cori wrote:
Or "Mike Hunt"? :beaten:
:lol: :rofl: Try "Porky's" (Movie)
:lol: :rofl: Try "Porky's" (Movie)
Interesting/Weird Stories in the News
Started by blender1184 · 8 Jul 2005 · 1,969 replies
General Discussion
:lol: :rofl: Try "Porky's" (Movie)
bmwracer wrote:
I don't recall that name from Seinfeld... :headscratch:
Oops, I didn't realize yours was from Seinfeld. I have to borrow your collection one day. ;)
Anime Dad wrote:
:lol: :rofl: Try "Porky's" (Movie)
That's probably more like it. :beaten:
New York version of Densha Otoko??
New York subway romance hits end of the line
By Belinda Goldsmith
Tue Jul 29, 7:21 AM ET
A modern-day love story of a man spotting the girl of his dreams across a New York subway train and tracking her down over the Internet has failed to have a fairytale ending with the relationship over.
For Web designer Patrick Moberg, then 21, from Brooklyn, it was love at first sight when he spotted a woman on a Manhattan train last November. But he lost her in the crowd so he set up a website with a sketch to find her -- www.nygirlofmydreams.com.
Unbelievably in a city of 8 million people, it only took Moberg 48 hours to track down the woman, with his phone ringing non-stop and email box overflowing as usually cynical New Yorkers took sympathy on the subway Romeo and joined his hunt.
The mysterious brunette was named as Camille Hayton, from Melbourne, Australia, who was working as an intern at the magazine BlackBook and also lived in Brooklyn. One of her friends spotted the sketched picture on the Web site and recognized her.
But after finding each other, appearing on TV and getting international press, the couple took their romance out of the public eye, with Moberg closing down the Web site and with both refusing to making any more comments -- until now.
Hayton told Australian newspaper The Sunday Telegraph that she dated Moberg for about two months but it just didn't work out.
"I say we dated for a while but now we're just friends," Hayton, now 23, told the newspaper. "It's really nice that people embraced the story. It is part of my life now."
Hayton said she is still recognized about three times a week on the streets of Manhattan as "that girl"' and the question is always the same: "So what happened?"
"I think the situation was so intense that it bonded us," she said, adding it "bonded us in a way that you could mistake, I guess, for being more romantic than it was. I don't know. But I wanted to give it a go so I didn't wonder what if, what if?"
Hayton told The Sunday Telegraph that she is enjoying single life in New York, keeping busy with acting classes, working in two vintage clothing stores and as a waitress.
Last week she had a small role as a waitress in the long-running daytime soap "As The World Turns" and last year she was an extra in a "blink and you'd miss it" scene in the hit movie "Sex And The City."
"I just can't believe it happened. It feels like a long time ago," said Hayton.
Moberg, however, was still refusing to comment on the relationship.
"We've decided not to do any more press," he wrote in an e-mail to Reuters.
New York subway romance hits end of the line
By Belinda Goldsmith
Tue Jul 29, 7:21 AM ET
A modern-day love story of a man spotting the girl of his dreams across a New York subway train and tracking her down over the Internet has failed to have a fairytale ending with the relationship over.
For Web designer Patrick Moberg, then 21, from Brooklyn, it was love at first sight when he spotted a woman on a Manhattan train last November. But he lost her in the crowd so he set up a website with a sketch to find her -- www.nygirlofmydreams.com.
Unbelievably in a city of 8 million people, it only took Moberg 48 hours to track down the woman, with his phone ringing non-stop and email box overflowing as usually cynical New Yorkers took sympathy on the subway Romeo and joined his hunt.
The mysterious brunette was named as Camille Hayton, from Melbourne, Australia, who was working as an intern at the magazine BlackBook and also lived in Brooklyn. One of her friends spotted the sketched picture on the Web site and recognized her.
But after finding each other, appearing on TV and getting international press, the couple took their romance out of the public eye, with Moberg closing down the Web site and with both refusing to making any more comments -- until now.
Hayton told Australian newspaper The Sunday Telegraph that she dated Moberg for about two months but it just didn't work out.
"I say we dated for a while but now we're just friends," Hayton, now 23, told the newspaper. "It's really nice that people embraced the story. It is part of my life now."
Hayton said she is still recognized about three times a week on the streets of Manhattan as "that girl"' and the question is always the same: "So what happened?"
"I think the situation was so intense that it bonded us," she said, adding it "bonded us in a way that you could mistake, I guess, for being more romantic than it was. I don't know. But I wanted to give it a go so I didn't wonder what if, what if?"
Hayton told The Sunday Telegraph that she is enjoying single life in New York, keeping busy with acting classes, working in two vintage clothing stores and as a waitress.
Last week she had a small role as a waitress in the long-running daytime soap "As The World Turns" and last year she was an extra in a "blink and you'd miss it" scene in the hit movie "Sex And The City."
"I just can't believe it happened. It feels like a long time ago," said Hayton.
Moberg, however, was still refusing to comment on the relationship.
"We've decided not to do any more press," he wrote in an e-mail to Reuters.
News of the weird:
Boyfriend of woman stuck to toilet gets probation
Wed Jul 30, 6:45 AM ET
A man whose girlfriend sat on a toilet for so long that the seat adhered to her body will spend six months on probation.
Kory McFarren pleaded no contest last month to a misdemeanor count of mistreatment of a dependent adult. A judge sentenced him Tuesday to six months in jail but granted the probation after the victim, Pam Babcock, asked for leniency.
"She didn't believe that her circumstances were his fault," Ness County Attorney Craig Crosswhite said.
Babcock's plight became known in February when McFarren called the Ness County sheriff, expressing concern about his live-in girlfriend. When authorities arrived, they found Babcock physically stuck to the toilet.
McFarren told police Babcock had refused to come out of the bathroom for two years. Medical personnel estimated she'd been sitting on the toilet for at least a month and said the seat had adhered to sores on her body.
She is now under the protection of a guardian who was appointed through the legal department at the hospital where she received treatment.
Also Tuesday, McFarren was sentenced to six months in jail for an unrelated charge of lewd and lascivious behavior for exposing himself to a teenage neighbor in March.
Boyfriend of woman stuck to toilet gets probation
Wed Jul 30, 6:45 AM ET
A man whose girlfriend sat on a toilet for so long that the seat adhered to her body will spend six months on probation.
Kory McFarren pleaded no contest last month to a misdemeanor count of mistreatment of a dependent adult. A judge sentenced him Tuesday to six months in jail but granted the probation after the victim, Pam Babcock, asked for leniency.
"She didn't believe that her circumstances were his fault," Ness County Attorney Craig Crosswhite said.
Babcock's plight became known in February when McFarren called the Ness County sheriff, expressing concern about his live-in girlfriend. When authorities arrived, they found Babcock physically stuck to the toilet.
McFarren told police Babcock had refused to come out of the bathroom for two years. Medical personnel estimated she'd been sitting on the toilet for at least a month and said the seat had adhered to sores on her body.
She is now under the protection of a guardian who was appointed through the legal department at the hospital where she received treatment.
Also Tuesday, McFarren was sentenced to six months in jail for an unrelated charge of lewd and lascivious behavior for exposing himself to a teenage neighbor in March.
Zimbabwe knocks 10 zeros off currency
Zimbabwe's central bank governor says he is knocking 10 zeros off the country's hyper-inflated currency to turn 10 billion dollars into one.
Governor Gideon Gono says the high rate of inflation is affecting operations of the country's computer systems.
Computers, electronic calculators and automated teller machines at banks cannot handle basic transactions in billions and trillions of dollars.
Gono last week introduced a new 100 billion dollar note that is not enough to buy a loaf of bread.
Gono says the new rate goes into effect on August 1 with the issue of a 500 dollar bill.
Zimbabwe's central bank governor says he is knocking 10 zeros off the country's hyper-inflated currency to turn 10 billion dollars into one.
Governor Gideon Gono says the high rate of inflation is affecting operations of the country's computer systems.
Computers, electronic calculators and automated teller machines at banks cannot handle basic transactions in billions and trillions of dollars.
Gono last week introduced a new 100 billion dollar note that is not enough to buy a loaf of bread.
Gono says the new rate goes into effect on August 1 with the issue of a 500 dollar bill.
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Alleged thief stuck under trash bin for 12 hours
Thu Jul 31, 4:19 PM ET
A suspected thief trying to steal $10 worth of copper got himself into a stinky situation when he was trapped under a trash bin at a county landfill for 12 hours, sheriff's deputies said.
Deputies said Gibson Cook, 56, broke into the landfill, then got stuck as he tried to crawl under the large container. Landfill workers found him about 12 hours later with his legs sticking out from under the bin. Emergency workers had to inflate air bags so they could lift the bin to free him.
Cook was charged with trespassing and petit larceny, deputy Wayne Kirby said. He was waiting for a bond hearing and it was unclear if he had an attorney.
"He's one of our local petty thieves," Kirby said. "But he has never been in a jam like this."
Break-ins at the landfill in Dillon, a town of about 6,400 people in the northeast corner of the state near the North Carolina line, have increased in recent months as thieves look for discarded scrap metal. But employee Charlie Brown said that in 27 years at the dump, this is the first time he's seen anyone get stuck. He said the copper under the trash bin could not have been worth more than $10.
"It was right disgusting," he said. "I wouldn't be under there."
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Alleged thief stuck under trash bin for 12 hours
Thu Jul 31, 4:19 PM ET
A suspected thief trying to steal $10 worth of copper got himself into a stinky situation when he was trapped under a trash bin at a county landfill for 12 hours, sheriff's deputies said.
Deputies said Gibson Cook, 56, broke into the landfill, then got stuck as he tried to crawl under the large container. Landfill workers found him about 12 hours later with his legs sticking out from under the bin. Emergency workers had to inflate air bags so they could lift the bin to free him.
Cook was charged with trespassing and petit larceny, deputy Wayne Kirby said. He was waiting for a bond hearing and it was unclear if he had an attorney.
"He's one of our local petty thieves," Kirby said. "But he has never been in a jam like this."
Break-ins at the landfill in Dillon, a town of about 6,400 people in the northeast corner of the state near the North Carolina line, have increased in recent months as thieves look for discarded scrap metal. But employee Charlie Brown said that in 27 years at the dump, this is the first time he's seen anyone get stuck. He said the copper under the trash bin could not have been worth more than $10.
"It was right disgusting," he said. "I wouldn't be under there."
:lol:
We have the same problem here - people knocking off copper to sell for scrap. There's been a few people killed trying to steal copper from electricity substations: from LIVE circuits :crazy:
We have the same problem here - people knocking off copper to sell for scrap. There's been a few people killed trying to steal copper from electricity substations: from LIVE circuits :crazy:
Anime Dad wrote::lol:
:hehe:
We have the same problem here - people knocking off copper to sell for scrap. There's been a few people killed trying to steal copper from electricity substations: from LIVE circuits :crazy:
Yeah the market price for copper is really high right now....stupid is as stupid does....live circuits...that is :crazy:
Anime Dad wrote::lol:
We have the same problem here - people knocking off copper to sell for scrap. There's been a few people killed trying to steal copper from electricity substations: from LIVE circuits :crazy:
Same thing has happened here on an occasion or two... :hehe:
Someone even stole a bronze statue in a park in Westwood: they literally cut it off at the knees.... The perps were arrested about a week or so later trying to sell the thing. :victory:
bmwracer wrote:
Same thing has happened here on an occasion or two... :hehe:
Someone even stole a bronze statue in a park in Westwood: they literally cut it off at the knees.... The perps were arrested about a week or so later trying to sell the thing. :victory:
:hehe:
I think I heard about that...didn't know about the knees tho'....
:hehe:
Japan's females are longest living in world
Wed Aug 6, 12:30 AM ET
Japanese girls born last year can expect to live until they are 86 years old, which would make them the longest survivors in the world, a report from the country's health ministry showed.
Boys born in 2007 can expect to live to the age of 79.2, ranking third after Iceland and Hong Kong, the report said.
Japan's females have topped the world's longevity ranks for 23 years, something researchers have attributed to their healthy diet and tight social ties, among other reasons.
The report is the latest sign that Japan is ageing quicker than any other country, with government data showing a tenth of the population aged 75 years or older.
The proportion of those 65 years or older is also seen doubling to 40 percent by mid-century.
"People are in different social environments and are influenced by various factors and eating habits, so it's hard to answer the question of why people live long," a ministry spokesman said.
"But we can say that the improvement of medical technologies helps," the spokesman added. Japan has improved treatments for the ageing population's three biggest killers -- cancer, heart disease and stroke.
Japan also has one of the world's lowest birth-rates, leaving the government with the challenge of how to fund its pension requirements, take care of its elderly and maintain productivity.
Wed Aug 6, 12:30 AM ET
Japanese girls born last year can expect to live until they are 86 years old, which would make them the longest survivors in the world, a report from the country's health ministry showed.
Boys born in 2007 can expect to live to the age of 79.2, ranking third after Iceland and Hong Kong, the report said.
Japan's females have topped the world's longevity ranks for 23 years, something researchers have attributed to their healthy diet and tight social ties, among other reasons.
The report is the latest sign that Japan is ageing quicker than any other country, with government data showing a tenth of the population aged 75 years or older.
The proportion of those 65 years or older is also seen doubling to 40 percent by mid-century.
"People are in different social environments and are influenced by various factors and eating habits, so it's hard to answer the question of why people live long," a ministry spokesman said.
"But we can say that the improvement of medical technologies helps," the spokesman added. Japan has improved treatments for the ageing population's three biggest killers -- cancer, heart disease and stroke.
Japan also has one of the world's lowest birth-rates, leaving the government with the challenge of how to fund its pension requirements, take care of its elderly and maintain productivity.
Tu_triky wrote:agreed :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:hehe: Someone should have beat his ass with a stick while down there...he was stuck...he would never know who it was.
bmwracer wrote:
Japan also has one of the world's lowest birth-rates, leaving the government with the challenge of how to fund its pension requirements, take care of its elderly and maintain productivity.
gaijin immigration :P
Anime Dad wrote:
gaijin immigration :P
Yeah but it's probably Filipinas to act as caregivers for the elderly and nurses, not men from Oz :beaten:
Tu_triky wrote:
Yeah but it's probably Filipinas to act as caregivers for the elderly and nurses, not men from Oz :beaten:
Or from the USA :P
Anime Dad wrote:
Or from the USA :P
Haha...trust me I know. :hehe:
This isn't in gthe news, but it's still pretty interesting. Must be one hell of a t-shirt!!http://cgi.ebay.com/Official-1996-Centennial-Olympics-T-Shirt_W0QQitemZ320283709537QQihZ011QQcategoryZ4846QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Video from Yahoo! News ( http://www.yahoo.com/s/935213 ):
Man steals bear cub from park and charges $1 petting fee
:hehe: :crazy:
Man steals bear cub from park and charges $1 petting fee
:hehe: :crazy:
bmwracer wrote:Video from Yahoo! News ( http://www.yahoo.com/s/935213 ):what an idot haha :crazy: :hehe: :nut:
Man steals bear cub from park and charges $1 petting fee
:hehe: :crazy:
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