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i'm bored, zakk's asleep. radiohead's on the stereo. alli's at a comedy show. so i'm flipping through freak news reportings. here's some of the highlights...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Hundreds of giant squid are washing up on Orange County beaches, creating a scene more akin to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" than "The O.C." The bug-eyed sea creatures, believed to be Humboldt squid, normally reside in deep water and only come to the surface at night. Why approximately 500 of them began washing up on the sands of Laguna Beach and Newport Beach on Tuesday isn't clear. Authorities said the squid - the biggest weighing 17 pounds - might have been pursuing bait fish and gotten too close to shore, or the tides might simply have carried them in.
A fish that has a pattern resembling a human face on its body was found in a pond in Chongju, South Korea, according to a Local 6 News report. The news of a fish with a human face spread to South Korea through the Internet after a Japanese sports tabloid reported on the unusual fish. A South Korean newspaper then carried an article about the fish in South Korea. The fish is the result of artificial insemination between a carp and ayu sweetfish. As the fish grew larger, the design on the fish reportedly changed to look more like the face of a human being. Rare markings on a fish are considered a good omen in some Asian countries, according to a report.
A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth: a four-inch nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier. A nail gun backfired on Lawler, 23, on Jan. 6 while working in Breckenridge, a ski resort town in the central Colorado mountains. The tool sent a nail into a piece of wood nearby, but Lawler didn't realize a second nail had shot through his mouth, said his sister, Lisa Metcalse.
A giant mystery buoy that washed ashore in Cocoa Beach, Fla., Monday continues to stump U.S. Coast Guard officials, according to a Local 6 News story. Officials said the unidentified buoy was found on 24th Street South and Sunny Lane. The buoy has no identifying marks to give officials a clue as to where it may have come from. Buoys are used as navigation beacons, for weather data collection and climate research, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported. They can break loose in severe weather, posing a danger to passing vessels.
A popular item for holiday shoppers in Japan this year is the "lap pillow", with skin-coloured polyurethene calves folded under soft thighs. It is reportedly a cushion for napping, reading or watching television.
Cat Barnard sits in her driveway in Enterprise, Fla. Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2004, near the tent where and she and her husband, Harlan slept. The Barnards moved out of the house and set up the tent in the driveway to go on strike because their children, Benjamin, 17, and Kit, 12, refused to do household chores. The parents won't cook, clean or drive their children until they shape up.
This X-ray picture shows a 5-centimeter nail stuck in an unidentified South Korean patient's skull Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004. According to a Seoul hospital, doctors found the nail after the man came to the hospital, complaining about a severe headache. They speculate that the nail stuck in the man's head four years ago in an accident but the man didn't know about it. The nail was removed in a surgery last Saturday.
An online casino said it placed the winning 28,000-dollar bid for a 10-year-old partly eaten grilled cheese sandwich, seen here, said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary, and wants to take it on a world tour(AFP/OFF) Diana Duyser, of Hollywood, put the sandwich up for sale drawing bids as high as $22,000 before eBay pulled the item Sunday night. The page was viewed almost 100,000 times before being taken down. An e-mail Duyser received from eBay said the sandwich broke its policy, which "does not allow listings that are intended as jokes." But Duyser, a work-from-home jewelry designer who has bought and sold items on eBay for two years, said the grilled cheese wasn't a joke. THIS ISN'T A JOKE?!?
A man was attacked and injured after jumping into a lion's den at the Taipei Zoo and trying to convert the lions to Christianity. The 46-year-old man leaped into the den of African lions and shouted "Jesus will save you," according to the report. He also said, "Come bite me" before one of the male lions attacked and bit the man.
An estimated 1,000 to 1,500 Humboldt jumbo flying squid - typically found off the coast of Mexico - have washed up on southwest Washington beaches in the past few days, said Greg Bargmann, a marine fish manager with the state Fish and Wildlife Department. What's killing them isn't clear. "They're like salmon: They spawn and then they die," Bargmann said. "I don't know if this is post-spawning, or if the waters got so cold they couldn't take it anymore." Tuna fishermen first reported seeing the squid about 30 miles off the southwest Washington coast in August. At the time, the ocean water was significantly warmer than usual - 67 degrees, instead of 50 to 55 degrees.
Dressed in a Spider-Man suit and using no ropes or other equipment, a French urban climber scaled the 47-story headquarters of oil giant Total on Tuesday, his second Parisian climb in less than a month.
French climber Alain Robert climbs the 59-story Montparnasse Tower in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004. Robert, 41, who calls himself 'Spiderman', renowned for climbing without ropes or other equipment, has also climbed the Eiffel Tower and more than 30 skyscrapers, including New York's Empire State Building in 1994, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1997. He was promoting Wednesday his new book 'Spiderman' scheduled to hit the shelves on Thursday. Police greeted Robert at the top of the building.
Andy Reed of Martins Ferry, Ohio, and Chuck Saus of Wheeling, W.Va. dive into Saus's swimming pool for the last time before it too was submerged under the flood waters of the Ohio River on Wheeling Island in Wheeling, W.Va., Saturday Sept., 18, 2004.
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A man who was trying to shoot seven puppies was shot himself when one of the dogs made the .38-caliber revolver discharge, deputies said. Jerry Allen Bradford, 37, of Pensacola, was charged with felony animal cruelty, the Escambia County Sheriff's Office said.
Wildlife experts in Britain are stunned in March by the apparent discovery of a frog with three croaking heads and six legs, according to a Local 6 News report. The frog was reportedly found at a children's day nursery in the English village of Weston Super-Mare in Somerset. The staff at the Green Umbrella nursery first thought it was three frogs huddled together but after closer inspection they realized the frogs were joined together.
ALBERT LEA, Minn. - The first and probably last six-legged calf born in Freeborn County was shipped to Florida to be part of Ripley's Believe It or Not! in Jan. 2004. "I've seen it. My family's seen it. My friends have seen it. Let the world see it," said David Spinler, the Newry Township farmer who owned the calf and closed the deal with the international museum of oddities this week. "Two hundred years from now this will be shown and my name will be on it and that means a lot to me," he said. The calf, born last April, died during birth due to the complications of having two extra legs. Spinler called a veterinarian to help but it was too late. The legs, which include hooves, and bones, stick out slightly to the left of the animal's back.
BOSTON -- In Feb, French doctors were taken aback when they discovered the reason for a patient's sore, swollen belly: He had swallowed around 350 coins - $650 worth - along with assorted necklaces and needles.The 62-year-old man came to the emergency room of Cholet General Hospital in western France in 2002. He had a history of major psychiatric illness, was suffering from stomach pain, and could not eat or move his bowels. His family warned doctors that he sometimes swallowed coins, and a few had been removed from his stomach in past hospital visits. Still, doctors were awed when they took an X- ray. They discovered an enormous opaque mass in his stomach that turned out to weigh 12 pounds - as much as some bowling balls. It was so heavy it had forced his stomach down between his hips.
Lifeguards at a beach post north of Sydney couldn't believe their eyes when a man walked in with a small shark attached to his leg. Luke Tresoglavic swam 1,000 feet to shore, walked to his car and drove to the local surf club with the 23-inch shark biting his leg and refusing to let go. "I just realized I had to swim in like that, hanging on to it," Tresoglavic told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. Tresoglavic, 22, was snorkeling on a reef off Caves Beach near Newcastle on Tuesday when a wobbegong, or carpet shark, attacked his leg. "Once I got on to shore, a couple of people tried to help me, but I could not remove it," he said. "It was stuck there, so I got up into my car and then drove to the clubhouse, and luckily the guys down there had a clue what to do." The lifeguards flushed the shark's gills with fresh water, forcing it to loosen its grip on Tresoglavic's leg -- with blood oozing from 70 needle-like punctures. The shark later died.
my only question is, "how did two guys have the same problem with nails?"
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Hundreds of giant squid are washing up on Orange County beaches, creating a scene more akin to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" than "The O.C." The bug-eyed sea creatures, believed to be Humboldt squid, normally reside in deep water and only come to the surface at night. Why approximately 500 of them began washing up on the sands of Laguna Beach and Newport Beach on Tuesday isn't clear. Authorities said the squid - the biggest weighing 17 pounds - might have been pursuing bait fish and gotten too close to shore, or the tides might simply have carried them in.
A fish that has a pattern resembling a human face on its body was found in a pond in Chongju, South Korea, according to a Local 6 News report. The news of a fish with a human face spread to South Korea through the Internet after a Japanese sports tabloid reported on the unusual fish. A South Korean newspaper then carried an article about the fish in South Korea. The fish is the result of artificial insemination between a carp and ayu sweetfish. As the fish grew larger, the design on the fish reportedly changed to look more like the face of a human being. Rare markings on a fish are considered a good omen in some Asian countries, according to a report.
A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth: a four-inch nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier. A nail gun backfired on Lawler, 23, on Jan. 6 while working in Breckenridge, a ski resort town in the central Colorado mountains. The tool sent a nail into a piece of wood nearby, but Lawler didn't realize a second nail had shot through his mouth, said his sister, Lisa Metcalse.
A giant mystery buoy that washed ashore in Cocoa Beach, Fla., Monday continues to stump U.S. Coast Guard officials, according to a Local 6 News story. Officials said the unidentified buoy was found on 24th Street South and Sunny Lane. The buoy has no identifying marks to give officials a clue as to where it may have come from. Buoys are used as navigation beacons, for weather data collection and climate research, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported. They can break loose in severe weather, posing a danger to passing vessels.
A popular item for holiday shoppers in Japan this year is the "lap pillow", with skin-coloured polyurethene calves folded under soft thighs. It is reportedly a cushion for napping, reading or watching television.
Cat Barnard sits in her driveway in Enterprise, Fla. Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2004, near the tent where and she and her husband, Harlan slept. The Barnards moved out of the house and set up the tent in the driveway to go on strike because their children, Benjamin, 17, and Kit, 12, refused to do household chores. The parents won't cook, clean or drive their children until they shape up.
This X-ray picture shows a 5-centimeter nail stuck in an unidentified South Korean patient's skull Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004. According to a Seoul hospital, doctors found the nail after the man came to the hospital, complaining about a severe headache. They speculate that the nail stuck in the man's head four years ago in an accident but the man didn't know about it. The nail was removed in a surgery last Saturday.
An online casino said it placed the winning 28,000-dollar bid for a 10-year-old partly eaten grilled cheese sandwich, seen here, said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary, and wants to take it on a world tour(AFP/OFF) Diana Duyser, of Hollywood, put the sandwich up for sale drawing bids as high as $22,000 before eBay pulled the item Sunday night. The page was viewed almost 100,000 times before being taken down. An e-mail Duyser received from eBay said the sandwich broke its policy, which "does not allow listings that are intended as jokes." But Duyser, a work-from-home jewelry designer who has bought and sold items on eBay for two years, said the grilled cheese wasn't a joke. THIS ISN'T A JOKE?!?
A man was attacked and injured after jumping into a lion's den at the Taipei Zoo and trying to convert the lions to Christianity. The 46-year-old man leaped into the den of African lions and shouted "Jesus will save you," according to the report. He also said, "Come bite me" before one of the male lions attacked and bit the man.
An estimated 1,000 to 1,500 Humboldt jumbo flying squid - typically found off the coast of Mexico - have washed up on southwest Washington beaches in the past few days, said Greg Bargmann, a marine fish manager with the state Fish and Wildlife Department. What's killing them isn't clear. "They're like salmon: They spawn and then they die," Bargmann said. "I don't know if this is post-spawning, or if the waters got so cold they couldn't take it anymore." Tuna fishermen first reported seeing the squid about 30 miles off the southwest Washington coast in August. At the time, the ocean water was significantly warmer than usual - 67 degrees, instead of 50 to 55 degrees.
Dressed in a Spider-Man suit and using no ropes or other equipment, a French urban climber scaled the 47-story headquarters of oil giant Total on Tuesday, his second Parisian climb in less than a month.
French climber Alain Robert climbs the 59-story Montparnasse Tower in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004. Robert, 41, who calls himself 'Spiderman', renowned for climbing without ropes or other equipment, has also climbed the Eiffel Tower and more than 30 skyscrapers, including New York's Empire State Building in 1994, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1997. He was promoting Wednesday his new book 'Spiderman' scheduled to hit the shelves on Thursday. Police greeted Robert at the top of the building.
Andy Reed of Martins Ferry, Ohio, and Chuck Saus of Wheeling, W.Va. dive into Saus's swimming pool for the last time before it too was submerged under the flood waters of the Ohio River on Wheeling Island in Wheeling, W.Va., Saturday Sept., 18, 2004.
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A man who was trying to shoot seven puppies was shot himself when one of the dogs made the .38-caliber revolver discharge, deputies said. Jerry Allen Bradford, 37, of Pensacola, was charged with felony animal cruelty, the Escambia County Sheriff's Office said.
Wildlife experts in Britain are stunned in March by the apparent discovery of a frog with three croaking heads and six legs, according to a Local 6 News report. The frog was reportedly found at a children's day nursery in the English village of Weston Super-Mare in Somerset. The staff at the Green Umbrella nursery first thought it was three frogs huddled together but after closer inspection they realized the frogs were joined together.
ALBERT LEA, Minn. - The first and probably last six-legged calf born in Freeborn County was shipped to Florida to be part of Ripley's Believe It or Not! in Jan. 2004. "I've seen it. My family's seen it. My friends have seen it. Let the world see it," said David Spinler, the Newry Township farmer who owned the calf and closed the deal with the international museum of oddities this week. "Two hundred years from now this will be shown and my name will be on it and that means a lot to me," he said. The calf, born last April, died during birth due to the complications of having two extra legs. Spinler called a veterinarian to help but it was too late. The legs, which include hooves, and bones, stick out slightly to the left of the animal's back.
BOSTON -- In Feb, French doctors were taken aback when they discovered the reason for a patient's sore, swollen belly: He had swallowed around 350 coins - $650 worth - along with assorted necklaces and needles.The 62-year-old man came to the emergency room of Cholet General Hospital in western France in 2002. He had a history of major psychiatric illness, was suffering from stomach pain, and could not eat or move his bowels. His family warned doctors that he sometimes swallowed coins, and a few had been removed from his stomach in past hospital visits. Still, doctors were awed when they took an X- ray. They discovered an enormous opaque mass in his stomach that turned out to weigh 12 pounds - as much as some bowling balls. It was so heavy it had forced his stomach down between his hips.
Lifeguards at a beach post north of Sydney couldn't believe their eyes when a man walked in with a small shark attached to his leg. Luke Tresoglavic swam 1,000 feet to shore, walked to his car and drove to the local surf club with the 23-inch shark biting his leg and refusing to let go. "I just realized I had to swim in like that, hanging on to it," Tresoglavic told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. Tresoglavic, 22, was snorkeling on a reef off Caves Beach near Newcastle on Tuesday when a wobbegong, or carpet shark, attacked his leg. "Once I got on to shore, a couple of people tried to help me, but I could not remove it," he said. "It was stuck there, so I got up into my car and then drove to the clubhouse, and luckily the guys down there had a clue what to do." The lifeguards flushed the shark's gills with fresh water, forcing it to loosen its grip on Tresoglavic's leg -- with blood oozing from 70 needle-like punctures. The shark later died.
my only question is, "how did two guys have the same problem with nails?"