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and the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Wednesday
Going for the fence-impalement record, but rescued after two hours (well, plus the one hour it took emergency people to cut through the railing to free his leg). Herald Sun (Melbourne)
Get drunk, steal a combine, wreak havoc in the 'hood. (For you nonfarmers, this is a combine) Associated Press via Yahoo
Brit Kevin Pyle won some sort of contest for the laziest bloke in some-such place, and I'd certainly vote for him, too: The way he walks his dog is by driving his car around very slowly, leading the dog by leash out the window. Daily Telegraph
Recurring Theme: Another senior (age 90) who screwed up the gas pedal and the brake, except this one was fatal (Bonus: She was driving a brand-new Dodge Challenger) WPLG-TV (Miami)
The economic downturn in New York City has hit the dominatrix industry, and parlor owners are considering organizing a political action committee to get their views before the gov't (DomPAC). New York Post
The new Webber Int'l University near Lakeland, Fla., is all-business, all the time. In fact, they just got $6k from a local trucking company for the naming rights to the campus's sewage-treatment plant. The Ledger
There's a certain logic here: Employees of Britain's West Suffolk Hospital needing physiotherapists hire them privately, at gov't expense (instead of going through the Nat'l Health Service, which has lengthy delays for physiotherapy). But they deserve such special treatment, they say, because they need to get back to work quickly so they can resume treating patients. But still—. Daily Telegraph
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
Probably Not Safe For Work™ and definitely Not Safe for Stomachs: Dermnet.com, the Skin Disease Image Atlas, with 23,867 photos of things you don't want to come down with. Dermnet.com
Today's Newsrangers: Jon Doughtie, Mark Neunder, Bob Adams, Candy Clouston, Ginger Katz, Kenneth Wright
Comments on the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Wednesday?
Going for the fence-impalement record, but rescued after two hours (well, plus the one hour it took emergency people to cut through the railing to free his leg). Herald Sun (Melbourne)
Get drunk, steal a combine, wreak havoc in the 'hood. (For you nonfarmers, this is a combine) Associated Press via Yahoo
Brit Kevin Pyle won some sort of contest for the laziest bloke in some-such place, and I'd certainly vote for him, too: The way he walks his dog is by driving his car around very slowly, leading the dog by leash out the window. Daily Telegraph
Recurring Theme: Another senior (age 90) who screwed up the gas pedal and the brake, except this one was fatal (Bonus: She was driving a brand-new Dodge Challenger) WPLG-TV (Miami)
The economic downturn in New York City has hit the dominatrix industry, and parlor owners are considering organizing a political action committee to get their views before the gov't (DomPAC). New York Post
The new Webber Int'l University near Lakeland, Fla., is all-business, all the time. In fact, they just got $6k from a local trucking company for the naming rights to the campus's sewage-treatment plant. The Ledger
There's a certain logic here: Employees of Britain's West Suffolk Hospital needing physiotherapists hire them privately, at gov't expense (instead of going through the Nat'l Health Service, which has lengthy delays for physiotherapy). But they deserve such special treatment, they say, because they need to get back to work quickly so they can resume treating patients. But still—. Daily Telegraph
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
Probably Not Safe For Work™ and definitely Not Safe for Stomachs: Dermnet.com, the Skin Disease Image Atlas, with 23,867 photos of things you don't want to come down with. Dermnet.com
Today's Newsrangers: Jon Doughtie, Mark Neunder, Bob Adams, Candy Clouston, Ginger Katz, Kenneth Wright
Comments on the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Wednesday?
Comments
Wow, if even professional professional dominatrices can't keep business, what will happen to us amateur doms?
Posted by BikerPuppy on 10/15/08 at 03:36 PM
Professor Music - wow, that actually satisfy's my gross medical stuff curiosity for the day, thanks!
Posted by Jules in Connecticut on 10/15/08 at 03:40 PM
fence-impalement - doesn't beat this one
http://www.wackyarchives.com/bizarre/unlucky-thief-gets-impaled.html
laziest bloke - Apparently he is too lazy to buy a remote control tv.
"He even shouts down the stairs for us to go up and turn the channel over for him."
gas pedal and the brake - A 90 yr old shouldn't have a license much less a 2009 Dodge Challenger.
http://www.wackyarchives.com/bizarre/unlucky-thief-gets-impaled.html
laziest bloke - Apparently he is too lazy to buy a remote control tv.
"He even shouts down the stairs for us to go up and turn the channel over for him."
gas pedal and the brake - A 90 yr old shouldn't have a license much less a 2009 Dodge Challenger.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 10/15/08 at 06:10 PM
MM, you saying my dear old mom should have her license taken away?
The bit about the English Health care system should be a sign post for the US! Government Health care just isn't as good as "the real thing". I speak from 1st hand experience.
The bit about the English Health care system should be a sign post for the US! Government Health care just isn't as good as "the real thing". I speak from 1st hand experience.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 10/16/08 at 12:25 AM
Please don't take offense to that Expat. I am sure your mom is a sweetie. In my little and humble (and twisted as some claim)opinion, people shouldn't be allowed to drive after a certain. What that age is I don't know. But I am willing to make a broad statement that it is before 90.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 10/16/08 at 07:39 AM
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