The outcrop with delusions of grandeur

Posted December 1, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Genius, Guinness World Record

Two aristocrats who thought they lived on the smallest island in the world were all at sea yesterday – after they were told it could be classed only as an outcrop.

Lord Richard Long, 78, and wife, Lady Helen, thought Towan Island should be in the Guinness World Records book.

But their attempt to register the island in Newquay, Cornwall, was thwarted by EU bureaucrats who reduced its status. The couple are considering changing its name to Towan Stack or Newquay Rock.

They run their three-bedroom House In The Sea, which they bought six years ago, as a B&B. It sits on the 25m rock, surrounded by sea and beaches, with a suspension bridge to the mainland.

Guinness researchers thought it might be the world’s smallest ‘full-time inhabited island’ but an EU directive passed in 2003 prevents it from being officially classed as such because it has fewer than 50 residents.

‘It is a huge disappointment,’ said Lady Long. ‘We have had the rug pulled from under us. Not only are we not the smallest – we are not even an island.

‘Being referred to as Lady of the Outcrop sounds like I have a bad case of chickenpox.’

An EU development committee has decreed that an island is not an island if it has a rigid link to mainland, contains fewer than 50 residents or is the site of a European capital city.

Lundy Island, 24km off the North Devon coast, has also fallen foul of the ruling – because it has only 18 residents.

2,000 year-old calculator that just didn’t add up

Posted December 1, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Uncategorized

It was sunk with a wrecked ship in 80BC, found by divers in 1900 and until now has baffled scientists.

But the secrets of the Antikythera mechanism have finally been unlocked – and scientists claim it is more valuable than the Mona Lisa.

The device is a complex arrangement of more than 30 bronze gears, wheels and dials, and is at least 1,000 years ahead of its time.

Remnants of a case containing the pieces (one is pictured below) were found in a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900.

In June this year, physicists used X-rays to read inscriptions and identified it as a clock-like astronomical calendar. But the precise function remained an enigma.

Now, after painstaking reconstruction, physicists say it could track astronomical movements with remarkable precision.

It was also able to follow the movements of the Moon and the Sun, predict eclipses and even recreate the irregular orbit of the Moon.

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It may have predicted the positions of some of the planets. Lead researcher Prof Mike Edmunds, from Cardiff University, said: ‘The design is beautiful, the astronomy is exactly right. The way the mechanics are designed makes your jaw drop. Whoever has done this has done it extremely well.’

The findings, published in Nature, suggest Greek technology was far more advanced than previously thought. No other civilisation created anything as complicated for another 1,000 years.

Other marvels from the past…

- The Pyramids: In the 3rd millennium BC, there were no cranes or diggers. But the Egyptians managed to create 110 structures reaching 146m high

- The Incas: The South American empire lasted just 100 years from 1438AD, but built 22,530km of road

- Aztecs: They lived in Central America in the 14th to 16th centuries with education and religion

- Stonehenge: The Druids moved huge rocks 320km from Wales to Salisbury, Wiltshire, in the Neolithic and Bronze Age – and put them on top of each other

- A 14cm clay battery was found near the Iraqi capital Baghdad. It appears to be 2,000 years old

Man with barn fears goblin reprisals

Posted December 1, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Crazy, fantasy, spirital, stupid

A Norwegian man is refusing to demolish a condemned building, because he fears that doing so would incur the wrath of goblins.

The building in question is a derelict barn, which belongs to Håkon Robertsen. Mr Robertsen was ordered by local authorities to tear down the unsafe structure in February 2005 – but he is refusing, and is now threatening legal action, because he fears the vengeance of the ‘little people’.

Robertson told the Nordlys newspaper: ‘I don’t believe in ghosts, but underworld creatures have taken up residence in the building.’

He claims that unspecified bad things happened to him when he started to take the building down before. ‘A while back I removed the top of the building and that is an experience I will not repeat,’ he said, vaguely.

He also notes that the barn is built on an old Viking site (presumably the Scandinavian equivalent of building on an old Native American graveyard).

Robertsen is currently being fined 300 Kroner (just under £25) for every day that he refuses to knock the building down. He says he has offered to build a strong fence around the barn instead of demolishing it, and that he is ready to sue the authorities to ensure it stays up.

No goblin spokesman was available for comment at the time of writing.

Nude crack man in alligator rescue

Posted December 1, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Animal, Dumbo, Hilarious, Naking, News, Nude, Police, Ridicious, Unlucky, addict, stupid

In further news of the misadventures of people who are naked, a naked man on crack was pulled from the jaws of an alligator in Florida on Wednesday.

He was only saved when sheriff’s deputies jumped into the lake where he was being eaten, and wrestled with the alligator until it let go of the man, before pulling the man about 40m back to the shore.

They had responded to several reports from members of the public that screams had been heard coming from the lake, at around 4 o’clock in the morning.

The man – identified as 45-year-old Adrian Apgar – lost his left arm in the alligator attack, as well as suffering severe injuries to his right arm and left leg. His right leg is believed to be fine.

‘He was totally naked,’ noted Sheriff Grady Judd.

He admitted to the deputies after he was pulled from the water that he’d been smoking crack. No explanation has yet been offered for why he was naked, although police have not ruled out the possibility that he might have decided to go for a swim.

Judd added: ‘He admitted that he’d been smoking crack cocaine. But still, it’s a human life. Our deputies don’t ask questions, they respond and they save people.’

At the time of writing, the condition of the alligator is unknown.

Explosive condom woman guilty

Posted December 1, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Crazy, Criminal, Genius, Sex, Violance, Weapon, penis

condomAn ex-strip club worker has been sentenced after she admitted sending condoms filled with explosives in the mail.

49-year-old Kimberly Lynn Dasilva pleaded guilty to the charges of sending threatening letters and flammable material through the post.

The ‘flammable materials’ included condoms filled with a mixture of petrol and the Drâno drain cleaner – a combination that can cause an explosion.

Fortunately, none of the condoms actually did explode. Dasilva maintained that she didn’t ever expect or intend the condoms to blow up.

Her targets included strip clubs where she had previously worked, as well as a television station and a radio station. She claimed that she was fed up with being mistreated by men.

Dasilva was sentenced to five years of supervised release for the exploding condoms, including the condition that she stay away from alcohol during that time.

Man stabbed in urination fight

Posted December 1, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Dumbo, Ridicious, Violance, murder, stupid

An argument between two men over who had urinated on a hotel door.

The victim was 30-year-old Leonard Anthony Jr., who had got into an argument with Johnny Lewis Dunn over who was responsible for urinating on the door of his hotel room in Augusta, Georgia.

According to authorities, the men got into a fight, with Anthony hitting Dunn at least twice in the face. In the course of the fight, Anthony was then stabbed several times in the back, and died later at hospital.

Revenge of the killer fairies

Posted December 1, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Environment, Humanity, fantasy, spirital

Forget knife-carrying hoodies, people in the mid-17th century had far more dangerous opponents to worry about… such as spirits and fairies.

Also, pitchforks, stools or even a trusty frying pan were the weapons of choice when it came to street fights, a newly unearthed burial register has shown.

The document reveals the deeply superstitious – and often brutal – side of life in Oliver Cromwell’s England.

Covering deaths from 1656 to 1663 – the manuscript reveals no less than four people were ‘Frighted to Death by faries’ while another died after being ‘Led into a horse pond by a will of the whisp’.

South Park inspires philosphy book

Posted December 1, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Crazy, Humanity, School Life, WTF, knowledge, philosphy, south park

south parkIt is the TV show that deals with complex social issues such as gay marriage, ethics and identity politics in a thoughtful and compelling way. We are, of course, talking about South Park. According to a new book, the brash cartoon is not just about singing pooh and the record for the most swear words per episode (156 uses of s***). Oh no. Apparently, it shares the same inquiring and sceptical approach to life as philosophy and tries to interrogate social and political ideas. So, the next time you see the Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset episode featuring Paris Hilton, do not assume South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are just taking the mickey. They are, apparently, also offering a meditation on the ideas of philosopher John Stuart Mill. Other episodes show echoes of Socrates, we are told. Robert Arp, editor of the book South Park And Philosophy, said: ‘Believe it or not, the goal of both South Park and philosophy is to discover truth and make the world a better place. The difference is philosophy usually takes a less shocking approach.’ South Park, launched in 1997, follows schoolboys Kenny, Cartman, Stan and Kyle as they offend and ridicule their way through prejudices. It has been condemned by the religious right, banned in schools and provoked the ire of celebrities lampooned in it… and been a huge success. Other books for your philosophy course The Simpsons: In The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’oh! of Homer, Bart is compared to Nietzsche (anarchist ethics) while Homer has his origins in Aristotle’s writing. The Matrix: A raft of works explore issues in the trilogy such as the nature of truth and reality, alienation and whether there is free will. Star Wars: Good, bad, light, dark, redemption, the mysterious ‘force’ and a basic Christian parable are all examined in Star Wars and Philosophy. Star Trek: The Ethics of Star Trek examines how the movies’ model of the future explores Plato’s and Aristotle’s ideas of virtue.

Pregnancy sick note man fined

Posted November 29, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Crazy, Dumbo, Humanity, News, body organ, stupid

A South African man has been fined for trying to claim a week off work by telling his bosses he was pregnant.27-year-old Charles Sibindana was found guilty at a magistrates court in Vereeniging, near Johannesburg, of using a forged gynaecologist’s note to try to persuade his employers to give him time off work. The note said that he was pregnant, and therefore needed a week off.

Sibindana stole the gynaecologist’s certificate while his girlfriend – who really is pregnant – was at the clinic getting a check-up. He added his own name and details to the certificate, and submitted it to his company.

Reports usggest that he was unaware that only women are treated by gynaecologists.

He was caught when his eagle-eyed bosses became suspicious about a male employee taking time off for a week-long pregnancy.

Magistrate Bruno Van Eeden, fining him 1000 rand (just under £72), warned Mr Sibindana ‘not to walk around faking sick letters from gynaecologists.’ A warning that Metro is more than happy to pass on to any of our male readers looking to throw a sicky in the near future.

Fleeing thief stops to smoke crack

Posted November 29, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Abuse, Criminal, Drug, Dumbo, News, Police, addict, money, stupid, theif

A fleeing thief was caught by police after he repeatedly paused during the pursuit to smoke crack cocaine.

The (alleged) criminal mastermind in question was identified as 45-year-old Perry Quinton of Stratford, Connecticut. According to police, he had been driving a stolen car and attempting to pay for petrol with cards belonging to the owner of the car.

The Connecticut Post reports that the exciting chase began when Quinton abandoned the stolen car near the P.T. Barnum housing complex in the city of Bridgeport. (Yes, it really was named after the circus magnate P.T. Barnum. It’s little details like that which make life worth living.)

After abandoning the car, with officers in pursuit, Quinton climbed over a fence. Having scaled the fence, he took a quick breather to smoke a little crack.

The police not having caught up with him by this point, he headed off through the local seaport, and went to stand on a boat. Flushed with the success of his previous crack break, he decided to have another one.

He was still stood on the boat smoking crack when officers apprehended him. He is being held in jail in lieu of $25,000 bond.

Series Horses Sexual Criminal get caught!

Posted November 29, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Animal, Crazy, Criminal, Humanity, Law, Raping, Sex, Sexual Abuser, WTF, nasty

A serial animal abuser has been sentenced after a string of sex attacks on a horse.

Perverted Mark Woollen was caught with his trousers round his ankles standing behind a horse and engaging in a sex act with it.

He preyed on the hapless horse, called Molly, and was spotted riding her around a field with no trousers on.

Molly’s owner was so distraught she said it was like ‘having a member of your family raped’.

Now he has been given a six-month suspended jail term and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for seven years.

Magistrates in North Tyneside also heard how he had stolen items from the horses and was found in possession of amphetamines and cannabis.

Mark Brennan, prosecuting, said: ‘A witness went into one stable and a man, identified as Woollen, was standing behind a horse.

‘He ran off when spotted and the witness said she believed he had been having sex with it.

‘At another stable a horse owner arrived and saw the stable of his horse, Molly, had been opened.

‘Woollen had his trousers down and his hands imbetween his legs. Another time Woollen was seen to be riding Molly with no trousers on.

‘On his arrest he said “I’ve been a fool to myself”. He told police he had given in to the temptation of having sex with horses. He admitted riding without his trousers for sexual gratification.’

Woolen admitted intercourse with an animal and asked for seven similar offences to be taken into account.

He also pleaded guilty to two offences of possession of drugs and one of theft, with four other thefts of riding equipment to be taken into consideration.

Woollen was given the six month jail term, suspended for two years, and given a supervision order for two years and told to do 100 hours community work.

After the case Molly’s owner, Jean Day, said: ‘I’m really pleased he has been put on the sex offender’s register but I was hoping he would go to jail to be honest.

‘It was like having a member of your family raped, that’s how bad it was.

‘Molly’s our horse and has been for 13 years, it terrible to think what she has gone through.

‘Woollen disgusts me and he should be ashamed of himself.’ Woollen, 33, of Goathland Avenue, North Tyneside, was caught exposing himself and indecently assaulting the horse called Molly at East Benton Stables, off Station Road, Wallsend, in March this year.

He also stole of riding equipment from various stables in North Tyneside.

He was spotted on various occasions riding horses in his underwear, before the 33-year-old was captured on CCTV abusing Molly.

Woollen was caught on March 14 when George Day, Molly’s owner, walked into the stable to find Woollen standing next to the horse with no trousers on.

Elizabeth Dunbar, mitigating, said: ‘He is extremely distraught for himself and his family who have had to endure harassment and upset from third parties who have read certain items in the press.

‘Clearly he has many problems which have culminated in these events.

‘He has recognised he has a problem and wants everything out in the open so he can get the help he needs. He needs help rather than punishment.’

Gun Christmas bauble under fire

Posted November 25, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Christmas, Violance, Weapon, stupid

When you think of the festive season, your mind turns to happy images of joyful families decorating a Christmas tree in all manner of sparkling and prettily coloured items, like baubles and streamers and handguns.

Okay, maybe not handguns.

Predictably, they claim that it puts an ‘ironic twist’ on the holidays.

It’s not the first time Urban Outfitters have courted controversy. They were criticised in the past for t-shirts with slogans like ‘Everyone Loves a Jewish Girl’ (juxtaposed with a dollar sign) and ‘New Mexico, Cleaner Than Regular Mexico’, while they attracted the most impotent rage when they sold a spoof board game called Ghettopoly, in which players competed to buy crack houses.

Leading the grumpiness over the bauble were anti-gun groups.

‘Once again, you see someone trying to profit off of the violent nature of our society, and if that’s the case, they should withdraw the ornament from their catalog right away and submit an apology to the community,’ said Darryl Coates, executive director of the Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti-Violence Network – Philadelphia being the city Urban Outfitters is based in.

A statement from Urban Outfitters said: ‘This specific ‘Glitter Gun Ornament’ is by no means condoning the violence that we face in our city, or any city, for that matter, and is not meant to celebrate guns or gun violence.’

But that’s what the determinedly edgy shop Urban Outfitters would quite like you to do. In America, the chain has unveiled a 5-inch long glittering handgun ornament as part of its Christmas offerings.

‘Bust a cap in your tree with this superglittery ornament in the shape of a handgun, complete with a satin ribbon for hanging,’ says the classy description of the ‘Glitter Gun Ornament’ in the retailer’s online catalogue.

Is this Britain’s unluckiest man?

Posted November 25, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Unlucky, WTF

john_175×125.jpgIf you ever think life is being a little tough on you, just be grateful you aren’t John Lyne – who could well be Britain’s unluckiest man.

‘Calamity John’ has suffered 16 major accidents in his life, including lightning strikes, a rock-fall in a mine and three car crashes.

He is presently laid up again after falling down a manhole at work.

The accident damaged his back and injured his left leg and both knees – which the grandfather-of-three can add to a lifetime of broken bones.

But none of this has left Mr Lyne bitter – he is just glad to be alive. ‘Everyone thinks it is just hilarious,’ he said. ‘My mates, family and wife Susan just laugh about it.

‘I don’t think there is any reason or explanation. Things could have been much worse and I could have died but it doesn’t worry me too much.’

Mr Lyne’s mishaps cover a lifetime and he has even been known to suffer two accidents at once. As a child, he fell off a horse and cart – only to be run over by a delivery van.

When he was a teenager, he broke his arm falling from a tree.

On his way back from hospital, his bus crashed, breaking the same arm in another place. The date, of course, was Friday the 13th.

A philosophical Mr Lyne, of Stainworth, South Yorkshire, said: ‘I have had a lot of lucky escapes and people have compared me with a cat with nine lives. It doesn’t get me down. It is just how it is.’

The 54-year-old industrial cleaner will be out of action for 32 weeks and is not sure he can return to his job.

John’s History

The life of Unlucky John

Posted November 25, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Uncategorized

This will hurt

As a toddler, Mr Lyne drinks a bottle of disinfectant…

Crash! Falls from a horsedrawn cart into the path of a delivery van, which runs him over

Zap! He is struck by lightning while riding his bike

Splash! At 14, John nearly drowns at Bridlington…

Splat! …then falls from a tree…

Thud! … and later, from another tree. He breaks an arm – then fractures the other when his bus crashes on the way home from hospital

Ouch! As a miner at Hatfield Colliery, near Doncaster, John escapes injury when a colleague lets go of a tub full of stone. In another accident, falling rocks miss him by centimetres

Wallop! A bus runs him over, bruising his arm

Bzzt! He hits a live cable while decorating at home

Yikes! His plane is struck by lightning

Bang! Two more car crashes… … and now, aged 54, he falls down a manhole. How unlucky

Mexican gang: ‘We’re nice, really’

Posted November 25, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Gang, Humanity, Mexican

Mexcian GangThe violent Mexican drug gang who earlier this year dumped five severed heads on a disco dancefloor have taken the unusual step of placing adverts in newspapers to improve their image.

In the ads – which ran in slightly different versions in several newspapers – the gang known as ‘The Family’ claim that they are not criminals, but anti-crime vigilantes.

They say they want to rid the western Mexican state of Michoacan of kidnapping, robbery and methamphetamine dealing.

The gang – who in September shocked Mexico after bursting into a crowded disco and throwing five severed human heads onto the dancefloor – blamed the violence and crime on ‘the Milenio cartel, and some people named Valencia, and some gangs like the “30 Gang,” who have terrorized much of the state since the 1980s up to the present day.’

‘Perhaps at this time people don’t understand us, but we know that in the most affected regions, they understand our actions,’ the advert continued. ‘Our only reason for being is that we love our state, and we are not willing to allow the dignity of our people to be trampled on.’

In addition to battling violence, kidnapping and drug dealing, the gangsters also pledged the come down hard on ‘adulterated wine, which it is said comes from Tepito’. Which will come as a relief to Mexico’s wine enthusiasts.

The Family are no strangers to sending puzzling messages. After the heads-in-disco incident, they left a note at the scene saying: ‘The family does not kill for money. It does not kill women or innocent people. Those who die are those who must die. Everyone should know that this is divine justice.’

Nude, oil-covered thief caught

Posted November 25, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Naking, Nude, Police, Raping, Violance, Virgin, theif

Nude ManFor months, villagers in the Kampung Tawas area of Malaysia had lived in fear of the orang minyak, a dread creature from Malay folk tales who was terrorising their town. But now police have caught the demon – and it turns out that it was a naked bloke covered in engine oil.

The orang minyak – Malay for ‘oily man’ – is one of the best known and most feared folk tales in Malaysian culture: a naked, supernatural being covered in oil, who would go around raping virgins.

The fake orang minyak, on the other hand, was an unemployed man in his twenties who would strip naked, cover himself in engine oil, and break into houses. Police believe he may have been responsible for around 20 burglaries in the past two months.

He was eventually caught by a police surveillance operation, after locals had tol authorities of their fears about orang minyak.

Supt Lai Yong Heng of the Ipoh district police said: ‘We are puzzled why the suspect would cover his whole body with engine oil.’

Zombies sue police

Posted November 25, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: News, Police, Zombie

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Slow. Relentless. Known for eating people’s brains and leaving a trail of devastation and misery in their wake. Yes, zombies have always had a lot in common with the American legal system – and now, seven of the undead have filed a lawsuit against the Minneapolis police.

The plaintiffs were dancing at a party in July when the seven of them – six adults and one juvenile in heavy zombie makeup – were arrested by the police, and held for two days. They claim they were abused and treated badly during that time.

The reason given by the police for their arrest was that the living dead were ’simulating weapons of mass destruction.’ This might have been partly due to the police’s ongoing efforts in the War on Zombies, and partly due to the fact that the police couldn’t tell the difference between a radio in a backpack and a dirty bomb

‘The musical equipment had no resemblance to weapons of mass destruction, and its purpose and use could easily be ascertained,’ states the zombies lawsuit.

The lawsuit also claims that one policeman swore at the zombies, saying he was going to teach them a lesson that that he didn’t care about the constitutional rights of the revenants (or Undead Americans, to use the politically correct term).

Furthermore, it says that one of the zombies had their prosthetic leg removed for the duration of time they were in jail – the jailers clearly unaware that mere limb loss won’t stop a zombie coming after you. Remove the head or destroy the brain, people.

The city defended the arrests in August, saying that the presence of the dancing zombies made the police genuinely fear for public safety.

The zombie plaintiffs – Jamie Jones, Raphi Rechitsky, Jake Sternberg, Jessica Baribeau, Christian Utne and Kate Kibby, as well as minor Kyle Kibby – are seeking damages of over $50,000, although it is believed they might settle for braaaaaiiiiins.

Thieves get off on the wrong foot

Posted November 25, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: theif

shoesBungling thieves made off with a haul of expensive shoes from a designer boutique – all of them right-footed.

They grabbed 20 shoes and boots from a display during a raid on Liverpool store Cricket, unaware the other halves were locked in a store room.

Stylist Lorraine McCulloch said: ‘They have broken in and grabbed the shoes from the display, but they won’t be of use to anyone. They were only in there for about three minutes.’

However, the gang did escape with £70,000 of dresses and bags from the Mathew Street shop, which is a favourite haunt of fashionistas such as Wayne Rooney’s fiancée Coleen McLoughlin and Steven Gerrard’s partner Alex Curran.

Ms McCullioch said: ‘If anyone is offered any designer gear, don’t buy it – it’s not worth it.’

Buttock fire video condemned

Posted November 23, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Crazy, Dumbo, Hilarious, body organ, butt, stupid, youtube

Just a few weeks after a man in Sunderland was severely injured after putting a firework up his bottom, a leading safety charity has expressed shock at a video of North Eastern teenagers setting fire to their friends buttocks, which was posted on YouTube.

In the video posted to YouTube – entitled ‘project crap #1 (daves arse on fire)’ – the boy’s friends repeatedly spray the willing participant’s bottom with a flammable substance.

After several failed attempts to light the buttocks, the members of the self-described ‘idiot squad’ manage to spark Dave’s bottom up – and Dave leaps out of shot with his rear-end on fire.

On the YouTube page, the teens helpfully name the North Shields secondary school they attend, and give their own names – but council bosses have nonetheless denied that any schoolchildren were involved.

It is not known if Dave needed any medical treatment following the burning of the arse.

A spokesman for RoSPA issued the warning: ‘To spray someone and try to set fire to a part of their anatomy is absolutely ridiculous. Our message to youngsters is that they should not copy this type of behaviour.’

He further understated: ‘Setting yourself on fire is not a sensible thing to do. They should think about the consequences of what could happen.’

Earlier this month, Sunderland squaddie Dan Tilley needed three operations after trying to launch a powerful firework rocket from his backside.

Armed thief steals man’s voice

Posted November 23, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Criminal, Violance, stupid, theif

ski maskA 65 year old man was left speechless on Monday, after a thug stole his voice at knifepoint.

The un-named man, who uses an electronic device to talk, had his machine snatched away from him during an armed robbery in an American bar.

The robbery occurred at around 1a.m., as the man was locking up the pub at which he works in Springfield, Illinois. A man wearing a ski-mask and holding a knife burst into the bar and threatened the worker.

Holding him at knifepoint, he first insisted that the man empty the till, and then demanded to be taken to the safe.

As a parting gesture, after ransacking both the cash register and the safe – stealing around $800 in the process – the thief also grabbed the man’s electronic speaking device and pocketed it, before running off into the night.

Police have not issued a description of the voice box in question.

Golf in Spaaaaace

Posted November 23, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Future, News, Science, Space, Sport, technology

It’s the kind of golf shot you can only dream of.

But cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin has managed make it a reality by smacking a golf ball into orbit.

He took the one armed swing off the International Space Station during a spacewalk.

Tyurin, the station’s flight engineer, made a one-armed swing with a gold-plated six-iron to send the lightweight ball on a journey estimated to take it around the Earth at least 48 times before it burns up in the atmosphere.

Space GolfHe spent 16 minutes setting up the shot, climbing a ladder on a Russian docking module with the help of US astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and the guidance of Russian flight controllers.

‘OK, there it goes,’ said Tyurin, ‘It went pretty far. It was an excellent shot.’

Tyurin has only played golf twice before in his life.

Canadian golf club maker Element 21 Golf Co paid the cash-strapped Russian space agency an undisclosed amount of money for Tyurin’s golf exhibition, which was filmed for a future commercial.

This isn’t the first time that the Russian space agency has dipped its underfunded toe in the waters of commercial sponsorship, much to the embarassment of their partners at NASA. They once allowed Pizza Hut to paint its logo on the side of their rocket and deliver pizzas to the astronauts.

The promotion was designed to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s memorable golf swing on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

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Ice machine fast food run unwise

Posted November 23, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Crazy, News, stupid

Speaking of people doing wildly inappropriate things with heavy vehicles two ice-rink employees have been fired after using the ice-resurfacing machines to pop out for fast food in the middle of the night.

The two went on their little midnight jaunt on a pair of Zamboni ice-resurfacers, driving the bulky vehicles 1 ½ miles in their quest for a Burger King drive-through.

Zambonis have a top speed of around 5 miles an hour.

The employees were immediately fired from their job at the Boise, Idaho ice-rink, after an anonymous caller tipped authorities off to the slightly unusual sight of two ice-resurfacers at a Burger King drive-through.

‘We’re pretty sure it was just the one time,’ said Jim Hall, Director of the Parks Department. ‘When we interviewed them, they didn’t seem to be too concerned about it. I don’t think they understood the seriousness of it.’

The ice-resurfacers were not believed to have been damaged on their little adventure.

Anti-golf toilet-fence causes row

Posted November 23, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Crazy, Humanity

A plumber is facing the wrath of his neighbours after he constructed a fence for his back yard out of old toilets – complete with scarecrows sitting on them.
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Rick Froebe says he is using the toilet-fence to repel golfers.

The residents of Soap Lake, Washington – who already have to put up with the indignity of living somewhere called ‘Soap Lake’ – have complained that the toilet-fence is an ‘eyesore’, and claim that Froebe is carrying on a feud with neighbours and the golf club which lies adjacent to his property.

Froebe, however, describes the fence as ‘plumber art’.

He says that he erected it to deter golfers from approaching his property, which he says makes his dogs bark – which has in turn led to his neighbours complaining, and the local sheriff’s department to repeatedly fine him for his noisy dogs.

The fence also includes old bathtubs and disused water tanks.

The toilet-fence borders the first hole at the Lekview Golf & Country club, a 354-yard par 4 hole on a course that’s described as ‘quite demanding’.

Froebe insists there’s nothing wrong with his toilet fence. ‘It’s not like this is Pebble Beach. This is Lakeview,’ he adds, cryptically.

Dope woman does dopey thing

Posted November 23, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Abuse, Drug, Marijuana, News, Police

DopeIn the field of criminals making things really easy for the police, a bold new standrad-setter has emerged – in the form of a woman who called the police to report her suspicions that someone had tampered with her marijuana stash.

The woman – an un-named 38-year-old from Oak Park, Michigan – called the police last Thursday after she became concerned that the dope she was smoking had had other chemicals.

Lt. Mike Pousak of the Oak Park police said: ‘When our officers got to the house she told them she believed the marijuana she had been smoking was laced with something other than marijuana.’

According to authorities, the woman’s daughter also noted that her mother had begun to suspect that her house contained demons.

On the plus side, the marijuana was indeed sent away for testing, so the woman got her request. So far, tests have managed to confirm that it’s marijuana.

On the question of whether other drug users might like to take advantage of the police’s helpful Pot Checking While U Wait service, Lt. Poulak suggested: ‘Not unless they want to be charged.’

The woman has now been charged with possessing marijunana.

Marijuana record fails to light up

Posted November 23, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Abuse, Drug, Humanity, Marijuana, News, health

marijuanaA Dutch group has had to cancel an attempt to claim their place in history by rolling the largest spliff in the world.The cancellation occurred after the Dutch police suggested that this might not be a good idea, what with the legal maximum amount of marijuana one can possess for consumption being five grams. The planned monster spliff would have contained 500 grams of the pure drug, untainted by any added tobacco. The organisers had hoped that they could get round the law by having 100 people all bring along the regulation five grams – but after checking the law, it turned out that this still wouldn’t have been legal. ‘We have now read the small print and realize there could be problems,’ organiser Thijs Verheij told the ANP news agency. Verheij had previously said that after the group had rolled the metre-long joint, and had it certified for the purpose of the Guinness Book of Records, they planned to smoke it in a bar. A police spokesamn said: ‘We would definitely have investigated this. If you make a single joint with half a kilo of cannabis in it, it would cross the line.’ The cancellation of the record attempt means that the world record for a joint still stands at 100 grams.

Dorks Smash the PS3 into Trash

Posted November 22, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Crazy, products, ps3, technology, youtube

After waiting in line for 30 hours four PS3, I am simply jealous to those who got 60GB.

Really want to beat these 2 idiots.


Steal from Rees

And there is a funny video too, you gotta take a look.

Steal from Nicholi

Really wanna buy a tower of Wii now, it seems more pleasurable to play with.

Drop Down Your Weapon From The Anal

Posted November 22, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Crazy, products

A naked man arrested for indecent exposure in California was held at gunpoint – on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon. screwdriver

At this point, you might be wondering exactly where a naked man might conceal a weapon. We can confirm that the most wince-inducing possibility you’re thinking of is the correct one.

He had a screwdriver hidden in his anus.

The police were first called in El Cerrito, California, on Thursday morning after reports that a naked man was masturbating in public, lying against a tree stump.

After arresting the man, identified as John Sheehan, for his masturbatory fun, Sergeant Paul Keith was about to put the man in the back of his car – but first, he asked him if there was anything the police should know about.

The man responded that he was concealing a screwdriver in his anal cavity. Which was honest of him.

Understandably, the police were a unsure what to do about this situation. So naturally, they called the fire brigade.

History doesn’t record what the fire fighters said – we’re guessing it was something along the lines of ‘why the hell did you just call us to remove screwdriver from a man’s bottom?’ – but they soon came to the decision that a hospital would probably be the best place to extract an anal screwdriver.

At this point, the man offered to take out the screwdriver himself.

El Cerrito police spokesman Detective Corporal Don Horgan said: ‘When he heard what they were talking about he said, “Hey, don’t worry about it. I can do it.”’

So, held at gunpoint in case he tried any funny business, Sheehan removed a six-inch long metal screwdriver wrapped in electrical tape.

Sheehan was subsequently taken to jail – from which he was out on parole – without offering an explanatiojn of what the screwdriver had been doing up his anus.

Man has gran’s head in luggage

Posted November 21, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Crazy, Criminal, Humanity, Police, Violance, death, murder

luggageIn further news of dismembered body parts in South Africa, a man was arrested for carrying the severed head of his grandmother in his luggage.

He wasn’t immediately arrested for that particular element of his crime. When he was orignally detained on a bus by the police, the first thing they found was a human finger, in his pocket (he was arrested after a tip-off).

It was only after the finger was discovered that the man – by this time held at a police station – mentioned that his luggage was still on the bus.

There ensued a fun chase as the police tried to catch up with the bus. When they finally managed to recover the luggage, inside it they found the man’s grandmother’s head, along with a couple of arms.

A headless body was found in the man’s village.

‘It is alleged the man murdered his 85-year-old grandmother on Friday by cutting her throat like a goat in a village near in Butterworth,’ said police spokesman Captain Jackson Manatha.

This incident is not believed to be connected to the disembodied penis found in another part of South Africa on Friday, because it is unlikely that the man’s grandmother had a penis.

‘Grape Guy’ Max Capacity 116 Grapes in Mouth

Posted November 20, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Australia, Crazy, Fruit, Guinness World Record, Humanity, News, Talent

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) – An American man caught 116 tossed grapes in his mouth in three minutes in what he hopes will become a new Guinness World Record, his publicity team said Thursday.Steve “the Grape Guy” Spalding, 44, of Dallas, Texas also set a personal record for endurance grape catching, using his mouth to catch 1,203 grapes thrown from a distance of 15 feet over half an hour, according to publicist Deanna Brown.

No Guinness World Records officials were present at Spalding’s grape-gobbling attempt, carried out Thursday in Australia overlooking Sydney’s iconic Opera House.Grape Guy

But Brown said observers had filmed Spalding’s attempt and would be submitting forms to Guinness officials in the hopes of creating a new record for speed grape-catching – the most grapes caught in the mouth over three minutes.

No current speed grape catching record exists, she said.

Guinness World Records has no offices in Australia, and the organization could not immediately be reached for comment.

The Tomb-Raiding Teacher

Posted November 20, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Criminal, Humanity, Teachers, Tomb Raider, theif

An article in the Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch tells of a high school teacher who took two students on a very weird field trip: Into a cemetery vault.tomb raider

As if that wasn’t enough, Rocky Gap High School biology teacher Candace Longworth allowed at least one of the two teenage girls to hold the bones of a corpse found within the 122-year-old vault, said the story written by Rex Bowman.

He quoted a lawyer for Tazwell County, the site of the vault, as insisting the foray into the tomb was “just bizarre,” and “not anything anyone would call school-related.”

Longworth, 31, was charged with disturbing and defiling a dead person from a place of burial and with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, said the story. She was also suspended by the high school.

The teens were charged as juveniles, wrote Bowman.

According to the report, the vault is partially below the surface in a cemetery built for 114 coal miners who died during an 1884 coal mine explosion in the town of Pocahontas. Authorities told the paper Longworth and her cohorts entered the vault through a large crack.

Rocky Gap Principal Robert Morehead had little to offer when the Times-Dispatch sought a comment: “I really can’t say anything else about it,” he said. “It’s something that happened on her own time, on the weekend, in another county. It has nothing to do with this school … It sort of boggles the mind as to why someone would be involved in this.”

Excuse Me~ Did You Lose Your Penis?

Posted November 20, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Hilarious, Humanity, News, Police, Sex, nasty, penis

Chicken headPolice in South Africa are trying to trace the owner of a severed penis which was found lying on the ground in a village.

The penis, which was not attached to anybody, was found on the ground outside a house in the small village of Masoyi, in the Mpumalanga region of eastern South Africa.

The police were called by the man who found the penis, which was not his penis, last Friday morning.

According to local police Superintendent Benjamin Mtsholi Bhembe, the man saw an unusual object on the ground outside the house he was taking care of.

‘On closer inspection, he realised that it was a man’s private part,’ said Bhembe.

Initial police investigations around the neighbourhood – which we imagine involved knocking on people’s doors and asking ‘ have you lost your penis?’ – proved unsuccessful.

Authorities are urging the penis’s owner to come forward. If you have lost you penis, you are advised to contact your nearest South African police station.

Cops: Wanna Taste my Taser?

Posted November 20, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Abuse, Criminal, Humanity, News, Police, Violance

taser gunFollowing on from the video of the student in California who was repeatedly shot with Taser stun gun after he failed to produce his library card, comes more news of cops doing things with tasers that they perhaps shouldn’t be doing with Tasers.

First up, a man in Saginaw, Michigan was tasered after he refused to remove his hat at a Saginaw City Council meeting.

22-year-old Charles Littleton was shot with the stun gun as police tried to remove him from the council chamber, which he was attending to get extra credit for a sociology class he was taking.

Littleton denies that he was rowdy or aggressive, and just claims that he was standing up for his hat-wearing rights. ‘It means more than just a hat. It’s like my crown. It’s like asking a king to remove his crown,’ he said of his Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap.

An in other taser hilarity, a New Zealand police officer who was trying to break up a domestic dispute tried five times to stun the man involved in the row. During the process, he manged to shoot the man’s 16 year-old son by mistake, before then accidentally sending 5,000 volts through himself when trying to reload the weapon.

After five attempts to hit the man, none of which were successful, the policeman opted for good old fashioned pepper spray instead. This also missed, hitting the man’s 21-year-old daughter instead.

The man eventually gave himself up, without the policeman successfully hitting him with anything.

Urine-Thrower Ruins Meals

Posted November 20, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Crazy, Criminal, Humanity, News, nasty

urineAn otherwise lovely family meal in a pizza restaurant in New Malden, south-west London, was slightly spoiled when a complete stranger walked up to their table and threw a bag of urine over everybody.

The incident occurred last week, in the Pizza Piazza restaurant, where the family of four were dining just after 9pm.

The restaurant manager, Alex Giarola told the Wimbledon Guardian: ‘The family were just having a good time and enjoying their meal before the guy walked in.’

They were enjoying their meal slightly less once the guy – who walked straight up to the family, ignoring a waitress who tried to help him – said ‘this is for you’ and threw a clear plastic bag filled with urine over the family and their table.

He then walked straight out again.

Helpfully, although the police were called immediately, they didn’t turn up for half an hour. Thus leaving the family to sit around soaked in urine, looking at the pish-sodden remains of their pizza.

If there was at least a slightly happy ending to the tale – they got a free meal out of it. ‘Of course we didn’t charge the family for the meal, we just felt so sorry for them,’ said Giarola.

Police are looking for a scruffy black male, about 5ft 6in, wearing a blue anorak and a red and white scarf, who may have a tendency to carry clear bags of urine around with him to throw at people.

Having Sex with a Dead Deer

Posted November 20, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Animal, Criminal, Humanity, Law, News, Sex

A man is accused of having sex with the carcass of a deer that he found lying beside the road – but his lawyer denies that he committed bestiality, on the grounds that a dead deer isn’t an animal any more. deer

20-year-old Bryan James Hathaway of Superior, Wisconsin allegedly had sex with the deer corpse after he found it on the roadside on October 11 this year. Authorities say he told police that he noticed the deer lying in a ditch, and then moved the corpse into the woods.

He is charged with ’sexual gratification with an animal’ – but in a magnificent piece of legal footwork, his attorney argues that he can’t be guilty of that crime, because a carcass isn’t an animal, the Duluth News Tribune reports.

Public defender Fredric Anderson filed a motion last week which claimed: ‘The statute does not prohibit one from having sex with a carcass.’

He said that if you try to include corpses in the category of ‘animals’, then ‘you really go down a slippery slope with absurd results.’ The only clear place to draw a line in the definition of what is an animal, and what isn’t, was at the point of death, he argued.

He gave the example of a roast turkey – with which it would be illegal to have sex under the braoder interpretation of the law – claiming that it was unreasonable to suggest it should still be classified as an animal for the purposes of law.

In response, prosecutor James Broughner argued that a deer carcass is still an animal – pointing out that in his statement to police, Hathaway called the corpse a ‘dead deer,’ demonstrating that he still thought of it as an animal.

Judge Michael Lucci noted when hearing the arguments that: ‘I’m a little surprised this issue hasn’t been tackled before in another case.’

If Hathaway is convicted, he could serve up to two years in prison, because of a previous conviction in 2005 for shooting dead a horse called Bambrick. So that he could have sex with it.

Seven-Year-Old Armed for Lego

Posted November 19, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Children, Humanity, News, theif

Hot on the heels of the wallet-snatching grannies yesterday, further evidence that the stereotype of crime being commited by young male hooligans might not be quite right – as a seven year old girl attempts to commit armed robbery of a toy store.knife

The crime was attempted in a Wal-Mart in Largo, Florida, where a store employee noticed a little girl – estimated to be seven or eight years old – hide two boxes of Lego under her coat and walk toward the door.

The employee walked over to the little girl, and asked her to give up the Lego.

At this point, the little girl pulled her jacket open revealing that she was brandishing a ten inch carving knife. The girl explained that she was armed for protection.

The stand-off was eventually ended when the employee talked the little girl down, managing to get her to put down the knife and the Lego with nobody being hurt.

The little girl then rode off on her bicycle.

Police are currently hunting the little girl.

George Bush VS Witchdoctor

Posted November 19, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: George Bush, Humanity, Uncategorized

In one corner is an Indonesian witchdoctor smeared in blood and with the devil on his side. In the other corner, George W. Bush, weakened by an electoral drubbing, but with the 82nd Airborne on his side. witchdoctor

The battle kicked off yesterday, when the witchdoctor drank freshly slaughtered animal and snake blood, as part of a ritual he said would jinx the upcoming visit of the U.S. President.

Ki Gendeng Pamungkas slit the throat of a goat, a small snake and stabbed a black crow in the chest. He then mixed their blood with herbs, before drinking the potion and smearing it on his face.

So far, so Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

‘I don’t hate Americans, but I don’t like Bush,’ said Pamungkas, adding he believed the ritual would succeed because ‘the devil is with me today.’

Ironically, ‘the devil’ is a phrase that many opponents of Bush – notably Hugo Chavez – have used to describe the President.

Pamungkas said that the ritual – which he performed about one kilometer from the palace where Bush will have talks with the Indonesian president – would cause Secret Service personnel guarding Bush to fall into a trance and believe the U.S. leader was under attack, causing chaos.

The president is scheduled to visit the world’s most populous Muslim nation for several hours on Nov. 20. Bush, you’ll be surprised to learn, is deeply unpopular in Indonesia because of the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.

While sorcery – which predates Islam’s arrival on the islands – is banned under Islam, many Indonesians still follow and practise it.

Watch the clip

Youtube becomes a Hunting Ground of Talents!!

Posted November 19, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Genius, Humanity, News, Talent, youtube

Susi Weaser proved that youtube is a platform for future stars to shine.
Susi Weaser was once a unfamilar white collar, and she suddenly turns into a celerbrity. Susi Weaser used to introduce new technology  by her self-interest in short clips, and she uploads to youtube. The clips has attracted over millions of people to watch on youtube. It is attractive because her talents and humor and her unique style.

One day, a BBC program director spotted her short clips on youtube. The director has invited her to take a interview. And now Susi Weaser is employed to be a host & M.C. in few different programs.

let’s us watch the clip

What do you think?
Do you think you can beat her?
Do you think you got some form of show talent?

Fight for you dream now! It is highly possible!!!

PS3 Price Way UP UP UP!!!

Posted November 18, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Hot, Make Money, News, money, products, ps3

PS3Didn’t update this blog quite a few days. One of the reason is I went line up outside of Bestbuy for PS3. I spent 36 hours out here for waiting the product. I sucked tons of dust and trash-like air from heavily loaded traffic. I was almost spent 36 hours in vain, because the staff said the shipping  delayed and there was a inventory problem, blah blah blah. At the beginning, they said they got 133 units and promised “it is guaranteed”, and then after 36 hours they said they got 108 only. I was the 114 person, what do you expect the way I feel? Everyone was very angry with that answer after 36 hours. And the people who didn’t get Ps3 tried to mess with the staff. Later, they said they found 17 units more. I think the staff are just keeping them for themselves. Still, some people didn’t get it. I feel very sorry to them. Conclusion: Bestbuy sucks!

Did you meeting anything similar to my experience?

By the way, the average price of the 60GB PS3 ( the premium model) is selling over 2500, whereas 20GB is around 1800 to 2000. You gotta know the highest bid of the premium one even though you got no interest on PS3. Guess what?! It sold 15000 US Dollars. Yes, $15000 USD. Can you believe that? Original price $599 V.S. Highest Crazy Price $15000!!!money

Let me do the math, 15000/599=………….25towers and somewhat remain
That guy can use that amount of money to buy 24 more of PS3

I am not B.S.ing. You can view history of it.

Believe it now?

I am not so lucky if I compare to that guy. I got a 20 GB version only.

I hope I can make a good profit from it.

How much did you guys make from this gold mine?

It is your parents fault?!

Posted November 18, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Science, biology, health, knowledge, research

Are you tall?

Are you fat?

Are you too short?

Are you too thin?

According to an England research, father gene contributes to the height, whereas mother genes influence the weight (fatness).

family

The conclusion is drawn from a hospital by measuring across 1000 families with parents and babies body builds and other measurements. It shows father’s weight has merely a slim influence to offsring’s fatness. But fat mum usually has fat child/children. It may due to mum’s high blood sugar, so that baby are fed and caused overweight.

At the end, the paper emphasis that individual has ability to change their weight and height while they are young. And it is not doom to be fat or short or thin or tall. Mature body growth is mostly dependent on first few years life style.

Your Dog Reflects What You are!!

Posted November 18, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Criminal, Dogs, psychology, research

What kind of dog you got, it simply reflects personality of the dog’s owner.

Why say so?dog

In one research article result shows, people tend to rear animals with almost alike temper of themselves. For example, most Staffordshire Bull Terrier owners are easy-get-mad people, and they also have high percentage of criminal records and high tendency to commit crimes, including abuses in various objects. Ohio state has been conducted an experiment with 355 dog owners. They found a corelation that owners of rude dog committed crime at least once, and even serious crimes. On the contrary, among dog owners that rear mild-temper dogs (such as Poodle, beagle, shepher etc.) only 1% of them with criminal history. In short, mad-dog owners are 9 times higher possibility to violate child abuse, 3 times in family violation, 8 times in drug abuse.

Okay, tell me which kind of dog you got!
I have no dog indeed.

If You Love Chocolate, You Will Definitely Love This News

Posted November 15, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Science, biology, chocolate, health, knowledge

Chocolates taste good. They can make eaters feel happy.chocolates
But now, you have gotten one more reason to devour choloclates. Scientists believe chocolates can reduce the risk of heart attack. Because there are some ingredient in the cocoa beans that just like aspirin, which can slower the blood cloting. By it means, it is an inhibitor for blood clot in the bloodstream. Rejoice!! Chocoholics~~

Sperm War

Posted November 14, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Science, biology, knowledge, sperm

I just read a textbook, and I found an interesting science fact that I want to share with all of you. Here is the abstract.

sperm

“Do human sperm behave cooperatively, as a group, rather than on individualistic basis? Are sperm behaving ” altruistically” toword their kin? Some recent research suggest this might be so.

Robin Baker and Mark Bellis (1995) present results that suggest that not all sperm simply race to fertilize an ovum. They describe a much more complex process than had been understood until now. They claim that only about one sperm in a hundred is actually actively seeking the ovum after ejaculation.

Of the remaining sperm, about 80% are describe as “killers.” These sperm chemically attack and disable other “foreign” (contributes by a different male) sperm. Another 20% of sperm are probably somewhat old and tired already (the life cycle of a sperm cell is only a matter of days to weeks). They are more passive, and collect around the cervicalopening in an apparent attempt to block the entry of foreign sperm. (They also discriminate between sperm and permit entry of familiar sperm.)”

I thought all sperms are competitors in the sperm racing. I would never know this if I didn’t read the book. Anyways, we are all winners of swimming competitions. Yeah

Anal Sex and Oral Sex

Posted November 10, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Law, Sex, Singapore

In Singapore, anal sex and oral sex was crimes.
Recently, Singaopre government suggested to amend that both two acts should not be prohabited. They used 3 years to revise and polling. The proposal also suggests teenages under 16 are able to “make out” if only with both agreement. However, homosexual people are prohabited to preform such actions.

I wonder would they really catch people for doing anal and oral sex. It is going to be funny when people out there are making out and a police says Freeze!!

Good News for Blind People

Posted November 10, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Future, Medication, Science, knowledge, technology


Did you ever hear of a term “stem cells”?
Stem cells are believed to be the panacea in next decade.

In a latest study, some researchers take away the immature photorecepter cells from  3-5 days old infant rats. And then the reserachers foster and mutiply the cells in laboratory. After that, they implant the cell into the blind rats which blindness is due to aging. The blind rats are not able to see things until the photorecepter cells grow mature. The signals from eyes to brain has also tested, and it proves there are no problem with this medical technology. Since rat eye ball structure is very similar to human, it is very possible to adopt on human. The researchers said, it is not only going to help the aging people, but also the blind people are caused by diabetes. They believe this technology will be fully developed in ten years.

Feel the Heat

Posted November 9, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Environment, Global Warming, Hot



It’s Noverber 8th today.
It supposes to turn into winter few weeks ago. I am still wearing short pants and t-shirt.There are more and more news relate the term Global Warming. The climate has become more fluctuated. The temperture bounces up and down. Maybe this world is not that suitable environment for human to dwell in. There is a reserach that shows the people in Africa suffer the heat most.

(learn more…)

Recycle Bra

Posted November 9, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Clothes, Humanity, Japan, Underwear, products


The bra company Triumph of Japan has invented a recycle bra.
There is an exhitbion in Tokyo in Nov 8th.
The recycle bra can turn into a shopping bag.

What do you think?

Would you use the bra after shopping with that?

Anyways, inventor reminds customers to be aware of the environment.

A Story of Strongest Dad and a Paralyzed Son

Posted November 7, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Disabled, Humanity, Touching, athlete, dad, filiation, love

An infant was embraced by the umbilical cord, and it paralyzed the infant for his entire life. He lost the movement ability except the eye movement left. His father did not abandon him, because he thinks his son is a human being and has consciousness. Someone donated a computer which is controlled by eye ball movement, so that the son can communite with others.

One day, the son said he wants to participate in Iron Man Triathlon. Is that possible for a paralyzed person? Most people thought he was daydreaming. However, his father responsed to a such impossible mission. The son sits on a wheelchair, and the father runs and pushes behind. The father didn’t swim at all, he ran to learn for his son’s dream. He put his son on a raft, and then he swims and pulls the raft.

A story of Dick and Rick Hoyt

What an incredible triumph of love to be awakened by what this father and son live and share each and every day. And this continues longer than 25 years, longer than 5000 kilometers.

Someone asked why Dick wouldn’t go to competition alone. It may break through the world greatest record by his strength.
His answer: I did it all for my son, because he(his son) said it enables himself to feel the freedom.
This reason keeps Dick persists over 25 years.

Indeed, I think Dick has already break through theworld greatest record of Strongest Dad.

What Can I Say?! A Little Boy Beats Me

Posted November 7, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Drums, Genius, Music

I endeavored so hard to learn a basic drum rhythm.
Hitting drums just simply seems like breath for the four-year-old boy.
For me, this boy is undefeated. He is just a genius (period).
Let’s watch the clip.

What can you say?

Pluto has been expelled from the solar system

Posted November 6, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Pluto, Science, Solar System, knowledge

Solar SystemWhen I was a middle-school kid, science was once my favorite subject. I used to pay extra attention to space related lectures. By that time, nine planets solar system was taught. In order of their distances from the Sun, the planets are Mercury , Venus , Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , Neptune, and finally Pluto.

It astonished me when I realized nine planets solar system is a wrong concept. The reason why scientist takes it away is Pluto is a dwarf planet indeed. Its size equals only to 2/3 of moon diameter. Also, there are four more dwarf planets like Pluto around Pluto; therefore, if Pluto counts into solar system, the other four should count as well. And there is a great possibility that more dwarf planet will be found in the future.

The refined definition of “Planet”

1. A planets’ size and weight should be able to produce universal gravitation, and it leads itself to form a sharp of sphere. (Usually its diameter greater than 1000 kilometers/ 625 miles)
 2. A planet encircles the sun, but not encircles another planet.
3. This is an additional guideline for eliminating the dwarf planets like Pluto. A planet should be able to absorb or no other ostacles on its path. In this case, Pluto fails to gather the other dwarf planets.

 (More….)

No pen, No book, No paper at school in the future

Posted November 6, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Future, School Life, technology

Book & penCan you imagine that there are no pen, no book, and no paper at school in the future?
I wonder that it is going to make school life much more boring.
When i was studying in highschool, I often drew pictures and sketched stupid figures.
Sometimes I did write something on a little note to a friend next to me.
But it will becomes a swan song for our next generation.
It might also leads to a situation that people don’t know how to write in hand properly.
Technology helps people to run everything faster; on the contrary, its side effects are costly too. I think totally dump away the tradition is not a smart idea.
The only point I like is calculating the calory intake. It helps weight control!!!

(video…..)

I am a Criminal of Sexual Abuser

Posted November 6, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Criminal, Humanity, Sexual Abuser

sexual agressionIn United States, state of Delaware, one person was sentenced to wear a shirt printed with “I am a Criminal of Sexual Abuser”.

The Criminal is called Russell Teeter. The reason why he has been accused because he attempted to expose his genital to a 10-year-old girl twice in his work place.

Since 1976 Russell Teeter started to show his sex organ to children, therefore judges decided to make such penality and put him in jail for 60 days.

I think it is so funny to see a person put on a shirt like that. I may yield to him and say : show me your genital!

There Are No Seafood For People in the Future

Posted November 6, 2006 by Mr. Rookie
Categories: Environment

SeafoodAccording to research group from US and Canada, no more seafood will be provided in 2048 due to over-fishing and ocean pollution. It means sea organisms will totally extinct.

In the report, it states if these two factors keep occuring consistently, that will threats further the ocean ecosystem, all ocean species, and embroils food supply of humanity.

This research took a process of four years. It is a pioneer research of all ocean species. The ocean ecosystem may extincts earlier if the sea condition get any worse.

It is going to be hard to get Filet-O-Fish even you pay thousands for it.

(Details…)