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Hamsters were among the 1,700 animals found in the car.
The animals included 216 budgies, 300 white mice, 150 hamsters, 30 Japanese squirrels, six cameleons and more than 1,000 terrapins.
Monday, 28 September 2009
Man Trap found on Tourist Trail
Man trap set at tourist spot
NADJA HAINKE
A MAN-made trap designed to seriously harm people has been found near a popular Territory tourist spot.
The sinister booby-trap construction was discovered at the mouth of the Finniss River - about 100km southwest of Darwin - last Sunday. The finder, a resident from the outer Darwin region who wished not to be named, said she was horrified when she discovered the trap.
"A lot of people go there," she said. "It would have gone through your thong or through your foot but if a child walked over it (they) would have fallen in and god knows ..."
The man trap consisted of six sharpened sticks that were stuck vertically into the base of a one-metre-wide square hole.
A wooden frame was put about 15cm above the sticks, covered with black plastic bags and sand to hide the construction.
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Saturday, 26 September 2009
Earthshots.com
Space Optimisation by Thomas Vignaud
Friday, 18th September 2009
EarthShots.org - Photo of the Day Contest
Click here for a random photo from the Earth Shots archive!
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Police find 1,700 animals in car
Police have discovered 1,700 live animals crammed into the boot of a hatchback car in Bari, Italy, during a routine check.
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Confusion
these enthusiastically tactile people are.
Friday, 25 September 2009
19.2 Pound Baby not the record holder
19.2 Pound Baby Born
An Indonesia woman named Ani gave birth to 19.2-lb baby yesterday in Medan, North Sumatra. The boy, Muhammad Akbar Risuddin, is among the heaviest babies ever delivered who survived:
Perhaps unsurprisingly, he was delivered by Caesarean section.
Britain's heaviest newborn was delivered in Cumbria in 1992 weighing 15lb 8oz.
The heaviest baby ever born was produced by Anna Bates of Canada in 1879, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It weighed 23.12lb and died 11 hours after birth.
The record for a baby which survived, according to the Guinness record keepers, is held by a boy born weighing 22lb 8oz at Aversa, Italy in 1955.
More recently Francisca do Santos gave birth to a son weighing 16lb 11oz by Caesarean section in Brazil.
Link via Yahoo! Buzz
Image: AFP/Getty Images
E63 handset for sale - 3 network
I have a brand new, in the box, still shrink-wrapped, black E63 handset for sale.
This one's red, but you get the idea:
CNET's review:
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This one's red, but you get the idea:
CNET's review:
The good:
Cute design
Great keyboard
Zippy performance
Outstanding battery life
The bad:
No HSDPA
No GPS receiver
The bottom line:
The E63 will make an excellent messaging phone for people who need to be connected without the trimmings.
RRP:
AU$509.00
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Lunatic in the UN
From Andy Borowitz:
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Mental Patient Breaks into U.N., Gives Ninety-minute Speech
Breach of Security Under Review
An escaped mental patient broke into the United Nations yesterday, getting all the way to the General Assembly and delivering a ninety-minute speech.
A day after the stunning security breach, U.N. officials were still attempting to sort out how it was allowed to happen.
"We're trying not to play the blame game here," said U.N. spokesperson Carol Foyler. "The simple fact is, a legally insane man somehow got all the way to the podium, so how do we keep that from happening again?"
Theories abound as to how the mental patient made it to the U.N., with some suggesting that he may have escaped during a field trip to a county fair.
Reacting to the rambling and incoherent ninety-minute rant, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton echoed the feelings of many: "I was like, where's Kanye when you need him?"
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I... the... SO wrong
From this blog:
Me also. Just... amazingly inappropriate.
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Mike sent me this. Just so it’s clear: somebody actually got this tattooed on themselves. Somebody. Has. This. On. Their. Body. Even worse, there is a tattoo artist who agreed to this.
I can’t even. Words fail me.
Me also. Just... amazingly inappropriate.
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Thursday, 24 September 2009
arrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh
Frickin frakkin flying ducks hippo spittle bandicoots.
Cellulitis. Again. With 4 days of work left. I do not have the words for my level of frustration and cranky. Oh wait, yes I do: "2 pizzas please".
It looks like a bug bite or something - if you invert it, it's way cool:
Just a tiiiiiny little pinprick, but that just fucks my weekend. No walking, leg elevated = no work Fri, no family wedding Sunday.
Many rude words.
Cellulitis. Again. With 4 days of work left. I do not have the words for my level of frustration and cranky. Oh wait, yes I do: "2 pizzas please".
It looks like a bug bite or something - if you invert it, it's way cool:
Just a tiiiiiny little pinprick, but that just fucks my weekend. No walking, leg elevated = no work Fri, no family wedding Sunday.
Many rude words.
woman gives birth to giant
Ow. owowowow. Ow.
Woman gives birth to an 8.7kg whopper
From: Agence France-PresseSeptember 23, 2009AN Indonesian woman has given birth to an 8.7kg (19.2 pound) baby boy, the heaviest newborn ever recorded in the country, a doctor says.
The baby, who is still unnamed and is 62cm long, was born by caesarean section on Monday at a public hospital in North Sumatra province, a gynaecologist who took part in the operation said.
"This heavy baby made the surgery really tough, especially the process of taking him out of his mum's womb. His legs were so big," Binsar Sitanggang said.
Snakes in the ceiling!!
CAPTURING pythons 5.5m and 3.2m long was the easy part, Aaron Chapman reckons. Mr Chapman and two colleagues removed the two male pythons from the ceiling of the Yorkeys Knob Boating Club near Cairns on Monday. Now comes the hard part - capturing Mummy, as the locals call her.
Gallery: Handlers remove giant pythons
Mummy is 6.4m - 21 feet on the old scale - and is thought to be one of the largest pythons in Australia. Mr Chapman said the Australian Venom Zoo at Kuranda would send four men
to attempt to capture Mummy after the 5.5m male snake lifted his colleague clean off the ground. "We grabbed one and it swung around and lifted Isaac, my larger colleague, off the ground," he said. The men had to crawl through a one-metre space between roof and ceiling to locate the snakes. Mr Chapman said the non-venomous Mummy was capable of crushing and swallowing an adult.
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Telegraph.co.uk - Pictures of the week
Full slideshow here
Six Flags rollercoaster under flood waters in Atlanta, Georgia
Kitten found in engine after 3 hours of dismantling.
Full slideshow here
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Six Flags rollercoaster under flood waters in Atlanta, Georgia
Kitten found in engine after 3 hours of dismantling.
Full slideshow here
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Is our children being educated?
Today's The Australian newspaper. Banner headline:
Item 4:
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Item 4:
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