For those of you who were wondering why Christians shouldn’t play with lions… cd KIEV (Reuters) – A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal’s enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday. “The man shouted ‘God will save…
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Mexican Midget Rodeo
A LA institution…. Â What wonders are conjured, what rough magic promised by the phrase “Mexican Midget Rodeo”? Let us pause to savor that more slowly: Mexican . . . Midget . . . Rodeo. That is to say, a touring troupe of little people, renowned in their native land but unheralded in our own,…
Singing Tibetan nuns finish epic trek
I can’t help but picture “The Sound of Music….” Two Tibetan nuns have arrived in a hill town in northern India to meet their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. They arrived days after dramatically fleeing Tibet. One of the nuns has reportedly complained of being sick. Sources in the town of Dharamsala confirmed to the…
Lost Dimension Yields Accidental Discovery
Hopefully, we are beating boing boing to the punch on this one….that is one of our major purposes in life. cd Using strong magnets and a pigment developed by ancient Chinese warriors, scientists turned a three-dimensional system into one with just two dimensions. The transformation was accidental, but it provides physical evidence for several theories…
How often are emergency exits used? Are seats getting smaller? Can you open an emergency door in midflight? And answers to other questions you always wondered about airline travel but felt too moronic and paranoid to ask
Two weeks ago, a disturbed man aboard a United Airlines flight out of Chicago had to be subdued after claiming to have a bomb and attempting to open a cabin door during flight. Passengers, along with three Secret Service agents en route to join President Bush’s entourage in California, wrestled Jose Manuel Pelayo-Ortega to the…
Hamster survives giant shredder
A hamster has survived almost unscathed after spending several minutes passing through an industrial shredder. The rodent is thought to have got into a skip of rubbish that was taken to Recyclo recycling plant in Flintshire. It survived a giant shredder used to destroy waste such as washing machines and was found in a sorting…
Lacklustre robber asks for advice
A would-be robber failed in his bid to raid a Japanese bank after asking staff for tips on how to carry out the crime, according to the Reuters news agency. And as he was escorted out of the branch in Kumagaya, north of Tokyo the man accidentally stabbed himself with the knife he was carrying….
Coma woman mix-up pains family
This family thought their daughter was in the hospital, while somebody else’s family was having her funeral, thinking it was their dead daughter… Sounds like a soap opera plot, but it’s real. The screw-up was noticed when the hospitalized woman started “saying and doing things that made us question whether or not she was Laura…”…
Update on Indonesia Quake
Today’s story is an update Today I am going to discuss the recent quake in Indonesia. On May 27 a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the ancient city of Yogyakarta in Indonesia. An initial estimate of 3000 casualties has more than doubled to 6234 as I write this. It will probably go up further. The news…