weird news

[Coldsteel]

What if only has balls but no brains or heart either?

http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2009-02...emejanza-humana

 

Its a thing a sheep delivered in a farm in Havana.

 

+++Melon Melon Melon+++

 

+++Out Of Cheese Error, Redo From Start+++

[X-Files]

Scientists on Sunday unveiled lab-made human antibodies that can disable several types of influenza, including highly-lethal H5N1 bird flu and the "Spanish Flu" strain that killed tens of millions in 1918.

Tested in mice, the antibodies work by binding to a previously obscure structure in the flu virus which, when blocked, sabotages the pathogen's ability to enter the cell it is trying to infect, according to the study.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CN...;show_article=1

 

It's all coming together. Excellent.

Edited February 25, 2009 by X-Files

[TSJ]

British couple rescued from middle of Atlantic. Called US Coast Guard and they said "yer too far out to be rescued". After being stranded for 40 days Coast Guard directs nearby freighter (5 hours away) to rescue the couple.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/02/23/british.couple.rescue/

Edited February 23, 2009 by TSJ

[Corinthian]

Scientists on Sunday unveiled lab-made human antibodies that can disable several types of influenza, including highly-lethal H5N1 bird flu and the "Spanish Flu" strain that killed tens of millions in 1918.

Tested in mice, the antibodies work by binding to a previously obscure structure in the flu virus which, when blocked, sabotages the pathogen's ability to enter the cell it is trying to infect, according to the study.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CN...;show_article=1

 

It's all coming together. Excellent.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)

[X-Files]

Natural Explanation Found for UFOs

Space.com

 

(Feb. 23) - Mysterious UFO sightings may go hand in hand with a puzzling natural phenomenon known as sprites — flashes high in the atmosphere triggered by thunderstorms.

Some UFO sightings may be due to a natural phenomenon known as sprites, like this one shown above, said Monday. "Lightning from [a] thunderstorm excites the electric field above, producing a flash of light called a sprite," said geophysicist Colin Price. Click through the gallery to see objects sometimes mistaken for a close encounter.

The dancing lights have appeared above most thunderstorms throughout history, but researchers did not start studying them until one accidentally recorded a sighting on camera in 1989.

"Lightning from the thunderstorm excites the electric field above, producing a flash of light called a sprite," said Colin Price, a geophysicist at Tel Aviv University in Israel. "We now understand that only a specific type of lightning is the trigger that initiates sprites aloft."

Researchers have detected the flashes between 35 and 80 miles from the ground, far above the 7 to 10 miles where usual lightning occurs. Sprites can take the form of fast-paced balls of electricity, although previous footage has suggested streaks or tendrils.

The cause or function of the flashes remains murky, but Price suggested that they could explain some of the UFO reports which have cropped up over the years. That might provide some solace for UFO enthusiasts disappointed by human-caused hoaxes in the past.

Both jetliner pilots and astronauts have previously reported sightings of sprites, along with a different but equally mysterious phenomenon known as blue jets.

and his colleagues have focused on "winter sprites" which appear only in the northern hemisphere's winter months. Their remote-controlled roof-mounted cameras can spot thunderstorms producing sprites far out over the Mediterranean Sea.

Triangulation techniques have also allowed the researchers to calculate the dimensions of the sprites.

"The candles in the sprites are up to 15 miles high, with the cluster of candles 45 miles wide — it looks like a huge birthday celebration!" Price said.

Sprites may have some effect on the Earth's ozone layer, but researchers suspect that the global impact is small.

[X-Files]

More rabbit drama.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...abbit.html?Holy

 

Pcs Matt Jackson and Yasmin Mossadegh, of Kent Police, came across the two-foot long, 20lbs animal - the size of a small dog - hopping along a road in Canterbury at 2.20am on Sunday. They admitted that at first it seemed like "something out of Alice in Wonderland". But detaining the albino rabbit before it caused an accident proved to be more of a handful than they first thought. After spending 10 minutes fruitlessly trying to grab the animal - even resorting to using their jackets as matador capes in a bid to snare the creature - they had to call on eight members of the public to help out.

[DB]

See, this is what happens when you reserve all your weird news for the weeklies. Our papers produce gems every day of the week.

[Jeff]

The latest "teacher/student love" episode.

 

Missing Massachusetts Teacher, Student Located in West Virginia

Tuesday , February 24, 2009

AP

 

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. —

A Massachusetts schoolteacher was behind bars on a kidnapping charge in West Virginia on Tuesday after police found her at a motel with a 15-year-old boy whose parents had complained about the relationship.

 

Lisa Lavoie, 24, appeared before a Monongalia County magistrate by videoconference from the North Central Regional Jail near Flatwoods, in central West Virginia. She was ordered held without bond because kidnapping in West Virginia carries a possible life sentence, said State Police Cpl. T.W. Goodnight.

 

In Massachusetts, she faces a charge of enticing a child under 16, and authorities in West Virginia plan to charge her as a fugitive from justice, Goodnight said. Michael Sullivan, mayor of Holyoke, Mass., said the enticement charge includes statutory rape. Lavoie will likely be released to Massachusetts authorities, but those details have not been worked out.

 

The boy's mother had contacted Maurice Donahue Elementary School on Feb. 13, saying she was concerned about the relationship between her son and an eighth-grade teacher. The teen was reported missing Feb. 16.

 

Authorities had been tracking the teacher and boy for several days through credit card and cell phone use, Sullivan said. On Monday night, state police were informed she was at the Super 8 Motel in a Morgantown shopping center just off Interstate 68.

 

A motel manager declined comment, but Goodnight said the staff had been in contact with Massachusetts authorities before his team arrived Tuesday morning. After confirming a vehicle in the parking lot belonged to Lavoie, troopers got a passkey and went to her room.

 

The door was deadbolted, and officers tried to kick it in before Lavoie and the boy opened it, Goodnight said. Lavoie surrendered quietly.

 

Goodnight would not reveal where the boy had been taken but said arrangements are being made to send him home. The eighth-grader will be interviewed by child welfare officials, then reunited with his family. The teen showed "no outward signs of physical abuse" when he was found, Sullivan said.

 

Lavoie has been a teacher in Holyoke for five months and has been placed on paid administrative leave.

 

"Her family and I are happy that she is safe and we'll see what develops over the next couple of days," said David Hoose, her Massachusetts attorney, before declining to comment further.

 

Sullivan said the city will review teacher training and student awareness programs. The Donahue principal has met with 7th and 8th grade students to advise them of counseling opportunities available, and some students are worried about their friend.

 

"We have to make sure students understand improper behavior and improper advances and we're going to make some changes in our professional development," he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,499444,00.html

[X-Files]

 

Ian Welch spent 90 minutes tussling with the giant stingray and it took 13 grown men to heave it out of the water. This fish measured 7ft long and 7ft wide, while its long sting measured 10ft. It has smashed the previous record of 46 stone for a huge catfish caught in 2005.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...g-stingray.html

 

OSLO (Reuters) – Jagged mountains the size of the Alps have been found entombed in Antarctica's ice, giving new clues about the vast ice sheet that will raise world sea levels if even a fraction of it melts, scientists said on Tuesday. Using radar and gravity sensors, the experts made the first detailed maps of the Gamburtsev subglacial mountains, originally detected by Russian scientists 50 years ago at the heart of the East Antarctic ice sheet.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090224/od_uk_...ctica_mountains

 

Edited February 25, 2009 by X-Files

[X-Files]

It's a frog. With seven legs.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

It's been a while since we had a good animal with an unexpectedly large number of legs. We are pleased to rectify that situation now, as we present to you A Frog With Seven Legs.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?...mp;in_page_id=2

[Matt Urbanski]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...-uncovered.html

 

Prawo Jazdy: Identity of Ireland's most notorious driver uncovered

 

The identity of Ireland's most notorious motorist has been uncovered, after Police realised they were recording Prawo Jazdy – the Polish term for driving licence – instead of the offender's name for more than 50 different Poles.

 

 

Prawo Jazdy was presumed to be one man who had somehow managed to evade the law while repeatedly speeding and clocking up parking fines across the Republic.

 

However, when police took a closer look, they realised that the "name" was actually Polish for driving licence.

 

The term had been mistaken as the name of the driver by dozens of officers.

 

It led police to believe that they had a serial offender on their hands who had managed to keep reoffending.

 

In fact, Prawo Jazdy was not one man, but the name given to many different Polish drivers after the police blunder.

 

An internal police memo printed in Irish papers on Thursday said officers taking details of Polish traffic offenders had been mistakenly using "Prawo Jazdy", printed in the top right corner of the driving licence, as the holder's name.

 

The memo, dated June 2007, said: "Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for driving licence and not the first and surname on the licence. It is quite embarrassing to see the system has created Prawo Jazdy as a person with over 50 identities."

 

A police spokesman declined to comment on the reports.

 

About 200,000 Polish people flocked to Ireland during the boom years of its "Celtic Tiger" economy but a poll in November indicated a third of them planned to leave due to recession.

 

*(ironically enough, whoever put the article together fell victim to the insidious Polish driver's license too - they went to the trouble of blurring out the "personal information" in a picture of an ID that has "SAMPLE" printed on it in large red letters in the background)

Edited February 26, 2009 by Matt Urbanski

[Marek Tucan]

Prawo Jazdy: Identity of Ireland's most notorious driver uncovered

 

Great one

[Kding]

Reminds me of the old "no plate" thing. Its listed on snopes as true if you havent heard it before. Just google "no plate" and its the first result, or was when I just did it.

[KingSargent]

My father had no middle name. His US Army discharge was issued to Charles None Sargent.

[X-Files]

Monster pig terrifies Hessian motorists

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090225-17655.html

(such an excellent headline).

[Michael Donnelly]

A study in how to garner your 15 minutes of fame by ramming your face into an overly equipped tackle box.

 

http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/health/World_s_...Counting_919722

[DKTanker]

Man guzzles Viagra and dies.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500645,00.html

A Russian man died after guzzling a bottle of Viagra to keep him going for a 12-hour orgy with two female pals.

 

The women had bet mechanic Sergey Tuganov $4,300 that he wouldn’t be able to follow through with the half-day sex marathon.

 

But minutes after winning the bet, the 28-year-old died of a heart attack, Moscow police said.

 

“We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do,” said one of the female participants who identified herself only as Alina.

[ShotMagnet]

An acquaintances' father was taken to the emergency room for similar reasons. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this happens quite often.

 

 

Shot

[thekirk]

Monster pig terrifies Hessian motorists

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090225-17655.html

(such an excellent headline).

 

 

I'm really disappointed in the quality of today's journalists. 200 kilos makes a monster pig? Sheesh... You can almost smell the idiocy. That's about an average-sized pig, really.

 

Growing up on the farm, we had a sow that dressed out at over 800lbs. That's a big pig, there. 440lbs? A smallish medium-size pig, really. And, frankly, given what's wandering the woods down around Hohenfels and Grafenwohr, I'm surprised this even made it to print. Kristen Allen must not get out much, if she's never experienced the wild boars of Germany's forests.

 

The one that wrecked our mobile kitchen trailer back in 1986 would have certainly qualified as a "monster". 600 or so pounds, if he was an ounce, and cannibalistic, too--he went after the bacon, initially, followed by the creamed beef, then the scrambled eggs, and had our cooks "treed" on top of the trailer for a good 45 minutes.

[X-Files]

Woman Allegedly Traded Kids for Pet Bird

By KEVIN McGILL,

AP

 

NEW ORLEANS (Feb. 26) - A Louisiana woman is accused of trading two young children in her care for a pet cockatoo and $175 cash from a couple who had been trying for years to have their own child, authorities said Thursday. Donna Greenwell, 53, a long-haul trucker with an arrest record from Pitkin, is charged with aggravated kidnapping, along with would-be adoptive parents Paul J. Romero, 46, and Brandy Lynn Romero, 27, of Evangeline Parish.

[Michael Eastes]

I'm really disappointed in the quality of today's journalists. 200 kilos makes a monster pig? Sheesh...

 

Maybe it was green, had a squared-off head, and had a bolt through its neck.

[Michael Donnelly]

“We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do,” said one of the female participants who identified herself only as Alina.

 

Huh, I think I've recieved scam emails from her!!!

[X-Files]

A cannibal killed and ate his mother after she refused to give him money to buy beer. * "I did not really like the meat. It has got a lot of fat," he told sickened detectives.

http://austriantimes.at/index.php?id=11416

 

UFO Footage: Videos of Unexplained (and Easily Explained) Phenomena

Images of UFOs were caught on video and spread to the public long before YouTube made it easy. They're caught in parking lots and on rooftops by avid UFO-spotters or passersby with camera phones. These particular videos show meteors, clouds, military flares and camera tricks that some claim are sightings in all their grainy, handheld glory.

 

By The Editors

Published on: February 18, 2009

http://www.origin.popularmechanics.com/sci...ce/4304202.html

[Marek Tucan]

Fhtagn!

 

Roving Octopus Wreaks Havoc On Office

Octopus Apparently Tugged On Valve

SANTA MONICA, Calif.

-- Staff at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium in California say the trickster who flooded their offices with seawater was armed. Eight-armed, to be exact.

 

http://www.10news.com/news/18806439/detail.html#-

Edited February 27, 2009 by Tuccy

[DougRichards]

Woman Allegedly Traded Kids for Pet Bird

By KEVIN McGILL,

AP

 

NEW ORLEANS (Feb. 26) - A Louisiana woman is accused of trading two young children in her care for a pet cockatoo and $175 cash from a couple who had been trying for years to have their own child, authorities said Thursday. Donna Greenwell, 53, a long-haul trucker with an arrest record from Pitkin, is charged with aggravated kidnapping, along with would-be adoptive parents Paul J. Romero, 46, and Brandy Lynn Romero, 27, of Evangeline Parish.

 

"An ending about motherhood, the song already had a truck......" (Harry Chapin)