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Bungleau

06-03-2011 11:31 AM

Odd News: June 2011

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<h2>U.S. police shoot fake alligator</h2>KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters Life!) – Police in a suburb in the state of Missouri recently encountered one tough alligator -- or so they thought.

Officers in Independence, a Kansas City suburb, responded to a call on a Saturday evening about a large alligator lurking on the embankment of a pond, police spokesman Tom Gentry said Thursday.

An officer called a state conservation agent, who advised him to shoot the alligator because there was little that conservation officials could do at that time, Gentry said.

As instructed an officer shot the alligator, not once but twice, but both times the bullets bounced off -- because the alligator was made of cement.

The property owner told police later that he placed the ornamental gator by the pond to keep children away. But residents had little to fear.

"There are no alligators around here, we are too far north, it's too cold," said Bill Graham, spokesman for the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Gentry acknowledged the incident is drawing a lot of attention.

"In hindsight, it's humorous," he said. "But we have to take every call seriously."

(Writing and reporting by Kevin Murphy; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Greg McCune)

I'm looking at that state conservation agent, the one who said, "Alligator? How in the !@#$! am I supposed to know what to do with an alligator? This is Kansas, for pete's sake! Shoot the !@!!%#$ thing, why don't you?"

Bungleau

06-03-2011 11:35 AM

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<h2>17-year-old sells his kidney for iPad 2</h2>By Mike Wehner

Apple lovers are known for their somewhat radical devotion to any new products the company introduces, but selling body parts to afford them is definitely something new — and scary. According to Global Times, a youngster in China's Anhui province wanted a new iPad 2 tablet so badly he was willing to part with a kidney to be able to afford it.

The student, a 17-year-old high school student named Zheng, told a local newspaper "I wanted to buy an iPad 2 but could not afford it. A broker contacted me on the Internet and said he could help me sell one kidney for 20,000 yuan." The "broker" was true to his word, and after the operation was completed on April 28, Zheng received his 20,000 yuan, which equates to a little over $3,000.

The young organ donor carried out these plans without the knowledge of his mother, who was surprised to see her son awash in new, expensive electronics. After discovering what Zheng had done, she promptly alerted authorities, who have been attempting to track down the buyers ever since.

Global Times via The Next Web

What would he do for a Klondike bar?

VulcanRider

06-03-2011 06:01 PM

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I bet he runs out of organs before Apple stops making new gizmos. I hope he doesn't have a little brother...

Bungleau

06-04-2011 11:41 PM

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<h2>Bank of America Gets Pad Locked After Homeowner Forecloses On It</h2>Written by Kelly Heffernan-Tabor

Collier County, Florida -- Have you heard the one about a homeowner foreclosing on a bank?

Well, it has happened in Florida and involves a North Carolina based bank.

Instead of Bank of America foreclosing on some Florida homeowner, the homeowners had sheriff's deputies foreclose on the bank.

It started five months ago when Bank of America filed foreclosure papers on the home of a couple, who didn't owe a dime on their home.

The couple said they paid cash for the house.

The case went to court and the homeowners were able to prove they didn't owe Bank of America anything on the house. In fact, it was proven that the couple never even had a mortgage bill to pay.

A Collier County Judge agreed and after the hearing, Bank of America was ordered, by the court to pay the legal fees of the homeowners', Maurenn Nyergers and her husband.

The Judge said the bank wrongfully tried to foreclose on the Nyergers' house.

So, how did it end with bank being foreclosed on? After more than 5 months of the judge's ruling, the bank still hadn't paid the legal fees, and the homeowner's attorney did exactly what the bank tried to do to the homeowners. He seized the bank's assets.

"They've ignored our calls, ignored our letters, legally this is the next step to get my clients compensated, " attorney Todd Allen told CBS.

Sheriff's deputies, movers, and the Nyergers' attorney went to the bank and foreclosed on it. The attorney gave instructions to to remove desks, computers, copiers, filing cabinets and any cash in the teller's drawers.

After about an hour of being locked out of the bank, the bank manager handed the attorney a check for the legal fees.

"As a foreclosure defense attorney this is sweet justice" says Allen.

Allen says this is something that he sees often in court, banks making errors because they didn't investigate the foreclosure and it becomes a lengthy and expensive battle for the homeowner.

CBS News

Heh... turnabout's fair play :evilgrin:

VulcanRider

06-05-2011 08:28 AM

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That's great. Now I can start the day with a smile...

Bungleau

06-05-2011 11:11 AM

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Was thinking last night... would I accept a regular check? Or would it need to be a cashier's check? Or other form of payment the bank couldn't cancel or stop?

Bungleau

06-06-2011 11:52 PM

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<h2>Penny offense: Man fined for paying fee in pennies</h2>By Claudine Zap

No lucky pennies here: Police have charged Jason West, an aggrieved medical patient in Vernal, Utah, with disorderly conduct. His alleged crime? Attempting to pay a disputed medical bill of $25 entirely in pennies.

The story, reported in the Salt Lake City Deseret News, describes the "penny offense" this way: West, 38, did not believe he owed the medical clinic $25 but came in to pay the fee in person. He first asked the clinic staff if the facility accepted cash payments, and then dumped 2,500 pennies onto the counter and demanded that they be counted.

But West apparently hadn't counted on the clinic calling the police; the arresting officer contended that West's protest served "no legitimate purpose." The charge carries a fine that can go as high as $140--and there's no word as yet on what currency West will use to pay it.

West isn't alone in the ranks of penny protesters. A wise guy in Frederick, Maryland, showed up at the county clerk's office last summer with bags of cash to pay off his tax bill with $966.86 in change.

And a New Jersey school district a few years back punished 29 students who paid for their $2 school lunches in pennies--possibly as a prank--with two-day detentions. After parents protested, the students were pardoned. The school explained that the use of the small change slowed down the lunch line.

(David Zalubowski/AP)

I think he'd have gotten off if he hadn't thrown them on the counter....

Timber Loftis

06-07-2011 03:24 AM

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Lawyers can do good... film at 11.

Or not (just not sensational).

Timber Loftis

06-07-2011 03:25 AM

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But, seriously, WTF...

We get a bad rep all the time, and most all the time it seems I'm trying to help someone in need of me.

/frustrated

Bungleau

06-07-2011 10:58 AM

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Guess it takes a banker to make a lawyer look good... ;)

Bungleau

06-09-2011 02:33 PM

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<h2>Woman captures attacker's image on cell phone</h2>OAKLAND, Calif. – Police in Oakland, Calif., say a woman sexually assaulted by a man who broke in her home was able to use her cell phone to capture images of her assailant stealing her possessions.

The Oakland Tribune says the 28-year-old North Oakland woman was raped Tuesday morning by the man, who also stole her electronics during the attack.

Police say the woman used her cell phone to take video of the man hauling away her possessions. Police are now seeking the thin, bald man in a blue-and-white T-shirt shown in images taken from the video.

A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to his arrest.
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Information from: The Oakland Tribune, http://www.oaklandtribune.com

Quite a nice picture of the guy, too... hopefully it won't take long.

Be interesting to see what his defense turns out to be...

Bungleau

06-09-2011 02:34 PM

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<h2>Cops: NY teen tried to pass off home as his own</h2>SOUTH BRISTOL, N.Y. – A western New York teenager, his girlfriend and her family were just getting comfortable inside a multimillion-dollar, lakefront home when a problem arose.

The owner showed up.

State police say 18-year-old Todd Blauvelt (BLOW'-velt) Jr. had convinced his girlfriend and her family that he'd inherited the vacation home on Canandaigua (kan-uhn-DAY'-gwuh) Lake from his grandfather. He invited them to move in.

Investigator Mark Eifert (EYE'-fert) says the group was in the home in South Bristol for about an hour last month when the homeowner found them and called police.

Eifert says Blauvelt was charged this week with burglary and false written statement.

Blauvelt is being held in the Ontario County Jail on $10,000 bail. A message left with his public defender Thursday wasn't immediately returned.

I've got to admit... that's a pickup line that never occurred to me.

Bungleau

06-09-2011 02:41 PM

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<h2>'Kill a camel' to cut pollution concept in Australia</h2>SYDNEY (AFP) – Australia is considering awarding carbon credits for killing feral camels as a way to tackle climate change.

The suggestion is included in Canberra's "Carbon Farming Initiative", a consultation paper by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, seen Thursday.

Adelaide-based Northwest Carbon, a commercial company, proposed culling some 1.2 million wild camels that roam the Outback, the legacy of herds introduced to help early settlers in the 19th century.

Considered a pest due to the damage they do to vegetation, a camel produces, on average, a methane equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide a year, making them collectively one of Australia's major emitters of greenhouse gases.

In its plan, Northwest said it would shoot them from helicopters or muster them and send them to an abattoir for either human or pet consumption.

"We're a nation of innovators and we find innovative solutions to our challenges -- this is just a classic example," Northwest Carbon managing director Tim Moore told Australian Associated Press.

The idea was among those accepted for discussion by the government, which is seeking to "provide new economic opportunities for farmers, forest growers and landholders" if they come up with ways to cut emissions, according to the document.

Heavily reliant on coal-fired power and mining exports, Australia is one of the world's worst per capita polluters and the government is looking at ways to clean up its act.

Legislation for the "Carbon Farming Initiative" is set to go before parliament next week.

In other news, the Kill a Koala opponents breathe a heavy sigh of relief.

Bungleau

06-09-2011 02:44 PM

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<h2>Flying bear kills two Canadians in freak accident</h2>OTTAWA (Reuters) – Two Canadians died instantly in a freak accident when a car hit a 440-pound (200-kg) black bear and sent the animal flying straight through the windshield of an oncoming vehicle, local media said Wednesday.

The bear's body hit the 25-year-old driver and a 40-year-old man sitting behind her and then shot out of the back window. The bear also died.

The accident happened Monday night in a rural area about 25 miles north of the federal capital Ottawa.

"We don't see (this) often, even if we live in the country. Lots of deer, but collisions with a bear and two people died? That's really rare," local police spokesman Martin Fournel told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Collisions between vehicles and animals are common in Canada, which has a healthy population of large wild animals such as moose and deer.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Peter Galloway)

Wow.... I've seen what happens when a deer hits a car (or vice versa), but never a bear.

SpiritWarrior

06-09-2011 03:02 PM

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Fuxing hell.

Bungleau

06-16-2011 04:27 PM

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<h2>Texas man dies while raping elderly woman</h2>CHICAGO (AFP) – A Texas man died while raping a 77-year-old woman, local media reported.

Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez, 53, broke into the woman's rural home armed with a knife and attacked her.

But in the midst of the rape he complained he wasn't feeling well and "stopped having sex with her so he could rest," the Corpus Christi Caller reported citing the local sheriff's office.

The registered sex offender continued to fondle her, however, then rolled over and died.

The woman initially thought he had passed out drunk because she smelled alcohol on his breath. She fled her home in her car and called her daughter for help.

Investigators believe Gutierrez died of a heart attack after riding his bicycle two miles to the woman's home on a hot summer day but are awaiting the results of an autopsy.

He was on parole for sex crimes including indecency with a child in 1986 and had been released from prison in 2008.

The Refugio County Sheriff's Office was not immediately available for comment.

Wasn't sure whether to post this in Odd, Humor, or give it a thread all by itself. It feels like the punks who tried to rob an ex-marine, only rape ain't funny.

Serves him right. Too bad it wasn't quicker.

VulcanRider

06-20-2011 08:38 PM

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Poop Burgers -- Get 'em while they're hot!!

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OKAYAMA, Japan -- Just in time for summer grilling: Japanese scientists say they have created synthetic meat derived from human excrement.

The news that Mitsuyuki Ikeda, of Okayama Laboratory, perfected the meat streaked across the Internet. Whether or not the whole breakthrough is a crafty online hoax remains to be seen. But if it's true, the finding -- albeit disgusting -- could have some big implications on food of the future.

A now-viral video examining the purported breakthrough -- dubbed "poop burger" -- said the synthetic meat could be an answer to the high cost and environmental damage of industrial meat production.

Ikeda and fellow researchers claim to have extracted protein from raw sewage to create the meat and added food coloring to make it appear red.

Early taste tests say the meat tastes like beef.

This would be the ultimate diet food, cause most people would fast instead. I do see a market in the practical joke area...

Firestormalpha

06-21-2011 01:25 AM

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On the whole, I think I'm more comfortable with soylent green being made from people. At least then it hasn't been digested once already.

Bungleau

06-24-2011 09:12 AM

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<h2>Intimate piercing earns Melbourne player red card</h2>MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An amateur soccer player fell foul of the referee, and could incur the wrath of his mother, after failing to prove he had removed a piece of jewelry from an intimate body piercing during a match in Melbourne.

Aaron Eccleston, who turned out for Old Hill Wanderers against Swinburne University reserves, was handed a second yellow card for the offence in the first half of last Sunday's match.

"During the first half, our player was struck in the groin by the ball, and left the field to receive attention," said a statement on the club website (www.oldhillwanderers.com).

"At this point the referee became aware that he had a body piercing.

"He subsequently received two yellow cards, firstly for re-entering the field of play without the referee's permission, and secondly for privacy reasons being unable to prove that he had removed the piercing."

The latter end of the incident was captured on amateur video and posted on the Internet.

Eccleston, who describes himself on his Twitter page as a "disillusioned Mansfield Town fan, down under," was shocked at how quickly the story had spread.

"I don't think my mum's going to be particularly happy!" he tweeted.

The club accepted the yellow cards had been issued "in accordance with the laws of football" and apologized to the referee for the "negative attention that may have been generated by this unfortunate event."

The laws of football forbid players from wearing "anything that is dangerous to himself or another player (including any kind of jewelry)."

(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney; editing by Peter Rutherford)

Ummm.... yeah. Nothing to say here, other than could you please pass me an ice pack?

Bungleau

06-27-2011 11:52 PM

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<h2>Ohio Deputies: Woman Sprayed Us With Breast Milk</h2>DELAWARE, Ohio — A central Ohio woman accused of spraying sheriff's deputies with breast milk is facing charges including disorderly conduct. The Delaware County sheriff's office says deputies responded to a call about a domestic dispute early Saturday, and a man told them his wife was drinking at a wedding and hit him before locking herself in a car.

The sheriff says deputies found the woman in a car and tried to talk with her, but she didn't cooperate. He says when deputies tried to remove her, she said she was a breast-feeding mother, then exposed part of her chest and sprayed them with breast milk.

Authorities say 30-year-old Stephanie Robinette of Westerville faces charges including domestic violence, assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Jail officials didn't know whether she has an attorney.

I'm just trying to picture what the police lineup would look like for this one....

Chewbacca

06-28-2011 03:41 PM

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LOL riot dog...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13802940

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Greece's front-line riot dog
June 2011 Last updated at 20:24 ET

One committed protester was at the front line when Greek police fired teargas at protesters outside parliament on Wednesday.

The dog, thought to be a stray called Loukanikos, or Sausage, has been in the centre of the action for years.

Here are some of his most memorable moments, gathered by Newsnight.

edit: Even more riot dog!

http://www.thisblogrules.com/2010/03...for-years.html

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Riot-D...124708?sk=wall

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