That sheep dog is clever to do what it did to retrieve the sock puppets. But why would anyone put sock puppets on the ceiling fan in the first place?
May 21, 2012
64-Year-Old Woman Attempts To Rob Same Bank Three Times
We’ve talked before about some pretty gutsy bank robberies, but you have to have a special sort of confidence in order to attempt to rob the same bank three times.
What’s the word? That’s right, balls!
Yes, Datha Nation may be a 64-year-old woman, but she probably has the biggest set of huevos in Denver. At least, that’s what we assume.
Apparently Ms Nation walked into a Wells Fargo branch in June of last year carrying a note threatening to infect the bank teller with a syringe of AIDS if they did not hand over bags and bags of money. (Okay, maybe it didn’t say “bags and bags” but she did ask for cash, and she did threaten to give the teller AIDS, whether she had such a syringe or not doesn’t appear to be verifiable.)
Never mind her scary of weapon of choice, over say, the threat to blow up the branch with a hand grenade or something much more reasonable. Nope, this tough ass granny went the “give ‘em all AIDS” route.Continue Reading
May 21, 2012
Chocolate Sculpture Of Mayan Pyramid Breaks World Record
I love chocolate. Most women do. It’s just a fact.
Chocolate stimulates pleasure centers in the brain and causes your body to produce endorphins creating a chemical effect similar to that of being in love.
So, if out of that love we were to create a shrine to chocolate, a temple if you will, I couldn’t imagine anything more fitting than this.
In celebration of its 30th anniversary, as well as the grand opening of the Qzina Institute of Chocolate & Pastry, Qzina Specialty Foods in Irvine, California decided to break the world record for the largest chocolate sculpture in history.
The CEO and founder of Qzina, Richard Foley, called breaking the record their greatest masterpiece yet, and once you realize what they did, you’ll see why.
What’s more incredible than the sheer size of their creation is the sculpture itself, which is a replica of the Kukulcan temple – an 1100-year-old Mayan pyramid in Chichen Itza, Mexico – built at exactly 1/30th scale to the original. Further adding to the ‘wow factor’ is the fact that it’s detailed correctly right down to the number of steps (365 – which represent the Mayan calendar), proportions, and placements of each brick or piece of the building, and was completed with detailed decorative accents matching the original. They even carved small Mayan tribesmen, also to scale, as accents for the miniature Kukulcan pyramid.Continue Reading
May 21, 2012
Teliasonera In Authoritarian Regime Spy Scandal
Swedish news show Uppdrag Granskning recently revealed information which suggests that Swedish telecommunications giants Teliasonera have been helping authoritarian regimes and dictatorships to spy on their citizens by selling them the high-tech, state of the art surveillance technology to do so.
According to the investigation by Uppdrag Granskning, Teliasonera has provided the governments of Kazakhstan, Belarus, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan with the equipment to spy on political activists, journalists, union leaders and members of the political opposition.
Sadly, Teliasonera are not the first Western telecommunications firm to be caught red-handed providing authoritarian regimes with the means to tighten the control on their citizens, several others have been named and shamed before them.
The report by Uppdrag Granskning was entitled ‘Black Boxes’ – alluding to the black boxes that Teliasonera let police and security services fit into their operations centers. These devices allowed security officials unhindered access to all communication – including cell conversations, SMS, internet traffic and much more – in real time! Continue Reading
May 21, 2012
Guys Eat Meat Because It’s Macho!
A new study which analyses the gender associations that people make to the foods that they eat has found that men are more inclined to eat red meat because they feel it is masculine and macho.
The results of the study were published in the Journal of Consumer Research and looked at eating habits around the world, but particularly the UK and the U.S.
They asked men and women to give several different food stuffs a masculine and feminine ranking and their results found that medium rare steaks and hamburgers topped the list as the most masculine whereas chocolate and peaches topped the most feminine list.
Control groups were also asked to read a little about a fictional character and their eating habits and then rank them as either masculine or feminine. The characters that ate meat and burgers unsurprisingly were voted the most masculine and macho, whereas the vegetarians and fish-eaters were deemed to have feminine qualities. Continue Reading
May 21, 2012
All You Can Eat Chinese Restaurant Row
We all love pigging out at a good ‘All You Can Eat’ Chinese buffet, but sometimes however, things don’t always go as we planned. As anyone who eats out regularly is probably painfully aware of – if something seems too good to be true, then that’s usually because it is!
One customer, Beverley Clark, found that lesson out the hard way when she took her son and niece for an all you can eat buffet meal at the Kylin Buffet in South Shields.
This particular restaurant warns customers that if they do not finish the food on their plates then they will be asked to pay a £20 ‘wastage’ charge.
Clark was outraged when staff at the restaurant kept coming up to check if they had eaten all their food, she said she was warned that she was liable to the charge when her son Sam, 10, and niece, Toni, 6, left one spring roll, a piece of prawn toast and two onion rings on their plates. Continue Reading
May 21, 2012
7 Year Old Girl Left Threatening Note For Her Parents Regarding Parental Monitoring Password
Redditor Surprisemailbox posted this image of a note left by his/her friend’s seven year old sister for her parents: “If you put a pas w word on that I will make your life a nitmare.”
I am remembering the beatings I used to get for minor back talk to my father. I cannot begin to imagine the hurt that would have been applied to my body if I left a note like this.
(Via Reddit)
May 21, 2012
SpaceX Historic Launch Aborted During Final Countdown
As we previously reported, the first commercial space flight company to dock with the International Space Station – SpaceX – was supposed to have the historic launch of its Dragon ship on Saturday, May 19th at 1:55am Pacific Daylight Time. But during the final countdown before launch,the flight computer aborted the countdown and shut down the launch due to slightly high combustion chamber pressure in Dragon’s engine 5.
Due to the small window of time to launch in order to successfully enter the right orbital path to dock with the International Space Station, once the launch was shut down by the computers, the window of opportunity for takeoff had passed, and it will now be another week before the timing is right to make another attempt.
According to NASA, the next available day to attempt another launch will be Tuesday, May 29th.Continue Reading
May 21, 2012
Thomas Edison Puts Gloves On Cats Then Made Them Box
May 21, 2012
