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August 22, 2013
The Chinese Are Channeling Their Inner C. Montgomery Burns And Using Full Face Visors To Block Sun
Chinese go undercover in Darth Vader-style visors as fear of exposure to the sun sweeps country
Giant full face visors have been described as combining the benefits of wearing a hat and sunglasses at the same time
People have been spotted wearing them on bikes, scooters and even indoors while shopping - and out of the sun
People in China are taking skin-care to new extremes by wearing full-face dark visors to protect them from the sun.
Unlike sporty sun-visors designed to cast a shadow over the face, these much larger accessories cover the entire visage with dark tinted plastic.
While those wearing them can see out, those looking at them are forced to communicate with what looks like someone wearing a Darth Vader-like mask, without irony.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2398264/Fad-Darth-Vader-like-visors-sweeps-China-fears-grow-exposure-sun.html#ixzz2cidOl4LF
Giant full face visors have been described as combining the benefits of wearing a hat and sunglasses at the same time
People have been spotted wearing them on bikes, scooters and even indoors while shopping - and out of the sun
People in China are taking skin-care to new extremes by wearing full-face dark visors to protect them from the sun.
Unlike sporty sun-visors designed to cast a shadow over the face, these much larger accessories cover the entire visage with dark tinted plastic.
While those wearing them can see out, those looking at them are forced to communicate with what looks like someone wearing a Darth Vader-like mask, without irony.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2398264/Fad-Darth-Vader-like-visors-sweeps-China-fears-grow-exposure-sun.html#ixzz2cidOl4LF
August 22, 2013
Is this how the zombie apocalypse starts?
A Group Of Scientists Are Working To Clone John Lennon Using DNA From Tooth
“If scientists think they can clone Mammoths, then John Lennon could be next.” This is the quote from Edmonton, Alberta today, August 16, 2013, by Dr. Michael Zuk, who is collaborating with American scientists to decode the DNA from John Lennon’s tooth.
The dentist attracted world-wide attention in 2011 for purchasing the tooth for over $30,000 at a UK auction in 2011. Lennon gave the rotting tooth, which had just been extracted, to his housekeeper Dot Jarlett in the 60s. The molar has been put to good use since then. It participated in a number of charitable ventures including a tour of the UK to raise awareness of oral cancer. A line of John Lennon DNA pendants was created, and was included in a celebrity DNA documentary as well as many other television appearances.
http://www.examiner.com/article/cloning-of-john-lennon-scientists-working-to-extract-dna-from-tooth
The dentist attracted world-wide attention in 2011 for purchasing the tooth for over $30,000 at a UK auction in 2011. Lennon gave the rotting tooth, which had just been extracted, to his housekeeper Dot Jarlett in the 60s. The molar has been put to good use since then. It participated in a number of charitable ventures including a tour of the UK to raise awareness of oral cancer. A line of John Lennon DNA pendants was created, and was included in a celebrity DNA documentary as well as many other television appearances.
http://www.examiner.com/article/cloning-of-john-lennon-scientists-working-to-extract-dna-from-tooth
Is this how the zombie apocalypse starts?
August 22, 2013
Cue Homer Simpson saying "But It's My First Day!"
Florida (Obviously) School Bus Driver Drops Kids Off In Wrong Town On First Day
A Broward school bus driver transporting middle school students from school made a slight error in judgment and missed the original stop by eight miles.
The driver left the students there anyway.
At least that's what their parents are saying. The Broward school district, however, is giving a slightly more detailed version of the events, saying that the kids forced the driver to let them out at the wrong stop and that the driver can't very well make them get back on the bus.
Apparently, the driver made an error in the route and stopped at the south side of Riverside Drive in Coral Springs instead of the north side, where the Forest Glen Middle School students he was transporting live.
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2013/08/broward_students_left_eight_mi.php
The driver left the students there anyway.
At least that's what their parents are saying. The Broward school district, however, is giving a slightly more detailed version of the events, saying that the kids forced the driver to let them out at the wrong stop and that the driver can't very well make them get back on the bus.
Apparently, the driver made an error in the route and stopped at the south side of Riverside Drive in Coral Springs instead of the north side, where the Forest Glen Middle School students he was transporting live.
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2013/08/broward_students_left_eight_mi.php
Cue Homer Simpson saying "But It's My First Day!"
August 22, 2013
Is it a police state yet?
Dad Asks Son To Hold Beer, Is Then Asked To Leave Arizona Preseaon Game
Just after the opening kickoff of the Arizona Cardinals' preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday, Cardinals season ticket holder John Coulter wanted to take a picture. He says he asked his 15-year-old son to hold his beer cup while he did so.
Seconds later, two undercover officers with the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control approached him. Coulter says they told him that what he did was illegal and that he could be arrested for it. In the end, officers escorted the father and son out of the University of Phoenix Stadium.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/08/21/father-son-beer-kicked-out-arizona-cardinals/2680537/
Seconds later, two undercover officers with the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control approached him. Coulter says they told him that what he did was illegal and that he could be arrested for it. In the end, officers escorted the father and son out of the University of Phoenix Stadium.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/08/21/father-son-beer-kicked-out-arizona-cardinals/2680537/
Is it a police state yet?
August 21, 2013
Dumb Criminals: Rapper's Instagram Habit Leads NYC Authorities To Largest Gun Bust In History
The largest gun bust in New York City history has netted 254 firearms and 19 indictments, and it all reportedly began with a little-known Brooklyn rapper bragging about selling guns on Instagram. Matthew Best — who has released a couple mixtapes under the name Neno Best — posted photos and video of various guns and large amounts of money, stating that he was selling weapons out of his Ocean Hill recording studio, according to the New York Daily News. Most of the posts have since been removed, but not before being spotted by New York Police Department narcotics investigators who then passed the info along to undercover officers. Shortly thereafter, an NYPD investigator found a multi-state gun trafficking ring, officials say.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/21/4641484/neno-best-instagram-youtube-massive-nypd-gun-bust
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/21/4641484/neno-best-instagram-youtube-massive-nypd-gun-bust
August 21, 2013
The Weird News Drinking Game
This isn't a story but I would like to propose the Weird News Drinking Game.
Take 1 drink if the story involves a stupid criminal.
Take 2 drinks if the story involves an animal (can be either wild or domesticated).
Take 3 drinks if the story involves poop or other bathroom / bodily functions.
Take 4 drinks if the story involves a dead person.
Take 5 drinks if the story takes place in Florida.
Finish your drink if the person in the story got arrested for any reason.
Chug a beer if the story involves alcohol at all.
Do a shot of Jager if the story involves food.
Chug two beers if the story involves alcohol and the person in question failed in an extravagant way that does not involve death.
Take a shot if the story involves the bedroom and two shots if the story involves the bedroom and, as Frank Zappa so eloquently put it "extraterrestrial gratification".
Take another drink if the story involves exotic items that you could never possibly afford (eg Kanye West's dictator vehicle that has whale penis leather).
Do another shot if the story involves somebody setting an unusual world record.
Feel free to add more.
August 21, 2013
If there's one group of people you don't fuck with, it's alcoholics!
Kyrgyzstan Authorties Find Pipeline That's Been Smuggling Illegal Booze In The Country
The authorities in Kyrgyzstan shut off a pipeline carrying alcohol from Kazakhstan after it was discovered last week, the Kyrgyz news agency AKIpress reported.
It's believed to have carried mostly vodka through an 8 inch-wide tube over a third of a mile under the Chu River, which divides the two countries. The pipeline ended in the city of Tokmok in northern Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyz border guards found the pipeline during a routine search.
"We assume that thousands of liters of alcohol were smuggled," a Tokmok police official told AKIpress.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/offbeat/130820/vodka-pipeline-shut-kyrgyzstan
It's believed to have carried mostly vodka through an 8 inch-wide tube over a third of a mile under the Chu River, which divides the two countries. The pipeline ended in the city of Tokmok in northern Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyz border guards found the pipeline during a routine search.
"We assume that thousands of liters of alcohol were smuggled," a Tokmok police official told AKIpress.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/offbeat/130820/vodka-pipeline-shut-kyrgyzstan
If there's one group of people you don't fuck with, it's alcoholics!
August 21, 2013
Bakersfield School District Spends $36K On Emergency Toilets And Cat Litter
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. --A school district in Bakersfield, Calif. is preparing for the worst by buying portable plastic toilets.
"Last year, we had 14 lockdowns in the Kern High School District, and many of them lasted maybe five or 10 minutes,” said district spokesman John Teves. "The longest that I saw was two hours."
The portable toilets, or lockdown kits, include a 5-gallon bucket, a bag of kitty litter, toilet paper, gloves and other sanitation items, as well as a privacy curtain.
Teves said the kits may seem strange, until they are necessary.
"Five minutes or two hours, if it comes at just the right time for a particular student, it’s going to be too long," Teves said.
http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/Bakersfield-schools-spend-36K-on-emergency-classroom-toilets-220413581.html
"Last year, we had 14 lockdowns in the Kern High School District, and many of them lasted maybe five or 10 minutes,” said district spokesman John Teves. "The longest that I saw was two hours."
The portable toilets, or lockdown kits, include a 5-gallon bucket, a bag of kitty litter, toilet paper, gloves and other sanitation items, as well as a privacy curtain.
Teves said the kits may seem strange, until they are necessary.
"Five minutes or two hours, if it comes at just the right time for a particular student, it’s going to be too long," Teves said.
http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/Bakersfield-schools-spend-36K-on-emergency-classroom-toilets-220413581.html
August 20, 2013
Breaking Bad fans: Check Out This Awesome Lego Meth Lab
Breaking Bad is coming to a close, but that's no reason for the fun to end: introducing the unofficial Breaking Bad meth lab Lego set.
Sold by Citizen Brick, the "Superlab Playset" has over 500 parts and comes in at a cool $250 (£160), which is equivalent to around about three grams of actual meth in the UK, in case you were interested.
The set includes Lego versions of Walter, Mike and both live and dead versions of Gus.
"Bummed out that your favourite show is going off the air?" reads the Citizen Brick website. "Who knows what fun you'll cook up with this deluxe set."
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/16/breaking-bad-lego-set
Sold by Citizen Brick, the "Superlab Playset" has over 500 parts and comes in at a cool $250 (£160), which is equivalent to around about three grams of actual meth in the UK, in case you were interested.
The set includes Lego versions of Walter, Mike and both live and dead versions of Gus.
"Bummed out that your favourite show is going off the air?" reads the Citizen Brick website. "Who knows what fun you'll cook up with this deluxe set."
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/16/breaking-bad-lego-set
August 19, 2013
BAMF Of The Day: Detroit EMT Has Heart Attack While Performing On Patient, Drops Him Off Anyway
A Detroit EMS technician performing CPR on a patient en route to a hospital suddenly had a heart attack himself this morning.
Joseph Hardman “had a heart attack on the way to the hospital,” says union rep Joe Barney. “He nearly died, had to go to surgery.”
Thirty EMS techs have left the department over work conditions and loss of pay, Barney said. The department is down to about 150 from 304 eight years ago.
http://www.freep.com/article/20130816/COL10/308160155/detroit-EMS-tech-heart-attack
Joseph Hardman “had a heart attack on the way to the hospital,” says union rep Joe Barney. “He nearly died, had to go to surgery.”
Thirty EMS techs have left the department over work conditions and loss of pay, Barney said. The department is down to about 150 from 304 eight years ago.
http://www.freep.com/article/20130816/COL10/308160155/detroit-EMS-tech-heart-attack
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