat drills before departure, Royal Caribbean spokeswoman Michele Nadeem says.

 

But, says cruise expert and guidebook author Fran Golden, while "cruise lines make a good effort to make people pay attention during drills, many don't."

 

Golden says another potential problem on ships such as the Costa Concordia, which draw passengers from many different countries, is the fact that all announcements are made in multiple languages, which "can be a bit of a recipe for chaos."

 

"Cruise lines for years have been saying the (sinking of the) Titanic could never happen again because of all the safety procedures put in place," Golden says. "It seems pretty clear there was a'perfect storm' of things that went wrong here."

 

Costa's president, Gianni Onorato, said in a statement Saturday that the Concordia's captain had the liner on its regular, weekly route when it struck a reef about 10 p.m. local time on Friday night. Italian coast guard officials said the circumstances were still unclear, but that the ship hit an unknown obstacle.

 

Despite some early reports that the captain was dining with passengers when his ship crashed into the reef, he was on the bridge, Onorato said.

 

The Associated Press reports Schettino is being held in a jail in Grosseto, Italy, until next week, when a judge will decide whether he should be released or formally put under arrest. The chief prosecutor in the Tuscan city of Grosseto, Francesco Verusio, was quoted by the ANSA news agency as telling reporters that the captain "very ineptly got close" to the vacation island of Giglio, about 18 miles off the Italian coast, the AP reports.

 

"The ship struck a reef that got stuck inside the left side, making it (the ship) lean over and take on a lot of water in the space of two, three minutes," he said.

 

There were no firm indications that anyone was trapped under the sunken ship. Rescuers carried out extensive searches of the waters near the ship for hours and "we would have seen bodies," Coast Guard Capt. Cosimo Nicastro said.

 

"It was so unorganized, our evacuation drill was scheduled for 5 p.m." on Saturday, said Melissa Goduti, 28, of Wallingford, Conn., who had departed on the Mediterranean cruise on Friday. "We had joked 'What if something had happened today?' "

 

"Have you seen Titanic? That's exactly what it was," said Valerie Ananias, 31, a schoolteacher from Los Angeles who was traveling with her sister and parents on the first of two cruises around the Mediterranean. They all bore dark red bruises on their knees from the desperate crawl they endured along nearly vertical hallways and stairwells, trying to reach rescue boats.

 

"We were crawling up a hallway, in the dark, with only the light from the life vest strobe flashing," her mother, Georgia Ananias, 61, said. "We could hear plates and dishes crashing, people slamming against walls."

 

She choked up as she recounted the moment when an Argentine couple handed her their 3-year-old daughter, unable to keep their balance as the ship lurched to the side and the family found themselves standing on a wall. "He said 'take my baby,'" Mrs. Ananias said, covering her mouth with her hand as she teared up. "I grabbed the baby. But then I was being pushed down. I didn't want the baby to fall down the stairs. I gave the baby back. I couldn't hold her.

 

"I thought that was the end and I thought they should be with their baby," she said.

 

"I wonder where they are," daughter Valerie whispered.

 

The family said they were some of the last off the ship, forced to shimmy along a rope down the exposed side of the ship to a waiting rescue vessel below.

 

Some 30 people were reported injured, most of them suffering only bruises, but at least two people were reported in grave condition.

 

The evacuees were taking refuge in schools, hotels, and a church on Giglio.

 

Officials say the captain appears to have taken the vessel close to shore in a dangerous manner, Reuters said.

 

"There was a dangerous close approach which very probably caused the accident, although it will be for the investigation to establish that fully," coast guard spokesman Luciano Nicastro told SkyTG24. He said the captain then attempted a safety maneuver, setting anchor and bringing the ship closer to the shore to facilitate a rescue.

 

A top official from an international maritime union representing 23,000 workers says the disaster signals a need for a review of all cruise ships because their enormous size raises concerns about their safety.

 

"In this, the centenary of the loss of the Titanic, major nostalgia industry is already in full flow, but it is essential that everyone recognizes that the Titanic offers lessons for today and that there are contemporary resonances that should not be lost," says Mark Dickinson, general secretary of Nautilus International based in Britain.

 

In particular, he cited concerns about the size of modern cruise ships and the need for better evacuation plans.

 

"Many ships are now effectively small towns at sea, and the sheer number of people on board raises serious questions about evacuation," Dickinson said. "The growth in the size of such ships has also raised questions about their water-tight integrity and fire-fighting protection."

 

Costa defended the actions of the crew and says it is cooperating with the investigation.

 

The Concordia had a previous accident in Italian waters. In 2008, when strong winds buffeted Palermo, the cruise ship banged against the Sicilian port's dock, and suffered damage but no one was injured, ANSA said. In February 2010, another Costa ship, the Europa, hit a pier in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing three crew members.

 

Despite the fact that Costa draws few American passengers, the fact that it is a modern vessel will impact cruise sales on this side of the Atlantic as well, at least temporarily, said Mike Driscoll, editor of the industry publication Cruise Week.

 

"From what travel agents are telling me, that horrifying image (of the massive ship on its side) is going to turn the cruise industry on its side, too," said Driscoll.

http://travel.usatoday.com/cruises/story/2012-01-15/Prosecutor-says-captain-left-ship-early/52579406/1

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A cat hurled from a high window in Buenos Aires, Argentina, seriously hurt a woman, 85, when it hit her on the head.

 

The pet cat was thrown out of the fourth floor window of an apartment block in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires as a married couple had a blazing row.

 

During their quarrel the husband picked up the family pet and threw it at his wife, who ducked.

 

The cat then flew out of an open window, landing on the elderly woman’s head as she crossed the street below.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2012/01/16/woman-85-critical-after-being-hit-by-falling-cat-115875-23701230/

 

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2012/01/16/woman-85-critical-after-being-hit-by-falling-cat-115875-23701230/#ixzz1jdlQ3Kyp

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Only in NZ

 

 

 

NZ call for Olympic sheep shearing

Updated January 17, 2012 13:18:20

 

The New Zealand Farmers Federation has called for sheep shearing to become an Olympic sport, hailing top wool-clippers as world-class athletes.

 

With the World Shearing Championships set to be held in the North Island town of Masterton in March, federation spokeswoman Jeanette Maxwell said shearing was now a bona fide sport that deserved international recognition.

 

"Surely, time has come to elevate shearing's sporting status to the ultimate world stage?" she said in a statement. "One way would be to make shearing a demonstration sport at a Commonwealth Games, if not, the Olympics itself."

 

Ms Maxwell said competitive shearers clip up to 700 sheep over an eight-hour period, in a feat that has been likened to running two marathons back-to-back.

 

"I can also testify to the physical effort shearing takes... (top shearers) are athletes who take it to another level," she said.

 

The New Zealand's government's elite sports funding body, SPARC, already recognises shearing as a sport, providing it with grants to help run competitions.

 

New Zealand's population of about 4.4 million is outnumbered by a national sheep flock of around 40 million, according to Statistics New Zealand.

 

AFP

 

 

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DENVER. — Family members are waiting for answers about how a 66-year-old Colorado man’s body went unnoticed in a locked movie theater restroom for about five days after he died there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/colorado-family-seeks-answers-after-missing-mans-body-spent-days-in-theaters-locked-restroom/2012/01/17/gIQAVJW35P_story.html

 

A 118-foot, 3,500-year-old bald cypress tree named “The Senator” burned to the ground yesterday morning. Although arson was initially suspected, Steve Wright, a spokesman for the Seminole County Fire Rescue, told ABC News, ““The thought now is that the fire was due to a lighting strike about two weeks ago. We think it was smoldering inside the tree and we only saw the blaze today, when it reached the top.”

 

Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/17/the-senator-burns-down-one-of-the-worlds-oldest-trees-destroyed-by-fire-72856 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/17/the-senator-burns-down-one-of-the-worlds-oldest-trees-destroyed-by-fire-72856#ixzz1jl0cv5fZ

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I beg your pardon ... Nuckin Futs?

January 18, 2012 - 4:12PM

A snack maker, marketing its product to pubs, nightclubs and other entertainment venues, is calling its snack Nuckin Futs, after getting the green light from Australian regulators.

 

The Trade Marks Examiner initially decided Nuckin Futs was scandalous and inappropriate and rejected a trademark application.

 

The company's lawyers had argued the four-letter word implied in the product name by juxtapositioning the words' initials, is a normal part of Australian speech and therefore not offensive.

 

That argument may not have been accepted.

 

But the trademark was eventually allowed on condition the Queensland owner does not market the product to children.

 

The edible snack, which contains nuts, will only be sold in pubs, nightclubs and other entertainment venues.

 

The Trade Marks Examiner said it did not set a legal precedent.

 

The opposition period to the approval ends on April 12.

 

AAP

 

 

Read more: http://www.smh.com.a...l#ixzz1jnuAcJia

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http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/weird/Mars-Rocks-Fell-on-Morocco-137493168.html

 

Rocks that fell from the sky and landed in Morocco last summer came from Mars, scientists have confirmed.

 

The meteorite chunks, including one that weighed more than two pounds, rained down in North Africa last July.

 

A special committee of meteorite experts, including some NASA scientists, studied the rocks and determined their origin.

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Sort of an "activists gone wild" story;

 

http://www.arlnow.com/2012/01/12/cuccinelli-smells-a-rat-in-d-c/

 

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli called a local talk radio show on Tuesday to complain about rats in D.C. Specifically, Cuccinelli was peeved about a D.C. law — the Wildlife Protection Act — which, since March 2011, has outlawed some common pest control practices including the use of lethal traps on certain species of rats and mice (and on other wild animals that get stuck in homes).

 

“Last year, in its finite wisdom, the D.C. City Council passed a new law — a triumph of animal rights over human health,” he told the hosts of WMAL’s ‘The Morning Majority‘ show. “Those pest control people… aren’t allowed to kill the rat. They have to relocate the rat. And… that’s actually not the worst part. They cannot break up the family of the rat.”

 

“Oh no,” one of the hosts said solemnly as another loudly gasped. But what does any of this have to do with Virginia? Cuccinelli explained that wildlife trappers might now simply take the rats they catch in D.C. into Virginia.

 

“Actual experts in pest control will tell you, if you don’t move an animal about 25 miles, it will come back,” Cuccinelli said. “So what’s the solution to that? Across the river.”

 

Given that its DC, everything that even looks like a rat is going to be classified as protected, so exterminators are definitely going to be tempted to take them to rodentia's "Van Diemen's Land".

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